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by sammnaser 11mo ago
Awesome! Been running an IRC server and looking for a decent native client, the ecosystem seems to have frozen around the first Bush presidency so will definitely be trying this out.
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by sammnaser 1y ago
That comment was specifically engendered by Python trauma
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by sammnaser 1y ago
> The bottom line: There are only two absolutely guaranteed ways to build bug-free, resilient, maintainable software. Two. And they are not static vs. dynamic typing. Two ways. Thing is - we humans have yet to discover either of those tw
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by sammnaser 2y ago
I don't see what problem this solves, especially in its current form only supporting Unix. Bash scripts are already portable enough across Unix environments, the headaches come from dependency versioning (e.g. Mac ships non-GNU awk, et
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by sammnaser 2y ago
Who is the audience for this article? Anyone who has read Frost's body of work understands there is a plaintive, wistful, and dark nature to his poetry. The article even goes so far as to invoke the classic high-school, "guys, The
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by sammnaser 3y ago
Holy shit this is incredible. Incredible for both the animator and OSS community around Blender that makes this possible.
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by sammnaser 3y ago
Three-man dev team to leap-frog right past all the AAA studio entries.
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by sammnaser 4y ago
I have been conditioned to expect low-effort, surface level, self promotion fluff when I click on a Medium article. The site feels like if Quora and LinkedIn had a baby. I don't know, maybe it's just because I mainly stick to prog
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by sammnaser 6y ago
Tailscale.
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by sammnaser 6y ago
In my experience it's been extremely competitive to get a spot in the non Bay Area offices within FAANG. The New York and Seattle offices are generally highly sought after, and there are typically many, many less teams operating outsid
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A case study in overthinking: CTF writeup(samnaser.com)
1 points by sammnaser 6y ago|1 comments
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by sammnaser 6y ago
Briefly wrote up the process of solving a simple CTF challenge from the perspective of a near-beginner at security stuff.
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by sammnaser 7y ago
Different Linux distributions ship with various package managers / other userspace tooling. But they all run on top of the Linux kernel. I can see how having a base image called "Ubuntu 18.04" might make it seem like there&#x
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by sammnaser 7y ago
Good spot, but be careful in the future in your approach. Some places will nail you for having not stopped at the point where you unpacked the apk resources and noticed the API keys. Downloading the credentials might not have been the smart
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by sammnaser 7y ago
Indeed, I didn't notice that. In any case, the issue doesn't exist anymore, and the public discussion on this problem was wiped.
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Plaid Deletes GitHub Issue Exposing Imitation of Bank Login UIs
169 points by sammnaser 7y ago|46 comments
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by sammnaser 7y ago
Bloom Filters are awesome.
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by sammnaser 8y ago
You're totally right. I also acknowledge that it's hard to develop those technical skills in the first place without patience, humility, and a willingness to admit to more experienced people that you don't know what you'
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by sammnaser 8y ago
I guess it's like saying the most important traits of a golfer are patience and focus. Sure, if you're missing those, you'll toxically spiral when you don't perform, but are those the "most important skills" in
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by sammnaser 8y ago
I see your point, but I think when migrating over a million loc, it's a question of practicality. Incrementally migrating a project from Python 2 to 3, between which at least large-scale architectural patterns are more-or-less identica