rmaccloy

5 ms·

1.
by rmaccloy 3y ago
It's honestly better than this on all fronts, since you can get ProRAW out of recent iPhones even in the default camera app and get RAW without DeepFusion out of different alternative camera apps. I think I had to spend ~$1k to get my
2.
by rmaccloy 3y ago
Yes, they expanded the context window, announced two days ago: https://github.blog/changelog/2023-08-28-github-copilot-augu... I'm sure they incrementally rolled this out so it's possible you are in a cohort
3.
by rmaccloy 4y ago
FYI, the reason the pw change requirement went away is because NIST published an updated set of guidelines that explicitly disrecommend it: https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-FAQ/#q-b05 On the vendor / policy side, man
4.
by rmaccloy 4y ago
Co-sign. You can run a SOC2 compliance program earnestly or as a check-the-box exercise. If you're running earnestly, I would argue that the hardest thing about a SOC2 is ensuring that you stick to your guns on approaches that work for
5.
by rmaccloy 10y ago
If you're an engineer and have trouble getting past project management methodologies that feel like bullshit (or conversely if you care a lot about them but have trouble convincing your team to) you must read "Principles of Prod
6.
by rmaccloy 13y ago
I'm certain all 37s employees have access to the production database anyway; they're still a fairly small company. The only real additional risk here is running non-production code against live data; e.g. the risk of a feature bra
7.
by rmaccloy 13y ago
We're about to open source a similar deal (redis-based "soft guarantee" mutexes) -- ours is written in Python and mostly used as a way to coordinate (very frequent) parallel task execution a la CountDownLatch, so 100% reliable exclusion in
8.
by rmaccloy 13y ago
Everything old is new again. Email status is a check-in method as old as, well, email. This works great if you have a reasonable number of people working largely on independent areas, or if your pace is slow enough to drive consensus throug
9.
by rmaccloy 14y ago
I think a huge part of the appeal of Mailbox is it's less than a full-featured project management/GTD tool -- it basically prescribes a certain approach to managing your inbox (do, defer, archive.) I was a GTD-ish person before Mailbox ca
10.
by rmaccloy 14y ago
One of the things I think people who haven't spent a significant amount of time living in dense cities miss is that you do very little "living" in your apartment. I spend maybe two hours a day awake in my (reasonably large for SF) apartment
11.
by rmaccloy 14y ago
Even if the reply-to just dumps responses into a customer support queue, that's better than 90% of mass mail is doing. Separately, I think it's great if you can have all of your employees involved in the support and outreach process, but th
12.
by rmaccloy 14y ago
This page appears to be positively ancient, referencing FreeBSD 5 and Red Hat 8, and a bunch of the technical differences are incorrect now; the Linux kernel hasn't used stable/unstable versioning in forever and is entirely on git, every GN
13.
by rmaccloy 14y ago
This actually exists, sort of: http://pyrasite.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html I've done this manually a few times, but with foresight attaching signal handlers that open up a port or dump stack (a la `jstack`) is usually less finick
14.
by rmaccloy 14y ago
If you have a single-rack network, now your single point of failure is the rack switch or PDU. (This is why e.g. HDFS has rack-aware mode.) If you have a cage, it's the datacenter (peering, power, environment, physical security.) Do you nee
15.
by rmaccloy 15y ago
In the bay area, given the current market, any reasonably funded startup would likely work with you, assuming you passed interviews, etc. It may be somewhat easier at a company that's dealt with the process before, but most valley startups
16.
by rmaccloy 15y ago
Soft-delete (+ action logs) for data recovery. Also, code review and lots and lots of tests. For schema changes, there are a bunch of approaches. Just a few: * Treat (non-purely additive) schema changes as a special case and take extra care
17.
by rmaccloy 15y ago
They're not mutually exclusive: you want basic correctness/design review of course (my favored approach is now pre-integration code review + authoritative master/master-always-deployable), but a proper feature-flagging system will let you b
18.
by rmaccloy 15y ago
Facebook and Google both do their own targeting (obviously.) Google allows access to some data for 3rd-party firms via RTB. Neither pass on PII (or really any non-aggregate) data to advertisers, AFAIK, I'd be surprised if Specific did eithe
19.
by rmaccloy 15y ago
Puppet and Chef are pretty agnostic. You can use them to manage only your infrastructure (packages, user accounts, databases) and leave app deployment up to something like capistrano or fabric if you like (although at a certain level of app
20.
by rmaccloy 16y ago
From my understanding, you're describing (edit: something like) Series FF (i.e. what Founders Fund issues) there-- the founder's institute stuff has certain additional voting rights attached in additional to liquidity provisions. From Scott
21.
by rmaccloy 16y ago
It's just an integration of ELPA ( http://tromey.com/elpa/ ) which has been around for quite a while. According to the mailing lists Tom Tromey will continue to maintain his archive in parallel. I'm not sure what licensing restrictions he h
22.
by rmaccloy 16y ago
Magit apparently has git-svn support, though I've never used it.
23.
by rmaccloy 16y ago
gitsum is an add-on, not a full-featured git mode; so is git-dwim, I believe, although I don't use it personally. Recent Emacs have git support in VC; I tend to just use that since I tend to do anything other than committing (rebasing, swit
24.
by rmaccloy 16y ago
One of the commenters mentions the `say` command, which is super-useful, but they use it like so: `scp file some-host:~; say 'copy done'`, which will notify you even if the command fails. You should use && so the notification only h
25.
by rmaccloy 16y ago
Word (although I find K&R a pleasant read). My copy is at the office; I often take a quick glance through it when I need to poke at some C code and usually end up spotting latent bugs.
26.
by rmaccloy 16y ago
I think the minimum NW change is the most minor of the issues here (especially in SV). Imposing more of a regulatory burden isn't going to make anyone more likely to cut checks, and increasing the barrier and latency to initial funding is g
27.
by rmaccloy 16y ago
Some past posts on this issue: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/03/startups-get-hit-by-shrapnel... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-e-litan/proposed-protec... I'm surprised this hasn't been brought up more on HN. I'm not against bank re
28.
by rmaccloy 16y ago
http://twitter.com/freerobby/status/12711147469 claims it's a Citi API fail. (Obviously Blippy should be filtering out this sort of stuff, but dubious on Citi's part, too.)
29.
by rmaccloy 17y ago
So is Greenplum (more so, actually.) Neither are useful for the Digg usecase. Edit: That is to say, they're optimized for large datasets, low concurrency, medium latency, medium-to-high consistency and medium-to-low availability.
30.
by rmaccloy 17y ago
PostgreSQL has gained many nice features (windowing queries, parallel restore, moving towards more standardized master/slave replication, etc), but none of them have substantially affected its suitability as a high-throughput/large-data/(re

More ›