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The “desert island machine” concept brings to my mind this incredible talk from David Beazley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ4Sn-Y7AP8 https://www.youtube.c
by flobosg 3y ago
The “desert island machine” concept brings to my mind this incredible talk from David Beazley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ4Sn-Y7AP8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ4Sn-Y7AP8
- aequitas 3y agoReminds me of something similar I went through on my first job fresh out of school. Maybe not as exciting as uncovering secrets in a 1.5TB source code vault, but we had these locked down workstations with nothing but a browser, Office and some vendor specific tools you could install from a software catalog. Nothing useful like an IDE or SDK and every other binary downloaded that was not approved would not run. Imagine my reaction when I found that one of the vendor tools included a Python runtime (albeit an old one like 1.6 or so). Which allowed me to script against the Exchange's server IMAP and automate my morning tasks of sifting through hundreds of monitoring emails from hours to minutes. Saving precious time I could invest in further developing the tool to include a full web interface and all sorts of nonsense.