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I'm glad I was around as BearScat came out and before the killed it.

There's also a commit right after the merge commit to change

  if (nf > DBL_DIG * 2) continue;

to

  if (nf > DBL_DIG * 4) continue;

Yeah, it was kind of a "hey it does it for free" sort of thing.

I mean, if it's never really a problem, why spend more time setting extra things up. That being said, I'd have no problem setting up and managing HAProxy if we wanted to do that.

The fw boxes are from these guys: http://www.watchguard.com/ They were X550e's this weekend we're installing XTM 515's

I was playing with load balancers this past weekend. Some code that came out of it: https://github.com/darkhelmet/balance

Sorry, didn't realize "celluloid" meant something else. Changed the title.

Tooting my own horn here, but I'm working on a book covering the Go Standard Library. Still in progress, and not at the sync package yet, but it's coming along. Check it out if you feel inclined.

http://thestandardlibrary.com/go.html

Awesome, thanks! Added this and the other one to the post.

Awesome, thanks!

It can work the same way. You just slowly figure out the hash: this pw for this user was a bit faster than all the other failures, so we know the first byte of the hash is ...

If you have a bunch of hashes precomputed, you can start to figure things out pretty quick.

The point is it's still leaking information about what's going on.

I do have the sentence "This difference is enough to measure, even on web applications." in the fourth paragraph. Should I highlight that a bit, bold maybe?

I'd also like a good reference for that, and my Google skills were failing me. Do you happen to have a link to something show that off?

Thanks for the support! Kindlebility has a new name as of yesterday though: Tinderizer http://tinderizer.com/

Xcode 3 is free, but not 4. Either the developer program, or $5 on the app store.

I don't even use Xcode at all. I'd much prefer a `brew install` or even if they had their own *.pkg file or something that was just the toolchain.

No doubt, hence why just the toolchain would be awesome. I don't even use Xcode.

The few of points I've made about this are:

1. The Xcode 4 download compared to Xcode 3 is basically just a different IDE. The gcc version is, for all intents and purposes, identical. There's nothing stopping anybody from just installing that if all they need is the toolchain.

2. The other big 2 OS's (Windows and Ubuntu) don't have any build tools installed by default either. Granted they are just an apt-get away on Ubuntu, but it's still something you have to explicitly install.

3. If I wasn't a dev, I'd be pissed to find some compiler toolchain IDE gongshow eating up 5-15GB of my disk space, so not having it by default is probably a good thing. Most people aren't devs.

I paid the $5, but I'd still like to see just the toolchain available as a free download, though I still don't think it would be a good thing to have it installed by default.

Ahh I see according to http://lnkr.mobi/bm/google_bookmarks_api/ that is about all the docs on that API there are, and it doesn't support annotations/notes. Mine doesn't either, but it's a one line change to make it do so.

That's definitely cool. Are there any docs for that "upload" API?

It's good to see people find solutions to the problem Yahoo! is causing.

I'm an idiot and had a wrong email configured for sending. If you had problems with it not working, try again.

I thought the free one would only download over wifi? Or does it do both? (I have a wifi only Kindle, so no clue).

Lol I found a bug in Ryan Tomayko's dotfiles when he put them up. https://github.com/rtomayko/dotfiles/commit/d462da485294b516...

Thanks! There's always more to learn, and I'm definitely not the first to realize these things.

Glad you found some of it insightful. I'll take you up on your suggestion, and I've added the "Multitask vs Async" post idea to my list.

The screen is really nice. Easy to read, changes pages pretty quick. Most of my experience with it has been kindle purchased books or simple converted PDFs. If you've image based PDFs (I'm assuming ones where each page is basically an image of a page, instead of text), I don't know it would work too well. I tried looking at things where it wouldn't convert them but you either had to look at small text or zoom in weird (or maybe there was no zoom...can't remember exactly).

Thanks!

Dropbox is another tool I use, mainly for quick file transfers. I used it a lot in school, where I would print out finished assignments (have to hand something in I guess), but then put it on Dropbox as well in case something happened to the hard copy (like I stupidly forgot it at home...).

The iPad is good for reading too, though I imagine my eyes would like the Kindle better. It's really easy to stare at for hours. I want to get an iPad for reading Instapaper stuff and RSS feeds.

What's your blog?

I knew I forgot something... :)

Well, I did sort of pick the title knowing it is a little bit of link bait. :)

I did throw in the disclaimer at the top...hopefully I can look back at this article and see that I was right, at least for me. If I can follow my own advice, keep doing what I am, and kick ass, then I'll be happy. If some or all the points I talk about work for you, even better!

What school are you in?

That should be Redis.connect(:url => 'redis://localhost:6379/1')

I always learn so much from you and Damato.

Thanks guys! This is the first time anything of mine has been on Hacker News, and it resulted in 1300 visits on Friday, which is pretty big for me. Glad you enjoyed it!