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It's definitely worth repeating the warning that, while very useful, Strict-Transport-Security should be deployed with special care! While the author's example of `max-age=3600` me…

Yeah, this definitely is a way to break the filter bubble. But thinking about it a bit more, it might be one of the worst ways to do so. For example, assuming roughly that both fav…

The missing piece which the Twitter thread author only touched on is that how a tweet is received by a reader depends a lot on whether or not they come from similar communities and…

Its a really nice idea, but I wonder if it would work in practice: 1. Would a significant amount of real humans who actually cared about the content cast a vote (up or down)? 2. Wo…

I'm a pilot, and absolutely this is a crucial difference. It also reminds me of a time years ago when a team I was on had to extend a Memcache client library, as it couldn't differ…

For those who aren't familiar with her, Stephanie has been an extremely helpful and resourceful voice on Twitter (and clearly, her blog) on a whole range of topics: - Founding and …

I thought we got both, which is the best possible outcome: no one is wrong and there are more black hole photos.

Yeah, with all the research about how well correlated legitimate academic achievement is with family wealth, what does it say about you when you have to pay extra for one of these …

It's important to note that this set of rules is for use with a small ( > Exact matches always come first. One place this very first rule doesn't work is autocomplete for geocoding…

I'm exactly the same way. If I can get a few things checked off my todo list early, I'm nearly guaranteed to at least feel like I had a good day.

Maybe, but that actually provides at least a little lasting value. The ultimate example of toil, which I'm sure Google has automated away at this point, is truncating old log files…

The Google SRE book has an excellent description of toil and, unexpectedly, discusses that some amount of toil is beneficial. In short, the authors of that section claim that it's …

It really makes sense that something like this would be the case. All the experts say "oh, Ruby uses lots of memory for [reason] and it can't really be fixed", so no one even tries…

Years ago I worked at a large online casual gaming company who's name ended in -ynga. Our web tier was split into two: one for serving static content required to load the HTML, Fla…

Exactly! VC funding has its place, but it also greatly restricts the types of outcomes that are favorable. I mean, in our case, we're building a geocoder. We'd have to raise, no ex…

Honestly, if the open source project we maintain ever becomes popular enough that a big company like Amazon puts effort into supplanting us, great. We'll be known as the team that …

I run a company that offers consulting and hosted services around a 100% open core ( https://geocode.earth , shameless plug). As someone who has a very strong desire to continue to…

> California wisely keeps its snow in one place: Tahoe Just wanted to say I love this line. I've always said that in California winter is opt-in, but that's even better :)

The two most insidious things I've found in AWS billing: - If you want the AWS dashboard metrics to have 1 minute instead of 5 minute granularity, that's $2.10 per instance per mon…

Right. It would have been be clearer if I sad people pay RedHat for the promise that they quickly make a patch for any issue available, and that they know how to identify which pat…

The same thing happened to me. I recently acquired a pair of Bluetooth headphones, and even though it seems like a pair of wired earbuds or headphones would be about the same, it's…

RedHat is (was?) sortof an example, but their product wasn't the open source software per-se, it was the guarantees their consulting and support offers. RedHat makes, for example, …

I think one thing that's changed is that there are lots of useful projects that would be great to have available in the open, but can't realistically be created as a side project. …

I think it's fair to say that people are acknowledging the problem: it's possible for a large company to use the rights offered to them by an open source license to create products…