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Microaggression and Management(medium.com)
1 points by ianso 13y ago|0 comments
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by ianso 13y ago
Nice. I have to say this is the best approach to "wikileaks"-style journalism since wikileaks itself imploded. Now here's hoping they have what it takes to publish what lands in their inbox, even when the US Govt objects...
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by ianso 14y ago
Hi there, This is super-interesting - may I ask where you learned about this part of the history of the postal service?
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by ianso 15y ago
That is awesome! I wonder if the process could be read out via procfs and continued elsewhere?
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The rise of the programmable self(radar.oreilly.com)
2 points by ianso 15y ago|0 comments
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by ianso 15y ago
There was a whole raft of discussions in 2006 on Lambda the Ultimate and elsewhere about using continuations for page flow in webapps, and ultimately the most persuasive argument (against) was that continuations implied linear flow whereas
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by ianso 15y ago
As a lot of people have pointed out, this is a rather confused article. I think what the author Dominic Basulto is trying to get at is that the Internet and new applications/platforms are being used to exert political influence in new ways.
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by ianso 15y ago
I agree completely that innovation should not be restricted to certain areas :-) And although I think that Dart isn't good for the web, I would encourage anyone who wants to e.g. try plugging a different VM into a browser engine to see wh
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by ianso 15y ago
Hum, I think the problem is that Dart may be technically open source, but it's not a standard. In addition to that you can publish the source but being truly open involves more than that: see the open governance index for an example: htt
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by ianso 15y ago
From the perspective of the WebKit team, I think it would be about spending a lot of time and effort to support something that isn't part of their core mission, the standardised web. It would also saddle them with an extra maintenance &
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by ianso 15y ago
From reading that email exchange I think the answer to your question is a definite "no" :-) Aside from that, Google seems to be arguing that 1) there exist languages that compile to EcmaScript, so 2) single-vendor VMs in browsers is now OK.
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by ianso 15y ago
Is it me or have there been at least three relatively fact-free, anecdote-based articles recently (2 WSJ, 1 NYT IIRC) talking about the angel/startup bubble and generally trying to spread FUD about silicon valley? Where is this coming from?
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by ianso 15y ago
I have a proof-of-concept that illustrates a way of auto-sharding a Postgres database using a patched version of PL/Proxy: http://code.google.com/p/hotrepart/ The big limitation is that your DB structure has to be hierarchical. I think a
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by ianso 15y ago
If you like this then you'll find JavaScript Weekly a good read too: http://javascriptweekly.com/
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by ianso 15y ago
TL:DR; Scriptus lets you write programs that interact with people directly and uses serializable continuations and a UNIX-like process model. Potential uses include ultra-lightweight 'command-line' prototypes of web-applications...
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Show HN: script interactions on Twitter in JavaScript(ianso.github.com)
3 points by ianso 15y ago|1 comments
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by ianso 15y ago
I think the article is about squeezing out inefficiencies all over through centralized IT systems, but only if you see our free time as "inefficient" would you extend this idea to our personal lives. The problem is that in a global economy
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by ianso 15y ago
I think he has a really interesting POV but the conversation as a whole is definitely a very informative dialog on the value of try/catch in an async environment. As they say, read the whole thing...
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by ianso 15y ago
Hum, just to pile on :-) I think the interface is great - it shows no more and no less than necessary.
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by ianso 15y ago
I think the AWS team at Amazon should break open a bottle of champagne and congratulate themselves for not being anywhere on this list. AWS lives and dies by its API, and they've done a very good job of it.
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danah boyd: Designing for Social Norms (or How Not to Create Angry Mobs)(zephoria.org)
1 points by ianso 15y ago|0 comments
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by ianso 15y ago
Agreed with the expertise thing, but to add to your summary of the post-mortem, it looks like human error compounded by: 1) An architecture bug (the EBS "control plane" cuts across Availability Zones and EBS clusters, leading to a single p
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by ianso 16y ago
I think that compute power moving towards commodity status would be a great thing, however, I also think there's one big problem that needs to be surmounted at present: bandwidth isn't free. Practically speaking, to be properly fungible, it
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Ask HN: decentralised P2P website mirroring?
1 points by ianso 16y ago|0 comments
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Mobile telcos need to evolve. (ianso.blogspot.com)
1 points by ianso 16y ago|0 comments
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by ianso 16y ago
Hum, to correct some points: 1) the Guardian at least says no fee was involved: "Assange allowed the Guardian to examine the logs at our request. No fee was involved and Wikileaks was not involved in the preparation of the Guardian's articl
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by ianso 16y ago
A5/1 protects the over-the-air voice stream in GSM. Details on the protocol and cryptosystem: http://everything2.org/user/Jetifi/writeups/GSM I don't think this is quite as big a deal as it's made out to be, since that A5/1 and /2 were bo
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by ianso 16y ago
At root it seems you're essentially asking Amazon to replace all their datacenter servers every 18 months to keep up with processor technology. I don't think the economics work out for that. There have been price cuts, and I bet there will
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Jevons paradox, Moore's law and utility computing(ianso.blogspot.com)
1 points by ianso 16y ago|0 comments
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by ianso 16y ago
Well, thanks for the compliment I guess :-) Trying out ideas is indeed the point, but reducing the solution space for a given problem is better done in your head than post-facto in the (written, tested, integrated) code, no? The earlier in

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