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by pfarrell 5y ago
Agree with all points here. An upside to using db to handle data permissions is the data has the same protections if you are accessing with direct SQL or using an app. Also, those permissions would persist with the data in restored backups
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by pfarrell 5y ago
I was thinking that everything’s been covered already. For instance, a book about Next would just be a rehash of “Soul of a New Machine”. On consideration, I’d really like to know more about ‘97 to ‘07. You’ve got Jobs rejoining Apple, cre
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by pfarrell 5y ago
I'll put this old witticism forward... Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of hard drives.
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by pfarrell 5y ago
Covid-19 is not the flu.
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by pfarrell 5y ago
To not take it seriously is an invitation to future escalation.
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by pfarrell 5y ago
If she had not stuck her head through the window, she’d have walked out with all the other people in that room. It’s incorrect to categorize her death as due to her beliefs. It was her actions.
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by pfarrell 5y ago
In the Star Trek world, I think the transporter and the replicator are the same technology just applied differently. When transporting goes wrong, they mention things like “pattern buffers”, where (presumably) information about how to recon
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by pfarrell 5y ago
pp. 324-331 Damn. I wish I could have read Byte in its prime. Great article.
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by pfarrell 5y ago
Certainly it’s not definitive though. This could easily be accomplished by storing multiple hashes, or multiple password checks that alter the user input, but still have Google keeping hashed passwords. Definitive example could be somethi
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by pfarrell 5y ago
Unless you lose a LOT of money.
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by pfarrell 5y ago
Wait! You’ve gotta get NFT in that pipeline somehow.
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by pfarrell 5y ago
Not advocating for this decision, but did you investigate Splunk? In my experience, that’s the paid logging service that competes with ELK. It will be expensive, so you have to consider the total cost of ownership (e.g., ELK requires some
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by pfarrell 5y ago
When I worked in email marketing in the 2000's, our director of engineering said something to me I've repeated many times. "Everything is hard at scale."
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by pfarrell 5y ago
Echoing what a lot have already said. I worked for a large email marketing provider that was acquired by Salesforce about a decade ago. The number one thing you are selling is deliverability. The second thing you are selling is the tracki
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by pfarrell 5y ago
I’m wondering if this is a modern extension of the old “psych-101 syndrome”. Where undergrads, upon learning of the existence of various mental health diagnoses, suddenly realize they too are OCD or have depression, etc…
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by pfarrell 5y ago
Pre-covid, there was almost nowhere to go to the bathroom in downtown SF either.
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by pfarrell 5y ago
Oh man, thanks for those links. TIL. A causeway or something that extends off of Alameda? It's wild to think about what that would have done to the area.
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by pfarrell 5y ago
For SF, not rebuilding the 480 after the '89 earthquake made the Bay side of San Francisco really pleasant and enjoyable place to be. The Embarcadero from Giant's stadium to the Wharf and around to Fort Mason is such a beautifu
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by pfarrell 5y ago
There's a second Oakland/SF bridge that doesn't exist. Well, I assume it would go to Oakland. It's marked with "???" and just says "Crossing". I presume that hypothetical bridge wouldn't have
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by pfarrell 5y ago
Exactly. Most scientific hypotheses start after “hmm… that’s weird.”
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by pfarrell 5y ago
Here’s that same sentiment in webcomic form. https://biblioklept.org/2010/12/14/huxley-vs-orwell-the-webc...
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by pfarrell 5y ago
I concur. I was just thinking about XMLHttpRequest [0] which was developed to support Outlook Web Access (years before Gmail). As developers discovered and played with it, it became the X in AJAX and eventually became a standard. That stand
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by pfarrell 5y ago
I just realized. Is it a play on the phrase “I am”? If that’s obvious, it just clicked with me after using AWS for ten years.
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by pfarrell 5y ago
> Salesforce probably has some grand ambition of becoming a "platform" in which "salesforce" proper is "just" first among equals. I think they started that in the late 2000’s and accomplished it by 2011 or s
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by pfarrell 5y ago
If you're referring to Officer Sicknick, he died of two strokes a day after being attacked with bear spray by Julian Khater and George Tanios and being subjected to the most stressful day of his life. Medically, he may have died of na
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by pfarrell 5y ago
I realize I was supposed to be in the past. In ‘93, when I first saw email and newsgroups, I thought the Internet would be a force for good that would allow free communication that would have to be a benefit for humanity. Like many, I did
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by pfarrell 5y ago
I expect the act of programming will change quite a bit over the next 10-15 years. We will incorporate machine learning algorithms more easily in many workflows, so part of your work will be training models to produce black box functions th
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by pfarrell 5y ago
Of course, these examples are shadows of what Miles Davis accomplished. He’s in a league of his own. He fundamentally changed Jazz at least 3 times if not more. Influential in Bebop (he claimed to have written Donna Lee), Cool, Modal, Fusio
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by pfarrell 5y ago
Searched to find a reference to Jack Johnson because I, too, was surprised it was missing. I think JJ, Kind of Blue, and Sketches of Spain are the best entry points to start listening to Miles.
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by pfarrell 5y ago
I think David Bowie is in that league. Even into the 2000’s was still pushing himself and I love his final album. I think Beastie Boys, too. Their last album, they were still looking for new sounds.

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