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throwaway40324 | 6 years ago | on: W3C recommends WebAssembly

What are these Capture The Flag competitions? Do you mind posting a link?

throwaway40324 | 6 years ago | on: BPF: A New Type of Software

Once you see it, it cannot be unseen!

throwaway40324 | 6 years ago | on: Help me ask why you didn't just

After reading this, Its killing me not knowing what they built, used, or implemented instead of using sshd. It would add much more context.

Is the author a Lead? Manager? Architect? On the same team, or department? A direct peer?

All of this matters in order to better answer the main question presented in the article.

Why wasnt more than one dev involved in discussing a design or possible solutions before the work was performed? If that was the case, where was the author when that happened?

Why didn't you just already know they weren't using sshd?

throwaway40324 | 6 years ago | on: 0.30000000000000004

Thanks for this.

Yep, I've thrown 10,000 round house kicks and can teach you to do one. It's so easy.

In reality, it will be super awkward, possibly hurt, and you'll fall on your ass one or more times trying to do it.

throwaway40324 | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: How and at what age did you tell your children the truth about Santa?

That's one approach, but you didn't answer the question. How did you go about telling them that Christmas is a big sham?

throwaway40324 | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: How and at what age did you tell your children the truth about Santa?

Indeed! The elf on the shelf! Thanks again for your advice.

throwaway40324 | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: How and at what age did you tell your children the truth about Santa?

Thanks! Actually, no there isn't a pressing reason. I figured it out as a child myself, so perhaps it's less of an issue than I anticipated. Have an awesome Christmas!

throwaway40324 | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: How and at what age did you tell your children the truth about Santa?

Thank you so much for your input! I've been concerned about mine being 'the kids at school', causing a chain effect for other kids and parents to handle the aftermath.

throwaway40324 | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: How and at what age did you tell your children the truth about Santa?

Thanks!

throwaway40324 | 6 years ago | on: The Programmers' Stone

This is awesome, thanks!

If the paragraphs were set to wrap, I could actually read it on my phone when zooming in.

I could zoom in and scroll back and forth on each line, but that's worse than squinting.

Do you have time to do this? If not, will you accept pull requests, and or is the source available to contribute to?

throwaway40324 | 6 years ago | on: Syntax Highlighting Is Backwards (2018)

This. I totally agree.

One fallacy I've seen is a reviewer only looking at the diff on Github, where a minor change in the middle of a function is made, and they don't expand the diff to notice that the new change completely invalidates a comment, params, call signature, return value..etc.

throwaway40324 | 6 years ago | on: Drive drunk twice in Quebec, get ignition breathalyzer for life

Thanks for your words tonight. I've been in the same boat and that's why I replied to the overly generalized, naive, parent comment. I hope you're okay. I'm nowhere near SV, but reach out to someone local if you need. Maybe you drink the wine, maybe you dont, but dont give up okay!

throwaway40324 | 6 years ago | on: Drive drunk twice in Quebec, get ignition breathalyzer for life

Hmm.. hold my, no wait.. take my beer.

throwaway40324 | 6 years ago | on: Drive drunk twice in Quebec, get ignition breathalyzer for life

Sounds similar to the SCRAM ankle bracelets. IIRC..they read from the offenders skin precipitation.

throwaway40324 | 6 years ago | on: Drive drunk twice in Quebec, get ignition breathalyzer for life

This is very clever and made me laugh, but really, someone with two drunk driving offenses should just take the humble, honest, simpler path of being sober and blowing in the breath machine.

throwaway40324 | 6 years ago | on: Drive drunk twice in Quebec, get ignition breathalyzer for life

Alcohol use, itself, does have traits that some are more sensitive to. Alcoholism, though may be the case for many repeat offenders, and is a disease, not really a trait, but a series of traits that are symptoms.

In general, impairment is a trait that does lead to bad decisions, like driving under the influence.

throwaway40324 | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you deal with atomicity in microservice environments?

I did a find for 'event sourcing' in this thread and yours is the single hit at the time of my comment. I came here to agree, and tell the OP that you indeed would benefit from an Event Sourcing Architecture.

throwaway40324 | 6 years ago | on: Facebook, Instagram and Messenger were down

Right, but up until after Hackv3.3, PHP code was supported, which support ended 9 days ago.

"HHVM v3.30 will be the last release series where HHVM aims to support PHP. The key dates are...

2019-11-19: expected end of support for v3.30"

https://hhvm.com/blog/2018/09/12/end-of-php-support-future-o...

Note: I really dont believe my above speculation is related, just thought it was an interesting coincidence, at best.

throwaway40324 | 6 years ago | on: Facebook, Instagram and Messenger were down

It must be just a coincidence that PHP 7.4 was released today, and surely FB doesnt rely on PHP version updates to latest, right?

Just speculating..

Edit: that twitter thread is quite entertaining

throwaway40324 | 6 years ago | on: Writing An Interpreter In Go (2016)

Pick up a free trial at safaribooksonline / oreilly. Perhaps someone or your institution would sponsor a paid 50 usd per month account.