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by zimbatm 7y ago
Can anyone explain how the differential serving works? I get that they might have a User-Agent mapping to features. But how do they know which feature are needed by the loaded modules?
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by zimbatm 7y ago
This very site is an example of a way to handle abundant content. "Post all of the things" doesn't mean that content shouldn't be prioritized. The process is just asynchronous. It avoids abuse in specialized fields where
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by zimbatm 7y ago
Disclaimer: IANAL Trademark: if the game is trademarked, you can't re-use the name. Anything with a trademark needs to be replaced with a new name/logo that is sufficiently different as to not induce confusion in the consumer. Cop
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by zimbatm 7y ago
This isn't going to fix the fact that they are shipping a 12 years old version of bash. How many scripts with `#!/usr/bin/env bash` are there out there? Bash is the least worst language for bootstrapping since the altern
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by zimbatm 7y ago
One thing you can do is detect whenever stderr is a tty and enable timestamping if not
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by zimbatm 7y ago
The sheer mass of people that India and China has. If they wanted to, they could send a fraction of their population to pretty much any country and double the head count. It would be a pretty effective method to invade peacefully.
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by zimbatm 7y ago
This logging library seems to be aimed to be used in CLI application. Decision like adding colors and using emoji makes me believe that. For servers, structured logging is a must. Each line should have a timestamp like you said. The API sho
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by zimbatm 7y ago
Firefox 67 also the first browser that ships with `prefers-color-scheme` (aka dark mode) after Safari. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref... And it does the right thing and
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by zimbatm 7y ago
If you ever need to tweak or inspect an existing binary, https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf is great.
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by zimbatm 7y ago
The main issue that has to be solved is name squatting.
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by zimbatm 7y ago
Looks like it's going to be released soon: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19881693
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by zimbatm 7y ago
> I have debated using Twilio to create my own number pool of international numbers and a way to check my messages via a web portal instead of relying on messaging. Are there any current apps / services that already do this effectiv
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by zimbatm 7y ago
10 years ago we had something similar already. "Why the lucky stiff" from the ruby community wrote MouseHole, a local web proxy that could be used to inject a commenting overlay to the web. Only the participants would see it. It w
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by zimbatm 7y ago
got a source?
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by zimbatm 7y ago
That's the beauty of it, they don't even have to hand money back to the user. The trick is to make the user perceive value in whatever digital artifact their are providing. In the eye of the user it then becomes the same as money.
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by zimbatm 8y ago
Airplane pilots are being trained for specific aircraft models, which certainly includes how the "autopilot" functions, when to use it and what it does and doesn't do. There is not risk that the overloaded term will be misund
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by zimbatm 8y ago
The attacker gained network access through Jenkins. Don't deploy a public-facing Jenkins, especially if it has credentials attached to it. It's really hard to secure, especially if pull-requests can run arbitrary code on your agen
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by zimbatm 8y ago
A lot of these "oopses" are the natural result of engineering only testing their work on Google Chrome. Are we accusing Google Chrome of being too successful? The most shady practice I think is Google using it's dominant sear
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by zimbatm 8y ago
and to make things worse, macOS ships with a 12 years old version of Bash.
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by zimbatm 8y ago
Bash is a misunderstood language. A lot of developers don't take time to learn it enough and discard it because of that. So I started a twitter handle that posts semi-regular tips and tricks about it: https://twitter.com&#x2
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by zimbatm 8y ago
Service workers are a terrible mis-feature. Ask anybody and they won't know that things can keep running in the background when tabs are closed. Even most developers don't know about it.
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by zimbatm 8y ago
Recently I needed to multiplex stdin to both stdout and stderr and was surprised that none of the coreutils tools supported that. The closest is `tee /dev/stderr` which only works on system where stderr is bound to that virtual de
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by zimbatm 8y ago
The filesystem is notably slower on Windows. It's easy to test it out for yourself; clone any big repo (eg: linux) in WSL and run `git status`. The Microsoft engineers have already done a lot of heroic efforts with WSL. The issue seems
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by zimbatm 8y ago
I don't think it's fair to quote "2x to 7x slower". What's exciting about WASM is that is has a lot of potential to get close to native performance, a lot of the tricks just haven't been applied yet. EDIT: just
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by zimbatm 8y ago
On a server it makes sense if there is no UI involved. Potentially the sender could output a URL that contains the SDP. That way the receiver can either be a CLI or a web browser.
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by zimbatm 8y ago
Check out https://www.kaiostech.com/ , it's a fork of Firefox OS for feature phones. > By mid-2019, KaiOS will be running on over 150 million devices around the world. If that's true then Firefox OS is quite su
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by zimbatm 8y ago
Check out https://www.kaiostech.com/ , it's a fork of Firefox OS for feature phones.
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by zimbatm 8y ago
I was surprised when I found out that Cloud SDL doesn't automatically create snapshots before settings changes like Amazon's RDS does. One time the Postgresql instance got stuck during a migration. There was no way of creating a f
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by zimbatm 8y ago
Ruby already has perl-like magic variables. Too bad $1 $2.. are already used to hold regexp matches if I remember correctly. I suspect they could have introduced $it for single-variable blocks and not break the existing parsers.
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by zimbatm 8y ago
Do you ever have a problem saying no to people? Some times I am wrangling internally and that has an emotional cost. I find that being super crystal clear on where I stand is absolutely necessary to be able to say no.

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