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by alinajaf 13y ago
The biggest personal shift for me came when I realised that marketing is not about me, my experience and the marketing copy on my website. It's about giving things of value to other people. Maximise the value you give to others and the
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by alinajaf 13y ago
The only thing I'd add to this is that there exist organisations in the world that can afford to hire a team of developers (or, as it were, execute long-term contracts with a consultancy at an aggregated $10k+ day rate) indefinitely wi
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Kickstart Your Developer Career(happybearsoftware.com)
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by alinajaf 13y ago
That's good to know about Bali, but from what I understand Java is very close to living under Sharia. Having lived in Saudi for a while, I can report that its about as terrifying as you've described there. PS I think the last time
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by alinajaf 13y ago
Clearly I did need help defining the word insult, thanks for clearing that up for me. When you get offended it's an insult but when I get offended by your wrecklessness and apathy, that's just our values being different. All m
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by alinajaf 13y ago
So you've offended my religion. Should you be outcast or not? Try to stay focused here, it's not hard.
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by alinajaf 13y ago
I am a secular humanist. As part of my faith, I believe that human beings have an inalienable right to freedom of speech without fear of persecution. I find your advocation of outcasting from society those who say things that you find offen
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by alinajaf 13y ago
Well that attitude offends my religion. By your own logic you should be arrested, thrown in jail and outcast from society.
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by alinajaf 13y ago
Offensive enough to be sent to jail with murderers, thieves and rapists? You'd either have to be a ridiculously apologistic liberal or put the mental in fundamentalist to go that far.
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by alinajaf 13y ago
As a former Muslim atheist, Jesus Christ! Assuming there's nothing you can do to escape your pending jail term, I would suggest getting your legal person to draw up some sort of agreement where someone can run the business and keep the
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by alinajaf 13y ago
Quick question, have you ever personally experienced this work on a team, or is this just theory? I'm genuinely interested in collecting good examples of it working. The other article about flickr doing this with feature toggles seemed
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by alinajaf 13y ago
As a new parent this is somewhat terrifying. But good on your daughter for setting the teacher straight! At the same time, I was lucky enough in my education in the UK to get a steady stream of secular humanists as science teachers. They ne
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by alinajaf 13y ago
Having met the instructors (and some of the students), they're an incredibly bright bunch of people. They would have put a lot of time and effort into arranging this course. This is probably an excellent way to kick-start your programm
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by alinajaf 13y ago
I get that all the time. I politely remind them that I made a commitment to report their reply as spam, so it would be unethical of me not to. Never engage with them directly. They're a time sink, and they never have your interests at
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by alinajaf 13y ago
Here's mine: Hi there, Please remove all data pertaining to myself or Happy Bear Software from your systems and refrain from contacting me again. Any future correspondence including a reply to this email will be reported as spam.
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by alinajaf 13y ago
I've found that I make a lot of good contacts at my local Ruby user group and through just helping people as much as I can via twitter, mailing lists etc. One problem I have that's similar to what you're talking about is peop
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by alinajaf 13y ago
I envy you because you've yet to discover Greg Egan. You'll want Axiomatic, Permutation City and Diaspora, in that order.
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by alinajaf 13y ago
I think there's a distinction to be made between a web site and web application developer. One builds posters on the internet and the other builds software that just happens to use HTTP. I've found the latter to be considerably mo
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by alinajaf 13y ago
> Panic attacks throw about 50 different symptoms (you have to have a few before you see them all) of which any one of them would feel like an acute, life-threatening crisis to a sane person. Almost everyone who has a true panic attack w
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by alinajaf 13y ago
Yep. I'm perpetually waiting for square to get their shit together and just give us what we want: A frame-by-frame remake with PS4 generation graphics.
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by alinajaf 13y ago
> For example, do you know what AES-GCM is? Do you know HOW the secure cookie store in Rails works? What algorithm it uses?? Do you know you have to change the secret pretty often??? Do you know how authentication in Rails (Devise) works
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by alinajaf 13y ago
> In a little more, I'll show a prototype Say what you will about HN, but comment threads about seemingly impossible technical challenges that end in this make me immensely happy to be here :D
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by alinajaf 13y ago
> But programs in languages which enable, if not encourage, developers to add new methods to the integer '5' can quickly become very difficult to reason about. Can you give me an example of a single ruby developer who thinks th
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by alinajaf 13y ago
You do realize that if you have the private key then generating the public key is trivial? As in you can run a single command with OpenSSL that does it?
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HTTP Transport Basics for Web Developers(happybearsoftware.com)
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by alinajaf 13y ago
> AES is a crypto primitive, AES-CTR-CBCMAC (aka, AES-CCM, but spelled out to emphasize the complexity of it) is a scheme. In this particular example, the 'schemes' you point out didn't fair that well in pretty much every single codebas
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by alinajaf 13y ago
> We also tend to recommend that people simply use PGP for data at rest, and TLS for data in motion When I complain about bad crypto (in API auth in particular) and my clients really really push for me to give them advice, I repeat th
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by alinajaf 13y ago
> another worry is that what is considered secure today might not be secure tomorrow If history is anything to go by then what is secure today will definitely be insecure tomorrow. No real solution to this AFAIK. If vulnerabilities in
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by alinajaf 13y ago
The answer is no, but I forget the exact reason why. Will do a little more research and report back.
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by alinajaf 13y ago
You are of course correct. Thanks! Will fix and rollout once traffic from HN/reddit dies down.

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