automatthew

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by automatthew 12y ago
Wells and driveways.
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by automatthew 12y ago
Paging David Hume. David Hume. Has anyone seen David Hume?
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by automatthew 12y ago
> I've been to standup meetings in close to a dozen different companies, ranging from the smallest startup to some of the biggest tech companies and never have I ever seen a standup meeting end on time. NEVER. I don't think it
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by automatthew 12y ago
It was for LBJ.
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by automatthew 12y ago
Hanlon's Razor is enemy propaganda.
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by automatthew 12y ago
There used to be a proverb about this sort of thing. Something about being careful when eating finger foods.
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by automatthew 12y ago
There's a reason that the safety razor became more popular than the straight razor.
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by automatthew 12y ago
World Star Hip Hop will never be the same.
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by automatthew 12y ago
Last time I tried to use the same public key for a second account, GitHub refused.
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by automatthew 12y ago
Millenials can typing?
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by automatthew 12y ago
Once upon a time, there was a town that had a severe rat problem. They imported a large number of cats, and soon the rats were gone. Now the town had a cat problem. They imported a large number of dogs, and soon the rats were gone. But n
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by automatthew 12y ago
Heartsuck?
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by automatthew 12y ago
So we should choose the approach that gives us trivial attacks that reveal 64K straight out of Compton to the approach that may be slightly harder to defend against timing attacks?
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by automatthew 13y ago
The npm source is crazy. Here's my favorite bugfix (bug being that the prepublish script simply wasn't running): https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/2389525a1df6d20e780cca5887...
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by automatthew 13y ago
Coincidentally, I just this week threw away one of his short story collections. In an introduction to a story, he gleefully quoted a nasty song one of his friends had written about the Lindberg kidnapping. Classy fucker.
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by automatthew 13y ago
The problem isn't only with primitives, as I think you've mentioned before. Even assuming a browser provides turnkey symmetric crypto for arbitrary plaintext lengths, "content-controlled JavaScript" can still subvert the
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by automatthew 14y ago
The short answer is: Use of synchronous Redis calls made it easier to develop and to experiment with storage patterns. Workers can be written in any language, which was another major design consideration. We have about a dozen types of wo
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by automatthew 14y ago
The "queue" is merely a Redis list. Durable by default. Redis PUB/SUB is not suited for the task queues we use, because any number of subscribers will receive the messages. We want to guarantee that only one worker will act upon each mess
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by automatthew 14y ago
Regarding the architectural question: We actually tested a few designs using m2 and 0mq during our R&D phase. 0mq's push/pull sockets provide the same "take" behavior as the Redis RPUSH/BLPOP, so we definitely could have used m2 as the