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by axaxs 7y ago
OK, granted. But I'm the dude using it. And when asked, I'll champion anything else. Sometimes making engineers happy makes a sale.
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by axaxs 7y ago
Not just their billing, but their terrible interface. I shouldn't have to ctrl f everytime I want to check ec2 instances. Whoever decided to show 200+ "services" on a single screen is a crazy person.
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by axaxs 7y ago
Financially, absolutely. Much better in the valley, in fact. But there are a lot of intangibles. For example, I appreciate being able to go to the beach every day, swim, collect sea shells with my daughter, and spending more time with he
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by axaxs 7y ago
It's in waves. These dime a dozen boot camps are turning out some really awful programmers, and I have the displeasure of working with a lot of them. If there is a real wave of 'we want people who understand what they're d
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by axaxs 7y ago
Do more research. There are software engineers everywhere. Tulsa, Omaha, Dallas, Phoenix, Houston, Pittsburgh, Louisville, Atlanta, Miami... I'm just naming a few. If you think the bay area has more engineers than those cities combi
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by axaxs 7y ago
Sorry, I agree with you. I absolutely think that salaries should be open, and shared. That said, what I meant was who is most likely to be talking about their salary. A guy in SLC making 100k at a no name company, happy with his situat
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by axaxs 7y ago
Mostly self selection. This data is -extremely- off. Who is most likely worried about their salary, or most likely to search about it and compare? If I had to guess, the median salary for a software engineer in the USA is about 100k. For
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by axaxs 7y ago
I'm not faulting you for your expectations, please see my other comment for thought on that. The problem is that even expecting that is more free labor. Sure it's small, and courteous, but is labor. Speaking from experience, I
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by axaxs 7y ago
Stop expecting that of him. He wrote the code, and open sourced it. He doesn't owe it to you or anyone to say that he doesn't care about it anymore, though doing so would be a nicety. It's open source. If you feel he isn&
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by axaxs 7y ago
So, I don't feel the senior person in this case is necessarily wrong. So many languages give you 30 ways to do anything, it's key for a team to agree on standards so that code is more easily read by everyone on the team. If you d
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by axaxs 7y ago
As someone who never mentioned Atlanta, I don't know what you are talking about. As someone who has been to Atlanta over the course of decades, I don't believe you.
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by axaxs 7y ago
This feels like some bizarre version of 'white savior complex.'. The truth isn't 1 or 2, but somewhere in between. Conservative areas don't need you, and progressive policies aren't all failures.
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by axaxs 7y ago
As a "self proclaimed" centrist, this is well stated. There's nothing wrong with anyone's line of thought, they obviously hold it for a reason. Problems only arise in this arena when one group tries to force beliefs on
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by axaxs 7y ago
Can you cite a single source of Texas "importing" workers, vs people fleeing to Texas and pretending they did so for Texas's own good? Texas was a tech hub before most of us were born.
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by axaxs 7y ago
I would absolutely sympathize with you, if this were a true story. Believe it or not, I'm not a registered Republican, after all. To be fair, I've never heard of conservative folks overtaking a liberal city, only vice versa. If
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by axaxs 7y ago
This is a real problem, and a real concern IMO. People move from their home cities and states to nice areas with low tax, then continue voting for the same policies and ideologies that led to their home becoming awful in the first place.
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by axaxs 7y ago
I wouldn't worry about it. Last time there was a pullback that I can remember, every other day it was HUGE companies(think MS, IBM, HP, etc) laying off tens of thousands of people. These are two relatively small companies, in challen
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by axaxs 7y ago
I'd say pizza delivery is far more lucrative. At least, it was when I was a teen.
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by axaxs 7y ago
Not to be rude, but your account is just from last year? If you're like me you've been lurking for longer than the account shows, but if not, HN has been pretty solid. I think it's gone -slightly- downhill, but that could j
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by axaxs 7y ago
Very nice story, glad you've found some success. One thing I try to be mindful of, admittedly not as well as I'd like, is paying it forward. Remember the feeling, the struggle, the journey, the people who've helped you alon
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by axaxs 7y ago
I was specifically answering the user's question regarding DNS attacks. Address validation in QUIC is optional, per the RFC.
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by axaxs 7y ago
There's two issues at play there. What you're talking about is called amplification. That means you get responses far larger than the query. So you send a small query for say, TXT, and the server may reply with KBs of TXT recor
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by axaxs 7y ago
That's a little unfair. When someone tells you something relies on UDP, nobody in their right mind assumes that this person implemented TCP features on top. UDP is simple and quick, and the assumption is that there was a reason they
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by axaxs 7y ago
Well, I have a lot, but I don't want this to turn into a dissertation about why I don't like UDP for most things. The biggest red flag to me is that it is trivial to make the server send sizable packets to clients who didn't
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by axaxs 7y ago
I hate to be a curmudgeon, but I can't help but think that designing a new service over UDP isn't the best idea. DNS has been fighting off wave after wave of attack vectors, some that realistically cannot even be fixed. Making i
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by axaxs 7y ago
Nope, original English shows. What's frustrating is that my wife uses subtitles for learning how words are spelled, but the words spoken aren't the same as the ones written!
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by axaxs 7y ago
I agree. That said, my wife subtitles every movie which normally I don't care about, except the subtitles are -wrong-. I don't know why they do that, it seems rather innocent, but drives me crazy as an English speaker. It'
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by axaxs 7y ago
I've moved a lot in the past few years, and each time buy a new mattress. Each time I've bought on Amazon, and to be honest, never had one I hated. Brooklyn Bedding, Zinus, etc. My favorite so far I took a complete gamble on an
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by axaxs 7y ago
I don't mean to fat shame, apologies if it comes off as such. My own weight fluctuates a lot, as I go through periods of something akin to depression. When I'm overweight, I know what needs to be done, yet for whatever reason, d
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by axaxs 7y ago
Not sure why downvoted, maybe a bit harsh...but this is the absolute truth. I'd argue that exercise itself doesn't even play a huge role, though it does help. Eat less calories until you start losing weight. I understand there

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