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Myth: TLS Is Too Heavy for Low-Powered Devices (2016)(digicert.com)
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by jka 5y ago
Ultimately a computer network cannot genuinely steal the identity of a person, unless I'm mistaken - they're a person, and their human connections understand that. With many of today's payment methods, I agree that the paymen
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Ask HN: Strong Arguments for Unencrypted Networks?
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by jka 5y ago
And for the next item on the scrolling marquee, I'd suggest "Require approved tribute from mortals before they dare speak within your realm!" (I'm also yet to make much headway in the marketing industry)
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by jka 5y ago
Yep, ok. I sorta feel that the 'lean financing' approach is to not add any monetization at all -- because it may introduce externalities -- until a project is producing significant value and has (necessary) infrastructure/ru
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by jka 5y ago
What you're saying seems like a potential false dichotomy; developing open source software can be as profitable - sometimes more profitable - than developing proprietary software.
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by jka 5y ago
{Note/small correction}: it looks like this is a mirror of a recipe collection by Amy Gale from the 'rec.food.recipes' usenet group. (see https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mjw/FOOD/MainPage.html for some cont
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by jka 5y ago
> Apple won't miss you if you decide to leave Hmm, maybe. I'm not so sure that's always true, though. Individual withdrawals can turn into group retreats, which can build into an exodus. The potential for developer wea
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by jka 5y ago
> Also there doesn't exist a world where grandma (or even the Kool kids today) is going to learn smalltalk in order to use an OS. I'd agree that well-designed operating systems shouldn't require anyone to undestand program
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DabbleDB Demo (2012)(youtube.com)
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by jka 5y ago
Here's a quote[1] from Adam Smith about the nature of effective taxes: "Good taxes meet four major criteria. They are (1) proportionate to incomes or abilities to pay (2) certain rather than arbitrary (3) payable at times and in w
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by jka 5y ago
Related: https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2021/05/12/sap_foun...
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by jka 5y ago
Have you {used/read about} jj[1] as an alternative? [1] - https://github.com/tidwall/jj/
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by jka 5y ago
Without mentioning any of the incidents involved, could you link to one of the rules mentioned that discouraged documentation of technical mistakes? (my guess is that those may have been written at a point in time during which it did make s
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by jka 5y ago
Summary: the document is written by a former regular committer to the gedit codebase. It mentions a few concerns about recent changes to the software and the process surrounding it ('undo' and other frequently-used items of functi
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Hacks/Hackers: a network of journalists (“hacks”) and technologists (“hackers”)(hackshackers.com)
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by jka 5y ago
To draw a comparison with software development: how much test coverage does this argument have? And do those tests genuinely handle most expected inputs/outputs and demonstrate correctness? Similarly, recursively: do the claims that t
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by jka 5y ago
Cool, thanks - yep, DynamoDB seems fairly reliable, and that's also good to hear another vote in support of Cloud Spanner. Glad to have learned about rqlite from this thread as well.
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A new messaging standard for UK payments: ISO 20022(bankofengland.co.uk)
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by jka 5y ago
It's a process and culture thing: maintain descriptive context and history about all changes, and ensure that references and hyperlinks within those are temporally stable (that is, they'll still refer to the same content when they
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by jka 5y ago
Yep, your assessment seems broadly accurate to me. I was going to suggest Cassandra until I saw it in the list. I'm {interested in/optimistic about} FoundationDB too, although haven't had a chance to use it in practice yet.
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by jka 5y ago
Even in a worst case where they don't survive -- and I hope that they will survive -- it seems near-guaranteed that GitLab will turbo-boost the next generation of technology companies. The stack that they provide within the free editio
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by jka 5y ago
Are you sure it's profit, as opposed to certainty, that drives the investment mindset here? I agree that renewables and distributed energy generation are the path forward, but I can understand a lot of investors having reasonable scept
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Due Diligence survival guide (2011)(jacquesmattheij.com)
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by jka 5y ago
I'm not on Twitter currently, but I did recently learn about the Free Ebook Foundation[1] and their free-programming-books resource[2]. One nice aspect of their project is that they provide links to translated versions of many free pro
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by jka 5y ago
It's OK, thanks.
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by jka 5y ago
Impressions: this looks like extensively-researched scholarly work. It raises questions about the veracity of hierarchical model of evidence-based medicine (EBM). However, I was lazy and skipped to the conclusion[1] to determine most of th
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by jka 5y ago
A selected quote: "It should be realised that the fighting-instinct, if well directed, gives energy for much that is good and beautiful. But the same instinct may create chaos if it breaks loose from all restraint, making use of the gr
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Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info(sheldonbrown.com)
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by jka 5y ago
Kinda evading the question, but: I get the sense that you'd enjoy it.

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