mr-wendel

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by mr-wendel 4y ago
Cheers, thanks for the extra points to consider. It's not an idea I'm committed to -- just concerned about it, so that helps!
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by mr-wendel 4y ago
My concern is with all the infants. Being able to gawk out and stare at all the many faces you see, and how they respond to you has got to be foundational to your discovery of the world. If had to place a bet on a major "net negative&q
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by mr-wendel 4y ago
Me thinks your gut is leading you correctly. Generally speaking, there are short codes, and long codes. Sometimes alphanumerics are allowed, but the rules vary regionally. Long codes resemble traditional phone numbers and tend to be treated
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by mr-wendel 4y ago
I just wanna equivocate about a single phrase: scale out. I have a few years of experience w/ SQLite as a backend for dev/test purposes, and the biggest lesson has been in reinforcing best practices... the kind Postgres demand and
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by mr-wendel 4y ago
This is absolutely my second system, and one often preferred over my ... um... preferred system :D. In other words, I have my personal bias, but this approach is far easier to scale with a team over time. I still tend to keep the "HACK
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by mr-wendel 4y ago
The point is to avoid having to search these out. IMO you're playing a losing game if you find yourself doing this. For "DREAM" there is a ticket for proper tracking. For FIXME, code review prior to merge is sufficient. For H
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by mr-wendel 4y ago
IMO, I only use three tags: DREAM, FIXME, and HACKS. The whole point is to write less code and better establish when to revisit things. - DREAM tags let me focus on getting things shipped and avoid over optimizing/generalizing things t
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
This was posted a bit ago and it struck a nerve. It basically packs in every one of these patterns into one demo site. - https://how-i-experience-web-today.com/ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2828005
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
> Do you mean regulating your own focus in face of ads? Quite the opposite. I have really poor ability to tune them out, especially any audio portions. Once in front of me, they get under my skin easily and this isn't something I
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
The press release doesn't say much of substance, but plenty can be found on Brian Kreb's site: - https://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/sodinokibi/ - https://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/revil&#
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
I'm always a fan of the donation drive. I'd take a tab pop-up of https://donate.mozilla.org/en-US/ over an occasional ad like this one any day. I'd love to do a shameless plug for radioparadise.com as a
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
I think this kind of mentality can only be properly appreciated when you've attempted it for yourself. It's a lot of work, but I think that reclaiming the ability to better regulate your focus/attention is absolutely worth it
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
If this be naïvete, then I'll happily wear that label, and wear it proudly. I've been around enough to have a good sense of the value you create when you make an effort to consider other people's interests, and that seemed ab
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
> ... and update the article once I have an answer from the company I look forward to the update and will be very curious to see how that goes. Best of luck! [EDIT] Also I think it worth adding one more thing. I think the poster has demo
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
I can't disagree more. They should thank him if he actually reached out to help, even if only to say "look how bad this is; you're easy pwnbait, kthxbye". Based on this article we don't even know if they are opaque
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
I would like to highlight the parent post's comment about attempting to contact the people whose work you are exposing vulnerabilities in. I have to say that if this is "showing your work" then the most important thing you&#x
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
If you can find it, this documentary is a lot of fun: Pucker Up - The Fine Art of Whistling There is a short, but great segment where this is demonstrated with two men whistling across mountain tops to communicate. The film is filled
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
This comment is a wonderful template to consider. In my personal context, this would be about leaving a certain very-American religion and being the more-or-less first to take plunge: you really wanna share your "greater truth" an
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
Bingo. It's really not pretty what can happen when you have a juicy target, plenty of time, and a perfect idea of how you can use it to your advantage. Fortunately they weren't at all malicious... just looking for ways to grow the
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
Pretty close, actually. It was Def Leppard playing "Pour Some Sugar On Me" though.
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
Nope... a small almost mom'n'pop web hosting company.
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
That last paragraph is hard to argue with: Maybe this is our version of the "infinite monkeys" thing: given enough software people, enough computers, and enough time, someone at a company will eventually grant universal remote
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
I love the analogy, but I think it flawed: the limits are practical and excess just adds risk. On the flip side, nothing seems more exemplified by humanity than a zeal for doing a thing as big and grandiose as possible: for curiosity, for b
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
Here, here! Two tricks in my bag for this: 1. Exactly you already said: "write a list of the steps you need to take and keep breaking it into smaller parts" :) 2. Play competing heel-dragging tasks against each other, when p
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
I think these are two different types of "serious" under discussion. I don't doubt your point for a moment, but I think the author is taking a more literal, traditional approach to the word. In either case, it's a useful
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
Having been under constant scrutiny for efficient freezer/fridge door usage as a kid... this struck home! > How long does food in a freezer stay frozen when the power goes out https://woodgears.ca/heating/f
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
This what I think is absolutely ridiculously nuts. Taxi services are typically heavily regulated and in major markets a permit (e.g. medallions auctions[1]) can cost hundreds of thousands, if not over a million dollars and are strictly limi
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
Stories like this are a wonderful example of why it's important to be careful about judging people who make "obvious" mistakes or hold "obviously" wrong ideas. We all have our blind spots, and they're always bi
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
> Sports fans and enthusiasts are beyond my bar skills I'll heartily second that! I'd rather plop down next to a guy who can't stop talking about his favorite video game. At least they're sure to be talking about some
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
Even if not, the way it's written does still make you wonder. Also, except for brief mentions of Flask/Django/etc practically nothing has anything to do with Python specifically. Python is useful in the areas mentioned, but

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