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Input Metrics vs. Output Metrics(thenorth.io)
2 points by chaitanya 3y ago|0 comments
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naive-date: a tiny JavaScript lib for Date like objects that aren’t timestamps(github.com)
1 points by chaitanya 4y ago|0 comments
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by chaitanya 4y ago
You can’t, because JavaScript date objects are just timestamps. Here’s what I wrote on this (along with a small library to handle this problem): https://lisper.in/javascript-date
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The many variations of the return statement in Kotlin(twitter.com)
2 points by chaitanya 4y ago|1 comments
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by chaitanya 5y ago
You can have the best of both worlds -- "commit early, commit often", and "nice clean commit histories" -- with git, and it is easier than most people think. - So you start work on a new branch, and reach a checkpoint. C
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India Accidentally Fired Missile into Pakistan(ndtv.com)
3 points by chaitanya 5y ago|0 comments
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vfork() is still evil(lisper.in)
5 points by chaitanya 5y ago|0 comments
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JavaScript's Date is just a timestamp(lisper.in)
4 points by chaitanya 5y ago|0 comments
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Fork-Exec for Python Programmers(lisper.in)
1 points by chaitanya 5y ago|0 comments
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by chaitanya 5y ago
Only plausible explanation I can think of is that perhaps you or your girlfriend looked something up about drying a wet memory stick.
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by chaitanya 5y ago
> This would benefit from a "select all/none" option for the regions. Yeah, that would help. I'll add this. > Also, adding spot pricing would be SUPER helpful! Unfortunately spot pricing is not available in the bu
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Show HN: Quickly find the cheapest EC2 instance that you need across regions(ec2-price-finder.lisper.in)
4 points by chaitanya 5y ago|2 comments
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by chaitanya 6y ago
Growing up in the pre-Internet era Reader’s Digest was such a good resource due to stories like these. Was always excited to see a new magazine arrive every month. I wonder if it’s any good now. Haven’t looked at it in years.
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by chaitanya 6y ago
If you are on a Mac or Windows, this approach only works for utilities that can run on Linux. If you need to run a native Mac program for example, docker won't be able to run that. Perhaps Nix might help here, but I've never used
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by chaitanya 6y ago
If the upstream returns an error over HTTP, the CDN won’t hide it.
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Indexes in PostgreSQL(postgresql.org)
1 points by chaitanya 6y ago|0 comments
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by chaitanya 6y ago
Many years ago I wrote about restarts in CL using the example of a CSV parser: https://lisper.in/restarts Fun fact: the restarts based CSV parser was based on some real world work me and a colleague had done for an online t
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Webapp Security Exercises for Beginners(gist.github.com)
1 points by chaitanya 7y ago|0 comments
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Kashmiris Are Disappearing from WhatsApp(buzzfeednews.com)
2 points by chaitanya 7y ago|0 comments
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by chaitanya 7y ago
Does 1.1.1.1 send ECS info to Cloudflare’s own nameservers? More generally, does 1.1.1.1 in any way treat Cloudflare’s own nameservers in a special way and send it information that it doesn’t send to others? If the answer to these questions
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by chaitanya 7y ago
> Surviving rising water levels is trivial of course - just walk away from the beach. I don’t want to take away from your other point but this is not so trivial for the hundreds of millions living in low lying countries like Bangladesh.
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by chaitanya 7y ago
Many people here assuming that Troy Hunt will leave HIBP after selling it. He explicitly mentions that he will remain a part of it: > I'll remain a part of HIBP. I fully intend to be part of the acquisition, that is some company get
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by chaitanya 7y ago
Right. At a previous company our Cloudfront bill ran up to $2000/mo because someone ran a test script a few times every minute that fetched a few resources from CF. Once we killed that script our CF bill dropped down to $200/mo. C
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Using cryptography for tamper-proof election results after close of polling(lisper.in)
1 points by chaitanya 7y ago|0 comments
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by chaitanya 7y ago
Aren’t TLS certificates also sent in plaintext?
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by chaitanya 7y ago
Nice. Does CPython have something like this?
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by chaitanya 7y ago
Yeah but the idea is that, with TRACE, most of the time you shouldn't need to drop into the debugger (all CLs come with an interactive debugger too). If TRACE is not sufficient, only then do I go down the debugger route (or strategic p
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by chaitanya 7y ago
Thanks! Yeah this should do the trick I think.
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by chaitanya 7y ago
Is there an equivalent of Common Lisp's TRACE in the Python world? IMO it is the most value for money (i.e. time and convenience) debugging tool I've used till now. Simply write (TRACE function1 function2 ...) in the REPL and you
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Static Type Checking in Lisp(medium.com)
5 points by chaitanya 7y ago|0 comments

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