benburleson

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by benburleson 4y ago
I built a little Golang lambda on top of Unidoc/Unipdf to simply populate form fields on PDFs and return a combined and flattened PDF. Nothing fancy, but it's fast and reliable and replaces a use case we had for DocuSign (very slo
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by benburleson 4y ago
Or put your own space noise in the message to frame a coworker.
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by benburleson 4y ago
It reminds me of people that end up on a long list of prescriptions. Each next drug counteracts the negative side effects of the ones before. We all know this is not the best course.
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by benburleson 4y ago
No, that's the Munger project at UCSB.
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by benburleson 4y ago
Really? As an American (on the West coast), I had no idea.
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by benburleson 4y ago
InsureTech is one, I think.
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by benburleson 4y ago
Thank you!
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Ask HN: How do I host static Slack history?
2 points by benburleson 4y ago|2 comments
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by benburleson 5y ago
Lightning doesn't actually seem all that random either. I mean on a small scale, yes, but it seems like general areas are more prone to lightning than others.
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by benburleson 5y ago
Wait, NFT creators never considered the fact that others could create NFTs from an identical digital source?
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by benburleson 5y ago
I'm reposting another comment I made here for visibility with you specifically: Other than the blog post that doesn't appear in the changelog RSS, how were we supposed to be made aware of this breaking change?
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by benburleson 5y ago
Was there some notification of this change sent directly to all github users? I checked email and didn't find any references to the change from github. Is there some other automated system to become aware of changes like this, other th
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by benburleson 5y ago
The town I live in (Santa Barbara), does not allow billboards, and it's amazing. It's easy to forget that billboards exist, but every time I travel I am reminded how nice it is to not see them in daily life.
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by benburleson 5y ago
"A project with a footprint like Log4j is not possible to avoid as a transient dependency even if you don’t directly import it. Log4j is a canonical logging utility for a huge ecosystem. Its current radius is beyond doing due diligence
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by benburleson 5y ago
That seems pretty huge, if true.
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by benburleson 5y ago
Seems like an exceptionally risky attempt to make money using programming skills. Why not directly add value to the software world?
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by benburleson 5y ago
I'm not sure if it's just a vocal minority, but it sure seems to be the Party of Trump, no longer the Republican Party.
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by benburleson 5y ago
PHP, MySQL
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by benburleson 5y ago
Yeah, my path was LastPass -> Bitwarden -> 1Password. Both Bitwarden and 1Password are great.
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by benburleson 5y ago
Further, companies already exist [ https://carpe.io/ ] that mine your online presence to help calculate your risk score.
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by benburleson 5y ago
Yep, these are all examples of top engineering organizations.
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by benburleson 5y ago
I'd bet they started running into a recruiting problem.
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by benburleson 5y ago
One of the best parts!
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by benburleson 5y ago
I'd rather have Zoom outages, actually.
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by benburleson 5y ago
I think the parent comment is in agreement. They are saying there are many ways to resolve those traumatic memories that the person is living with, buried and inhibiting a better life.
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by benburleson 5y ago
People use Safari on anything other than Mac?
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by benburleson 6y ago
My first manager, when I was a young engineer at Raytheon would like a word.
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by benburleson 6y ago
Adrenaline can definitely be useful. Losing your wits under stress? Almost definitely not useful.
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by benburleson 6y ago
Or, is the lack of sex about power, reinforcing the axiom?
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by benburleson 6y ago
It wasn't even that their goal was to be a "free speech platform," they existed specifically as a platform for radical conservatives (only). If they cared about free speech, they wouldn't have aligned with any specific i

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