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by clifanatic 10y ago
> There's no useful "done" marker. Well, maybe when there are no more "TODOs" ;)
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by clifanatic 10y ago
Which, incidentally, "detects" any non-left-wing news source as "B.S.".
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by clifanatic 10y ago
I'm the author of the book "Implementing SSL" ( https://books.google.com/books?id=LfsC03f8oGsC&printsec=fron... , which covers a lot of the same ground as the link) and consider myself a crypto person - alt
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by clifanatic 10y ago
Well, one benefit of wide exposure (like here on HN) is that if it was wrong, somebody would be bound to come along and point it out. FWIW, I consider myself pretty well-versed on cryptography and although I haven't gone over this book
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by clifanatic 10y ago
> retirement plans if it's still there when you retire... good luck!
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by clifanatic 10y ago
> Open plan offices suck for productivity. You're forgetting the mentality you're dealing with: as far as they're concerned, if you're not productive, regardless of the environment, the problem is you. Never them.
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by clifanatic 10y ago
Level One: Hack into this fictitious bank's web site and transfer all the funds to this fictitious account. I know the web site looks real, right down to the correct URL, but that's just part of the game. For real.
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by clifanatic 10y ago
> struggle to do so I don't think they're struggling very hard. If anything, they're struggling to make it look like there's anything except complete bias.
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by clifanatic 10y ago
> those are all considered quite burdensome Not to mention ambiguous. I've never found two people who can agree on the proper interpretation of even one of the guidelines in HIPAA or PCI. My experience with both has been managers
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by clifanatic 10y ago
If you do buy it, though, read it quick. I picked up a copy a few years back and finally got around to reading it after about 6 months or so... only to find that it already was so out-of-date that I couldn't follow along with any of t
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by clifanatic 10y ago
> if you already know javascript then I would look at node.js. I would recommend the polar opposite, actually: use a framework that has nothing in common with anything that you already know. After all, half (or more) of the point of per
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by clifanatic 10y ago
Travelocity paid for 100% of my tuition and books to finish my Master's degree. I did sign an agreement that I would stay there for two years after graduation, though, and I had to maintain a B or better average.
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by clifanatic 10y ago
Yeah, same here (more or less): I think Amazon doesn't compare favorably to Google or Facebook, but it compares pretty well to almost every other employer out there...
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by clifanatic 10y ago
In your defense, you're definitely wasting time reading mine.
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by clifanatic 10y ago
Interesting - my McAfee web washer blocked this site. Don't know why.
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by clifanatic 10y ago
What seems to underly all of these hype curves is a fundamental belief that software development is easy to trivial, and the programmers are just lazy whiners: we just have to find the right management techniques. As far as I can tell, thi
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Hype Driven Development(blog.daftcode.pl)
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by clifanatic 10y ago
> o.p. has been in that situation for _10 years_. TEN YEARS. o.p. has had three different employers in 10 years (and actually this goes back more like 15 years, since "open offices" became a fad, and five different employers).
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by clifanatic 10y ago
It will be interesting to see, over the next four years, if this insanely hyperbolic overreaction to as mundane a series of events as a Republican calling for increased scrutiny on immigration will actually end up bringing about the events
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by clifanatic 10y ago
> look for another employer. Ten years, Christ. Actually I've had 3 over the past ten years. They're all the same. You've never noticed?
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by clifanatic 10y ago
Wait there's another kind?
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by clifanatic 10y ago
I'm in one of those (inescapable) open-office nightmares right now. All day, every day, people are talking right next to me, making it impossible to concentrate. They're not even talking about work, they're talking about ca
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by clifanatic 10y ago
And a professional licensing infrastructure (hint hint)
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by clifanatic 10y ago
> Noone is aware that Walter overworked because noone saw him I know Walter. He made a big point of sending e-mails at 2 AM, CC-ing the recipient's boss, and then following up at 8:00 the next morning asking why you hadn't res
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by clifanatic 10y ago
> They don't really care about adding value They also want you _doing_ something every hour of every day - and learning/studying/researching/prototyping/experimenting/refactoring/migrating doesn't
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by clifanatic 10y ago
> they ask for changes And expect those changes to take an hour (maybe two).
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by clifanatic 10y ago
> Wake me up the next time a 5-line shell script in Bash Or when somebody can write a 5-line shell script in Bash that: a) typical non-programmers can and will use b) produces enough diagnostic information that anybody (programmer or not
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by clifanatic 10y ago
> Slow times are for experimenting with things You've led a charmed life. In my 25 years in this business, I've found that very little induces the same level of panic in management as "experimenting" with something,
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by clifanatic 10y ago
> encourage learning Hell, I'd settle for just not discouraging it so damned hard.
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by clifanatic 10y ago
> You are not paid to write code Well, actually yes, yes I am. You can make a compelling case that this shouldn't be the case, or that they people paying me are shooting themselves in the foot running things the way they're ru

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