folkhack

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by folkhack 6y ago
HA. Oh boy. Well. I sorta mis-spoke. I need to ship RTSP/RTP with hella-different stream profiles over WebSocket. Imagine slamming the entire RTP and RTSP datastream into binary packets shipped around via WebSocket only to have the pac
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by folkhack 6y ago
> There was no way for me to know that when I started. Any format/protocol/RFC that's been around for a significant amount of time is going to be bastardized and bent to solve people's problems. Right now I'm goi
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by folkhack 6y ago
I think so... and in their defense: I've been there. I was sorta shoe-horned into super-mediocre Midwestern colleges here in America due to my mother working at a private institution in the same city that I grew up in. I went for art a
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by folkhack 6y ago
For sure. I'll just dig on the specific (and very anecdotal) experience: So many of those kids didn't want to be there, and couldn't be bothered to just wrap their heads around if-then logic, or storing a value to a variable.
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by folkhack 6y ago
I've mentored a great deal at the HS/college level and I can share the same sentiments. I hate to sound so crass but you're either cut out for it or you're not... People get shoved into STEM/tech/whatever becau
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by folkhack 6y ago
Couldn't agree more with this statement. Also, professionally, if you find yourself in this environment: GTFO yesterday. It's toxic, and will take it's emotional toll over time. Especially if you're technically talented
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by folkhack 6y ago
No idea why you're being downvoted but this is 100% factually correct in the US: you'll get sued by a company that has a very salaried legal team. Even if Zoom is in the wrong/has no case, all it takes to "win" in
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by folkhack 6y ago
Not leaking tokens/token structure !== security through obscurity. I have seen idiotic implementations of JWT which effectively leak session details that should only be kept server-side because "it was just easy to validate it on
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by folkhack 6y ago
There are farms of people who literally sit around all day and solve CAPTCHAs - there's no surefire way to address this problem and it usually ends up in an orchestration of reputation-score tooling (including making a user fill out a
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by folkhack 6y ago
I understand that type can get weird in a loosely typed language but, personally, I find modern ECMA/Typescript to be lovely languages to work with. CSS also got a huge bump for me when everyone started consistently supporting flexbox.
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by folkhack 6y ago
Couldn't agree more... and to add my own thoughts, why the heck are we so hellbent on dropping the engineering part from software engineering? I get that it is a discipline that allows one to self-learn up the ladder to the title but w
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by folkhack 6y ago
> Can I self-host my P2? Not at the moment, but we plan to offer this option in the future. Yea - I see it as weird too. The only reason I'm still an advocate for WordPress are the self-host-ability/full customization aspects
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by folkhack 6y ago
Putting in "feel free to refute with data" three times in a response where you're throwing around a whole bunch of "80% this, 20% that" talk, while citing no sources yourself , is not a becoming way to argue your p
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by folkhack 6y ago
Truth be told, I have a cushy tech job and I'm still scared s_tless every day of losing everything. Also, economically speaking, I'm probably who should be having a kid right now. Hard no. Not with these risks/anxieties. Get
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by folkhack 6y ago
> Either way, if I had children, I wouldn't think it right or just to burden them with an expectation that they owe me endless years of emotional, physical, or social support. Just throwing this out there - I 100% agree with you but
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by folkhack 6y ago
> Everyone is always quick to blame their economic hardships as usual when this thread comes up. The fact is women don't want to reproduce or even be seen with a man [...] So let's blame women? Just making sure I'm reading
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by folkhack 6y ago
Working on a security solution right now and I can 100% tell you I can think of multiple companies that need an on-site 18TB datastore, even "small" companies. Also have worked with tons of creative agencies. Video, photo, etc
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by folkhack 6y ago
Software engineer who deals with large datasets, disk images, etc etc. Throughout the years I've had to have a big "scratch disk" with yet another bigger "archive" to support my work. For my scratch disks I need at
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by folkhack 6y ago
Agree but one more: - monitoring was broke so we didn't learn about it until it was too late
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by folkhack 6y ago
> I think this stems from me misspeaking and saying $10/hour is "not unreasonable" Right, which is why a ton of people got flustered. $10 is unreasonable. You posited it was, positioning yourself as some sort of positive e
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by folkhack 6y ago
> You're the one pissing people off who actually struggled I have one person arguing with me - you. You have multiple people arguing with you, some even sharing difficult personal stories of having to go to a food kitchen to not go
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by folkhack 6y ago
In your posts: 1. family fills your fridge 2. $12-13/hr wages 3. didn't pay for health insurance, but still had health insurance 4. have the skills to do IT work (doing it from a bike is moot) > Yeah, fuck me for figuring out h
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by folkhack 6y ago
> Bikes are not a viable commuting option in most of America Yea - this was the main point bud. You ever ride your bike 10 miles to get to work in the dead of winter in Iowa or Minnesota? Like I'm glad you were able to rig a basket
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by folkhack 6y ago
> As someone who now has a cushy tech job but grew up struggling, it’s infuriating to read a post as out of touch as yours. Makes your blood boil. Seriously - someone posited "hey - in most of the US a bike is not a viable commuting
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by folkhack 6y ago
Every time that HN gets talking about poverty and how it's easy to "just budget!" my eyes almost roll out of my head because I'm damn-near certain every one of us here is making enough to support ourselves, or is being s
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by folkhack 6y ago
Also done a ton of interviewing on both sides of the table. On 3: There's a ton of interviewers who are on a power-trip would would potentially take an admission of something like that as a yellow or red flag. In engineering/busin
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by folkhack 6y ago
QBASIC 4.5 is responsible for my entire career in software engineering. As an 8yr old kid I was fully able to grok the documentation included in that environment building games that emulated what I would play on my NES. Mostly it was just d
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by folkhack 6y ago
I'm in the US tech market specifically, and sorry for a bit of salt. This is all opinion but I wanted to share anyway. > My personal experience has been when you let people know the facts and act on them, it is amazing what happens.
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by folkhack 6y ago
I'm concerned in targeting things like Janus etc to the MIPS architecture for streaming over WebRTC because typically I only see MIPS on legacy devices in my world. How does MIPS handle this stuff? PS: I know that Amazon has a product
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by folkhack 6y ago
I'd be super interested in seeing what you've got! Is your implementation posted anywhere? I really like your Stylus project btw!

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