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by jamescun 10y ago
Slightly meta comment, but this is the kind of native advertising I'd like to see in future. A genuinely interesting article that happens to be sponsored by an ISP.
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by jamescun 10y ago
I am surprised to see them advocating Route53 for service discovery. Route53 has a very low API rate limit (5/req/s) where simply loading the web dashboard can effect production use.
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by jamescun 10y ago
Supergiant's docs suggest they are using Kubernetes but have their own mechanism for utilising Amazon EBS as persistence. Kubernetes already has such functionality[1], so it seems unclear what functionality they have added on top of Ku
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by jamescun 10y ago
Yeah, this extract does feel a little out of place and almost like a dig at Go. I'm sure it is not but a little clarification wouldn't go amiss. To my knowledge Dropbox's backend is migrating (slowly) from Python to Go (new d
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UK Developing Digital Driving License Stored in Apple Wallet App(macrumors.com)
2 points by jamescun 10y ago|0 comments
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What's going on with Fetch?(stephenradford.me)
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by jamescun 10y ago
I'm still not convinced of "Google Infrastructure for Everyone Else". Google built Google's infrastructure because that is what Google needed. Your CRUD app probably doesn't need that.
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by jamescun 10y ago
Some Scottish banks already issue polymer-based notes.
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by jamescun 10y ago
In the UK at least, the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations of 2008 imply that it is an illegal sales technique. There has been some success in courts prosecuting this to a degree that most subscription services will also di
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by jamescun 10y ago
I feel for Rain Design (I love my mStand); however is this any different to your average supermarket offering lower priced own-brand competitors to their other stock?
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by jamescun 10y ago
I just naturally assumed Akamai would use anycast for their CDN, but it is actually DNS based[1]. No mention of if their DNS is anycasted, one would presume so. [1] https://blogs.akamai.com/2013/04/serving-at-the-e
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by jamescun 10y ago
If only we had this tech when we wrote https://jamescun.github.io/iPG/ (of which the questions seem to be based). https://github.com/jamescun/iPG
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by jamescun 11y ago
It is standardisation of the file describing what parameters were used to build a container, ultimately every "implementation" has been a tarball of a linux filesystem which is usable with any linux container system (and possibly
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by jamescun 11y ago
It would probably be a Malcolm Tucker-esque figure (from The Thick Of It, recommended if you enjoyed House of Cards).
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by jamescun 11y ago
You're right, I perhaps was a little callous with my disregard of the specifics of the case rather than focus on the larger potential precedent.
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by jamescun 11y ago
This is possibly the worst outcome. The tide of public opinion was turning towards Apple and privacy, and away from the FBI; for it to enter the court under this pretence there was a strong argument to be made against the latter. With this
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by jamescun 11y ago
I would be interested in the post-mortem from this. While DigitalOcean operate their own DNS, it is only made publicly available though CloudFlares DNS proxying service.
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by jamescun 11y ago
I was discussing an identical project with a coworker a while back, and have been stalking ebay for VT2X0s occasionally since. However they seem to be incredibly rare in the UK, and all the listings shown require shipping from the US with m
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by jamescun 11y ago
Could be useful given the choice of MIT license rather than a GPL variant.
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by jamescun 11y ago
We used them as a domain registrar long ago. Somebody was able to contact support, have them unlock the domain, and transfer it. And I am supposed to trust them now with my infrastructure? No thank you.
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by jamescun 11y ago
This benchmark feels a little lazy. While I am in no doubt that Go could match the 2M concurrent websockets of Elixir's Phoenix framework, a benchmark should aim to implement the same functionality to be considered useful. The only int
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by jamescun 11y ago
Possibly Internet Explorer support. Even Edge doesn't support them yet[1]. With deployments of HTTP/2 increasing, I think we'll see greater adoption of server sent events. At the time of writing, HTTP/2 and WebSockets ar
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by jamescun 11y ago
Say what you like about Rails (or Ruby for that matter), but go and look at its source. It is well laid out, the commenting is extensive and descriptive, and it follows a natural flow. The same can be said of the PostgreSQL source.
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by jamescun 11y ago
I was co-founder of a (YC-backed) startup for 4 years until we were forced to close, so I don't know if you can define us as "successful". Anecdotally speaking, I started off working with no life. There is a lot to be said fo
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by jamescun 11y ago
Is FTP that heavily used in 2016? The only use I can see for it now that hasn't been replaced by either a better protocol (i.e. BitTorrent) or a service (i.e. Dropbox) is shared web hosting, even then many now support SFTP (and git).
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by jamescun 11y ago
If you are managing enough servers to justify automating the deployment SSH keys, you probably also have configuration management. Why would you use this rather than your existing configuration management system? The latter reuses existing
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by jamescun 11y ago
London used to have a similar system for distribution of mail throughout the city, officially known as the London Post Office Railway, or Mail Rail. I heard there were plans to open up some of the stations and tunnels to the public, not sur
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by jamescun 11y ago
I'm on the fence over the "marketing". On one hand it is easier to communicate terms like DROWN, GHOST and Heartbleed than say CVE-2016-0800; meaning knowledge of the vulnerability gets spreads quicker and sites are patched m
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by jamescun 11y ago
Sadly not. When calling spawn[Sync]() in prior versions the command would be executed directly as a child of the node process. If you wanted to use any features like piping, automatic environment variable interpolation or backgrounding etc;
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by jamescun 11y ago
Do you have any public resources about Google's GSLB? Searching for it results in general articles about GSLB.

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