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by kevan 11y ago
Akamai does indeed give unique reference codes for errors like these. There's a management interface where you can look up more info on what happened for each code, but in my experience lookup time is proportional to the time since the
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by kevan 11y ago
You can find adhesive velcro at craft stores, it would probably be a pretty good option if you need to remove it occasionally.
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by kevan 11y ago
Have you checked out typing.io [0]? [0] https://typing.io/
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by kevan 11y ago
My compromise is to turn off notifications for most group chats and rooms. I still probably check chat every 15 minutes, but I choose when to check instead of a notification breaking my train of thought. I'm a big fan of using chat to
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by kevan 11y ago
> ranging from just keeping hard-coded strings containing the expected output, up to and including implementing our own fake versions of external infrastructure. This sounds very familiar, we rely on external credit systems pretty heavil
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by kevan 11y ago
If you'd like to force yourself to at least look at a script before piping it in, there's shed [0] [0] https://github.com/mplewis/shed
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by kevan 11y ago
My impression was that they see FAQ sections as an excuse to not organize content. If you don't have any FAQs then it forces you to put the content in a section with a heading that's actually descriptive and will help with SEO.
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by kevan 11y ago
This has already degenerated into an argument about the merits of containerization but I hope we can all agree that better tooling for developers is always a good thing.
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by kevan 11y ago
It seems like this is targeted at Investment Advisors, would it be useful for the rest of us without any finance training?
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by kevan 11y ago
Until the algorithm runs out of nodes to explore it can't know that the destination is unreachable. Checking if a node is enclosed is determining if its graph is disjoint from the graph that the other node is on. The only way to prove
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by kevan 11y ago
Some friends and I made pathfinding visualizations that use real map data from the OpenStreetMap project, it gets messy pretty fast. http://kevanahlquist.com/osm_pathfinding/
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by kevan 12y ago
We just switched to something similar for DockerUI [0]. centurylink/golang-builder [1] (500+MB) compiles a static binary and we drop that into a really light runtime (5MB) from scratch. [0] https://github.com/crosbymich
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by kevan 12y ago
$200 probably wouldn't cover lawyers fees. From an amoral perspective, there's a simple cost function: (cost to buy) vs (chance of being caught * cost of damages). If you don't make the cost of damages high enough then the be
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by kevan 12y ago
In the original Steam bug the asterisk is outside the double-quotes and path expansion definitely applies.
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by kevan 12y ago
Agreed, I should've elaborated. All it takes is something like this in the init script without checking if the variable is empty: rm -rf "$STEAMROOT/"*
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by kevan 12y ago
I love how deadpan the bug report is: Actual results: All files are deleted on the machine. Expected results: Squid is restarted. Not many details yet but it sounds similar to the Steam bug [0] from last year. [0] htt
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by kevan 12y ago
Similar IE8 and mobile numbers here. IE8 support used to be a main focus because 3% of a really big number is still a pretty big number. Then we started paying attention to mobile stats and realized how much we were missing in the mobile ex
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by kevan 12y ago
Minnesotan here, everyone in my office takes their laptops home if we think it'll snow. If it snows during the commute then things slow down, but there's armies of plow trucks and things get cleared quickly.
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by kevan 12y ago
True, but mortgage or rent is one of the largest items in most people's budgets. A new software engineer in Minneapolis can comfortably buy a house and start building equity. A new software engineer in the bay area probably can't
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by kevan 12y ago
For more info there's the Bitcoin whitepaper: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
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by kevan 12y ago
There's an interesting balance between maintaining a competitive edge and helping advance the field as a whole. Overall I hope companies lean towards the open-source mindset. Working on problems that someone else has solved is a lot le
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by kevan 12y ago
I think part of the solution is to get security teams to recognize that good user experience is a part of secure design. If the interface allows users to make mistakes that compromise security then the software has failed. You can blame use
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by kevan 12y ago
This would help a lot in case where you have multiple calls chained together. foo.bar().fiz().buz() What's undefined, bar, fiz, or buz? Then you have to set a breakpoint to find out. Most people I know try to avoid writing cod
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by kevan 12y ago
Aside from the security issues with X11 I've never had a good experience from a usability perspective with X11 on OS X. Basic actions like resizing windows need to offer a native-quality experience before mass adoption can happen. Dis
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by kevan 12y ago
The last reply to the issue: "The Tox protocol is very easy to parse in C which means little chance of issues." Building a homegrown parser and simultaneously expecting not to have security issues, that's true confidence.
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by kevan 12y ago
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by kevan 12y ago
In that case you could store a hash of the IP instead.
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by kevan 12y ago
"The issue was resolved at 23:10 PST and the site stabilized shortly afterwards. Our internal and external monitoring shows that API requests are being served with normal latency and error rates, in all geographic regions. We are sorry
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by kevan 12y ago
I wasn't even getting DNS resolution for any of the affected sites.
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by kevan 12y ago
The main app and Messenger aren't connecting at all for me, Facebook's OAuth is also inaccessible.

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