SomeCallMeTim

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by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago
IF I weren't already married and firmly attached to my current location, I would love to be a Digital Nomad. I think the idea is wonderful, and I'm sad that it came along too late for me to enjoy. Maybe after the kids are grown
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by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago
Ummm... I looked at the account, and it doesn't look like a shill account in the slightest. In this case, I personally came to the comments to say exactly what the top comment said: This is raising the subscriber compliance limit from
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by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago
OK, I found ONE site that uses CloudFlare that I use regularly, and I've changed its password. Which one is it? Hacker News.
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by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago
> Your argument essentially revolves around "what are the chances I'll be compromised!?" ... You misunderstand. My argument is explicitly around "What is the potential effect?" That's why I listed changing
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by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago
I have been reluctant to use a service that keeps my passwords for me in the cloud. Instead I'm using KeePass. KeePass is open source and has its "full stack" of encryption available for review. For LastPass I need to trust t
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by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago
No, the ones I consider to be "important" have 2FA. When I log into the Woodworking Forums, I have to use a password. If someone steals my Woodworking Forums authentication and posts as me there, um....Oh well. Sucks, and I'l
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by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago
My password manager has > 500 entries. Changing all the passwords....isn't going to happen any time soon. If it only took 60 seconds per site, it would still take eight hours to change them all. Might change a few key passwords, tho
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by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago
> Google doesn't lose my email; I probably will lose my email, because an email server is backed by a database and doing database backups right is hard if that is not your day-job. I use IMAP email. My email is simultaneously stored
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by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago
> It's about as relevant as implementing quicksort. ...did you actually read my comment? Because I went on to say that I didn't think it was relevant. That said, understanding how quicksort works is important, not because you
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by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago
>The fact that you entertain this thought is an indication that something is not quite right with our field. Agreed. But try as I might, I can't come up with a solution that I'd actually support the implementation of. If you ha
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by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago
> Do you have a citation supporting the claim that those failures were due to poor performance and not far more significant problems like failing to correctly model the actual business problem or handle changes? "Poor performance&qu
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by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago
> So if the developers knew to traverse a binary tree, how many of the 75% succeed? I would say it's necessary but not sufficient. There is no perfect interview strategy. But for projects that are entirely developed by people who ca
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by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago
Other people have cited numbers, but in my opinion, most software project (greater than 75%) end up: * Over budget in dollars or time or both * Fragile * Insecure (sometimes profoundly so) * Having major UI issues * Missing major obvious
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by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago
Yes and no. I think that the lead or "surgeon" (to quote The Mythical Man Month) in charge of any app or service development project should be well trained. Anyone who brings in a junior developer (anyone without a CS degree or eq
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by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago
> If you're doing "high level development" on a business app in C++ 11 then knowing assembly and having been through a bog-standard undergraduate CS Compiler Development course will actually help you use a whole bunch of t
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by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago
Yes, this link! Thanks!
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by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago
Interesting. I wonder what the history of their mobile app is, though? It feels like it's a hybrid app, and it feels like it's developed iOS-first, Android-as-afterthought, so it may be the ugly stepchild of the team that gets no
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by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago
I'd put money on the fact that those competitive programming Quora developers aren't working on the Android app. Or even on the Android/Mobile API back-end, which seems to fail frequently -- and lose information you've e
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by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago
I don't have an open source example; I tend to actively avoid such projects, and so I tend to accumulate lists of the ones that seem well engineered rather than the opposite. The Quora app, though: If I'm writing a reasonably long
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by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago
> This same exact argument could be used to require every interview candidate to know assembly. ...because knowing assembly is actually useful to a high level developer? If it were, then yes, I'd say they should know assembly too. B
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by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago
> We should avoid the notion that naive string concatenation is a problem that impedes our ability to deliver software, except for niche applications, this is not the case. The attitude that really basic Computer Science concepts like
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by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago
People will call you at 2AM if you're a plumber. Or a doctor. Or a dentist. Or a locksmith. And sometimes you'll get stuck waiting tables on XMas because the restaurant you work for requires it. Yes, it varies by job. But 2AM call
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by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago
Sorry, but that's based on wishful thinking. Very few people are lucky enough to have their passions overlap with a career that's marketable. What if your passion is woodworking? Making beautiful, detailed cabinets that sell for $
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by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago
I feel very torn about this whole topic. I do think that many (most?) people would be able to learn to program to the point where they can make a good living, in an age where it's harder and harder to make a good living doing anythi
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by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago
Maybe some of the active "Fake News" filtering will also (intentionally or incidentally) reduce these incidents? Would be nice.
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by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago
I've only played along once, when the guy called while I was cooking lunch, but yes, after 15 minutes or so the "manager" came on and cursed me out very vehemently. I told him he should be ashamed for scamming people.
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by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago
I've seen large images give native iOS and Android apps trouble. It's a challenging problem to solve no matter what. And using ReactNative or NativeScript for the high level UI and a plug-in to handle pushing the bits around is pr
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by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago
I'm liking the idea of NativeScript as well, though when doing large image work (or audio or video work), you might still want to drop into native code in a plugin. So that, for instance, you can be sure exactly when the resources fo
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by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago
"Mentat is designed for embedding, initially in an Electron app (Tofino)." It looks like it works both ways.
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by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago
My roof is covered in solar, enough so that I'm net negative on electricity. No coal power here.

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