abarrak's comments

abarrak | 3 years ago | on: HN is up again

For me, HN is one of the default pages when browser's open.

abarrak | 4 years ago | on: GitHub’s database of security advisories is now open source

This is truly great news, and progress after CodeQL past week as well: https://github.blog/2022-02-17-code-scanning-finds-vulnerabi...

abarrak | 4 years ago | on: Linux Sysops Handbook

No doubt, meant to be self study notebook originally. Listed in the end couple of whole interesting reads.

abarrak | 4 years ago | on: Linux Sysops Handbook

Source: https://github.com/abarrak/linux-sysops-handbook

abarrak | 4 years ago | on: Tesseract OCR

Eagerly waiting for the alpha version 5! It's been 2 years since the stable 4.1 release.

abarrak | 4 years ago | on: A Short Guide to Iraq (1943)

nice, the id in url is incremental integers, makes easy for those who want to script and get all materials!

abarrak | 4 years ago | on: Behind the scenes, AWS Lambda

Nice. I wonder if the stateful merits provided and marketed by containers orchestrates (e.g. K8S) is something they will consider in the future? ..

abarrak | 4 years ago | on: Behind the scenes, AWS Lambda

A couple of days ago, I tried to search on how AWS operates RDS behind the scenes, since it is a managed stateful service I was wondering whether it runs in a traditional way VM-based or in a fully containerized environment? .. Unfortunately, a simple search will lead you to the consumer/customer resources out there only.

abarrak | 5 years ago | on: SEC suspends trading in 15 securities due to questionable social media activity

$RDAR

abarrak | 5 years ago | on: SEC suspends trading in 15 securities due to questionable social media activity

There's also that rubbish app (forgot its name) for parent control in phones is not in the list. Only 1 employee (founder) and in daylight using twitter to cash out, manipulate the price, issue more shares, etc..

abarrak | 5 years ago | on: Coinbase S-1

Waiting patiently for HashiCorp! I tried through EquityZen but no luck.

abarrak | 5 years ago | on: How can you not be romantic about programming? (2020)

A friend of mine asked me: "why are taking it seriously and love to code? I do it just as routine job". Then, he didn't complete his career as programmer and switched to be business analyst.

abarrak | 7 years ago | on: Programming Quotes

I grouped XML quotes to share with my manager:

The essence of XML is this: the problem it solves is not hard, and it does not solve the problem well.

        — Phil Wadler, POPL 2003

XML is like violence: if it doesn’t solve your problem, you aren’t using enough of it.

        — Heard from someone working at Microsoft

XML is like violence. Sure, it seems like a quick and easy solution at first, but then it spirals out of control into utter chaos.

        — Sarkos in reddit

Most xml i’ve seen makes me think i’m dyslexic. it also looks constipated, and two health problems in one standard is just too much.

        — Charles Forsyth

Nobody who uses XML knows what they are doing.

        — Chris Wenham

abarrak | 9 years ago | on: Some bad Git situations and how I got myself out of them

It's probably a good time to check if you have some safety against `rm -fr `.

Two days ago, I wanted to delete .git only, but accidentally as my fingers were accustomed with -fr , the command was `rm -fr * .git`. Rails server was running and some hope arose at the moment to just `lsof | grep` .. unfortunately that didn't work with me !

Ironically, all dot files have stuck as obvious :)

abarrak | 9 years ago | on: AI Grading Application Gradescope Shortens Grading Times

> "Karayev said the AI feature attempts to address three challenges ... and, perhaps the toughest of the three, recognizing handwriting".

and it's still one of the most complex problems in automated pattern recognition.