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Glowboxon Vercel Is Down

All our production websites were down for around 10 minutes. Not sure function failover is turned on for these websites.

Glowboxon TDD from the Factorio Team

https://twitter.com/playartifact/status/1051964775658217473?...

Artifact did it too (which is no longer being worked on though).

Glowboxon Ask HN: Best Paid Gmail Replacement?

I've been a happy user of Fastmail for over 2 years (and will continue to be), but their spam/scam detection has been worse than Gmail.

Glowboxon AWS Lambda Supports Python 3.7

There are workarounds for that, f.e. on startup loading code from an s3 bucket (https://hackernoon.com/exploring-the-aws-lambda-deployment-l...)

Glowboxon Fixing Toxic Online Behavior in League of Legends

Actually, I think it's terrible in it's current state. I made a second account to try some heroes/practice heroes on. Recently they changed the number of reports to four per week, but I almost need to report a person per match for either feeding, afking or really bad language. I realize this is in the 'normal' bracket, which is still pretty terrible.

You might be consistently impressed, lately I have been consistently disappointed by the Dota 2 community.

Glowboxon Ask HN: What's the best time to post to HN

This question has been asked a lot, have you used the search yet?

There is this app too; http://hnpickup.appspot.com/ but it has a big error on the top so I'm not sure if it still works.

Glowboxon Why (or why not) to move your company to Amsterdam

Do you have any numbers to back that up? This site (http://www.nfia-india.com/why_english_speaking_society.html) says 62% vs 91% in favor of the Netherlands.

edit: seeing this guys profile/comments in this thread it's an obvious troll.

Glowboxon The Dark Side of C++ (2007) [pdf]

This presentation is from 2007. It's outdated and full of errors. I'll refer to the comments at /r/programming http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/193o4p/the_dark...

Glowboxon MS kills Xbox 360/PC cross-platform development

DirectX is fine. http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-02-01-microsoft-w...

Glowboxon Ask HN: What PHP Framework should I use?

http://mavrck.com/blog/2013/01/ive-evaluated-php-frameworks-...

A recent writeup (not by me).

Would not recommend CodeIgniter, last time (~1 year ago) I used it it was a pain to get a proper ORM working with it.

Glowboxon Why C++ is back

Some books have been updated. Check http://isocpp.org/get-started and in general check out http://isocpp.org for more tutorials.

Glowboxon 6.5 Million LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked

Disclaimer: I am not a cryptographic expert.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/

Django by default uses the PBKDF2 algorithm, which is better than nothing/md5/no salt sha1.

I'd use bcrypt or scrypt by default, better be safe than sorry.

Glowboxon C++ name hiding puzzle

C++11 has override and final http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B11#Explicit_overrides_an...

Glowboxon Gmvault: gmail backup. Liberate your emails

It didn't work for me (TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable), I opened an issue on github.

Glowboxon Why do we use C still?

Just search for 'C++ for kernel' on google. There are plenty of reasons. A good answer can be found here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/520355

Glowboxon Racist Twitter user jailed for 56 days

Good job generalizing an entire continent.

Glowboxon Poll: Do you use an adblocker?

Adblock, Noscript, Ghostery, BetterPrivacy and ShareMeNot. I'm using Firefox.

Glowboxon 12 Steps to Writing Better Web Code

Great post and most of these steps are really helpful.

The only thing I'm not too sure about is step 11, discouraging of IDEs. I do agree with your point that one should not depend on a IDE. However, IDEs can give you autocompletion, easy refactoring, finding references etcetera. Personally, I find some of these features invaluable.