saltyhiker

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by saltyhiker 7y ago
Poloniex | Software Engineers & SRE | Full-Time | ONSITE (Flexible WFH, All WFH Temporarily) | Boston, MA Poloniex started as one of the first exchanges for trading cryptocurrencies and digital assets. Poloniex has attracted millions of
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by saltyhiker 7y ago
Poloniex | Software Engineers & SRE | Full-Time | ONSITE (Flexible WFH, All WFH Temporarily) | Boston, MA Poloniex started as one of the first exchanges for trading cryptocurrencies and digital assets. Poloniex has attracted millions of
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by saltyhiker 7y ago
I had this same thought in 2013 and created this library which uses a few simple tests to protect from comment spam. It definitely could be improved/tuned (and oof this code I wrote is baaaad), but for many sites it is good enough.
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by saltyhiker 8y ago
If you build a good rapport with everyone, this is unnecessary and you can simply provide constructive feedback without sugarcoating it. The best engineers will see right through this.
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by saltyhiker 10y ago
Same here, on an iPhone
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by saltyhiker 10y ago
Why don't they check for this particular phone in TSA security? The process is already ridiculous with shoe removal and toiletries in ziploc. Why not check the model number on my phone?
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by saltyhiker 10y ago
Given that a large swath of SaaS services, infrastructure providers, and major sites across the internet are impacted, this seems harsh. Are you unhappy with PagerDuty's choice of DNS provider, or something else they have control over
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by saltyhiker 10y ago
Why only slightly better? The response to that forum post, as far as I can tell, means EC2 is not vulnerable to this attack.
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by saltyhiker 10y ago
What popular cloud providers are vulnerable?
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One Star Over, There Might Be Another Earth(nytimes.com)
1 points by saltyhiker 10y ago|1 comments
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by saltyhiker 10y ago
I agree with you that the lazy/poisonous methods are far too common, and was exaggerating to some extent. In this case the chain of tech may be too sullied for a good message to be well-received. I'd also like to add that as puni
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by saltyhiker 10y ago
The real problem here is not the chain of marketing tech that allowed this, the issue is that the marketing message itself sucked. If the message was valuable, many people wouldn't have been bothered by receiving it. As for the messag