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by vog 9y ago
> That's elitist Wait, what?! I do think that every "sysadmin" who is able to write super-complex shell scripts with large sed/awk scripts is also able to learn Python or Ruby. And I'm convinced that this knowl
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by vog 9y ago
That's strange. Here in Germany it works out quite well. Sure, we do have two large parties as well (SPD and CDU), but there are several smaller parties which do have significant results, and hence significant influence. The classic ex
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by vog 9y ago
This is so true. That's why here in Germany we have a separate term for that: "barrierefrei", which means "free of barriers". It is the politically correct variant of the other popular word "behindertengerecht&
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by vog 9y ago
> This belittles their and anyone else's bash scripts for git as 'toys'. That's unfair, and completely unnecessary for your point. I don't think so. It is a very common mistake to miss the point where you shoul
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by vog 9y ago
> base 60 = 2^2 5 * 3, has advantages of working in base 2, base 5, and base 3.* ... and 4 and 6 and 10. (and 12, 15, 30, 60)
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by vog 9y ago
The canonical counter-counter argument is that of course this needs to be established in other countries as well. For example, this is pretty popular political demand here in Germany, as well as in the European Union. (Closely related, almo
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Ask HN: [Meta]: Should “Guidelines” and “FAQ” Be Merged?
6 points by vog 9y ago|0 comments
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by vog 9y ago
I'm always confused about "Guidelines" and "FAQ". It seems that whenever I have a question about HN, I need to consult both, because it is not clear at all which site covers which question. Maybe "Guidelines&qu
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by vog 9y ago
Please note that duplicate submission are not discouraged on HN in general, especially not after such a long time. However, thanks for sharing the link to the previous discussion!
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by vog 9y ago
Maybe off-topic, but I see many parallels to software development. (Not so much to user interfaces, though, as there's usually the reverse issue: Too many companies invent their own stuff, mostly at places where is not better but just
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by vog 9y ago
(We should coin a term for this. I propose: "idempotent database updates".) I'm also a strong proponent of idempotent database updates, and prefer those over classic migrations wherever possible. Some experience from PostgreS
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by vog 9y ago
Small nickpick: The tinfoil hats would have loved to say "told you so", but even they had not predicted the true scale of things. Intel ME is not just some BIOS code, but a separate hardware component that is deeply connected wi
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by vog 9y ago
> https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/10/evil_maid_att... The following part of this classic (2009) article caught my eye: > Symantec’s CTO Mark Bregman was recently advised by "th
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by vog 9y ago
I wonder if these types of optimization/simplification could happen at a lower level, e.g. by preprocessing the SABR file and exploiting symmetries found there. And yes, I'm aware that this might be as hard as an optimizing compil
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by vog 9y ago
Not only that. In case an actual lawyer comments, they often start with something like "IAAL, but I'm not your lawyer". Because even their opinion is only to be trusted if they did an exhaustive investigation on the topic, wh
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by vog 9y ago
> My advice: Save some money. Just like a car accident, or some health or other emergency Isn't this what legal costs insurances are for? Why should everyone save huge amounts of money individually if you can spread the cost (as w
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by vog 9y ago
If you haven't already tried, I recommend to port [1] a Python program to OCaml, F# or Haskell. There are so many tests you can throw away, so many corner cases you don't need to test anymore. (I'm talking about tests that yo
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by vog 9y ago
Assuming the timestamps are not forged, this only shows that the paper was uploaded November 2000. It might have been older. So we need a second source. Second source: The citations. The paper cites: "Mogul, [...] Pulse-per-second API
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by vog 9y ago
Could anyone add "(2000)" to the title, please?
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by vog 9y ago
I actually like their conservative approach with version numbers. For what it's worth, in IPv4 time there were some experiments with a new IP variant, those got the version 5. You won't find these anywhere in today's network
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by vog 9y ago
This article argues quite convincingly against overfitting by too-early abstractions. Nevertheless, it seems makes the same mistake on a higher level: > The first attempt failed because we built it in a poor way [...]. The second one ha
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The software engineering rule of 3(erikbern.com)
2 points by vog 9y ago|1 comments
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by vog 9y ago
> In terms of convenience, security, and ease of use it (Bitcoin) is clearly worse. Not just that, but most importantly in term of scalability. At the moment we have less than 5,000 transactions per 10 minutes, which are less than 100
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by vog 9y ago
If the final goal is to socialize, founding a hackerspace makes more sense than creating a web platform. (And of course, joining an existing hackerspace makes even more sense.) However, reading that comment again, maybe the phrases "co
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by vog 9y ago
> Written by the creator of ZeroMQ, for those who are unaware. How is this relevant? Why is it important to be aware of that fact? Does this mean that the author is specifically well qualified for writing such a book? Does this imply
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by vog 9y ago
> Currently I'm working on creating a platform for people like me - who just want to get together and make things. Isn't this what hackerspaces are all about? Maybe it helps to visit (or found) one nearby you.
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by vog 9y ago
Note that you can get most of this from Sanannah, too: https://savannah.nongnu.org/ I personally prefer a combination of Savannah (mailing lists) and GitHub (repository, issues, website).
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by vog 9y ago
In that case, they could at least explain why Let's Encrypt was no option for them. Doing that in a half sentence would have been sufficient. But they don't mention Let's Encrypt with a single word, nor any other alternative.
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by vog 9y ago
Is this meant to be camouflaged advertising for Cloudflare? Why don't they mention Let's Encrypt? It is free and easy to setup.
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by vog 9y ago
The Impostor Syndrome is quite the reverse of the Dunning–Kruger effect.

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