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Or sometimes 10s, or never, or partial results, or dropped connections, or... The network is not reliable.

assert() is a macro that is usually disabled in production builds. Input validation is obviously most important in production, so assert() should never be used for validation.

That's not true at all. Lightroom can add photos at their current location, or import them to a location of your choice. There's no "hidden directory". Lightroom supports sidecar (…

All that dithering! I don't miss that at all.

The smallest EBS snapshot you can create is 1GB

I'm not sure what you mean?

Yeah, me too. I opened up a bunch of tabs from the front page (as is my usual habit here, reddit, etc), and by the time I got to this it had changed to Gmail and I was totally fool…

Fascinating article. I also really enjoyed the presentation - the mix of writing, video and images worked well together. This is the first time I've seen the "BBC Magazine", and th…

I'm really impressed with the amount of effort that has gone into this study, but those charts are just awful. Those line charts should be bar charts IMHO, I'm immediately scanning…

Agreed. The last thing you want is to have to debug those weird "it worked on my desktop" issues that come from having a really weirdly configured system

Sure, but Prime Music is also only a few weeks old

Agreed. It's also a question of complexity. Xen (for example) has a significantly smaller attack surface than the linux kernel because it just has less stuff to do

I generally understand the motivation of these companies, but damn I really hate that they all build IDEs. I wish they would focus on command-line tools or libraries and integratio…

It will cost you if you have a malicious uploader. I'm pretty sure S3 is not free just because you had objects in there for less than 24h. S3 supports pre-signed urls for exactly t…

If you write anything that communicates over a network (e.g. anything using HTTP), you need to know at least some of this stuff, otherwise you're not going to be able to explain wh…

Wow, as someone who uses rubygems all day and is not in "US and EU only", I'm glad you're not involved in this project.

It seems one of the biggest costs of fiber is installation; i.e. trenching. Why is it not hung from poles? It must be much cheaper and quicker, surely?

Also useful for authenticated downloads - don't tie up an app thread, but have your app redirect to a pre-signed url

Nope: http://www.quora.com/Amazon/How-and-why-did-Amazon-get-into-...

I found a similar thing happening in Yongsan - Seoul's electronics market. I visited recently after a 5-year absence and was saddened to see so many shuttered stores.

Isn't this because the US wouldn't export crypto software that supported keys > 40 bits to Korea in the 90s, forcing them to develop their own stronger algorithms? Anyway, it's so …

Is Github still running Ruby 1.8? vmg mentioned at last year's Rubyfuza they had "one of the largest 1.8 deployments in the world".

Without doubt, this is the most important lesson I've learned in my professional career.

It doesn't mitigate untrusted software, but an interesting approach to tamper resistance can be found in Infineon SLE78 security controllers (for smart cards, etc). They run dual C…