ProblemFactory

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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
There absolutely is a practical use for checksums and error detection, even if you cannot do error correction. Error detection allows you to: * Discover and replace bad hardware (like the author of the article), * Avoid unknowingly using in
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
> What's up with cloud instance naming schemes? There's at least 2 performance dimensions for provisioning an instance: vCPUs and memory. Often also GPUs, local SSDs, local HDDs. And then you have multiple generations of hardwa
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
Patents are separate from copyright licenses. If you find some source code licensed under GPLv2, MIT, BSD, and many other OSS licenses, then these come with no patent license. It is up to you to find out if any patents covering them exist
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
Could this be used as a more general CI service without deploying docker containers as the end result? For example to build a C++ project, run tests, and publish resulting artefacts (binaries, tarballs) in some release repository?
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
That assumes the border agents are familiar with all professions to come up with smart questions, or to understand answers that say the same thing with different terminology. At best they will google "<profession> interview quest
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
> This offset is limited to 255 seconds though. Given that leap seconds have been added at a rate of approximately 1 every 1.6 years, we are still good for another 376 years.
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
They would have avoided most of the complaints, but I'm sure their lawyers would never have approved such ToS. It would mean that github is responsible for analyzing each license and what features they can provide for code under each l
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
> Assuming github does have feature(s) that require additional privileges to the source beyond what the open source license provides, doesn't that preclude hosting any project where any single one of the contributors don't cont
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
I don't really see any serious issues with the new terms of service. As they say, when you upload some code to Github ( or any other service or website ), they are making a copy, and then more copies for backups. If the code is visible
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
Sure, most people don't review all the code that they pull. But if you are in a position to insert "garbage data" into a commit in preparation for an attack, it will be much easier to insert malicious but safe-looking code in
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
If you were planning on getting a compromised binary blob into a git repository, you would not bother with the whole SHA-1 collision and switching things out later. You would just build a hidden backdoor into the first binary blob, like a d
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
I recently worked on a project where I had to choose a hash function for non-cryptographic error checking. I investigated CRC in detail for it, even wrote two different implementations from scratch. CRC-X is complicated to use and terrible
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
Yes, the claim is entirely wrong. The rocket still needs propellant. It just uses electricity to eject the propellant at much higher speeds than usual chemical reactions.
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
It's more complex than that. People on salary earn a fixed amount per month - they don't get paid extra if they work an hour longer in the evening instead of shopping. People on most hourly jobs have their schedule set by their ma
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
I like the model of https://railslts.com/ It's reasonable that volunteer developers working on an open-source project sunset old versions, and old versions of language runtimes or dependencies. Nobody wants to keep mai
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
In terms of performance or value for money, certainly. But it's a huge hassle keeping application settings, development environments, large datasets or VM images, etc in sync on two computers. With a single laptop I can just unplug the
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
How free-form are the map changes? Do you mean opening and closing doors - or completely changing the terrain as in for example Minecraft? One option would be to look for strategies that "look intelligent", instead of being perfec
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
> the equivalent to the Post-IT on a monitor Writing passwords down on a piece of paper, and keeping that in your wallet or locked desk drawer is actually one of the more secure ways of storing passwords these days. No risk of electronic
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
There is a link at the end of the article to a blog post on exactly this topic: https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/02/inside-Cloud-Sp... > The purist answer is “no” because partitions can happen and in f
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
Imho people are upset at Apple because they are leaving people who do need high performance, but want to stick with MacOS in the cold. The current laptop lineup is great, and perfect for a wide range of professions, myself included. But t
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
That looks suspicious. Unless you are coming home to your own country, looking suspicious is a good way to get denied entry.
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
> it's just one area where I find Spotify consistently incomplete. At first (especially some years ago when the catalogue was much smaller) this used to annoy me. But Spotify has made a lot of progress in side-stepping the issue. Th
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
> I'd say no and this is why rules restricting how powerful the vacuum cleaner can be is stupid. I agree that strict limits on vacuum energy use are overreaching a bit, but it has had good results. People wrongly believe that energ
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
I don't think mistakes or a lack of them in FizzBuzz are that relevant at all. You are not supposed find a clever solution as a candidate, or as the interviewer to spend more than a minute reviewing or discussing it. The FizzBuzz test
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
If you fly to Vegas, put it all on black at roulette, then yes you have 47% chance of doubling your money. But that's a very short vacation with little entertainment value. The more independent small bets you make, the lower the chance
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
It's funny to see the sharing economy promoted as a goal in itself, when 30 years ago one of the criticisms of the Soviet Union was that people there are so poor that they are forced to share kitchens and cars with strangers. Nobody w
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
I believe they are expensive because: * They have a captive audience and no competition inside the security area in the airport - people who want to sleep between flights, but can't/don't want to go through passport control,
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
There are a lot of laws and regulations around advertising stock for sale to the general public (as opposed to qualified private investors). Companies have to be very conservative but thorough in the "Risk Factors" section, or get
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
A cloud hosted database is accurate, but doesn't really describe it well. Amazon, Heroku and others also provide cloud hosted PostgreSQL, which is a very different use case. Parse was a: * cloud hosted nosql database, * with client lib
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
But it was harsh. You started the post with > These are obvious flaws in design, in my opinion, that warrant re-looking at, but to which no real improvements are being made for some reason. (Incompetence? Politics? Both? Who knows.) Yo

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