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by justinsb 12y ago
I find the apt package model to be very good (add trusted keys & repositories explicitly). What do you see as the shortcomings of apt compared to your ideal?
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by justinsb 12y ago
Previous discussion on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/23c7y0/why_is_golang...
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by justinsb 12y ago
A little misleading: Kindle _device_ sales in physical stores have dropped off. There are no numbers for sales of e-books themselves here. There is good news that (physical) book sales are up. A more balanced article (from the same newsp
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by justinsb 12y ago
Thanks for the datapoints. I wonder whether Austin is atypical: i.e. has the availability of Google Fiber has forced the incumbents to offer more rational pricing? I would hope that the future is Google Fiber + Dish TVoIP, and this is just
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by justinsb 12y ago
A great move, but I feel that the cable companies have anticipated this: TV + Internet is basically the same price as Internet. Who is this aimed at?
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by justinsb 12y ago
I hadn't seen Hypervisor.framework before. Has anyone looked into porting QEMU to it? It sounds like this would effectively be KVM for OSX.
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by justinsb 12y ago
My concern is that a passenger might buy a ticket through skiplagged, and not understand that they risk getting banned from the airline. If you live near a one-airline airport, that's a pretty serious risk.
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by justinsb 12y ago
According to saryant's comment, sounds like you get banned from the airline, just like (winning) card counters get banned from casinos.
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by justinsb 12y ago
The problem with the analogy (as I see it) is that A->B->C may be 'worse than' than A->B (because place C may be undesirable), whereas that isn't true for halves of a sandwich (because it is ok to not eat the second
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by justinsb 12y ago
Ignoring the merits of the lawsuit, I don't see how Skiplagged could ever be a big business. If it succeeds, it will result in its own destruction: the airlines will either eliminate hidden-city ticketing (i.e. reduce the 'hub pr
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by justinsb 12y ago
Sure; I'm not suggesting dropping TCP entirely, just that e.g. a 1MB request / response is not going to be legitimate, and so you can simply not implement a lot of TCP's complexity (e.g. window scaling)
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by justinsb 12y ago
Absolutely, but I would say that this has the potential to be a lot more secure than a traditional (full) TCP/IP stack. Most queries are UDP (one packet), and we would expect that TCP connections should only last a few packets. TCP c
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by justinsb 12y ago
I can definitely see how it might not be the right monitor for CAD work. Hope you find something that works for you (and that doesn't break the bank), although it feels like waiting a few months could be a good strategy.
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by justinsb 12y ago
Honestly I don't notice it ... where does it bother you? I'm not sure whether I really want to know the answer here - this might be one of those things that you can't unsee once it is pointed out!
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by justinsb 12y ago
I think that Philips monitor is not yet generally available and will be twice as much as I paid! But I agree with your premise I think - 4K is so new that every monitor will soon be obsoleted, so for me it was about finding a price point t
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by justinsb 12y ago
I'm currently using the Seiki 39inch 4k. 30Hz, but great for coding/browsing; probably no good for graphics work (bad color reproduction) or games (30Hz). It is very inexpensive, so I think of it as a one or two year "rental
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by justinsb 12y ago
Seems like a biased source (author is "talking his book"). Better sources: http://blogs.barrons.com/asiastocks/2014/12/18/china-solar-l... "...the new ruling will have limited impact as
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by justinsb 12y ago
I'm not sure what PGP would buy us over everything going over https from sites under Meteor's control? Cryptographic verification is great when you want to deliver the bulk of the content over http, or via untrusted mirrors, but
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by justinsb 12y ago
(Developer @ Meteor). The install script is wrapped in a function, which avoids the problem in the article you linked to.
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by justinsb 12y ago
Very cool stuff - could this also be used as a (comparatively) cheap HSM?
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by justinsb 12y ago
What is your goal? It sounds like the moment you publish, you expect the company will close the API. So you will actually be blocking third-party clients. How about making your own third party client, but not publishing the API details un
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by justinsb 12y ago
Notably: "The main intent of introducing proto3 is to clean up protobuf before pushing the language as the foundation of Google's new API platform. In proto3, the language is simplified, both for ease of use and to make it availab
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by justinsb 12y ago
A suggestion: I think everyone's mental model for flight prices is that they go up as you get closer to the departure date. I would therefore suggest in your marketing emphasizing cases where this wasn't the case i.e. where you ad
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by justinsb 12y ago
Perhaps so, but this exchange also reflects incredibly poorly on the complainer in this case.
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by justinsb 12y ago
If you use try-with-resources in Java 7, you don't need to write any exception handling. The function would be '... throws IOException'. That seems to satisfy the "think of disk/network failure as a very common cas
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by justinsb 12y ago
What if the out.Write (which is presumably in "some code") has already set err? Then we lose _that_ error, if out.Close returns error. I think this is tricky in any language.
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by justinsb 12y ago
Very interesting. I hope that's not the real rationale inside Github, as it totally ignores the fact that the blobs are immutable and thus trivially cacheable.
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by justinsb 12y ago
Ah, true. I still use Jersey 1. Jersey 2 has gone bloatware, sadly. We need a cleaner implementation of JAX-RS (which is really what we want, not Jersey per-se); I've worked on Apache Wink a little bit, but really Jersey 1 is good e
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by justinsb 12y ago
I think that is both fair and unfair. Fair because what you say is absolutely true. But unfair because if you stick to the non-bloatware libraries, Java is very good, very fast and surprisingly productive. For me, that stack is Guava, Je
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by justinsb 12y ago
Ooops... looks like I didn't link to the code in that post. The whole series was open source; here's the git code itself: https://github.com/justinsb/cloudata/tree/master/cloudata-gi... The gi

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