Hacker News: tfar

New comment by tfar in "Fastly Outage"

tfar — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 10:03:58 +0000

https://flutter.dev/ and https://fastlane.tools/ as well.

New comment by tfar in "Logs in High Sierra Show Plaintext Password for APFS Encrypted External Volumes"

tfar — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 10:09:17 +0000

Certainly not transparent file system compression. Can save developers couple 10 GBs but hey (source code, binaries, debug symbols, all compress nicely).

New comment by tfar in "Mozilla announces an open gateway for the internet of things"

tfar — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 07:55:35 +0000

One example is shown in this 2017 FOSDEM talk: https://archive.fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/xmpp_iot/

New comment by tfar in "Launching Today: CircleCI 2.0 Reaches General Availability"

tfar — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 09:56:50 +0000

Is there a way to cache build results for follow up builds? So the next build only needs to rebuild the files that changed?

New comment by tfar in "Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory"

tfar — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 07:03:17 +0000

"CF doesn't even host them, they just protect their sites from DDoS and DNS."

The #1 excuse people use. They do more than just DNS, they deliver the actual data, that would have been delivered by the original host, to visitors. So I'd consider them hosting an automatically updated mirror, and as bad as the original host.

New comment by tfar in "Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber"

tfar — Sun, 19 Feb 2017 21:57:27 +0000

  "HR serves to protect the company"

That point comes up every time a bad-HR related post is placed here. However, isn't it very short sighted to consider silencing/removing the accusers a protection of the company. This results in a bad culture and bad PR about that culture in developer circles. Won't the reduced diversity and all that comes with it have bad effect on the company long term?

New comment by tfar in "Cisco: Magic WebEx URL Allows Arbitrary Remote Command Execution"

tfar — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 08:08:32 +0000

Why do you need a extension for that? Wouldn't it be enough for the client app to register a custom URL scheme handler and their website using that custom URL scheme to open the client?

New comment by tfar in "High-Speed ES2015"

tfar — Sat, 14 Jan 2017 14:10:58 +0000

That is not a sign of the quality of the language though. It is more a sign of how much money went into making a poor quality language perform well. Compare the speed of JS JIT VMs to Lua JIT VMs considering the investment respectively for example.

New comment by tfar in "Signal protocol comes to XMPP/Jabber"

tfar — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 16:47:18 +0000

Well, to be pendantic, it's not the Signal protocol. It's a Signal-like protocol, Olm, brought to XMPP/Jabber.

New comment by tfar in "Opus codec available now in Asterisk"

tfar — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 20:47:06 +0000

Also see this for Asterix, Opos, VP8 and patents: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-dev/2013-May/0604...

New comment by tfar in "APFS in Detail"

tfar — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 06:57:54 +0000

I would not be surprised if one could write a ZFS implementation optimized for more constrained devices. If you already know you are going to a have flash storage you can probably ditch some of the N layers of cache you see in common ZFS implementations. Not that ZFS is a one size fits all, but the file systems specification could be implemented in more than one way.

New comment by tfar in "The State of Mobile XMPP in 2016"

tfar — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 19:24:37 +0000

> But XMPP gives you another freedom. The freedom to choose your user experience. User experience describes the way we use something.

I don't think users care about the freedom to choose the UX. They just want a good UX and that's it.

> Slack in turn fails to provide a decent mobile experience.

According the ratings of app stores, users are pretty happy with them.

> PGP has been around in the XMPP community for several years but is currently being reworked into a more modern extension called XEP-0374: OpenPGP for XMPP Instant Messaging that promises to make the onboarding easier for novice users.

I don't get how something OpenPGP will make onboarding any easier for XMPP. New XMPP users who might have an automatically generated account somewhere, still start with an empty contact list. Onboarding is definitely the key issue for mobile XMPP.

New comment by tfar in "Electron 1.0 is here"

tfar — Wed, 11 May 2016 14:09:29 +0000

There basically is. Linux per se is just not a desktop OS, like Windows or OS X. Ubuntu has a standard UI, Debian's default install has a standard UI, Kubuntu has a standard UI, and so on.

New comment by tfar in "Modernizing AbiWord code"

tfar — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 21:15:53 +0000

It helps okay. I recently used it to slowly and mostly automatically introduce more and more C++11 across a bigger code base. For example it does a great job introducing nullptr [0] and an okay job turning classic for loops into range based for loops [1] where possible.

[0] https://github.com/swift/swift/commit/eddd92ed76ae68cb1e2026... [1] https://github.com/swift/swift/commit/3c560e31b0f168da917e8d...

New comment by tfar in "Facebook Messenger XMPP is going away"

tfar — Thu, 26 Mar 2015 08:45:15 +0000

You could also have clients and servers implement http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0357.html .