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by mixedbit 13y ago
uwsgi is great, but only for users that want to do a PhD in performance tuning: 'There is no magic rule for setting the number of processes or threads. It is application and system dependent. Do not think using simple math like 2*cpuco
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by mixedbit 13y ago
Having to pay a substantial fee for a certificate that assures you own a domain is insane. This technology needs to be improved. Encrypted and authenticated HTTP connection should be a default not a premium feature that site owners need to
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by mixedbit 13y ago
Although I like some aspects of the trial project idea, I agree that having something shipped to production after one week of work on a completely new project is in most cases unreasonable.
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by mixedbit 13y ago
The author suggests to pay a candidate for the trail project, which makes it a reasonable deal for the candidate. To do something small, you don't need to quit a job, just dedicate few evenings and weekends and earn some extra cash. Th
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by mixedbit 13y ago
Wow, not only was this program infinitely profitable, it could also be transmitted over the network infinitely fast, and even without a network connection.
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by mixedbit 13y ago
Good luck with the project! I hope we will soon see these pathetic Facebook like buttons replaced with good old JavaScript guest counters (only half-joking).
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by mixedbit 13y ago
Well, this wouldn't be fair either. Audi allows you to fill 90 litters, it's the advantage of the old technology. Fair comparison shouldn't artificially cripple the competition. For me, battery swap in 90 seconds is a powerfu
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by mixedbit 13y ago
I like Tesla a lot, but I also like honest marketing. 23 gallons (83 litres) tanked during demo gives much longer range than a full battery. Accumulated time spend at stations won't be shorter with Tesla's technology. I think the
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by mixedbit 13y ago
No, because assembler was not shipped to clients, it was compiled anyway to unreadable binary. JavaScript is shipped to clients, you can open and examine it (if it is not obfuscated).
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by mixedbit 13y ago
Great read. One thing worries me: if we standardize a subset of JavaScript that browsers can execute quicker, won't it cause a decline in the use of fully-featured, human-written JavaScript? Developers may reasonably choose to write al
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by mixedbit 13y ago
Nice approach. I personally can't force myself to get rid of books that I've read, which is not very rational, because I very rarely reread books. But other stuff I try to get rid of, or not buy at all.
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by mixedbit 13y ago
On the other hand, yesterday there was a discussion on HN of Steve Jobs remark that his legacy won't survive long, because technology quickly becomes obsolete: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5906202 Words have mu
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by mixedbit 13y ago
Heroku should not be put alongside Firefox, Linux, Django, etc. It is not an open source platform, only their client-site tools are open source.
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by mixedbit 13y ago
If a candidate solves a puzzle, it tells you a bit about the candidate, but if the candidate fails to solve the puzzle, it tells you more or less nothing, and a large part of the interview is wasted.
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by mixedbit 13y ago
Because they allow HTTP, which for any sensitive site is a very bad idea. Their setup enables MITM attacks even against users that are careful to always use HTTPS for visiting LinkedIn.
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by mixedbit 13y ago
Full rewrite is an ambitious, but very good initiative. Firefox has done (and is still doing) a great service to the web, but its origins can be traced to the Netscape Navigator, one of the very first web browsers. For a huge system like th
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by mixedbit 13y ago
Inflatable bike helmet hidden in a scarf is quite a revolutionary idea in this space (already on the market, but expensive): http://gizmodo.com/5949067/the-ridiculous-high+concept-infla...
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by mixedbit 13y ago
A similarly anti ad-business idea: an extension that randomly clicks ads in a background.
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by mixedbit 13y ago
If so, it is rather only her impression of Google. For any company that creates technically challenging products, senior hires should be (and most often are) vital.
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by mixedbit 13y ago
Why Django model is not an ORM?
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by mixedbit 13y ago
Consider x a distance between a place where an event took place at time t1 and a brain. At time t2, if x is larger than c * (t2 - t1), it for sure does not affect the brain.
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by mixedbit 13y ago
I don't like ad-hoc benchamarks that do not attempt at all to investigate what was the cause of measured differences. There are many factors that influence request processing time, language is only one of them. Web APIs are most often
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by mixedbit 13y ago
'Can Programming Be Liberated from the von. Neumann Style?' by John Backus is another great work very worth studying: 'Conventional programming languages are growing ever more enormous, but not stronger. Inherent defects at t
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by mixedbit 13y ago
Can't believe they would do something like this, maybe the author is credited on the final slide of the presentation?
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by mixedbit 13y ago
Executing code would actually be very difficult. They would need to configure an isolated VM for each run (for security) and somehow figure out a generic way to install/configure dependencies.
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by mixedbit 13y ago
I don't find such feature very useful. Without a way to execute code or run tests it seems too easy to break something.
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by mixedbit 13y ago
Unfortunately, you don't need to tap an authentication system to spy which services people are visiting. You can achieve the same for example by ordering a popular jQuery CDN to collect HTTP referrers, IP addresses and browsers fingerp
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by mixedbit 13y ago
Right: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bansky_one_nation_un...
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by mixedbit 13y ago
Still, according to Wikipedia the company is not spotless: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies#WikiLeak... And its technology is probably far from being privacy friendly: 'Every day, our platforms
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by mixedbit 13y ago
internetsecurity.google.com could set cookies on google.com

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