Being exposed to djbdns I was never tempted at all to try c-ares. Not sure what I missed. It must have some other redeeming qualities besides this one. :) Learning to master nc and tcpclient before curl* had the same…
"...turned off the WiFi entirely just using it as a switch + NAT combo." I took this angle early on and have never had second thoughts. As they say, "It just works." Glad you are seeing the benefits. However, I think…
Well, at least they are acknowledging the need. I use my own cache, not shared with anyone. Do I really need to worry about snooping? I also use CurveDNS with the authoritative server that serves my version of the…
"... armour the requests themselves to make sure that they don't become the new vector, they don't become manipulated." I interpreted this to mean encrypting each DNS packet. Maybe I misread the statement? DNSSEC of…
"... you can still buy IPv4 addresses for ~$12/ip." About the price of a domainname? (Note I did not use the word "cost". I create dommainnames all the time at the price of $0.) Given the choice between a domainname and…
"It babysits its users"
I wonder which "cloud hosting provider" they will choose. Microsoft? Amazon? Does it make a difference? If my company starts selling cloud hosting and then I announce my company will be hosting its internal applications…
Relies on DNS.
The birth of an optimizing assembler.
Butterfield: "It is because people say it is."
"Just because your services are dispatched through a smartphone doesn't make you a technology company."
"JEE" "Oracle or Microsoft" Would any self-respecting programmer follow along with such idiocy if they were not paid to do so?
"You can pretty much find a computational model..." I humbly request some illustrative examples. Note I agree with you. Examples can be powerful (and, unfortunately, polarizing). Whatever you can share would be…
That Knuth quote by itself is interesting. Perhaps he is not suggesting that popular ideas likely to be are wrong. Instead maybe he is saying that to think and develop ideas like Knuth's one needs a certain amount of…
Perhaps the reason Jobs has been convincing to so many followers is because of the power of his own self-delusion. It is possible he was very good at deluding himself. Perhaps that self-delusion is contagious. If one…
"Venture capital firms don't do a great job on their websites of explaining what they invest in..." Solution: 1 Entrepreneurs petition VC firms to all post a CSV file (Excel file saved as .csv) listing what they have…
The author of this g+ post is the author of "systemd", a controversial new program being installed by default into some of the most popular distributions of the GNU/Linux operating system. It seems that some Linux users…
"IPv6 is now turned off on new interfaces by default." I have had to remove the IPv6 option from my kernels because enabling IPv6 by default (which to me seems like a "policy" decision) has become so pervasive. Nice to…
What is it with Cloudflare marketing posts making page 1 on a daily basis? Is there some business relationship between HN and CF? The title of this one started off as "free" SSL. Now it is "universal SSL". C'mon. As…
Best reply I've seen on HN in a long time. Truth is I'd rather read someone else's shell script than someone else's C, python, ruby, javascript or other code. Not to say it still isn't painful reading; most scripts I…
I thought of mentioning this - specifically, people who use the .qmail file in the mail directory. Anyway, djb uses shell scripts liberally in his software projects but I've never seen him include a shell script with…
Send me sales people (or anyone for that matter) who want to market and sell "minimalism". All the ones I know only want to sell "features". Your words are absolutely 100% true, 1wd. But I have become cynical that the…
A quick fix would be to stop using bash. I write hundreds of shell scripts per year and I never, ever use bash. Everything can be done with a less complex /bin/sh having only POSIX-like features. There's no reason…
"HTML served in TXT records a standard trick for serving small web pages" I already did this many years ago. It works well. I also do not use DNSSEC (unencrypted DNS packets) opting instead for dnscurve (encrypted DNS…
"GNU sed" has "features" not always found in all other sed's elsewhere, outside of GNU/Linux. You can substitute other tcp clients for curl. And the openssl binary is ubiquitous, so he is smart to use it for generating…
Being exposed to djbdns I was never tempted at all to try c-ares. Not sure what I missed. It must have some other redeeming qualities besides this one. :) Learning to master nc and tcpclient before curl* had the same…
"...turned off the WiFi entirely just using it as a switch + NAT combo." I took this angle early on and have never had second thoughts. As they say, "It just works." Glad you are seeing the benefits. However, I think…
Well, at least they are acknowledging the need. I use my own cache, not shared with anyone. Do I really need to worry about snooping? I also use CurveDNS with the authoritative server that serves my version of the…
"... armour the requests themselves to make sure that they don't become the new vector, they don't become manipulated." I interpreted this to mean encrypting each DNS packet. Maybe I misread the statement? DNSSEC of…
"... you can still buy IPv4 addresses for ~$12/ip." About the price of a domainname? (Note I did not use the word "cost". I create dommainnames all the time at the price of $0.) Given the choice between a domainname and…
"It babysits its users"
I wonder which "cloud hosting provider" they will choose. Microsoft? Amazon? Does it make a difference? If my company starts selling cloud hosting and then I announce my company will be hosting its internal applications…
Relies on DNS.
The birth of an optimizing assembler.
Butterfield: "It is because people say it is."
"Just because your services are dispatched through a smartphone doesn't make you a technology company."
"JEE" "Oracle or Microsoft" Would any self-respecting programmer follow along with such idiocy if they were not paid to do so?
"You can pretty much find a computational model..." I humbly request some illustrative examples. Note I agree with you. Examples can be powerful (and, unfortunately, polarizing). Whatever you can share would be…
That Knuth quote by itself is interesting. Perhaps he is not suggesting that popular ideas likely to be are wrong. Instead maybe he is saying that to think and develop ideas like Knuth's one needs a certain amount of…
Perhaps the reason Jobs has been convincing to so many followers is because of the power of his own self-delusion. It is possible he was very good at deluding himself. Perhaps that self-delusion is contagious. If one…
"Venture capital firms don't do a great job on their websites of explaining what they invest in..." Solution: 1 Entrepreneurs petition VC firms to all post a CSV file (Excel file saved as .csv) listing what they have…
The author of this g+ post is the author of "systemd", a controversial new program being installed by default into some of the most popular distributions of the GNU/Linux operating system. It seems that some Linux users…
"IPv6 is now turned off on new interfaces by default." I have had to remove the IPv6 option from my kernels because enabling IPv6 by default (which to me seems like a "policy" decision) has become so pervasive. Nice to…
What is it with Cloudflare marketing posts making page 1 on a daily basis? Is there some business relationship between HN and CF? The title of this one started off as "free" SSL. Now it is "universal SSL". C'mon. As…
Best reply I've seen on HN in a long time. Truth is I'd rather read someone else's shell script than someone else's C, python, ruby, javascript or other code. Not to say it still isn't painful reading; most scripts I…
I thought of mentioning this - specifically, people who use the .qmail file in the mail directory. Anyway, djb uses shell scripts liberally in his software projects but I've never seen him include a shell script with…
Send me sales people (or anyone for that matter) who want to market and sell "minimalism". All the ones I know only want to sell "features". Your words are absolutely 100% true, 1wd. But I have become cynical that the…
A quick fix would be to stop using bash. I write hundreds of shell scripts per year and I never, ever use bash. Everything can be done with a less complex /bin/sh having only POSIX-like features. There's no reason…
"HTML served in TXT records a standard trick for serving small web pages" I already did this many years ago. It works well. I also do not use DNSSEC (unencrypted DNS packets) opting instead for dnscurve (encrypted DNS…
"GNU sed" has "features" not always found in all other sed's elsewhere, outside of GNU/Linux. You can substitute other tcp clients for curl. And the openssl binary is ubiquitous, so he is smart to use it for generating…