hacknat

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by hacknat 9y ago
Decorators should be higher on this list. I work with Python daily and I absolutely loathe people's custom decorators that obfuscate functionality away, like STL in C++, except no type system of course. Also, preach on duck typing it&#
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by hacknat 9y ago
> reality is also subjective This is a big leap. While I agree that value is subjective, that doesn't make reality subjective. Reality is the medium through which our subjective experiences are negotiated. We are all more or less se
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by hacknat 9y ago
I'm not sure how you're addressing the question. I don't think anyone would disagree with you that reality is "objective". Our perception of it is far from objective though.
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by hacknat 9y ago
> From this perspective, back to your scenario, instead of looking at it as A and B valuing water differently, one could say they value avoiding dehydration the same. It's just that in the scenario, there's no dehydration for B
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by hacknat 9y ago
Are you an Engineer?
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by hacknat 9y ago
If anybody is interested I wrote a zero-copy socket wrapper in golang it's pretty fast and has built in layer detection and checksum functions: https://github.com/nathanjsweet/zsocket
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by hacknat 9y ago
I was already doing this with their API on Lambda. If anybody is interested: https://github.com/nathanjsweet/narthan Good on them for integrating it.
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by hacknat 9y ago
IMO, TCP/IP Primer is really good.
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by hacknat 9y ago
I didn't make quite the transition you are talking about, but I went from a general software lead position to being a security and systems engineer at a cloud provider and it has worked out rather well. I suspected that I would enjoy m
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by hacknat 9y ago
Excellent point. If anything the anecdotal data points to the opposite being true. Hendrix didn't learn guitar until 17. Einstein showed signs of having a genius for math and science in his education, but not anything above warranting
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by hacknat 9y ago
No I think you're spot on. It's easy to see the web as an obvious invention with hindsight, but just imagine a world where tcp/ip is the only protocol available to you. I could easily imagine a world in which someone thought
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by hacknat 10y ago
Because Netflix could migrate over night, right?
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by hacknat 10y ago
> What people also don't seem to realize is that the US has serious anti-monopoly laws on the books Not true. At all. We have a weak Anti-Trust law that most Justice departments are squeamish about enforcing.
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by hacknat 10y ago
Walmart is going to build the largest hosting company in the world?
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by hacknat 10y ago
Remember kids, "lock-free", does not always mean faster, it just means lock free. Example: Lock-free linked lists are great spiky write consistent read situations, but in high-write situations they probably aren't any better
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by hacknat 10y ago
It doesn't prevent a language from adding its own GC.
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by hacknat 10y ago
The main difference I have noticed between programmers isn't how fast they get their projects done, it's the amount of technical debt they leave behind.
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by hacknat 10y ago
I'm surprised to learn that people with real security concerns are using Cloudflare. I put it in front of my blog, but I would never use it in front of something that has sensitive data. I just don't get how companies like Zendesk
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by hacknat 10y ago
I think if you don't have the apps installed they'd probably would assume you were telling the truth. As a white man, you probably don't have much to worry about.
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by hacknat 10y ago
Violating copyright is theft: http://www.copyhype.com/2013/09/why-copyright-infringement-i...
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by hacknat 10y ago
You are aware that you probably consume other valuable goods and services from companies whose CEOs are just as deplorable, but not as well publicized, right? If you think a product is valuable, but you don't want to pay for it because
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by hacknat 10y ago
You mean pirated? It's a logical fallacy to assume that your otherwise non-discovery makes your decision moral.
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by hacknat 10y ago
Well, hear it now. I'm judging you.
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by hacknat 10y ago
I've seen it happen a few times around me and while people usually get annoyed it's not a big deal, especially if it happens quickly. We hired a machine learning guy from Facebook and he up and quit in less than 2 weeks, because h
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by hacknat 10y ago
You're mistaken. There is a sizable amount of extant Akkadian, Sumerian, Egyptian, Greek, and Chinese literature from well before when the TaNaK was written. In fact of each of those languages have a sum of extant literature that surpa
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by hacknat 10y ago
It totally depends on the locale. I'm buying in Madison, WI right now and the pricing is so weird. I currently rent an older, not-so-nice, flat for $1605/month. Oddly enough you can get a nice 3-4 bedroom in the Madison urban area
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by hacknat 10y ago
If anybody wants a go library for hacking around with network programming I wrote a golang only wrapper around the linux zero-copy socket syscall. It also has some network utilities along with it: https://github.com/nathanjs
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by hacknat 10y ago
How about rolling the dice now and ending up in a backwater of SE Asia or the DRC? I don't disagree that this is probably the best time to be alive on average, but the standard deviation is pretty enormous, and I would argue that it mi
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by hacknat 10y ago
Nah. The barring of perminent residents from reentry is both illegal (evidenced by the fact that a circuit judge had no problem reversing the that portion of the executive order and the subsequent retreat the administration made on the part

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