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by lbarrow 13y ago
That library looks cool! I wrote a Go client library for Braintree the other day if you want to take a look. https://github.com/lionelbarrow/braintree-go
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by lbarrow 13y ago
It's actually not super easy to fake a Facebook or LinkedIn presence. Most services that use social media presence as an identity check ask questions like: 1. How long has your account been active? 2. Does your account have a human-like pat
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by lbarrow 13y ago
The article clearly explained that using more salts was preferable to using a global salt and did a good job of explaining why. They didn't come out and say that a per-user salt is best, but that's the natural conclusion of the argument the
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by lbarrow 13y ago
It's surprising how often people rely on their own obscurity when they hear about security vulnerabilities. Sure, I could go upgrade Rails, but why bother? I'm only using it for a personal project. The reality is that bad actors scan the pu
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by lbarrow 13y ago
Go's "duck typing" is basically Java-style interfaces that don't have to be explicitly declared: if a type has all the properties to fulfill an interface, it automatically fulfills it. This sounds similar to duck typing, but it's significan
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by lbarrow 13y ago
Agreed. I recently started working in C++ after spending a lot of time with more traditional web application languages like Ruby, Python and Clojure. It was shocking to see how grotesque and overbuilt the language was compared to the tools
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by lbarrow 13y ago
Nobody should pay any attention to these rankings.
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by lbarrow 13y ago
Thread usually means an in-process concurrency construct controlled by calls to the operating system. A goroutine is managed by the Go runtime. It's an important distinction between using many (read: hundreds) of OS threads in a single proc
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by lbarrow 14y ago
On the other hand they openly talked about extreme sleep deprivation (a few hours a week for months on end) and "walling", which is where you throw someone into a wall over and over.
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by lbarrow 14y ago
Being read your Miranda rights also serves as an explicit acknowledgement by the state that you have those rights. Most of the time, this isn't really important, but in this case it would have served a very important purpose. The Bush admin
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by lbarrow 14y ago
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is a US citizen.
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by lbarrow 14y ago
Wait -- so apparently it's acceptable in economics to publish big important papers with broad-reaching public policy implications without releasing the data on which the paper was based? That would never fly in the sciences.
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by lbarrow 14y ago
This seems like a great idea, since people who are into BitCoin are likely to use online dating services.
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by lbarrow 14y ago
;)
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by lbarrow 14y ago
I use a strongly typed functional language, so I don't need to write tests. If my code compiles, it's correct.
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by lbarrow 14y ago
I hope so, but it doesn't seem to be happening: after John Yoo finished his work at the Bush DoJ, he got a cushy position at Berkeley. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Yoo
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by lbarrow 14y ago
The defenders of Gitmo in this era will be remembered by our descendants with the same shame and disgust we feel when remembering the slave holders and segregationists of the previous eras.
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by lbarrow 14y ago
Why do you need an alternate currency to do that? Companies like Dwolla are hard at work trying to make credit card processing payment fees a thing of the past. Last time I checked, it cost only 25c to move money between bank accounts on Dw
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by lbarrow 14y ago
The author clearly regrets the way he wasted his time in college. That's the whole point of the piece.
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by lbarrow 14y ago
Great article -- I really identify a lot with the culture the author describes, particularly the way liberal arts students often scorn the sciences and tear down the Western canon without bothering to read it. It's a shame. As to the drug a
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by lbarrow 14y ago
Based on the way he ends the article, and the reflectiveness with which he wrote it, I'm guessing he finally grew up.
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by lbarrow 14y ago
Our experience with Go at Braintree was similar. While the language is great, you still have to reinvent the wheel sometimes. For some companies this might make sense if they get a ton of value out of the language. We ultimately decided we
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by lbarrow 14y ago
I think the shoe fits here. Political conservatism often draws inspiration from the works of Edmund Burke. "Burkean conservatism" is a philosophy that accepts that society will inevitably grow and evolve, but is skeptical of the ability of
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by lbarrow 14y ago
Gold does not have intrinsic value.
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by lbarrow 14y ago
I like the idea of removing costs (file storage in this case) from services by having consumers pay for them elsewhere. It seems like it could allow people to build some more interesting business models.
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by lbarrow 14y ago
I don't think these are very good reasons to blog. He's assuming he'll definitely get a lot of readership, specifically from his coworkers. That's not really a reasonable assumption. Steve Yegge wrote a great essay on why people should writ
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by lbarrow 14y ago
We used this for a while at Braintree. It works great for Unicorn-style restarts, but it doesn't ensure that the server shuts down gracefully. So while you'll have uninterrupted connectivity, if you don't ensure that your server shuts down
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by lbarrow 14y ago
I graduated from one of those Minnesotan miracle school districts in 2007. I think I got a reasonable education -- it wasn't great compared to what people in private schools got, but it set me up to succeed in college. I now live in Chicago
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by lbarrow 14y ago
Sales taxes are also regressive: poor people spend a higher percentage of their income than rich people, so any tax on spending will affect poor people more than rich people.
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by lbarrow 14y ago
The title this was submitted under is totally divorced from the content of the post. The point of the post is: obsessing over line coverage is stupid. The post says nothing about how much coverage to shoot for, or how to assess whether or n

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