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by spectre256 12y ago
Joel Spolsky has one of the most convincing discussions on this topic: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html "Back to that two page function. Yes, I know, it's just a simple function to di
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by spectre256 12y ago
I started using Thunderbird for the first time in many years a few days ago. I honestly really like it. I don't know what's motivating the many others to switch back, but privacy concerns have to be one of them. Pros: * For ti
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HTTPS on Nginx: From Zero to A+ (Part 2) – Ciphersuites and Performance(juliansimioni.com)
6 points by spectre256 12y ago|0 comments
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by spectre256 12y ago
I'm not an expert, but I believe the reason comes down to cost: call center lines can be configured either to have a few high quality calls, or more lower quality calls (think of how many more audio files you could stream simultaneousl
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Coaching Beginner Software Developers(juliansimioni.com)
2 points by spectre256 12y ago|0 comments
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Securing the Web(w3ctag.github.io)
12 points by spectre256 12y ago|0 comments
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by spectre256 12y ago
Don't worry, we've all made this mistake, which is the reason it's the first item in their Login issue FAQ: http://www.s-jpg.com/blog/?p=48 Edit: note that part of creating a StartSSL account has you cre
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by spectre256 12y ago
If there weren't already an overabundance of cats available at every shelter, I would say that your idea is actually plausible. Internet sites like imgur could offer you discounted cats provided you were only able to upload funny video
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by spectre256 12y ago
The letter mentions "the problem at Salomon" that almost caused the firm to close. Does anyone know what that was?
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by spectre256 12y ago
That's what we had, but because the IPs were often recycled, traffic sometimes went to the wrong place if the load balancers has stale data.
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by spectre256 12y ago
This reminds me of a time at a previous company years ago, where we experienced an issue that felt similar, although the root cause was quite different. Basically, we had multiple teams all launching/terminating web servers. Unfortuna
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by spectre256 12y ago
Since robots.txt is a list of directives and restrictions on computerized visitors to a site, shouldn't humans.txt basically be a tutorial/code of conduct? Something like: "Hello Human, Welcome to Github. You should use this
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by spectre256 12y ago
I have a Lenovo Yoga 2 and really like it. nice form factor, 3200x1800 screen (great DPI on a 12" screen), pretty good battery life, and the folding screen lets me use a nice usb mechanical keyboard while on the go. The wifi drivers ar
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Three Git Commands You Should Never Use(juliansimioni.com)
1 points by spectre256 12y ago|0 comments
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by spectre256 12y ago
While it's understandable to feel down about the fact that Microsoft used to feel it was ok to hand over emails, there's a more positive way to look at it: this article is strong evidence that the public opinion regarding online p
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by spectre256 12y ago
"A professor in computer engineering at the University of Toronto told me that, as a matter of course, his undergraduate students are warned about the risks of incrementing numbers in a computer program." As someone with a compute
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by spectre256 13y ago
Right. I think I remember Digital Apollo quoting an engineer who estimated, based on their extensive ground testing, that the AGC had a MTBF of about 50,000 hours. That's not particularly good, but considering all the Apollo missions s
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by spectre256 13y ago
That was caused by an actual physical short (in space, conductive bits, usually soldier balls, floating around and shorting things was a big problem), which happened somewhat commonly. I think Apollo 12 nearly aborted the launch because the
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by spectre256 13y ago
It's worth noting that the software, while only 36k machine words long, and the hardware, which was very slow even by the standards of other computers of the 60s, were remarkable works created in only a couple years by huge teams (peak
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by spectre256 13y ago
Did anyone else find the writing style in this article overly repetitive and awkward? Somewhat related, I notice a trend where journalists seem to treat Moore's Law as if it were a law in our judicial system, rather than simply an obse
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by spectre256 13y ago
I did! Actually, it later got pasted into some code where I meant to paste something else. https://medium.com/what-i-learned-today/be3172896a0f
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by spectre256 13y ago
Great article overall, but it seems to be a bit dismissive of music for productivity. It appears[1] the answer is a bit more nuanced: music is great for getting "in the zone" where you are mostly using existing knowledge to create
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by spectre256 13y ago
This looked so much like an XKCD comic that I started looking through the archives to see what other interesting comics I had missed.
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by spectre256 13y ago
Both the author of this post and the commenters here are correct for taking note of the privacy implications of Sqwiggle, but to completely dismiss the entire product seems to be both silly, and missing the point. Proclaiming "I won&#x
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by spectre256 13y ago
The file you appear to type is groups.c from the linux kernel: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/dc0755cdb16cb129c4054...
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by spectre256 13y ago
It's always refreshing to find someone who wants a good debate to be settled by experiment. Hopefully that would be enough. Portugal famously had great success with decriminalization of nearly all illicit drugs, but unfortunately I don
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by spectre256 13y ago
There was an ars article ( http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/meet-badbios-the-mys... ) that was on HN just a few days ago describing all sorts of ways to hide rootkits in nearly any component of your mach
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by spectre256 13y ago
but is it done in 30 lines of javascript? (i checked, no)
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by spectre256 13y ago
When I went to the doctor's office for a shot as a child, they offered me a choice: you can get the shot in the arm like the doctor would prefer, or you can choose to get the shot in the leg, but then the doctor has to go get a bigger
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by spectre256 13y ago
I'm disappointed to not see Portland in this survey. I visited recently and thought the public transportation was pretty good. It would have been nice to know what the survey revealed.

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