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what went wrong: sctp (2009)
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sctp should have been promoted and is actually pretty nice on paper. every time i see someone re-implement multi-plexing and datagram/message parsing out of a tcp stream i think of sctp. every time i see custom 'reliable delivery on top of udp' i think of sctp. we might not have had quic or http/2 in the current form if sctp was ubiquitous.
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so to summarise, nobody uses it because nobody uses it? i don't buy it.i think tcp is "good enough" for most cases, so people use it. sctp is great, but tcp isn't broken. worse is better and all that.
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what went wrong: sctp (2009)
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so to summarise, nobody uses it because nobody uses it? i don't buy it.i think tcp is "good enough" for most cases, so people use it. sctp is great, but tcp isn't broken. worse is better and all that.
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"however, by far the biggest showstopper to sctp adoption is the lack of session layer in tcp/ip and the broken socket api. if you want to use sctp with the socket api, you have to indicate the protocol to use in the socket call, which means that every application that would benefit from sctp support must be changed, recompiled and tested. there is no way that you could take existing applications, add sctp support in the operating system and have a better-performing internet as the result."ah. "ivan pepelnjak, ccie#1354 emeritus, is an independent network architect." ivan pepelnjak also doesn't seem to understand network protocols. sctp was never intended to be a tcp replacement or a basis for tcp or whatever the hell he thinks it to be. it is a separate protocol which is designed to provide a different set of features to a different set of applications.i'm sorry that he and the large number of people like him, who would like to have exactly their use-case covered by exactly the simplest possible interface, preferably baked into the kernel or even better, the hardware, for the best performance. it's not going to happen.i'm also sorry i have to live in a world where networking === tcp, over port 80 or 443. it wasn't supposed to be this way.what went wrong with sctp? by the time tcp-friendly congestion control research had reached a critical mass and started producing results, everyone had given up, adopted tcp as the sole transport protocol, and the deck was strongly stacked against anything that wasn't running on tcp.
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what went wrong: sctp (2009)
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"however, by far the biggest showstopper to sctp adoption is the lack of session layer in tcp/ip and the broken socket api. if you want to use sctp with the socket api, you have to indicate the protocol to use in the socket call, which means that every application that would benefit from sctp support must be changed, recompiled and tested. there is no way that you could take existing applications, add sctp support in the operating system and have a better-performing internet as the result."ah. "ivan pepelnjak, ccie#1354 emeritus, is an independent network architect." ivan pepelnjak also doesn't seem to understand network protocols. sctp was never intended to be a tcp replacement or a basis for tcp or whatever the hell he thinks it to be. it is a separate protocol which is designed to provide a different set of features to a different set of applications.i'm sorry that he and the large number of people like him, who would like to have exactly their use-case covered by exactly the simplest possible interface, preferably baked into the kernel or even better, the hardware, for the best performance. it's not going to happen.i'm also sorry i have to live in a world where networking === tcp, over port 80 or 443. it wasn't supposed to be this way.what went wrong with sctp? by the time tcp-friendly congestion control research had reached a critical mass and started producing results, everyone had given up, adopted tcp as the sole transport protocol, and the deck was strongly stacked against anything that wasn't running on tcp.
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webrtc datachannels are actually built on sctp.
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what went wrong: sctp (2009)
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webrtc datachannels are actually built on sctp.
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i'd like to also add to this that sctp doesn't ship on mac os x either by default. although, in recent years there have been development on an sctp over udp standard, allowing for user-mode sctp. yet, i still haven't seen a mature version of this api ship on mac os x.some time ago, i also did performance testing on sctp vs. tcp. it's surprisingly sad how much worse sctp's performance was compared to tcp. i imagine that this is because just isn't as much work put into sctp as tcp.
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container os comparison
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archlinux with systemd-nspawn is my favourite container os. tools like machinectl, networkctl, journalctl nicely integrated. easy to manage multiple processes in individual containers. streaks ahead of the competition which are seriously bloated by comparison.
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author here if you have any questions on the content :)
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container os comparison
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author here if you have any questions on the content :)
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this focus on "container oses" is baffling to me. just use one of the well maintained, general purpose distros such as debian with a minimal set of software. we don't need specialized distros for this.
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container os comparison
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this focus on "container oses" is baffling to me. just use one of the well maintained, general purpose distros such as debian with a minimal set of software. we don't need specialized distros for this.
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smallest os possible is no os , second best which i use is tianon/true image from docker registry, 125 bytes, with my compiled golang app as binary image size under 5 mb, <link>
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container os comparison
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smallest os possible is no os , second best which i use is tianon/true image from docker registry, 125 bytes, with my compiled golang app as binary image size under 5 mb, <link>
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what about smartos? it's been container-native for, like, ten years and joyent just recently added support for running docker containers on bare metal.
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who would pay for deep thinking?
now that machine learning and deep thinking is trendy, i think that people with deep thinking abilities could get some money. for me deep thinking is about people able to understand core problems and suggest creative solutions. to think deeply you can't be annoyed with details. i think you should be asked for a problem and you should submit your proposal for a solution or approach. is there a market for this? clearly there are tax and other problems, but my dream would be to get money that way (no taxes, no problem, just pure thinking), or your client solving (paying) those problems for you. i know no such thing exist for real, but what a beautiful dream!
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deep thinkingthat's not a thing.is there a market for this?nope. it's the classic "i'm an idea guy, i don't worry about the details" stereotype.execution beats ideas every time.(no taxes, no problem, just pure thinking)what?
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thinking about something is useless unless you have a deep knowledge of the domain - including the ability to deal with the details, which are the downfall of many grandiose ideas. for example, if you don't know anything about computer architecture or chip fabrication, why would intel want to know your thoughts about where microprocessor technology is going to go in the next decade? if you know nothing of aerospace engineering and orbital mechanics, why would nasa ask you about how to get to mars?domain experts who are paid to think deeply about problems and propose solutions are called consultants. there are a lot of them out there.
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who would pay for deep thinking?
now that machine learning and deep thinking is trendy, i think that people with deep thinking abilities could get some money. for me deep thinking is about people able to understand core problems and suggest creative solutions. to think deeply you can't be annoyed with details. i think you should be asked for a problem and you should submit your proposal for a solution or approach. is there a market for this? clearly there are tax and other problems, but my dream would be to get money that way (no taxes, no problem, just pure thinking), or your client solving (paying) those problems for you. i know no such thing exist for real, but what a beautiful dream!
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thinking about something is useless unless you have a deep knowledge of the domain - including the ability to deal with the details, which are the downfall of many grandiose ideas. for example, if you don't know anything about computer architecture or chip fabrication, why would intel want to know your thoughts about where microprocessor technology is going to go in the next decade? if you know nothing of aerospace engineering and orbital mechanics, why would nasa ask you about how to get to mars?domain experts who are paid to think deeply about problems and propose solutions are called consultants. there are a lot of them out there.
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the trending "machine learning" and "deep learning" has very little to do with the actual biological process of coming up with new solutions or approaches. it has to do with a specific subset of algorithms that are well suited to solving a specific subset of problems. i think you are getting terminologies confused.
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who would pay for deep thinking?
now that machine learning and deep thinking is trendy, i think that people with deep thinking abilities could get some money. for me deep thinking is about people able to understand core problems and suggest creative solutions. to think deeply you can't be annoyed with details. i think you should be asked for a problem and you should submit your proposal for a solution or approach. is there a market for this? clearly there are tax and other problems, but my dream would be to get money that way (no taxes, no problem, just pure thinking), or your client solving (paying) those problems for you. i know no such thing exist for real, but what a beautiful dream!
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the trending "machine learning" and "deep learning" has very little to do with the actual biological process of coming up with new solutions or approaches. it has to do with a specific subset of algorithms that are well suited to solving a specific subset of problems. i think you are getting terminologies confused.
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perhaps the main problem is how to prove that you can apply those skills. to have a portfolio of achievements.
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who would pay for deep thinking?
now that machine learning and deep thinking is trendy, i think that people with deep thinking abilities could get some money. for me deep thinking is about people able to understand core problems and suggest creative solutions. to think deeply you can't be annoyed with details. i think you should be asked for a problem and you should submit your proposal for a solution or approach. is there a market for this? clearly there are tax and other problems, but my dream would be to get money that way (no taxes, no problem, just pure thinking), or your client solving (paying) those problems for you. i know no such thing exist for real, but what a beautiful dream!
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perhaps the main problem is how to prove that you can apply those skills. to have a portfolio of achievements.
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there is a huge market for this; it's called "consulting"
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ask hn: does anyone else feel stupid reading hacker news?
reading other peoples comments and their knowledge on subjects, some i didn't even know existed makes me feel very unwise. i am saying this as a university student majoring in computer engineering with senior standing.
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absolutely. i am almost in the same position as you. i am a college student majoring in computer science. i'm going to be a senior this coming fall but i have only recently switched to cs from pre-med so i have a long way to go, particularly from an academic perspective. i've been programming for almost 9 years as a hobby yet i still feel like i have lightyears to go. even worse, i have nothing to show for those past 9 years. the one thing i'm absolutely sure i have, however, is the passion to continue learning.when i first joined hn about 6 months ago i couldn't comprehend 80% of the material. i remember browsing through and thinking it all looked like assembly code. it felt great to be surrounded by such brilliant minds, which is why i kept coming back, but i did feel like a lost puppy. now, months later, i don't yet consider myself knowledgable enough to be posting comments (this is probably my 5th comment), necessarily, but it feels great to now be able to follow at least 50% of the content. this is the result of two things: a, browsing hn pretty much daily and b, programming more, focusing on the things i don't already know.there aren't many lessons to be learned in your comfort zone. good luck!
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just this morning i met with a doctor who is well-published and widely respected in his subspecialty, and the first thing he told me was "i used to think i knew something about your condition, but i've long since learned i don't." while the practiced humility is (i think) a bit of an affect, it underscores the point: the higher you climb, the better you can see how far off the horizon is. some people learn their neighborhood really well. some learn a particular highway really well. some cut a new road. they're all valid, all can provide a solid living.you are unwise. you're supposed to be, right out of school—its a peculiarity of this industry that we look at peers who are like five minutes more experienced and see someone presenting themselves as "senior". humility is a good thing. it sounds like you're self-aware enough to have it, so take that and run with it and realize that your university degree provides you a solid foundation to start learning—its not the end state of the learned.
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ask hn: does anyone else feel stupid reading hacker news?
reading other peoples comments and their knowledge on subjects, some i didn't even know existed makes me feel very unwise. i am saying this as a university student majoring in computer engineering with senior standing.
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just this morning i met with a doctor who is well-published and widely respected in his subspecialty, and the first thing he told me was "i used to think i knew something about your condition, but i've long since learned i don't." while the practiced humility is (i think) a bit of an affect, it underscores the point: the higher you climb, the better you can see how far off the horizon is. some people learn their neighborhood really well. some learn a particular highway really well. some cut a new road. they're all valid, all can provide a solid living.you are unwise. you're supposed to be, right out of school—its a peculiarity of this industry that we look at peers who are like five minutes more experienced and see someone presenting themselves as "senior". humility is a good thing. it sounds like you're self-aware enough to have it, so take that and run with it and realize that your university degree provides you a solid foundation to start learning—its not the end state of the learned.
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please do not confuse stupidity with ignorance. albert einstein was ignorant when he was born. he did not know anything. he was smart and quickly learned much more than many people will ever know.my first computer program compiled and ran in the summer of 1967. i have spent most of my life since then learning about computers. there is far more information than i can ever hope to learn. new languages crop up nearly every day. i only know about a dozen well enough to write a respectable program in them.
i frequrntly get on hn (hacker news)and find articles about "new release of zarbodog" and i sometimes click through to see whati am missing (i've never heard of zarbodog). often the article tells about speed improvements, space savings, interoperability with some api but never actually states what zarbodog is.
a well-written article will start off with a sentence or two which tell what it is (hardware, software, website), what os (operating system) it is for, what language it is in (or compatible with), and what it is useful for.
i see a lot of acronym(abbreviated capitalized randomly ordered names yielding madness) usage which is not explained upon first usage. this is also a good practice.
if your failure to understand the titles or articles stems from lack of background, it is no sign of stupidity. you may never have enough background knowledge to fully understand all of the articles.
"knowledge is being aware that you're on a one-way street; wisdom is knowing to look both ways before crossing it." - old saying
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ask hn: does anyone else feel stupid reading hacker news?
reading other peoples comments and their knowledge on subjects, some i didn't even know existed makes me feel very unwise. i am saying this as a university student majoring in computer engineering with senior standing.
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please do not confuse stupidity with ignorance. albert einstein was ignorant when he was born. he did not know anything. he was smart and quickly learned much more than many people will ever know.my first computer program compiled and ran in the summer of 1967. i have spent most of my life since then learning about computers. there is far more information than i can ever hope to learn. new languages crop up nearly every day. i only know about a dozen well enough to write a respectable program in them.
i frequrntly get on hn (hacker news)and find articles about "new release of zarbodog" and i sometimes click through to see whati am missing (i've never heard of zarbodog). often the article tells about speed improvements, space savings, interoperability with some api but never actually states what zarbodog is.
a well-written article will start off with a sentence or two which tell what it is (hardware, software, website), what os (operating system) it is for, what language it is in (or compatible with), and what it is useful for.
i see a lot of acronym(abbreviated capitalized randomly ordered names yielding madness) usage which is not explained upon first usage. this is also a good practice.
if your failure to understand the titles or articles stems from lack of background, it is no sign of stupidity. you may never have enough background knowledge to fully understand all of the articles.
"knowledge is being aware that you're on a one-way street; wisdom is knowing to look both ways before crossing it." - old saying
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if you ever come to a point where instead you feel as if you know something about everything, that is when you should be worried.a favorite saying i encountered during grad school:<after finishing undergrad>: "i know everything!"<after finishing master's>: "i know nothing..."<after finishing phd>: "nobody knows anything."
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ask hn: does anyone else feel stupid reading hacker news?
reading other peoples comments and their knowledge on subjects, some i didn't even know existed makes me feel very unwise. i am saying this as a university student majoring in computer engineering with senior standing.
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if you ever come to a point where instead you feel as if you know something about everything, that is when you should be worried.a favorite saying i encountered during grad school:<after finishing undergrad>: "i know everything!"<after finishing master's>: "i know nothing..."<after finishing phd>: "nobody knows anything."
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people here tend to limit their comments to areas where they have relatively more knowledge or experience. what you see on hn is tiny slices of thousands of people. tech is a big place and it's growing fast, there's always more to learn.
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show hn: manage passwords with gpg
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why bother with the fixed functionality? (defun cc () "secrets file" (interactive) (find-file "/home/ajross/.cc.gpg"))
launch with "m-x cc" (which is simple enough) or bind to a keystroke. emacs will prompt you for the decryption cleanly, your distro will surely cache them with gpg-agent, and you can then just edit it and cut and paste as you like.i'm pretty sure it's "cc" because it was originally a list of credit card numbers, but quite frankly i've been doing this so long i've forgotten.
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i'm using emacs for something similar.this works because emacs can open .gpg files. it will decrypt them on opening (asking for your password) and encrypt on saving. this is very powerful in combination with orgmode (.org), or any other module that provides auto-folding.so i open my .org.gpg file and everything is folded. then i search for what i need, and only that part (containing some secrets) is unfolded.of course, this is no substitute for a proper password manager, but proved to be useful a lot more often than i initially thought.
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show hn: manage passwords with gpg
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i'm using emacs for something similar.this works because emacs can open .gpg files. it will decrypt them on opening (asking for your password) and encrypt on saving. this is very powerful in combination with orgmode (.org), or any other module that provides auto-folding.so i open my .org.gpg file and everything is folded. then i search for what i need, and only that part (containing some secrets) is unfolded.of course, this is no substitute for a proper password manager, but proved to be useful a lot more often than i initially thought.
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pass (<link> is password manager based on gpg that's been around for longer. it has some more tools available that are built around it and helps organize passwords as well.
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show hn: manage passwords with gpg
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pass (<link> is password manager based on gpg that's been around for longer. it has some more tools available that are built around it and helps organize passwords as well.
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i'm definitely all for multiple options, but a tool that does exactly this exists already, and uses git so you never lose history and can easily pass the store around.<link>
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show hn: manage passwords with gpg
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i'm definitely all for multiple options, but a tool that does exactly this exists already, and uses git so you never lose history and can easily pass the store around.<link>
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<link> is a similar solution, and i prefer it to this solution for a few reasons:* git integration.* separate file for each secret, so that i can store the password on the first line and then other sensitive account details on subsequent lines.* -c flag for copying passwords to clipboard (but only copies the first line of the file, so it doesn't interfere with the usecase above)* tab completion for user account names. however, this comes at a slight cost to security -- anyone with access to your machine (or git repo) can see all of the websites / accounts for which you have a password.* everything happens via the file system and secrets are just gpg encrypted text files. so it's really easy to implement new utilities on top of your password store. this is true for this solution as well, but somehow having separate files for each account makes it safer to implement utilities that do account management.
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what was the technology stack driving the original ultima online servers?
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this is really awesome! i had always just assumed the servers ran on windows nt or similar. i'm not really sure why i thought that. maybe because sphereserver and runuo are/were for windows so the association stuck in my head? but i never would have guessed solaris.it's really hard to have a discussion about uo without the urge to talk about how important it was to me (i've noticed i'm not the only one).so rather than resist that urge... ultima online is directly responsible for me being a programmer. i was 13 when i got a copy of the game and an account thanks to my parents. it wasn't the first game i'd played where i'd wondered how it had been made but it was the first game i'd played where i couldn't even conceive of how it could possibly work. it was so different from anything else that i'd played before, including the first 8 ultima games. trying to figure that out led me towards programming in general and to sphereserver, the uo server emulator. the scripting system for sphereserver allowed me to change the game (for me and my friends only, but still) and really explore what's possible. by the time i was 16 i knew what i was doing for the rest of my life, even if it wasn't necessarily anything related to games.
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i brought this up on twitter, but i think the term "shard" referring to a partitioned database originated from ultima online.the game's fiction included reference to shards of a wizard's crystal that created duplicate worlds -- a convenient explanation within that universe for the need to run multiple, duplicate servers with different users on them.<link>
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what was the technology stack driving the original ultima online servers?
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i brought this up on twitter, but i think the term "shard" referring to a partitioned database originated from ultima online.the game's fiction included reference to shards of a wizard's crystal that created duplicate worlds -- a convenient explanation within that universe for the need to run multiple, duplicate servers with different users on them.<link>
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just yesterday i was reminiscing the stability of sun sparc servers. i recalled the time we moved offices in 1999, and we had to shut down them down. one last peek at the uptime showed they'd been up and running for 6 years or so (turned on when we moved in, turned off when we moved out).
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what was the technology stack driving the original ultima online servers?
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just yesterday i was reminiscing the stability of sun sparc servers. i recalled the time we moved offices in 1999, and we had to shut down them down. one last peek at the uptime showed they'd been up and running for 6 years or so (turned on when we moved in, turned off when we moved out).
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wow they didn't use any db at the start of uo, that is amazing haha"as raph also notes, there were no databases originally involved in the storage of game state or player data for uo (disregarding analytics here), everything was kept in flat files. backups worked by flagging a moment in time where no one was allowed to cross server-boundaries -- during that moment, each areaserver was commanded to fork(), essentially duplicating itself in memory (it's more complicated than this, thanks to copy-on-write, but let's simplify). after everyone had fork()ed, the "lock" preventing boundary-crossing was cleared. then each areaserv began to dump out its huge chunk of memory-state into a file on an nfs server. those files were then all tarred together and kept as a "backup" of the state of the server. these heavyweight backups happened at half-hour intervals, i believe."
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what was the technology stack driving the original ultima online servers?
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wow they didn't use any db at the start of uo, that is amazing haha"as raph also notes, there were no databases originally involved in the storage of game state or player data for uo (disregarding analytics here), everything was kept in flat files. backups worked by flagging a moment in time where no one was allowed to cross server-boundaries -- during that moment, each areaserver was commanded to fork(), essentially duplicating itself in memory (it's more complicated than this, thanks to copy-on-write, but let's simplify). after everyone had fork()ed, the "lock" preventing boundary-crossing was cleared. then each areaserv began to dump out its huge chunk of memory-state into a file on an nfs server. those files were then all tarred together and kept as a "backup" of the state of the server. these heavyweight backups happened at half-hour intervals, i believe."
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> each shard (the term sharding probably originated with uo)probably, as the term "shard" was part of the backstory: a gem that contained the world ("sosaria") was shattered, each shard then contained a version of sosaria.<link>
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show hn: ironclad – an automated legal assistant
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are you planning on supporting more then just dropbox?i do nights/weekend it support/systems design and setup for some small law practices and most of them are on box. it's what has been recommended by the bar here in massachusetts. plus i've found it to fit a law office's workflow pretty well.before i could really evaluate this for a law office there would need to be a solid privacy policy in place as well as at least a blog post about data security.i like that you're trying to move quick, but lawyers tend to move pretty slowly in adopting new technology. the concept is cool but as it stands now it'd be a hard sell.
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at last, the startup web site which gives no information."the best way to jump right in is to go through signup". wrong answer.do you have a legal opinion that you are not engaged in the unauthorized practice of law? legalzoom had a lot of trouble with that.[1] even after some wins in court, they operate only in 41 us states, and have lawyers and paralegals on staff.badly drafted contracts can cause big trouble later. you need to go to a lot of effort to convince customers you know what you're doing.[1] <link>
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show hn: ironclad – an automated legal assistant
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at last, the startup web site which gives no information."the best way to jump right in is to go through signup". wrong answer.do you have a legal opinion that you are not engaged in the unauthorized practice of law? legalzoom had a lot of trouble with that.[1] even after some wins in court, they operate only in 41 us states, and have lawyers and paralegals on staff.badly drafted contracts can cause big trouble later. you need to go to a lot of effort to convince customers you know what you're doing.[1] <link>
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i like the potential of this, but not sure how filling out forms could be automated just yet. in a former life, i worked as a legal secretary and there always seemed to be subtle requirements i would have to fulfill like knowing how many copies something needed, who got which copy, and being able to fill out docket sheets based upon lawyer workload and client timing. i eventually developed a suite of tools that helped me in my day to day tasks, but some i couldn't imagine how to automate in a meaningful way.that said, the best thing i ever developed was my own filing system which ran in parallel with official office filing. i had a folder per case and client which i would keep raw documents and an electronic signed version of our pleadings. i would also have a digital copy of the other side's pleadings run through ocr. this process involved day-to-day work to keep it up to date, but it allowed me to answer questions like "which pleading was it that they filed which said x a month ago?" in seconds instead of minutes/hours without robust search.
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show hn: ironclad – an automated legal assistant
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i like the potential of this, but not sure how filling out forms could be automated just yet. in a former life, i worked as a legal secretary and there always seemed to be subtle requirements i would have to fulfill like knowing how many copies something needed, who got which copy, and being able to fill out docket sheets based upon lawyer workload and client timing. i eventually developed a suite of tools that helped me in my day to day tasks, but some i couldn't imagine how to automate in a meaningful way.that said, the best thing i ever developed was my own filing system which ran in parallel with official office filing. i had a folder per case and client which i would keep raw documents and an electronic signed version of our pleadings. i would also have a digital copy of the other side's pleadings run through ocr. this process involved day-to-day work to keep it up to date, but it allowed me to answer questions like "which pleading was it that they filed which said x a month ago?" in seconds instead of minutes/hours without robust search.
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doing intelligent templatized form entry seems really convenient. having signed up with a fake name/email[1], i was expecting to get an idea of what exactly this system would do for me. unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have "preview" functionality for anything, and forces the steps to accomplish something to be _very_ linearized.i can very much imagine wanting to "jump ahead" in the process when hiring a contractor. yes, <person x> hasn't yet informed ironclad of their existence, but that doesn't stop me as an employer from knowing terms of the contract like compensation. unfortunately, the workflow here seems to be:* get info
* make initial contractor agreement
* allow both parties to make incremental edits via dropbox (garnered this from other comments in this thread, so it could be wrong)
* when both parties agree, move on to the contracts part and repeat the "offline negotiation".every contract i've ever worked has been negotiated in person, and either there has been a fully filled contract (save for my details and signature) or no contract at all. i prefer the former case by far, as the latter ends up involving a face-to-face negotiation without the fine print, and inevitably holds up work when the contract has some unsavory fine print.having a system provide both "checkboxes" for doing things in a normal-ish way and long-term tracking of documents would make my life a lot easier.[1] no privacy policy means no pii data from me. you've seen plenty of this already in the comments, though.
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show hn: ironclad – an automated legal assistant
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doing intelligent templatized form entry seems really convenient. having signed up with a fake name/email[1], i was expecting to get an idea of what exactly this system would do for me. unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have "preview" functionality for anything, and forces the steps to accomplish something to be _very_ linearized.i can very much imagine wanting to "jump ahead" in the process when hiring a contractor. yes, <person x> hasn't yet informed ironclad of their existence, but that doesn't stop me as an employer from knowing terms of the contract like compensation. unfortunately, the workflow here seems to be:* get info
* make initial contractor agreement
* allow both parties to make incremental edits via dropbox (garnered this from other comments in this thread, so it could be wrong)
* when both parties agree, move on to the contracts part and repeat the "offline negotiation".every contract i've ever worked has been negotiated in person, and either there has been a fully filled contract (save for my details and signature) or no contract at all. i prefer the former case by far, as the latter ends up involving a face-to-face negotiation without the fine print, and inevitably holds up work when the contract has some unsavory fine print.having a system provide both "checkboxes" for doing things in a normal-ish way and long-term tracking of documents would make my life a lot easier.[1] no privacy policy means no pii data from me. you've seen plenty of this already in the comments, though.
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hey hn! we created a better way to handle the most common paperwork needed by startups. just sync a dropbox folder with us and we’ll take care of all the legal paperwork for ndas, contractor agreements and lois and organize it in that folder automatically for you. we’re really looking for feedback on the flow and so any feedback is much appreciated.the best way to jump right in is to go through signup and do a letter of intent (loi) - you can just sign one with yourself to try it (use the same email, but use a slightly different name so you can tell the parties apart).thanks for taking a look!
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tesla beats delivery forecast with 52% quarterly surge
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having worked in the stock-trading world and seeing some of the murky things that go on first-hand, i would not be surprised to learn that many of the negative comments we see every time elon musk is mentioned is due to a concerted effort by short-sellers.
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nice to hear some good news for the guy after his rocket exploded.
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tesla beats delivery forecast with 52% quarterly surge
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nice to hear some good news for the guy after his rocket exploded.
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best stock investment i ever made! whoop whoop!
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tesla beats delivery forecast with 52% quarterly surge
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best stock investment i ever made! whoop whoop!
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it's impressive, really. this is the year that i've really started to see teslas around here (boston- there's a showroom in the natick mall). on the one hand, the car is risky: expensive battery, limited range / charging options, luxury car service cost. on the other, they found a niche: the coastal rich who are willing to use them as their daily commuting car.they are cheaper than maseratis, which i've also been seeing a lot of lately. when looked at this way, people are willing to take the risk on the cheaper car. even so, if car sales are a zero-sum game, i think bmw is the one being hurt by them the most.
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tesla beats delivery forecast with 52% quarterly surge
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it's impressive, really. this is the year that i've really started to see teslas around here (boston- there's a showroom in the natick mall). on the one hand, the car is risky: expensive battery, limited range / charging options, luxury car service cost. on the other, they found a niche: the coastal rich who are willing to use them as their daily commuting car.they are cheaper than maseratis, which i've also been seeing a lot of lately. when looked at this way, people are willing to take the risk on the cheaper car. even so, if car sales are a zero-sum game, i think bmw is the one being hurt by them the most.
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where can i find the figure in china, i'm very interested in it.
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inherited server from bankrupt startup
so the short story goes is our startup went under. the ceo then decided to split up the assets and i received a server stack. what are some interesting/ useful learning scenarios i could perform. i have minimal experience using linux.
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+1 for selling as well . . . you can do/learn almost anything on aws, digital ocean, etc . . .plus depending on the number of racks you have running it will cost more in electricity each month than the cost of a few vps accounts.
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if you are interested in cloud platforms and you have more than one server (stack usually means more than one) then you could take a jab at learning how to install openstack, or go the windows route and install server 2012 + system center.really depends on what you want to learn, bare metal does have it's advantages when it comes to learning how stuff goes together. especially if you also got an ethernet switch out of it.
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inherited server from bankrupt startup
so the short story goes is our startup went under. the ceo then decided to split up the assets and i received a server stack. what are some interesting/ useful learning scenarios i could perform. i have minimal experience using linux.
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if you are interested in cloud platforms and you have more than one server (stack usually means more than one) then you could take a jab at learning how to install openstack, or go the windows route and install server 2012 + system center.really depends on what you want to learn, bare metal does have it's advantages when it comes to learning how stuff goes together. especially if you also got an ethernet switch out of it.
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probably not worth a whole lot to sell. sometimes the disks and memory will be worth something, occasionally the processors. there are a bunch of folks who part these things out. for the most part the best return can be selling directly to end users on ebay or craigslist.in terms of learning things, if by a "stack" you have 10 or more, then you run a hadoop cluster or any of a number of other clustered type systems. if you were more devops oriented you could play around with deployment scripts and containers and what not. setting up bitcoin miners or unikernel systems. can be an excellent way to transcode video if you've got lots of vhs tapes you wish were mp4's :-)
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inherited server from bankrupt startup
so the short story goes is our startup went under. the ceo then decided to split up the assets and i received a server stack. what are some interesting/ useful learning scenarios i could perform. i have minimal experience using linux.
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probably not worth a whole lot to sell. sometimes the disks and memory will be worth something, occasionally the processors. there are a bunch of folks who part these things out. for the most part the best return can be selling directly to end users on ebay or craigslist.in terms of learning things, if by a "stack" you have 10 or more, then you run a hadoop cluster or any of a number of other clustered type systems. if you were more devops oriented you could play around with deployment scripts and containers and what not. setting up bitcoin miners or unikernel systems. can be an excellent way to transcode video if you've got lots of vhs tapes you wish were mp4's :-)
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i have a buddy with a rack in his garage he uses to run proxmox and asterisk. i suppose you could also run your own smtp server for private email. those are some things that seem like they'd be compromised by renting a vps. i'm assuming your motives are more about fun than economics.
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inherited server from bankrupt startup
so the short story goes is our startup went under. the ceo then decided to split up the assets and i received a server stack. what are some interesting/ useful learning scenarios i could perform. i have minimal experience using linux.
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i have a buddy with a rack in his garage he uses to run proxmox and asterisk. i suppose you could also run your own smtp server for private email. those are some things that seem like they'd be compromised by renting a vps. i'm assuming your motives are more about fun than economics.
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take it as an opportunity to learn about linux and use it as a test bed to upskill yourself, if you're into that sort of thing.install a hyper-visor and start playing with vms, containers etc.
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integrating react with meteor
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what advantages does a meteor+react setup have vs pouchdb+react (synced to couch in backend)?
i would think, with meteor you get the backend rendering (for seo), and with pouch you get a db api on the fronted that's available offline.
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i made a toy project once shortly after meteor had just been released. i just kept bricking myself that i'd overlook some security setting that would allow people to run arbitrary queries against my db. when i also looked into scaling i gave up.now with the way things have gone with an emphasis on mobile, most sites i'd want to make would be better written as rest-style app servers with pluggable clients.
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integrating react with meteor
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i made a toy project once shortly after meteor had just been released. i just kept bricking myself that i'd overlook some security setting that would allow people to run arbitrary queries against my db. when i also looked into scaling i gave up.now with the way things have gone with an emphasis on mobile, most sites i'd want to make would be better written as rest-style app servers with pluggable clients.
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interesting to see this implemented as a mixin when they just announced yesterday they are fully supporting es6. looking forward to building some side projects with this and seeing how it compares to using react + flux.
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integrating react with meteor
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interesting to see this implemented as a mixin when they just announced yesterday they are fully supporting es6. looking forward to building some side projects with this and seeing how it compares to using react + flux.
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will meteor work with react native? i'd guess so, since react native implements xhr and other non-dom apis one might expect to find in a browser.
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integrating react with meteor
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will meteor work with react native? i'd guess so, since react native implements xhr and other non-dom apis one might expect to find in a browser.
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> meteor: the missing infrastructure for building great react appsextremely bold words as usual. i don't think i've ever seen any js technology that manufactures as much hype as meteor. every single article from meteor makes it sound like the best thing since sliced jesus.are there any reliable numbers on meteor adoption (and retention)? if you listen to people using meteor it's already more popular than jquery but everybody else seems apathetic at best. if you go by stackoverflow numbers (which meteor shows off on its homepage), it's merely 1/10th as popular as angularjs (and roughly as popular as express, which never even came close in terms of hype).
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mailpile chooses agpl v3
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in that space, we also chose the same agplv3 for our peps project.i blogged about open sourcing the project and the license choice here: <link>
and hn discussion at the time: <link> points and comments naturally also apply for mailpile.
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i've been following this project for a while now and i'm impressed with the transparency around the decision making process. i'm looking forward to seeing what comes next.
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mailpile chooses agpl v3
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i've been following this project for a while now and i'm impressed with the transparency around the decision making process. i'm looking forward to seeing what comes next.
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i actually donated money so i could get voting rights. i'm very happy to see that agpl won, although just barely.
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mailpile chooses agpl v3
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i actually donated money so i could get voting rights. i'm very happy to see that agpl won, although just barely.
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recently in my projects i've gone to agpl with a linking exception for unmodified versions. for me i think it's the right balance between freedom for users and freedom for developers (while they may be making proprietary software based on libre software, they're encouraged by the license terms to help sustain the the main project).(edited)
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mailpile chooses agpl v3
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recently in my projects i've gone to agpl with a linking exception for unmodified versions. for me i think it's the right balance between freedom for users and freedom for developers (while they may be making proprietary software based on libre software, they're encouraged by the license terms to help sustain the the main project).(edited)
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it speaks volumes about the debate in an anecdotal fashion that the very same page of comments (<link> — linked from the main announcement) has both:rms himself: "both of these licenses qualify as free/libre; neither of them is unethical. given a choice between two ethically valid options…"some anti-gpl person: "the gpl irritates me -- mostly because of rms's "this is the only answer" attitude"i could go on about this, but just think about it for yourself. don't be that foolish person making up straw men.
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finding bugs in tarsnap
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> tarsnap had a signal handler that was reading from a constant array. so what, how could this matter? the standard says thou shalt not.an references to the standard (i assume he is referring to posix) where this is disallowed?
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so does anyone know of a good list of "worst practices" when coding in c? basically usage that results in undefined behavior which can come back to bite you when run on another architecture?for example, doing a strcpy(dest, dest + 1) will work in most cases, but if done on 64-bit linux with a cpu that has sse4 optimizations, you will get random corruption on certain string lengths. (the c standard says that the behavior in this case is undefined). i'd like to see a list of items such as this to watch out for when auditing code.
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finding bugs in tarsnap
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so does anyone know of a good list of "worst practices" when coding in c? basically usage that results in undefined behavior which can come back to bite you when run on another architecture?for example, doing a strcpy(dest, dest + 1) will work in most cases, but if done on 64-bit linux with a cpu that has sse4 optimizations, you will get random corruption on certain string lengths. (the c standard says that the behavior in this case is undefined). i'd like to see a list of items such as this to watch out for when auditing code.
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in libressl, we went big hammer and clear all the bignums, regardless of sensitivity. and so it was that when i bumped into colin at bsdcan 2014 two weeks later, failure to clear secret bignums from memory was fresh in my mind.i bumped into ted again three weeks ago at bsdcan 2015 and he must have had memory leaks on his mind, because the day after the conference ended he sent me an email pointing out a memory leak in tarsnap. (harmless, since it's in a we're-about-to-exit error path, but worth $10 anyway.)
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finding bugs in tarsnap
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in libressl, we went big hammer and clear all the bignums, regardless of sensitivity. and so it was that when i bumped into colin at bsdcan 2014 two weeks later, failure to clear secret bignums from memory was fresh in my mind.i bumped into ted again three weeks ago at bsdcan 2015 and he must have had memory leaks on his mind, because the day after the conference ended he sent me an email pointing out a memory leak in tarsnap. (harmless, since it's in a we're-about-to-exit error path, but worth $10 anyway.)
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one of the better ways to find bugs in other software is to first encounter them in your own. (even if the bugs, as mentioned in this article, aren't actually severe.)in particular, i remember, while writing an asn.1 library, commenting to a friend that "most asn.1 implementations are probably full of dangerous bugs" (since mine certainly was), and about a year or two later all those asn.1-related vulnerabilities came out.i guess that in general, bugs appear in patterns that recur again and again in independent code, as people try to solve the same problems with the same tools and make the same assumptions.
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finding bugs in tarsnap
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one of the better ways to find bugs in other software is to first encounter them in your own. (even if the bugs, as mentioned in this article, aren't actually severe.)in particular, i remember, while writing an asn.1 library, commenting to a friend that "most asn.1 implementations are probably full of dangerous bugs" (since mine certainly was), and about a year or two later all those asn.1-related vulnerabilities came out.i guess that in general, bugs appear in patterns that recur again and again in independent code, as people try to solve the same problems with the same tools and make the same assumptions.
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when i was working for openerp, i thought it was surely possible for a user of one database to access other databases (when openerp run in multi-tenant mode, which was the case of the official openerp saas offer) by poking around the connection pool. and indeed in less than an hour i found a way to connect to any database. the fact that you can quickly find bugs when you have an idea of what you can look for is quite scary.
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dutch universities start their elsevier boycott plan
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it's sad that this process hasn't started earlier. it's a farce that publishers got to erect a walled garden around tax funded research without adding anything of value.that being said, eu cs academia is a cess pool where more often than not it matters more who you know than what your actual research is. i partially blame the funding agencies for attaching unrealistic publication metrics to grants (publish or perish). on the other hand i had high ranking university staff tell me "they love how they can just burn €6m in 2 year eu project with zero outcome without consequences". reviewers of such projects only need to have the right political color and zero domain knowledge.it's sad really and i'm happy i don't have to work in such an environment amnymore.
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i find it amazing that such an article can be written without spending a single word about the craziness of open access.let's repeat the core concept, in the words of the article: the university or the financier of the research pays to get published
in my own words: the author of the research is the customer of the journal.it used to be that the reader was the customer, which paid the journal that provided him with the service of having the article reviewed and doing its best to make sure the research was solid.
now the emperor is naked, and it's finally official what's the purpose of academic journals: let people have their grants renewed.
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dutch universities start their elsevier boycott plan
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i find it amazing that such an article can be written without spending a single word about the craziness of open access.let's repeat the core concept, in the words of the article: the university or the financier of the research pays to get published
in my own words: the author of the research is the customer of the journal.it used to be that the reader was the customer, which paid the journal that provided him with the service of having the article reviewed and doing its best to make sure the research was solid.
now the emperor is naked, and it's finally official what's the purpose of academic journals: let people have their grants renewed.
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i would like to see the governments that fund research get together and create a rule that your government funding requires that a public version of the paper be made available online before that paper could be submitted to a private publisher. this would help to separate the public availability of useful information paid for by the public issue from the academics' career-promotion-via-publication issue.that would, of course, mean that papers would appear prior to acceptance and peer review, which would speed up the pace of research at the cost (if peer review is of any value) of putting more shaky research out there. i doubt this would be a big problem, since researchers in the field know what is going on anyway (they get early copies or at least early discussion at pay-walled conferences already), and others who read the research could see that it had not yet been published in a journal and decide for themselves what to make of it.papers that got peer reviewed and published would still have the published version used in citations, so you could see how far it had gone in the publishing process at time of citation. i wouldn't be surprised if people in the field knew how much credibility to give to a paper based on the researchers without waiting for the researchers' more established rivals to "review" it to death.
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dutch universities start their elsevier boycott plan
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i would like to see the governments that fund research get together and create a rule that your government funding requires that a public version of the paper be made available online before that paper could be submitted to a private publisher. this would help to separate the public availability of useful information paid for by the public issue from the academics' career-promotion-via-publication issue.that would, of course, mean that papers would appear prior to acceptance and peer review, which would speed up the pace of research at the cost (if peer review is of any value) of putting more shaky research out there. i doubt this would be a big problem, since researchers in the field know what is going on anyway (they get early copies or at least early discussion at pay-walled conferences already), and others who read the research could see that it had not yet been published in a journal and decide for themselves what to make of it.papers that got peer reviewed and published would still have the published version used in citations, so you could see how far it had gone in the publishing process at time of citation. i wouldn't be surprised if people in the field knew how much credibility to give to a paper based on the researchers without waiting for the researchers' more established rivals to "review" it to death.
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i'm currently co-authoring a paper that will be submitted to an elsevier journal because it is a good fit for our work. all of my time and that of one other co-author is funded by an nih grant which of course is funded by us tax dollars. i'm fairly certain the elsevier agreement stipulates that i cannot share my paper without their permission – assuming the paper is accepted. if i were the nih, i would make it illegal for grant recipients to publish anywhere that does not support open access.[edit] there are some conditions under which sharing is permitted: <link>
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dutch universities start their elsevier boycott plan
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i'm currently co-authoring a paper that will be submitted to an elsevier journal because it is a good fit for our work. all of my time and that of one other co-author is funded by an nih grant which of course is funded by us tax dollars. i'm fairly certain the elsevier agreement stipulates that i cannot share my paper without their permission – assuming the paper is accepted. if i were the nih, i would make it illegal for grant recipients to publish anywhere that does not support open access.[edit] there are some conditions under which sharing is permitted: <link>
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as a related aside: does anyone know why arxiv has no system of public comments or (even better) a public peer review system built in? whenever this topic comes up at a (cs) conference, everyone is for that, and yet, arxiv is functionally the same for quite a few years now.
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animated history of the atlantic slave trade
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seriously impressive interactive map, especially when you realize you can pause and click any "ship" for more information.if this kind of thing had been available when i was in school, i may have had a whole different perspective on history.
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it's a shame that it stops at 1860 -- since a major part of the article is about how it was not primarily north america that was the recipient of slaves, but 1860 is the beginning of the civil war (which concerned just the us).also would have been nice to show 'events', such as the banning of importing slaves to the us in 1807 (you can see the boat traffic essentially stop to north america at that point).
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animated history of the atlantic slave trade
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it's a shame that it stops at 1860 -- since a major part of the article is about how it was not primarily north america that was the recipient of slaves, but 1860 is the beginning of the civil war (which concerned just the us).also would have been nice to show 'events', such as the banning of importing slaves to the us in 1807 (you can see the boat traffic essentially stop to north america at that point).
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with such high numbers going to the caribbean and brazil, were these just holding ports before the slaves were moved onto their final destinations?
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animated history of the atlantic slave trade
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with such high numbers going to the caribbean and brazil, were these just holding ports before the slaves were moved onto their final destinations?
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the level of detail is impressive. what would be even more impressive would be to combine this with something like geacron [1] to show the correct country borders for each year (instead of showing modern borders), as well as a timeline of major historical events on the side.if you liked this and you're not aware of geacron, you're in for a treat. go ahead and spend countless hours on it, knowledge of history is something that's sorely lacking these days, and yet we have such amazing tools to learn it. there's also centennia [2] for a more detailed moving map of europe (but that's commercial).[1]: <link>[2]: <link> here's a video for the lethargic: <link>
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animated history of the atlantic slave trade
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the level of detail is impressive. what would be even more impressive would be to combine this with something like geacron [1] to show the correct country borders for each year (instead of showing modern borders), as well as a timeline of major historical events on the side.if you liked this and you're not aware of geacron, you're in for a treat. go ahead and spend countless hours on it, knowledge of history is something that's sorely lacking these days, and yet we have such amazing tools to learn it. there's also centennia [2] for a more detailed moving map of europe (but that's commercial).[1]: <link>[2]: <link> here's a video for the lethargic: <link>
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i found 12 years a slave difficult viewing but watching this animation makes my skin crawl. the sheer scale of it is horrifying.clicking randomly on one of the ships revealed its name: liberty. how pathetically ironic.
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ask hn: are side projects allowed at ibm?
i am starting the process of interviewing for a position at ibm, and was wondering what corp policy is about side projects. i have a website i'm building on my own time, and i would not like to have to give that up completely. i don't have any reason to believe the site would be in competition with any ibm business unit. is there a company-wide policy on this, or is it on a per-case basis? thanks for any input.
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i work at ibm. but my word isn't lawi believe the policy is that you declare all your side projects, which get reviewed and approved by lawyers and you're then able to do what you like with them. 100% of projects i've heard people submitting have been approved.otherwise, the party line is that ibm hold the ip. i've never seen this happen in practice though.obviously don't work on side projects on company time. if you did you might have more than ip problems to worry about!
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i recently left ibm. if it relates to your job yes, if ibm can use it then even better. iirc if you don't open source it, ibm can claim ownership of it because you developed it in company time (and possible on company machines). if you don't open source it or make it free, ibm might try sell it.
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ask hn: are side projects allowed at ibm?
i am starting the process of interviewing for a position at ibm, and was wondering what corp policy is about side projects. i have a website i'm building on my own time, and i would not like to have to give that up completely. i don't have any reason to believe the site would be in competition with any ibm business unit. is there a company-wide policy on this, or is it on a per-case basis? thanks for any input.
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i recently left ibm. if it relates to your job yes, if ibm can use it then even better. iirc if you don't open source it, ibm can claim ownership of it because you developed it in company time (and possible on company machines). if you don't open source it or make it free, ibm might try sell it.
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i no longer work there, but ~5 years ago you had to get approval per project. i went through the process once and it took over 2 months for them to say "ok" to working on an open source game.depending on the content and nature of your website, i expect the likelihood of approval will vary from difficult to impossible.
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ask hn: are side projects allowed at ibm?
i am starting the process of interviewing for a position at ibm, and was wondering what corp policy is about side projects. i have a website i'm building on my own time, and i would not like to have to give that up completely. i don't have any reason to believe the site would be in competition with any ibm business unit. is there a company-wide policy on this, or is it on a per-case basis? thanks for any input.
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i no longer work there, but ~5 years ago you had to get approval per project. i went through the process once and it took over 2 months for them to say "ok" to working on an open source game.depending on the content and nature of your website, i expect the likelihood of approval will vary from difficult to impossible.
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i don't see why having a hobby outside of business hours needs to be approved. be that stamp collecting or website making.
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ask hn: are side projects allowed at ibm?
i am starting the process of interviewing for a position at ibm, and was wondering what corp policy is about side projects. i have a website i'm building on my own time, and i would not like to have to give that up completely. i don't have any reason to believe the site would be in competition with any ibm business unit. is there a company-wide policy on this, or is it on a per-case basis? thanks for any input.
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i don't see why having a hobby outside of business hours needs to be approved. be that stamp collecting or website making.
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why not just ask them?
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/r/iama set to “private” after victoria is let go from reddit
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seriously thinking this was a result of the jesse jackson interview. likely the new reddit is going to cater to celebrities and politicians in such a way that the idea of ama isn't going to be unfiltered anymore. i would expect them to sell amas that are wholly staged/filtered/etc just like any political press conference. with the upcoming elections its to be expected, the slant of the current reddit is very obvious and its a new sjw paradise of late.
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when default subs suddenly go private you know some crazyness is happening...eta: <link>
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/r/iama set to “private” after victoria is let go from reddit
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when default subs suddenly go private you know some crazyness is happening...eta: <link>
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<link> secret popcorn groups have some more details, but it'd be interesting to see what actually happened.edit: i'm interested because people here were saying that ama was going to be the only thing to save reddit, and that reddit would start selling ama opportunities.
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/r/iama set to “private” after victoria is let go from reddit
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<link> secret popcorn groups have some more details, but it'd be interesting to see what actually happened.edit: i'm interested because people here were saying that ama was going to be the only thing to save reddit, and that reddit would start selling ama opportunities.
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reddit seems engaged in a test to see how far a company built on a community can attack that community's leaders before everything falls apart at the seams.
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/r/iama set to “private” after victoria is let go from reddit
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reddit seems engaged in a test to see how far a company built on a community can attack that community's leaders before everything falls apart at the seams.
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will we get all the juicy details in "i am victoria, ex-ama liaison. ama."?
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chicago’s netflix tax: targeting the cord cutters?
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on paper, this logically follows from the tax regs chicago already has on the books. they have an "amusement tax" (orwell couldn't have named this better himself) which applies to co's that sell tickets to shows, etc.from my understanding what this new rule does is to no longer exclude cloud providers from this tax.be that as it may, this makes chicago seem insanely tone deaf and outdated in their response to the changing times. my perception is, there's already a brain drain in chicago in terms of young, technically minded talent. crap like this certainly doesn't make chicago seem more appealing tech savvy people who are considering a move.one might argue that on paper the money involved for an individual won't be that much, which is sort of true but the bigger issue is perception. this makes chicago seem like a greedy money grubbing place that's gonna nickel and dime you any change they can get.
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on one hand, it's not hard. city costs x and need to raise money to cover x. i wish they would just send everyone a bill and be done with it, and not have to sneak taxes into everything. i really don't like that, especially for things which they otherwise have no involvement in.equally, i get that taxes are hard and certainly not popular. not everyone can pay the same or spends their money the same way; but if you tax what i earn and tax what i spend, and you still don't have enough, that's just shitty management of my money.things like this, where some state gets to decide some arbitrary tax rule that companies must follow, is anti-competitive and hurts small businesses. for a large corporation to work with this is not a big deal, but for a small business it's too much to navigate.i'm all for paying my fair share to support the infrastructure and my local community; but there has to be a better way.
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chicago’s netflix tax: targeting the cord cutters?
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on one hand, it's not hard. city costs x and need to raise money to cover x. i wish they would just send everyone a bill and be done with it, and not have to sneak taxes into everything. i really don't like that, especially for things which they otherwise have no involvement in.equally, i get that taxes are hard and certainly not popular. not everyone can pay the same or spends their money the same way; but if you tax what i earn and tax what i spend, and you still don't have enough, that's just shitty management of my money.things like this, where some state gets to decide some arbitrary tax rule that companies must follow, is anti-competitive and hurts small businesses. for a large corporation to work with this is not a big deal, but for a small business it's too much to navigate.i'm all for paying my fair share to support the infrastructure and my local community; but there has to be a better way.
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the one thing i agree with the tea party conservatives about is the basic notion of 'taxed enough already.' not so much the amount of tax (and most of their analyses are wildly inaccurate or outright untruthful), but the variety of taxes. there are just too damn many different taxes, exemptions, and layers.i think this is a consequence of too much democracy. the notion that you'd have one federal government and a bunch of states serving as 'laboratories of democracy' is a neat one and it does provide a means for change to 'bubble up' from the local level in a way that might take far longer otherwise - the legal evolution of same-sex marriage is a case in point. but the us has some 3200 administrative areas when you add up all the cities and counties and so on, all of which have some sort of governing body and many of which have several (eg school districts). it's hard for voters to really evaluate all candidates for the many electoral offices and all ballot propositions, never mind keeping on top of the lobbying that goes on within city and county administrations. the more lobbying there is, the more complex tax codes get, the more administrative disputes there are, and so on.i don't agree with conservatives about the notion that government is out to take over our lives, insofar as government just attempts to be as responsive to the variegated demands upon it as possible. government in the abstract does not want to extract wealth from people any more than capitalism in the abstract wants to make some people poor; those downsides are just an inevitable side effect of how these institutions operate as currently constituted. the more complex the apttern of governance, the more expensive and unresposive ti becomes at an individual level.
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chicago’s netflix tax: targeting the cord cutters?
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the one thing i agree with the tea party conservatives about is the basic notion of 'taxed enough already.' not so much the amount of tax (and most of their analyses are wildly inaccurate or outright untruthful), but the variety of taxes. there are just too damn many different taxes, exemptions, and layers.i think this is a consequence of too much democracy. the notion that you'd have one federal government and a bunch of states serving as 'laboratories of democracy' is a neat one and it does provide a means for change to 'bubble up' from the local level in a way that might take far longer otherwise - the legal evolution of same-sex marriage is a case in point. but the us has some 3200 administrative areas when you add up all the cities and counties and so on, all of which have some sort of governing body and many of which have several (eg school districts). it's hard for voters to really evaluate all candidates for the many electoral offices and all ballot propositions, never mind keeping on top of the lobbying that goes on within city and county administrations. the more lobbying there is, the more complex tax codes get, the more administrative disputes there are, and so on.i don't agree with conservatives about the notion that government is out to take over our lives, insofar as government just attempts to be as responsive to the variegated demands upon it as possible. government in the abstract does not want to extract wealth from people any more than capitalism in the abstract wants to make some people poor; those downsides are just an inevitable side effect of how these institutions operate as currently constituted. the more complex the apttern of governance, the more expensive and unresposive ti becomes at an individual level.
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judging by the few early comments and what i know about the hn community, i am guessing this will be a wildly unpopular tax here. before just shooting this down, i would be curious what our suggested alternatives would be. as mentioned in the article this tax is an attempt to solve the problem of lost tax revenue due to local tax paying business being replaced by internet business that have no obligation to the local economy. what is a realistic option for chicago outside of taxes like this?
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chicago’s netflix tax: targeting the cord cutters?
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judging by the few early comments and what i know about the hn community, i am guessing this will be a wildly unpopular tax here. before just shooting this down, i would be curious what our suggested alternatives would be. as mentioned in the article this tax is an attempt to solve the problem of lost tax revenue due to local tax paying business being replaced by internet business that have no obligation to the local economy. what is a realistic option for chicago outside of taxes like this?
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chris cleveland here, chairman of the chicago republican party. this tax is an job-killing, counter-productive, astoundingly bad move.we are actively working against it. i work out of 1871, a chicago incubator, and i'm surrounded by several hundred companies that are all going to have to implement this tax in their software if they want to sell locally.we're going to kill this thing.update:sign the petition here: <link>
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postgres vs. mysql over time in `ask hn: who is hiring?`
keyword appearance count for hn hiring threads<p><pre><code> period postgres mysql
-------- ---------- -------
2011-05 4 13
2011-06 7 29
2011-11 7 32
2011-12 10 19
2012-06 12 23
2012-09 8 13
2013-04 23 34
2013-05 22 39
2013-10 32 44
2014-04 40 41
2014-05 34 36
2014-08 44 59
2014-11 47 35
2014-12 58 68
2015-02 63 42
2015-03 47 47
2015-04 65 57
2015-05 65 53
2015-06 64 38
2015-07 57 46
</code></pre>
source: <link>
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my anecdotal observation is that the popularity of mysql was closely tied to that of php. when php faded, ruby and python became de facto web platforms of choice. more intro tutorials to those languages recommended postgres than mysql.also, from working with postgres source in a databases class... it is just so much cleaner and simpler than mysql. makes sense why the ruby/python influencers would opt for postgres over mysql. it's just a better product.
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+1 for the source code!
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postgres vs. mysql over time in `ask hn: who is hiring?`
keyword appearance count for hn hiring threads<p><pre><code> period postgres mysql
-------- ---------- -------
2011-05 4 13
2011-06 7 29
2011-11 7 32
2011-12 10 19
2012-06 12 23
2012-09 8 13
2013-04 23 34
2013-05 22 39
2013-10 32 44
2014-04 40 41
2014-05 34 36
2014-08 44 59
2014-11 47 35
2014-12 58 68
2015-02 63 42
2015-03 47 47
2015-04 65 57
2015-05 65 53
2015-06 64 38
2015-07 57 46
</code></pre>
source: <link>
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+1 for the source code!
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"mysql" could be embedded in "lamp" etc.
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postgres vs. mysql over time in `ask hn: who is hiring?`
keyword appearance count for hn hiring threads<p><pre><code> period postgres mysql
-------- ---------- -------
2011-05 4 13
2011-06 7 29
2011-11 7 32
2011-12 10 19
2012-06 12 23
2012-09 8 13
2013-04 23 34
2013-05 22 39
2013-10 32 44
2014-04 40 41
2014-05 34 36
2014-08 44 59
2014-11 47 35
2014-12 58 68
2015-02 63 42
2015-03 47 47
2015-04 65 57
2015-05 65 53
2015-06 64 38
2015-07 57 46
</code></pre>
source: <link>
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"mysql" could be embedded in "lamp" etc.
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if i'm not mistaken, the lack of mentions ~2011 will likely be due to the (thankfully dead) nosql craze.
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postgres vs. mysql over time in `ask hn: who is hiring?`
keyword appearance count for hn hiring threads<p><pre><code> period postgres mysql
-------- ---------- -------
2011-05 4 13
2011-06 7 29
2011-11 7 32
2011-12 10 19
2012-06 12 23
2012-09 8 13
2013-04 23 34
2013-05 22 39
2013-10 32 44
2014-04 40 41
2014-05 34 36
2014-08 44 59
2014-11 47 35
2014-12 58 68
2015-02 63 42
2015-03 47 47
2015-04 65 57
2015-05 65 53
2015-06 64 38
2015-07 57 46
</code></pre>
source: <link>
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if i'm not mistaken, the lack of mentions ~2011 will likely be due to the (thankfully dead) nosql craze.
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one reason not to use mysql is that it is owned by oracle
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72 hours to launch celebrate pride
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hello,serious question here. if being gay is not a choice but a preference you have at birth why do we need pride and parades? i mean it's not like you did anything or chose to be that way, you just kind of are.as a person who supports equality, no matter race, sex, religion, etc. this has always perplexed me.
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pretty cool! it would be nice if they could adapt it for use in other things; for example profile pictures that raise awareness of things like sopa/cispa/tpp/etc.i could imagine them not wanting to saturate facebook with a new thing every week so it would probably be limited, and i could also imagine them not wanting to take risks by supporting political action that isn't as popular.
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72 hours to launch celebrate pride
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pretty cool! it would be nice if they could adapt it for use in other things; for example profile pictures that raise awareness of things like sopa/cispa/tpp/etc.i could imagine them not wanting to saturate facebook with a new thing every week so it would probably be limited, and i could also imagine them not wanting to take risks by supporting political action that isn't as popular.
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i can't think of any previous historic moment in my life where a statement of solidarity was so important and yet so easy to make. progress in the fight against prejudice is easily lost. i can't help but think about the vienna museum exhibit i saw exploring the status of jews over hundred of years and how many times periods of tolerance were followed by repression.having as many people as possible take this moment to say that we are not going back matters,and these photos do not just reach the 'quire' ie the friends of the supporters that are likely to be supporters themselves - facebook profile pictures appear in miniature form in ads all over the web. google profile pictures also appear in ads all over the web and are probably even better at reaching the eyeballs of the general public. i had hoped google would also set up a similar sort of overlay mechanism, but i see no signs and this window of opportunity will be all too brief.
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72 hours to launch celebrate pride
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i can't think of any previous historic moment in my life where a statement of solidarity was so important and yet so easy to make. progress in the fight against prejudice is easily lost. i can't help but think about the vienna museum exhibit i saw exploring the status of jews over hundred of years and how many times periods of tolerance were followed by repression.having as many people as possible take this moment to say that we are not going back matters,and these photos do not just reach the 'quire' ie the friends of the supporters that are likely to be supporters themselves - facebook profile pictures appear in miniature form in ads all over the web. google profile pictures also appear in ads all over the web and are probably even better at reaching the eyeballs of the general public. i had hoped google would also set up a similar sort of overlay mechanism, but i see no signs and this window of opportunity will be all too brief.
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okay, now i'm curious: how'd they manage to get o(n^2) asymptotic complexity out of what looks like a relatively simple semi-transparent photo overlay?
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72 hours to launch celebrate pride
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okay, now i'm curious: how'd they manage to get o(n^2) asymptotic complexity out of what looks like a relatively simple semi-transparent photo overlay?
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it was nice of them to make it voluntary.
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north korean biochemical expert flees to finland: source
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is there any way an outside person can somehow help the cause of human rights protection for north koreans? i understand that it's the place where the worst things on earth are happening in our times, but have no slightest idea if it's anyhow possible to help the oppressed people...edit:wikipedia suggests e.g. this: <link> (via <link>, via <link> as a charity rescuing nk defectors hiding in china into us. that said, can one anyhow confirm if they do what they advertise? still, i plan to try donating regularly to them anyway now (which may be cumbersome without a credit card), unless i manage to find something looking even better anyhow.another option from wikipedia: <link> ("sent over (...) 400 radio sets (...) into north korea" -- i recall people living under communist regime in the past as mentioning that radio is important for giving a glimpse of a different, better world; also from "nksc's history": "while [the future founder of nksc] kang cheol hwan lived in north korea he remembers being influenced by foreign south korean radio broadcasts which helped him decide to defect from the country after having lived 10 years in the yodok political prison camp.")also, i'm not from us.
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i expect to see unit 731 type of stuff but on a smaller scale.there are really shocking things that go on in north korea right now. massive prisons to hold political prisoners and their families, executions by all kinds of devices, starvation of the population on a wholesale level and it won't surprise me to find they are also doing human experiments.
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north korean biochemical expert flees to finland: source
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i expect to see unit 731 type of stuff but on a smaller scale.there are really shocking things that go on in north korea right now. massive prisons to hold political prisoners and their families, executions by all kinds of devices, starvation of the population on a wholesale level and it won't surprise me to find they are also doing human experiments.
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this surprised me. to be honest, i've seen a lot of "information" (and misinformation) about north korea, and the media makes jokes about them to a degree that it's been difficult for me to tell what's real and what's not.i knew it was probably pretty bad, but i did not know exactly how bad. there's no way they could all starve and have no internet, right? that seemed like one of the exaggerations to me. but this article implies (and what develops will likely prove) that there are in fact many serious human rights violations going on in that country though, so this helps a lot.edit: i understand why this could be seen as ignorance, so i understand the downvotes. however, i want to clarify that my comment is more about the impact that the media has, at least on me, in actually reducing the perceived "terribleness" of north korea. perhaps i am just too easily influenced and uninformed.
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north korean biochemical expert flees to finland: source
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this surprised me. to be honest, i've seen a lot of "information" (and misinformation) about north korea, and the media makes jokes about them to a degree that it's been difficult for me to tell what's real and what's not.i knew it was probably pretty bad, but i did not know exactly how bad. there's no way they could all starve and have no internet, right? that seemed like one of the exaggerations to me. but this article implies (and what develops will likely prove) that there are in fact many serious human rights violations going on in that country though, so this helps a lot.edit: i understand why this could be seen as ignorance, so i understand the downvotes. however, i want to clarify that my comment is more about the impact that the media has, at least on me, in actually reducing the perceived "terribleness" of north korea. perhaps i am just too easily influenced and uninformed.
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i'm going to wait for trusted experts to look at the data, before i assume this is true. however if the data holds up then i'm not sure what the west can do, only china seems to have the ability to influence nk right now (as we've already sanctioned them about as much as we can).ps - the reason my initial reaction is skeptical is not that this type of thing cannot happen (as we witnessed during wwii). it is that other defectors have defected from nk before and told the west exactly what we wanted to hear so they'd receive preferential treatment, these claims get splashed all over the headlines, then it turns out further down the road these people's accounts might not be true (and the corrections are on page 5 in a one paragraph story). but raw data is very compelling proof, hard to fake, so as soon as it has been verified i'll buy it.
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north korean biochemical expert flees to finland: source
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i'm going to wait for trusted experts to look at the data, before i assume this is true. however if the data holds up then i'm not sure what the west can do, only china seems to have the ability to influence nk right now (as we've already sanctioned them about as much as we can).ps - the reason my initial reaction is skeptical is not that this type of thing cannot happen (as we witnessed during wwii). it is that other defectors have defected from nk before and told the west exactly what we wanted to hear so they'd receive preferential treatment, these claims get splashed all over the headlines, then it turns out further down the road these people's accounts might not be true (and the corrections are on page 5 in a one paragraph story). but raw data is very compelling proof, hard to fake, so as soon as it has been verified i'll buy it.
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my biggest fear is that they have been working on germ warfare - something like the smallpox the soviet union produced with a 90% kill rate that our vaccines don't work on [1].1. <link>
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microsoft office – ole packager allows code execution in all office versions
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> the dll file hasn't been kept up to date. for example, you can use .ps1
(powershell) embeds without any security warning. there's a lot of file
types now you can execute code with without warning, basically.that's a poor example. powershell scripts won't execute by default at all, and a lot of enterprise customers will only execute scripts signed by the internal ca.off the top of my head i cannot think of too many new ways of running executable code. microsoft has only been removing them, not adding news ones. powershell is one of the few new ones and is designed from the ground up expressly not to allow this type of thing.
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someone still needs to click the thing to execute it.
clicking any executable in windows will launch it.
i really can't see the difference that makes this so bad.user clicks executable in office it launches....vsuser clicks executable in explorer(or other software) it launches....
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microsoft office – ole packager allows code execution in all office versions
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someone still needs to click the thing to execute it.
clicking any executable in windows will launch it.
i really can't see the difference that makes this so bad.user clicks executable in office it launches....vsuser clicks executable in explorer(or other software) it launches....
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i've love to know a scenario where ole is actually used today. it might have made sense in the early 90's pre-internet & html computer world but really has no use today and is just a massive security hole. seems like it should have just been completely removed (see also vista's desktop gadgets, which were actually removed and disabled after realizing they were a huge security issue too).
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microsoft office – ole packager allows code execution in all office versions
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i've love to know a scenario where ole is actually used today. it might have made sense in the early 90's pre-internet & html computer world but really has no use today and is just a massive security hole. seems like it should have just been completely removed (see also vista's desktop gadgets, which were actually removed and disabled after realizing they were a huge security issue too).
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if this is true then it's a huge mess:- they used a static list of file extensions to blacklist- this hasn't been kept up to date, powershell scripts are automatically executed- there is no way to disable it- embedded files are executed within a trusted directoryi'm guessing microsoft has to tread very lightly when messing with ole, i bet a lot of legacy software from large microsoft customers uses it.
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microsoft office – ole packager allows code execution in all office versions
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if this is true then it's a huge mess:- they used a static list of file extensions to blacklist- this hasn't been kept up to date, powershell scripts are automatically executed- there is no way to disable it- embedded files are executed within a trusted directoryi'm guessing microsoft has to tread very lightly when messing with ole, i bet a lot of legacy software from large microsoft customers uses it.
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for those of you worried about this, i tested it at work and it was blocked by our software restriction policy that i put in place just a few weeks ago.the execution of %temp%\payload.exe was blocked.i highly urge everyone to deploy a strong software restriction policy in whitelist mode. it catches everything we've thrown at it so far.
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how much does an experienced programmer use google?
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i miss the days when i was developing in mostly only one language (c) and mostly only one environment (x11/motif), all the searching i needed to do could be done on my bookshelf that was filled by the awesome o'reilly 'definitive guides to the x11 system' series and other related books (like the great 'software portability with imake', for example)it was so nice to have all the knowledge i needed at my fingertips and i was always sure to visit any technical bookstore if i was abroad to see if there were other o'reilly books i didn't own; i remember when i went on vacation in england feeling so bad about not being able to buy all the books i wanted in london because i didn't have enough space in my luggage...nowadays having to switch at a moment's notice between perl, python, c and java, as well as many, many, many related environments/libraries i don't think i could function without google, there is just too much information available and it changes way too fast.it's not like it's any more complicated than it used to be (i think at one point i ended up subclassing the xmtext widget to support rectangular selections, which took a while to get working) it's just the volume that makes it difficult to keep more than a couple of environments fresh in your brain without having to be online to refresh your memory.
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google usually finds stackoverflow answers which is great.i once found an answer to my question from so, tried to upvote it but so didn't let me because it was my own answer to the problem written over a year ago.it seems stackoverflow works well for seniles as well.
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how much does an experienced programmer use google?
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google usually finds stackoverflow answers which is great.i once found an answer to my question from so, tried to upvote it but so didn't let me because it was my own answer to the problem written over a year ago.it seems stackoverflow works well for seniles as well.
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i am considered a senior engineer in my specialization and i still google a lot of things.there are still many things that i don't know, some things on the tip of my tongue that i almost remember and some things i use once or twice a year and forget in the meantime.however, the more i mature as a developer, the faster i can detect horrible stackoverflow answers which technically answer the question but cause a couple of more or less sneaky issues.
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how much does an experienced programmer use google?
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i am considered a senior engineer in my specialization and i still google a lot of things.there are still many things that i don't know, some things on the tip of my tongue that i almost remember and some things i use once or twice a year and forget in the meantime.however, the more i mature as a developer, the faster i can detect horrible stackoverflow answers which technically answer the question but cause a couple of more or less sneaky issues.
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almost 20 years in and i still use stackoverflow (via google) most days.there are just so many weird things that take too much digging through other people's src to figure out while you're busy trying to solve another issue.something as simple as (last week) - why is my unicode printing ok in the terminal but not when running from upstart? you debug to that level and then you want to know the right way of configuring things. i normally read a bit more than i need to so i'm better armed for other scenarios.
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how much does an experienced programmer use google?
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almost 20 years in and i still use stackoverflow (via google) most days.there are just so many weird things that take too much digging through other people's src to figure out while you're busy trying to solve another issue.something as simple as (last week) - why is my unicode printing ok in the terminal but not when running from upstart? you debug to that level and then you want to know the right way of configuring things. i normally read a bit more than i need to so i'm better armed for other scenarios.
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i'm probably about to date myself, but here goes. when i started programming, there was no google. there wasn't a search engine yet. there were bbs's (which were slow), books (which were expensive), and magazines (which were infrequent). more junior programmers often ask, "did you look things up? how did you search for things without google? it must have been so hard!"well, from my perspective, it was! it was a horrible pain! sometimes you'd spend way too much time debugging a simple error or looking up in some magazine that you are sure you read somewhere a statement that you are pretty sure would help you out in this particular scenario. oh, it was tedious.on the up side, at the time i didn't use nearly as many complex technologies as i use today. quite literally today i have written in java, a bit of ruby, a bit of perl, and some bash. if we expand out to this week we can add in html, css, javascript, and sql. back when i started i used basic for long stints, or c for long stints, and that was it!google (or in my case duckduckgo), stackoverflow, and the like are amazing. i am grateful every time i get to use one of them to help me quickly solve a problem and move on to the exciting part, which for me is making working software.
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the technology behind nextdoor
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some kind of queuing as well
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file under: "things i never wondered about".
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the technology behind nextdoor
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file under: "things i never wondered about".
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i'm kind of disappointed by the cynical tone that has been increasing on hn over the past year or so. this is a straightforward blog post that is transparent about a wide range of technologies used in several areas (not just the user-facing portion). i found it informative. for example, it validates some of my concerns about scaling using postgresql. they're using a single write server in a top 2000 site (according to alexa).
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the technology behind nextdoor
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i'm kind of disappointed by the cynical tone that has been increasing on hn over the past year or so. this is a straightforward blog post that is transparent about a wide range of technologies used in several areas (not just the user-facing portion). i found it informative. for example, it validates some of my concerns about scaling using postgresql. they're using a single write server in a top 2000 site (according to alexa).
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python/django is still lovely for putting together a quick project, but i don't think anyone would pick this stack (python/django/tornado/rabbitmq etc) for a scalable server in 2015 anyway. it was a good choice in 2011-12, when nextdoor started. as of today what's posted in this blog is pretty common knowledge within python backend developer community. of course the comfort level of team members in picking up other technologies matter.
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the technology behind nextdoor
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python/django is still lovely for putting together a quick project, but i don't think anyone would pick this stack (python/django/tornado/rabbitmq etc) for a scalable server in 2015 anyway. it was a good choice in 2011-12, when nextdoor started. as of today what's posted in this blog is pretty common knowledge within python backend developer community. of course the comfort level of team members in picking up other technologies matter.
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interesting to hear they were so dissatisfied with celery/rabbitmq that chose to write their own queuing system. i'm looking in to implementing a queue for background tasks right now, and was down to choosing between celery/rabbitmq and beanstalkd. perhaps i'll check out their new "taskworker" ("kale"?) app that they have open sourced. (<link>
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docker dropping support for rhel/centos6.x
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openstack dropped support for centos 6 in its kilo release, so this isn't too surprising.centos 6 was released in 2011, which is 4 years old. a lot of features docker uses have been highly improved since the 2.6 days, so it makes sense to drop support for operating systems which don't support some things.
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for anyone else curious, docker 1.8's target release date is august 4th, so basically in a month all support will be dropped for rhel/centos 6.x. definitely a bit concerning to me.i'm quite interested to see how the whole open container project pans out, and i'm pleased by the prospect of it, just hoping they successfully iron out some of the "docker wrinkles" that have shown over the course of it's lifecycle in the last few years. no 6.x support from the get go doesn't necessarily put a great taste in my mouth, so far.
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docker dropping support for rhel/centos6.x
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for anyone else curious, docker 1.8's target release date is august 4th, so basically in a month all support will be dropped for rhel/centos 6.x. definitely a bit concerning to me.i'm quite interested to see how the whole open container project pans out, and i'm pleased by the prospect of it, just hoping they successfully iron out some of the "docker wrinkles" that have shown over the course of it's lifecycle in the last few years. no 6.x support from the get go doesn't necessarily put a great taste in my mouth, so far.
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i have a very limited understanding of how distributions work so this is probably a stupid question but why don't rhel/centos update the linux kernel they ship with their 6.x os? isn't the kernel supposed to never break user space apps?
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docker dropping support for rhel/centos6.x
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i have a very limited understanding of how distributions work so this is probably a stupid question but why don't rhel/centos update the linux kernel they ship with their 6.x os? isn't the kernel supposed to never break user space apps?
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i use cent os 6.6 on a server because it is similar to the software our customers run. i also like using docker even though our customers do not. at this point i'm just going to install ubuntu server and use vagrant so i can run what ever os i need.
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docker dropping support for rhel/centos6.x
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i use cent os 6.6 on a server because it is similar to the software our customers run. i also like using docker even though our customers do not. at this point i'm just going to install ubuntu server and use vagrant so i can run what ever os i need.
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i guess that red hat will have to keep supporting it with security updates then?
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ask hn: how can i prove i know how to write software with nothing on my github?
i work so many hours with my current job, so i have no time to work on my personal projects. money has been a struggle so i have been looking for a job. employers ask to send them a link to my github account, but i don't have many public repositories and my current job has no open sourced software i can show. (i also signed an nda)
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when i'm looking at job applicants, i ask to see a github profile or other sample code. however, i will happily talk to people who cannot provide them. it's nice to see, and helpful for me when evaluating candidates, but it's not a requirement.
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i find asking for a github the exception, not the rule.
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ask hn: how can i prove i know how to write software with nothing on my github?
i work so many hours with my current job, so i have no time to work on my personal projects. money has been a struggle so i have been looking for a job. employers ask to send them a link to my github account, but i don't have many public repositories and my current job has no open sourced software i can show. (i also signed an nda)
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i find asking for a github the exception, not the rule.
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can we see your github?
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ask hn: how can i prove i know how to write software with nothing on my github?
i work so many hours with my current job, so i have no time to work on my personal projects. money has been a struggle so i have been looking for a job. employers ask to send them a link to my github account, but i don't have many public repositories and my current job has no open sourced software i can show. (i also signed an nda)
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can we see your github?
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not all employers ask for github account. what type of companies have you been looking at?one option i would say it to try larger tech companies? they usually rely more on resume and credentials then github accounts. make sure your linked in account has up to date information on your skills etc... given that you have a signed an nda i assume you have a current job? if so do you have coworkers that could provide you with references etc...?
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ask hn: how can i prove i know how to write software with nothing on my github?
i work so many hours with my current job, so i have no time to work on my personal projects. money has been a struggle so i have been looking for a job. employers ask to send them a link to my github account, but i don't have many public repositories and my current job has no open sourced software i can show. (i also signed an nda)
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not all employers ask for github account. what type of companies have you been looking at?one option i would say it to try larger tech companies? they usually rely more on resume and credentials then github accounts. make sure your linked in account has up to date information on your skills etc... given that you have a signed an nda i assume you have a current job? if so do you have coworkers that could provide you with references etc...?
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when you say you have been looking for a job, what does that mean? i ask because for some (and maybe not you), it means "i found a great listing at company a and company b and i applied at both. i talked to a recruiter and they said i needed x, y, and z". this can be quite discouraging. my advise to those who are looking for a job is to apply to as many companies as humanly possible. apply to 5 every evening for two weeks. you are working hard and don't have a lot of spare hours so get your resume into shape and apply to two jobs in the morning, two during your lunch break, and one when you get home. keep on applying until you have applied to 50 organizations. apply for positions that you might not even think you want (always within your technical discipline of course, let's not go crazy here). don't get too attached to the idea of any given job you apply for.now an interesting thing will happen. when a recruiter asks you for a github account, tell them you don't have one. that's ok! you applied to 49 other companies. in fact, tell them you are talking with numerous other companies when you let them know you don't have a great github account. maybe some will ask for "some other crazy requirement". no problem! you have applied to so many, it doesn't matter.generally speaking when i have done this in the past (or have couched others through the process), 50% of the companies they apply for will at least reach out to them. 50% of those companies will do a phone interview. 50% of those companies will call them in for an in person interview and often times better than 50% of those companies will give them an offer. so you'll have 25 companies that reach out to you. 12 companies which give you a phone interview. 6 companies which bring you in for an in person interview. and 3 or more offers! if you make it that far and don't take a great offer up front :)job hunting is a numbers game unfortunately. if a company isn't willing to give you the time of day because you can't provide them a github account that makes them happy, it's time to move on to another company. keep on looking and good luck! you'll find the right one.
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