halilim

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by halilim 3mo ago
As a developer, I first thought about a different point when I saw the title. We usually use high-end devices that mask the performance issues in the software we develop. There is some effort and tooling, but I don't think it's en
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by halilim 4y ago
Yes. Google (and probably many other companies at this point) ask for your previous passwords as part of the account recovery flow. It's an additional factor to help establish that it's you and not a scammer trying to "recove
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by halilim 9y ago
Ubuntu is backed by Canonical Ltd. so it's corp vs. a much bigger corp. Linux as server vs Windows Server might be a more appropriate comparison for this.
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by halilim 10y ago
Actually, there is http://linuxbrew.sh/ , which is a fork of Homebrew, if one insists on using brew :) An advantage of brew over apt et al. I imagine would be simplicity, e.g. you don't need to add PPAs, import keys etc
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by halilim 10y ago
On a slightly unrelated note: aren't SSH keys meant to stay in the devices they are created, and you need to create new keys for new devices? Of course this is assuming that that SSH key was a private one.
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by halilim 10y ago
I am divided on this. I think we as the software industry have serious performance issues, maybe except for some legitimate use cases like number crunching, video editing etc. I don't know of a non-trivial Rails app which uses less tha
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by halilim 10y ago
Facebook was doing something similar (.php URL's). Should we avoid Facebook? Maybe. But for this reason? I was a PHP dev for nearly a decade and you can't possibly know the ways I hate it (unless you're a PHP dev too); but th
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by halilim 10y ago
I wrestled with Elastic Beanstalk 10 months ago for 2 days and had to give up in the end. Every deploy was dog-slow. And I was trying all kinds of things, imagine the frustration. Only certain versions of software are supported, though I do