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Re:The Bristol pound is giving sterling a run for its money on Thursday June 11, 2015 @07:06AM (#9698881)
Fascinating. Curious if anyone knows what the legality is of replicating this in the U.S.?
Re:Thousands of secret keys found in Android apps on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @11:08PM (#7914194)
Re:A Measurement Study of Google Play on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @10:21PM (#7914077)
PlayDrone indexed and decompiled 1,100,000 Google Play applications. The source revealed a lot of applications were including OAuth tokens in applications (e.g. AWS tokens, FB tokens); a critical security hole. Very interesting paper and presentation.
Re:Scaling MongoDB at Mailbox on Thursday September 12, 2013 @04:57PM (#6376901)
Our disk size shrank to 10% of stock mongodb size.

The migration is easy now that they've released a tool to replicate from a stock mongo to TokuMX. They also do have commercial support that we've paid for and their team has been incredibly helpful and responsive.

Re:Scaling MongoDB at Mailbox on Thursday September 12, 2013 @03:53PM (#6376510)
We moved to TokuMX (http://www.tokutek.com/products/tokumx-for-mongodb/) recently and saw a 2x improvement in response times. They've swapped out mongo's backend with their fractal tree storage engine which is MVCC. Definitely worth checking out.
Re:Tmate - Instant terminal sharing on Monday June 17, 2013 @04:06PM (#5895586)
You don't need to create an SSH account or let your friends connect to your machine. Your session is proxied through the tmate.io server (safely) so that you can avoid the headache of opening up a connection.
Re:Tmate - Instant terminal sharing on Monday June 17, 2013 @03:43PM (#5895431)
This is tmux with the headache of sharing an ssh session solved.
Re:Tmate - Instant terminal sharing on Monday June 17, 2013 @03:38PM (#5895397)
I've tried this out and it is dramatically better then other alternatives, full screen-sharing suffers from latency issues (screenhero, logmein, etc...) and sharing an ssh session is a pain to get setup (e.g. wemux). I highly recommend it.
Re:Turn Gtalk Into A Command Line for the Web With Zapier on Monday April 29, 2013 @08:14PM (#5629696)
This reminds me of a side project I've been working: http://autobot.io. Idea is to have a chat bot in your email that can handle mundane tasks. I started with scheduling as that's a particularly acute pain-point for me.
Re:Improve Your Ruby Workflow by Integrating vim/tmux/pry on Tuesday November 20, 2012 @01:12PM (#4810300)
This improved my productivity by at least 2x. Highly recommended.
Re:Why do event sites suck? on Saturday September 12, 2009 @08:21AM (#818850)
I'm also interested and tackling the problem myself. Contact me at kkouddous at gmail - would love to share best practices.