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by pharaohgeek 3y ago
QBasic gave me my start in PC programming when I was a freshman in high school. When I was younger, I learned to code on my Commodore 64. I loved QBasic so much I saved up every penny I could to buy the QuickBasic Compiler. One thing I m
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by pharaohgeek 3y ago
I always hear people talk about "it's scalable" in terms of scaling UP. To me, the value is in scaling DOWN. If you have a function that doesn't run continuously, there's value in executing it as a Lambda instead
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by pharaohgeek 3y ago
Li-Fraumeni Syndrome is a genetic mutation of p53 that makes you more susceptible to various types of cancers. It's rare, in terms of number of people confirmed to have it, but is likely far more prevalent because it's not genera
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by pharaohgeek 3y ago
My son befriended one of the leading African elephant researchers who is now one of the big wigs at Disney's Animal Kingdom. When we met him, he explained how researchers used this knowledge to teach African villages how to become bee
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by pharaohgeek 3y ago
Look at the Quarkus framework. It's designed with Graalvm native in mind, so it knows how to handle Jackson, AWS, etc. and compile them to a native binary. I'm using it in production with a native-compiled Lambda that calls othe
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by pharaohgeek 3y ago
I believe that Apple's AppStore Connect API uses HATEOAS. That's pretty non-trivial.
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by pharaohgeek 3y ago
100% true! If you don’t support SAML (and occasionally OIDC) then you’re not an enterprise product. Period. It is practically mandatory these days. Additionally, if your product has any provisioning requirements you may need to support
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by pharaohgeek 3y ago
Great looking tool. To me, though, the big roadblock to marketing is... how??? I'd love some tutorials or blog posts on marketing strategies, copywriting, and some of the other aspects of marketing that introverts or solo developers
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by pharaohgeek 4y ago
I really liked CDE on my Solaris x86 box when I was in college. I'd love to see a "modernized" version of it. Modern renderers w/acceleration, slightly updated UI but keeping with the general feel of CDE, etc. I love
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by pharaohgeek 4y ago
Can confirm. Was a child. LOVED learning to program in BASIC on my C64.
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by pharaohgeek 4y ago
That's a shame. It's a great IDE for server-side Swift, which is sorely needed. Xcode is dreadful, and macOS-only.
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by pharaohgeek 4y ago
And, considering what other PCs looked like at the time, they were beautiful machines! Everything else was just a beige box.
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Show HN: SecretKeeper – The Secure, Free iOS Password Manager(getsecretkeeper.com)
2 points by pharaohgeek 4y ago|1 comments
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by pharaohgeek 4y ago
I absolutely LOVED running Solaris 7/8 on my x86 desktop in college. It made me feel like a "real" developer. Even though CDE and MWM look positively ancient by today's standards, there's still something about the
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by pharaohgeek 4y ago
Anyone know if a late-2018 Mac Mini will run this game? My son would love it!
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by pharaohgeek 4y ago
There is a SCIM plugin for Keycloak, though. We've made use of it and had a good experience. I'll have to dig up the Github project for it. I don't recall the name off the top of my head.
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by pharaohgeek 5y ago
Keycloak does a good bit of this and is open source. It's an outstanding project. It's my go-to for anything that requires login, especially for its SAML/OIDC support.
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by pharaohgeek 5y ago
Love Keycloak. Love Quarkus. This is great news!
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by pharaohgeek 5y ago
Use AWS Amplify and you're talking about a matter of minutes. Maybe an hour? It really accelerates development of apps like that, whether native or web.
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by pharaohgeek 5y ago
Swift, to me, is such an elegant language to write in. I do mostly Java by trade, so I’m spoiled by such a huge ecosystem of open source libraries to pull in. If Swift can develop a comparable ecosystem it would really gain adoption.
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by pharaohgeek 5y ago
I love this. Although Swift is still primarily an iOS language, I really love programming with it server-side. It's got a long way to go to be as useful on the server as some other languages, but it's got a lot of potential. Th
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by pharaohgeek 5y ago
In humans, a defect in the TP53 gene that leads to genetic predisposition to cancer is called Li-Fraumeni Syndrome. It explains a lot of people who have a strong family history of cancer or those who get it early in childhood.
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by pharaohgeek 5y ago
Partially true. TLS stands for "Transport Layer Security". TLS certificates are used on servers to encrypt communication. The certificates on the smartcard are used for digital signatures, encryption, and authentication. All o
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by pharaohgeek 6y ago
Fair point. The Keycloak folks are working on porting the project over to the Quarkus framework which will allow for ahead-of-time compilation and a DRASTIC decrease in resource utilization. In my own experience porting apps over to Quark
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by pharaohgeek 6y ago
OAuth isn't solely about social networks. There are a number of corporations that use it for delegated authorization. A financial aggregator and a bank, for example. A large number of SaaS providers support G-Suite logins for enterp
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by pharaohgeek 6y ago
While an interesting project, I think something like Keycloak is far more effective and feature-rich. What benefits does this have over Keycloak?
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by pharaohgeek 6y ago
I'd really love to know if the individual asking the question is still with Apple. I'd also love to know what he thinks of the company now.
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by pharaohgeek 6y ago
Only tangentially related, but if you're looking for a sufficiently challenging development project the iOS MDM protocol is a great one. It's well-documented, so you're not stuck banging your head against a wall. It lends i
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by pharaohgeek 6y ago
I love this. I got my start programming in BASIC on my C64 at the ripe old age of 6. While something like this has little practical value, it certainly provides a lot of nostalgia for someone like me.
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by pharaohgeek 6y ago
I set this up a couple of months ago and have been really happy with the results. Ad blockers on our iPhones/iPads are fine, but not always completely effective. I can't install one on my corporate laptop so there's no way

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