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by pselbert 9y ago
Every time I participate in a security audit for some enterprise contract I have to explain and defend why we don't enforce complexity and rotation rules. Lately citing the NSA's change in position has been convincing enough and w
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by pselbert 9y ago
You can install JOE on macOS through homebrew. Running "brew install joe" begins installing version 4.4
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by pselbert 9y ago
When I read the headline I thought it would be a link to Dan Luu's recent post [1]. Not too surprising that it was actually submitted by him! The most amazing part of this is the JOE editor. Performance and memory aside, I'm astou
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by pselbert 9y ago
He used the term "preferred", in the past tense. I think we can safely assume that he has a different passcode or device now.
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by pselbert 9y ago
AS3 was like learning Java, but with the lifecycle gotchas of JavaScript. Ten years ago it offered everything that JS did, except it required static compilation. The development speed of JS+CSS was vastly better than with pure AS. I'll
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by pselbert 9y ago
The "final few pages" are entirely module reference for zlib so that probably isn't what is referenced. Prior to that are miscellaneous bits about debugging, tracing, code-reloading etc. I have version P5.0 from 2011 though,
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by pselbert 9y ago
In Erlang you usually run one "node" per machine, though you can call between them with transparent RPC. This library uses one "process" per neuron for concurrency. Processes are extremely lightweight and entirely unrela
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by pselbert 9y ago
There isn't any need for that. Hex is becoming the de facto package manager for the Erlang ecosystem. You can easily install this as a dependency and call it from your Elixir code.
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by pselbert 9y ago
There is a practical, functional GraphQL spec that has multiple client and server implementations. Regardless of whether Facebook continues to develop clients or maintains stewardship of the spec, GraphQL has a lengthy future ahead.
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by pselbert 9y ago
The most recent open issue is from 6 months ago and posits whether the project is still active. It definitely feels "experimental", but a bit outdated already.
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by pselbert 10y ago
Every time there is a post regarding Ruby implementations and their speed (or lack thereof) I know there will be sobering comments from chrisseaton. As much as I reach for more performant languages, I still need to work with Ruby on a daily
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by pselbert 10y ago
FastMail is my first pinned tab. It never slows down, never leaks memory, and has completely alleviated my need for a native mail client. My entire family has an account with no ads and I'm absolutely happy to pay for it.
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by pselbert 10y ago
Funny, I did the exact same thing! Tried to push learning Rust via the Go examples. It has been a great exercise, but highlighted the pain of dealing with various string representations in Rust.
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by pselbert 10y ago
I find it difficult to imagine doing extensive web work (Rails, Django, PHP, JS) without ever touching GitHub. Surely, in the course of your daily work using giant open source projects you'll file a bug, comment on an issue or even sub
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by pselbert 10y ago
Latin was required as part of my program in high school, some 20+ years ago now. It wasn't until tonight that I remembered we weren't supposed to read Catullus. Some of the more adventurous guys (all boys school) would make refere
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by pselbert 10y ago
Public awareness campaigns were key in stopping the ivory trade within the United States (before it was ramped up again by the Chinese). Demand is the real problem, and creating the image that ivory (or shark fin soup) isn't cool is ex
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by pselbert 10y ago
There is a fantastic talk by Fred Herbert (of Heroku and Learn You Some Erlang fame) that discusses this exact situation in the Erlang community [0]. Without an accessible ecosystem, useful tooling, a powerful packaging system, or a communi
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by pselbert 10y ago
> Redis recently switched from HyperLogLog to the slightly better LogLog-Beta Interesting, has anything been written about that? I've learned most of what I know about cardinality estimation from Redis and your writing on the matter
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by pselbert 10y ago
You have to applaud him for trying. Building anything as a learning exercise is an investment in yourself, and I'm encouraged when others are ambitious about it. We've all had "don't roll your own crypto" pounded
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by pselbert 10y ago
> Ultimately I feel like the use of CI in many open source projects isn't very high due to constant annoyances and difficulty debugging the CI environment. My perspective may be driven by the communities I'm involved in, but th
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by pselbert 10y ago
The things that have always tripped me up for Erlang are capitalized variables, lowercase modules, and bare word atoms. There certainly isn't anything wrong with those choices, but it is counter to everything I'm used to from othe
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by pselbert 10y ago
Many of the great features of modern js (destructuring, fat arrows, splats) came directly from CoffeeScript. As much as I loved the comparative power of CoffeeScript (list comprehensions, everything is an expression), its time has past. The
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by pselbert 10y ago
This was a magnificent explanation, and precisely the kind of comment I hope for when reading HN. Thank you for taking the time to share.
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by pselbert 10y ago
Evan Miller did some very interesting analysis of the historical Reddit hot formula. It doesn't address cheating, but it does identify the details of the algorithm and some inherent faults. http://www.evanmiller.org/der
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The new words that expose our smartphone obsessions(bbc.com)
1 points by pselbert 10y ago|0 comments
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How to Capture All Errors Returned by a Function Call in Elixir(semaphoreci.com)
2 points by pselbert 10y ago|0 comments
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by pselbert 10y ago
This is a comic from a French author. Remember, the authors of a satirical comic in France were killed for their drawings only a few years back. Charlie Hedbo, http://m.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30710883
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by pselbert 10y ago
Before I knew it was a comic site I was amazed they took the time to copy all of the icons they wanted as svg. Even knowing the author is an illustrator it is still admirable and impressive.
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by pselbert 10y ago
Yes. While I completely agree with the author and their quest to eliminate third party scripts from their site, the problem isn't with CDNs. The problem is with third party scripts, most of which aren't coming from a typical CDN (
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by pselbert 10y ago
I have seen numerous companies get burned because they were sharing a single login on AWS. This is a welcome improvement toward practically managing such an important resource for many teams.

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