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by reidrac 14y ago
The post is a little bit misleading. You didn't open source Instagram but a component used by the app. Am I right?
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by reidrac 14y ago
There's a method to estimate that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_recent_common_ancestor#MRC... "Studies have used computer modelling to estimate that the MRCA of modern humans lived between 5,000 to 2,000 years ago."
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by reidrac 14y ago
FastCGI is supported by gitweb, you need to install the dependencies and use a command line flag + env variable (that I think it's required by the module that implements the FastCGI bits). That's not a wrapper. Read the INSTALL file: http:
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by reidrac 14y ago
gitweb can use fastcgi out of the box (first Google result: http://sixohthree.com/1402/running-gitweb-in-fastcgi-mode ). Although I may agree with your comment, it sounds a little bit like an ad hominem argument. He may be wrong in other p
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by reidrac 14y ago
You don't need to read the whole manual. It's hard when you're looking for something very specific, but in this case it's just the FILES section, so I'll try man bash and then /^FILES. It's like saying /etc/services has 11033 lines in it. W
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by reidrac 14y ago
I find that "the only card accepted everywhere" very amusing :) I spent 5 days in Berlin recently and I found lots of places that either were "cash only" or they only accepted "Maestro" cards. I had two Visa cards that I couldn't use, so fr
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by reidrac 14y ago
I learnt to program with GW-BASIC when I was 13 and, as you say, it had all these high level built in functions that made easy getting results. Most of the stuff I programmed when I was 13 was crap, but it was amazingly funny! Today I would
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by reidrac 14y ago
That's true, we don't use HTTP methods (PUT, GET, POST, DELETE, etc) as part of the API. In fact we treat POST/GET the same for ease of use. EDIT: to be fair, in the docs we never say it's a RESTFul API, it was MY mistake in my first commen
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by reidrac 14y ago
There are two different interfaces for the same implementation. Let me stress the different part. The RESTful API uses JSON to encode the responses, but that's all. Sorry if I didn't explain it very well, the docs are clearer though.
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by reidrac 14y ago
You can have both, and you can do it in a consistent way. Not that you can make everybody happy, but it's close enough. For example we implemented our API with both XML-RPC and REST + JSON interfaces ( http://www.memset.com/apidocs/intro.ht
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by reidrac 14y ago
Yes, I do. I said "in my experience" and I totally understand why Heruku is offering PostgreSQL and not DB2, Oracle or SQL Server as a service. Amazon RDS started with MySQL, and only two years later Oracle support was added. SQL Server thr
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by reidrac 14y ago
In my experience you don't want to provide X as a service based on a third party closed product (meaning: anything not open source & open community).
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by reidrac 14y ago
I think posts like this tells you only part of the story. Ops it is not just pushing code live. I'd be great they explain how to know which code is live (ie. tag "releases"), how to revert to a previous version (ie. something went wrong), p
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by reidrac 14y ago
You're right. git may require lots of RAM for big changesets (involving big files), and definitely more RAM than SFTP (oh, please never use FTP). But the post is about deployments and not about transferring files.
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by reidrac 14y ago
Check the wiki: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/RedPhone/wiki Read "Encryption Protocols" (uses ZRTP -see rfc6189- for key negotiation). Although I'm not sure I understand what is this about, I didn't notice at first it is VoIP :)
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by reidrac 14y ago
I'm not a big Flickr user, but I've seen usage drop (people I know that were using it, moved somewhere else), but the site is a cool as it was when I started using it back in 2006. If they start making changes so the users come back, I'm af
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by reidrac 14y ago
I'm using KeePassX (Linux, Mac) and KeePassDroid, both open source (you can audit the code if you need to). Both are compatible with KeePass (to some extent), that runs on Windows. Basically you can use it (almost?) anywhere: http://keepas
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by reidrac 14y ago
No, unless they're lying. The submitted page says "hashed passwords with random salt value". That doesn't mean they're doing it right, but it's a good start point.
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by reidrac 14y ago
He's showing something, but I can't see it. Oh, unless it's just a Mac Book Air. I can see that. I had to use the scroll wheel 5 times to actually see something that might be interesting.
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by reidrac 14y ago
Besides the UI it's confusing. For example, if you check the GPLv3 it says "Must: Include Source", which is incorrect (you must include the source code ONLY if there's distribution). If you click on the "Include Source" text, then it shows
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by reidrac 14y ago
But then it looks like Jeff Bezos didn't teach him when to quit. There's a difference between a bad boss and making a bad salary negotiation when you take a new job. Nice post anyway, but it's a little bit like "I've seen it in the tea leav
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by reidrac 14y ago
Choppy sound (if not completely broken depending on the audio codec), crashes (I got core dumps daily), absurd CPU usage and made Firefox unstable. I'm not a heavy flash user, but after 6 months I was really frustrated. The 32 bits version
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by reidrac 14y ago
This a i3 M370, but I run a 32 bits OS because I got tired of running 64 bits with applications with no support for 64 bits (read: Flash browser plugin and Skype). After some time I've found that there's no real advantage for me on a 64 bit
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by reidrac 14y ago
Have you tried the actual packages? The download page is confusing. I believe it should read "Fedora X or later". Previous package was for Fedora 10 I think, and I've been using it since Fedora 12. EDIT: typo
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by reidrac 14y ago
On Fedora (17 here, 32 bits) replaces the old package without installing any extra stuff. I haven't tested it deeply, but looks like runs smoother than the previous (quite unstable) version.
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by reidrac 14y ago
Last.fm Password Security Update http://www.last.fm/passwordsecurity
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by reidrac 14y ago
Thanks, I've changed the link.
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by reidrac 14y ago
Is the old Pringles can antenna coming back? ie http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448 I've always found USB WiFi cards more convenient because you don't need any special connectors (or soldering skills!): http://www.instructab
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by reidrac 14y ago
It's an exciting project and I'd try it if there was Python support (I'm a vim user myself), but the FAQ answer to the open source question really put me off.
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by reidrac 14y ago
I'm GNU tar user (I believe that's the version in most Linux distributions, but I may be wrong), so I tend to use -z for gzip, -j for bzip2 and -J for xz. That said, I guess using the "alternatives" framework in Linux it would be reasonably

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