polysics

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by polysics 11y ago
This looks like a great modern approach to the subject. Good job!
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by polysics 11y ago
The MITM on HTTPS traffic that seems to be involved in the first attack stages is actually pretty good evidence.
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by polysics 12y ago
Yup, I am (said by others) very good at architecture and the big picture, while I have never been great at details. Some of the details oriented work is actually just habit, I can spot tiny issues in Ruby, but I need a diff to figure out Go
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by polysics 12y ago
I have a more general question for you: I am a senior developer who is starting to figure out devops because I need to deploy two different products we built. I have limited Chef and Ansible experience and pretty good Unix skills. Should I
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by polysics 12y ago
We Italians come up with unorthodox solutions all the time, because we grew up in an environment that only rewards two things: low profile, or being creative. And creativity is far more interesting.
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by polysics 12y ago
This is really inspiring to me as a developer working in Italy for an US company, and not leaving because of kids and family. Thank you for Redis, but also for rekindling a bit of hope in my heart.
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by polysics 12y ago
My opinion is that the US should have "won" any kind of war they had in mind with the Arab world by putting the trillions spent on Iraq and Afghanistan into energy research. That would have been far more damaging to their targets
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by polysics 12y ago
This is what we get when humanity at large is wasting time on killing each other over petty things such as race, land, oil and religion.
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by polysics 12y ago
I work in the telephony field, and Erlang comes up every other sentence. I have limited experience with that, but Elixir in my opinion makes it far easier to jump in. I sort of agree with the common argument about OTP needing a rename, but
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by polysics 13y ago
This is more of an history lesson than anything else. It just used to be that way, back when machines were slower and there was an actual cost involved in wasting cycles.
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by polysics 13y ago
Of course I wonder which path you went through, it is the point of this discussion, and for all the rampant no-holds-barred religion bashing HN usually sees, this is still an above-average forum for this kind of discussion. I would really l
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by polysics 13y ago
I have gone the exact opposite path, from a life pretty entrenched in Christianity, to skepticism, to a conclusion that led me towards hard atheism. I feel like I am sure there is no supernatural creator, and the only love we receive is fro
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by polysics 13y ago
We are a pretty small team, and aside from one person most of us double as ops at some point. Not trying to generalize at all, but at our scale, it is far more productive to go to something GIL-less and possibly as self-managing as possible
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by polysics 13y ago
Based on our experience running large telephony applications, I would say that the threading approach, using JRuby as it provides a stable GIL-free interpreter, is vastly superior both in resource handling and developer/sysadmin produc
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by polysics 13y ago
As a non-Rails Rubyist, I will have to run benchmarks myself as usual, because people seem to be still equating Ruby to Rails.
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by polysics 13y ago
I understand the importance of Rails in the Ruby ecosystem, but at the same time, I would really like it not being the only measure of Ruby's performance.
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by polysics 13y ago
That is not necessarily an advantage, considering the same semi-technical people leave their websites available for any kind of security breach. This is not 2001 any more, people should know what they are doing.
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by polysics 13y ago
What do you reckon could not be legacy code in 15 years? C family, Java, maybe Erlang?
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by polysics 13y ago
Is it that day of the week again? I would like to also point out the title of the post is misleading, as the findings are exactly the opposite.
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by polysics 13y ago
I left PHP about 3 years ago, and I have recently had to look into it again due to a new course I am preparing to teach. The PHP I knew is no more, and it is leaps and bounds ahead of what it used to be. But using Drupal as an example is re