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by j42 11y ago
This is actually quite fascinating (and part of my upcoming book...) Despite the obvious high/low-level language differentials, people have been managing multi-million-line C code-bases since the 80's. Then again, think of how li
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by j42 11y ago
Oh it absolutely is, and I'm on your side. My point though, is that it's always a "secondary" or "tertiary" business concern... a point emboldened by the number and frequency of data breaches -- always followed
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by j42 11y ago
Probably because very little innovation happens to any long-standing protocol until it becomes a primary business concern. Almost every business relies on OpenSSL or some equivalent, but how many actually learn enough about SSL to contrib
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by j42 11y ago
I do think there's some value to pointing out the irony though; two men from two cultures that couldn't be more distinct, with titles that could be synonyms, using what is essentially the same scripted prose to control and appease
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by j42 11y ago
You seem extremely knowledgeable about high-performance servers! Your example is fantastic -- I realize it's written in C, but perhaps you could explain how in the context of a tool like this (current article) might allow it to functio
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by j42 11y ago
Can you tell me where I may find more info on KDB or how this may compare to more traditional serving options for static resources, HLLs or anything that might fit well in a large tree. I'm trying to understand exactly what its limitat
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by j42 11y ago
Hah, the way you phrase that makes me wonder what you found. Right now really just web apps. Content sites are doable, and I know people running networks, but it's not possible to do profitably without clickbaiting, low-quality mass-p
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by j42 11y ago
Not exactly, I think it was a poor choice of words as I was referring to my build/deployment tooling. If I have an idea (e.g. a "ES2015 to ECMA6" converter), I'd look for a library to do this (if there isn't an open
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by j42 11y ago
I have two books in my queue actually, and this is one of them. There are parts of my content-property model I'm not ready to share, but most of it has been structured into a cohesive framework of how I: 1. find niches 2. automate site
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by j42 11y ago
Well, "startup" is a poor choice of words, but he actually has a half-decent idea. As someone who owns dozens of little "tool" sites (think less/scss converters, meme generators, JS beautifiers, etc), I can tell you
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by j42 11y ago
It's really interesting to see services like this emerge. In my opinion, the merchant processing/gateway revolution happened when providers (Stripe, Braintree, et al) started providing quality APIs for user/profile/subsc
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by j42 11y ago
You may have misunderstood me there. Yes, Islam is a particularly violent religion -- if you have read the Koran, many of its concepts seem very incompatible with the idea of a free secular society. Then again, the bible has the crusades.
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by j42 11y ago
It does if you play devil's advocate and follow the chain of reasoning. If god is great and non-believers are bad and "god" says it's righteous and just to punish the non-believers, then naturally doing "god's
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by j42 11y ago
As someone who develops high-performance systems and is continually learning, I think this is a fantastic idea! Honestly, something that seems desperately needed as that knowledge is currently spread out among hundreds of thousands of blog
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by j42 11y ago
Because it has never been a question of who is deserving of what... The poor have no leverage, and realistically, no one is going to give that to them. We're not talking about an idealistic re-working of civic values, but the natural t
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by j42 11y ago
I was actually planning on testing a 33% deployment this evening, I guess what I'm really wondering is that because this is a low-level networking adjustment that modifies locking behavior, are there 'gotchas' I should be awa
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by j42 11y ago
Can anyone comment on whether it would be a good or bad idea to try to implement this in production ASAP? I'm a bit far removed from the Linux kernel to be comfortable auditing that myself, but I run some high-volume/low-latency e
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by j42 11y ago
It's because there's at least one person on-board the company who understands the technical underpinnings, and has incentives that (usually) align with shareholders -- versus consultants whose bottom-line is never entirely depende
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by j42 11y ago
I'm not sure I see that as a fatal flaw... ultimately, the user is sitting in front of a digital box that can guide and prompt them in all the same ways a researcher can--the only limit is in performing tests that require a medical pro
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by j42 11y ago
I'm afraid you're misinformed, but for socially-conscious individuals (ie, they don't support a scorched-earth, ends-justify-the-means policy to get that $250,000* from your nephew for torrenting Inside Out) I'm includin
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by j42 11y ago
This. Everyone should take note of the proper way to fight encroaching copyright law: If you are a programmer, security researcher, artist, or entrepreneur you can make a difference. 1. As an individual: if you understand the methods, c
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by j42 11y ago
I'm truly confused by your message, because your latter statement sounds as if you are in agreement? No one (intelligent) is trying to make a moral argument for 'piracy' or media entitlement, but rather saying that there do
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by j42 11y ago
Actually, piracy is the act of forcefully commandeering another's maritime vessel; theft is the legal act of taking & depriving another of property, and I'm really not sure what "fucking" has to do with it at all. Pi
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by j42 11y ago
I'm the original poster, and I was talking about ads, not metered queries. :) [edit] and perhaps that was a poor choice of words. as a developer of high-volume low-latency exchange feeds, "query" has a bit of a different mea
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by j42 11y ago
I'm sorry but I'm not quite sure what you mean by this? In 2011, 96% of Google's revenue was from AdWords -- in recent years that has lowered slightly due to their diversification and cloud services, but it's still at le
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by j42 11y ago
While not stated eloquently, I do think there's some truth in that. 1. Open API's, good documentation and community engagement goes a long way in establishing developer trust. I don't believe developer trust is correlated si
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by j42 11y ago
Really, though? I always design with accessibility in mind, but I feel like there are more visceral complications than having to add a little extra context to a web search. Almost everyone in development has encountered unfortunate name col
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by j42 11y ago
Hey, thank you for this! Bought your book a while ago -- didn't realize your background was in ad tech. I personally eeked out ~30ms avg latencies with PHP by modifying ReactPHP (non-blocking event loop) and getting creative with Redi
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by j42 11y ago
It comes across as a brilliantly absurd joke at first, though I suspect that to be a case of poor translation and an even poorer choice of analogy. I see this pertaining to quantum physics/computing. I think it's trying to posit:
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by j42 11y ago
This actually is within the realm of common sense and inductive/deductive reasoning if you know a bit about nutrition. First I'll agree with you that most people lack self control, and that the increase in portion sizes is a signi

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