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by igor47 9y ago
Ah, we come to the heart of it. If Sam had said, "Twitter is a problem because it enables dangerous groupthink, promotes overreaction, and stifles meaningful discourse" then (a) his argument would have been a lot more clear and (b
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by igor47 9y ago
The article fails to discuss the ever-popular lots-o-monorepos approach ;) I really liked the idea behind the approach I learned from the linked-in tools team: project-oriented build-test-deploy tooling. In this approach, it doesn't ma
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by igor47 10y ago
This brings up another subject where I find myself at odds with my hacker brethren. Look, I'm a huge fan of science fiction myself, but the idea that we are ever going to solve any of our problems by colonizing Mars is just that -- fic
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by igor47 10y ago
I doubt I can stop it. Even if I were to construct an impressively viral meme set akin to, say, Christianity or Islam, and which makes researching immortality or attempting to become immortal a primary taboo. Even then, it would only take a
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by igor47 10y ago
I think that on this subject, I am most at odds with my Silicon Valley friends. Most people I talk to seem to want to live forever if possible. I think this would be a disaster. We would create a race of ultra wealthy Methuselahs who domina
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by igor47 10y ago
everyone uses email for password resets anyway, and most people persist sessions. i always thought we should just email the user a link if their session has expired. there's no reason to have passwords. this is the scheme sandstorm alr
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by igor47 10y ago
Blacks make up almost 13% of the US population ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_Unit... ) but only about 3% of the population in top-tier schools in the US ( http://www.forbes.com/
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by igor47 10y ago
> Its primary purpose is to restart and diagnose failing daemons cleanly...it's the only tool that accomplishes this task without bugs. I've been running runit in production for many years, and it does just this, flawlessly.
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by igor47 10y ago
I've heard the same rumor from an engineer at eventbrite; that would be an odd rumor to spread about a competitor.
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by igor47 10y ago
That's just ludicrous. Promoting a new product is part of building that product.
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by igor47 10y ago
i'm not at lyft, but i've been looking into introducing this proxy in our environment to replace haproxy in smartstack ( http://nerds.airbnb.com/smartstack-service-discovery-cloud/ ) and so have thought about t
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by igor47 10y ago
> I view my time on Earth as one marked by civic and human engagement, where I want to share my ideas, bounce them off other people, strive to improve my community and the world, etc. I respect that sentiment, and agree with it. However
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by igor47 10y ago
This is why I pay for a NYT subscription
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by igor47 10y ago
I see the opposite happening. Remember when it was a big deal that a company was hacked and leaked user data? Or when a bunch of credit card numbers were stolen from a retailer? It feels like that's happened so often by now that it&#x2
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by igor47 10y ago
ActiveRecord is not the right tool for a job like this. It's meant to return records needed for serving normal web traffic, not for running data analytics. This is a better job for a tool which can run queries like this outside of a la
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by igor47 11y ago
bots like these seem to be a natural way to work around github's limitations. realistically, they won't be able to support everyone's use case, but they can provide a platform where lots of different tools can be integrated t
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by igor47 11y ago
I've spoken to multiple companies about how they do builds, and it's incredible (to me) how many of them use Jenkins. In the end, almost everyone ends up with the kinds of problems you can see on this thread: * Plugins are use
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by igor47 11y ago
I was going to leave a comment like "why isn't it shooting lasers at the pickles", but then I did a search in the page and found this comment thread. So... yeah. Our brains are all warped in the same way.
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by igor47 12y ago
the OLPC XO-1 is basically indestructible. my housemate originally got the one we've been using during the give-one-get-one sale in 2007. we first started using it for various burning man projects in 2009. it's run the brains of o
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by igor47 12y ago
Has anyone found where to donate to this guy's legal fund? Seems like he wants to fight and I'm really curious how this plays out in court.
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by igor47 12y ago
The problem with infra red is that it doesn't work as well in bright sunlight. But i would love to play with a system like that for my hobby robotics projects.
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by igor47 12y ago
the way we run synapse at airbnb, we do just stuff everything in /etc/hosts; the code is here: https://github.com/airbnb/smartstack-cookbook/blob/fd97e20bf... you do still have to look up the port f
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by igor47 12y ago
a better solution than doing DNS trickery is just doing proxying, but this requires some other machine to serve as the proxy. i serve my github pages blog on multiple domains, as described here: http://igor.moomers.org/githu
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by igor47 13y ago
i am constantly impressed at the hashicorp guys, who continue to release great tools. they actually released serf on the same day as we released nerve and synapse, which comprise airbnb's service registration and discovery platform, sm
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by igor47 13y ago
This. Don't use your zone apex name as your main site. You will regret it. If visitors come to the non-www version of the site send them a 301 redirect.
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by igor47 13y ago
We specifically tried using CloudFront, solely for it's ability to serve as the target in an ALIAS record. However, CloudFront is useless for dynamic sites because it does not support passing the original Host header back to the origin
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by igor47 13y ago
did you even read the original post? we talk about a question on a whiteboard, and then move to solving it on a computer. i mentioned several times that we try to get to real running code.
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Don't Leak Interview Questions(igor.moomers.org)
41 points by igor47 13y ago|59 comments
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by igor47 13y ago
thanks! i updated the gist ( https://gist.github.com/igor47/7228586/revisions ), but the solution is not nearly as simple as before.
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by igor47 13y ago
it's not "more than one puddle"; it's that i don't count the second puddle because i don't ever "close" it by encountering it's level again. if i go off the edge, i should close it as best i can.

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