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by semanticist 6y ago
The APL module is in the `lib` directory of the repo holding the code, you can see the implementation there. It wouldn't be that bad to pull all the library code out into the 'main' command, but it would lose the 'single
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by semanticist 6y ago
Plus your share of the HR and internal IT teams, and any other part of the company that doesn't exist to service end users/external customers. It's only a rule of thumb, it doesn't need to be exact, and the more you earn
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by semanticist 7y ago
Nope, police.uk is a real valid domain name that the UK police have been using for years. That isn't a sign this is a fake, although it may well be. Registrations at the second level of ccTLDs is not uncommon, and Nominet has relativel
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by semanticist 7y ago
This is the same Ikea that has a "Jesus in the woodgrain" on a toilet door. (If you Google it you'll see stories popping up every couple of years as someone "discovers" it again.)
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Create your own dysfunctional single-page app(tinnedfruit.com)
208 points by semanticist 8y ago|138 comments
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by semanticist 8y ago
The industrial scale cooling used in datacentres can produce weird results, like when it rained inside Facebook's first datacentre: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/08/facebook_cloud_vers...
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by semanticist 8y ago
A filter matches lines in the nginx log using regular expressions. If the line matches, it uses another regexp to extract the IP address, and then calls out to scripts to block that IP address. I'm not going to post the exact configura
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by semanticist 8y ago
While it's mostly bots trying to attack Wordpress, it's also blocked a few people spidering us aggressively (probably competitors) and other people trying attacks. Once it's scripted through a Chef cookbook, it's applied
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by semanticist 8y ago
CloudFlare has a maximum number of firewall rules, based on the types of paid accounts you have. Every couple of months we purge the list when it gets close to being full. 99% of IP addresses we block are from outside our target market - we
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by semanticist 8y ago
We have definitely run into this, albeit only very very rarely. It's not viable for someone to build a usable DoS against us as an attack: our offices are on a whitelist and our set up prevents a viable attack against our internal infr
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by semanticist 8y ago
While it monitors SSH by default out of the box, people here are talking about creating custom filters which will monitor their Apache or Nginx logs. (Although, that said, we also have it monitor our non-standard SSH port with v. aggressive
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by semanticist 8y ago
We also use Fail2Ban like a poor man's Web Application Firewall - for a Rails app you know you'll never have legit traffic to anything 'cgi' or 'php' or 'exe', so crafting a couple of regexps to match
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by semanticist 9y ago
How do you even know the person you're replying to is of a different generation? I'm no millennial, but I've frequently not been able to leave a tip while paying for dinner in the UK because I've paid by card and had lit
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by semanticist 9y ago
I think the compromise is autogenerated-but-meaningful names. I wrote a Ruby script to generate memorable/meaningful names which is included as part of the automated server launch process. ( https://github.com/johnd&#x2F
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by semanticist 9y ago
If you do anything to the point of dogma, you've lost. Being a good sysadmin is all about being pragmatic.
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FreeAgent bought by RBS for £53m(insider.co.uk)
2 points by semanticist 9y ago|0 comments
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See Through Rotary Engine in Slow Motion – (Wankel Engine)(youtube.com)
5 points by semanticist 9y ago|0 comments
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by semanticist 9y ago
I've not run into any problems myself - even if I did, I think I'd rather be able to reliably email people with GMail accounts!
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by semanticist 9y ago
Maybe, but in my case it would not be a valid assumption.
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by semanticist 9y ago
My mail server routes via Amazon's SES, which provides an SMTP smarthost my instance of postfix can relay mail to. You authenticate each sending domain using DNS, and it even supports DKIM signing. Until I did this, my deliverability,
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by semanticist 9y ago
> who would The financial services regulator in the appropriate country. In the UK that's mostly the FCA, in the US it's apparently the guys listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_financial_regu
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Falsehoods programmers believe about programming(sicpers.info)
32 points by semanticist 9y ago|59 comments
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by semanticist 9y ago
I'm not entitled to an ad-free version, but equally they're not entitled to my attention, or my email address. In an ideal world we give each other a bit of value and everyone comes out ahead, but if one side takes the piss it&#x2
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by semanticist 9y ago
It might be worth asking why the regulations exist. Scratch below the surface of "red tape" and you're likely to find some regulatory capture and incumbents buying laws to stop competition.
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Running a high-availability SaaS infrastructure without breaking the bank(engineering.freeagent.com)
3 points by semanticist 10y ago|0 comments
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On the business case for (or against) software(sicpers.info)
1 points by semanticist 10y ago|0 comments
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by semanticist 10y ago
And in the UK if the contractor is self-employed they are at risk if being caught by IR-35: http://www.contractoruk.com/ir35/what_is_ir35_rules_explaine... IR-35 is employment duck-typing. If it walks, talks, and quack
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by semanticist 10y ago
This is at a level before 'mark as junk', where a mail provider will refuse to deliver your message at all - or potentially even refuse to accept it. The earlier the mail providers can detect/block spam the less resources the
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by semanticist 10y ago
If you don't understand the different types of 2FA available, I don't think you're really in a position to be making blanket statements about if people should be using it or not. "The application" is an open standar
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by semanticist 10y ago
2FA doesn't automatically require giving any user data. Using SMS-based 2FA requires giving over your mobile phone number, but it's not like that's the only option available to you. TOTP gives the provider absolutely nothi

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