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by johnm 18y ago
That is completely unreasonable. It's also of very dubious legality. If they are giving this sort of crap, you might want to take a pause to think about whether or not you really want to work with them. If you still want to try working wit
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by johnm 18y ago
What's your usage model? Lots of files, long tail? Very few files but very popular? Are the files really large (videos) or medium (images) or small (text)? How much are you willing to spend? Do you care about latency or just throughput
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by johnm 18y ago
I did say to use SSL in practice, right? Reading about SRP would help solve much of confusion people seem to be having in many of the discussions going on in this thread.
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by johnm 18y ago
In practical terms, just use HTTPS with rooted certs. It's not expensive for basic usage. And, if you're just doing a for-fun project you can always use self-signed certs. If you want to go deeper down the rabbit hole check out SRP: http:/
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by johnm 18y ago
Re: verification Your comment is only arguably true for completely statically compiled languages which have very weak (or no) processing model that can be enforced (by e.g., the loaders).
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by johnm 18y ago
Huh? You need to get out more. Also, note that the majority of the optimizations that e.g., HotSpot does are as applicable to "dynamic" languages as they are to "static" languages.
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by johnm 18y ago
The quick and dirty approaches are to write a simple interpreter or a simple source to source compiler to another language which (has tools, etc.) which handle the heavy lifting of the backend. For example, look at all of the languages bu
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by johnm 18y ago
The most important part of the JavaScript (and Flash and Java Applets and...) vs. non-JavaScript, et al question is much less about users and much more about making sure that you site is coherently crawlable by the search engines. If you're
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by johnm 18y ago
There's already lots of different types of "database systems" floating around. Map/Reduce approaches to large-scale data processing has been getting most of the hype in the F/OSS space and columnar approaches in the enterprise spaces. An a
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by johnm 18y ago
Do the version numbers actually indicate anything to the users? I.e., are you really so disciplined that e.g.: bugfix releases are always transparently compatible, minor version updates are forward and backward compatible (within their maj
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by johnm 18y ago
Where did you get that ridiculous notion? There's a serious problem with how people learning languages... their exposure to their first language has a strong tendency to color their thinking (read: biases) towards/against other languages fo
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SSHControl: Hosting for Git, Mercurial, and Subversion Repositories(sshcontrol.com)
1 points by johnm 18y ago|0 comments
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by johnm 18y ago
Indeed. That's why I'm totally an advocate for a requirement for a concurrent track that's all about installing/configuring/administration of computers/networks with an automation (i.e., shell scripting, tool development, etc.) focus.
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by johnm 18y ago
Phew! Well, at least somebody still has a clue! Thanks for the update.
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by johnm 18y ago
Wow! It's frightening how little people learn from history. Scheme/Lisp is much better for that use now and has been for, oh, decades. [But, then again, that's coming from a guy at that little community college on the peninsula. :-)] It's
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Merlin Mann: Attention Sinks and Time Burglars(lifehacker.com)
1 points by johnm 18y ago|0 comments
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Doing the Troops Wrong(nytimes.com)
2 points by johnm 18y ago|0 comments
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Noumenal Null: Null vs. Pure Reason(apocalisp.wordpress.com)
1 points by johnm 18y ago|0 comments
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by johnm 18y ago
Get more sleep. Do non-intellectual stuff (breakfast, clean the kitchen, etc.). Do some light physical exercise (go for a walk, light yoga, etc.). Meditate.
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by johnm 18y ago
ezmlm ( http://ezmlm.org/ )
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by johnm 18y ago
True. Alas, there seems to be a fair number of people in the valley that fret (nee obsess) about every single bit of feedback from any source and end up constantly changing directions because of that. Talk about the road to schizophrenia.
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(Why) Listening to Customers is Hard, Hard, Hard(continuations.wenger.us)
8 points by johnm 18y ago|2 comments
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Human Hardware: You’re Looking, but are You Seeing?(searchengineland.com)
1 points by johnm 18y ago|0 comments
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Lisaac: An Efficient Prototype-based language(isaacproject.u-strasbg.fr)
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Industry, Stanford hope to fix what ails parallel processing(arstechnica.com)
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by johnm 18y ago
Basically: "Specifically, this work will include: * Removing restrictions on use of the SWF and FLV/F4V specifications * Publishing the device porting layer APIs for Adobe Flash Player * Publishing the Adobe Flash® Cast™ protocol and the AM
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Public Flashing: Open Screen Project(adobe.com)
4 points by johnm 18y ago|1 comments
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COLA Tutorial: Brainfuck(swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de)
2 points by johnm 18y ago|0 comments
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by johnm 18y ago
That's very fishy. They should give you all of the information in the plan because the details do matter when push comes to shove. I.e., you want to know not just the currently outstanding shares but all of the authorized shares as well
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by johnm 18y ago
That's why there will never be just one. :-)

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