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by skarap 10y ago
Systems failing one by one and nobody caring about them is not uncommon at all. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster (search for "safety devices" in the article).
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by skarap 10y ago
Well - devs and admins spend the minimum effort required to reach their primary goal. And I believe most of the time that it is in line with their employer's policy. I'm too young to remember how it was in the old times (would be
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by skarap 10y ago
"When someone wants to do X they start showing pattern A" is bad enough, but "when you show someone pattern A, they will be 30% more likely to want to do X" is the true disaster. And it is going to happen [more often].
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by skarap 10y ago
Nobody ever mentions that UDP has one additional feature that TCP doesn't: preserving of message boundaries.
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by skarap 10y ago
The default configuration for PHP (and I guess the most frequently used one) is using sendmail command. That command does just one thing - enqueue the message on the local server. It doesn't handle the delivery of the email. That is al
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by skarap 10y ago
> In those cases, it really isn't a good idea to send mail in-process anyway due to web-process and SMTP timeouts Why is sending a message to something like RabbitMQ less likely to timeout then to postfix?
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by skarap 10y ago
> "from here we can state that, obviously..." He suddenly stops, slowly turns the head down, keeps mumbling "so we can obviously...". He slowly walks in the room, trying to catch the thought, then leaves the room... S
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by skarap 10y ago
I guess you'd love their Skyfire ( http://www.skyfireapp.com/ ) integration which gives predictions for perfect sunset/sunrise light.
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by skarap 10y ago
A brave new world!
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by skarap 10y ago
To rephrase the article: everyone should and can go ops-less, you just need the devs to take over the ops roles.
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by skarap 10y ago
In fact you can create a "daemonized" webserver in PHP and handle each request in a special handler function. For async case there is ReactPHP ( http://reactphp.org/ ), don't know any product for sync case, but
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Ask HN: Do you use SELinux in production?
6 points by skarap 10y ago|1 comments
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by skarap 10y ago
Font + gray text + pretending that my screen is %70 narrower than it actually is. All very popular trends which leave me puzzled.
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by skarap 10y ago
Looks like most of the discussion here is on network traffic. Minifying JS and CSS, compression, CDNs and caching won't keep your browser from having to render all the stuff. --- The stewardess on a new jet airliner: - Ladies and gentl
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by skarap 10y ago
> This reminds me of the elevation of Mt Everest as determined in 1856: Or the joke about the museum guide telling visitors the dinosaur skeleton is 100,000,005 years old, because when he started there 5 years ago, an expert told him it
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by skarap 11y ago
Who knows... Maybe it's the same white/blue collar worker separation? On the other hand - I also find it hard to believe that the only difference between the sexes is the body build. Based on my engineers' mindset it would qu
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by skarap 11y ago
> 3) Gender-biased job preference due to genetically pre-disposed traits that are influenced by environment/culture: Possibly OK as long as culture has gender-equal expectations and opportunities. Isn't expecting "gender-e
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by skarap 11y ago
Well, you have to chose something. You can't have security, automated updates to latest version and stability in the same place. You're either in debian/RHEL world with old kernels, old libraries and old userspace tools which
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by skarap 11y ago
Ironically, things done for PCI/ISO27K compliance very often decrease security. Maybe not always, maybe not everywhere, but at least that's my experience with the companies I worked at and is also in line with the stories I heard
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by skarap 11y ago
A CSS fixing the layout on Firefox based on your solution: https://gist.github.com/skarap/15bf77d63fe596ee55ce . Use Stylish ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/
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by skarap 11y ago
> Solution found: Thank you for caring enough to look into this! Would be absolutely awesome if we could find somebody from HN to fix it.
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by skarap 11y ago
Well I've sent a bug report to hn@ycombinator.com back in November. They said "It's a bad bug and we're going to fix it". So I'm waiting.
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by skarap 11y ago
I should have been more specific in what I mean by "IE6 situation". I was talking mostly about the years 2005-2008 when IE had already won the browser wars and despite a new and better browser (Firefox in this case) already existe
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by skarap 11y ago
> The situation isn't as bad for desktop browsers Don't worry, it will get worse. Firefox is now forced to accept `-webkit-` in css ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/04/firefox_webkit_css_s...
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by skarap 11y ago
It's not just them. Have you tried viewing HN comments in Firefox for Android? A few years ago Chrome gained majority among web developers and everyone just stopped testing with Firefox or any other browser. In fact not just testing -
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by skarap 11y ago
Guess everybody has read this multiple times, but it's highly on-topic: http://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/
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by skarap 11y ago
They still play good with the other few large email services. But with every year using google apps for business is becoming more and more obvious choice from economical POV. In fact I've myself recommended quite a few companies to &qu
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by skarap 11y ago
Of course users don't benefit. But the operators of the walled-gardens do! I can't even understand how federated XMPP had any support from the large players in the first place - it's absolutely against their economical intere
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by skarap 11y ago
I love how the page fails to provide any explanation of how it works or what it does at all. Maybe there is something in the video, but I'm not going to watch it.
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by skarap 11y ago
Except - everyone will consider the docker package from Debian LTS too old for any "real" use and will prefer to do `curl ...|bash` dance to install docker, and it will be happy to include statically linked/bundled dependenci

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