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I loved how the Windows 95 install CD had Weezer's Buddy Holly video on it. I remember finding it and thinking it was so cool they did that.

That article on rapid Rust prototyping matches my experience with using Rust as the backend for a web and iOS app. I used clone() and Vec and String and other shortcuts from that a…

“During the period 2018-20, Space Norway carried out significant security related upgrades to the fibre connection.” Sounds like someone was tapping cables with submarines?

Once Colin's patches land on FreeBSD and Firecracker, the total boot time for the kernel is under 20ms. Absolutely incredible times that we live in.

It was actually Rainbow's End by Vernor Vinge that really got Zuck excited about the possibilities of VR—he read it a few years before he bought Oculus and talked about it a lot at…

I was at FB from 2006-2015, and Scuba caused a phase change in how Facebook's performance was analyzed and how quickly insights were gained. For many of us in Infrastructure, we sp…

Cartographer ingests BGP topology and POP and datacenter health (and other things), and then pushes what is basicially a lookup table to tinydns. None of the dynamism is inside the…

Cost was a smaller factor than politics; the Indian government wanted the private keys for our certs in order to let FB put a POP there. That was an absolute dealbreaker, so we ser…

I joined FB in 2006 and had never been in an open office environment before. It was quite an adjustment. I didn't like working in the office until I had been there for about six mo…

Indeed, but there is something to be said for sane defaults--look at the thread on HN a few weeks ago about SSH cipher defaults. Yes, TLS and the CA ecosystem has its faults, but m…

I read IRC v3 and assumed they were making major changes to the wire by bumping the major version, which is why I said what I said. I've been using IRC for 24 years but haven't imp…

Hmm, I didn't see the 3.3 spec which is still being developed, it looks like they are doing strict transport security as a base extension. So that would address most of my concerns…

Fair enough, but I feel you're being a little pedantic since there are base extensions described which are required, and optional extensions which are not required. TLS is one of t…

Why isn't encryption baked in by default? It's optional from what I can tell. I don't know how you can design a new protocol and not include encryption.

I think you're being overly harsh. I read the entire article and enjoyed it very much, including the author's commentary. I didn't interpret their tone as trying to be hard-edged o…

Not sure if you know this, but you can ask Google to blur a Street View address by filling out a form. I'd guess he did this himself versus any sort of conspiracy thing happening.

To your last paragraph, only relying on forgetting the keys works great, as long as you have absolute 100% confidence in the mechanism used to do that. I read your posts on HN ofte…

Lucid Emacs -> Xemacs was mentioned in a sibling comment, but I remember people being in awe about EB working on those. There were many interesting employees back then--J. Chenault…

There was more Lisp influence than just the CS macros you mention here. Eric Benson was a major contributor to Lucid Emacs and many early Amazon engineers had Lisp experience. SICP…

The two AsiaBSD papers linked from the post are good for more detail. I was a little surprised they had to hack sendfile to do the crypto in the kernel in order to get the throughp…

People who watch a football game Sunday night and then talk shit at work on Monday about all the things they would have done differently if they were coach/quarterback/etc.

I'm former FB. To your search question, I hope they build a high quality, accurate search product someday, but they've made a few attempts at search over the years and none of them…

Ah cool, that's similar to what we did. I think http2 gets a bad rap, we saw a lot more positives than negatives from it. You should do a writeup after you test sctp and quic, I'd …