spectre256

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by spectre256 7y ago
It's definitely worth repeating the warning that, while very useful, Strict-Transport-Security should be deployed with special care! While the author's example of `max-age=3600` means there's only an hour of potential problem
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by spectre256 7y ago
Yeah, this definitely is a way to break the filter bubble. But thinking about it a bit more, it might be one of the worst ways to do so. For example, assuming roughly that both favorites and retweets represent general agreement, using those
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by spectre256 7y ago
The missing piece which the Twitter thread author only touched on is that how a tweet is received by a reader depends a lot on whether or not they come from similar communities and have similar context to the author. By surfacing tweets to
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by spectre256 7y ago
Its a really nice idea, but I wonder if it would work in practice: 1. Would a significant amount of real humans who actually cared about the content cast a vote (up or down)? 2. Would it be even remotely possible to protect against fraudule
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by spectre256 7y ago
I'm a pilot, and absolutely this is a crucial difference. It also reminds me of a time years ago when a team I was on had to extend a Memcache client library, as it couldn't differentiate between the following two conditions: - &q
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by spectre256 7y ago
For those who aren't familiar with her, Stephanie has been an extremely helpful and resourceful voice on Twitter (and clearly, her blog) on a whole range of topics: - Founding and running a small company - Working in/with/aro
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by spectre256 7y ago
I thought we got both, which is the best possible outcome: no one is wrong and there are more black hole photos.
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Leadership CI(blog.jessfraz.com)
2 points by spectre256 7y ago|0 comments
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by spectre256 7y ago
Yeah, with all the research about how well correlated legitimate academic achievement is with family wealth, what does it say about you when you have to pay extra for one of these "consultants"?
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by spectre256 8y ago
It's important to note that this set of rules is for use with a small (<10000), known, possibly hand crafted set of results. > Exact matches always come first. One place this very first rule doesn't work is autocomplete for
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by spectre256 8y ago
I'm exactly the same way. If I can get a few things checked off my todo list early, I'm nearly guaranteed to at least feel like I had a good day.
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by spectre256 8y ago
Maybe, but that actually provides at least a little lasting value. The ultimate example of toil, which I'm sure Google has automated away at this point, is truncating old log files that would eventually take up all remaining disk space
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by spectre256 8y ago
The Google SRE book has an excellent description of toil and, unexpectedly, discusses that some amount of toil is beneficial. In short, the authors of that section claim that it's not really possible for the SREs at Google to spend all
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by spectre256 8y ago
It really makes sense that something like this would be the case. All the experts say "oh, Ruby uses lots of memory for [reason] and it can't really be fixed", so no one even tries. Until someone comes along who is either mot
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by spectre256 8y ago
Years ago I worked at a large online casual gaming company who's name ended in -ynga. Our web tier was split into two: one for serving static content required to load the HTML, Flash app, assets, etc. The other was for actual communica
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by spectre256 8y ago
Exactly! VC funding has its place, but it also greatly restricts the types of outcomes that are favorable. I mean, in our case, we're building a geocoder. We'd have to raise, no exaggeration, tens of billions to build a moat consi
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by spectre256 8y ago
Honestly, if the open source project we maintain ever becomes popular enough that a big company like Amazon puts effort into supplanting us, great. We'll be known as the team that created and grew the project, and we'll have a gua
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by spectre256 8y ago
I run a company that offers consulting and hosted services around a 100% open core ( https://geocode.earth , shameless plug). As someone who has a very strong desire to continue to be able to make a living while making open source
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by spectre256 8y ago
The two most insidious things I've found in AWS billing: - If you want the AWS dashboard metrics to have 1 minute instead of 5 minute granularity, that's $2.10 per instance per month. 5 minutes is pretty useless, so either you set
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by spectre256 8y ago
Right. It would have been be clearer if I sad people pay RedHat for the promise that they quickly make a patch for any issue available, and that they know how to identify which patches are relevant for any individual customer. What's t
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by spectre256 8y ago
The same thing happened to me. I recently acquired a pair of Bluetooth headphones, and even though it seems like a pair of wired earbuds or headphones would be about the same, it's not at all. I listen to podcasts while doing all sorts
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by spectre256 8y ago
RedHat is (was?) sortof an example, but their product wasn't the open source software per-se, it was the guarantees their consulting and support offers. RedHat makes, for example, patches for kernel vulnerabilities, but they actually g
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by spectre256 8y ago
I think one thing that's changed is that there are lots of useful projects that would be great to have available in the open, but can't realistically be created as a side project. If small businesses can stay around while creating
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by spectre256 8y ago
I think it's fair to say that people are acknowledging the problem: it's possible for a large company to use the rights offered to them by an open source license to create products that effectively end the financial viability of s
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by spectre256 8y ago
That's how I interpret it as well. I also think interesting articles on a topic jog people's memory and cause them to re-submit interesting articles from the past on that topic.
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by spectre256 8y ago
Whether or not Mapbox collects more data is an interesting question. My guess would be they do, by a lot. If you look at their website, Mapbox is all about "live" location data, insights, etc. The days of them just being a provide
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by spectre256 8y ago
I'm not a VC, but your last point is worth emphasizing. It used to be that if you wanted money for your company your options were basically: - go to your bank for a loan for a little money you have to pay back fairly soon - go to Sand
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by spectre256 8y ago
Well, we are bootstrapping a SaaS as well, which is much more Stripe-friendly (we take payments via Stripe). Either that, or I got lucky and they didn't notice. If you are doing purely consulting you probably don't need Stripe Atl
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by spectre256 8y ago
My experience is from early 2013. I guess that is 6 years ago now :) Glad to hear things have improved a bit.
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by spectre256 8y ago
Actually not IO performance, but mostly CPU. Last time I tested (which admittedly was about a year ago), an AWS ES cluster was about 20% slower than a self-made cluster with the same instance types. Given that AWS ES clusters still cannot u

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