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by ascotan 6y ago
Maybe I'm lost here but why is this a good thing? and what this is providing for the consumer. I am not harmed by Google price fixing (as far as I know) because I pay them exactly $0, nor do I want to see the days of the 90's agai
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by ascotan 6y ago
Interesting article, however I have a different take on it. Agile/XP was originally envisioned to reduce the impact of middle management/business processes on software development and put the customer and developer together to get
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by ascotan 7y ago
Rainforests not jungles. Gotta talk the talk.
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by ascotan 7y ago
There is no need to write to a cookie in server-to-server auth, just pass an auth token back in a custom header. No JWT required. Cookies are for offline users.
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by ascotan 7y ago
ergo: if it's ok to have an un-revocable insecure session - use JWT tokens.
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by ascotan 7y ago
JWT - because you were told sessions and cookies aren't cool anymore. Then you come to realize that JWT is basically pointless except for doing MFA (which you could probably have done with a random token).
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by ascotan 7y ago
Embrace the dark side Luke.
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by ascotan 7y ago
https://dev.to/martinheinz/making-python-programs-blazing-fa... Honestly the quality bar for most things written is python is pretty low so anything that can help people improve is fine. So kudos to the author.
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by ascotan 7y ago
Python 3 is the new Windows Vista.
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by ascotan 7y ago
Going to throw out my 2 cents here: 1. I don't like multiple makefiles. Icky with lots of duplication and high maintenance. Bad article. 2. When possible I use target expansion to generate targets in the main makefile: APPS:= app1 app2
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by ascotan 7y ago
If you're using windows for development you're doing it wrong.
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by ascotan 7y ago
This post reminded me of an old article: https://blog.codinghorror.com/vampires-programmers-versus-we... The big win for 'containers' is that they separate the concerns of sysadmins from developers. The days of th
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by ascotan 7y ago
If the supreme court rules in favor of Oracle here, you can expect trolls to start suing small businesses for copyright infringement based off of old software APIs. I think Americans should be encouraging tech startups not laying legal mine
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by ascotan 7y ago
Regardless of the quality of this post, the author does highlight a security issue here. The RFC states that it's up to the parser to define the limits and different parsers may behave differently in the face of malicious inputs. That&
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by ascotan 7y ago
Wow this is a great idea. Combined with methane fixing microbacteria like M. capsulatus you could generate animal feed from trash! :0 https://www.fishfarmingexpert.com/article/making-a-meal-out-...
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by ascotan 7y ago
I don't understand how this isn't a violation of HIPAA. Comparing a DNA upload against the medical records of other people without their express written consent seems to me to be wrong. I think there is a legal issue here around w
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by ascotan 7y ago
I'm not surprised that fungi as a causative agent for cancers (and that by extension anti-fungals might be cancer protective). It was once believed stomach ulcers were due to acid imbalance and we now know many types of stomach ulcers
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by ascotan 7y ago
I wonder if there is an interesting lesson learned here for future language maintainers. One of the reasons for the 14 year deprecation windows (imho) is that the language maintainers didn't have control over much of the core platform
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by ascotan 8y ago
This all started with angular imho. There was a time when structure, layout and logic were more cleanly separated. Angular blew this up with <ng-xxx> tags (which was a step backwards towards PHP imho) and this has been driven forward
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by ascotan 8y ago
It's all about market segmentation. If you price your software at $0, you'll end up with a large user-base (in theory). You can then start pay-services like consulting/support. Eventually you can add new product lines based
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by ascotan 8y ago
Don't put management on your resume. Most people see "manager" on a resume and assume you're not technical enough. Focus on technical skills that you did at jobs and start doing your own work at home to get up to speed s
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by ascotan 8y ago
There are a number of good books on both leadership and management. Harvard Business Review has a lot of smaller books on leadership and management like this one: https://www.amazon.com/Managers-Become-Leaders-Michael-Watki.
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by ascotan 8y ago
Very true. Much of the respect shown by reports is out of fear. Everyone complains about their boss behind his/her back. Now you have to suck it up and realize that this person is now you. That being said, is can be satisfying for peop
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by ascotan 8y ago
There are some trade offs when you go into management (from experience): Upsides: + Your reports will treat you with respect + You will get more opportunities to travel + You will likely get much more visibility in the organization + You wi
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by ascotan 8y ago
"Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee;". But in our new worlds we'll just CRISPR them away. No more roses with thorns (they cause thumb injuries), sweet smelling stink bugs, glow in the dark pets. Can't
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by ascotan 10y ago
The google style guide for c++ actually has a recommended format for TODO's where the author is in parens: // TODO(author): fix this that way you know who was TODO'ing
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by ascotan 10y ago
I thought that this was interesting. Apparently the term 'barritus' used to refer to the sound an elephant makes with it's trunk (trumpeting). It was a term that was also used during Roman times to describe the Roman war-cry
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by ascotan 10y ago
I just personally hate seeing a giant method chains in a code block. How do i know how this call chain behaves in production? Where's all the logical exit branches from this for error recovery? Is this properly null checking if require
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by ascotan 10y ago
I find this stuff fascinating. I also learned something too. If you look closely at Isidore of Seville’s De Natura Rerum image there is (disturbingly) a planet called Lucifer. Being now terrified, I immediately google around to figure out w
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by ascotan 10y ago
Q. How do you secure your infrastructure Google? A. We hire thousands of programmers to write custom software. There are no known vulnerabilities. No. Known. Vulnerabilities.

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