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by dmuth 9y ago
Something that's important to me is code that is commented. Well-commented code (documentation for each function, explanations behind complex if statements and loops, etc.) earns bonus points. Conversely, when I see screens and scree
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by dmuth 9y ago
I work for a Fortune 50 and we use Confluence. For us it works well, because we have more teams here than I can count, and people move between teams (and teams move between business units) all the time. So the standard rule is that if you
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by dmuth 9y ago
I built a website which offers real-time statistics for Philadelphia's Regional Rail train system: https://www.septastats.com/ This lets public transit passengers answer questions like: - "My train is getting late
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by dmuth 9y ago
Since the title says "Ex-Admin", revoking credentials when someone leaves the company is a must. If there's centralized auth (AD), this is pretty straightforward. If not, then at the very least it makes sense to use Puppet,
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by dmuth 10y ago
My current side project: I am working on an app to go through my social media accounts, pull down the text of every URL I have ever posted (2,000+), and do natural language processing on the content of each URL retrieved. Reasons I am doing
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by dmuth 10y ago
The page in question asks for all sorts of personal info in order to read the book. Not cool, man.
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Why UPS trucks (almost) never turn left(cnn.com)
1 points by dmuth 10y ago|0 comments
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by dmuth 10y ago
Powers of 2 is a big one for me.
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by dmuth 10y ago
http://www.SeptaStats.com/ Hits the API for Philadelphia's Regional Rail and displays real-time data on the system as a whole as well as historical data on specific trains and train stations. It's useful to tell,
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by dmuth 10y ago
Pretty much that. And to elaborate, there is no shame at all asking for help. I can think of a few ways in which to do this: - If you are the sole maintainer of a project, putting up a note in the README asking for a co-maintainer or some
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by dmuth 10y ago
^ this. There is absolutely no reason to not be answering emails, even if to say, "I'm really swamped, and need help." I don't mean to denigrate you, but I must be candid here: hoarding admin rights so that only you hav
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by dmuth 10y ago
In addition to having side projects going, don't hesitate to put them up on GitHub. That's a great way to show off your skills. And these projects don't have to be huge, even if they are small utilities or apps that scratch
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by dmuth 10y ago
This, very much this. If you can, try to build something that you can open source and put on GitHub as well.
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by dmuth 10y ago
What indeed. Having that many tables in a database is just asking for trouble. My gut feeling for a database of this size is to suggest sharding. While I don't claim to be an expert in this sort of thing, here's how Pintrest app
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by dmuth 10y ago
I can't say without more details, but if you can reach out to me privately, I'm more than happy to dig through logs on our mail servers (well, dig through our Splunk platform...) and tell you exactly what we're seeing from yo
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by dmuth 10y ago
Just to throw this out, I'm the guy responsible for one of the "top 10" DMARC reporting engines on the Internet in terms of volume. If anyone would like to chat about DMARC in the real world or about the DMARC reports (that
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by dmuth 10y ago
On the hacking front, make sure you have two-factor auth enabled on all of your accounts that support it. That will go a long way in keeping your accounts from being misused.
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by dmuth 10y ago
So it's like DNS for GPS coordinates. Neat!
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by dmuth 10y ago
Being paid for your work is a basic human right. Walk.
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by dmuth 10y ago
I use Drupal for my legacy website: http://www.dmuth.org/ Medium for updates on my latest project: https://medium.com/septa-stats And Jekyll on GitHub pages for a side project I did awhile ago: http:/
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by dmuth 10y ago
How is this different from Nock's ability to record HTTP streams and put them into tests for later "playback"? https://www.ctl.io/developers/blog/post/http-apis-test-code
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by dmuth 11y ago
Author here. This is a project I cranked out in my spare time to give better insight to how our regional train system is doing. Feel free to hit me up with any questions or comments!
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SEPTA Stats: Real-Time Analytics for Philadelphia Regional Rail(septastats.com)
2 points by dmuth 11y ago|1 comments
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by dmuth 11y ago
It's a long read, but the gist of this article is "use the right tool for the job". Redis is really good for some things, but in its current implementation, distributed locking is not one of them. Along with the author of th
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by dmuth 11y ago
Looks like the reason their blog is down is because... it's now being targeted by a DoS: http://status.linode.com/incidents/kldhjpjnfnkj Attacking a blog talking about the hack? It sure seems that someone has a g
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by dmuth 11y ago
I'm a big fan of Instapaper (www.instapaper.com) myself.
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by dmuth 11y ago
As someone who hates debuggers and is a fan of "learning by doing", I make heavy use of console.log() or similar, and I start putting breakpoints all over the code that print out sentinels ("hey, I'm in this part of the
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by dmuth 11y ago
If they're running your code against actual production data, that crosses the line into questionable territory. I've been given programming tests before, but they were always for hypothetical problems that were open-ended. That w
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Show HN: Diceware Web App: Passwords you can remember(dmuth.org)
2 points by dmuth 11y ago|0 comments
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by dmuth 11y ago
I manage a 2.5 TB/day Splunk cluster at my current employer and can offer a few tips for making Splunk less painful to manage: - Make frequent visits to answers.splunk.com. It has a very active community, and I've frequently been

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