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Thank you! Currently using XXH64 to good success for small keys, and xxh3 looks fantastic as the next upgrade.

Client certificate PKI is common in this space. Even if it's just a local cert on the user's profile, it works really well as SSO.

When it's the current flavour of the month, yes.

> * If you data is more fluid and changing all the time, and/or if it comes in JSON serializable format, consider switching to postgresql ^9.4, and use the JSONB columns to store t…

> "When national security programs are hobby-level, you really have to worry that anybody else can do them." It's not really surprising that bulk surveillance is simple, in my opin…

Yep, that was my idea at first too! But in the summer I see people in flip flops and shorts :-) Execs still wear suits, but us lowly engineers not so much.

Are you in SIGINT? If you're not in SIGINT, I agree with everything you've said, otherwise my experience has been pretty different likely because I'm in SIGINT. Most of us are empl…

I'm a full-time employee. Managers and government benefits are a pretty big part of it. Work hours are very flexible (some roll in at 6am, others 10am), lengthy vacationable time, …

I've enjoyed working in national security and defense. It's a laid-back environment and I can leave work at work without feeling stressed.

Yes, see this libreboot-supported laptop as an example: https://libreboot.org/docs/hcl/x200.html The X200, when run without CPU microcode updates in coreboot, currently kernel pani…

Agreed. When I started learning to program around 12, I was very motivated by what I wanted to make, not follow some bland tutorial ala CodeCademy. From my experiences in universit…

Indeed. I made a project a few years ago and maintained it for several years. At one point I just didn't have the time (or motivation, I suppose) to continue updates and essentiall…

Seems to have gotten HN'd; it's forever waiting for me.

Looks like it compiles the Markdown locally but for LaTeX it sends each source snippet to their server to compile: http://tex.s2cms.ru

Was going to comment this. Used NFS years ago and was incredibly happy with them, they're fantastic.

Completely agreed. And then when you do get it installed, you end up having random issues here and there (in my experience with using different distros of Linux on the desktop). Fo…

I'm confused, it was like this in Win 8 too so what's new? I just played a game and the only time ads showed up was after the game (and before it when choosing a game). I haven't s…

Top-level comments are sorted randomly. Scores are hidden from non-mods. It's best used for voting contests (hence the name), which this basically is considering the replies come a…

Looks awesome. I just wanted to mention a couple stylistic things I noticed in the sample copy: subsubsection under Part 1 named "It;s all about communication" (the it;s), and the …

The admin password in the config is the password on the live server FYI ;-).