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by theGimp 9y ago
Google traffic and AWS are commodities to an extent since they're replaceable. So Heroku and RetailMeNot don't qualify in my book. More importantly though, the trend is that most companies relying on someone else's platform f
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by theGimp 10y ago
I use mine all the time to read books / articles... and to kill time.
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by theGimp 10y ago
It's a British statement free from all sarcasm.
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by theGimp 10y ago
You can ship daily even if your process is not automated. I usually automate building and deployment later in an application's life -- not at the beginning. You can automate all steps for building an application but the signing to make
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by theGimp 10y ago
Credit cards and SSNs are regularly compromised. The real problem is that they are used as an authentication mechanism. That's what we should be concerned about. This issue is a drop in the bucket when it comes to the amount of sensiti
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by theGimp 10y ago
The team behind RethinkDB has been a class act. Thank you for creating a fantastic product and doing what's right by your users even as you were winding down.
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by theGimp 10y ago
I hope you have read the entirety of my comment because I explain why I see things that way. I did not claim Obama was a saint, but his record on this specific matter is already far better than Trump's. P.S. the downvotes for the paren
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by theGimp 10y ago
I'm an Iraqi Canadian with a Muslim name, so I know a little more than the average person about this issue. I can tell you that what Trump is doing is unequivocally worse than what Obama did. One of the things Obama did when he became
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by theGimp 10y ago
I'm no Mongo fan, but that's a false equivalence. You don't need to use Mongo in order to survive.
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by theGimp 10y ago
A lot of connections made in that article, with no data to back any of it.
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by theGimp 10y ago
My thinking is the user should explicitly autofill each field. Yes, it involves more work, but it's really not much work to click on a field and pick the right autofill value. I'm always concerned about using autofill because brow
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by theGimp 10y ago
Redis and Postgre are meant to play different roles. If you don't like what Redis does, you're welcome not to use it.
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by theGimp 10y ago
I'm new to systems and this is enlightening to me. Are there any books out there that enumerate pitfalls like this one?
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by theGimp 10y ago
Every morning, I start my day by loading a bunch of news sites I enjoy reading and look at the top couple of headlines. If something piques my interest, I read it. My news sources: NYT, BBC, CBC, The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star. I'm C
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by theGimp 10y ago
Back in the day I had similar problems, but I used a different Canadian ISP. The issue was their DNS: for some reason it did not resolve some valid domains. Switching to Google's DNS might fix your problem. If it doesn't, it'
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Chromium suddenly starts downloading a binary blob (2015)(lwn.net)
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by theGimp 10y ago
https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/tree/master...
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by theGimp 10y ago
I don't know where to start answering your argument. 1. Some people claim pirating movies is not tantamount to stealing. Some people call violating open source licenses stealing. Those are not necessarily the same people. 2. The GPL is
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by theGimp 10y ago
Thank you for posting the donation link. I have donated in the past and always think about donating when the Internet Archive is mentioned. I just set up a monthly donation amount, and I encourage you to do the same if you believe in the In
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by theGimp 10y ago
Of course I won't contest that, but Snowden's revelations did nothing to change that knowledge. We have always known private companies keep all the data they can get their hands on and use it to sell ads.
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by theGimp 10y ago
Liberals can and have been violent in the past. No group large enough is free of extremists.
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by theGimp 10y ago
[edit: the downvotes aren't warranted...] Aren't email and phone calls monitored anyhow since they're not encrypted (by default)? Why wouldn't the three-letter agency capture all email traffic if it can?
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by theGimp 10y ago
[The Australian Government] shortly after approving the largest coal mine in its history, successfully pressured the United Nations to remove a chapter about the reef from a report on the impact of climate change on World Heritage sites. A
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by theGimp 10y ago
Small nitpick: StartCom refused to revoke certificates at the time, not renew them.
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by theGimp 10y ago
That is a very well-made video. Like the video creator, I'm very surprised the humble SIM card has been made so capable!
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by theGimp 10y ago
Quizlet, but I personally still use Anki because it's free and it works on my phone.
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by theGimp 10y ago
My mistake! I assumed you meant the time it takes to fulfil a request and the bandwidth cost were related because they were mentioned in the same sentence. Agreed on all other counts.
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by theGimp 10y ago
How long S3 takes to fulfil a request does not affect bandwidth. I personally went the other way. I still use CloudFront as a CDN but made it cache items for short periods of time. Invalidation was too much of a hassle, and it took too long
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by theGimp 10y ago
Maybe I'll get there someday :-) I should have mentioned I'm still a student. I'm sure that for a senior developer, the difference is significantly larger.
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by theGimp 10y ago
Any Canadian developer will tell you the problem is the abysmal pay that Canadian companies offer. I love my country and would love nothing more than to stay here, but when moving south of the border means a 50% bump, it's hard to stay

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