jwiley

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by jwiley 11y ago
My 1.5 cents: probably coincidence. It would be difficult to get naval vessels to follow him around the world, for example during his trip to land-locked Mongolia: https://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/photogalle
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by jwiley 11y ago
No idea or visibility into Steam's backend. Hope to god they are not using C for this very reason. Great for games, terrible for SAS
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by jwiley 11y ago
I have no experience with compose.io, but will recommend object rocket / rackspace for mongo hosting. Great support, reasonable prices (as reasonable as mongo can be)
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by jwiley 11y ago
I like Zed, and appreciate his open source work and his programming books. I think he let himself get a little carried away. "Taking criticism in stride is just part of quality, and trying to eliminate any criticism of your ideas is a
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by jwiley 11y ago
Can you go into details about why a financial organization requested this?
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by jwiley 11y ago
Imagine if you build a platform around Stripe payments, and then having to rip it out and go with something else. If that's the case, five days is essentially overnight, if you have retask developers/hire contractors or do it you
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by jwiley 11y ago
Thanks for your work on Rust, a very cool language. And although the massive 3k poem was removed Rust-created binaries, and it initially pissed me off when I discovered it, thanks to Brian Anderson for sharing. https://github.co
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by jwiley 11y ago
Struggling to connect the lines of your reasoning. You say these are money laundering tax shelters, and that the poorest members of society pay far more than the foreign billionaires who own them and make money trading them around. But tha
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by jwiley 11y ago
Formal verification would not help if the formal or informal design specs called for unauthenticated telnet. It would prove that the entire stack was bullet-proof against memory violations and mathematically pure, and that it would with 10
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by jwiley 11y ago
My rant was about a cultural trend in the US of demonizing politicians for being educated and/or intellectual. FoxNews has worked hard to become a mouth-piece for this viewpoint. I wasn't commenting on his political views, party,
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by jwiley 11y ago
Wonder if you have FoxNews or a similar variant in Singapore? Do they characterize the Prime Minister as a professorial egg-head elitist out of touch with the common man? If not you have something to look forward to, in the early days of o
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by jwiley 12y ago
Lots of tabs are a hint you are time-slicing too finely, IMHO. If I have more than a manageable number, it's a little hint to myself that I'm getting spread too thin to make any sort of reasonable progress on anything.
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by jwiley 12y ago
This is lovely, congrats to the author
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by jwiley 12y ago
assert(rand() != dummy_random_read_phony())
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by jwiley 12y ago
Signed extensions also seem like a nice addition https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/02/10/extension-signing...
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by jwiley 12y ago
It would be helpful to have real-world examples of who is losing out due to this and why...beyond the entire free peoples of the internet (some of whom I'm sure do not use linked in).
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by jwiley 12y ago
Can someone point me to an explanation of "Nim is the only language that leverages automated proof technology to perform a disjoint check for your parallel code"? This is mentioned prominently on the main page...but scanning the d
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by jwiley 12y ago
So why not just move the confidential stuff to ENV, and use the traditional Rails methods? What does ENV vs config get you?
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by jwiley 12y ago
- "You cannot update your server’s configuration without committing and deploying new code" I admit while I agree with many parts of 12-factor, I have never full understood the rational for this. What is the rationale of moving f