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by nroman 11y ago
> small shop Like Facebook? Netflix? The BBC?
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by nroman 11y ago
Anyone know if the IAM roles and security groups are applied at the individual container level or at the instance level?
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by nroman 11y ago
In practice it wouldn't make much sense to cache whole query responses to GraphQL queries because your hit rates would be too low due to the variability of the queries. You end up pushing a lot of the caching to the client. That's
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by nroman 11y ago
As an ex-Facebook employee, I can't wait for this to be released to the public. It is hard for me to overstate how much this infrastructure makes building products a joy, not to mention the tremendous developer and server efficiency th
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by nroman 12y ago
If you do in SASS .Foo { a { /* stuff */ } } It translates into: .Foo a { /* stuff */ } CSS is evaluated right to left, so this means every time an <a> is encountered in the page it ha
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by nroman 12y ago
In other financial news, Twitter shares fell 7.2% on the Oculus deal. Tesla lost 3.4% on the Oculus deal! </sarcasm>
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by nroman 13y ago
Anyone know of a good place to download stats? They don't have to be live. It'd be fun to build some analysis tools.
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by nroman 13y ago
When I was studying this in college I always found the "Eigenfaces" example very enlightening ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenface ). In case you're not familiar with them, the basic idea is treating a
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by nroman 14y ago
Alternate title: How to self-XSS your Facebook account.
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by nroman 14y ago
It is not possible. This is a serious flaw in Android's permissions model IMO. Everything must be asked for up-front in the app's manifest. You cannot ask for more permissions at run time. http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/security
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by nroman 14y ago
These pie charts are bad. You shouldn't have the same browser switch colors as you go through the charts. IE starts as purple then is blue; Firefox makes it from blue to purple to red.
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by nroman 14y ago
Please, for the love of the web, implement browser history management so that I can use my back button.
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by nroman 14y ago
In college I lived in an old apartment building that had been updated to have 3-prong outlets. One day I was wiring up some audio equipment for a party. As I hooked my computer to a a receiver in another room the audio cable immediately sta
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by nroman 14y ago
Good luck. Hope to see you soon! -Roman
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by nroman 15y ago
I don't think you looked very hard. This is quite plainly stated in the developers policy. You don't have to be a lawyer to understand this: From https://developers.facebook.com/policy/ 6. You will not directly or indirectly transfer any
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by nroman 15y ago
One of the main points in this article is that any social graph found in a service such as Facebook, Twitter, or G+ can't possible model all of the nuance of real life relationships. That's obvious. However, the author takes it a step furth
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by nroman 15y ago
Almost all of the photos that people are filtering are uploaded straight off a phone. Generally the cameras on these devices suck. You get tons of pixel noise, weak colors, and relatively low resolution. You also don't get much in the way o
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by nroman 15y ago
Companies that actually build things have two enemies when it comes to patent warfare. The first is competing companies that also build stuff. The best defense against them is obtaining a large patent trove. This creates a mutually assure
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by nroman 15y ago
This is true. However, the services that startups use to host their servers (Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, etc.) could adopt these practices in new datacenters because the specs are open. This could lower costs for the startups that use t
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by nroman 15y ago
The top tech companies (Google, Facebook, MS, etc.) see internships as the best way to recruit the top talent as they graduate from college. For this reason they will often pay engineering interns anywhere from $5000-$7000 a month. Internsh
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by nroman 15y ago
I don't buy that argument. If that were true, then the lottery and every casino would be out of business right now too.
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by nroman 16y ago
Not really. Any political consultant worth his salt could easily paint Rand Paul as a racist, given his comments on the Civil Rights Act. ( http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-now/2010/05/rand_paul... ) Just to be clear, I'm not saying I
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by nroman 16y ago
Instagram is a really great app for filtering your photos before you upload them to Facebook. "Vintage" filters work well for covering up many of the flaws in photos taken with cell phones. Personally, I find actually sharing photos on inst
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by nroman 16y ago
Almost all of Facebook's internationalization is crowd-sourced. What you're seeing probably isn't a bug, the string just hasn't been translated by a user yet.
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by nroman 16y ago
They didn't redact informants and collaborators names from many of the documents they leaked. I would hardly call that exercising caution. I understand that in some cases redacting names weakens the impact of the leak and its political stat
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by nroman 16y ago
If their code is an unreadable mess of slashes and dollar signs they must be a good perl programmer.
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by nroman 16y ago
Wait a sec, on the site it says 46 sold. 46 * $15 = $690 Where'd the other $250 come from?
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by nroman 16y ago
Check out https://graph.facebook.com/me/photos?access_token=<inser... graph api access token here>
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by nroman 16y ago
I'm not a Rails developer...but it doesn't seem like rails should have a "new blog" command at all. Rails is a web framework. Frameworks are supposed to take care of all those annoying intricacies involved in building a web site. That would
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by nroman 16y ago
I just tried going to https://news.ycombinator.com/ and got Error 102 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED): Unknown error.

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