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Correct. It won't upgrade past 7.1.2 not 5. My mistake.

Correct, sorry, didn't bother to look at the time. It is 7.1.2. The point still stands, it's old and I'm probably in 0.1% that the article left out in iOS markets.

Well, if you remove all iOS versions with <3.42% penetration, then you should remove the same from the Android table and use 2 decimals for Android like for iOS.

https://i.imgur.com/0Ar0ta5.png

My point being: there ARE other iOS versions in use. I have a backup working iPhone 4 turned on right now. It won't upgrade beyond iOS 5 (I think it's iOS 5). But somehow the author ignores all those 0.1% iOS versions, yet shows them for Android (with 4 decimals no less).

Awesome suggestions, but the background animation is making my CPU run at nearly 100%.

Not a native German, but probably this:

"spitzen sparken blinken lichtzen" -> "pointed sparkles flashing lights"

Yeah, it's pretty awesome. If anyone wants to play with it - I've created an simple example to showcase it along with some benchmarks. It has some hardcoded stuff for Postgresql example, which you may want to change.

https://github.com/slava-vishnyakov/lapis-example

It is impressively simple to code:

https://github.com/slava-vishnyakov/lapis-example/blob/maste...

Yes, excellent concept, but also did not work for me. Also attempt to refresh the page asks for another payment. In this moment of weakness you wish there was a "refund" button on BitCoin :)

Absolutely fantastic. Thank you!

"Documentation for .... bare-metal provisioning are forthcoming."

That's kind of a downer, hoping for a sooner release.

PhpStorm support issue http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WI-21737

What IDE do people use for Hack?

Maybe moving out secret key to .gitignored file, so that you can't (by default) commit it?

I'm really missing deployment-specific settings, like `figaro` gem, especially for database.yml

You need some better hardware

$ ab -n 100 -c 100 http://shortfin.io/

Requests per second: 1363.85 [#/sec] (mean)

* I noted in post that "SELECT 1" was done in 100ms round-trip, so I subtracted that from all points where it was reasonable. (No point to subtract it from 8 seconds).

* Not sure about the index support. Didn't try.

My idea was quite simple. I have some data at work (databases up to 30GB). Sometimes we hope to find something better. The main question was - will RedShift help, will it be radically faster? Will it be radically easier?

The answer for me - no, it won't help in my case, we need that 30GB data in real time, it looks like RedShift is more when you have 1TB+ data. Yes, it is radically easier.

Ahhh, you meant on the RedShift side. I did not think of it. It would have definitely been better. Good point!

It seems that it actually supports it http://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/r_EXPLAIN.html

Honestly I don't know. Do you think it would be better? Could you explain why?

In anyway this test won't tell you much, just how different systems behave to bigger load.

The local setup was quite usual: PostgreSQL 9.2, Mint 13, default conf in VirtualBox in iMac i5 12GB. (read: home computer, no tuning)

For me the result is that mostly RedShift is on par with local PostgreSQL, sometimes even winning for <5M rows. So with better PostgreSQL tuning you can probably stretch it, but not for as much as RedShift can do for REALLY big data.

Also the big deal was that RedShift scaled linearly.

Some interesting points:

  All cryptographic operations involving symmetric or 
  private keys are performed on the client side

  Each general filesystem node (files/folders) has an 
  encrypted attributes object attached to it, which 
  typically contains just the filename.

  All symmetric cryptographic operations are based on 
  AES-128. 

  Each file and each folder node uses its own randomly
  generated 128 bit key. File nodes use the same key 
  for the attribute block and the file data, plus a 
  64 bit random counter start value and a 64 bit meta 
  MAC to verify the file's integrity.

  Each user account uses a symmetric master key to 
  ECB-encrypt all keys of the nodes it keeps in its own
  trees. This master key is stored on MEGA's servers, 
  encrypted with a hash derived from the user's login 
  password.

  In addition to the symmetric key, each user account 
  has a 2048 bit RSA key pair to securely receive data. 
  Its private component is stored encrypted with the 
  user's symmetric master key.

  MEGA supports secure cross-account access to folders.

  MEGA supports secure unauthenticated data delivery. Any 
  fully registered user can receive files or folders in 
  their inbox through their RSA public key.

  (MEGA) is also our first JavaScript project

So basically it's some kind of entry point with arguments? Wouldn't that be a huge security hole? I mean it's just buffer overflow, without even a need to overflow, in plain sight...

Interesting, but I kind of have the problem with URLs this language produces.

http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/links/examples/citations.links?_k...

Namely: 0. Not readable by any measure and too long 1. What's encoded there? 2. Do URLs expire? 3. Does each link require some amount of memory to save the state? 4. Is it possible to construct malicious URLs that call arbitrary function with arbitrary argument?

I still think it was a brightly colored sign with a speed indicator that slowed the cars down, not the "lottery" part.

In Soviet Russia the Limit Camera Speeds You..

A few years ago there was an experiment in which similar camera (with speed reading) was installed on a inner circle of Moscow (called smth like "3rd transport circle"). The result? There was a huge increase in speed - people were actually COMPETING who can set a record! (Even worse - they were trying to catch a photo of the sign showing their extreme speeds). The camera was removed (as far as I know). Never seen any other cameras with actual speed indicator in Moscow ever since.

Actually there was another experiment that did work in Russia. On a highway a local group placed funeral wreaths (I'm not sure whether this is what they actually called in English) along the highway (there were no dead people, just wreaths). Net result? Everyone were driving within speed limit (which is almost unheard of in most of Russia). When pulled over drivers were asked about "why", the usual response was something like "well, it got me thinking that maybe it just isn't worth it to drive fast..."

Quite possibly not a concern. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1946951

also... How many of those vuln. were actually found in the wild?.. How many days were the flaws open?..

This is a very-very weird article.

We have fragmentation everywhere. We have different versions and brands of browsers rendering websites, written in different languages, using different databases. We have people running Windows, Macs and Linux. We have multitude of variations of Linux OS.

Fragmentation is all around. Yet it all works.

Somehow when it comes to Android - it's the "go to response" when something doesn't work. It makes me feel like every article that uses "android fragmentation" isn't very well thought (or maybe was even paid for Android bashing).

IMO NetFlix wrote iPhone version earlier because a year ago it seemed like iPhone is going to be the only platform worth pursuing, not because of "Android fragmentation". They just started iPhone version much earlier.

I'd change second thing about Computer Programming to: "Something ALWAYS goes wrong and your job is to fix it"

I have a friend who has a high position in a huge company that is Java-only. I asked him just the other day about the situation and pretty much he said there were no alternatives to Java in many sectors, especially banking. "If they make it a paid platform, everyone will just pay". Pretty much they aren't worried even a bit. Also, seeing how well Oracle (database) is used in corporate environments - I think Java is going to do just fine (in corporations), but it might get slightly out-of-reach for common developers.

...and also has 1 in 1 chance of automated recognition.

I'm sorry, but "Semantics" is "the study of meaning" (at least according to Wikipedia). How's that possible that "Semantically related != meaningful"?