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Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
I have the same feeling, that the note notation is way too complex. I would love to see something like this getting traction.
Comment · 8 years ago
Thanks. Yes, this is something what I think of. Does it show on the screen what operation you confirm with U2F? Or just "U2F authentication"? But cord makes it far less convenient unfortunately.
Comment · 8 years ago
What I miss in the U2F tokens is a small display that would show transaction details which is approved.

Imagine you have a malware on your PC; it can send another transaction than the one you see in the browser, while the URL would still match. Having transaction summary on the token would be the last verification point where can still spot something is wrong.

Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
Rally nice analysis. It is a pity that open access to data like this is still exception, not a rule. I wish to have such data for my city.
Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
For me the difference seems to be in handling large number of distinct logs. In Kafka every log & partition is a separate file and moreover it keeps it open. So, storing multiple logs results in writing to many files so eventually random write IO; and also you may hit limits of open files. You can multiplex logical logs in each Kafka log, but then you read unnecessarily other logs.

Keeping SS tables makes it more sequential write and reasonably sequential write, as long as you have enough RAM to get multiple records of each log, so they constitute a continues blocks in flashed file.

Actually you could get very similar result using Cassandra, which also uses SS tables. The difference is that Cassandra keeps merging files, which actually makes much more IO traffic than clients. Cassandra will typically need 16x more IO for merging then actual data write rate. You can limit it a bit if you create time shard tables.

Comment · 9 years ago
6 years ago I submitted cloud computing comparison - https://www.cloudorado.com/ . It has hit first page with 38 comments. There was a nice spike in traffic that I've never seen later but it faded quickly. Now traffic mostly comes from search and some links that popped up here and there. The site is live and provides revenue (but not spectacular; fraction of what I need for living).

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