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Show HN: Python utility to manage local SSH environments(github.com)
3 points by asadjb 7y ago|0 comments
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by asadjb 7y ago
Many comments in this thread are bashing the article for saying that chroot is useless or shouldn't be used. However the article itself takes a more nuanced approach. From the conclusion: >It is not hard to consider the chroot() s
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by asadjb 7y ago
Man-in-the-middle shows someone my bank password. Tracking only shows them who I am and what sites I visit (simplifying explanation I know). I'd much rather be tracked online and have my bank details safe than the other way around.
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by asadjb 7y ago
Can't comment on any of the other points, but as far as battery time goes, the article notes that it will work for only 2 hours.
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by asadjb 7y ago
The audiences for different influencers can overlap. I guess even the smallest influencer I've seen have audiences of at-least 1K to be taken seriously.
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by asadjb 7y ago
I feel composing commands is where the real power of Vi(m) comes from. This can be really helpful to someone just starting out with Vim. I got a boost in my Vim productivity after reading a similar StackOverflow answer a couple of years ago
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by asadjb 8y ago
I had; and to a certain degree, still have this issue. But I got my rate of doing the "get-past-you shuffle" down quite a bit after learning a simple trick. While I avoid eye contact, most people do not. Most people, when they see
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by asadjb 8y ago
Unfortunately no. That's how I think client certificates are usually given; generated with a self signed CA, but this 3rd party API want's a pre-trusted CA, not a self signed one.
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by asadjb 8y ago
I'd love to use my own CA, but the 3rd party that needs these certificates wants them issued by a trusted CA; essentially a CA trusted by the browsers by default. Have you ever run into a similar situation?
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Ask HN: Where do you get CA validated “Client Certificates”?
1 points by asadjb 8y ago|8 comments
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by asadjb 8y ago
The government accepts the $20 as a legal way to pay your taxes, or other government fees.
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Sidemail – Quick and easy email for all your side projects(sidemail.com)
3 points by asadjb 8y ago|0 comments
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by asadjb 8y ago
For the interested, this FPGA experiment is discussed from page 21 and beyond.
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by asadjb 8y ago
Because sometime clients; especially extremely non-technical one, are scared of anything that looks like code. HTML definitely looks like code. :)
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by asadjb 8y ago
Because in my (somewhat limited) experience with CMSs' the definition of the data in separate from the layout, which makes sense if you're building a larger site where separation of view and data makes maintenance easier. However,
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by asadjb 8y ago
Most applications have atleast 1 SPOF, the DB. Just because the DB is now the Firebase API doesn't change anything. It would be very difficult to build products in a reasonable amount of time if everything has to be coded defensively.
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by asadjb 8y ago
I have never used Lubuntu other than trying it out a few times, so this is just going off of the content in the article. > This phrasing is a PR blunder in my opinion because the old focus is a lot clearer than the new focus To me, it se
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by asadjb 8y ago
Django web app deployed to Heroku is the fastest way I know of right now. Django because that's what I know best. I can code a basic CRUD app (which is basically 90% of all apps I have ever needed to build) in a few hours. Heroku becau
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by asadjb 8y ago
Yes, and the article also lists them out. Cal Newport gives these strategies for scheduling deepwork: - Monastic: “This philosophy attempts to maximize deep efforts by eliminating or radically minimizing shallow obligations.” — isolate your
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by asadjb 8y ago
I have used both. While I'm currently on Org-mode, I used to use Taskwarrior exclusively in my previous job. The switch between the two happened because my job responsibilities changed, and Org-mode is better at supporting my current r
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by asadjb 8y ago
> And websites whose customers advertising agencies, and whose product is people, create something? Attempting to track and then monetize everything everyone does online is _creating_ something now. This is snarky, and intentionally simp
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by asadjb 8y ago
Your system of recopying the previous day's list, reordering, adding new items, and I assume removing any done or stale items, is very close to the Bullet Journal [1] system that I have started to use since last year. It's interes
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by asadjb 9y ago
Yes
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by asadjb 9y ago
That was my first thought as well. But as per the article, only usernames, emails, and hashed passwords were taken.
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by asadjb 9y ago
The video does mention it works best with 1 eye closed. Maybe this is the reason for that.
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by asadjb 9y ago
I just finished listening to "The Like Switch" [1] and it covers a lot of ground on how to hit it off with people. It starts with non-verbal behaviors to look friendly to people when they first see you and then slowly transitions
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by asadjb 9y ago
I agree with all three of your points concerning Mixpanel and what it would take to replace it with something similar. But I think you're being harsh when you say "This article epitomizes the old adage: software engineers are terr
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Practice apps to build after finishing your first iOS development course(agileleaf.com)
1 points by asadjb 9y ago|0 comments
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by asadjb 9y ago
It's better to move towards a more open and transparent system that's data driven. However if the system used here will be transparent isn't clear, only that it can be. The builders of these systems can choose not to share th
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Podcast: Harmful biases in ML algorithms and what to do about those(youarenotsosmart.com)
2 points by asadjb 9y ago|0 comments

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