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by w8rbt 8y ago
Has worked great on Unix for how many years now? Keep it simple is all that Linus is saying.
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by w8rbt 8y ago
github.com and slack.com don't have AAAA records either.
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Ask HN: Why doesn't hackernews have an AAAA record?
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by w8rbt 8y ago
Great advice. I tell people that using a password manager is almost always better than not using one. Pick one that works for you and your devices and just use it.
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by w8rbt 8y ago
Bob Bruninga has written and researched this a great deal. He's pretty well known and respected. He feels grid tie is the way to go for homes (no batteries). Lots of great info here: http://www.aprs.org/off-grid-maybe.h
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by w8rbt 8y ago
Go is strongly typed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_programming_lang... It also has an error checking system that is very simple and easy to use.
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by w8rbt 8y ago
That's very odd. Go was purposefully designed to scale and be used by 1000s of engineers collaborating on a project. https://www.quora.com/Will-the-Golang-code-become-unmaintain...
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by w8rbt 8y ago
Hah, I actually used Klee doing a CS Masters at Georgia Tech. Small world. https://klee.github.io/publications/ Edit: And most of the bugs seem to be gone now ;)
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by w8rbt 8y ago
I love Python, and use it often. It's huge in many industries due to the ease in which people from various backgrounds can learn it. However, I agree whole heartedly with the article. Python does not scale, performs poorly and is unrel
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by w8rbt 8y ago
When theory meets reality, requirements change. We thought this approach would work, and our research suggested it would. Then the real world came along.
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by w8rbt 8y ago
Maybe a play on words? Many people pronounce Tcl as tickle. Jim Tcl, George Dickel? If so, they should have named it George Tcl. Jim is known for another whiskey.
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by w8rbt 8y ago
Great article. OpenBSD makes it so simple to do this. Anyone using Ubiquiti Edge X routers can apply this too (Linux under the hood) in almost the exact same fashion. Works great even on slow DSL links.
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by w8rbt 8y ago
Awesome setup Brad. I wish I had a tenth of that speed. I have Verizon DSL (1.5 Mbit Down and 700 Kbit up). They advertise it as 3 down and 1.5 up, but I've never seen that. That's the best I can get in rural Virginia. I do use SQ
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by w8rbt 8y ago
I rewrote a network TCP scanner in Go (about a year ago) and it performed much better. It scans a /12 for 50 common server ports in roughly 40 minutes. https://github.com/w8rbt/netscan
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by w8rbt 8y ago
Maybe look at Jupyter Notebook? It does much of this out of the box, but may not be exactly what you are looking for. http://jupyter.org/about
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by w8rbt 8y ago
Stingrays were being used as early as the 1990s by federal law enforcement. They were used to help locate Kevin Mitnick in North Carolina. Edit - I recall reading that years ago in Tsutomu Shimomura's book 'Takedown' (publish
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by w8rbt 8y ago
Looking forward to coroutines. I really want to see how they compare to Go's implementation (which is great).
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by w8rbt 8y ago
You are misinformed. Fargate is out and it works. I have containers running on it right now and they have been for several weeks now. You can select it or the old EC2 approach. Try it, you may like it.
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by w8rbt 8y ago
AWS Fargate. No infrastructure to patch or worry with. Just code and Dockerfiles.
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by w8rbt 8y ago
Algorithm books are the same way. No solutions. They ought to have a question section for professors to test and a separate question section for students to practice. It doesn't have to be one size fits all.
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by w8rbt 8y ago
I think the concepts built-into Go make building very large programs much more approachable. That was one of the design goals. I'm not sure Ruby, Python, Javascript, etc. were really designed for large scale development (although peopl
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by w8rbt 8y ago
Why move? How is node better? Really honest question, I've never used either much.
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by w8rbt 8y ago
Yes, but it's always fun to go faster ;)
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by w8rbt 8y ago
Except it's missing 96 bits (which is the vast majority) of the hash. So it's not a SHA1 hash. Why do you think that most passwords are just in the first 64 bits of a SHA1 hash?
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by w8rbt 8y ago
Lookups in a Bloom Filter are basically constant time. Not sure you can go faster than that. Check out Eugene Spafford's 1992 paper. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=134593
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by w8rbt 8y ago
It does not take SHA1 hashes.
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by w8rbt 8y ago
Exactly. More people should read the original Bloom Filter paper. It covers this. Bloom (1970): "In application areas where error-free performance is a necessity, these new methods are not applicable." (p. 422) https:/
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by w8rbt 8y ago
Read the original Bloom Filter paper from 1970. It covers all of this and it's very short. If the test for membership returns 'probably' then you do the more expensive test if you need to know for certain or you don't us
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by w8rbt 8y ago
Or when you visit web pages that run JS in your browser on your machine. No one seems to mind that, but they should.
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by w8rbt 8y ago
IMO, Kubernetes is another indicator of the success of Go (Docker is too). Go is simple and fast like C, yet safe like Python. It really combines great performance and safety.

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