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by sho 9y ago
Almost exactly the same thing happened to me - marginal RAM in an old style macbook pro. Drove me absolutely crazy. People always talk about cosmic rays as what ECC is guarding against - not at all! It's shitty RAM, especially in lapto
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by sho 9y ago
> most of the concern is over very theoretical issues I've seen photo and other binary files become corrupted that were sitting on RAID drives. The RAID swears they're fine, the filesystem swears they're fine, both are che
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by sho 9y ago
> Hopefully you don't share it with another account on another site Bluntly, for a user of a site like this in 2017 there is simply no excuse for sharing passwords. In ops we used to say "If it's not backed up, it doesn&#x
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by sho 9y ago
I definitely think a general guideline for language designers could be "when in doubt, make it look like Ruby". The language has its issues, sure, but damn if it didn't get syntax just right .
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by sho 9y ago
> I'm limited by space and peoples attention span Might I suggest a simple "tag" for each suggestion indicating the appropriate market for that point. Eg good - your basic SAAS/casual web app. Great - apps dealing wit
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by sho 9y ago
For RoR many of the app-level points are - CSRF, SQL escaping, bcrypt by default, etc. That's a big reason to use such a framework in the first place.
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by sho 9y ago
My apologies - my brain focussed on "stored procedures" and that's what my rant was addressing. Prepared statements are great and I'd use them whereever possible - totally agreed.
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by sho 9y ago
Ah, I didn't realise you were the author! Sorry for coming on a little strong. I should wait a few minutes before tearing into things... The article is a great beginning, and as we have seen, definitely a conversation-starter! So thank
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by sho 9y ago
> At rest, means that the data on disk is encrypted if the DB itself is compromised Right, so basically block-level encryption of the actual DB data file. While this would be much easier than encrypting the record data at the row level,
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by sho 9y ago
While it means well, I think some of this advice is pretty bad, or at least unbalanced. From the very first section: > Encrypt all data at rest in the database ALL data? How are you supposed to query against it then? What does "at r
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by sho 10y ago
Yes I know. You sound like you're agreeing with me. I was arguing against some long-ago comments that insinuated the subsidies were "massive", "incredible", etc, and that being born in singapore was some kind of gol
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by sho 10y ago
The condo in that case is going to be far superior in every imaginable way. A $400k BTO is going to be very basic. The rule of thumb is 20-30% discount on fair market value. Not 80%! Yes, it's a pretty sweet scheme if you're eligi
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by sho 10y ago
I feel like you are not listening. These are not "immigrants", they are temporary foreign labourers who are flown in to do a job, do it, and leave. It is not "discrimination" that they are paid less - the fact that they
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by sho 10y ago
I don't understand how you are drawing these conclusions. I don't see any similarity at all to U.S. race relations. If country A has a lot of money but a labour shortage, and country B is poor but has a labour excess, then it is o
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by sho 10y ago
> Gee, no rose-colored glasses there! Simple fact actually. https://www.passportindex.org/byRank.php As for the rest of your wild claims - if you had any evidence at all for any of it, your sensational exposé would proba
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by sho 10y ago
Well, they're not citizens at all, hence the phrase "migrant labour".
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by sho 10y ago
No, that is completely wrong, but admittedly it's a fairly uncommon situation so the confusion is understandable. Singapore is quite unique in that it's such a tiny city, the government has very tight control over land use, and as
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by sho 10y ago
This is just a clip from the full lecture here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7Kn5p7TP_Y If you like the clip, watch the whole thing. It's great.
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by sho 10y ago
I suppose I was more interested in what specifically in the quoted text was supposed to embody left-wing ideology. Discounting the aforementioned loan forgiveness idea, which does smell pretty left-wing, what exactly is it? Isn't every
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by sho 10y ago
Agreeing with my sibling comment - absolutely fascinating video, thanks. Watched the whole original lecture.
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by sho 10y ago
I honestly can't tell if this is a joke comment or not. With the exception of the loan forgiveness idea, it sounds like a pretty obvious list of improvements. Genuine question - what about it makes you think it's particularly left
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by sho 10y ago
> Does it really? I would love to see some like for like figures. That was nothing but a guess, but I think it's reasonable. Labor is the largest component of infrastructure costs by a wide margin, and migrant labor would be at lea
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by sho 10y ago
Ah, you were talking about maids. Yes, I agree there needs to be far stricter enforcement there, and a cultural shift to go with it. I haven't witnessed any abuse personally but have also heard stories. I think it's because that m
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by sho 10y ago
> You would be amazed at the number of billionaires ambulating Singapore malls Oooohh no I wouldn't... > Uniqlo T-shirts You think money grows on trees? Fake calvin klein from a bali outlet store. The PP watch is real though (and
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by sho 10y ago
I agree. And I actually admire the way Singapore is economically honest in this way. By hiring migrant workers to, eg, build the new MRTs, it gets them done much cheaper - and provides thousands of workers with much better jobs than they co
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by sho 10y ago
If you're living above ION then I doubt you need to scrimp by eating at Lucky Plaza... When I stay in jakarta it's a similar feeling. A common pattern is an "anchor" mall with apartments and office buildings adjacent and
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by sho 10y ago
> migrant workers who are allowed in to the country under significantly restricted rights How is this anything other than a straightforward win/win trade? The country gets work done for cheaper than hiring locals; the migrant worker
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by sho 10y ago
Well, I agree with you of course. Re-reading my comment, I overstated my case somewhat. The truth, as always, is somewhere in the middle. I suppose I was reacting to the previous comments as well, asserting that anyone choosing anything oth
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by sho 10y ago
I have a couple of criticisms of your article. Firstly, you give a list of successful companies who made the "safe choice" you're advocating, but you fail to mention that at the time the companies adopted those projects they
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by sho 10y ago
I think there's a lot of truth to that. I've had nothing but bad experiences walking into companies that outsource software to India for cost reasons, and yet I know a number of exceptionally talented Indian software engineers. Th

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