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chaosmonkey

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chaosmonkey··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)
Curios for the reasoning for not accepting new H-1Bs?
chaosmonkey··on You know how HTTP GET requests are meant to be idempotent?
I think he only had GET /door/toggle, which cannot be idempotent.
chaosmonkey··on UDP vs TCP
It's clarified in the next line. > "The point is, don’t split your game protocol across UDP and TCP."

There is always going to be data transmitted other than the game protocol. Most likely that is going to be limited and not at the same time as real time data is being transmitted.

chaosmonkey··on Some Google Pixel devices shutting down at 30% battery
Have you considered the Nexus 6P?
chaosmonkey··on The Panama Papers: how the world’s rich and famous hide their money offshore
The question is are these companies doing anything illegal?
chaosmonkey··on TTNT: Test This, Not That
Cool idea. This would be useful to quickly run tests on local env.

Does anyone know if there is a similar project for Java?

chaosmonkey··on AWS US East is experiencing high error rates on several services
I have seen multi-hour SQS outages recently. I'm thinking of options for how we can go about preventing an application failure if this happens again.

* If adding to SQS fails, temporarily store the item on disk or S3, then add to SQS when it's back up?

* any other options?

chaosmonkey··on Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users
Search?
chaosmonkey··on Blow to Internet.org as Indian Internet Companies Begin to Withdraw
They can change the model to give a fixed amount of data for free, instead of picking a bunch of sites, breaking NN. I doubt it will happen.
chaosmonkey··on Uber banned from operating in Indian capital after rape accusation
If the gun manufacturer claimed that they have verified that guns don't kill.

http://blog.uber.com/driverscreening

chaosmonkey··on The Cost of My Mother’s Cardiac Care in the United States and India
> It has been a few months since I have seen a doctor, but I still receive some new goddamn bill every other day.

I went to a single visit to a hospital once and after the treatment, I got 4 different bills. I was amused why I was getting bills from places I had no idea about. Then I realized each entity had a different billing department - the hospital's bill, the doctor's bill, the tester's bill, etc. all related to the single visit to the same hospital.

I had to call each of the 4 departments and deal with insurance. It was a nightmare!

chaosmonkey··on Announcing Free Incoming SMS For All
Can confirm. When I moved to the US, had to pay for incoming SMS. My friends who did not have an unlimited SMS plan, had SMS completely blocked so that they don't receive unwanted messages.
chaosmonkey··on Show HN: Papa Parse 3
Nice. They should give an option to choose what to share. For example, I don't want to share network info.
chaosmonkey··on Chrome users oblivious to Heartbleed revocation tsunami
35.0.1916.27 beta

The check is persistent.

chaosmonkey··on Drop Dropbox
Could be a weird bug. I have a lot of files in my drive and don't have any issues so far. My drive is set up to sync on windows and mac. Also use it on my android and web.
chaosmonkey··on Drop Dropbox
Glad I could help! :)
chaosmonkey··on Drop Dropbox
For some reason I actually like it. What do you find painful?
chaosmonkey··on Heartbleed vulnerability tester
Tried again. Still get the same result.
chaosmonkey··on Heartbleed vulnerability tester
We have the same version of OpenSSL on 2 different test nodes.

OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips

One came up positive, One negative. Shouldn't it be negative for both?

chaosmonkey··on Apache Subversion to Migrate to Git
Does this mean they won this year's April Fool's? https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-7524?focusedComm...
chaosmonkey··on Link Bubble - A new browser for Android
This is amazing! Now I am actually starting to notice how much I have to wait when I click on a link from apps. Save to pocket, etc is a nice feature too.
chaosmonkey··on Coming Soon to Hacker News: Pending Comments
Why not have this feature turned on only for threads in the front page instead of all threads.
chaosmonkey··on Flappy 2048
Much easier than flappy bird.
chaosmonkey··on Android coming to wearables
It's really incompetence.

The issue went to the supreme court and they said this matter is for the legislature to decide.

The good thing (unlike Russia) is that almost everyone from the ruling government, media, public, etc want this law abolished.

chaosmonkey··on Comcast Acquiring Time Warner Cable In All Stock Deal Worth $45.2 Billion
Well now we wait for things to get worse!
chaosmonkey··on Do you really want to be making this much money when you're 50?
I guess if you are into something with a passion (programming), more often than not you are going to be good at it and the money follows.