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by pjungwir 11y ago
Many security protocols use credentials that are only valid for a brief time. Here is a simple example of a problem caused by my server's time being more than 10 minutes off from the time on S3: http://illuminatedcomputing.c
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by pjungwir 11y ago
Yes, I care about privacy. That's why I want my shared bookmarks to live on my own server, not on delicious or Google Drive or whatever. If they are encrypted before they leave the client so much the better. I would consider that a har
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by pjungwir 11y ago
I would love to have a bookmarks file that is text, not SQLite, so I can use rsync or git to keep a master copy on a server and have all my computers share it. Same with a passwords file, except make it encrypted with a master key.
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by pjungwir 11y ago
Thanks for writing back! I don't love either of those options. Maybe I should just make a separate cluster for my test database?!: `initdb -D /pgramdisk` I wonder if anyone has tried this, and what the drawbacks are.
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by pjungwir 11y ago
I'm very tempted to try that, but this warning in the docs you linked sounds pretty scary: > Placing a tablespace on a temporary file system like a ramdisk risks the reliability of the entire cluster Are you sure putting your test d
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by pjungwir 11y ago
I once turned down a gig from someone who wanted a tool to spam fake Yelp reviews. He had an elaborate vision for it: a control panel he could use to choose a target and whether to make the reviews good or bad, which controlled a fleet of i
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by pjungwir 11y ago
I agree. Rails database migrations get so many of these things right: every change is a script, the database is versioned (via schema_migrations). I really like that the database is the sum of a list of deltas. I've worked with people
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by pjungwir 11y ago
The most interesting security guy I know comes from an accounting/auditing background. The similarities are amazing, especially they way they deal with risk. He's one of the few security people I know who treat security as a non-a
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by pjungwir 11y ago
- Managing the Professional Service Firm by David Maister - Quantum Computing since Democritus by Scott Aaronson - Cryptography Engineering by Bruce Schneier et al - Time Management for System Administrators by Thomas Limoncelli - Expert C
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by pjungwir 11y ago
Ha, I wanted to say Mantis! I have used that to track stories/tickets/bugs for almost 15 years and it's my favorite. I love how the colors let me see at a glance what is most pressing. I find non-technical clients can use it
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by pjungwir 11y ago
Oh also, re extra writes: in the video Magnus points out that this approach adds no extra transactions, because everything happens inside a trigger. Also no extra trips to the database server, etc. So it's not free, but it just means
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by pjungwir 11y ago
I thought that Airbrake and New Relic were supposed to support the ops team? I wouldn't want to run apps in production without them. I'm curious what admins object to?
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by pjungwir 11y ago
I agree it seems pretty great. One big pain point would be if the schema changes over time. What if you add a new NOT NULL column? What if you remove a column? What if you change the type of a column? What if you remove a table? What if you
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by pjungwir 11y ago
There was a very interesting presentation this year at PGConf New York with something similar [1], but where the history table has the same name as the normal table, but lives in a separate history schema. Also there is a timetravel schem
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by pjungwir 11y ago
I wouldn't call it trivial. Have you tried it? I'm not sure about kill-with-one-pellet either. 40 yards (120 feet) is about the effective range for birdshot. Also at 40 yards your spread is about 40 inches. It's not a flameth
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by pjungwir 11y ago
SEEKING WORK - Portland, OR or Remote I'm a polygot, full-stack developer with 15 years experience. My specialties are Rails, Postgres, Chef, and Ember, although I've also done some iOS and Python Machine Learning/Statistics
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by pjungwir 11y ago
Are they a 501(c)(3)? If the OP's marginal combined tax rate is, say 50%, then donating $8k in credits would be like $4k in their pocket. EDIT: Of course OP should talk to an accountant first. . . .
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Ledger with Autosync(illuminatedcomputing.com)
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by pjungwir 11y ago
I grew up playing King's Quest and Space Quest, and none of his complaints really bothered me. When KQ changed from typed commands to mouse-clicking, I felt it lost a lot of the magic. But that's just taste. What's more inter
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by pjungwir 11y ago
> One final note: none of the positive or hopeful things that I said about philosophy apply to the postmodern or Continental kinds. As far as I can tell, the latter aren’t really “philosophy” at all, but more like pretentious brands of p
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by pjungwir 11y ago
I work remotely and I agree with all this, although I'll add that you don't really need a shed in the back yard. I have four kids aged 6, 4, 2, and 0, and I work fine out of a separate room in the house. I close the door and the k
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by pjungwir 11y ago
I felt similar amazement at Gödel's proof, and even suspect that Penrose must be on to something when he says the mind must therefore not be computable. . . . But the book Gödel's Theorem: An Incomplete Guide to its Use and Abuse
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by pjungwir 11y ago
For a product company, perhaps this would make sense (de facto if not de jure) for "the R&D department". For a consulting shop, tenure sounds a lot like "making partner". Personally I would like to see more developme
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by pjungwir 11y ago
This article touches on some ideas about developer psychology also present in David Maister's book Managing the Professional Service Firm : basically that many professionals, whether in IT or law/accounting/consulting/e
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by pjungwir 11y ago
As a first-year programmer a project manager said to me, "I've never heard a programmer praise another's code. It's always, 'This is crap!'" So I always try to be slow to criticize. There is a lot of cra
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by pjungwir 11y ago
I agree re not using externally-hosted Javascript. In fact I seem to remember a year ago Google Code having connectivity issues and jQuery all over the place failing to load. I was glad on that day that I always host my own jQuery. Re track
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“A huge debt of gratitude” – Michael Stonebraker(postgresql.org)
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by pjungwir 11y ago
I don't know about Mint, but a lot of companies use Yodlee, which provides an API so that if a user gives you their banking credentials, you can pass those to Yodlee and access their bank account. I think Yodlee is basically a giant sc
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by pjungwir 11y ago
The reason lines of code is a poor way to score solutions is that you should be counting characters ! :-) My favorite Perl golf challenge is something I got from Boston Perl Mongers many years ago: You have the numbers 1 to 9 (in order), a
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by pjungwir 11y ago
Machine learning is a pretty big field. The Coursera course is very good. It uses Octave not Python, but what you learn will be easy to transfer. It is mostly focused on neural networks. If you don't already know linear algebra you sho

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