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by skarap 6y ago
Python isn't weakly-typed. > Over the years, I’ve used Perl a lot (that one doesn’t care if it’s int or string… no, correction, in Perl everything is a string, ints just don’t exist. Well, kind of). It’s probably the language design
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by skarap 7y ago
> Things break at random for reasons you can't understand and the only way to fix it is to find terminal commands from discussion forums, type them in and hope for the best. Depends on whom you ask. There are people who use it exact
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by skarap 9y ago
To repeat my comment from a previous discussion which brought a lot of downvotes: what happens when (not if) a self-driving car runs-over and kills someone (e.g. because of a software bug)? Do such cases cause criminal penalties? Who is pen
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by skarap 9y ago
Exactly. Asynchronous programming + promises + some unhandled failure case somewhere and you end up with timeouts instead of error responses.
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by skarap 9y ago
So what happens when one of these cars runs over someone? Tough luck, 5 million dollars to the family?
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by skarap 9y ago
The email you're searching wasn't posted to the list. You won't find it - no matter the interface.
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by skarap 9y ago
One can read any amount of similar articles, but if they don't understand the data model behind all this, git will remain a complex and fragile beast for them. The feature-set is huge to be able to just remember all possible commands f
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by skarap 9y ago
> Deciding to hire both, and then assigning them to the same team is clearly the wrong solution Couldn't Microsoft also get into trouble by hiring just one of them (the other one could have a good case for being treated unfairly)? A
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by skarap 9y ago
> Rape is much more common than false accusations of rape. You're throwing away a datapoint - "the police decided not to press charges or Bob was found not-guilty in court".
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by skarap 9y ago
> Once a judge catches a lawyer in a lie the judge will question everything the lawyer says. Not a lawyer, but isn't is taken for granted that lawyers (along with everybody else) are lying in courts and that it's the jurors and
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by skarap 9y ago
`ip link set qlen 1000 dev tun0` (so it matches the eth0 queue, instead of being an order of magnitude smaller) on both ends of the tunnel, and you get 90% of direct connection speed from openvpn: $ iperf3 -c 10.1.0.2 Connecting to ho
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by skarap 9y ago
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by skarap 9y ago
Mandatory XKCD link: https://xkcd.com/949/
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by skarap 9y ago
> the only reason we used this at a previous company was to kind of handwave around hey we have this tool doing regular security checks That's the only reason for most of their clients. "We get periodic security scans from a re
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by skarap 9y ago
One congestion-control parameter which don't get it's fair share of articles is initcwnd. And for HTTP traffic over high bandwidth+latency links it has much larger impact than the choice of the cc algorithm. See https:/&#x2
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by skarap 9y ago
It's... sad. A few months ago a friend was asking whether I know a service to convert a gif to a video. Which was also sad.
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by skarap 9y ago
Maybe it's just that potential investors don't get how the startup is going to earn money?
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by skarap 9y ago
Note that SELinux mitigates the issue with default configuration.
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by skarap 9y ago
I read someone saying "we're best at creating things which do some things better than us".
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by skarap 9y ago
> They have a tendency of 541-ing mails for no apparent reason There is a reason. It makes people switch from own email servers to gmail.
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by skarap 9y ago
My two-year-old son calls my DSLR "phone". So I guess you're right. Just like "WiFi cable".
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by skarap 9y ago
Interesting findings. Though I didn't get why the author concentrated so much on the security issues of the UI while the real issue is that the whole thing is snake oil. I mean - what if the UI was great, had https and there were no CS
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by skarap 9y ago
Meta: I can't believe how often xkcd nails it.
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by skarap 9y ago
I don't think developers have anything to do here. There are two kinds of companies: those which don't care for quality, security, performance, good/evil and those which are bankrupt, because they were constrained by those id
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by skarap 9y ago
Now they just need to feed it its own source and turn it into Skynet source.
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by skarap 9y ago
It wouldn't go down with flat files even if you hosted it on an arduino connector to your phone's tethered wifi.
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by skarap 10y ago
Would be nice to have an option to disable this for intranets. Otherwise - a very good thing to do.
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by skarap 10y ago
What if slack is down/unreachable? Won't it keep the service from starting?
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by skarap 10y ago
And what about unlink()? Should it have a timeout? How would one use it?
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by skarap 10y ago
You don't expect "Jet Airways" (or any other airline) to say that directly, do you?

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