Hacker News: andrewtj

New comment by andrewtj in "NoSQL is a Premature Optimization"

andrewtj — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 08:31:25 +0000

He's not asking for anything. He's pointing out how a different data model allows for solving a different set of problems. The MVCC page on Wikipedia might give you a better background so that you're able to contrast the two models and determine for yourself where they are useful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiversion_concurrency_contro...

New comment by andrewtj in "Alternatives to GoDaddy"

andrewtj — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 04:53:09 +0000

For a simple registrar that supports DNSSEC I've been quite happy with https://www.gkg.net/. Their prices are reasonable and their site is quick and functional, though it's navigation is a bit clumsy. I can't comment on their hosting (including DNS) as I've not used it.

New comment by andrewtj in "Root DNS Zone Now DNSSEC Signed"

andrewtj — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:08:20 +0000

Your assessment of what constitutes "many people" and mine clearly differs.

You are quite right that my clients are unaffected. I like most of the world run a mix of Windows and OS X which like the software that runs on top of them, are not DNSSEC aware (with few exceptions).

Clearly I do care about the subject and I'm not sure why you keep stating that I do not. There is a difference between ignoring a technology until it's useful and ignoring it full-stop.

EDIT: Edited for brevity.

New comment by andrewtj in "Root DNS Zone Now DNSSEC Signed"

andrewtj — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 11:33:38 +0000

Regarding TLDs, you're again intimating that I have said something that I have not said.

I do not dispute that some people are able to use DNSSEC and this does not belie my original comment.

New comment by andrewtj in "Root DNS Zone Now DNSSEC Signed"

andrewtj — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 09:19:49 +0000

as of yesterday people can resolve domains over DNSSEC

People can resolve the root over DNSSEC. This is a milestone, but it's one to be followed by many, many more before it affects clients.

New comment by andrewtj in "Root DNS Zone Now DNSSEC Signed"

andrewtj — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 06:30:51 +0000

Your reading of my post as "omg it's not deployed" is an unwarranted exaggeration. I merely stated that for me, someone who maintains a from the wire-up DNS implementation, this baby-step doesn't change anything practical — which is something you've agreed with.

EDIT:

It goes without saying but I'll state it anyway, this cascade of down-votes is not the reaction I'd expect for making what I consider to be a pretty innocuous comment about something that potentially affects the priorities of my startup.

New comment by andrewtj in "Root DNS Zone Now DNSSEC Signed"

andrewtj — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 05:49:34 +0000

I'm going to continue ignoring DNSSEC until I see it affect clients in a meaningful way. Until then I think there is other things my users would prefer I spent my time on.

New comment by andrewtj in "Ask HN: Should I Learn Ruby?"

andrewtj — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:57:06 +0000

I can only assume that your vitriol stems from my lmgtfy post and so for that I apologise. My comment about the points was and is both sincere and practical advice and I hope you can revisit that post and my others in a less antagonistic light.

How can Australia build a great technology sector?

andrewtj — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:41:00 +0000

Article URL: http://delimiter.com.au/2010/07/16/how-can-australia-build-a-great-technology-sector/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1519903

Points: 1

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New comment by andrewtj in "How long can Atlassian stay Australian?"

andrewtj — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:28:04 +0000

Mike's rebuttal buried deep in the comments is worth reading: http://delimiter.com.au/2010/07/15/how-long-can-atlassian-st...

Hibari: newly open-sourced consistency-focused distributed key-value store

andrewtj — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 02:43:40 +0000

Article URL: http://hibari.sourceforge.net/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1516776

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by andrewtj in "Hacker News Daily (announcement)"

andrewtj — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:15:36 +0000

My bad, I get excessively terse when I'm tired. I wasn't suggesting it out of utility but out of appreciation — nothing says thank you quite like a superfluous vanity domain.

EDIT: Just noticed my other post has garnered at least one down-vote so although I'm pretty sure this idea doesn't have legs, on the off-chance you dear reader are one of ~13 other folks who'd like to see this happen, drop me an email to express your interest.

New comment by andrewtj in "Hacker News Daily (announcement)"

andrewtj — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:37:14 +0000

I'd like to PayPal you $5 toward obtaining daily.hn ($62 + whatever the tax is on gandi.net) — anyone else?

New comment by andrewtj in "Crash Data Suggest Driver Error in Toyota Accidents"

andrewtj — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 05:06:14 +0000

The idea of growing old and having my facilities degrade like that truly scares me.

New comment by andrewtj in "Wireshark: Facetime on Iphone 4: Vanilla unencrypted STUN and SIP"

andrewtj — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 06:29:34 +0000

Although the identifying info from those screenshots is scrubbed, the comments say the R-URI is basically user@ip:port. This is interesting: there's no SIP proxy in between.

Unfortunately I see "Bandwidth Limit Exceeded" when I go to that page but your comment makes me wonder whether they are doing SIP URI discovery via DNS-SD[1] given their penchant for DNS-SD.

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-lee-sip-dns-sd-uri-03 (ignore the stuff about mDNS and substitute Wide-area Bonjour)

New comment by andrewtj in "Why did Quora choose Python (over PHP and others) for its development?"

andrewtj — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:49:21 +0000

Charlie Cheever's comment "Python data structures map well to JavaScript data structures" resonates with me. I'm building something in Erlang right now and having come from Python, it's just plain grating.

New comment by andrewtj in "No, that is not a competitive advantage"

andrewtj — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:37:28 +0000

For a hosted service in a mature market would an open source core be considered an advantage, disadvantage or irrelevant?

Scripting News: An end-user app development tool? Pfui

andrewtj — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 02:54:02 +0000

Article URL: http://scripting.com/stories/2010/07/12/anEnduserAppDevelopmentToo.html#comment-61711709

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1510206

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by andrewtj in "PG's Hackers & Painters is O'Reilly's $10 ebook deal today"

andrewtj — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:46:33 +0000

Gotta wander off on a tangent here — scribd is a beautiful site! I'm probably the last one around here to find out since this is the first time I've looked at their site since they dropped Flash (which I ignored) but wow, what a difference — if you found scribd not to your taste and haven't been back since, it's time to revisit it.

New comment by andrewtj in "Ask HN: Should I Learn Ruby?"

andrewtj — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:17:13 +0000

It figures you downvoted me. You will probably downvote this one too.

So that's what concerned you. The points don't matter. Seriously, they don't mean anything and certainly shouldn't change the way you interact with people. Particularly as you don't know who is doling out the points.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1505323