OJ

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by OJ 10y ago
Agreed. The cross pollination required to get security into organisations correctly isn't there. Orgs see security as a pain in the ass, and not an investment/insurance policy. I feel your pain in those latter points.
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by OJ 10y ago
The notion of a national certification plan is being laughed at by anyone who is in the industry for the right reasons. Those involved in the classic commoditised scan-and-bang assessments will love it as it'll continue to keep the cas
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by OJ 10y ago
While the tech scene in Australia may be behind the times in a few ways (possibly security as well), Troy's view here is in no way affected by living here. This material was created because PluralSight wanted CEH-related material, as t
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by OJ 13y ago
Thanks rcconf. Yeah I did feel like a bit of a muppet for missing it. I'm going to say "It was late and I was tired" and try to hide behind that as an excuse ;) I'm pretty sure I would have found it eventually, but I was
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by OJ 14y ago
This seems like a rather unjustified and wanton punishment to me. I can't see anything in his history that is worthy of such treatment. I scan around other areas of HN and see people who are blatant trolls appearing everywhere and they aren
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by OJ 14y ago
You said that you don't like the availability issues then state "but at the moment MongoDB is about as good as it gets."? Just. Wow. Get your head out of the sand mate. MongoDB is nowhere NEAR as good as it gets.
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by OJ 14y ago
That is definitely part of it. When I first started writing I needed to remind myself of this quite a lot. Thankfully I haven't really needed to do that for quite a while now. I enjoy writing and I do it when I can. The goal continues to be
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by OJ 14y ago
I agree with your points. It is hard to make something this small have meaning across the board. This is part of the reason why I targeted the thought at tech blogging in particular. This net may also be too wide, but in my opinion the poin
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by OJ 14y ago
At no point did I say "hide your writing". I think it's clear that the sentiment of the post was not to hide the stuff that you write, but instead to write for the right reasons. If you write for the purpose of pleasing others you'll strugg
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by OJ 14y ago
Thanks for the comment. You're correct, I didn't write this for myself. I decided to post it after a conversation with a few people on Twitter earlier today. I wanted to post something short which summed up how I felt about things. While th
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by OJ 14y ago
I'm a huge fan of http://pointhq.com/
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by OJ 15y ago
hook.io sits on top of Node.js and deals with IO. How on earth does this relate to Nirvana's goal of having something like Node.js for Erlang?
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by OJ 15y ago
This is the most interesting point made so far. Agreed, I had not considered the likes of FSI. That does come with the issue of being painful reading XML config from app.config files, but can easily be handled via what we have. Would you co
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by OJ 15y ago
Thanks again for the comment. Your "protip" implies that "needed" is a known quantity, which it isn't in this case. It's a new project, new development without any clients at all. Personally, I would rather give too much flexibility and win
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by OJ 15y ago
I agree with the point about the ConnectionFactory. That is something I still don't like. It's there, at the moment, to make it easy to test certain parts of the app. We'll look to add an overload to this so that we don't have to specify it
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by OJ 15y ago
equark, I don't think you were being overly negative. It just tends to be common for people on HN to be more terse than necessary and sometimes things can come across the wrong way. I have taken no offense :) The sensible defaults thing is
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by OJ 15y ago
jallman, You're right, we are making a few assumptions, which to me is natural given that this is v0.1.0. It hasn't been used it production because it never existed before now. I fail to see how enabling clustering and connection pooling vi
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by OJ 15y ago
gecko, Our design was not modeled on any existing library's approach to configuration. It was designed based on what we perceived the needs of the application to be. I think making claims that the configuration is "ridiculous" isn't constru
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by OJ 15y ago
Hi equark, Thanks for the question. Yes there are reasons why there are such differences between the CorrugatedIron configuration and that of the project you have linked to. To understand them, I think it's important to look at the differen
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by OJ 16y ago
Webmachine uses Mochiweb behind the scenes, hence the reloader comes for free in this setup. Distel is specific to Emacs. In this series I don't want to discuss which editor to use (esp given I prefer using VIM ;)) as that can come across a
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by OJ 16y ago
Details of this is coming in a future post. The early parts of the series are focussed on the development environment set up :)
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by OJ 16y ago
The company thing still comes with a caveat in that you have to prove that you're not just using it as an umbrella to reduce your tax. There are a set of tests that a company goes through at tax time, and they have to pass them in order to
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by OJ 16y ago
Conditions aren't the important bit imho mate. The important bit is that you can still be got rid of fairly easily (unless you work in the public service, which seems almost impossible to be fired from). In that regard we are quite diff to
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by OJ 16y ago
Yes, for the right job, or for something they love, they would do it. I know because I have done it. I went to the UK in 2004 to do some travelling and working for a couple of years. Initially I was contracting in London at pretty good rate
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by OJ 16y ago
Correct mate, I am an Australian. I would say that our job security level is closer to that of the USA than the UK, but I don't think it's exactly the same. On the whole I've seen way too many good people let go from permy positions while o
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by OJ 16y ago
Apologies to anyone who has struggled to hit the site. It's not used to this level of traffic! I'm enjoying the discussion too, thanks for the insights! OJ
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by OJ 16y ago
This kind of post is what killed Slashdot. Please don't do it to HN too.