mjlee

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   by mjlee 9y ago

   Thanks for the feedback, this is our first foray into technical blog content. We certainly have a bunch of deeper technical articles on the horizon! I'll take a close look at CloudFoundry, thanks for the tip.
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   by mjlee 9y ago

   We face this also. Out of scope of this blog post but suffice to say, you're right, it's hard.
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   by mjlee 9y ago

   We're using Rancher and Terraform to achieve this. The operational overhead is massively reduced compared to just a few years ago.
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   by mjlee 9y ago

   Hi, I helped write this post. We could have been more clear in the post but the availability gain here is focussed on internal tasks. As an example, we retry failed payments on a user defined schedule - we'd like to be able to do that
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   Being Multi-Cloud with Cloudflare(billforward.net)

   64 points by mjlee 9y ago|27 comments
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   by mjlee 9y ago

   I have done the exact same thing with a Makefile :) https://blog.martinlee.org/posts/how-its-made-pt2-or-hugo-in...
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   by mjlee 9y ago

   I'm also seeing a validation error for cross account access.
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   by mjlee 9y ago

   I have been on the bridge of a ship, as an Officer of the Watch in the Royal Navy. Ships have both open loop and closed loop control systems. Closed loop is the normal mode of operation, but there are open loop systems to fall back to. The
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   by mjlee 9y ago

   I prefer the swiss cheese model. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model "In the Swiss Cheese model, an organisation's defenses against failure are modeled as a series of barriers, represented as sli
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    by mjlee 9y ago

    My favourite example of this is from the Apollo command module. Margaret Hamilton (one of the programmers) had her daughter in the simulator and let her play around. She managed to crash the simulator by launching a certain programme midfl
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    by mjlee 9y ago

    I doubt this would help, it seems fairly unlikely that whoever answers the phone would be interested in playing logic puzzles.
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    by mjlee 9y ago

    The post specifically addresses why it's not that simple - they're taking advantage of harmonics to generate signal in the audible frequencies on the microphone itself.
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    by mjlee 9y ago

    I quite enjoy https://softskills.audio It's not in any way technical, but I think it might help with the "become a better developer" goal. It's also a good bit of light relief.
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    by mjlee 9y ago

    BillForward (YC S14) | Full Stack, DevOps & Project Manager | London, UK | Onsite | Full-time We have built the best way for companies to charge their customers. BillForward delivers a solution to the complexity of Quote-to-Cash. Comple
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    by mjlee 9y ago

    I think it's probably a throwback to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA I don't remember what HN did in 2012, this might be an example of code re-use...
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    by mjlee 9y ago

    https://www.demandrush.com https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14552615
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    The three laws of config dynamics(blog.buildo.io)

    3 points by mjlee 9y ago|0 comments
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    by mjlee 9y ago

    To solve the more immediate problem - why not just use a mirror?
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    by mjlee 9y ago

    >How often do such boats bob along at 10 knots in shipping lanes? Very often. Shipping lanes are often the most direct route from A to B and 10kts is about the most economical speed for many different ships.
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    by mjlee 9y ago

    My point was that AIS is not an anticollision mechanism and shouldn't be relied upon. It's also often wrongly configured or just broken. The Royal Navy advertise their 8500ton Destroyer as having the radar cross section of a smal
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    by mjlee 9y ago

    There are only one or two people awake on lookout in a civilian ship. Air-conditioned bridge, slowly rolling waves, practically nothing to see or do... If they're on a typical watch pattern, 0230 means they got out of bed an hour ago a
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    by mjlee 9y ago

    I did read as much as I could from https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VC5hYoMw4N0C before commenting. I spent years at sea as an Officer of the Watch in the Royal Navy - during that time I spoke to quite a few other watchk
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    by mjlee 9y ago

    It seems the warship was being overtaken here, so rule 13 applies in this case "an overtaking vessel must keep out of the way of the vessel being overtaken".
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    by mjlee 9y ago

    Although the AIS transponder was turned off - the vessel would still have appeared on radar. The cargo vessel's system wouldn't have had the same amount of information for anticollision calculations, but still would have been able
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    by mjlee 9y ago

    The crew are not allowed to be asleep. In practice - it happens.
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    by mjlee 9y ago

    Practically all ships above a certain size have at least two radars solely for anticollision/navigation.
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    by mjlee 9y ago

    As someone with a few years experience at sea, I've never experienced this culture. I have come across ships at sea where the bridge crew were clearly asleep - I think that's a much more likely scenario.
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    by mjlee 10y ago

    For what it's worth, SourceForge is since under new management: https://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-acquisition-and-fut...
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    by mjlee 10y ago

    youtube-dl can take a playlist as an argument. That playlist is about 3GB of videos downloaded at max quality, in case you're curious.
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    by mjlee 10y ago

    As a righty in a country that drives on the left side of the road, I'd never considered it a problem either.