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by xolox 7y ago
Thanks for sharing that link, it's on the most valuable things in this thread for me! (I loved SQLite already and one HN thread more or less isn't going to change that)
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by xolox 7y ago
Honestly I think this is personal preference more than anything else, so I'm not sure how useful my answer is, but I thought I should at least try to answer your question :-). I have quite a few years of experience in using Sphinx to c
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by xolox 7y ago
At my employer we have two ways: 1. For large issues visible to customers an incident report is shared inside the company. These are written for general consumption and so lack any technically interesting aspects (they're "dumbed-
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by xolox 7y ago
What is a conscious process for some can be a completely unconscious process for others.
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by xolox 8y ago
Reading through the comments here I'm recognizing "China Telecom" from an article on a BGP hijack that was published about a week ago, I still had the article open in my browser: https://arstechnica.com/inform
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by xolox 9y ago
I've been using a Philips Wake-up Light for this in the past four years and it helps me a lot in winter. It's not perfect but it's a lot better than waking up to a screaming alarm clock :-). Recently I replaced most of the li
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by xolox 9y ago
This thread piqued my interest because I have a love/hate relationship with sleep deprivation that touches on what you mentioned: - On the positive side of the scale, sleep deprivation can boost my creativity and ability to focus enorm
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by xolox 15y ago
What's the point? Just write your program in Lua and enjoy the speed boost of LuaJIT! ;-)
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by xolox 15y ago
Sorry for being off-topic, but do you know how the ZSH history file gets trashed? It's happened so often to me that I wrote a script to reconstruct my history file by combining the last handful of backups. I still haven't figured out how th
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by xolox 15y ago
Since Lua 5.2 (just released) the pipe:close() method returns the exit status of the command. For more information see http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#pdf-file:close You can also get the exit status using Lua 5.1 but it's defini
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by xolox 15y ago
I get what you're saying but have to say that since I've started doing more deployments in AWS I'm writing more and more shell scripts. Any given Linux AMI will support Bash and even though shell scripts are painful to write and maintain, d
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by xolox 15y ago
To guarantee on-disk consistency, programs like database servers call fsync for every transaction. By definition an fsync involves events on the hardware level and even in an SSD this gives a slowdown. The SSD can use a write cache to speed
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by xolox 15y ago
While technically possible that doesn't get you very far, you'd end up with a self-signed certificate. That works fine except for the scary warnings (which look a bit unprofessional). And of course if the client programs of your service do
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by xolox 15y ago
They do, it's just that you cannot register a wildcard certificate for free. When I registered my certificate I could pick one subdomain in addition to the main domain.
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by xolox 15y ago
It's the first time I came across client side certificates as well. As others have pointed out you have to jump through a bunch of hoops to get a certificate from StartSSL, but if your free time is cheaper than a certificate from another pa
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by xolox 15y ago
For those who are not familiar with DPI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_packet_inspection As an example, HTTP uses the "Host:" header which contains the domain name of the website in question. Deep packet inspection could work by recog
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by xolox 15y ago
Just a friendly tip: Try to verify whether Fail2ban actually works and keep monitoring your log files (Logwatch). I once found some dumb ass trying to brute force his way into my Postfix server, unfortunately Fail2ban didn't catch it and I
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by xolox 15y ago
FYI: I'm considering adding a binding for the pollset module.
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by xolox 15y ago
This is my fault really, the first paragraph of the homepage contains the following remark: > APR powers software such as the Apache webserver and Subversion and Lua/APR makes the APR operating system interfaces available to Lua, servin
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by xolox 15y ago
The first edition of "Programming in Lua" is available for free online and might make for more interesting reading than the reference manual: http://www.lua.org/pil/
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by xolox 15y ago
I totally agree on the Doxygen documentation and indeed, while writing the Lua/APR binding the APR unit tests were more useful to me than the public headers and documentation. I must admit I also looked through the implementation here and t
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by xolox 15y ago
Hi all, author of the Lua/APR binding here. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to post them here. I haven't gotten a lot of feedback on the binding yet so would love to hear what people think about it!