YesThatTom2

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by YesThatTom2 7d ago
Don’t forget about Lotus Network Notes! It was one of AT&T’s attempts to “kill the internet”. The people working on it were down the hall from me when I was at AT&T. It only worked on Novell networking. I asked how they plan on dea
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by YesThatTom2 12d ago
> This change does not affect Google Workspace aliases or other Gmail addresses you own. I bet most people complaining about this change don’t even know this feature exists. Right now you can forge email from any email address you can ve
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by YesThatTom2 20d ago
This is FANTASTIC! I laughed so hard I nearly fell out of my chair. Have you seen DNSControl? If you want a serious alternative to the Route53 API, there's an open source project called https://dnscontrol.org/ DNSCont
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by YesThatTom2 29d ago
Maybe instead of being an author your should have had the foresight to be Jeff Bezos.
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by YesThatTom2 1mo ago
Can they do something similar so that caps include the full date/time? I hate when caps are perpetually “1 hour ago”.
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by YesThatTom2 1mo ago
So… what language do you use? No (useful) language is simple. Claiming go is not simple without naming a language for comparison is a party foul.
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by YesThatTom2 1mo ago
The difference is now the US has a leader that is actively encouraging its downfall.
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Unethical Ways to Manage Technical Debt(queue.acm.org)
2 points by YesThatTom2 1mo ago|0 comments
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by YesThatTom2 1mo ago
(Replying to my own post). Also, it’s gotta be mentally draining to be told by the president they have to win but also always let Russian attacks though. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/defens
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by YesThatTom2 1mo ago
I suspect the Cold War of cyber warfare that is happening is orders of magnitude bigger than the public knows. Imagine knowing this and not being able to get emotional support from your friends and family.
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by YesThatTom2 1mo ago
That turned out to be false. Normal attrition / vacation time.
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by YesThatTom2 1mo ago
SPF flattening is difficult to get correct and then you have to check it every so often to update it. DNSControl automates this. https://docs.dnscontrol.org/language-reference/domain-modifi... (It’s open source)
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by YesThatTom2 2mo ago
"The best way to teach something new is to compare it to something the audience already understands." Could someone take the example, reduce it to a non-generic version for two types I DO understand, then show that with the new fe
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Controlling VSCode from the Terminal(yesthatblog.com)
1 points by YesThatTom2 4mo ago|0 comments
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by YesThatTom2 4mo ago
He was also executive director of both the USENIX Association in its very early years.
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by YesThatTom2 4mo ago
“Dictators stay in power until there are food riots” is what every sociologist I know tells me. I hope the “riots” are in the form of voting.
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by YesThatTom2 5mo ago
Ada was also ignored because the typical compiler cost tens of thousands of dollars. No open source or free compiler existed during the decades where popular languages could be had for free. I think that is the biggest factor of all.
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by YesThatTom2 5mo ago
I’m old enough to remember when the FSF said that blocking spam was censorship. Good to see them wake up.
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by YesThatTom2 5mo ago
Whatbmakes you say that? Devs use stacked PRs in small and large repos today.
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by YesThatTom2 5mo ago
I will speculate the DDOS attacks are funded by companies and governments that benefit from not being held accountable for their past deeds. I suspect X, Google, China, PRNK, Hungary, etc
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by YesThatTom2 6mo ago
If Dijkstra blamed Knuth it would have been the best recursive joke ever.
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by YesThatTom2 6mo ago
I hear you, friend! While you were seeing those problems with Java at Google, I saw seeing it with Python. So many levels of indirection. Holy cow! So many unneeded superclasses and mixins! You can’t reason about code if the indirection
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by YesThatTom2 6mo ago
This is the way.
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by YesThatTom2 6mo ago
Oh, damn! I should have picked a name that references "you'll poke your eye out!"
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Don't template YAML, poke it(github.com)
1 points by YesThatTom2 6mo ago|4 comments
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by YesThatTom2 6mo ago
Poking values into your YAML or JSON files has benefits over building them with templates.
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by YesThatTom2 6mo ago
So how many angels can you fit on the head of a pin?
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by YesThatTom2 6mo ago
Here we see Go haters in their natural habitat, the HN comment section. Watch as they stand at the watering hole, bored and listless. A sad look on their faces, knowing that now that Go has generics, all their joy has left their life. Like
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by YesThatTom2 7mo ago
I said this in 2015... just not as well! "Automation Should Be Like Iron Man, Not Ultron" https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2841313
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by YesThatTom2 7mo ago
I can’t find where in the article the author claims it is new (as in original). In fact, the author shows that this is an evolution of go vet and others. What’s new, however, is the framework that allows home-grown add ons, which doesn’t ha

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