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Stack Overflow runs on 9 web servers with (iirc) 48 logical cores (2 x 12-core Xeons) and 64GB RAM. Those servers are shared by a few apps (Talent/Job, Ads, Chat, Stack Exchange/Ov…

^^ this! No need to install anything on my Apple devices. Long term plan is to have an instance of AirDrop Anywhere running perpetually on a Raspberry Pi and have a web interface a…

This is not correct, you can receive files from non-Apple devices without any Apple keys. I’m still working on sending so haven’t uncovered the demons lurking there…

Well, that’s why I said it’s unlikely :)! Without purchasing additional hardware it’s not practical to be able to run AirDrop directly on non-Apple devices. There’s no need to extr…

Ouch, good catch, fixing now

It's in the remediations section, but maybe the wording isn't clear: *> Hardening code paths that allow access into our dev tier. We cannot take our dev tier off of the internet be…

I might be missing some details there to be honest; I'm more familiar with the application side of things than the infrastructure :)

We’re spread over 9 servers but only due to ephemeral port and handle exhaustion issues. Each server is fronted by 4 HAProxy frontends that each handle ~18k connections. Since Nick…

We use websockets for pushing things like comments, answers and question edits as they are added as well as for notifications like inbox messages and reputation updates. Our websoc…

Chrome 59 has a coverage tool built-in: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/04/devtools-r...

At the time the algorithm was running on one of the servers in the data centre and until recently we didn't have anything in the DC kitted out with GPUs (see http://blog.marcgravel…

Dapper supports IN statements being passed an array: SELECT x, y FROM A WHERE z IN @ids Works if you pass in a parameters object containing a property called ids that is a list/arr…

Dapper will use a constructor with parameter names that match your query's columns if you need immutability.