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by nerdile 4y ago
THIS. I have seen cultures that performatively celebrate failure: * Where, when systems fail, they go through the motions and jump straight to celebrating. "Thank you for finding this, X!" "Thank you for fixing this, Y!&quot
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by nerdile 4y ago
More context at https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=29969359
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by nerdile 4y ago
It's also relevant to authenticated GET requests. See also: how VSSPS, ARM do it.
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by nerdile 7y ago
The higher cost of grass-fed, free-range, etc. meat and poultry serves to internalize the externalities and disincentivizes frequent consumption. So no, it's not worse in and of itself, if it replaced feedlot farming, then we'd se
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by nerdile 7y ago
Followed by a bunch of garbage outbrain ads, which, for me, were all weird game of thrones links today.
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by nerdile 7y ago
I disagree with this author on both counts. 1. Zero filling is theoretically unnecessary, yes. But theory is not often reality. Zero filling is a defensive measure that protects you from other code that makes unhealthy assumptions. Code ext
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by nerdile 8y ago
So the article is complaining that companies that chose to create a gated consortium to protect content are exhibiting gatekeeping behaviors and not representing open ideals. Um, duh? These entities have elected to participate in two commun
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by nerdile 8y ago
For massive scale SaaS and non-native-code PaaS hosts, cost and perceived Intel lock-in risk will be the factor that drives them to deploy and evaluate these servers side by side with their Intel hosts. And, yes, those devs will have access
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by nerdile 8y ago
I find these helpful when my team is designing a feature that intersects with this kind of "gotcha" area, and it sets off warnings in my mind, "I know there's something tricky about this business requirement but I can&#x
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by nerdile 8y ago
Ok. So what? Software and services have kept usage metrics and clickstream data for decades. They have privacy policies saying that they may collect data about how you use their product. This is that data. So, is this a surprise? If you don
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by nerdile 8y ago
It's a fun read, intentionally glossy on the details (is this "pop tech"?) but I was fascinated. Except the value judgments about endianness in encoding. All of the decisions in this system were made in a broader context. W