hobls

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by hobls 6y ago
Yep! I love it for simple projects.
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by hobls 6y ago
That's really neat. It reminds me of generating a CLI based on docstring, which is another pattern that I like a lot.
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by hobls 8y ago
Yeah? I'm seeing a lot of SDE roles in the $250k+/yr range, and I've never seen tech writing anywhere near there.
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by hobls 8y ago
What I've seen is that the salary is dramatically lower, and as you noted, the opportunities to advance into management are more more difficult to obtain. (My wife spent time as a technical writer. I work in software engineering.)
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by hobls 8y ago
> cross-generational achievements and accomplishments I think you're trying to say, "having an advantage due to your birth or family." You're really suggesting that someone's name, address, and gender should be p
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by hobls 8y ago
Note also that James Gosling works at AWS[1]. [1] https://www.geekwire.com/2017/legendary-computer-scientist-j...
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by hobls 8y ago
Yeah, I got really used to it! On the new devices without a home button it’s a little tricky to find that functionality since it’s disabled by default.
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by hobls 8y ago
> bring the next hand out or drop your phone.... This is not a great solution, but in "Accessibility Options" you can enable the gesture to swipe down on the bottom to bring the top of the screen down to the middle so you can r
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by hobls 8y ago
Absolutely agreed. Brains are bizarre. My mother-in-law once had what we (and her primary physician) believed was a serious flu. The moment we realized that it was much worse than that was when she started calmly speaking total nonsense. Sh
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by hobls 8y ago
Yeah, that’s why I said maybe Seattle. I sort of suspect not. (And I live here.)
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by hobls 8y ago
I’m sure that’s true somewhere like NYC, and maybe it’s even true in Seattle, but it appears to be distinctly less true in smaller towns. In small town America it’s literally just the same cops playing army dress up.
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by hobls 8y ago
Pretty much all of the experts on this topic disagree with you. My understanding is that in order to have a good voting system you must be able to verify the result even if the software was compromised . It’s a VERY tricky requirement, and
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by hobls 8y ago
> Smoke less This. Seriously. Being just a little high can be really fun! It’s so easy to just keep smoking until you’re a fucking mess, especially if you’re someone who used to smoke more. I feel like smoking all the time is very unhelp
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by hobls 8y ago
I have no idea what the actual story was, but I would imagine it can be both true and not true in the way you’re imagining. Say you really need new simple scalable storage because X part of your stack has bottlenecks. You spin up a team to
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by hobls 8y ago
I don’t know the origin story, but that doesn’t discredit anything. Lots of Amazon teams predate AWS, and so does some of their technology. You wouldn’t make a new service and then drop absolutely everything across a huge company to force m
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by hobls 8y ago
Sure, but then you’re calling your DB to validate the JWT every time anyway. You’ve just removed the whole “JWTs are cool because they’re stateless” benefit.
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by hobls 8y ago
Very cool! I think fuzzers are SO interesting. One of my favorite examples is lcamtuf’s post on generating valid JPGs from nothing [1]. Just so awesome. 1: https://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2014/11/pulling-jpegs-out-of-
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by hobls 8y ago
> Or in other words, a fuzzer is a program that tries to create source code that finds bugs in a compiler. This is a very narrow definition of a fuzzer. There are a lot of types of fuzzer that do not generate source code, and are not int
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by hobls 8y ago
Client side development in general. Libraries, SDKs, etc, are also generally lower stress. They don’t tend to just break in the middle of the night or whatever.
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by hobls 8y ago
I’m sure that’s true, but my point is that if you have that much money riding on a system you should have to figuratively (if not literally!) put two keys in and turn the lock at the same time to break shit. There should be systematically e
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by hobls 8y ago
Oh no. I hope you find another time in your life where you’re treated as well as you were then.
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by hobls 8y ago
The longer I work the more convinced I become that kindness is critical. 22 year old me would not agree, but he was wrong.
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by hobls 8y ago
Sounds like someone else’s fault, unless he owned and designed the system. No single engineer should be able to cause that kind of damage. Quorum rules, etc.
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by hobls 8y ago
Ubuntu is certainly not known as a lightweight distro.
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by hobls 8y ago
I’m curious to hear more about what the device itself was doing. It’s doing RSA decryption, of course, but is that it? Can we still recover “d” if the phone is doing other stuff at the same time? I wonder if exponentiaton is produces distin
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by hobls 8y ago
I’m curious how reliably you could distinguish the act of exponentiaton from other activity if the phone was just sitting on a table. (Or if it was being actively used, but you weren’t able to see what was happening.)
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by hobls 8y ago
Right?? Apparently everyone on blind is making $400k TC with four years of experience.
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by hobls 8y ago
Of course it’s disputed. There are lots of happy employees of tech giants. Any company with thousands and thousands of employees is going to have a wide variety of teams of varying qualities. (And yeah, the pay makes a difference. Not a lot
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by hobls 8y ago
I guess you think every major tech company is a bad engineering workplace? Seems like a broad brush.
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by hobls 8y ago
This kind of attack is catastrophic in cryptography.

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