I am still a Yahoo! pinger as well.
Readit Newsnertzy commented on What went wrong for Yahoo dfarq.homeip.net/what-wen... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
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I have recently wondered why Ruby on Rails is using a full-length SHA256 for their ETag fingerprinting (64 characters) when a UUID at 36 chars would probably be entirely enough to prevent collisions and be more readable at the same time. Esbuild on the other hand seems to use just 32bit (8 chars) for their content hash.
Isn’t it because you can generate the same content two different times and hash it and come to the same ETag value?
Using UUID here wouldn’t help here because you don’t want different identifiers for the same content. Time-based UUID versions would negate the point of ETag, and otherwise if you use UUIDv8 and simply put a hash value in there, all you’re doing is reducing the bit depth of the hash and changing its formatting, for limited benefit.
nertzy commented on My spiciest take on tech hiring haskellforall.com/2024/06... · Posted by u/UncleOxidant
Just have people pair with people doing actual work. It's better signal for the candidate, for the existing team, and for the organization.
This is the only correct answer. I interviewed dozens of people this way over more than a decade. Hiring was never difficult to get right.
Bonus: we self-selected for people who don’t like to pair. We paired 100% of the time.
I'm sure at least one of the "[here], [here], and [here]" links resolved to SO.
And another to experts-exchange.com of course.
My favorite was when I was in college. I spent a long time trying to figure out how to get my WiFi card for my school-issued laptop working in Linux. Someone else posted a fix (with a full explanation of what to do!) and I followed it and it worked!
Then I look at the username and it’s my classmate from down the hall in the same dorm.
And I’m pretty sure I actually did end up in a beach house with them at some point.
nertzy commented on Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder github.com/rocky-linux/ro... · Posted by u/andyjpb
The fact that a majority of the comments are whining about the name really shows you the worst part about open source: the non-contributing but highly entitled part of the community.
If you don’t like the name, launch your own CentOS replacement. There’s no better time than now. If there’s one thing this project does not need right now, it’s armchair marketing experts.
If you do care about a viable CentOS replacement, do something. Contribute code, money or expertise. The last thing any new and vulnerable project needs is another “idea guy” or a new logo.
It’s pretty funny that anyone would complain about a Linux distribution being named after a developer’s given name.
I mean, it’s Linux.
nertzy commented on Proctorio used DMCA to take down a student’s critical tweets techcrunch.com/2020/11/05... · Posted by u/MarcScott
If you have the kind of money it takes to file that suit and actually drag their C-suite into a courtroom, you aren't being inconvenienced by them throwing a DMCA takedown at you in the first place.
Maybe find a law office willing to take on the case for the chance at a cut of the penalty?
nertzy commented on Tell HN: Google drops blogspot.in, breaking hundreds of thousands of permalinks · Posted by u/sairamkunala