brian_cunnie

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by brian_cunnie 4y ago
Good point! I think the EU is gonna force Apple to open up Messages, in which case Apple Messages will become the _de facto_ standard.
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by brian_cunnie 4y ago
> cloud is innovative but useless and has the most confusing UI of the three major cloud vendors I beg to disagree: I find AWS's UI the most confusing--I am showered with services I don't use & don't know what they do
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by brian_cunnie 4y ago
This. I measured the difference using `tcpdump`, and this was my conclusion: > A big advantage of using DNS queries instead of HTTP queries is bandwidth: querying ns-aws.sslip.io requires a mere 592 bytes spread over 2 packets; Querying
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by brian_cunnie 4y ago
My brother, 56, has been pursuing his Master's Degree at Columbia for over a year now, and he won't complete it until he's sixty (he's going part-time because he has a job), and the take-away is that it's a huge tim
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by brian_cunnie 4y ago
[for the record, I'm 58 & and an active software developer] There are two points I'd like to add: My brain isn't as elastic as a younger programmer's. My brother, a software developer close to my age, once said, &quo
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by brian_cunnie 4y ago
> ... they're still in the running for subordinate positions I think that statement does a disservice to being a software engineer, and is off the mark as well. At my company (VMware), I know at least one Senior Director and three o
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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
> Age related decline is biological and not everyone has identical DNA Agreed—my friend Chaz Ferrari is 70 and has no gray hairs. And swims miles every day. It's also easier to overlook one's aging when one is not competing wit
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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
This is my writing gem: when you send an email, you either want them to know something or do something, so say that in the first sentence: Good: "FYI, our etcd cluster is broken, but we're working to fix it." Bad: "I cam
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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
I agree: Twitter forces you to be succinct, a useful skill when writing an Executive Summary for a business paper or an Abstract for a paper in a scientific journal.
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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
> The lesson should be buy whatever the hell people want, just stop buying people until you need them. They're the expensive bit. Absolutely. We were frugal, but not to the point of self-sabotage. Our biggest expense was payroll, fo
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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
> we would have world-class catering for lunch every day I'd like to point out that this is not the case for every Silicon Valley start-up: the three start-ups I worked at (CollabNet, Aeluros, Ardatech) were incredibly frugal with m
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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
I think static straps are important. I used to work at a fabless semiconductor company, Aeluros (bought by Broadcom) in 2002-2007, and one of our analog designers, Arnold Feldman, Ph.D., who designed anti-static circuitry for a large graphi
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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
This is a great idea! I want to temper the enthusiasm of potential buyers, though: although this might prevent your bike from getting stolen, it won't help against vandalism, and I've spent hundreds of dollars on vandalism. The la
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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
A co-worker was adamant we needed to spend six months to re-write the application we were responsible for. As near as I could tell, his reasons were the following: - The application was complicated, - The application was written in Ruby, an
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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
Yup, the cops I know here in San Francisco say it's a bad time to be a cop. Also, the cops get blamed for things that are outside their control, like car break-ins, "They [the thieves] know that the most they'll get is a cita
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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
> It's really not possible to overstate what an accomplishment this was For some of us, it's a challenge to disentangle the achievements from the politics (e.g. "I hate Trump, so I refuse to believe his administration did
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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
> well-written Evil Geniuses. Or some "I was a CIA agent..." biographies I think it's important to remember that CIA agents are people, and not necessarily evil or geniuses. The one former CIA agent I know is to this day h
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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
I have six servers in the pool, and I definitely leaked the Google time smear into the pool. It's hard to get reliable upstream NTP servers--it was easier to point to Google. Google smeared, so my servers smeared, so all my downstream
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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
> IPv6 was poorly designed. I'd like to point out some design decisions I love about IPv6: - 128-bit addresses instead of 32-bit. I can't imagine having a shortage of routable IP addresses for a long, long time. - I don't
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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
I don't know how difficult it is to set up DNSSEC, but I do know I had to disable it on my internal BIND DNS server because it wasn't resolving google.com ("query failed (broken trust chain) for www.google.com/IN/A
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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
Another reason you might want to run your own BIND server is to enable reverse-lookups for your internal machines. On my home network, a reverse-lookup for 10.0.9.30 resolves to tara.nono.io (i.e. `dig 30.9.0.10.in-addr.arpa ptr` → tara.non
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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
I've been running BIND on the internet for a quarter century (ns-he.nono.io, ns-digitalocean.nono.io). Sure, I got burned 20 years ago with, IIRC, a zone-transfer exploit, but in those days BIND ran as root (remember: the internet was
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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
> That's the real problem with being disabled: you're treated abnormally. That's not been my experience: I've been treated normally. I have not one but two disabilities: I'm an alcoholic/drug addict, and I&#
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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
The two multimillionaires I know (one sold his company to JPMC, the other, to Google) aren't driven primarily by money. They have a genuine interest in what they do (securitizing carbon offsets, and designing analog circuits, respectiv
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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
> Groups Never Admit Failure I've been a member of groups that admitted failure. One time a group of us swam through a barnacle-encrusted passageway & cut ourselves. Everyone was bleeding. "That was a mistake," we agre
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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
I have a personal preference for `nslookup`, too. But I don't want to fight about it--different strokes for different folks. My favorite thing about nslookup is it's clear which server it's querying to get its information.
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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
> how to get the public IP and geolocation with `dig` Yup, I wrote a DNS server that does just that. So, to find your public IP, you'd type the following: `dig @ns.sslip.io ip.sslip.io txt +short` It'll return your public IP. [
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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
I'm 57 and still a software developer. I _think_ I can retire, but I like software, and I like working with people. And lying on the beach bores me after a day.
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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
> the mentee just saw things whizzing by on the screen and had no idea what happened That's a bad pairing experience, and I've had a handful of those in my last five years of pair programming. On occasion I've said, "
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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
> I wish I had actually taken a year off before college, as opposed to skipping a grade in a hurry to get there I skipped eighth grade, and I feel the same way.

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