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Comment · 3 years ago
I just want a browser that tastes like a real browser!
Comment · 4 years ago
Erasure coding (particularly fountain codes) are what you'd want to use.
Comment · 5 years ago
Most things do, which is good news. I'd be interested to know if there are any projections of how these costs may be reduced. Do you have any references on hand?
Comment · 6 years ago
Luckily the C-suite get their own C-word for proper etiquette.
Comment · 6 years ago
4chan is a big place with a long history. It's kind of like 50 different websites and communities under one domain, where there's surprisingly little overlap between them all. I think you'd find that most people who visit the less notorious boards on 4chan are your totally normal geek crowd.
Comment · 7 years ago
That depends on what jurisdiction you're in.
Comment · 7 years ago
Yep, Prolog is pretty great for that kind of thing. I'm working on a project right now where I'm using Prolog (via tau-prolog) in the browser to determine permissible input options based on the user's existing selections. I'm also using it (via https://github.com/mndrix/golog) to apply those restrictions on the server, and to calculate the pricing for a configuration. In most cases I'm generating Prolog code from a collection of tick boxes, but for complex campaigns I can dig in and write a specific implementation of the required rules. Very flexible.
Comment · 7 years ago
I read this as "for sure I do this too"
Comment · 8 years ago
I would be fiercely interested in any more details around this. I'm sure many of us have seen Scotty from Strange Parts doing his headphone socket project, and the franken-phone built from spare parts, but it sounds like you're suggesting something even more than that.

Citations, please!

Comment · 8 years ago
Seems a bold assumption given that I (and many people I know) don't maintain accounts on linkedin or similar.
Comment · 8 years ago
Oh man, Sikuli (and SikuliX http://sikulix.com/) is amazing. It's the kind of thing where I hate that it has to exist, but I'm so happy that it does exist.
Comment · 8 years ago
Australian here, but I've worked for NZ companies before.

Especially down in our corner of the world, it's all about who you know. If you've got a few people you've worked with where you can go "hey I'm looking for a new job soon, heard of any openings?", that'll get you wayyyyy better jobs on average than what ends up hitting the public job advertisements.

Speaking from experience, advertising a job publicly is what you do after you've asked everyone you know if they know anyone personally who would work well.

Comment · 8 years ago
It's interesting you say this, as that's pretty much exactly how Lightsail (Amazon's easy-mode VM thing) works by default. Public IP, ports 22 and 80 open. I'm guessing for a good chunk of users, that default config is all they need.
Comment · 9 years ago
Tell that to the project I migrated from scrapy to go six months back. Granted, scrapy might be doing other "fun" things to eat into performance, but it was really night and day. Immediately went from CPU bottleneck to network.

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