peterwwillis

287 ms·

2311.
by peterwwillis 9y ago
The problem is, how do you find out how many sites you currently use Facebook Connect for, and get non-FB Connect logins for? Until recently I thought Lyft made Facebook login mandatory, I'm not sure if that's still the case.
2312.
by peterwwillis 9y ago
Technical debt is kicking the can down the road. What you're talking about is mostly just a feature overhaul. The modifications the previous tenant made were technical debt.
2313.
by peterwwillis 9y ago
Civilian devices can use two frequencies as well, they just don't for cost and complexity reasons. The new L5 frequency has been available for some time and new devices supporting it are coming out this year. There are also multiple au
2314.
by peterwwillis 9y ago
In the sense that the alternative is to demolish and build a new building, your example is technical debt. But your example is really an example of legacy systems. Sometimes, supporting the legacy system can be technical debt. But sometimes
2315.
Forget Technical Debt – Build Technical Wealth(firstround.com)
2 points by peterwwillis 9y ago|1 comments
2316.
by peterwwillis 9y ago
Are you talking about software engineering, or engineering engineering? Because I don't think building engineers create technical debt.
2317.
by peterwwillis 9y ago
> IBM's products aren't as good as Amazon/Google You can't compare the first to the other two. Amazon and Google don't make business products. Sure, they sell "cloud services", but these aren't bus
2318.
by peterwwillis 9y ago
Another way to recap the paper is this: run small clusters at your PoPs, aggregate the results of those clusters and replicate back to an upstream cluster with eventual consistency. The PoP clusters throttle down their replication under hig
2319.
by peterwwillis 9y ago
Collisions between pedestrians, bicyclists and cars would be impossible if we restricted the roadway. Collisions of vehicles between lanes, including the opposite and crossing lanes, would also be impossible. You don't even need self-d
2320.
by peterwwillis 9y ago
Isn't that 4chan?
2321.
by peterwwillis 9y ago
This is the business model of cable TV providers.
2322.
by peterwwillis 9y ago
Six months ago I speculated ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15242367 ) that Kaspersky was banned from US Govt use due to not playing ball with a political entity in the government. Now we know that simply by pursuing t
2323.
by peterwwillis 9y ago
You can unplug from the electrical grid with one of these. If you don't have 5 grand to plunk down on a giant battery I'd say it's a pretty effective way to save money. You don't have to keep it in your house. If you hav
2324.
by peterwwillis 9y ago
you can afford a dedicated openbsd system?! i'd have to use a friend's free shell account and hope i don't get klined (again)
2325.
by peterwwillis 9y ago
If the purpose is just to pay for pre-trial release of inmates, the simple solution would be to just release them and offer them reasonable payment plans. Or to postpone the fee until after they have had a fair trial ("I will only pay
2326.
by peterwwillis 9y ago
"The future of journalism depends on all of us working together." Actually the future of journalism depends on media companies to stop working like tabloids trying to attract eyeballs to shiny controversial crap. Seriously, I&#x
2327.
by peterwwillis 9y ago
Another interesting one gone: Aurochs, larger ancestors of domestic cattle, died out in 1627. They were famous in Greek myths and used in Roman arenas. Elasmotherium, a sort of furry rhino, died out about 10,000 years ago, and could have in
2328.
by peterwwillis 9y ago
That's even more sad. It would mean that even though they care deeply about outcomes, they either willfully ignore the things that result in those outcomes, or have amnesia, or are just incapable of doing anything about it. Take Congre
2329.
by peterwwillis 9y ago
People love to pretend to be horrified by things they've assumed to be true. "What? A politician is corrupt? Outrage!!" "What? They're tracking me to build profiles on my use of all their advertising driven free ser
2330.
by peterwwillis 9y ago
This has literally been de rigeur at any company that does advertising for a decade. Even sports websites have been doing this since forever. Excuse me if I'm not really horrified by political groups using personal data to craft stra
2331.
by peterwwillis 9y ago
Not specifically that one way. In order to allow transportation to co-exist with pedestrians without collisions, you need some kind of separation between the two. With subways, the protected lane is literally underground, but it does defi
2332.
by peterwwillis 9y ago
Situations no self-driving car can avoid: - philosophical dilemma - physics-constrained reaction times - actions that violate the rules of the system Solutions: - protected car lanes - protected bike lanes - protected ped
2333.
by peterwwillis 9y ago
I'm not saying there aren't good network filesystems, I'm just saying that while NFS is hot garbage, it is totally useful hot garbage when used in the right way.
2334.
by peterwwillis 9y ago
The problem is in thinking of an HTTPS request-response through proxies as a single TCP connection. It isn't. A TLS proxy is not a normal part of a layered TCP/IP connection. It's literally in the name: "terminating&quot
2335.
by peterwwillis 9y ago
NFS has plenty of good uses. Maildir works fine, sharing large datasets works fine, sharing static assets works fine, it's widely supported. No need to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Just stop putting the baby in boiling water.
2336.
by peterwwillis 9y ago
VLAN and MPLS are common, as well as .1P/.1Q and DSCP. Then you can find hybrids like MPLS-VPN and S-VLAN, and then the tunneling protocols like GRE, L2TP, VXLAN, DOVE, QinQ, OTV, NVGRE, PBB-TE, SPB, VLL, etc. And most of this is just
2337.
by peterwwillis 9y ago
Once you create software that processes raw socket data, besides the endianness issues, the next thing you'll realize is the incredible breadth of RFCs that are covered for even "common" network traffic. Write your software t
2338.
by peterwwillis 9y ago
Another good set of studies to compare against are those showing leaching of lead from crystal decanters with hard liquor. Where the amount of lead leached may be gargantuan initially, the level leached out shrinks over time until it reache
2339.
by peterwwillis 9y ago
Things I've found to help situations like this: 1. When a person is asking you for help, try to imagine a situation where you have needed help and asked someone for it. Imagine your responses to them as someone's response to you.
2340.
by peterwwillis 9y ago
Let me guess. This article doesn't count as politics, either.

More ›