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by geertj 12y ago
Launch aborted. High altitude winds at 151% of capability.
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by geertj 12y ago
Question: why isn't this a block device instead of a file system?
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by geertj 12y ago
The most interesting thing about it is that it provides an event bus that can stream inventory updates (via SQS). This is super useful for cloud management platforms that keep a copy of you resources in Amazon e.g. for policy enforcement an
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by geertj 12y ago
OK, it's architecture vs OS, but I get the point. Thanks for the clarification.
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by geertj 12y ago
Does this change one of the fundamental tenets of docker, namely that docker images are portable (thanks to the linux kernel providing a very high degree of backwards compatibility). In order words, will there now be Windows images and Linu
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A new way to use fast-paced and unique software(softwarecollections.org)
1 points by geertj 12y ago|0 comments
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by geertj 12y ago
This is what djb is doing using his "qhasm" assembly like language. He seems to be doing it for performance though, not to work around too aggressive compilers. As an alternative, maybe write crypto algorithms in LLVM IR?
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A look back: Bram Cohen vs. Linus Torvalds (2007)(wincent.com)
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by geertj 12y ago
Author here, happy to answer questions.
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by geertj 12y ago
From the article: > [It] gives developers the entire volume of Windows, which is 300 plus million units as opposed to just our 4% share of mobile in the US or 10% in some countries Great strategy, nothing new or visionary, but something
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by geertj 12y ago
> Well, that's throwing people implementing subclasses under the bus, IMO. If they need to touch this argument in an overridden method and they don't know what they are doing, then yes. > Why not just add @param annotations
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by geertj 12y ago
Agreed on all counts. However I do find myself using mutables as default arguments sometimes because the generated documentation is clearer. For example, this is a real method in one of my projects: def listen(self, address, ssl=False,
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by geertj 12y ago
Cap tables are indeed very complex. Often there's also a preference on preferred stock, meaning that the preferred gets a minimum return (often 300% or 400%) before the common gets anything. Fully agreed with the other comments: ignore
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by geertj 12y ago
Please don't!
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by geertj 12y ago
In addition to composability, which I agree is a big idea, I believe there's another big idea in Vim: modal editing.
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by geertj 12y ago
That's very helpful, thanks!
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by geertj 12y ago
I've been looking at Python tasks queues recently. Does anyone have experience on how Celery and rq stack up? Rq is a lot smaller, more than 10x by line count. So if it works just as well, I'd go with the simpler implementation.
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by geertj 12y ago
Why make assumptions on my motivation? And why assume I wouldn't know what subjectivism is? I think your comment could have been way more useful if you replied to the argument instead.
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by geertj 12y ago
Wow, sensitive topic? No need for ad hominem. Thank you very much.
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by geertj 12y ago
I'm not sure why HN doesn't let me reply to danielweber's comment. Thread is getting too deep? I admit that in practise you're not going to check the Javascript. But from the point of view of someone trying to get their
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by geertj 12y ago
While you are correct that a server can serve me malicious Javascript encryption code that discloses my keys, there's a big difference: the act cannot be hidden. If my secret keying material instead is on some company's servers i
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by geertj 12y ago
Agreed the article is not very insightful. Another place where it misses the point entirely: > The problem is, having established a secure channel with SSL, you no longer need Javascript cryptography; you have "real" cryptogra
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Virtual Bare Metal: DevStack Multi Node on EC2(ravellosystems.com)
13 points by geertj 12y ago|11 comments
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by geertj 12y ago
Anybody knows how these stack up against Curve25519 (also by DJB)?
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by geertj 12y ago
Author here. Actually it is using double nested virtualization. So there's 4 levels involved: * Amazon runs Xen (bare metal OS) * We run our hypervisor on top of Amazon (first level guest) * Customer runs OpenStack compute node (second
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Openstack on EC2: using nested virtualization(ravellosystems.com)
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by geertj 13y ago
Yes, although I read Futurama as Futamura which made me wanted to click even more.
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by geertj 13y ago
Do people really think it's a good idea to have an IDE on the web? What do you do when the network is down, or when you're on the plane, train, etc. And what if the network is slow? I think I'll keep my local development work
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by geertj 13y ago
The adds are bigger and a lot less distinguishable as ads. The only thing distinguishing them now is the small "Ad" bubble. At my screen resolution, about 70% of real estate is now filled with ads. I get an AltaVista deja-vu. Goog
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by geertj 13y ago
Each cloud has its own semantics. Unless you want to unify the semantics, you'll either end up with lowest-common denominator APIs, or cloud specific methods. What is needed is a standard for discoverable RESTful interfaces. With that,

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