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Comment #8792958
Hmm, judging from the source code the default listenAddress is on '0.0.0.0:3100' so it's listening on every interface, but it's instantiated to use TLS and in server.go HandleServe…
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Comment #8778128
Do you have any concerns about doing the research and confirming the market exists for this product and then getting 'Sherlocked'? Did you spend any time evaluating other platforms…
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Comment #7655401
Just the fact that they didn't have a way to record and verify whether the deployment was done properly boggles my mind. When I worked at a bank we had package management to do dep…
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Comment #7473020
Not sure if this has the maturity or feature set you're looking for, but a pretty interesting development on top of Sovereign's federated roll-your-own cloud platform: http://sneer…
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Comment #7145914
Sadly their marketing pitch does not convey an understanding of human interactions. The example you pointed out is reminiscent of a bad Turing test chat bot with a lexicon of topic…
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Comment #7145861
No doubt it will be used for marketing spam. I can just imagine my digital ghost telling anecdotes about how in my day and age Intel was a respectable company and that most of my c…
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Comment #7145594
I'd love to see some publications from their R&D to outline how this won't turn into another one of those chat bot apps that you can have write Facebook posts in your style based o…
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Comment #6141054
This could open up some nice possibilities for browser based and Node.js driven distributed computing.
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Comment #5999224
Thanks, I was just looking for something like this!
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Comment #5977679
Not sure, but I thought when I looked at the charts that the spikes to higher latency and exception rates looked like unicorn horns poking over the horizon.
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Comment #5866473
I've reached a very similar conclusion and for smaller pages that don't need frequent updates I usually go with static HTML if possible, pre-rendering the static HTML from template…
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Comment #5866456
The idea of a barebones programming sandbox attracted me to this, but then reading through the rest of the site I felt like it was an attempt at sublime evangelism using Biblical p…
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Comment #5708989
Yeah, in theory they would check the heights in the atlas versus the effective height of a given load, not just the height on paper. Why the truck was overloaded also begs a look a…
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Comment #5706533
I'm also surprised that the drivers or their company failed to check a truck atlas when planning the route. I imagine the company has just as much incentive to prevent incidents.
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Comment #5579110
Let's say that each programmer is responsible for a programming club at a public school. Reasonably the club would meet 3 times a week, and would be 2 hours per session. Homework w…
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Comment #5258597
Sounds like step #2 is using a tool supplied by the device manufacturer. The person running the tool is not reverse engineering or otherwise performing unauthorized bypass of DRM. …
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Comment #5037986
I wonder how much really needs done to setup the tracking software. Since they are using Linux, they have access to a huge library of code, and since it has both a stereoscopic ran…
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Comment #4946126
I'm still looking for good literature, but intuitively I feel that small companies could still take advantage of patents for software in the original spirit of the patent system. A…
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Comment #4941337
Instead of including hours in the equation, the team can a high level overview of action items and assign points based on their value to the team. Action items would include featur…
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Comment #4934659
The authors of the paper have chosen to use N=4 topology, or supersymmetry in 4 dimensions, to simplify modeling how black holes with multiple centers decay. In these special cases…
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Comment #4933240
In the US keep in mind the Bank Secrecy Act. You may trigger a Currency Transaction Report for cash transactions in excess of $10,000 in one day, a Monetary Instrument Log for chec…
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Comment #4826240
lol, he must have had the 2015 version of Ubuntu ;)
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Comment #4807442
Thanks for the info. I can see why devs wouldn't want to discuss everything on the same forum as the help / support topics, and I assume the mailing list is easy to subscribe to. T…
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Comment #4807429
True. It looks like there isn't an official one so that one is as good as it gets :/