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by alinajaf 14y ago
I'm an average programmer, right in the middle of the bell-curve. I know developers who are a great deal more intelligent than I am. The market is such now that even little old me doesn't go two days without a few emails from startup HR dep
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No-one Cares About Security (and what you can do about it)(happybearsoftware.com)
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by alinajaf 14y ago
More images (including video of the incident ) here: http://www.buzzfeed.com/ktlincoln/an-olympic-fencer-refuses-...
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Agreed. I know a lot of Ruby and a bit of C, and it's great that I can write quite high level abstractions that run a few orders of magnitude faster than the equivalent Ruby. This is not to say that Haskell is always more performant. From
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Interesting that there's no mention of generational GC in this article. Anyone with a bit more expertise care to comment on why not?
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by alinajaf 14y ago
> What does it take to start a new religion? What if I start a new religion which says working more than 4 hours a day is against my gods? It would be somewhat easier to just start your own company if you wanted to work four hours a day
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by alinajaf 14y ago
(Disclaimer: I'm a militant atheist now) I think I would find stopping five times a day for prayer to be a bit of a distraction, though I imagine the short bursts of meditation would be good for my concentration overall. I tended to gain we
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by alinajaf 14y ago
£8.4 million sits comfortably in the 'fuck you' category of windfalls as far as I'm concerned.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
I've had a look at the requirements and I'm not really up to scratch, additionally I've spent the last five years trying to get out of full-time employment. If I were looking for a day job and was able to relocate to the states, I would t
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by alinajaf 14y ago
More congratulations for tptacek, I'm significantly less stupid for his comments and wish him all the best. It's weird, just today I was thinking about what it would be like to work at a company like Matasano instead of being the paranoid s
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Agree on all points, how I wish there more OO programmers like this in the world.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
> "functional programming as universal panacea" To me at least, the endgame for any complex system that you end up with a large number of modular decoupled components. This endgame looks more or less the same today in both functional an
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by alinajaf 14y ago
> A/b testing, using usage metrics to drive decisions, customer development, lifecycle email marketing Yes, but I've been pleasantly surprised at the clueyness of of more than a few big-name clients recently. > Or for more dev focus
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by alinajaf 14y ago
IME depends on what we're talking about. I've been at workplaces where we have multiple epic branches that diverge for three or four iterations at a time. In this scenario, it doesn't matter what VCS you happen to be using, integration is g
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Is there a good reason you don't append content hashes to compiled asset names (images, stylesheets, js)? That would remove the need to do cache invalidations manually, and comes out of the box with web frameworks like Rails. Also, CF suppo
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by alinajaf 14y ago
I've seen exactly this attitude multiple times with clients from a wide range of industries. So much so that I'd say that this is attitude towards security is the norm rather than the exception.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
I honestly thought this comment was generated using a markov chain. If it isn't, I suggest strongly that you work on your writing.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
As someone who's converted from bash -> fish (arguably a much bigger context switch as fish isn't bash compatible) I haven't found this to be an issue.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
While I'm not a PHP fan, I sincerely wish the average web developer were more security conscious and so I applaud the effort here. Having been the grouchy security guy on more projects than I can remember, I can attest that it's a thankless
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Yeah so, I suck profoundly at web application security, even on your everyday vanilla CRUD app. Having all of this logic available on the client needs tptacek approval before I will go anywhere near it. Then again, I'm quite technologically
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Hi there. No advice, I'm in a similar situation (i.e. a software engineer who wants to get a degree). I have a degree in CS, but by 30 (26 now) I want to be enrolled in a physics degree, followed by something in the vicinity of aerospace en
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by alinajaf 14y ago
> I purposely try as hard as I can to live a life completely free of emotional entanglement, I think emotion is largely useless. Wow, your kids are going to have more issues than Playboy. On a more serious note, you realize this means t
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Perhaps they hash every two character combination with a salt? Don't know if that makes it any less or more secure however.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Have you had actual objection to using a Model M? I've used my Unicomp Customizer (sort of like a Model M replica) at least four different developer jobs and not had any complaints.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Wow, you're kind of on a roll here. > their outlook on these matters is striking and confused Specifically are you referring to the outlook of politicians, the media, or some other entity? I know you started with 'the British' but surel
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by alinajaf 14y ago
I'll chime in with the DLR (Docklands Light Railway) in London is self-driving for the most part.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
2 things in particular I use: * Bundle comes with a `bundle open <gemname>` command that opens up the gems source code in whatever your shells $EDITOR is set to. I use this at least three or four times a day. * Pry (an IRB alternati
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Out of curiosity, did you ever spend much time reading the code of the various frameworks on offer? Especially since you have the experience of building everything from scratch, I think you could have the same level of understanding of an
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Do you have any social proof to speak of? Testimonials from previous employers or even just a well-designed case-study of the work you did for them? In any of your interviews did you engage the client in terms of their value proposition to
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Not sure if it's commonplace but I've worked at a comparable number of companies full-time and there's almost always a clause that mentions it. I don't think I've ever been threatened with it being enforced, but it's one of the reasons I we

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