ethicalsmacker

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by ethicalsmacker 4y ago
Woa woa, I never said bitcoin. I would never bring it up on HN, that's a recipe for downvotes.
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by ethicalsmacker 4y ago
If only there were some kind of decentralized digital currency a person could use outside of big banks and credit cards..
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by ethicalsmacker 4y ago
Maybe I'm old.. but everytime I read Alloy I think of the old modeling language out of MIT to prove a program's correctness. Gives me PTSD thinking of grad school. https://alloytools.org/
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by ethicalsmacker 4y ago
Or areas with weaker employees. I doubt they axed an entire team for monetary reasons alone. They could have axed 1/10th the employees in the bay area and probably covered the entire India roster (financial cost wise).
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by ethicalsmacker 4y ago
First and foremost, realize it has nothing to do with _you_. It's a job and nothing more. Focus on what you _can_ control. Mainly, your skill set, interview preparation and networking. Take a couple days off and get in a good mindset.
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by ethicalsmacker 4y ago
I really enjoy low level development... things like OS and compiler design. Emulation, simulation, etc. It's sad there's very little place for these "hobbies" anymore, other than that, a hobby.
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by ethicalsmacker 4y ago
Most never "earn their chops" in a traditional sense. These days, it would seem earning your chops is done by running create react app, cobbling together several dozen random javascript libraries and putting out a laughably design
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by ethicalsmacker 4y ago
Got it. “rich, handsome, successful” Done.
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by ethicalsmacker 4y ago
I understand the purpose behind this, but you would be much better off leaving HN for 1-2 weeks when the next cool thing comes along.
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by ethicalsmacker 4y ago
Ah yes, the CEO is slumming it. I would be more impressed if he accepted cafe pay for one month instead.
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by ethicalsmacker 4y ago
Was it Eric Jones spamming again?!
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Ask HN: What options do you have when customer won't pay a past due invoice?
8 points by ethicalsmacker 4y ago|6 comments
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by ethicalsmacker 4y ago
If only Ruby had real concurrency and the memory didn't bloat like crazy.... you wouldn't need 90% of the hardware.
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by ethicalsmacker 4y ago
Not happy with it-- more so the hype around it. I am sure there are really tangible gains in what we can now do and a lot of avenues opening up, but I can't help but feel like the hype train is making it out to be the end-all for every
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by ethicalsmacker 4y ago
It's not always a static binary, if you use any os/config stdlib function calls or DNS look ups. In that case you need to specify CGO_ENABLED=0 to force static builds. I have been doing single binary full website deploys for about
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by ethicalsmacker 4y ago
This is a pretty funny "bug". Bring down those Nazi Kubernetes nodes. There's some humor in there somewhere... making a change to be inclusive results in Reddit going offline... mmmm. I'm still waiting for people to rena
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by ethicalsmacker 4y ago
Are you my wife?
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by ethicalsmacker 4y ago
"Hey mom, it's X. Sorry to leave this voice mail, I got in a bit of a car accident and lost my phone. I need to get back home, could you send $$$$ to ####?"
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by ethicalsmacker 4y ago
On the upside, I can now narrate my own life and thoughts as Morgan Freeman.
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by ethicalsmacker 4y ago
I appreciate sticking to your guns, but I would be terrified writing anything web facing in C or C++. Furthermore, after looking at the WT documentation it seems horrific to construct frontends in... maybe not so bad for APIs though.
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by ethicalsmacker 4y ago
Not failed card attempts, but I noticed a big spike in failed reoccurring charges due to "bad card number" which is funny because these people have been using the same card for over a year.
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Ask HN: Get a job or double down on my own business?
2 points by ethicalsmacker 4y ago|8 comments
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by ethicalsmacker 4y ago
This happened to me, almost identical. I was the first hire and an engineer. I worked for three years and some change before I was no longer a culture fit. Never assume you are on the same level as the founders. There is no “family” and the
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by ethicalsmacker 4y ago
I have a website. I haven’t had any tangible benefits from it. I keep it mainly for SEO fodder if someone searches my name.
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by ethicalsmacker 4y ago
Alternatively, create a business that wraps Twitter's public data/API and sell access to your API starting at $99/month. A sort of.... API arbitrage?
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by ethicalsmacker 4y ago
That's correct-- secure password encrypts the ssh keys. Those keys then access the server, which has my pass vault, gpg keys, two factor recovery codes, etc.
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by ethicalsmacker 4y ago
Memorized. If I don’t or can’t recall it then I’m dead or may as well be.
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by ethicalsmacker 4y ago
This is a complex problem. I considered this for many hours. How does one securely restore their secure measures once their devices are lost? Assume you lost your phone, laptop is also gone and your house burned down and your papers are gon
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by ethicalsmacker 4y ago
I understand the project goals and everything but isn’t the primary weakness of it the same as every other laptop? If Apple decides to change something (which they will) or lock down the laptop more (which they will) then all of this work g
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by ethicalsmacker 4y ago
That's an option, but seems to be only slightly cheaper (at Linode at least). I am also unsure of the block storage speeds and reliability (for example, use as a data directory on a database).

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