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piotrSikora··on Pushing Nginx to its limit with Lua
> has way better performance

Do you have any performance comparison?

> many more capabilities

As...? Care to compare?

piotrSikora··on [dead]
Nope, a typo -> netlix != netflix.
piotrSikora··on Add two-factor authentication to your ssh in 30 seconds
From https://github.com/authy/authy-ssh/blob/master/authy-ssh#L11...:

    Default action when api.authy.com cannot be contacted:
    
      1. Disable two factor authentication until api.authy.com is back
      2. Don't allow logins until api.authy.com is back
piotrSikora··on Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free on Amazon today only
but India == Asia & Pacific.
piotrSikora··on Improving HTTPS Performance with Early SSL Termination
Most likely using "keepalive": http://nginx.org/r/keepalive
piotrSikora··on Flying car closes in on FAA OK
Obviously! However, I felt that used aircraft vs new flying car wouldn't be a fair price comparison.
piotrSikora··on Flying car closes in on FAA OK
> is $279K significantly cheaper than most private airplanes?

No, it's not. You can buy lower-end models of Cessna and Cirrus at similar price... and Cessna Skycatcher costs only half of that ($149,900).

piotrSikora··on BSD vs. Linux
Ah, indeed, it seems that FreeBSD is a lot less package-friendly than OpenBSD & NetBSD.
piotrSikora··on BSD vs. Linux
> FreeBSD is (more or less) moving towards pkgng, which has roughly the same goals.

Yeah, but the BSDs always had pkg_add and other pkg_* tools, pkgin is just a nice alternative that works on more than one system... I don't believe it provides any crucial feature that was missing in the pkg_tools.

> And yes, it's only for distribution. But if it works well, it's the only thing end users should care about.

From OpenBSD's FAQ:

    The ports tree is meant for advanced users.
    Everyone is encouraged to use the pre-compiled binary packages.
Basically, if you're running unmodified OS (i.e. official release) and don't enable any options disabled by default in the ports then you're just wasting CPU power rebuilding stuff that you could easily grab from the nearest mirror.
piotrSikora··on BSD vs. Linux
Only pkgsrc part of the community ;)

Also, it's only used for packages distribution and the packages are still build from the ports:

    pkgin is aimed at being an apt / yum like tool for managing pkgsrc binary packages.
piotrSikora··on How ZFS continues to be better than Btrfs.
> What a non-article. ZFS is more mature than an unmature and unstable filesystem? Really?

Keep in mind that, with one exception, ZFS is pretty much rock-solid from day one.

Also, you should really read: http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/6071- No,-ZFS-really-doesnt-need-a-fsck.html

piotrSikora··on The GoPro Army
All alternatives look much better and are much smaller than GoPro nowadays :)

- http://replayxd.com/cameras/replay-xd1080-camera/

- http://contour.com/products/contour-plus

- http://driftinnovation.com/camera/drift-hd/

piotrSikora··on Chrome treats DELETE requests as GET and caches them
Why is he being downvoted?

As per RFC2119 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt):

    3. SHOULD   This word, or the adjective "RECOMMENDED", mean that there
    may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a
    particular item, but the full implications must be understood and
    carefully weighed before choosing a different course.
piotrSikora··on Some things I've learnt about programming
printf() introduces delay that is often enough to hide / "fix" race conditions.
piotrSikora··on Caching the uncacheable: CloudFlare's Railgun
No, because it's transparent for the content-provider and it doesn't require any changes to the website and/or it's code.
piotrSikora··on How I Store My 1's and 0′s: ZFS + Bargain HP Microserver = Joy
> Love ZFS, hate having to use it in FreeBSD or Illumos

Why?

piotrSikora··on Chrome 19 doesn't respect basic auth details embedded in the URL
Like Dylan16807 said - it doesn't. Chrome already hides "user:pass" bits in the status bar.
piotrSikora··on Chrome 19 doesn't respect basic auth details embedded in the URL
...and how is that different from

    <a href="http://evilsite.com">microsoft.com</a>

?
piotrSikora··on Why The US Can Beat China: The Facts About SpaceX Costs
Keep in mind that those $3bn are mostly "future" revenues that will be generated over the next 5 years (http://www.spacex.com/launch_manifest.php).
piotrSikora··on Why The US Can Beat China: The Facts About SpaceX Costs
How is that YC-specific?
piotrSikora··on Add SPDY support to your Apache server with mod_spdy
They're targeting _May_ release.
piotrSikora··on It's the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)
> RSA and other key exchange techniques are another story though, as the article mentions RSA is theoretically significantly weaker to a functioning quantum computer than AES to start with, and I don't really know the extent to which the government uses RSA.

NSA Suite B Cryptography recommends use of ECDSA over RSA, but the latter is acceptable for documents with "SECRET" classification level.

piotrSikora··on Surf Air: Unlimited Flights for $1k/mo
What you describe is "franctional ownership" for owner-pilots and there are already equivalents of that in the airspace (i.e. AirShare Elite - http://www.airshareselite.com/).

The difference between SurfAir and fractional ownership is that the latter usually have a fleet of semi-identical vehicles (boats, planes, whatever) that are available at your disposal and that you are able to operate them... With SurfAir, it seems like there is only one plane with a pilot, which greatly limits flexibility and availability of the program.

piotrSikora··on Surf Air: Unlimited Flights for $1k/mo
But that's pretty much the minimum price for any "show up and fly" program to be profitable. Also, keep in mind that this is price per plane, not per seat.
piotrSikora··on Surf Air: Unlimited Flights for $1k/mo
They would need to either: add stopovers or buy a lot more expensive airplane to fly such long range.
piotrSikora··on Google maps 8bit quest mode. A setup for 4/1 perhaps?
Why early? It's already April 1st in eastern part of the world.
piotrSikora··on The universe is big. This big.
0.004% is 0.00004, not 0.004, so the result is 50 billion galaxies.
piotrSikora··on New 'MongoDB is Webscale' video: Node.js is Bad Ass Rock Star Tech
"MongoDB is web scale" video is funny, because it's true.

This is just poorly executed copy with 's/mysql/apache/g', 's/mongodb/node.js/g'.

piotrSikora··on Chrome 17 - Plus symbol missing on new tabs button - Google Chrome Help
It's an "Issue" in Google Code terms.
piotrSikora··on Chrome 17 - Plus symbol missing on new tabs button - Google Chrome Help
Issue on Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=98264

It seems that this appeared in the development builds 6 months ago and it was still carried out to the stable branch, even though people complained.

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