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by foxylad 10y ago
I've used Appengine since 2009. Early on they deprecated the original master-slave datastore, but apart from that I've had zero refactoring around their services. Other services are a different story - from my perspective Google a
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"Utter nonsense" is a bit harsh. I think the (poorly articulated) issue behind this article is that some companies (and some rich people) have arranged their affairs to reduce the tax they pay. This increases the burden on other t
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by foxylad 10y ago
Bill and Melinda are better where they are, because they are free from political interference. Can you imagine the opposition they'd get from the GOP for pushing contraception so centrally? And if they get into power, probably from the
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by foxylad 10y ago
> b) the more work is done by machines, the richer the population as a whole will be True - as a whole . But as things stand now, the owners of the machines get richer, and the displaced workers get significantly poorer. My concern is t
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by foxylad 10y ago
Agreed. We have a dumb Sony 40" LCD that is over ten years old. It's not 4K but our eyes aren't good enough to see the difference, and over the years we've used a range of front ends - currently a Raspberry Pi running Ko
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by foxylad 10y ago
From what I've heard about chemo, I agree with you - better to enjoy your remaining time as much as you can than to suffer through all of it. If it happens, it'll be interesting to see how my resolve holds up as I stare into the f
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by foxylad 10y ago
It's all about choice. We have huge choice when it comes to food - I can live on noodles if my circumstances go downhill. Entertainment I can forgo, and I can live with my old mobile phone. But if I get pregnant or cancer, I have no ch
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by foxylad 10y ago
Don't take it personally. Any energy you use being bitter and making yourself a victim is worse than wasted - it makes things worse. It's great that you were thinking of leaving anyway. Rejoice that you get the benefits for slight
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by foxylad 10y ago
Motion detectors are usually passive infra-red (PIR) sensors - no lasers involved. Unless you can cite a consumer-grade laser-based motion detector, I think this means Google's data centers are protected by slightly higher level gear.
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by foxylad 10y ago
Maintaining a list of bot useragents would be a pain, but I guess testing if the useragent contains 'bot' would work for most.
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Extend robots.txt to specify session variable names?
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by foxylad 10y ago
I'm happy - I use both Trello and Bitbucket. Atlassian bought Bitbucket years ago, and it's only got better since then. If the pattern persists, I think we'll see Trello remain largely as it is, but with added hooks to Atlass
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by foxylad 10y ago
It's been ready for over ten years. I switched in the early '00s. As well as giving me a reliable* platform to work on, this had the enormous benefit of allowing me to say "I don't know anything about Windows any more, s
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by foxylad 10y ago
Aaaaaarrrrrgggggh! I've had that particular itch for every one of my ten years with python, and at last I get to scratch it! Thanks so much for bringing it up.
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by foxylad 10y ago
I bought a OnePlus One largely because it had Cyanogen. Despite the schism I continue to get regular OS updates, and it's still one of the things I most like about the phone (the non-slip covering on the back being another, oddly). So
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by foxylad 10y ago
Not as I understand it . Both AWS and Azure force you to use machines - you may put them behind load balancers, and they may start up automatically when required, but you still need to design the system and do provisioning and plumbing to m
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by foxylad 10y ago
We jumped on Appengine very early, and have never regretted it. It's remarkably stable, and not having to worry about the security issue du jour, scaling, or any other sysadmin stuff means we can concentrate on what we do best - buildi
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by foxylad 10y ago
Anyone know if this can run ChromeOS?
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by foxylad 10y ago
I think it's crucial for Gmail, because the popularity of email-based verification means that if you lose your email account you lose everything. Including the presidency, in John Podesta's case! I also use it for Bitbucket and Gi
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by foxylad 10y ago
The social benefits are that our knowledge develops. You can argue that that is not a good thing because of the social upheaval it causes, but everyone who has argued that since we were cavement have been proved wrong. For example, humanity
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by foxylad 10y ago
True. Google does a good job here - they support U2F (and other password hardening techniques), and additionally report any access from a new device. You do have to opt in to these measures, but at least they are available.
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by foxylad 10y ago
I got a U2F key, which neatly solves the problem as long as you have a USB port. The integration into the browser makes it painless and fast to use. Adding bluetooth to work with mobile devices would make it a complete solution. Edit: corre
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by foxylad 10y ago
Imagine a tiny Canada with much better weather and an obsession with rugby instead of ice hockey.
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This is affecting Australia's Suncorp internet banking too. We reported the certificate error to them yesterday, and I've just updated that with a link to this article.
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by foxylad 10y ago
We have fairly comprehensive building regulations for all new housing. Our new house plans were rejected because we didn't specify strong enough straps to fix the hot water cylinder to the wall. The straps they insisted on would withst
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by foxylad 10y ago
Not sure about the politics, but yes. And as someone commented below, we're going to have to find socially useful jobs for another swath of blue-collar men soon, when all the trucks go automonomous. This is a BIG problem - any ideas?
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by foxylad 10y ago
> I feel as if our entire election and voting process needs a `re-write`. I'm not American, but in my opinion this should have been the the major issue in this election. All the tripe about email servers and orange-tinted buffoons s
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by foxylad 10y ago
We run a global booking service. Fixed timezones are simple to accommodate, but abolishing daylight savings would save me hours of scribbling clock faces. The issue is that when someone books a given time across a DST change, you need to ad
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What about the flora? Actually, our flora is pretty benign too, but we do have the aptly-named bush lawyer that is a sort of micro-razorwire vine. Escaping it usually means bloodshed.
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Or drowning crossing a river - long called "the New Zealand disease", because so many die from it. New Zealand has amazing bush and a network of very basic huts, and it's well worth visiting if you like hiking and camping. Pe

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