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by jackowayed 13y ago
Node.js isn't really a usecase that dictates what datastore you should use, it's just a certain way of writing a totally different piece of your app. In most node.js apps, the best answer is probably a SQL database. Sorry. If you&
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by jackowayed 13y ago
Ugh. I read Aljazeera English fairly regularly a year ago, before Aljazeera America existed. I appreciated the solid-yet-concise reporting, the fact that there was little enough news that I could kind of read it all, and the fact that it wa
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by jackowayed 13y ago
Yes. I believe you have to stay a year to keep the bonus, but everyone I know who graduated from Stanford last year was offered >100k salary, 100k signing bonus, and some stock (I think per year the stock was about 25k at current market
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by jackowayed 13y ago
Well, the front brake has ~70% of the stopping power (both on bikes and cars), so while that will work (assuming you don't skid in the back), it won't be the fastest. You can get quite a bit of stopping out of your front brake wit
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by jackowayed 13y ago
That said, it's a curve with a 40mph speed limit and a 35mph recommendation. If it's not safe to do 35mph around that curve, the road authorities should mark it accordingly.
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by jackowayed 13y ago
Wow. Ok, here's some details on the accident based on news stories linked there. First, background for people who don't know the area: So this is in Woodside, the hills just west of Palo Alto. It's a nice area where you get m
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by jackowayed 13y ago
I think it would still work. I think you'll end up both getting all of the network packets, in which case the higher-level protocols will ignore the ones meant for the other device. TCP and UDP both have source ports as well as destina
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by jackowayed 13y ago
The Architecture of Open Source Applications books[1], while eclectic, seem pretty good from the chapters I've read. They have a few chapters about distributed systems--HDFS, Riak, and a chapter about "Scalable Web Architecture an
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by jackowayed 13y ago
Faster the more help we get! As part of my Matasano internship, I've been working on a patch to NSS (Mozilla's crypto library, used by both Firefox and Chrome for TLS) that will give the necessary hooks needed for browsers that us
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by jackowayed 13y ago
He's not trying to convince anyone. It's all posturing. He's trying to look as good as possible (look like a reasonable, restrained, trustable major player in international politics), and put the US in a position where we loo
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by jackowayed 13y ago
Why bother paying a ton for ad space on the day when you know that the site will basically be a giant ad for you anyway?
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by jackowayed 13y ago
I would call supporting the objectification of women misogyny. Sure, it's not traditional "hatred" (But really, how many people hate all women in the traditional sense? Is that all people think misogyny means?), but it&#x27
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by jackowayed 13y ago
Oh, I see, generate two different binaries of the same compiler with different compilers, and you know something is up if the same source compiled by those two separate binaries of the same compiler differ. Assuming the compiler is determin
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by jackowayed 13y ago
No, the same source code will generate different binaries. The spec doesn't say exactly how source code has to map to machine code, just what should happen based on source code. Differences in the optimizers are almost certain to yie
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by jackowayed 13y ago
Ugh! This comment conveys the all-too-common reality that "cultural fit" is code for "everyone should be like us." To the extent that cultural fit is a defensible hiring criterion, or even a good one, it doesn't mea
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by jackowayed 13y ago
Read it aloud. You'll catch typos (save homophones), awkward phrasing, sentences that are long and confusing, and more.
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by jackowayed 13y ago
I clicked through the purchase flow and noticed the "SSL secured" text. But the homepage is not served via SSL. I assume the actual purchase form submits through SSL, but an active network attacker could change it to submit anywhe
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by jackowayed 13y ago
You can easily find a bedroom in Palo Alto for $1500 (maybe not right downtown, maybe as part of a bigger house/apartment, but a bedroom to yourself). It seems like ~1k is still achievable if you're patient and any part of PA will
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by jackowayed 13y ago
Up until December 2009, my main computer was a desktop we'd bought in 2000. At some point, we had upgraded it from 128MB of RAM to 384MB. That last year or so, things got rough. I was really pushing the limit of what it could run witho
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by jackowayed 13y ago
I was considering various things, with a strong desire for something simple and likely to stay around for awhile. I thought about emacs gnus, Thunderbird, and some of the new entrants. I realized that I would be as happy with something that
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by jackowayed 13y ago
Yep. There's a well-written article about an early DDoS extortion attempt where the victim fought instead of paying, developing some novel protection technology in the proces: http://www.csoonline.com/article/print
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by jackowayed 13y ago
Ugh, this keeps coming up. No amount of cooperation from Certificate Authorities will enable passive attacks on SSL. All the CA does is cryptographically certify "this is the public key that the Company (eg. Google) gave me"; th
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by jackowayed 13y ago
If you read "Consider the Lobster" (which you should), you'll note that the product did change. Lobster used to be cooked dead, then canned in saltwater. Now it's cooked live and served immediately with a hefty side o
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by jackowayed 13y ago
I think this makes a lot more sense on the choosing a job side than the hiring side. I've had great luck working for awesome friends of mine and awesome friends/acquaintances/ex-coworkers of their friends. In a large software organization,
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by jackowayed 13y ago
But the comment I replied to basically posited "wealth" as the one and only universal good by suggesting that if the government strives for something that doesn't eventually yield wealth, there's no point. An overused example: Fascism has a
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by jackowayed 13y ago
> Long term, if political freedom doesn't bring wealth, then what is the bloody point? Seriously? You think that everything a government should strive to guarantee is a means where the end is wealth? You don't think that equality, freed
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by jackowayed 13y ago
There are laws and medical licenses for this reason. There are always incentives to cut costs, whether administering medicine for cash from patients or for insurance payments. At least with this model, the patient is choosing the doctor, pa
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by jackowayed 13y ago
The cost of food is very predictable and pretty flexible. Anyone who needs to can eat well on <$100/week as long as they have access to a reasonably-priced grocery store and facilities to cook and store food. (Also, note that even our b
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by jackowayed 13y ago
It's the same interface for the developer, but instead of being run directly on the CPU, it's run in a JavaScript virtual machine that interprets it or eventually compiles it to some kind of native code. That's very hard to overcome from a
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by jackowayed 13y ago
HBase isn't built for analysis workloads. It doesn't have a complex query engine, so you end up having to do massive scans (which aren't especially fast), transfer a ton of data to the node where your analytics code is running, and do the c

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