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by jecxjo 8y ago
I find it kind of ironic though. The risk of crypto currencies is too high, yet the company was ok with creating fake accounts that could totally have been used for fraud. More likely they are afraid that it will be a high cost for them wit
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by jecxjo 8y ago
Many times companies will file patents on any IP they design that is broad enough to disrupt their market. With the patent being exceptionally broad, it ironically leaves less room for questions when the patent request is filed. One would h
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by jecxjo 8y ago
I am all for experimentation and creating something new. But so many of these projects out there are not forks of current projects, they are complete rewrites. Is this because the new project is vastly different? Nope! That is the issue, th
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by jecxjo 8y ago
But it's not even independent green developers, it's everyone. Chai, mocha, jasmine, jest, should, expect, lab...omg do we really need another unit testing library? Sure they are all slightly different but there is no reason they
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by jecxjo 8y ago
This issue is not just a lack of learning from past failures, it's an active issue that is systemic to web development, especially node. Everyone wants reinvent the wheel rather than supporting a similar, already existing project. I do
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by jecxjo 8y ago
I'm trying to think of how this situation works. And the only one I could come up with is that you're writing software that your clients use internally. Or I guess the software could produce something that your clients would end u
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by jecxjo 8y ago
But you were never going to put Heathkit or Zenith or any of these other companies out of business with your side markets. You could never compete even if you wanted to. The cool thing about software is that one person, with one computer co
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by jecxjo 8y ago
Aren't telegrams already "e"?
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by jecxjo 8y ago
I would say it's safe to assume that the law would protect data that stays on your phone, but would not protect communication. So you could encrypt the contents of your phone but phone calls, SMS, and IM would still be possible to back
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by jecxjo 8y ago
In college I had a Prof who was a leader in network technology and was hired as an expert whiteness for the RIAA trials for people getting busted illegally downloading music and movies. I lost all respect for him when he was working a case
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by jecxjo 8y ago
Well our issues are more about things like sending someone a letter, proving they got it and that the person receiving it is the person we wanted to send it to. Even with a certified letter none of those features are actually possible with
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by jecxjo 8y ago
I'm on a home owners board with a woman who is a paralegal for her brother's lawfirm and it amazes me how much stuff they do that they think is either secure or provides some sort of authentication (in the meat world). Kind of ann
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by jecxjo 8y ago
I use to break all of my work up into smallest tasks possible. Was doing pomodoro, with two large projects, hardware and software, development and management, multiple feature and bug releases. So tons and tons of tasks! At one point I had
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by jecxjo 8y ago
There are also people w/o the anxieties, who live their lives as firefighters. Every day take on the emergencies! That was me for a long time. When you have a job that is constantly filled with fires you can survive for a long time doi
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by jecxjo 8y ago
I totally agree. I am currently trying to figure out how to best do that with todo.txt with the minimal amount of dependencies. I liked in taskwarrior how all the tasks were numbered and could be referenced, but it required a big infrastruc
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by jecxjo 8y ago
A lot of the optimizations I found (in taskwarrior) was allowing the app to figure out what I needed to do next. Due dates and expected duration and priority...all done programmatically. I really only needed that for work, as my personal li
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by jecxjo 8y ago
Actually, because I was at the point where so much stuff was automated, and I had taskwarrior deciding just how much work to do every day...I had a lot of free time to do whatever I wanted to do. Mostly I left because the pay was lousy and
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by jecxjo 8y ago
At one point I was the sole engineer on two very large hardware/software projects. Projects that often didn't have dedicated marketing, sales, tech support, internal/external training. So I was wearing a LOT of hats, and I ne
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by jecxjo 8y ago
I actually wrote my own in Haskell, but really I just mean the structure. I no longer need huge ordered lists of blocking dependencies. I loved that taskwarrior did that, but once your life becomes less complicated, all the cool features se
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by jecxjo 8y ago
I use to use Taskwarrior, using all its features until one day my work life lost all complexity. At that point I felt like all the key features of Taskwarrior were lost because I just didn't have enough complication to track. Now I jus
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by jecxjo 8y ago
That might be the most depressing thing I've heard all day. You get to be creative today. Which package manager are we going to use on our new project: npm, bower, or yarn? Whoopty freakin' doo!
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by jecxjo 9y ago
Every 6 months to a year I pick a new tooling language. New paradigm, nothing like what I've done before or use on a day to day basis. This gives me something "new" w/o having to change jobs. Other hobbies, and keeping t
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by jecxjo 9y ago
I totally agree. We are slowly deluding our profession by reducing it down to a few online courses. The vast majority of college is not about learning a specific topic. It's about being given a wide range of problems to solve in very d
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by jecxjo 9y ago
Everything should be done in moderation. Eventually you learn how to only put forth the amount of energy required of a task. While it is fun to do things in new and interesting ways, the name of the game is least time spent. This also appli
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by jecxjo 10y ago
I've had the "security" conversation with my father-in-law a few times. He is a wanna be computer nerd. I tried to explain to him the benefits of all traffic being encrypted. It means "the man" can't see anythi
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by jecxjo 10y ago
And THIS is the problem. Yeah the app is a pain to install, but security is a mindset, not just an app. I even wonder how many people download an ISO or installer from a website, and do any sort of due diligence to find the signer's ke
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by jecxjo 10y ago
The more this topic comes up, the more I start to wonder if the "difficulty" in email encryption is actually people just being lazy. We have IM and texting apps like Signal. You install, and if your friends install then you'r
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End-Of-life for Whiteout.io Cloud Services(blog.whiteout.io)
1 points by jecxjo 11y ago|0 comments
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by jecxjo 11y ago
I got an email, and then saw this post on HN...and then backed up and deleted my account. Wasn't going to renew anyways, just happened to be perfect timing.
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by jecxjo 11y ago
I grew up in Wisconsin and went to college in Iowa and the one thing I noticed between the two was how horrible the Iowa DOT was. In Wisconsin we know that every year there will be snow. Lots and lots of snow. In 18 years of living there I

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