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by jamescun 12y ago
Binary sizes are a concern, particularly with a move to mobile devices and later embedded systems. However for Go's current platforms, I would call it a non-issue. Static builds, something seemingly long forgotten though supported in o
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by jamescun 12y ago
By this point, Macs are only a notch away from a stock PC. Even the last vestige of difference, such as the use of EFI, are becoming common practice by other computer manufacturers. The time and effort required to introduce technical preven
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Introducing Logjam(gocardless.com)
4 points by jamescun 12y ago|0 comments
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by jamescun 12y ago
That is a rather broad estimation of all those who dislike systemd. While there are people who most likely dislike systemd because they are resistant to change, they don't constitute everyone with objections. I for one dislike systemd,
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by jamescun 12y ago
I think he was referring to the S8 stock currently on the Hammersmith & City, Circle and Metropolitan lines (and being trialed on the District line https://twitter.com/jamescun/status/516498515963695105 ) which
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by jamescun 12y ago
I use Adblock and Ghostery. With Adblock I manage a whitelist of website to allow adverts on; typically sites I wish to support with ad-revenue and have a reasonable policy for adverts, Reddit's self-service advertising is a good examp
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by jamescun 12y ago
Facebook appears to be leaking again.
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by jamescun 12y ago
While no wearable device has NFC, you can get bracelets with contactless payment chips. Barclaycard's BPay is a good example[1] [1] https://bpayband.co.uk/
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by jamescun 12y ago
Where did you get the $99 figure from? I looked all over the page and couldn't find it. Not bad at all for $99.
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by jamescun 12y ago
For those interested: Ruby in Go: https://github.com/grubby/grubby Javascript in Go: https://github.com/robertkrimen/otto
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by jamescun 12y ago
For a verbose or simple progress `cp` equivalent I tend to use RSync. Both RedHat/CentOS/etc and Debian/Ubuntu all come with RSync as standard. The only caveat is that I find RSync to be slightly slower than coreutils cp; h
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by jamescun 12y ago
By all means write to your MP, call me a pessimist but I doubt it will do much good. This government has shown no interest in listening to what the public think. We as a nation are expending all peaceful means of discourse (letters, petitio
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by jamescun 12y ago
Fedora is the RedHat "testbed" and has regular updates similar to the debian/ubuntu universes. One of the core features of CentOS/RedHat/Scientific Linux/etc is their longterm support and package freeze (exclud
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by jamescun 12y ago
It is a rather vauge statement and could have used some clarification; however Go does make writing network protocols very simple, and building something like a gossip protocol based system with a leader election system is doable in a week.
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by jamescun 12y ago
I don't understand what need the appcache system fulfils. Within HTTP there is already a reasonable caching system. True, as mentioned in the post, the browser may occasionally clear the cache or elements of it; but that would be an ar
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by jamescun 12y ago
It is sad that it wasn't already the law, or so ingrained in all that it wasn't an option to begin with. That being said I attended several schools in the UK and I, and those that I know (some attending schools run by the Church o
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by jamescun 12y ago
It seems that Reuters has rectified the problem now. Previously it was redirecting to a page hosted by the Syrian Electronic Army. Also a reminder to not link directly to hacked pages but to perhaps a screenshot and put the real link in the
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by jamescun 12y ago
Depends on your country but I was involved in the running of a Minecraft server a couple of years ago with about ~100 simultaneous players and our server costs were about £400 ($650?) a month in a UK datacentre; so $1000/month wouldn&#
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by jamescun 12y ago
Mojang seem to be forgetting that it costs money to operate a server, and a "freemium" model is a completely viable and legitimate way to fund that operation (other ways such as accepting donations and paid-players only exist). So
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by jamescun 12y ago
Did Vodafone not have a majority stake in Verizon up until very recently?
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by jamescun 12y ago
While it doesn't support writing (POST/PUT etc), for serving files over HTTP from the current directory, Python's built in HTTP server is perfectly fine. It comes with Python 2.4+ as standard. python -m SimpleHTTPServer
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by jamescun 12y ago
Depends heavily on how you have configured Apache. If you are using something like PHP and the forking model (most common MPM configuration), you can only handle as many requests as you have workers; additionally you are spinning up a full
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The Origins of the Blink Tag(montulli.org)
13 points by jamescun 12y ago|8 comments
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They are rolling out FTTC, however slowly, and there was a lot of fighting, bureaucracy and political bargaining to do so; in addition to ruling out widespread FTTH rollout (only available to new-builds and selected rural areas).
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by jamescun 12y ago
This is similar to what we have in the UK. The organisation responsible for last mile connections is Openreach, and for all its failings, we in the UK are served rather well by the setup. I have the option of six ISPs, 4 national and 2 loca
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by jamescun 12y ago
Like most parallax, pretty much unusable on a trackpad without scrolling at 100 flicks/second.
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by jamescun 12y ago
I used GlusterFS a couple of years ago (2011) for a hosting project, we had about 300 or so medium-large PHP sites based on top of a GlusterFS cluster. It ran beautifully but the pain points where it fell down was small file performance and
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by jamescun 12y ago
These are the types of experiences I like to read about, you should blog about them in depth some time.
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by jamescun 13y ago
It is ridiculous to ask people to expose their Redis instances to the open internet while ignoring all the security risks associated with this, in addition to giving you full read/write access. It wouldn't be much added complexity
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by jamescun 13y ago
Only their entry level certificate is free, they have higher priced options for the likes of wildcard and EV certificates. Once your root certificate has a good level of acceptance, the true cost of certificates is the validation process; a

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