I suppose this is as good a place to ask as any. I can't be the only one in this boat! I currently use an ancient Droid2 because it has a hardware keyboard with most of the characters I need for programming and SSH…
My apologies. Being unfamiliar with UK law I mistakenly made the assumption that the blacklisting is legally required. However it might as well be. According to…
The answer may surprise you. We all know the UK has internet blacklists managed by various agencies such as the IWF[1]. These blacklists are highly granular and allow blocking of individual HTTP resources. Virgin is…
To add to this: Cache and cache invalidation. Without proper caching and a good invalidation strategy your databases will get pounded. Use redis and memcache to cache everything possible. Don't even connect to the…
What you are describing is autoconf, not make. Make by itself is actually a very handy tool for performing tasks that have a dependency graph. Autoconf.. Well, I can't disagree. It's a hack built on top of a hack and…
Has anyone else pondered what would happen if knowledgeable people were to help Australians perform a civil protest in the form of a resource consumption attack? Even with data caps in place I'm sure one could perform…
Working at non-vaporware startups is hard. Very hard. Bootstrapping one is even harder. Long hours, little time for family. After a big push I'll be entirely strung out and exhausted, staring at a wall mumbling random…
It's really horrible that happened to this guy. It's not really AirBNB's fault but I am happy to hear they are helping him out regardless. Letting someone into your home should be a rather big deal. Just because some…
My solution to cloud storage has always been encryption. TrueCrypt, Boxcryptor, gpg with a frontend, etc. If your files are properly encrypted you can safely store them anywhere you like, using whatever technology that…
I suppose this is as good a place to ask as any. I can't be the only one in this boat! I currently use an ancient Droid2 because it has a hardware keyboard with most of the characters I need for programming and SSH…
My apologies. Being unfamiliar with UK law I mistakenly made the assumption that the blacklisting is legally required. However it might as well be. According to…
The answer may surprise you. We all know the UK has internet blacklists managed by various agencies such as the IWF[1]. These blacklists are highly granular and allow blocking of individual HTTP resources. Virgin is…
To add to this: Cache and cache invalidation. Without proper caching and a good invalidation strategy your databases will get pounded. Use redis and memcache to cache everything possible. Don't even connect to the…
What you are describing is autoconf, not make. Make by itself is actually a very handy tool for performing tasks that have a dependency graph. Autoconf.. Well, I can't disagree. It's a hack built on top of a hack and…
Has anyone else pondered what would happen if knowledgeable people were to help Australians perform a civil protest in the form of a resource consumption attack? Even with data caps in place I'm sure one could perform…
Working at non-vaporware startups is hard. Very hard. Bootstrapping one is even harder. Long hours, little time for family. After a big push I'll be entirely strung out and exhausted, staring at a wall mumbling random…
It's really horrible that happened to this guy. It's not really AirBNB's fault but I am happy to hear they are helping him out regardless. Letting someone into your home should be a rather big deal. Just because some…
My solution to cloud storage has always been encryption. TrueCrypt, Boxcryptor, gpg with a frontend, etc. If your files are properly encrypted you can safely store them anywhere you like, using whatever technology that…