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decentralityon Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users

With my Google Chrome 64.0.3282.119 instance, there is no user selector it seems, which is causing authentication to fail, which then causes an infinitely repeating loop of reconnection attempts all leading to a 404 or 401 response in JSON.

decentralityon Ask HN: What books have most influenced the way you see the world?

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

decentralityon Slack is down

I would be interested to know WHEN it was used also, because it has substantially improved to the point it is a drop-in replacement for extremely heavy Slack implementations

decentralityon Slack is down

Back online //

decentralityon Slack is down

That was a notice posted for yesterday.

decentralityon Slack is down

( Technically an on-premises install solves the originally stated problem, and here the scope increased. P2P doesn't solve the real problem domain either, as soon as you aren't in the same room, a lot of the internet variables return )

decentralityon Slack is down

Self-hosted ( if you want that ) but not P2P: https://about.mattermost.com/

decentralityon Slack is down

For the past few weeks there have been a series of 500 errors accumulating on strangely easy API requests ( like user presence detection ) on an increasing number of endpoint hits, more and more frequently.

decentralityon California's hidden homeless: workers living in cars due to property prices

A deeper question would be: Are we part of our environment and ought we sometimes fight to keep our location not just our social position if that is a strong feeling for us?

It is possible some people belong where they are and relocation is a compromise for the weak at heart.

( I say this while also living in the epicenter of the Hepatitis A outbreaks, Downtown San Diego, California; I am surrounded by listless vagrants [ different than homeless ] )

decentralityon NVIDIA GeForce driver deployment in datacenters is forbidden now

"Datacenter" undefined.

decentralityon Donald Knuth: Surreal Numbers [video]

I love how a famous forefather ( turned 3:16 experimenter and muser on metaphysics, etc ) suddenly throws in how he wanted to role play cheating in a hotel during the course of research in Oslo, and that was his wife's expectation if he was going to squeeze composing another book into their marriage.

It was so nonchalant it was just thrown in as if he was describing the napkin with the theory on it:

https://youtu.be/mPn2AdMH7UQ?t=5m31s

"Because we liked to have an affair in the hotel room."

"So that was the plan."

decentralityon Ruby Bug: SecureRandom should try /dev/urandom first

Regardless, whether it be OpenSSL first or /dev/urandom first, "haveged" entropy generation is still needed for virtual machines, which is the most common use case. In my experience both ways are a no-go without special measures like haveged being put in place to super-charge the available entropy. I've had processes hang up for MINUTES or just under TWO HOURS waiting for more entropy to be available.

decentralityon Modern concurrency tools for Ruby

Use Rubinius or jRuby and not MRI if you want to escape the GIL. If you use any concurrency approaches with a GIL in place, there will be only an appearance of parallelism.

decentralityon Modern concurrency tools for Ruby

You would probably like Celluloid better, if you're asking that question.

See http://celluloid.io

decentralityon BBVA acquires Finnish banking startup Holvi

Their (non-digital) services are awesome. Only digital oblivion being solved here... their institution itself seems superior to most I've experienced... except being digitally horrible

decentralityon BBVA acquires Finnish banking startup Holvi

I think BBVA might be trying to aquire their way out of digital oblivion. What I've seen of their customer interfaces are some of the worst I've experienced.

decentralityon Ten years on LinkedIn

How do we tangibly and realistically, consciously reverse the effect?

decentralityon Ten years on LinkedIn

What's funny is the same thing works in reverse but not enough to deter completely : "what (real life) shenanigans am I attracting by hoping this isn't a total timesuck?"

Clients from LinkedIn in are way more high maintenance on average compared to StackOverflow/SE and GitHub. Maybe it's not as bad for recruiters.

decentralityon Ten years on LinkedIn

Last paragraph is most salient. LinkedIn is an inadvertently maimed social construct, the (soon to be) missing link between a resume or cv and whatever comes next.

Facebook can be opted out of without THAT long of a sidelong glance because it's an overlay of something more temporary in life - a yearbook, or little black book.

Just try saying to a prospective client/recruiter "oh, having a resume/cv is for the naive unwashed masses" ... because that's what most would hear.. the rest will probably be the best candidates ever (if they sincerely agree)

decentralityon Teen flew from Sheffield to Essex via Berlin because it was cheaper than train

Does TIME factor into the cost saving here, both to research and to go so far out of the way? Seems like the savings might not actually be saved, but spent as time, many times over.

decentralityon Michael Bloomberg considers an independent presidential run

Bloomberg $36.5b [1]

Trump $4.5b [2]

Clinton (household) $111m [3]

Bush $21m [4]

Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Presiden...

Sources:

[1] http://www.forbes.com/profile/michael-bloomberg

[2] http://www.forbes.com/profile/donald-trump

[3] http://moneynation.com/hillary-clinton-net-worth

[4] http://moneynation.com/jeb-bushs-net-worth

decentralityon Y-Cloninator: GitHub Projects Trending on HN Without Distractions

I noticed this immediately too. But since there are a fixed set of possible languages, seems like a dropdown box and/or multi-select would do the trick and remove the possibility of user error.

decentralityon Tokyo police are using drones with nets to catch other drones

Or drones with blades that cut as they turn.

decentralityon Ask HN: Would you include your HN username on your resume?

GitHub/StackOverflow, yes... HN karma isn't supposed to be something you aspire to or cultivate, it's more for you to know your self, relative to the community here.

decentralityon Structor – UI Builder for React

Has anyone tried this with Electron? This seems like the ideal place to arrive at for building GUI components to be used in desktop applications.

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Just found this before I saw the article posted here.. but it requires an invite! There are no build & run guidelines either - all roads lead to an invite request.

Great use of Electron though, probably.

decentralityon Fast Ruby – A collection of common Ruby idioms

Awesome comparisons. Extremely good to know. Would love Rubinius on Linux, and comma delimited or underscore delimited results. Maybe I'll run an post those that way.

decentralityon Ask HN: I'm looking for the self-proclaimed “last private web hosting” site

http://sdf.org/

Apparently, you create a shell, and have this free:

USERS (free) 200MB disk quota / 5,000 files divided into 4 areas

mutt, pop3, imap, icq, twitter, bsflite (aim), local irc games, mud, lynx, gopher, TOPS-20 http://yourlogin.sdf.org (over 50 domains to choose from) traceroute, ping, whois, dig and more - after account validation - inbound ssh, ftp and sftp connections elm, pine, alpine, mailx and rmail webmail interface bash, ksh, tcsh, rc and zsh ed, ex, vi, pico, nano and emacs shell, awk and sed based CGI USENET access (read/post), ClariNET access hundreds of shell/network utilities

They have 'paid' services also, which you can pay for in cash.

http://sdf.org/?join

decentralityon Ask HN: What equivalents of Erlang/OTP exist for other languages?

We're doing much better documentation as we approach 1.0 ... possibly writing and publishing a book as well.

For now..

Google Groups: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/celluloid-ruby

IRC: #celluloid on Freenode

Or drop me a message with your question. @digitalextremist on github

decentralityon Ask HN: What equivalents of Erlang/OTP exist for other languages?

Yeah, we get people saying we're not 'true Erlang' but that was kind of the whole idea. It's an alternative to Erlang and Akka, pulling the best from both. And it's so active and involved that it's almost becoming more of an RVM than a library only.

With `jRuby` and more and more with `Rubinius`, the concept of actor-based concurrency itself is coming into range of being language-unspecific, with Erlang not being the default authority on that.

Akka gets a lot of respect, and of course Elixr, Go, Rust, etc get a lot of concurrency attention... But Celluloid with Ruby is far superior in my opinion, because it is not only performant and functional, it actually allows you to get into the internals and change how your actor system behaves. It's as simple or as complex as you want it to be. Oh and you don't feel like killing yourself while you're writing code.