mcnichol

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by mcnichol 21d ago
Yeah definitely not fascist and I believe that is a control tactic not necessarily an equitability thing. I don't think we have any evidence that anything will be done fairly. In fact the idea of Capitalism in a "fair system"
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by mcnichol 21d ago
You are referring to gans which have complete understanding of the rules and an api interface to leverage interacting with the world. While I think there could be an argument made here you are mixing apples and rocks if you believe ChatGPT
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by mcnichol 21d ago
I can indulge the hypothetical and I appreciate your openness to engage in both sides. I think as you stated, human nature and history is where I am looking at this from. People have a tendency to be unable to sit and do nothing for extende
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by mcnichol 21d ago
I feel this is merely stating the obvious. It goes back to the industrial revolution and every revolution before and after. There was a point where they thought a majority of people would be working as switchboard operators and then telepho
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by mcnichol 2y ago
I'm not arguing the complexity of hacking a password, I'm familiar. So instead of responding with rainbow tables or how knowing the schema informs you the location of salts for the salted hash (which is the actual proper way), I&
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by mcnichol 2y ago
I don't want to take away any steam from your sails but giving bad information in regards to case law shouldn't be taken lightly. Your "expert witness" did you a disservice. Schema is very much a critical field in terms
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by mcnichol 2y ago
This is just one big article on survivor bias. I get what they are saying: There is a difference between theoretical and applied. I think the OWASP/NIST/InfoSec has always been a bit behind because of this mentality. I think there
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by mcnichol 2y ago
I'm not sure how I feel about this. On one hand kudos to them for the self-reflection, facing hard truths, and building a really wide set of tools. But when you look under the hood it's tooling that wraps tooling. The API categori
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by mcnichol 2y ago
I'll be blunt, a lot of what you explained went over my head. I saw some charts that expressed 1hz in the A4 range a bit higher but essentially what you explained. The lower in the scale the more cents per hz but each "scale"
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by mcnichol 2y ago
Now that you are caught up with the rest of us, read my response. Am I saying I don't understand or am I saying I understand but the response is too nitpicky for me and what I feel is reasonably acceptable by the average person.
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by mcnichol 2y ago
Tell me you don't understand how the ear perceives music without telling me you don't understand. Don't be pretentious man, we are tuning guitars and violins not prepping the kids for Juliard. The same as how you use hz to ta
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by mcnichol 2y ago
At least I know there's one person that gets it. I've never ran into such brigading on HN before. I really thought I said something non-confrontational at first. Wait till they get hit with their first domain renewal sniping attac
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by mcnichol 2y ago
The way the article read it seemed as they though they had many domains and customers could bring theirs into that ecosystem. If the customer left it behind they could send it to the wayside. If they are merely a broker then I agree, I don&
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by mcnichol 2y ago
I'm not saying I didn't appreciate it. It just read like a story of their journey and reflection. I think "My journey of learning perfect pitch over 15 years" is more apt Learn perfect pitch in 15 years sounds more like
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by mcnichol 2y ago
You clearly do not understand. They buy 900 domains. They hold 900 domains. Anyone who wants that domain cannot use it but must rent through them (whom they rent through someone else) This is textbook rent seeking behavior.
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by mcnichol 2y ago
Domain registrar's don't prey on you. You own the domain. You can take it and they can't withhold it. The registrar is already doing what this site is doing. I don't have a problem with a site making it easy to setup. It
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by mcnichol 2y ago
Owning 900 domains hoping for them to be rented is "rent-seeking" A simple test: Would all of FolioHD's domains being rented benefit their business or not? They are subsidizing the cost of buying those 900 domains into their
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by mcnichol 2y ago
If you want to be an artist then control of your intellectual property is probably a topic you care a great deal about. Your domain and how people reach you is probably the first lever. If you are giving that up happily, I assume renting wi
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by mcnichol 2y ago
Imagine having 900 houses and renting them out to a community of like minded folks. Whether it is at cost or slightly above, it is "rent seeking" in the sense they own, you borrow. While it isn't rented, they are squatting on
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by mcnichol 2y ago
I feel like this article is more of a "Here's all the things I think about perfect pitch and my journey with music" Maybe I took the title too literally. As someone who wants to gain perfect pitch (and still feels mildly dist
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by mcnichol 2y ago
0-Day incoming
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by mcnichol 2y ago
Monolith vs Microservice argument all over again. Tradeoffs for mono are drivers of micro and vice versa. Looking at the GitHub insights it becomes pretty clear there are about two key devs that commit or merge in PRs to main. I'm gues
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by mcnichol 3y ago
I think this has more to do with testing, maintenance, and how it simplifies portability/flexibility. There is a point where software diving down meets the hardware coming up. When you import a library you start creating harder to sepa
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by mcnichol 3y ago
I know personally Fowlers articles, some of the folks we hired who were former Thought work-ers, and my experience running through agile, SAFE, classic project management, and XP; nothing came close to the XP method. It was put up or shut u
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by mcnichol 3y ago
https://exercism.org Testing Specifically: https://exercism.org/docs/tracks/python/tests I really enjoyed working with my engineers on this site. A lot has changed since I used it last but the ide
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by mcnichol 3y ago
Head First Design Patterns. It's a recent and very friendly introduction to the popular Gang of 4 - Object Oriented Programming book. I love this part of the journey for folks because it opens the door to a world of possibilities that
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by mcnichol 3y ago
Couldn't have said it better. I have loved each one of those tools too. Docker maybe a little more love-hate but I think that has a lot more to do with the politics and salesy side of things and "Who owns what"
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by mcnichol 3y ago
Absolutely. If you told me: "This pipeline will automatically perform all of your [insert line of business] testing, batteries included. XYZ has signed off that if you get to the end of this pipeline you do not need to jump through any
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by mcnichol 3y ago
This right here. I have found some of the greatest products I have used came from: "I'm working on this project, the tools I currently have are just different forms of a hammer...I need a screwdriver. I built a screwdriver. This s
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by mcnichol 3y ago
Not to rain on the parade here but this is literally a copy-pasta product. Jenkins, Google Borg, Cloud Foundry, Concourse Pipelines...and surprise surprise when you look at where he came from...Ex-Google, Ex-VMW, RabbitMQ... If OP wasn&#x27

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