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by m0nastic 13y ago
When I moved to Santa Cruz (at the end of the nineties), my company eventually closed our office there and consolidated everyone into our office in downtown San Jose. No one wanted to work there, which I found weird at first (considering i
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by m0nastic 13y ago
I have a hard time considering this large application as an "investment". Presumably, it provides some business function, and has been hopefully generating more revenue in its lifetime than was spent creating it. I don't thin
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by m0nastic 13y ago
This blog post seems like a case of being stuck between a "second system syndrome" and a sunk cost fallacy. It would seem like the obvious answer would be to not sit down and rewrite the whole thing from scratch, but start replaci
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by m0nastic 13y ago
Yeah, I don't save or back up anything; but I accept that I'm in the tiny minority. When I see how much anxiety it causes other people to have to keep track of their stuff, I'm thankful though.
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by m0nastic 13y ago
Tech employees are the San Francisco equivalent of investment bankers.
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by m0nastic 13y ago
I don't know if the vehement dislike for Wolfram is all necessarily rooted in the same underlying cause. I suspect different people have different reasons for it. I think there is a kind of idealized scientist that nerds want to look u
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by m0nastic 13y ago
This sounds anticlimactic, but: "the language you already know", will almost always be the quickest way to start developing web apps. Maybe that's not true if you're a C programmer, but pretty much any other language has
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by m0nastic 13y ago
I wish more places let you pool your time off into a group that other people could take. At every job I've ever had, I never use any of my vacation, and it would be nice if I could give it to other people who are "vacation people
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Knossos: Redis and Linearizability(aphyr.com)
182 points by m0nastic 13y ago|11 comments
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by m0nastic 13y ago
Thanks, I'll check it out! I don't generally like science fiction, but the premise sounds interesting and I did like some of Clarke's other books.
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by m0nastic 13y ago
I can't even imagine about what privacy is going to look like in 20 years, or how society will adapt to deal with it. What seems missing from his thought experiment is how to address privacy for things that concern more than just a sin
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by m0nastic 13y ago
The earliest talk I ever saw on automated binary reverse engineering was this one: http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/win-usa-04/bh-win-04-f... I actually didn't see the BH talk, but I saw a similar talk t
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by m0nastic 13y ago
This year I had an opportunity at my job to design a fairly large system under some (what seemed to me at least) pretty ideal circumstances: 1.) We didn't have any existing infrastructure, so there were no requirements around language,
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by m0nastic 13y ago
The Prolog class I took in college wound up being one of my favorite classes (although I was alone on that amongst all of my friends). I always liked the idea of declarative programming, it felt very natural when I first learned about it. T
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by m0nastic 13y ago
Also, if anyone doesn't want to read the whole paper, here are slides from the same presentation: http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/foswiki/pub/Events/PLATEAU/Program...
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Comparison of Novice Software-Writing Accuracy Rates in Three Languages [pdf](ecs.victoria.ac.nz)
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by m0nastic 13y ago
For what it's worth, the prosecutor in this case (Mark) is the former coworker who I've mentioned on here a few times as having prosecuted the FBI case against my dad (small world). It is a little disconcerting to wonder that if
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by m0nastic 13y ago
Are technology companies eventually going to become like cell phone companies (or oil companies) where everyone sort of agrees that they all suck, but "oh well, what are you going to do", or will some company become the de-facto &
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by m0nastic 13y ago
I live in DC, and work intel-community adjacent in the infosec industry. I'll stipulate up front that I've never worked as a government employee, and despite doing some assessment work (like being hired to break into the Departmen
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by m0nastic 13y ago
I have to strongly disagree on that point. I'm certainly not an expert (I hadn't done any meaningful programming in 10 years prior to reading it), and I found Real World Haskell immensely helpful in building a production system th
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by m0nastic 13y ago
One thing I'm curious about (but haven't seen mentioned yet), is whether the bitcoins that were seized were Ulbrichts or "DPR's". That might seem like a silly distinction (as obviously the state is arguing that Ulbr
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by m0nastic 13y ago
It's not really germane to this discussion; I was just giving an example of the fact that it can be tricky for the government to seize assets in a prosecution (considering the fact that it can be difficult to de-complect where funds co
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by m0nastic 13y ago
I'm sympathetic to the idea that "ill-gained funds" shouldn't be accessible to a defendant for their defense; but it does pose some moral problems. When my dad was indicted by the FBI, part of the process (because he was
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by m0nastic 13y ago
It really depends on what type of security you want to be involved with. If you're interested in appsec (which I think is infinitely more interesting than network security, but obviously, other's opinions will differ), then web se
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by m0nastic 13y ago
I can't speak for anyone else, but when I moved to DC, the regular supermarket options were all terrible (very small, don't carry lots of things I used to be able to get from suburban supermarket's, no parking, awful produce,
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The shittiest project I ever worked on(blog.plover.com)
501 points by m0nastic 13y ago|181 comments
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Reader Q&A: “Will C++ remain indispensable…?”(herbsutter.com)
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by m0nastic 13y ago
I worked from home exclusively for about 6 years (this year is the first time I've been back working at an office), and admittedly, my work almost never involved other people (except for clients, who are remote even if I was in an offi
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by m0nastic 13y ago
I just searched pgp.mit.edu and it looks like the first key I have on there is from 1998[1] (with several others from previous jobs, although I don't know why I had two keys when I worked at BBN). I don't think I even have a key f
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by m0nastic 13y ago
In a dozen years, I think I've had a grand total of 4 clients (out of several hundred) that ever used PGP (despite recommending it specifically on project kickoff calls, particularly for communicating discovered vulnerabilities). I onl

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