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by snorkel 15y ago
Defacing is sometimes humorous especially when it's a braggart security firm. It'd be a useful public service if they'd reveal which specific vulnerability was exploited in each intrusion. DDoS is lame and stealing or destroying server data
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by snorkel 15y ago
I know exactly how this occurs because I recently met a "Senior Web Developer" at an established business who was basically their acting architect because he was the their first coder and therefor his non-technical bosses regarded him as so
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by snorkel 15y ago
Ned was right, winter is coming.
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by snorkel 15y ago
No doubt waiters loathe serving Grouponers.
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by snorkel 15y ago
The hypergrowth strategy worked well for pets.com and webvan. What could go wrong?
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by snorkel 15y ago
The actual Achilles Heel of Bitcoin is the sparse few exchanges that convert Bitcoin to hard cash. If these exchanges can not control price manipulation schemes among their traders then Bitcoin's value will quickly bubble and pop. What Bitc
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by snorkel 15y ago
Sure deflation is part of the Bitcoin design but the actual real-world value of a Bitcoin is determined by traders on Mt Gox, and as an exchange Mt Gox doesn't give the impression of being able to prevent common price manipulation schemes.
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by snorkel 15y ago
I too was considering some Bitcoining but have these nagging concerns: 1. Seems Mt. Gox is the primary exchange of choice of Bitcoins. What mechanism or oversight in Mt Gox prevents Bitcoin exchange rate manipulation by way of wash trading?
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by snorkel 15y ago
By stealing this Macbook you hereby agree to these Terms and Conditions which allow the rightful Owner of said Macbook to write and publish short stories and prose illustrated with your likeness captured by Hidden app. "My name is Hernando.
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by snorkel 15y ago
I prefer Javascript for example: JQuery's calling conventions would not be possible if function args were mandatory.
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by snorkel 15y ago
I often find that PHP coders lack a total understanding of the LAMP stack. "Apache configuration? Huh? I don't know, our admins do that." "MySQL? I don't know, I'm not a DBA. I'm a developer." "UNIX commands?!! I don't like going in the ter
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by snorkel 15y ago
Mandatory function arguments: function foo($arg1,$arg2) { return; } foo('bar'); Warning: Missing argument 2 for foo() Lame. But omitting arg2 is allowed if you give it a default value: function foo($arg1,$arg2=FALSE)
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by snorkel 15y ago
It all goes back to everything Microsoft offers is tightly coupled to Microsoft's ecosystem, and frankly I've played in that space for years and just got bored of it, plus I got tired of investing in learning Microsoft-specific APIs that Mi
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by snorkel 15y ago
Cool editor UI works in FF 4 but Run does nothing, not even for the demo script.
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by snorkel 16y ago
I completely agree. I didn't even realize the "N+1 Selects Problem" was a problem because it should be referred to as "My Training Wheels Fell Off and Now My Bike Falls Over When I Sit On It".
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by snorkel 16y ago
What I've found to be more valuable than the superstar programmer is the competent coder that writes clean, readable code, with comments, error checks, clear log messages, and tests. When one coder interviews another simply ask to see a sam
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by snorkel 16y ago
Pimp slapping developers works well for Facebook and Apple so why you miss out on all that fun, right? Next time don't take the personal touch and email them personally. Instead wait for their app to gain a following then suddenly ban them
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by snorkel 16y ago
To me the IT people who bought into cloud hosting are the same type that would gladly buy a vacation time share: you end up paying too much to rent a slice of a resource that is never really yours, when you could've used that same money to
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by snorkel 16y ago
On the flip side the $100k cost for buying dedicated equipment is a first-year cost only, and the equipment can last up to 10 years, where at AWS $350k/year is every year.
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by snorkel 16y ago
I'm AWS! I'm cloudy, I'm bursty, and I'm rocking two nines!
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by snorkel 16y ago
I'll file this under "Things I Needed 20 Years Ago" but thanks.
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by snorkel 16y ago
That's a rather obnoxious way of forcing your own sense of priorities on others. Sounds like what's missing is a weekly sync up call between the devs and the product owners to review the issue queue and sort it in order of priority.
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by snorkel 16y ago
Misleading headline. The professors at Princeton only acknowledged he's bright and charitably encouraged him to keep studying in the nicest terms possible. Already he's scored 15 points on the Crackpot Index which is not bad for 12 years ol
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by snorkel 16y ago
But Google is in a unique position to quickly correct a lot of bad T&C behaviors simply by implying that having those terms may hurt the SEO of offending sites. If SEOs suspected that was part of Google's ranking process then we'd see a
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by snorkel 16y ago
Not a bad idea actually, and it'd be even more effective if Google also penalized sites that link to other sites with unreasonable T&C.
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by snorkel 16y ago
self-documenting code only says what it does but does not say anything about what it's supposed to do or explain why
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by snorkel 16y ago
I'm currently tasked with cleaning up a project which no one can explain how it all worked because none of the Programming Motherfuckers bothered to write any Documentation, Motherfucker.
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by snorkel 16y ago
Why do Facebook app developers tolerate so much abuse from Facebook? This app to me seems like a perfectly well behaved Facebook app that is within the social spirit of Facebook, and during its moment in the spotlight a Facebook bot kills t
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by snorkel 16y ago
Perhaps reddit could've mitigated some downtime with some cross-zone redundancy, but the underlying frustration is that Amazon does not provide a well behaved storage solution, which is a very critical infrastructure component for most web
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by snorkel 16y ago
I'm sure reddit's engineers are as capable as any for producing a seemless disaster recovery plan, but the most common obstacle to implementing it is cost. Most web services choose the occasional risk of downtime in one data center instead

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