jingo · HackerTrans

10 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

Being exposed to djbdns I was never tempted at all to try c-ares.

Not sure what I missed. It must have some other redeeming qualities besides this one. :)

Learning to master nc and tcpclient before curl* had the same effect. I guess I am missing all the fun.

*There are so many features, so much rarely used code, I'm not sure one could ever hope to fully understand all the implications.

jingo

11 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

"...turned off the WiFi entirely just using it as a switch + NAT combo."

I took this angle early on and have never had second thoughts. As they say, "It just works."

Glad you are seeing the benefits.

However, I think "WiFi" is a strong marketing signal. Even if it does not work as well as Ethernet at transferring data, it appears to work well to sell products and services.

"I really don't know how this tech is going to work..."

It may not have to work. Consumers of computing devices have developed a high tolerance for stuff that is either ridiculously slow or does not work. Many do not know any different: when none of the devices people use have an Ethernet port, they will never know the speeds they are missing. The choice of using Ethernet has been removed.

jingo

11 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

Well, at least they are acknowledging the need.

I use my own cache, not shared with anyone. Do I really need to worry about snooping?

I also use CurveDNS with the authoritative server that serves my version of the root.zone.

Practicing my CurveDNS skills for that day when more authoritative servers are using curvedns. Not sure that day will ever come.

jingo

11 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

"... armour the requests themselves to make sure that they don't become the new vector, they don't become manipulated."

I interpreted this to mean encrypting each DNS packet.

Maybe I misread the statement?

DNSSEC of course does not protect the contents of the packet.

Instead, DNSSEC more or less is just another CA system (or an adjunct to the existing one), running over UDP.

jingo

11 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

"... you can still buy IPv4 addresses for ~$12/ip."

About the price of a domainname? (Note I did not use the word "cost". I create dommainnames all the time at the price of $0.)

Given the choice between a domainname and an IPv4 adddress, I would take the IPv4 address.

Also, given the choice between a single, routable IPv4 addresses and a block of IPv6 addresses, I would still choose the IPv4 address.

IPv4 is "simplicity" in comparison to the complexity of IPv6. IPv6 has features I do not need.

Whenever I am granted the choice, I always choose simplicity over complexity.

Most of the time the additonal complexity is not needed and can only cause problems in the long run.

This is only the opinion of one "consumer". Certainly the "market" may have another opinion.

jingo

11 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

"It babysits its users"

jingo

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I wonder which "cloud hosting provider" they will choose.

Microsoft? Amazon?

Does it make a difference?

If my company starts selling cloud hosting and then I announce my company will be hosting its internal applications in "the cloud" (i.e., in my own data centers), what are the security implications for my company?

Are they the same if some other company asks me to host their applications in my data centers?

Is this article a PR piece (or "submarine" as PG calls it)?

What do you think?

jingo

11 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

Relies on DNS.

jingo

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The birth of an optimizing assembler.

jingo

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Butterfield: "It is because people say it is."

jingo

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"Just because your services are dispatched through a smartphone doesn't make you a technology company."

jingo

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"JEE"

"Oracle or Microsoft"

Would any self-respecting programmer follow along with such idiocy if they were not paid to do so?

jingo

11 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

"You can pretty much find a computational model..."

I humbly request some illustrative examples. Note I agree with you. Examples can be powerful (and, unfortunately, polarizing). Whatever you can share would be appreciated.

jingo

11 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

That Knuth quote by itself is interesting.

Perhaps he is not suggesting that popular ideas likely to be are wrong.

Instead maybe he is saying that to think and develop ideas like Knuth's one needs a certain amount of irreverance for what is popular.

(Undue?) reverance is rampant in the software industry, in my opinion. Would Knuth agree?

jingo

11 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

Perhaps the reason Jobs has been convincing to so many followers is because of the power of his own self-delusion.

It is possible he was very good at deluding himself.

Perhaps that self-delusion is contagious.

If one wants to believe something strongly enough, then maybe one can believe it.

If people want to believe that the only way to produce great form factor and ease of use in a computer is to be Jobs-like and conduct "business" like Apple, then they might believe that, even if there is a good chance or evidence this behaviour is not necessary.

It seems people have a difficult time separating the Apple products from the organization that sells them.

One may be worthy of adoration, the other may not.

jingo

11 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

"Venture capital firms don't do a great job on their websites of explaining what they invest in..."

Solution:

  1  Entrepreneurs petition VC firms to all post a CSV file (Excel file saved as .csv) listing what they have invested in, dates, etc.  Is there a single VC firm that does not have this data?  Most likely the data has at some time been put into a spreadsheet or some form of report.  

  2  VC firms locate the spreadsheet, delete any confidential columns (Alt+Space, Alt+H,D,C), save as Comma Separated Values (.csv) and give the file to their web developers.  

  3  Web developers upload the file to web servers.  

  4  Entrepreneurs download CSV file.

Wow, that was complex. My head hurts.

jingo

12 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

The author of this g+ post is the author of "systemd", a controversial new program being installed by default into some of the most popular distributions of the GNU/Linux operating system.

It seems that some Linux users are unhappy with systemd.

While I do not agree with any user being disrespectful to the author by targeting him personally, the fact that users are seriously upset about systemd as a program gives me hope for the future of the popular Linux distributions.

When the author says "Open Source is awful" maybe he is revealing his true colors. Perhaps he is better suited to closed source development which is insulated from public review by users and other developers at-large. But that is for him to decide.

There was a post on HN a little while back by the developer of a popular glibc alernative for Linux who told us he has been using a flat, linear /etc/rc file for over a decade and his boot times are substantially shorter than with systemd. But more importantly, his approach is simple by comparison. How many users will be able to debug systemd by examining the internals?

It is this type of "hands-on" user that gives me hope for the future of the distributions that are experimenting with systemd. I hope these users will speak up if they have not done so already.

jingo

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"IPv6 is now turned off on new interfaces by default."

I have had to remove the IPv6 option from my kernels because enabling IPv6 by default (which to me seems like a "policy" decision) has become so pervasive. Nice to see this change; here's hoping other OS's follow suit.

jingo

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What is it with Cloudflare marketing posts making page 1 on a daily basis? Is there some business relationship between HN and CF?

The title of this one started off as "free" SSL. Now it is "universal SSL". C'mon. As vader1 points out, the level of potential deception here is getting a wee bit high.

CF is just a MITM. A website owner lets CF control her DNS and this allows CF to route all requests for her website through CF servers; CF stands between the website and the user.

Unless the website owner configures SSL then the user only gets an encrypted connection to CF. That's hardly "universal" SSL.

jingo

12 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

Best reply I've seen on HN in a long time.

Truth is I'd rather read someone else's shell script than someone else's C, python, ruby, javascript or other code. Not to say it still isn't painful reading; most scripts I see are nonsensically verbose. But it is a much less time-consuming read.

Unless, of course, it is written in a shell like Bash, i.e., one with too many extra features to keep track of. Like, say, exporting of functions, for example.

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