kbar13

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   by kbar13 11y ago

   Is crowdsourcing really that great of an idea? content is usually better served curated, at least that's the thinking in the past, right? i.e. galleries, museums. With crowdsourcing, I think you get to a point where content coming in b
2. 272.▲
   by kbar13 11y ago

   someone's grasp of best practices in vcs is in no way an indicator of their programming or cs abilities
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   by kbar13 11y ago

   wait, but didn't you just contradict yourself? > cool that xen rolled out fixes before zero day > not cool that your vm was promptly rebooted to apply the fix
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   by kbar13 11y ago

   if one machine failed and failover kicked in correctly, why was the engineer paged?
5. 275.▲
   by kbar13 11y ago

   well to be fair subscriptions != donations
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   by kbar13 11y ago

   Giant headers are :( http://imgur.com/bT77LeK
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   by kbar13 11y ago

   to be fair python3 is a pretty large distribution (by filesize and features), and it requires having the python interpreter to run code.
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   by kbar13 11y ago

   It would be cool if there were links to the reports and/or more detail about the issues they found.
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   by kbar13 11y ago

   i'm not sure that having to provide PII to make a review is a good idea. Maybe if yelp is able to provide a kind of "reviewer's score" based on the reviewer's online activity then people will be more likely to trust
10. 280.▲
    by kbar13 12y ago

    > no new features Go gets us better performance and concurrency out of the box.
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    by kbar13 12y ago

    https://github.com/square/certstrap
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    by kbar13 12y ago

    i would argue that running their own network is a pro and not a con, as they would be able to control QoS and better respond to incidents, amongst other things
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    by kbar13 12y ago

    this is happening more and more often. Use a fake/anonymous email address for GitHub: https://help.github.com/articles/keeping-your-email-address-...
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    by kbar13 12y ago

    interesting. I didn't know that an unpowered clutch engages a spring in parallel with the Achilles tendon when the foot is on the ground, offloading the calf muscles and making walking easier.
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    by kbar13 12y ago

    there are api endpoints, just not documented, right? check devtools when logged into simple.
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    by kbar13 12y ago

    yep. Plus, if you're doing vms correctly, you should be able to spin up new ones quickly to cover ones that go down.
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    by kbar13 12y ago

    i don't have a cs degree and I consider both 2 and 3 to be a core beliefs
18. 288.▲
    by kbar13 12y ago

    this article (and user) seems to be more spam than anything.
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    by kbar13 12y ago

    you're probably going to receive a ticket (and thus an email) for your specific linode(s) soon enough. This is a general status post for everyone ever, might be a good idea to sub to the rss feed or something.
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    by kbar13 12y ago

    rackspace most likely uses hvm guests. I think they had freebsd before there was xen pv support
21. 291.▲
    by kbar13 12y ago

    realize that there's Xen HVM and Xen PV. there have been significantly more security issues in HVM than there have been in PV.
22. 292.▲
    by kbar13 12y ago

    got a magnet uri for bittorrent instead?
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    by kbar13 12y ago

    to be fair, what happens if there's a hash collision?
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    by kbar13 12y ago

    using font files from a popular public cdn like google fonts is a good idea as they are generally highly available and are generally already cached on the user's machine from use on other sites.
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    by kbar13 12y ago

    can't reply to tedunangst but it doesn't matter how you do it, you can't "unquit" once your employer knows you've been applying elsewhere, no matter if it's for school or another job.
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    by kbar13 12y ago

    Maybe you can set up stunnel between the two hosts for SSL goodness, point netcat to the stunnel port, and call it a day.
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    by kbar13 12y ago

    having played violin for the majority of my life with years of experience playing in orchestras, I can tell you that the majority of a conductor's work is done in preparation with the ensemble. Musicians are more than capable of readin
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    by kbar13 12y ago

    use a password manager?
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    by kbar13 12y ago

    yes, afaik it's the four digit code. This surprised me because the decrypt screen still gave me a full keyboard.
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    by kbar13 12y ago

    Who cares just open source it. People who are interested might even send you some pull requests