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nammi | 5 years ago | on: TypeScript 4.0 Beta

I have no idea, I don't have experience with Babel. As mentioned in the release notes, this change makes TS conform more closely to ECMAScript, so I don't think it's a bad decision. But it would've been nice to get some warning or error when trying to stub an ES import, rather than the silent failures

nammi | 5 years ago | on: TypeScript 4.0 Beta

I'm a bit paranoid about upgrading after breaking changes in 3.9 removed the ability to stub ES imports with Sinon/Jasmine/etc..., since the section of the release notes made it sound pretty innocuous: "Getters/Setters are No Longer Enumerable".

https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/38568 https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/pull/32264

nammi | 5 years ago | on: A Critique of React Hooks

Do you have any good resources for getting started with Reason? I've tried a couple times, but it seems like there's a schism between https://reasonml.github.io/ and https://reasonml.org/

nammi | 6 years ago | on: Google cloud outage

We were seeing timeouts in east-1. I don't know what "normal" looks like, but Pingdom's map seems to show the whole east coast as affected https://livemap.pingdom.com/

nammi | 6 years ago | on: Fake “like” factories – how we reverse engineered facebooks user IDs [video]

People expect that companies pay for their ads to be presented. A big reason for buying likes seems to be deceiving people into believing the posts aren't ads. I'd say it's similar to "sponsored content" that doesn't disclose the fact that it's sponsored

nammi | 6 years ago | on: The math of media bosses who told Deadspin to ‘stick to sports’ doesn’t add up

Have any of the writers/editors who resigned singled out the "stick to sports" mandate from this week as their reason for leaving? It's clearly a contentious point between the management and workers, but based on their own reports and some outside reporting the new management was pretty bad.

"After I submitted my resignation, explaining that the ongoing undermining from my bosses made it impossible for me to continue to succeed in my job, and that I believed I was putting my staff at risk by staying, the CEO threw a tinier tantrum. When I passed Spanfeller in the office a week after I put in notice, he let out a cruel barking laugh, as if he was disgusted to be in my presence. I said “you can speak to me, you know,” and he responded in a tone familiar to anyone who was ever bullied in middle school. “I don’t want to,” he sneered."[0]

"Two people with knowledge told The Daily Beast that in a private meeting, Spanfeller reviewed the coverage of Lexus with the editor-in-chief of Jalopnik, a car-focused website, to ensure that its stories did not discourage the luxury automaker from advertising with G/O sites. On a separate occasion, sources said, the new CEO suggested that reporters and editors at Kotaku—once a Gawker-owned gaming website—bring a sales representative to interviews with gaming executives."[1]

[0]https://archive.is/P38Bw

[1]https://www.thedailybeast.com/gizmodo-media-staff-enraged-at...

nammi | 6 years ago | on: A lighter V8

Somewhat off-topic, but is there an RSS feed available for the V8 blog? Their posts are always interesting to me, but I've searched a few times with no luck.

nammi | 6 years ago | on: Finding Amelia Earhart’s Plane Seemed Impossible – Then Came a Startling Clue

> Mr. Campbell shared the photo with experts at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, who used classified technology to enhance the picture.

I was curious about this since I hadn't heard of this agency before. I have no experience with GEOINT but they seem to have a pretty impressive GH organization

https://github.com/ngageoint

nammi | 6 years ago | on: iTerm2 3.3

You might have to manually enable it for your profile

https://www.iterm2.com/3.3/documentation-status-bar.html

nammi | 7 years ago | on: Cancelling Dropbox Pro is hard

Their support pages didn't seem to have any information on how to cancel. I emailed their support and requested to have my account deleted and got a polite reply from a human the next morning saying that they had done so.

nammi | 7 years ago | on: Less Turbulence on Delta Flights?

yup, they lost me at "The reason for the increase in avoidance? Lines of code, iPads onboard and a willingness to ditch a century-old way of doing things."

nammi | 7 years ago | on: NetData: monitor your systems and applications, with interactive web dashboards

oh cool, thanks for sharing that link. In case I wasn't clear, I'm happy with using netdata for short-term data, and hooking up a db in the rare case I want long-term. But that link has a ton of interesting details, can't wait to read later

nammi | 7 years ago | on: NetData: monitor your systems and applications, with interactive web dashboards

I posted this above, but you can get netdata metrics into graphite,opentsdb,prometeheus,etc formats for those databases with minimal work. In that setup netdata is basically a collection agent reporting to whatever database Grafana is reading from.

https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki/netdata-backends

The cost of infrastructure monitoring is an instant blocker for my work, but if you are a large profitable company with a huge deployment, then yeah netdata probably isn't the right tool for the job

nammi | 7 years ago | on: NetData: monitor your systems and applications, with interactive web dashboards

I agree that the value it provides is really high for how simple it is to set up.

At first, my only complaint was the relatively short data retention period, but I found that it was really easy to send the data into InfluxDB or Prometheus by following their wiki. That's not netdata's use-case anyway, and it's trivial to set up a backend db when I want to have long term metrics.

https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki/netdata-backends

nammi | 11 years ago | on: Tor Challenge

The Tor Project has a dedicated page for setting up relays on EC2 instances:

>The Tor Cloud images have been configured to use no more than 40 GB of bandwidth out per month. We have estimated that customers who do not qualify for the free usage tier will pay up to $20 a month for an instance located in us-east-1 (Virginia).

>Customers who qualify for the free usage tier, but who run bridges that use more than 15 GB of bandwidth out per month, will pay up to $3 per month for an instance located in us-east-1 (Virginia).

https://cloud.torproject.org/

nammi | 12 years ago | on: Soylent gets tested, scores a wholesome nutritional label

"Orders projected to begin shipping 4/21. Backerkit orders will be locked down 4/11. First batches of Soylent 1.0 will not be certified gluten free. Some Backerkit add-ons removed."

This was posted last week, so it seems like they will actually ship next week. http://blog.soylent.me/post/82129644711/weekly-update-4-8

nammi | 12 years ago | on: New App Lets You ‘Assassinate’ People in Real Life

Yea, this is a popular game. For a while (at least at a big state school), the rules were similar to "Assassin", but have since been changed. At my university, the game is only 'on' during defined sessions, typically after classes have ended. So people aren't sprinting through large groups of students waving fake guns, and campus police know when the game is being played. It works out because the people with Nerf guns are in large groups, and the people hiding and sneaking around don't have guns.

nammi | 12 years ago | on: The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming (2006)

Working with a team for the first time, I learned about #4. > Don't rewrite code without consultation. I would get anxious that others weren't pulling their weight and make significant changes, thinking that I was doing the team a favor. It really came off as controlling, disrespectful, and arrogant. They were doing their part, so I was actually creating more work for them. We later agreed to ask each other about their respective code before making changes, and never act before doing so.