exelius

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by exelius 11y ago
App Engine is far more mature than Parse - it's been around for nearly a decade, the API is stable, and Google's not going anywhere any time soon. App Engine adoption was also very slow to pick up, but it was a more enterprise-tar
902.
by exelius 11y ago
Parse never made sense to me. I could see a service like Parse being useful, but it would need to be owned / operated by a nonprofit in order to gain any adoption. Otherwise, it's just another proprietary platform that will get sh
903.
by exelius 11y ago
It's a little more political than that. Fullscreen (who represent the Fine Bros) has a very cozy, personal relationship with YouTube. While some random person issuing 10,000 DMCA takedown requests would likely get ignored; when Fullscr
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by exelius 11y ago
CS; I did all the labs and homework at the beginning of the semester and turned it in online. It was a huge state school, so even the hardcore engineering classes had lecture sections of 200+ students. It was far easier to get away with tha
905.
by exelius 11y ago
Definitely not; the schools just had very different student body profiles. And the big state school I went to for undergrad wasn't a bad school, it just wasn't very challenging because the student body was so diverse in terms of b
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by exelius 11y ago
> Sure I'm a technical guy, I could spend time figuring out how to make an IRC chat robot that would maybe offer a third the features Slack ships with out of the box. But why should I have to? I certainly don't enjoy it. You sh
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by exelius 11y ago
Your peer group makes a big difference too. I attended undergrad at a big state school. My classmates were largely representative of the top 30% of my high school - people who are either gifted with raw intelligence, or who do well by worki
908.
by exelius 11y ago
The context of this discussion is open source projects. While I agree that these are all useful features, I'm not so sure they would be useful for open source projects whose membership tends to change relatively frequently. Also, many
909.
by exelius 11y ago
Just set up an IRC log bot to log all channel traffic to a web site (can't be bothered to look one up; but I know they existed when I last messed with IRC 20 years ago).
910.
by exelius 11y ago
I love Slack, but I agree with the author. Slack's unsuitability is more around licensing terms and the ad-hoc nature of OSS. Slack borrows generously from IRC -- in fact, Slack is basically "Corporate IRC". It's a huge
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by exelius 11y ago
> Statistical multiplexing and oversubscription aren't exactly novel concepts. Or did you have something else in mind? They're not novel concepts, but they're hard to pull off at scale. There's no technological "
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by exelius 11y ago
> This is how net neutrality dies, if we're not careful. Net neutrality has been dead for a long time. Honestly it was never a reality, and always more of an ideal. Transit agreements for CDNs and asymmetric peering arrangements hav
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by exelius 11y ago
Application health checks mostly; though we were using it in a caching server context (static files and non-whitelisted endpoints served directly from Apache vs. hitting the app servers). They're available in Nginx Plus, just not the f
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by exelius 11y ago
Yeah; I find many people in the modern web services world end up using Apache HTTPD as a caching proxy for availability reasons. It's probably just because it's old as hell so everyone knows the config file format by heart, but I
915.
by exelius 11y ago
People still use *AMP stacks? Edit: I was serious about that; I was under the impression that most stacks use much lighter weight http daemons than Apache these days. I understand that legacy apps are still out there and not everyone is goi
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by exelius 11y ago
Can someone explain how this is different than how most people use Apache HTTPD these days? I'm not trying to be snarky -- I'm genuinely curious.
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by exelius 11y ago
I don't know about that; the cheap Square reader is a piece of crap that is really just a "starter" product (they're not well-made and fall apart after even moderate use). Anyone who swipes more than 2 or 3 cards a day w
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by exelius 11y ago
You could do the same with an inductive sensor wired to the headphone jack. This worked for Square to read magstripe data, which is significantly more complex of a signal to parse than simply counting the number of local maxima per second.
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by exelius 11y ago
Also, a standard inductive sensor (i.e. a magnet attached to a spoke and an inductor) attached to the raspberry pi would be a much better option.
920.
by exelius 11y ago
Yeah, and it was a fucking embarrassment to the NSA. Their security procedures were pretty lax, especially for a three-letter agency, but that seems par for the course given the budget climate in Washington. But the difference was that in t
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by exelius 11y ago
The only safe assumption is that the NSA knows how to break modern crypto. Otherwise, you're taking a risk every time you encrypt something you don't want them looking at. And if the NSA found a flaw in a crypto algorithm, do you
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by exelius 11y ago
> The NSA wants to be able to easly read all traffic from everybody so they can figure out who the 'bad' people are, inside and outside of the country. I actually don't think the NSA cares about reading traffic from everyo
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by exelius 11y ago
> What if the current President or some future President goes digging through the emails of their opposition in an election year? This has happened before with Watergate -- and the only reason Nixon got caught was because people talked.
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by exelius 11y ago
Nobody has any proof, but it's strongly suspected. The NSA wrote or had a hand in writing every widely-supported encryption algorithm, and they have a military-scale budget (seriously; the NSA's non-clandestine budget is larger th
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by exelius 11y ago
The NSA chief should be pro-encryption: the presence of backdoors in encryption (as demanded by some US law enforcement officials) creates a national security threat. Period. If law enforcement needs access to encrypted data, they already h
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by exelius 11y ago
> Netflix is remarkably bold for enabling their failure tests in production. This is almost a best practice these days, isn't it? I mean, once your reliability engineering teams are mature enough from a visibility and tooling standp
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by exelius 11y ago
A proper medical study also has doctors monitoring for any risks. They would run blood work and check for anything wrong - it's hard for one person to draw conclusions about how healthy this is if he wasn't baselining and monitori
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by exelius 11y ago
While this may be possible, I would worry about the effects on your liver. Ketosis does put additional strain on the liver, and while it doesn't seem like the side effects of extended ketosis are dangerous, there simply aren't any
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by exelius 11y ago
The vast, vast majority of Uber (and taxi) trips happen in densely populated areas where autonomous cars are likely to provide the most benefit. Also, I don't think self-driving cars will see wide availability as a product unless they
930.
by exelius 11y ago
> we're not funding our infrastructure right now enough to maintain what we've already got We don't maintain our infrastructure because businesses aren't complaining loud enough. If it starts to infringe on some compa

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