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> smart but artless This is why it's so important for me to work on something people use. At a previous job I'd sometimes hit a wall. I would log into one of
by matt_wulfeck 10y ago
> smart but artless
This is why it's so important for me to work on something people use.
At a previous job I'd sometimes hit a wall. I would log into one of the production API hosts and tail -f the access logs, where I'd see many different people and applications using a piece of software that I'd help write. I'd grab an IP address and geolocate it and see where the person was from.
The humanization of work can be extremely powerful. It reminds you that you're providing value to the world, that you've created something useful even if it sometimes feels so pointless.
- sverrirs 10y agoSeriously, create a small report based on the logs that tracks visits, popular calls etc. It will do you good every morning to check it (charts and comparisons are great) and it will be an asset when promotion time comes around and you have define your "contribution" to the company :)
- patrickdavey 10y agoI absolutely love the visualisation on bookdepository [0] where you can see what people are buying... [0] http://www.bookdepository.com/live http://www.bookdepository.com/live
- i336_ 10y agoHuh, the books it's showing are really interesting too! PS, it's a periodic XHR to http://map.bookdepository.com/browse/map.json http://map.bookdepository.com/browse/map.json, which gives back one thing. Just in case you were interested...
- nf05papsjfVbc 10y agoThough I know that your intentions were harmless, I'd like to add that it's not a good idea to do such a lookup without a sound reason. At some places where I worked, I could have been fired for doing that unless I was looking to fix a bug and this particular bit of data was essential.
- crypt1d 10y agoI'm going to assume that those companies u worked at had good intentions as well, but this seems like an unfounded fear. Unless u are working on a heavily confidential project that has a certain legal anonymity requirement (in which case the user's IP should be scrambled anyway), I don't see how doing a whois query could create any damage.
- pc86 10y agoYou should generally have a reason to do anything in production regardless of the confidentiality.
- nf05papsjfVbc 10y ago- It diminishes privacy - It shows by example that this behaviour is okay thus others are less reluctant to run queries of smilar nature In itself each of them is not so big but all these behaviours add up to the 'culture' of either respecting the user's privacy or taking it not very seriously.