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by mje__ 11y ago
Or sometimes 10s, or never, or partial results, or dropped connections, or... The network is not reliable.
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by mje__ 11y ago
assert() is a macro that is usually disabled in production builds. Input validation is obviously most important in production, so assert() should never be used for validation.
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by mje__ 12y ago
That's not true at all. Lightroom can add photos at their current location, or import them to a location of your choice. There's no "hidden directory". Lightroom supports sidecar (xml) changes, or syncing metadata to the
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by mje__ 12y ago
All that dithering! I don't miss that at all.
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by mje__ 12y ago
The smallest EBS snapshot you can create is 1GB
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by mje__ 12y ago
I'm not sure what you mean?
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by mje__ 12y ago
Yeah, me too. I opened up a bunch of tabs from the front page (as is my usual habit here, reddit, etc), and by the time I got to this it had changed to Gmail and I was totally fooled. I've gotta be more careful!
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by mje__ 12y ago
Fascinating article. I also really enjoyed the presentation - the mix of writing, video and images worked well together. This is the first time I've seen the "BBC Magazine", and the experience is great.
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by mje__ 12y ago
I'm really impressed with the amount of effort that has gone into this study, but those charts are just awful. Those line charts should be bar charts IMHO, I'm immediately scanning the chart left-to-right before I realise that the
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by mje__ 12y ago
Agreed. The last thing you want is to have to debug those weird "it worked on my desktop" issues that come from having a really weirdly configured system
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by mje__ 12y ago
Sure, but Prime Music is also only a few weeks old
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by mje__ 12y ago
Agreed. It's also a question of complexity. Xen (for example) has a significantly smaller attack surface than the linux kernel because it just has less stuff to do
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by mje__ 12y ago
I generally understand the motivation of these companies, but damn I really hate that they all build IDEs. I wish they would focus on command-line tools or libraries and integration with (say) eclipse for those that really want an IDE. Havi
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by mje__ 12y ago
It will cost you if you have a malicious uploader. I'm pretty sure S3 is not free just because you had objects in there for less than 24h. S3 supports pre-signed urls for exactly this use-case. EDIT: Nope, my bad. Doesn't look lik
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by mje__ 13y ago
If you write anything that communicates over a network (e.g. anything using HTTP), you need to know at least some of this stuff, otherwise you're not going to be able to explain why (for example) your service call latencies have a big
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by mje__ 13y ago
Wow, as someone who uses rubygems all day and is not in "US and EU only", I'm glad you're not involved in this project.
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by mje__ 13y ago
It seems one of the biggest costs of fiber is installation; i.e. trenching. Why is it not hung from poles? It must be much cheaper and quicker, surely?
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by mje__ 13y ago
Also useful for authenticated downloads - don't tie up an app thread, but have your app redirect to a pre-signed url
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by mje__ 13y ago
Nope: http://www.quora.com/Amazon/How-and-why-did-Amazon-get-into-...
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by mje__ 13y ago
I found a similar thing happening in Yongsan - Seoul's electronics market. I visited recently after a 5-year absence and was saddened to see so many shuttered stores.
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AWS CloudTrail - Capture AWS API Activity(aws.typepad.com)
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by mje__ 13y ago
Isn't this because the US wouldn't export crypto software that supported keys > 40 bits to Korea in the 90s, forcing them to develop their own stronger algorithms? Anyway, it's so bad that my (technophobe) wife refuses to
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by mje__ 13y ago
Is Github still running Ruby 1.8? vmg mentioned at last year's Rubyfuza they had "one of the largest 1.8 deployments in the world".
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by mje__ 13y ago
Without doubt, this is the most important lesson I've learned in my professional career.
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by mje__ 13y ago
It doesn't mitigate untrusted software, but an interesting approach to tamper resistance can be found in Infineon SLE78 security controllers (for smart cards, etc). They run dual CPUs out-of-sync and compare results after each instruct
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by mje__ 13y ago
"In the end, Zdenek had a single-server CouchDB installation on the order of hundreds of megabytes of metadata stored." I think the title is a little inflammatory, no?
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by mje__ 13y ago
Yeah, it "literally" kills me every time
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by mje__ 13y ago
I would disagree with your assertion in the case of PV guests in Xen - they have an extremely small attack surface. The hypervisor may be "on the front line", but is a far simpler beast than the kernel. Certainly Xen has its fair
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by mje__ 13y ago
Did anyone else notice the stock price? From $35 in March to $138 today; that's pretty impressive growth
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by mje__ 13y ago
SIM's use a derived key - which means that getting your hands on that key would only affect that specific SIM, and generally the Km (master key) exists only on an HSM. There's not much point in the intelligence services going afte

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