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by martinp 14y ago
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3910649
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by martinp 14y ago
There's so much FUD being spread around every time there's a vulnerability in the Java browser plugin. Certain online banks (almost every single one in Norway) require an Java applet for two-factor authentication, so uninstalling the plugin
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by martinp 14y ago
The problem is that there is a ridiculously large, and ever-increasing number of tools available. So determining which ones provide you value and which ones you can do without has become a skill in itself. This especially applies to our fie
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by martinp 14y ago
At my previous job we setup a internal company IRC server using InspIRCd [0]. We decided to host it on EC2 as well, and restricted access to it by putting the instance in our VPC [1] (only reachable over VPN). It became pretty popular and i
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by martinp 14y ago
Agreed, the site isn't all that usable from mobile devices. I use the Hacker News Reader app [0] for Android, it has a very nice interface and it's open source. [1] [0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.manuelmaly... [1]
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by martinp 14y ago
Probably the drama surrounding a recent Rails commit [0] and DHHs follow-up blog post. [1] [0] https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/61b91c4c55bcbd5a2ec85d... [1] http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/2012/rails-is-omakase.htm...
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by martinp 14y ago
'why GNU grep is fast' from the FreeBSD mailing list: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-Augu...
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by martinp 14y ago
My Linode also shows 4 L5520, but that's probably 2 cores with 4 threads as the L5520 [1] has 4 cores and 8 threads in total. http://ark.intel.com/products/40201/Intel-Xeon-Processor-L55...
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by martinp 14y ago
Looks like it has been removed now.
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by martinp 14y ago
I was looking at the source when I noticed that the formatting of http://creativeguidebook.appspot.com/js/fbk.min.js actually spells out "WE ARE HIVE". [1] [1] http://www.wearehive.co.uk
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by martinp 14y ago
Sorry, forgot to specify which one. It was MySQL if I remember correctly.
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by martinp 14y ago
In my experience the database usually gets evaluated on a per-project basis. It's a good way to determine the strengths and weaknesses of each. Currently we use PostgreSQL for all new projects, but we have a few legacy projects still using
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by martinp 14y ago
Most companies usually use more than one. At my current job we use PostgreSQL and MySQL in production, and H2 in development. At my previous job we used Sybase SQL Anywhere (horrible, wouldn't recommend it), Microsoft SQL server, MySQL, Ama
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WebJars: Managing client-side dependencies(webjars.org)
3 points by martinp 14y ago|0 comments
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Beware, Tech Abandoners. People Without Facebook Accounts Are 'Suspicious.'(forbes.com)
3 points by martinp 14y ago|1 comments
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Sorting improvements in PostgreSQL 9.2: the case for micro-optimisation(pgeoghegan.blogspot.no)
41 points by martinp 14y ago|4 comments
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by martinp 14y ago
Fun fact: The username "Kenneth36" is a reference to the leak of a Norwegian mans financial records earlier this year [1] [1] http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/22/2892471/norway-altinn-kenn...
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by martinp 14y ago
Another vote for Mikrotik. I bought a RB751G-2HnD myself about a month ago, because I needed a router with decent features and fast enough to handle a 90/10 Mbit connection. The feature list is very impressive and on par with professional-g
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by martinp 14y ago
Another vote for vundle. Not having to manage git submodules is a nice change from pathogen.
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by martinp 15y ago
Exclusively Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, managed with Landscape and Puppet. Normalizing the environment is crucial when managing a non-trivial amount of servers. LTS is very nice when it comes to production servers, stable updates, stuff rarely breaks
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by martinp 15y ago
Somewhat language dependent. IntelliJ IDEA for Java stuff. Vim for everything else.
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by martinp 15y ago
We do this at my job too, although we use Jenkins and its IRC plugin. Very neat.
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by martinp 15y ago
I recently picked a 27" Dell U2711 (2560x1440) over 2x24" Samsung (1920x1200) at work. The better display panel (IPS vs. TN), better resolution, better contrast and so on made it a logical choice. Can't say that I regreted it. With the rece
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by martinp 15y ago
Or echo -en "-n\n".
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What is DevOps?(dev-spout.blogspot.com)
2 points by martinp 15y ago|1 comments
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by martinp 15y ago
I used OrmLite for Android [1] pretty extensively in a project this spring. I'm not too fond of the DAO pattern, but it did the trick. I ended up using cursors and query builder where it was needed (large lists and such), while using OrmLit
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by martinp 15y ago
I think this exact bug was fixed in another implementation of bcrypt [1] over a year ago. [1] http://www.mindrot.org/files/jBCrypt/internat.adv
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by martinp 15y ago
I was kind of hoping to see Age of Empires on that list, no luck though.
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by martinp 15y ago
Seeing as Wine has reached version 1.0 and DNF has gone gold, anything could happen. Next thing you know, GNU Hurd stable will be released.
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by martinp 15y ago
Too bad really. Looks like a very good service.

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