pjungwir

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   by pjungwir 8y ago

   For the language, K&R is good, and Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets by Peter van der Linden is a great second book. But all the fun stuff happens when you start talking with your OS, so get a book about that too. If you are planni
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   by pjungwir 8y ago

   I really enjoyed Thomas Limoncelli's Time Management for System Administrators . I've also got The Practice of System and Network Administration on my shelf, and hopefully one of these years I'll read it---maybe once my ti
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   by pjungwir 8y ago

   SEEKING WORK - Portland, OR or Remote I'm a full-stack developer with 18 years experience. My specialties are Rails, Postgres and Chef/AWS. I'm also very comfortable in Javascript, Python, and a few other things. At the low l
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   by pjungwir 8y ago

   SEEKING WORK - Portland, OR or Remote I'm a full-stack developer with 18 years experience. My specialties are Rails, Postgres and Chef/AWS. I'm also very comfortable in Javascript, Python, and a few other things. At the low l
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   by pjungwir 8y ago

   perpetrated
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   by pjungwir 8y ago

   In Postgres `extract(week from t)` has a similar danger. If you combine it with `extract(year from t)` then you land in the wrong place. You need to combine it with `extract(isoyear from t)` instead. That bug is sort of the opposite of this
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   by pjungwir 8y ago

   I really enjoyed this article, and I think it shows how successfully jq fits into the Unix culture of sed/awk/grep/etc. It seems so rare to find new CLUI tools that feel as "classical" as jq. It has helped me do one
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   by pjungwir 8y ago

   SEEKING WORK - Portland, OR or Remote I'm a full-stack developer with 18 years experience. My specialties are Rails, Postgres and Chef/AWS. I'm also very comfortable in Angular, Vue, React, Java, and Python (lots of projects
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   by pjungwir 8y ago

   The weird design makes me as a layman skeptical of the tech's potential, but I'd love to hear why I'm wrong: - The randomness and lack of symmetry suggest that we are lacking insight into the problem, like an inelegant physic
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    by pjungwir 8y ago

    I'm sad that SPAs have made us regress from haml back to plain html. Without closing tags, a whole class of bugs just goes away, and you can read your document structure at a glace. (Ease of reading is much more valuable than the saved
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    by pjungwir 8y ago

    I agree with everyone else that it's great on remote systems, but the reason I use it locally too is because I can set up all a project's "tabs" with just one command. I have dozen-line scripts for each client/proje
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    by pjungwir 8y ago

    I don't know about interactive, but the book Unix Power Tools is a great survey, with quite a lot of depth. If you want something interactive as you work through the book (and even CLI itself), it would be hard to beat bash. ;-)
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    by pjungwir 8y ago

    Indeed, amateur means "lover".
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    by pjungwir 8y ago

    I think going deep on something is the key. It lets you keep learning without getting bored and needing to jump ship. One of my pet peeves is how programmers think "keep learning" means "learn another programming language&quo
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    by pjungwir 8y ago

    Neat! I can definitely imagine cases where this would be helpful. Another thing I've wished for is being able to remove an element from an hll. I don't think intersection quite gets me there; it would need to be a separate opera
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    by pjungwir 8y ago

    I'm trying to interpret what this means. I think it's saying that a previous result showed that `Marshal.load` on user-supplied input gave an RCE if you were running Rails (basically, see the 3 conditions under "Previous Payl
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    by pjungwir 8y ago

    Hmm, thanks for mentioning this. It looks like it's just over a month old? Here are the docs I found: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui... https://aws.amazon.com/blo
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    by pjungwir 8y ago

    Congratulations! I've been a fan of Vagrant for a long time and have done some Vault as well. I haven't yet had a chance to try Terraform, but everyone says it is better than Cloudformation. :-) I'm curious what you think of
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    by pjungwir 8y ago

    SEEKING WORK - Portland, OR or Remote I'm a full-stack developer with 18 years experience. My specialties are Rails, Postgres and Chef/AWS. I'm also very comfortable in Angular, Vue, React, Java, and Python (lots of projects
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    by pjungwir 8y ago

    I've tried all kinds of monitoring solutions, and my favorite is still munin[1]. Out of the box it gives you tons of system-level metrics. It comes with contrib plugins for service-level metrics about Postgres, Nginx, and dozens of oth
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    by pjungwir 8y ago

    There was an article last year titled, "I’d Pay You $500k a Year, but You Can’t Do the Work". It said they were looking for "React/Redux specialists, Unity developers, data scientists, and data engineers (proficient with
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    by pjungwir 8y ago

    I can sure relate to this. Or my favorite question: "What happens when I click that magnifying glass in the top nav?" and they say, "Oh, I didn't think about that!" I doubt the real answer is for the designer to cod
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    by pjungwir 8y ago

    This looks like a fun and helpful tool! (Perhaps best to ignore the notice from lshw and not run it as root, ha ha. Maybe even only in some kind of sandbox. I bet they could add a --safe flag so it would make an on-the-fly Docker image wi
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    Disappearing videos and disappointed grandmothers(rachelbythebay.com)

    251 points by pjungwir 8y ago|104 comments
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    by pjungwir 8y ago

    I've done it before. Some day I'll blog about it, but in the meantime here are a few places I've brought it up in HN comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14464929 https://news.ycombinator
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    by pjungwir 8y ago

    SEEKING WORK - Portland, OR or Remote I'm a full-stack developer with 18 years experience. My specialties are Rails, Postgres and Chef/AWS. I'm also very comfortable in Angular, Vue, React, Java, and Python (lots of projects
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    by pjungwir 8y ago

    If you are dealing with timestamps from the past (e.g. birthdays via a datepicker that constructs Date objects), then you should watch out for different browsers' inconsistent handling of Daylight Savings Time. Moment is really indispe
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    by pjungwir 8y ago

    > I have tried to hire in low COL places and people want to move to SF instead. In another comment you suggest that you'd pay $350k, but at $700k you would suspect their loyalty. I'm in Portland and not interested in moving to
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    by pjungwir 8y ago

    SEEKING WORK - Portland, OR or Remote I'm a full-stack developer with 18 years experience. My specialties are Rails, Postgres and Chef/AWS. I'm also very comfortable in Angular, Vue, React, Java, and Python. At the low level
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    by pjungwir 8y ago

    For people who aren't Ph.D. students, it may help to contact a local CS department and see what they have going on. There should at least be a grad student colloquium meeting once a week or so. I attended that at Penn a few times, alth