progmetaldev

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by progmetaldev 3mo ago
I fixed a lot of Windows machines, especially partition issues, with Knoppix up until around 2014. I used to also use the wireless tools to detect rogue access points in hotels where my employer was providing internet access. Those were som
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by progmetaldev 3mo ago
I'm definitely not arguing that SUVs and trucks are killing people, and as someone that drives a Ford F-150, I wouldn't mind having to be licensed for a commercial drivers license (although would like that to be based on skill, ra
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by progmetaldev 4mo ago
I'm glad I kept using an Audioscrobbler since 2008. Right now I have it hooked up to Spotify, but I've used one with foobar2000 for non-streaming, and have found other players to have the functionality for the most part (at least
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by progmetaldev 5mo ago
I've worked with mostly PHP from this era, or at least developers that are from this era. The code still runs fine, and not having things like return types don't make the code less able to run (just not as easy to catch bugs). I h
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by progmetaldev 5mo ago
Sorry to get back to you so long after you posted, but I really appreciate your comment! Also a huge fan of Atari computers (I learned my first programming on my dad's Atari 130XE 8-bit around 1990, quite a while after it went out of p
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by progmetaldev 5mo ago
I can't remember which album it was, perhaps "With Teeth," or the mentioned "Ghosts I-IV," when Trent Reznor offered the GarageBand files for the album. I thought it was amazing for an artist to offer their work up
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by progmetaldev 5mo ago
Since most won't actually deal with fintech (I don't know the stats on HN, but I'm talking devs as one industry), your first "a" example might actually be better than your first "b" example, depending on t
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by progmetaldev 5mo ago
My book states that the coloring is in the newest version. I suppose I should go back and take a look at the copyright, in case it is the newest, but is fairly old. I enjoy the general feeling of the book, like claustrophobia inside somethi
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by progmetaldev 5mo ago
I mean, hasn't it learned from reading other's code? I don't think it can be any better than the common patterns and practices that it has been trained on. Some outlier of amazing code is probably not going to make much of a
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by progmetaldev 5mo ago
To me, it instead sounds like you care about the code you produce. You judge it more harshly than you probably do other code. It sounds like you are also meeting deadlines, so I'd call that a success and more production than what a lot
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by progmetaldev 6mo ago
Fresh out of college, I had an interview for a job working with COBOL. There were classes being held to teach people development, as well as how to maintain existing COBOL software. It was between myself and another recruit, and that other
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by progmetaldev 6mo ago
I think a large number of people seem to forget the trust that companies have built on IBM over decades. The mainframe market is IBM, where IBM already had a hold. People want to believe that dropping such a large company could be done with
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by progmetaldev 6mo ago
When I was younger, I went into some places that I shouldn't have (legally). For myself, something scarier is walking through offices and tunnels that look completely deserted, and then coming upon an office or room where it's cle
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by progmetaldev 6mo ago
It's more to do with the standard library being so barren of common application needs, and looking for a solution that the community has gotten behind. Axios has been a common dependency in many codebases, because it is a solid solutio
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by progmetaldev 6mo ago
Isn't the issue that a lot of these devices have vulnerabilities and aren't updated often enough, rather than the device being of Chinese origin? You look at hardware for the home market, and most haven't received an update i
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by progmetaldev 6mo ago
Sometimes if it's a client that isn't too difficult, they are worth keeping if they come at you with projects that expand your knowledge.
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by progmetaldev 6mo ago
Squid caching takes me back. I was dealing with a network for a large car dealership (2006), and they were having issues with pages appearing out of date, as well as sales people who couldn't help themselves from looking at adult websi
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by progmetaldev 6mo ago
I think the problem is that the "deep state" really came into public consciousness with Trump, on his first run. While I agree with your definition of the deep state, that is not what most people think of in current days, and Trum
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by progmetaldev 6mo ago
I agree with this. I just have seen a huge pile-on Microsoft for Azure, in regards to this GitHub migration. There are already plenty of legitimate reasons to be upset with Microsoft, without needing to tackle Azure.
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by progmetaldev 6mo ago
I keep hearing this, and I know Azure has had some issues recently, but I rarely have an issue with Azure like I do with GitHub. I have close to 100 websites on Azure, running on .NET, mostly on Azure App Service (some on Windows 2016 VMs).
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by progmetaldev 6mo ago
Does the amount of labor that was provided by a community make a difference? What if it was minimal? Where do you draw the line (any piece of code accepted, or a "large portion" of code)? I didn't downvote you, but I suspect
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by progmetaldev 6mo ago
I agree, along with the child comment. I think the issue is that if there wasn't some kind of ability to "rug pull," that we would see far fewer open source contributions in the first place. I hate that a company can take a f
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by progmetaldev 6mo ago
You could always invite him over to check it out, just to see how he reacts to it, and if he's interested more in the tech aspect or the music aspect. Due to the increased rarity of the device, you'd probably want to find out if h
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by progmetaldev 7mo ago
There are still some processes that require a waterfall method for development, though. One example would be if you have a designer, and also have a front-end developer that is waiting for a feature to be complete to come in and start their
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by progmetaldev 9mo ago
Dun and Bradstreet (?). I believe I'm remembering this correctly. I still deal with a few financial institutions that insist on using an EV SSL certificate on their websites. I may be wrong, but I believe that having an EV SSL gives a
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by progmetaldev 10mo ago
This is a great write-up for those of us that were into Quake when it was released. Trying to tune your performance was a huge undertaking during the days where you tried running Quake while also having Windows 95. I got into Quake because
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by progmetaldev 10mo ago
I truly respect this statement, and position. I always hope that the benefit I've provided through my software is felt, even if I don't directly benefit from it. It's about taking pride in your work, and what it has brought o
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by progmetaldev 10mo ago
Unfortunately, this will also expose your IP address, which may leave you vulnerable even when the WAF and DDoS protections come back up (unless you take the time to only listen for Cloudflare IP address ranges, which could still take a bee
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by progmetaldev 11mo ago
The box art for Haunted House (not the racy, original version) always frightened me as a child. I got the same feeling when I would go through my dad's vinyl collection and would run into the cover of The Moody Blues' "On The
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by progmetaldev 11mo ago
I have had intermittent issues with winget today. I use UniGetUI for a front-end, and anything tied to Microsoft has failed for me. Judging by the logs, it's mostly retrieving the listing of versions (I assume similar to what 'apt

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