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by midas007 13y ago
If you'd like to update the keg-only OpenSSL brew on osx, and dont care for legacy and crap: ( export CONFIGURE_OPTS='no-hw no-rdrand \ no-sctp no-md4 no-mdc2 no-rc4 no-fips no-engine'; \ brew install https:&#
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by midas007 13y ago
Basically, for internal infrastructure, where autossh wont work and/or where something simpler than ssh is desired. So the strawmen arguments about it not replacing TLS is not the point. stud, nginx, stunnel, f5 load balancers and clou
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by midas007 13y ago
Cucumber, especially for moving-fast-and-break-things startups, can be extra baggage. It's only needed where there is so much behavior and/or stakeholders to please that it would matter. Otherwise, it's probably as useful a
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by midas007 13y ago
It's a toolbox, each gem has unique strengths and weaknesses. If using ActiveAdmin, it's likely that large projects that include external apps already require simpleform and/or formtastic in addition to form_for/formbuil
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by midas007 13y ago
Software architects... the people that don't code but seem to have enough ego to spare to tell everyone else what to do.
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by midas007 13y ago
Something like Popcorn Time is the future both as a client and moving to a shared backend where people can more easily split hosting fees... Because how many copies of The Big Lebowski need to be duplicated all over the place if there'
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by midas007 13y ago
And if you don't want some govt to take down a single provider like what happened with Lavabit email vis-a-vis backup, go with a distribute (multi-provider) solution like Tahoe LAFS https://leastauthority.com/ The prox
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by midas007 13y ago
A strong construction should be impossible to compress because encryption maximizes bit entropy, which should make the cyphertext indistinguishable from a PRF (ie a random noise source). MAC, decrypt, decompress.... always^9 in that order.
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by midas007 13y ago
Definitely vault physical backup copies of private key material at a physical safety deposit box in a bank. Preferably two copies in two banks in two different timezones.
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by midas007 13y ago
Tarsnap is excellent for mission-critical data. But for most personal uses, a Glacier-backed variant of tarsnap would be extremely appealing.
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by midas007 13y ago
Done, in the form of a reusable rails template. :) https://github.com/steakknife/rails41rc_plus_hacks_and_threa... Feedback requested in the issue tracker. Anything that seems out of place.
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Gem install will soon be significantly faster, thanks to tenderlove 💙💚💜(twitter.com)
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Sidekiq 3.0.0 released(github.com)
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by midas007 13y ago
Sure. I even spawn other threads as ghetto thread supervision.
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How Emperor Alexander Militarized American Cyberspace(foreignpolicy.com)
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Steve Marquess of OpenSSL on how FIPS validation supports NSA backdoors(veridicalsystems.com)
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by midas007 13y ago
It might seem in their best intere$ts, but it was probably the most trusted rack server at the time they wrote the how-to article.
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by midas007 13y ago
It's also way, way cheaper in terms of ram. We fire up sidekiq and clockwork in threads within the puma process rather than take ~ 100 MiB/process hit of running them separately.
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by midas007 13y ago
New passenger is a great btw, what mongrel 2 wanted to be.
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by midas007 13y ago
Puma offers both multi-threading and multi-process in clustered mode to take advantage of multiple cores. Here's our config/puma.rb that we used with Rails 4.1beta and 2.1.1: https://gist.github.com/9838767
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Costco throwing away a million jars of peanut butter(theguardian.com)
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"@rabite, who is in solitary confinement ... isn't allowed to have books"(twitter.com)
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by midas007 13y ago
After TT, this sort of shakeout is unsurprising. Pandora and Spotify are ripe for moves. And Rdio possibly.
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by midas007 13y ago
Pedigree is for .......
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California anti-game-violence legislator arrested on bribery charges(arstechnica.com)
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by midas007 13y ago
TL;DR: Don't automatically write off YC bc you think you have the right contacts, mentors and/or investors. So I've seen both sides: bright eyed startups out to change the world and enterprise startups that quit corporate. E
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by midas007 13y ago
You didn't get the joke. That's okay.
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by midas007 13y ago
It's really nothing novel [0], there was the Lava Lamp RNG. [1] Except the generation source might be technically interesting, if you at all trust the overarching politics. [0] http://www.random.org/ [1] http:/&
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by midas007 13y ago
Makes me wonder. Has this ever person built anything themselves that scaled? Because at this rate, the database is going to be an even bigger bottleneck that it usually is. There are plenty of people with decades of bad habits because the
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by midas007 13y ago
Sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy_coding >.< Best advice might be to double-down on putting everything you're doing in the issue tracker and tying to commits. Don't get lumped into the &

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