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by mnutt 9y ago
I self-host my email with a very similar setup, and while alright I wouldn't go so far as to call it fun. It's funny how pushing messages to my iOS device is actually harder to configure than sending emails. (hacked-together exc
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I think the best bootcamps do a pretty good job of having students answer that question during admissions or during the class itself. If you aren't getting some fulfillment during class, you probably won't during work either. For
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It's a really clever solution, kudos to them. Is there a limitation why they couldn't just have the notification point to a remote URL and update server-side using whatever solution they wanted? It wouldn't have been as elega
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I often give this same advice, but assuming this is the case, why reach for DynamoDB at all? Are there small-data use cases where DynamoDB makes more sense than RDS or a hosted redis? At least with those, if you do run into scaling issues y
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I believe a while ago the sandstorm people spoke to LE who advised that it wasn't a good idea. I'll stand by the assertion that vhosts are probably still better off with a wildcard cert if it's the difference between a single
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I recently started testing kubernetes using kops and was pleasantly surprised how explicit it was about exactly what changes it would make in AWS. If you get past the testing phase and want to use it conjunction with your existing productio
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_Someone could loose a laptop..._ Your overall point is valid, but employee losing a laptop is a much narrower problem to solve for: set JAMF policies that enforce full-disk encryption and reasonably strong passwords, write off any machines
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I agree that wildcards aren't great if they're being passed around an organization to avoid registering a few extra certs, but they are very useful in a few circumstances such as sandstorm.io: every app session uses a different su
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That makes a lot of sense, thanks. Better consistent hashing means that existing servers don't have their caches invalidated, but the new servers that were just added start with empty caches anyway so are fielding all uncached requests
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Consistent hashing is a bit cleaner way to do it, but pretty much the same result as modulo-ing the user id against number of servers. At least as I understand it, you consistently hash something (a user id, a request URL, etc) into N bucke
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Neal Stephenson also wove this idea into his historical fiction trilogy, The Baroque Cycle, set in early 1700s Europe. One of the protagonists keeps a journal encoded in binary cross-stitch as she moves across enemy lines.
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I thought that they successfully delivered a passenger scheduling system, but it failed to gain market traction. I don't know the details, but I'd imagine it would be a huge migration cost even if the new system was much better.
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I'm not sure I understand the connection? My argument was that War and Peace sounds like an incredibly big thing to load because it took people a long time to read it in high school, but it's actually pretty simple, structure-wise
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War and Peace in HTML on Gutenberg is 12,000 paragraph tags, which is a lot but it's very easy to find forum threads with more than 12,000 posts. And each post is more than a paragraph tag, it's probably more like a dozen: the aut
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by mnutt 9y ago
Since Glimmer is implemented as a bytecode VM, they were able to go ahead and pull in many of the improvements that Fiber brings to React: https://thefeedbackloop.xyz/designing-and-implementing-glimm...
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If you like the Rails monoculture, you may like Ember as a front-end framework. Most of the choices are made for you, and on the whole they're very good default choices. If you choose Ember, you get: a CLI tool (ember-cli), a templatin
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I've run a ~30-user, ~1000-repo gitolite instance for a few years and while it has done its job admirably, there are a couple of things to know about: It has a pretty clever config management system where the configuration is actually
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by mnutt 9y ago
Along those lines, it sounds like Sandstorm may be a fit for what you're thinking of. It's generally more federated than a totally distributed system, but provides nice mechanics for packaging web apps, distributing them to others
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I'm not sure ember's HTMLBars (the default, a drop-in replacement for handlebars) is any more stringly-typed than JSX.
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I have a coworker who reported fraudulent cab driver activity to the TLC. It was an arduous process involving multiple interviews and a hearing, and in the end the driver was fined about $200. Nothing inherently unfair about that process, b
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I think part of the challenge is manufacturing and handing out a distributed system to nontechnical users and then trying to debug their issues without having central control. (Or any control, really) As someone who built an OSS synced stor
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MongoDB is the exception that says "no". Every hypothetical I've seen addressed with the AGPL involves a company running a server for users and then modifying that server and having to give the code to those users. But rarely
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I can see where you're coming from, but I tend to bucket apps I write into either general use case, mostly business-logic apps, or highly specific services. (say, a network proxy or compositor or something) The general use case apps al
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My guess is that while it's a standalone page, given the timing (released during emberconf keynote today) the copy is mostly targeted at ember devs, at least initially. As someone who is intimately familiar with ember, I immediately un
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To expand on that, Huntsville, Alabama is the home of Marshall Space Flight Center, which was the design center for the Apollo space program among other things. Also, for those who grew up in the 80s, it's the home of Space Camp.
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For those that want to try it out, it looks like the released ember-cli version doesn't support it. To test it out, you can replace the first instruction on that page with: `yarn global add ember-cli/ember-cli` (edited for better
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I was really surprised that I was able to get 1Password for Windows working under Wine, even 1P Mini works with the browser extensions. It's not terribly reliable, though.
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I built one back in college: https://63towuxu569fy07zrhhj.mnutt.sandcats.io/2006-07-23%20... , https://63towuxu569fy07zrhhj.mnutt.sandcats.io/IMG_3628.jpg I didn't do a whole lot of planning for airflo
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There are plenty of reasons to be found for why people enjoy using Ember, but here are some of mine: Ember is opinionated, and in most cases that is a great thing. Every other day there's an article about "frontend development is
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That'd be great. I've found https://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/ to be a good code resource for optimization, if a bit hard to follow.

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