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by gtsteve 7y ago
I was expecting to see two of my pet hates - returning a null array to represent no items, and returning a single object without an array to represent one item. I also once worked with an API where you had to send the data in POST format -
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by gtsteve 7y ago
I perceive Google Cloud to have more outages than other providers, given the rate these announcements are posted on HN versus say, AWS. Is this fair to say, or is the GCP team just more honest than others?
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by gtsteve 7y ago
I can only assume you would use data loss prevention software/techniques for tasks this. Locking out USB ports and logging web traffic on the terminal would be the first step but there's probably smarter things you could do.
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by gtsteve 7y ago
As this is evidently an advert for Rescue Time and I'm a real sucker for anything productivity related, has anyone tried it out? Any interesting results to report? I didn't like the idea of a service that sent all my visited websi
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by gtsteve 7y ago
uBlock or PrivacyBadger seems to eliminate them. I forgot how horrible the internet can be without these extensions until I used a new Mac a few weeks ago.
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by gtsteve 7y ago
I had hoped that the notification API would just silently not send a notification if the user had explicitly denied this. Unfortunately that's not the case: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/AP
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by gtsteve 7y ago
I agree it's not ideal that something so important wasn't at least only accessible by VPN but any decent IT professional knows to set a strong password like this, because it's so easy to do so - sometimes you can't just
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by gtsteve 7y ago
This question is probably best asked on StackOverflow. I can't tell you why this problem is happening but you should consider uploading your static assets to S3, or you'll be paying for compute time when S3 can do it for cheaper o
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by gtsteve 7y ago
If you'd like to develop on Linux, I suggest trying Jetbrains Rider. It's as good as VS in most cases, and better in several. I've used it as my primary IDE for most of this year.
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by gtsteve 7y ago
Actually it was 5+2+5. If I find something sufficiently interesting I don't have a problem with focusing on it. Learning the maths was definitely the hardest and perhaps on those days I didn't perfectly stick to the schedule but w
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by gtsteve 7y ago
I can't talk about coding boot camps but I can talk about making the most of your time off. I did something similar but I was already a programmer at the time. I did this to learn about graphics programming. I had been programming for
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by gtsteve 7y ago
This doesn't really sound like a big-bang rewrite as such but an incremental development process. The sort of rewrite that would be a major strategic mistake is where you start with a new repository and begin re-implementing the entire
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by gtsteve 7y ago
I was under the impression that this is a consulting contract that will eventually end. They haven't said anything about banning government agencies using the product directly, so my guess is that said agencies are just going to have t
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by gtsteve 7y ago
VS is very good but I've been using Rider since the start of this year for most work, I found it to be a very strong competitor.
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by gtsteve 7y ago
When considering between PostgreSQL and MySQL bear in mind that client-side drivers are licensed differently. I believe the MySQL connector is still GPL licensed; it used to be LGPL and then the license was changed with little fanfare. Comm
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by gtsteve 7y ago
Teams with large workloads tend to automate their administration workload with tools like Terraform and CloudFormation. That said, it'd be nice to have something that makes diagnosing common problems easier, i.e. a nicer cloudwatch log
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by gtsteve 7y ago
I have an illness/accident insurance policy that I got with my life insurance policy after I bought my house. I'm more concerned about stuff like getting cancer or some other long term disease that could stop me from working for a
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by gtsteve 7y ago
In our contracts we ask employees to explcitly declare anything they do i.e. OSS projects, side-projects etc so we can explicitly declare we have no interest in them. That protects everyone. We do of course have the restrictions about not c
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by gtsteve 7y ago
Well I threw together a system which assigns a guid to each request and reports this guid to the user if something goes wrong. The guid is sent when calling across services internally so you can trace log lines across API calls and services
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by gtsteve 7y ago
That's interesting, and a big mistake on their part. Perhaps look at your local laws and see if the copyright of the work you performed for them belongs to you and not them. This could be helpful leverage if you run into problems.
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by gtsteve 7y ago
I once met a guy who was a programmer for a hedge fund. The strategies and knowledge he had would be very useful to competitors. They didn't have a non-compete agreement in the contract, as this is almost never enforceable here, instea
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by gtsteve 7y ago
We have some manual QA scripts where we introduce error conditions like manually killing processes, containers, etc and make sure the alert is fired (after notifying admins that we will be testing). We use Terraform to keep the configuratio
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by gtsteve 7y ago
Depends on the quality of what currently exists and the license. Typically if I find something liberally licensed that does 80-90% of what I want, I'll fork the project, add the remainder and send a pull request back to the parent proj
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by gtsteve 7y ago
You should just resign. If you really want to do this, I'm sure there are ways and means but at the expense of your reputation, references and professional contacts.
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by gtsteve 7y ago
I've been considering doing something like this for my company, as some activities cannot be done on a web browser. My plan was that when the client is associated with the server via OpenID Connect, a public key is transferred to the c
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by gtsteve 7y ago
It's been a while since I've been a Mac user but I used to use an app called 'Little Snitch' which would notify you about outbound traffic, perhaps it has a mode that can do something similar.
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by gtsteve 7y ago
Don't you also need a passport or some other ID? When I set up my business bank account I needed my passport and proof of address. A passport might be just about forgeable if you have the skills but they can also look up the passport n
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by gtsteve 7y ago
I use Electrum with just a passphrase. I don't actually have a digital file that once can steal, I simply have a written sequence of words that I keep in a safe place. I've actually memorised them but I'm too paranoid to dest
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by gtsteve 7y ago
I think Mercurial deserved to win the mindshare war. It had an easier to use command-line, but I liked how branches were handled. Like many teams, we'd start a branch with an issue number and you'd write code to it. Eventually you
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by gtsteve 7y ago
My company is 100% remote so I have quite a bit of experience with being on the recruitment side. I think if there was a standard for recruiting that the industry followed, then people would just be thinking of ways to "hack" the

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