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by alinajaf 14y ago
Hi flyinglizard, I'd love to pick your brain about consulting on ARM/embedded stuff as it's a field I'm interested in. Do you have an email address that I can send a few specific questions to (that I promise won't take more than a few minut
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by alinajaf 14y ago
:). Additionally, I find the double standard that I can get away with phrases like "white peoples collective guilt" to be quite abhorrent. A white person saying the same thing with inverse colours would be deemed a racist, and we all have n
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by alinajaf 14y ago
> but I can go and find them when I get home if you like Yes please! > that people who associate with small groups of people like them can end up subconsciously keeping other people out, because they automatically believe they are n
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Really? If I had built up my profile in the ruby community, gave regular talks at conferences etc you're saying that I wouldn't have been given the opportunity to talk? That they would specifically turn down proposals for non-white speakers
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by alinajaf 14y ago
> diversity is a laudable goal or not (I and others will vigorously defend that it is) Can you point me to some literature about this please? I'd be interested in finding out how you, and the voting majority in the UK, have convinced th
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by alinajaf 14y ago
I find this comment offensive in that it doesn't even consider the possibility of talks from non-sentient objects. I take personal offence on behalf of rocks, gym balls, mass-spectrometers, pastries, table-lamps and all under-represented ob
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by alinajaf 14y ago
> If anything, the responses by the community only prove there's still a problem with diversity. I agree that there's a problem with diversity but believe that it's a white persons problem. Once they're done convincing themselves that t
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by alinajaf 14y ago
As a brown man who has had to deal with racism at various times in my life, I find this whole affair terribly condescending. If I want to speak at a ruby conference, I don't need to see other brown people there to 'motivate' me to do so. I
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by alinajaf 14y ago
> It seems like everywhere I look, people act like they're too good for me, and I'm probably too stupid to ever be a good Rails programmer. Where did you look? Could you introduce me to some of these people that made you feel stupid? I
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by alinajaf 14y ago
> the whole ruby culture seems to be this toxic one where you're respected in proportion to how rude you are I'd be genuinely interested in seeing concrete examples of people held in regard in the ruby community who are respected in pro
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Isn't it just!?
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Interesting to note how people without good programming languages rationalize things.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Exceptional developers.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
I think you might mean transcription.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Great work Claudio! Will definitely give this a try soon. -Ali
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by alinajaf 14y ago
I read CompSci at UCL graduating in 2006. Of the people I'm still in touch with, most do Java at ibanks or went on to non-computer work. The remainder are smattered about higher education, bioinformatics and the web-startup scene. Not a one
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by alinajaf 14y ago
> You can always achieve a token timeout by embedding a timestamp and signing the blob. What's the benefit of this over just sending a random string? One database read for the risk of an attacker being able to create arbitrary valid pas
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by alinajaf 14y ago
What the other response said + they don't point to the same commit. No branch in your git repo can point to a commit in another repo, even if those commits have the same hash.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
> implicitly Explicitly. You can't share branches between repos, but git does a good job of making it look like you can. master and origin/master in your repo are physically different things from master in someone elses. I don't mean to
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by alinajaf 14y ago
> every feature branch means postponing continuous integration. It's possible that you and the OP are talking about different things here. For me personally I branch a hell of a lot to organize my work locally. The vast majority of thes
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by alinajaf 14y ago
I've worked with programmers who are miles better than me, had little patience, plenty of ego and with no interest in helping me learn. It was probably the best thing that happened to my programming career.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
As hinted at in a comment a few threads down, sometimes the sheer effort of trying to impart some knowledge or technique when other developers clearly don't want to hear it takes its toll. In those situations, it is a lot less effort to a
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by alinajaf 14y ago
> meh, if that gets the job done faster then say it. The chance of a 20 minute argument vs a weeks long delay? I'll take the 20 minute argument. I think it's possible that you misread my comment. In this scenario you get the 20 minute a
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by alinajaf 14y ago
As a sanctimonious prick who asks a lot of leading questions, I find it's very difficult to communicate technical insights with other members of my team by just giving them the answers to the hard questions. What I'm guessing you'd like san
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by alinajaf 14y ago
It especially doesn't make sense because the usage of the word "I" in English is mostly because English is quite verbose. Specifically, in most cases it's expected that you specify the subject of a sentence, which happens to be yourself a l
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by alinajaf 14y ago
> Having noted that, I'm curious about what other languages Hacker News participants speak. I think there is a relatively large Japanese-English bilingual(ish) contingent on HN, myself included.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
If you're near a major city in the western world, I think it will take you about two weeks to find a job. You can spend the first two weeks of that visiting your favourite national park or beachside resort. On the last Friday pick up the ph
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by alinajaf 14y ago
You are clearly not very good at being nerds.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
The optimistic and humble side of me wants to believe that this is a rare occurrence. The truth is that I don't remember working on a single codebase that didn't have some eventually discovered vulnerability in auth(entication|orization). W
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Agreed. You don't even need to add any gems or do any rails magic for this to work. In your controller: def edit @aws_credentials = current_user.aws_credentials end def update current_user.aws_credentials.update_a

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