zachanker

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Finding a Ruby bug with GDB(medium.com)
2 points by zachanker 9y ago|0 comments
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The Ruby VM and How Apps Break (Part 2)(medium.com)
1 points by zachanker 9y ago|0 comments
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The Ruby VM and How Apps Break (Part 1)(medium.com)
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by zachanker 12y ago
Hah! Glad to hear some people got some use out of it. It was definitely a huge pain to work through all of that.
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by zachanker 12y ago
Real Estate agents post their own listings on Craigslist. There are companies who provide the fancy HTML templates you see real estate agents use, but Craigslist doesn't allow automatic posting of listings.
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by zachanker 12y ago
I worked at Placester for a couple of years and built the system that imports data from real estate agencies. When I left last year, we had coverage with around 90% of the MLS's in the US. Most of what you say is right, but some clarif
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by zachanker 13y ago
That's what errbit is for. You only have to use the Airbrake libraries for reporting the errors, and errbit hosted locally collects/notifies/displays them. If you already integrated with Airbrake, you just have to reconfigure
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by zachanker 14y ago
Since you're only using 1GB, you would pay 9.5 cents for the storage a month. Then about $122.76/month for the bandwidth since the first GB is free and it's $0.120 per GB afterwards up to 10TB. Making it around $122.855/month total. This ch
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by zachanker 14y ago
Started to use Stripe recently for a project and have used Braintree extensively for work. Your comparison is spot on. There are some small differences such as, Stripe can send credit card details through AJAX to their servers so they are n
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by zachanker 14y ago
The aggregation framework is meant to fill a gap between SQLs SUM, COUNT, AVG, etc without requiring a full map/reduce. The Hadoop integrations are unrelated and are just a nice little bonus that they added.
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by zachanker 14y ago
Seems that they do http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ios.html unless it's a different iOS version of VLC than the one on the app store that was removed.
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by zachanker 14y ago
In addition they changed the private repo indicator so it's no longer a very obvious yellow background, but a single label that says "PRIVATE". It was actually useful to have a very obvious indicator that your repo was private and nobody el
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by zachanker 15y ago
It would be nice if "Plans & Pricing" on https://www.mybalsamiq.com/ actually took you to http://balsamiq.com/buy?p=myb rather than http://balsamiq.com/products/mockups/mybalsamiq#pricingtable and then having to click another "Pla
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by zachanker 15y ago
Even with the iteration count, SHA512 is not exactly meant to be slow. They're taking the long way around to try and get the security of bcrypt... without just using bcrypt.
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by zachanker 15y ago
It was crypt-MD5, the fact that they call it MD5 with salt is generous at best. They seem to have made the decision to move to crypt-MD5. I don't really have any faith in their ability to secure the servers.
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by zachanker 15y ago
The invites weren't actually that bad, nothing like Gmail was initially. Most (Everyone?) had unlimited invites for a good 4-5+ hours. You could actually get in if you refreshed the main page, they seemed to let people sign up through some
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by zachanker 15y ago
I actually had the same concerns, but after going through it they give you two ways to solve that: One is you can set a backup phone to use to get into the account, it can even be the same phone you have the authenticator on, so as long as
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by zachanker 15y ago
Yes, there is support for stream parsing of JSON. I haven't tried it myself, https://github.com/lloyd/yajl is one example, which has various bindings in other languages.
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by zachanker 15y ago
Reiterating the point the blog post makes, but: It's very very easy to structure the same data in different ways in XML. While JSON has the same issue, it's a lot harder to do and you have less flexibility in making bad storage decisions. Y
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by zachanker 15y ago
While SimpleXML gives you an easy way to walk the tree, it still requires you to actually do it. All 3 of those examples would require slightly different calls to SimpleXML to handle.
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by zachanker 15y ago
In theory, it just slows it down so rainbow tables are ineffective (not that people need them anymore), and it requires you to brute force each password than brute forcing one password and then checking it against everything. In reality, it
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by zachanker 15y ago
From the sounds of it: You generate (on Braintree's site), a RSA keypair and you use the public key and JS library they provide. You call a JS method on the fields you want to encrypt like credit card number and CVV, and it encrypts it usin
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by zachanker 15y ago
You can specify whether or not to allow chats from anyone, or only those on your contact list. Can't recall what the default is on OSX.
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by zachanker 15y ago
This was about 5 months ago, so it's possible they drastically improved it in that time (although it doesn't sound like it). But I ran into the exact same issues. Debugging was a pain because of you were writing JavaScript rather than Obj-C
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by zachanker 16y ago
You don't mention it in your question, but what is your experience? You say you want to work at an awesome startup, but do you have projects (such as websites) or anything you can reference to prove you know what you're doing? San Francisco