michaelmcmillan

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by michaelmcmillan 8mo ago
It is a long-standing policy at Netflix for employees to pay for their own subscriptions. It ensures that employees "live the member experience".
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by michaelmcmillan 9mo ago
Linux is written in C, my friend.
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by michaelmcmillan 1y ago
Which is useless if the domain had HSTS enabled, which they should.
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by michaelmcmillan 1y ago
"modicum of research" Jesus christ. The reason why that comment gets brought up is because it stereotypes the HN community. He wasn't disrespectful. Calm down.
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by michaelmcmillan 1y ago
Exactly.
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by michaelmcmillan 2y ago
Please, please, please use Terraform workspaces: One workspace per environment. For environment specific things use conditionals: nodes = terraform.workspace == "prod" ? 2 : 1
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by michaelmcmillan 3y ago
My bad. You’re right.
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by michaelmcmillan 3y ago
Same here. Use n8n. Self hosted and open source.
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by michaelmcmillan 4y ago
Good example of why it’s a good idea to browse the web using a VM.
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by michaelmcmillan 4y ago
That's not nearly enough.
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by michaelmcmillan 4y ago
Real estate: Buy, repair, rent, refinance, repeat.
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by michaelmcmillan 4y ago
Exactly, this is ridiculous...
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by michaelmcmillan 4y ago
This section was interesting! Somehow I've never realized that row oriented storage is orthogonal to how disks work... Jd is a columnar (column oriented) RDBMS. Most RDBMS systems are row oriented. Ages ago they fell into the
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by michaelmcmillan 5y ago
Cool! Do you login with one account bouncing off 60 IP addresses?
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by michaelmcmillan 5y ago
No. Incrementing an integer might be unique for the local database, but not unique for the universe.
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by michaelmcmillan 5y ago
Knowing how to do something doesn’t live outside the brain. You can erase entire categories of knowledge by damaging the brain in particular areas. There is no reason to believe the opposite is not true. Therefore it is a matter of modifyin
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by michaelmcmillan 5y ago
A rotated user agent does not hide anything from Google.
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by michaelmcmillan 5y ago
Finally a PR worthy of Hacktoberfest.
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by michaelmcmillan 5y ago
You would risk ending up with a maze that can be solved by walking in a straight line directly to from start to exit.
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by michaelmcmillan 5y ago
The onus is on you to explain why. Why not: Smaller payloads per packet and missing out on all the TCP algorithms already implemented in hardware en route.
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by michaelmcmillan 5y ago
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
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by michaelmcmillan 5y ago
And reimplement TCP on top? Would not recommend.
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by michaelmcmillan 5y ago
Most sites redirect all http traffic to https to make sure the traffic is encrypted. Here's an example with HN (notice the protocol in the req/res): $ curl -v http://news.ycombinator.com [...] < HTTP/1.1
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by michaelmcmillan 5y ago
On MacOS you can also drag-and-drop a file from Finder onto your terminal and it will type out the full path for you.
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by michaelmcmillan 5y ago
Binding the database to 0.0.0.0 is not a good idea.
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by michaelmcmillan 5y ago
Ironically Azure tweeted a guide on how to protect your DNS against unwanted changes only 3 hours before everything blew up: https://twitter.com/AzureSupport/status/1377697274378260489 You can't make this stu
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by michaelmcmillan 5y ago
Backups.
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by michaelmcmillan 5y ago
I've built a complex CRM that handles 2.1 million USD in transactions every year. It is running sqlite with a simple in-memory lru cache (just a dict) that gets purged when a mutating query (INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE) is executed. It is
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by michaelmcmillan 6y ago
> If you've typed or pasted a long command and decide you need to edit it before running, ctrl-x-e opens it in an editor Jeez, this is great!
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by michaelmcmillan 6y ago
Authentication != Authorisation. You wouldn't use this to determine if the user really is who he says he is. But in determining what a user has access to, DNS is pretty slick. The DNS server doesn't need to be public either.

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