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Workers Durable Objects Beta: A New Approach to Stateful Serverless(blog.cloudflare.com)
209 points by ispivey 6y ago|91 comments
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Secure Modular Runtimes(guybedford.com)
43 points by ispivey 6y ago|9 comments
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by ispivey 11y ago
Now that's what I call selling pickaxes!
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by ispivey 11y ago
Understood! I'd looked at Keyczar in the past as a component of a system to manage secrets/keys, but I see it's actually providing about 0% of what Keywhiz does.
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by ispivey 11y ago
I'd love to hear from some of the team who built this about differences between Keywhiz and Keyczar, which to my mind was the best-practice open-source cross-platform solution to date (i.e. if you're not relying on things like AWS
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by ispivey 12y ago
The advice on min-width vs min-device-width strikes me as controversial: Therefore, you should avoid using *-device-width, since the page won’t respond when the desktop browser window is resized. GMail, Facebook, New York Times,
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by ispivey 13y ago
This is probably a new HN record in mistakenly ascribing bad intentions, which is pretty impressive. Perhaps people are interested in watching some awesome founders speak.
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The Paradox of Meritocracy [pdf](dspace.mit.edu)
2 points by ispivey 13y ago|0 comments
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by ispivey 13y ago
Agreed. To quote Colin Percival's excellent article which addresses both topics: "Assessing the security of software via the question "can we find any security flaws in it?" is like assessing the structure of a bridge by
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by ispivey 13y ago
There's a bunch of research suggesting that using "he" as a neuter pronoun makes women feel excluded: - First experiment/study I found: http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=12...
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by ispivey 13y ago
We're used to looking at a pronoun's antecedent to determine its subject. In the sentence, "Jacob finally published a post he'd been mulling for a long time," we don't object that it's unclear whether &quo
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by ispivey 13y ago
In the most meaningful way, it could be Android for consoles. It's "freely licensable" for hardware manufacturers, so companies will be able to build new consoles without building their own OS -- the same innovation that led
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by ispivey 13y ago
Imagine being a single mother with a young child. You're a great programmer. But you spend 90% of your time outside work raising your kid, so you can't make the time to make significant contributions to OSS. ... You can't get
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by ispivey 13y ago
A few suggestions: - Use Vagrant and some bootstrap scripts (or Docker) to make giving them a dev environment easy - Get them to use a git GUI like SourceTree (free & good: http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/ ) - Build a workf
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by ispivey 13y ago
That investment amount seemed low, as it suggested you weren't exercising your pro rata rights. If the initial $400k bought 10% of the company, USV would need to buy 10% of each subsequent round to maintain their ownership, which would be ~
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by ispivey 13y ago
cloud-init for programmatically configuring new instances https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CloudInit
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Show HN: Simpler, New Hire Paperwork Without The Paper(simpler.co)
1 points by ispivey 14y ago|0 comments
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by ispivey 14y ago
Anyone who complains about how they can't trust the Posthaven team because Posterous was shut down has to put $10 into the 'poor reading comprehension' pool.
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by ispivey 14y ago
tl;dr version: his recommendation algorithm stored an amount of data that was Θ(n^2) + Θ(n*m) for # of users, beers. He optimized that to put a constant limit on the storage space used. The clearest takeaway is: if you want to reduce the d
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by ispivey 14y ago
Game development is hard. The average engineering role at a games company involves a lot of work on hard deadlines. It's also tough for some engineers because there's usually a very clear product vs engineering divide -- you're implementin
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by ispivey 14y ago
What's "classical" in your book? Search trees, dynamic programming, and reducing an algorithm's worst-case runtime are about as "classical" as you get; that's why they're in every beginning algorithms textbook.
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by ispivey 14y ago
5% - but it's the very important 5% where I'm optimizing existing code. The "classical algorithmic problems" you reference are almost all optimization problems; there's a naive search/sort/comparison, but how can you do it better? The algo
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by ispivey 14y ago
Try https://www.blitz.io/
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by ispivey 14y ago
You're right that this filter already exists to a certain extent, particularly among investors. However, there's an optimal amount of humility and self-doubt that people are looking for. Deviate too far away from it, and people run for the
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by ispivey 14y ago
I want to offer something positive to go with that downer -- you can find people you can come to trust enough to talk to honestly. There are many investors who are great people who, once they've decided to back you, are going to be there f
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by ispivey 14y ago
In a nutshell, this is why the problem is so hard to fix: > When I was raising my first round, it fell apart because > an A-list investor who had given us a verbal commitment > backed out. He did this because he had he
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by ispivey 14y ago
$> diff @coreyhaines-apology @steveklabnik-apology < grace --- > sorry if i made you upset A side-by-side example we can all use to learn how to apologize better. [1] http://programmingtour.blogspot.com/2013/01/im
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by ispivey 14y ago
They dramatically changed their business model twice. The second change was less dramatic in direction, but more dramatic in that the business had much more inertia. That's the point of the post, and it's an impressive achievement. Read T
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by ispivey 14y ago
HN, where anyone can be a jerk to successful entrepreneurs running large technology companies who show up to share their brains.
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by ispivey 14y ago
For all of you crapping on Peter and his team: What if the employees were founders with equal shares of the company, and they launched a product and it fell over? Would you blame them for pulling an all-nighter to scale it up in the face o

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