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by patwolf 7y ago
Glad to see this service exists. Until now I've been storing secrets in JSON files in Cloud Storage, and using KMS to encrypt the contents. This is hopefully simpler to use and easier to audit.
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by patwolf 7y ago
I've heard first-hand accounts of them being used in manufacturing automation up until fairly recently, particularly in pharmaceutical manufacturing. But now a lot of that has moved to emulators running on standard x86 hardware. You ca
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by patwolf 7y ago
We recently did work for a very large corporation that switched from net 60 to net 180. I'm not sure if they did it for cash flow reasons, but I doubt it. We're a small company, so it was tough for us considering we'd be payi
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by patwolf 7y ago
I think that's completely intellectually honest to say that if you value woman's choice at all costs, then you can't really be too upset at this outcome. You could also argue that this is basically eugenics--selectively breed
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by patwolf 7y ago
+1 that Durham is the most interesting part of the RTP. Having lived in Durham, Raleigh, Cary, Morrisville, and Chapel Hill over the years, I liked Durham the best. But like a lot of cities, gentrification is causing a lot of social and cul
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by patwolf 7y ago
RTP is central to three counties--Wake (Raleigh, Cary), Durham, and Orange (Chapel Hill). There are a lot of good public schools, but it depends a lot on which county and city you live in. And of course school district has a big impact on h
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by patwolf 7y ago
A relative of mine used to work on automation for a large pharmaceutical manufacturer in the US. He used to talk about how unrelenting the FDA was in their inspections. The better your processes were, the harder the FDA would try to find ne
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by patwolf 7y ago
"Mark Zuckerberg is a good guy. But his company is a threat to our economy and democracy." "Mark is a good, kind person. But I’m angry that his focus on growth led him to sacrifice security and civility for clicks." I al
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by patwolf 8y ago
I think there's a legitimate FOMO involved with not quickly reading messages. I say legitimate because it's not just missing out on inconsequential chatter. Slack is a business tool and business decisions get make over slack. The
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by patwolf 8y ago
I used to publish to mp3.com, and sadly I don't even have backups of some of my songs I put on there. I never made any money from mp3.com, but I do have a couple backpacks that they sent me for no real reason--a glorious reminder of th
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by patwolf 8y ago
I was always surprised one of the cloud providers didn't release a cloud-native full-text search service. A lot of projects could benefit by a simple text search service. I always found Elasticsearch to be a little clunky and found mys
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by patwolf 8y ago
You could do it in a JSON field, and I've personally done that but mostly out of laziness. I think in the end it's better to actually come up with a normalized schema. I typically reserve JSON fields for storing data whose schema
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by patwolf 8y ago
I've built applications on AWS, IBM Cloud (Bluemix at the time), Azure, and GCP. If a client has no preference over platform, I usually go with GCP. I find it the simplest, cheapest, and most reliable for the type of stack we use. I&#x
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by patwolf 8y ago
We've been getting books from Imagination Library for a couple years have really enjoyed the service. It's easy to get into the routine of reading the same books over and over to kids. This at least gives us some variety and is ob
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by patwolf 8y ago
That's interesting. I never gave much thought to the fact that pseudoephedrine is a stimulant and can be harmful/abused in its own right. I just know it helps me breathe when I'm congested. I feel like the dichotomy between O
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by patwolf 8y ago
I would consider voting for a politician with a platform of eliminating phenylephrine and making it easier to obtain pseudoephedrine, i.e. not having to get it from behind a counter while showing ID and signing a logbook. Although perhaps I
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by patwolf 8y ago
> The primary reason we migrated away from Google SQL for PostgreSQL is because we discovered a bug that was causing data corruption Is anyone familiar with the details of the data corruption bug? I'm using Cloud SQL and would lik
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by patwolf 8y ago
Technically you couldn't spend most your time in NY and still claim residency in FL. Laws require you to spend at least half the year in FL and have done other things besides buy a property to show that you really do live in that state
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by patwolf 8y ago
I recall several years ago hearing about other companies, particularly IBM, patenting technologies related to homomorphic encryption. I wonder if there is any risk to some of this infringing on a patent and what that means for users of OSS
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by patwolf 8y ago
The explanation seems overly simplistic. If the difference in volume of male candidates mattered, then I would also expect to see a bias in favor of applicants from larger universities. That seems like too obvious an issue in the way the al
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by patwolf 8y ago
That does seem like a faulty metric to identify the worst pollution problems. By pure count there are probably more microbeads than cigarettes in the ocean. So this article is basically saying that of the countable pieces of pollution in th
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by patwolf 8y ago
In the case of Chapel Hill (and I'm sure others as well), it's a bit odd to see it singled out when it's really part of a larger metropolitan area. If I were living in Chapel Hill, I could also be reasonably working in Raleig
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by patwolf 8y ago
I always figured there were a lot of poorly-secured Firebase apps out there. My experience with Firebase Database is that it's great for apps with extremely simple models, or for PoCs where security and performance aren't a concer
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by patwolf 8y ago
Resource Action. That's just euphemistic IBM jargon for layoffs.
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by patwolf 8y ago
This surprises me. I had assumed incorrectly that flexible environments were the future of App Engine. I'm pretty happy with using flexible environment for nodejs. However, the fact that this supports scaling to zero, and has headless
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by patwolf 8y ago
Ionic uses Cordova, which you can use directly without having to use the rest of Ionic. You're then free to write the app in React or whatever web framework you prefer. The only downside is if you do want a native look and feel, you&#x
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by patwolf 9y ago
Apple and IBM have had a partnership as far back as 2014: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2014/07/15Apple-and-IBM-Forge... I remember as part of that partnership IBM released a version of their MobileFirst too
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by patwolf 9y ago
We've been integrating more and more Firebase into our projects. It's saved a lot of time since Firebase provides both native and web implementations of many of the services that we would otherwise waste time implementing ourselve
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by patwolf 9y ago
yes, this was iOS 9 or 10
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by patwolf 9y ago
Another UX issue I've seen with the iPhone calculator: My wife is a nurse and uses the iPhone calculator to calculate doses. She performed a calculation like 2.25 / 1.5 = It did give the correct answer of 1.5 . Howev

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