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by txutxu 13y ago
"Computer performance is characterized by the amount of useful work accomplished by a computer system compared to the time and resources used." --wikipedia Is there a different definition I'm missing? I think, a car can be &q
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by txutxu 13y ago
Something is wrong with this statement: "Scala is great for performance, but quite bad at resource usage" Maybe it's directly related to the next statement: "No-one in the core GOV.UK team had a deep knowl
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by txutxu 13y ago
For those planning "wow, I can use the google datacenters, to scale to such level", first check this part: https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/resource-quotas Just in case.
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by txutxu 13y ago
Yes, then you need to make it appealing to your market. When I try to exercise that, I use to think in products, solutions, companies and items, that look apealing to me, and then I focus a litle bit in compare it with alternatives. If you&
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by txutxu 13y ago
Is it a compiled language? is it something like "a framework"? Are you seeking to make a spectacular launch to build a startup around this language (support, consulting, etc) ? Otherwise, just push your code to github, blog about
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by txutxu 13y ago
If you aim to reach opensource developers (they are great components for a new language community) I could add to that nice list: 9) Mailing list 10) IRC channel With convenient support. But on a more abstract way... I think...
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by txutxu 13y ago
Other one from the summaries: I don't see how $((${X} + ${Y})) ... is more recommendable than ... $(( X + Y )) for example. But well, guide styles are a good thing, and this one can help to many people "not used
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by txutxu 13y ago
I've seen many scripts wrapping steps inside a main() function and calling it just after declaration. If the justification is to localize variables which should be global, and still will look like "global" to the rest of the
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by txutxu 13y ago
We don't use to run grep.c, or ansible.py, or git.c, or gunzip.sh, etc... explore a directory? file -i directory/* I follow the same convention than Google, just that I use .bash for libraries instead of .sh (as they state the int
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by txutxu 13y ago
On most build systems, it's enough to change a default in one place, and not the same default in two different places.
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by txutxu 13y ago
The main point here, is in your "My parents are NOT technical people". They do not have pre-juices on stuff. My mum uses linux since she was 65. It was her _first_ contact with an O.S., she did learn to use most things on her own.
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by txutxu 13y ago
It's easy for a crawler to parse a robots.txt in different ways. The article says to whitelist a few and deny everything else. The crawler could parse that, and change the user agent to one whitelisted on further requests.
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by txutxu 13y ago
I've seen myself searching for a compilation like this one time ago. I miss some other traditional in other locations of the world, but still for me it's a great compilation I just saved for "the next time I see myself search
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by txutxu 13y ago
There are opensource enthusiast which do not use github.
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by txutxu 13y ago
It's something usual, and It's always by a supposed DDoS.
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by txutxu 13y ago
I was thinking almost the same... "starter templates" for... for what... for something called "bootstrap"... I don't know too much about recursion, but finally I like what I did see after follow the link :-)
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by txutxu 13y ago
Feature request: do not place selected items in the top-left corner as soon as they are selected. Select the shape, and then place it with a click (is like most diagram software works, and as people is used too).
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by txutxu 13y ago
Well, in my opinion, the advices are practical. Some of them require a little bit more of research by the user, but the advices are practical all of them.
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by txutxu 13y ago
0) Do not publish your best practices 1) ... :-) If you want a more serious response, at least, talk to the user about attacks that remains exposed, and keywords to the solution, if I resume too much.
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by txutxu 13y ago
OK. But that you cannot defend yourself of NSA, until you're in an enemy country or something like, does not mean, that you cannot protect yourself against all the rest of the world. Using a master password, implies the clipboard (on a
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by txutxu 13y ago
Well all the best practices in the article, are ok, in 2006. Nowadays there are many more treats, entry points (hint: browser setup and plugins), and more authentication methods than "passwords". We have even evidences of major
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by txutxu 13y ago
Loving your definition "informational asymmetry". Two words which define perfectly a complex concept. And not liking the technical answers which come to my mind to your question, because they're against the nature and evoluti
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by txutxu 13y ago
Well I see your point. Internet is just part of the history of computers as other technologies are too. But what I'm referring is more to the evolution of internet (lets say since the arrival of colors, images, js, flash, java, ajax,
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by txutxu 13y ago
Lot of people, I myself lot of times, by technical ignorance, don't follow balanced practices, comparing what we do on the computer, with what we do in real life.
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ASk HN: Did Internet evolution kill all the security models?
1 points by txutxu 13y ago|6 comments
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by txutxu 13y ago
OK, after read the two blog posts, and all the comments here, this is my tough: I've a poor's men backup solution too, from my personal droplet to gmail. I use it for backup /etc, /root, /usr/local/(s)bin
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by txutxu 13y ago
On Linux 0.01 (10/30/93 1:00:00 AM) I see the following: jne cur2 /* check for ctrl-alt-del */ During years I've been working on shared KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) devices, where windows sysadmins did
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by txutxu 13y ago
- plain text authentication (FTP, SMTP, etc). - 2 digits for years of 4 digits - 32 bits ints for counting dates since epoch
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by txutxu 13y ago
Sorry, I think @balabaster did get it and did explain it more clearly than me. This is a very emotional topic for me and maybe I was not clear enough with the message I did want to transmit.
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by txutxu 13y ago
Spanish here (living outside). I've work for the government and their lawyers, in companies based on pirated software (from MS, from Adobe, etc). Can we please start fighting piracy there ? Then we should follow fighting piracy in the

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