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(engineer working on Buck2 here) Buck2 is actually used internally with Git repositories, so using Sapling / hg is definitely not a requirement

I love SQLite (and use it in a large number of places in our application stack!), but I feel that it suffers from a case of bad defaults. To name a few: - Foreign key checking (and…

AWS provides you with a number of DNS records for each NLB: - One record per zone (which maps to the EIP for that zone) - A top-level record that includes all active zones (these a…

Author here - let me know if you have any questions! (whether that's about using Supercronic... or making regular cron work in containers)

Yes, you're entirely correct; that's actually what I meant by "provided the Kernel can represent [it]" (albeit perhaps not very clearly!). Cheers,

(Note: the following is only applicable to Linux) The default for overcommitting on Linux is heuristic; it doesn't always succeed: if you try and allocate several exabytes or RAM, …

Unfortunately it looks like the distros have not been particularly diligent about releasing a fix via the security channel (according to the article), so this PPA is a workaround

Note: if you're using Ubuntu, there is a semi-official PPA that has a non-vulnerable version (2.7.3): https://launchpad.net/~git-core/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

This means "install the `requests` package with the `security` extras. In this particular case, this installs 'pyOpenSSL>=0.13', 'ndg-httpsclient', 'pyasn1'. See: https://github.co…

This principle doesn't necessarily mean functions should never return booleans, though. Booleans are used in a variety of (popular) Python libraries when checking whether a passwor…

Quick disclaimer: I'm the author of Tini (thanks for the hat tip, by the way!). Note that for interactive usage, Tini actually hands over the tty (if there is one) to the child, so…

While not as common as nounset and errexit, pipefail is a useful option as well (set -o pipefail). Using pipefail, if any program in a pipeline fails (i.e. exit code != 0), then th…

Ha, interesting trick! : ) The GitHub API allows up to 5,000 requests per hour. I currently poll once an hour, so there's a bit of headway. If that becomes a problem, I think I can…

Indeed, not yet! Private repo support would require authenticating with GitHub, which makes the project a bit more complex. I definitely plan to add this if there's enough interest…

Ha, this is a great idea! I've added this now :). Just reload.

I made this mainly to scratch my own itch :). It's slightly more convenient for me to get a notification than to periodically pull repositories and check them for changes, but I un…

Here's the email I got inviting me to re-post the story. That's all I know : ) Hi there, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10690114 looks good, but didn't get much attention. Wo…

These are great points; thanks for your feedback! :) I'm trying to validate whether there's any interest in something this, so I definitely cut a lot of corners (e.g. the app doesn…

When I worked at Scalr, we used Chef's Omnibus ( https://github.com/chef/omnibus ) to create "full stack" RPM and Deb packages, which basically include all your dependencies all th…

GP is most likely referring to VPCs with dedicated tenancy. Those are not free, and they're pricey [0]. [0]: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonVPC/latest/UserGuide/dedicated-instanc…