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The Mad Scientist Who Wrote the Book on How to Hunt Hackers(wired.com)
2 points by leejo 7y ago|0 comments
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All Software is Software as a Service(xkcd.com)
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by leejo 7y ago
It goes without saying that commits should include tests that cover the change, where possible. > immutably That's what makes this modus operandi so powerful IMO - comments in code may go unmaintained, tests may start failing for ot
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by leejo 7y ago
> I don't want your entire life story in my commit log. I[1] want enough debug information in the commit log to be able to reproduce the issue without having to go on web hunts to understand the problem. Especially when the change a
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by leejo 7y ago
> Many will complain, but few will do the actual work. That's opensource in a nutshell. If there are any big shops stuck on Python 2 then they will probably throw a resource or two at this. If there are big dists using Python 2 they
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Why the Feds Want to Block a Flight-Booking Software Deal(wired.com)
1 points by leejo 7y ago|0 comments
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The MongoDB Perl Driver Is Being Deprecated(mongodb.com)
4 points by leejo 7y ago|1 comments
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Swiss Perl Workshop – Post Event and Future(blogs.perl.org)
5 points by leejo 7y ago|0 comments
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by leejo 7y ago
I'm an author on CPAN who pushes one or two releases a month[1]. I'm actually surprised the number of uploads is still as high as it is, and a few thoughts struck me about the graph: 1) Most long time libraries have pretty much re
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Altitude Sickness (In Macbook Pros)?(leejo.github.io)
1 points by leejo 7y ago|0 comments
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by leejo 7y ago
For me it was Wig, Leo, and Sam as I was in the UK at that time. I jumped onto Hasselblad when I discovered the 200 series could shoot up to 1/2000 meaning I could ditch all my lights and still shoot medium format. Most of the stuff I
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by leejo 7y ago
Here are some figures off the top of my head, as a user of Hasselblad V (film) systems for approaching 15 years. All the work on my site (link in "about" page) is shot with Hasselblad film cameras. Mostly with the 6x6 V cameras. A
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by leejo 7y ago
Here's a breakdown of the attack: https://www.riskiq.com/blog/labs/magecart-british-airways-br...
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Perl 5 Porters Plan to Transition from RT to GitHub(nntp.perl.org)
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Aerial photographs from 1946 (“US flight mission”) published on map.geo.admin.ch(geo.admin.ch)
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by leejo 7y ago
2000+ day streaker here, 5.5 years give or take, and I agree that the original article reads about right. I feel Duolingo hit the sweet spot roughly two years in, that is to say a good balance of introducing new vocab with revision of previ
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by leejo 7y ago
As other comments have pointed out - the facility to update the details of an expired or cancelled card has been available to merchants / payment providers for years if not decades. I do recall that the type of transactions had to be s
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Fixing MVC in Web Applications(ovid.github.io)
4 points by leejo 8y ago|0 comments
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by leejo 8y ago
Down for approaching 30mins in Switzerland (this is when my WhatsApp desktop client started showing connection errors)
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by leejo 8y ago
I do use the car outside the long trips. Looking at my mileage graph over the past 5 years[1] my usage is short trips in the winter/spring then much longer road trips in the summer/autumn. The spikes you see on it (2,000km plus) a
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by leejo 8y ago
I just checked a couple of the routes I have planned for this year, and there are supercharger points sufficiently close on them. They would add minor detours or alternative routes - for example heading to northern England would require tak
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by leejo 8y ago
> Im guessing its at least a double of a promised $35K USA price? 60k CHF give or take, so close to double.
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by leejo 8y ago
Anecdata from someone living in a small Swiss village (c. 1,500 residents outside the ski season): - I see a handful of Teslas around the village. I would guesstimate 5 local residents own them. - The local taxi firm has a couple even. - Fi
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Altbox.dev – A collection of power tools for the Linux/Unix/macOS command line(altbox.dev)
2 points by leejo 8y ago|0 comments
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by leejo 8y ago
> If you fix your underlying schema things will break. Good. You might see it. I wish it were that easy, I really do.
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by leejo 8y ago
> Not really sure how ORM solves anything here. That said, your old and new solutions both sound wrong to me. The new solution does what you talk about, I guess I didn't explain it very well. The use of an ORM is abstracting away a
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by leejo 8y ago
> Database design is not hard ... I'm kind of curious how any of these problems are solved by an ORM Database design is indeed not hard (for the vast majority of use cases), but we can't predict the future. I'll give you a
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by leejo 8y ago
I'm sick of the argument that those who advocate for the use of an ORM have a dislike of SQL, or simply don't understand it. Perhaps this is true of newer developers who have "grown up" on ORMs, but for the most part adv
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by leejo 8y ago
> If you have almost no guarantees to provide, almost any solution would have worked. Within reason. If the failure rate is 1 in 1000 then it's probably not as a big a concern as 1 in 10 depending on your use case > In summary,
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by leejo 8y ago
The transaction data was well understood, but did change over time. It was well normalised in a relational backend that was (at the time) a few hundred GB, but it did not have any partitioning. The problem we were trying to solve was that a

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