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by harryf 7y ago
I wonder if the same is true of Space X?
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by harryf 7y ago
Years ago I wrote the re-wrote wiki parser for Dokuwiki (which is used at https://wiki.php.net/ among other places). Originally the parser was scanning a wiki page multiple times using various regular expressions. I used a
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by harryf 7y ago
> I'm glad to see other languages finally catching up to PHP Now if python could just implement PHP's date function the world would be a simpler place... ( https://simonwillison.net/2003/Oct/7/dat
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by harryf 7y ago
Free markets tend not to be free once you have monopolies. Try doing a partnership with LinkedIn for example to access their data (after they shut it down - https://thenextweb.com/dd/2015/02/12/linkedin-t
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by harryf 7y ago
I remember this giant slide deck he presented at OSCON back in 2004 (guess) about scaling LiveJournal with MySQL, memcached etc. IIRC it was the first real “template” for how to scaling on an open source stack, and it massively benefitted t
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by harryf 7y ago
I heard it first anecdotally from a VC who'd done investments in Finnish game companies.
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by harryf 7y ago
Not the OP and personally less radically against cloud-based services... But storing something as critical as passwords with a SAAS company which is obviously going to be target of attack and may or may not have the engineering resources to
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by harryf 7y ago
For passwords, fully agree. This is how I make incremental backups of my keepass database (synced via Google Drive) so I accidentally bork a login in the file, I can go back to a previous version... https://gist.github.com/h
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by harryf 7y ago
Would argue the demise of Nokia had a greater impact on game development in Finland, pushing people with the right skills to try something new. Some history on that here https://m.phys.org/news/2013-11-nokia-mobile-game
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by harryf 7y ago
Herbert XU is apparently still in hiding after receiving threats of a good kicking ... https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/torvalds/linux@fd6988496e...
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by harryf 7y ago
I feel this would be a whole lot more impressive if we were talking about javelin and not darts...
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by harryf 7y ago
Wow that cage thing he’s in is terrifying. Presumably the video was released to send a message
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by harryf 7y ago
The same conditions existed in Europe hence Tim Berners Lee / Cern / WWW. But the adoption wasn't at the same speed
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by harryf 7y ago
I don't believe the digital revolution "did this to us". I think it's simply a mirror and and amplifier what was already there. On social media, for example, we get to see the projections of what people want to be and th
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by harryf 7y ago
Think there’s a third underlying factor which is the addictiveness of Instagram. That Instagram becomes so important in your life that you end up changing your body for likes. That’s a terrible tragedy. You might argue that some are making
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by harryf 7y ago
An adult Orca alone already significantly outclasses a Great White. A large adult Great White might weigh up to 1,110 kg (2,450 lb) while a large adult Orca can weigh up to 5,380 kg (11,860 lb). Orcas can reach speeds of over 48 km's p
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by harryf 7y ago
Three of the main things he calls out are caused by embedding of the Facebook SDK, the Google Analytics SDK and AppsFlyer SDK. The most worrying one IMO is actually AppsFlyer - I doubt they have the resources to properly protect the data th
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by harryf 7y ago
Yes, but... you can be sure there's a business plan lying around somewhere at Uber that accounts for the fact that some % of drivers won't do the math...
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by harryf 7y ago
> that “white men” from Gen X and before don’t get burned out. That's anyway observer bias. Most people you'll encounter Gen X and older in corporations are old enough to have figured out how to manage their career without burn
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by harryf 7y ago
Wow. We’ve been in denial about potential health risks of mobile for years. But now there’s a risk that Chinese tech companies might corner this market, suddenly its time to worry about the health risks?
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by harryf 7y ago
I've got to wonder if Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, Stripe and others got involved with this on the principle "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer"? Facebook is too big to just crush, so you need a smarter approach. B
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by harryf 7y ago
It’s not far cry from a developer receiving an unwanted and negative code review. Hurt ego is hurt ego
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by harryf 7y ago
A great read "Corps Business: The 30 Management Principles of the U.S. Marines" ( https://www.amazon.com/Corps-Business-Management-Principles-... ) and where it talks about communicating the "End State"
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by harryf 7y ago
> There was a TL discussion about gender-neutral pronouns and then "preferred pronouns". Reading the post right here at the beginning I'm like "Oh here we go..." And reading the rest went just as predictably as I
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by harryf 7y ago
Cool tool. Tried it on an annoying dataset I know well. Three specific requests; #1. The "Show First 10 Rows" dropdown... nice here would be "Show First 10 MOST FREQUENT Rows" ... helps get a view of the distribution of
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by harryf 7y ago
That’s a fair point for _some_ corporations but that shouldn’t mean having to block the others where they just want to keep growing incrementally
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by harryf 7y ago
I get that but if you look at how Amazon handles this with AWS, in principle you can keep scaling up usage for as long as you have enough credit cards to cover it. The board-level discussion shifts to one about costs needed to run the busin
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by harryf 7y ago
That may be right. I’m in Switzerland where the first level of management usually gets a free pass on things up 5000K or 10000K
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by harryf 7y ago
That’s right - scaling the price (or perhaps volume)
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by harryf 7y ago
Unfortunately most SaaS companies today have got on a bandwagon of offering “enterprise” versions of their products which alienate those which brought them bottom up into a corporation in the first place. You can see it in the “pricing” pag

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