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by zimbatm 9y ago
Take the JSON encoding example. How does it know that 802 is a number? What if I want to have "802" as a string? Is it because visitors.mozilla has a fixed schema that it's value is an int or does it try to parse the string a
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by zimbatm 9y ago
I would like to make a claim that ETN doesn't reduce complexity of programs, it merely splits it in two: the TN that declares the data structure and the interpreter on the other side. To fully understand a piece of code one has now to
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by zimbatm 9y ago
The roaming rules are a bit complicated. It seems that only a fraction of the data plan can be made available under "free roaming" rules. I suspect operators will make their money back from "I forgot to turn off roaming"
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by zimbatm 9y ago
I am not a fan of `cast` (also seen in other languages as well) as it leads to reductionist thinking. There are usually more than one way to convert from one type to another. How is Float to Int rounded? Shouldn't String to Int return
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by zimbatm 9y ago
Little rant on UUIDs: Notice how the author assumes UUID v4[1] in the conversation. There are very few reasons to use the other versions but we are still paying for their price in code complexity all the time. Look at this UUID parsing code
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by zimbatm 9y ago
A couple of thoughts on security: How I understand this, when the /keybase VFS is mounted, all the files are accessible in clear from the user's point of view. It means that file traversal attacks (eg: browser) could potentially a
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by zimbatm 9y ago
I agree that it's hard to predict the future, that's why I'm not trying to add unnecessary dependencies. 100 lines of code are not hard to rewrite in anything else if necessary.
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by zimbatm 9y ago
Not when using AutoScaling Groups. Then the machine will be provisioned on boot and therefor ansible would have to be installed on the machine.
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by zimbatm 9y ago
It's debatable. Ansible/Chef/Puppet themselves need to be bootstrapped as well. Bash is perfectly fine if the machine can be installed with less than 100 lines of code and immutable infrastructure is being used (so no need fo
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by zimbatm 9y ago
I'm doing just that (for a SaaS). 1. Build an AMI with Packer that contains Ubuntu + Docker + aws-cli. 2. Build and publish docker images for all the services that will run on the instances. (one image per service, not per environment
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by zimbatm 9y ago
InfluxDB went from RocksDB (LSM) -> BoltDB (B+Tree) - > Custom (LSM again). Here is a pretty good writeup: https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v0.9/concepts/storage_e...
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by zimbatm 9y ago
Those look like browser-compatibility fixes, mainly changing the user user agent to chrome on some websites. Or did I miss something?
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by zimbatm 9y ago
It's more like: investor tries to influence the market to benefit himself.
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by zimbatm 9y ago
Implicit means that a lot of headspace is taken to remember all these details. I'd rather focus on building something cool, rails is not the end-goal.
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by zimbatm 9y ago
When I develop in rails I tend to read the rails code a lot to understand what kind of implicit knowledge I was supposed to know. I suspect that veteran rails developers have done that a lot and also keep-up with framework upgrades when the
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by zimbatm 9y ago
That's staging, usually there is only one per project. As a developer, ngrok makes it really easy to show-off your feature branch to customers/rest of the team, regardless of your location. And you're not dependent on having
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by zimbatm 9y ago
It has to be combined with another attack. If the victim's mail server bounces the email it will be sent back to the attacker's mail server. One possible approach to do that is to fill the target email so they reach their quota.
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by zimbatm 9y ago
Talking about value, what is the price difference between a regular road sign and a e-paper version? How many employees could be hired changing the physical road signs given the price difference?
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by zimbatm 9y ago
Thanks, that makes sense. I wish that the terraform language was flexible enough to allow building such abstractions on top of it.
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by zimbatm 10y ago
Why not use an existing tool like terraform? Terraform is able to manage resources from dyn, route53 and other DNS providers fairly easily.
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by zimbatm 10y ago
I wonder how fast it would propagate if it was able to inject itself into existing repos and hook itself to package.json and other installer scripts.
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by zimbatm 10y ago
That's perfect to run Tor relay services on the cheap
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by zimbatm 10y ago
Unlike airbnb and uber, his service was offered for free. That's suspicious :p
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by zimbatm 10y ago
How is this compared to Unity?
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by zimbatm 10y ago
In what scenarios is GCP's load-balancer not trusted but their compute instance is?
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by zimbatm 10y ago
Hashicorp Vault seems to be locking all the memory: https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/blob/c44f1c9817955d4c7cd5... They also set the ipc_lock capability before starting the process in docker: https:/
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by zimbatm 10y ago
Agreed. If I remember correctly, when submitting jobs to run on the network, N numbers of nodes are selected randomly. RIPE has the biggest concentration of probes in the EU and then US[1]. [1]: https://atlas.ripe.net/result
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by zimbatm 10y ago
Also related to that. In a situation where: * a bucket has 1M files in it * uploads are generally of 200 files at a time * each file name is guaranteed to map to a unique content (content-addressable) * some of the files to upload might alr
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by zimbatm 10y ago
They want to attract developers. One reason why it was so easy for Linux developers to switch to OSX was that they had a mostly-compatible shell environment.
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by zimbatm 10y ago
This is certainly true for github as well.

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