thatjamesdude

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by thatjamesdude 5y ago
I have many future ideas for this. I wrote it out of boredom and a desire to do something "low level"-ish and parsing DHCP packets seemed like a fun example. All this exercise has taught me is how nothing is ever simple and that s
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Show HN: Gatekeeper, a hobbyist DHCP server written Go(gitlab.com)
7 points by thatjamesdude 5y ago|2 comments
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by thatjamesdude 5y ago
> Telling people they can have a religion but they can't practice it is as laughabaly silly as telling them they have freedom of speech so long as they don't say undesirable things. Freedom of Speech != Freedom of Consequence.
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by thatjamesdude 5y ago
>I'd also wager a guess that most South African farmers are not white Given the demographics, not an unfair guess, albeit a lazy one. No, not even close. Land reform is a controversial topic in my country so I'm just going to T
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by thatjamesdude 5y ago
Vastly misunderstood this from the title and I suspect a few others have as well. This seems to be more about internships than interviews for a qualified professional (or whatever you want to call those candidates). Just make unpaid interns
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by thatjamesdude 5y ago
What kind of documentation would you like to see for a service like this? Genuinely asking because I've always used the query dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com to resolve the public IP my ISP has assigned me s
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by thatjamesdude 5y ago
Whenever I see interface{} mentioned in Go I see vague references to polymorphism. That is wrong. Interface is a special type in Go. All interfaces in go, including ones you declare, hold 2 pieces of data in memory 1. Pointer to the concr
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by thatjamesdude 5y ago
Comments like this make me think we software engineers live in a different world. >unlike USD, the court can’t do something like garnish your wages to pay back a 10M settlement by taking some crypto out of your incoming transactions You
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by thatjamesdude 5y ago
>The theory is that the code is the law. There is no theft. What rubbish. You cannot claim "the computer let me do it" and expect to be let off for that. That's an extreme absurdity and is absolutely not how the law works.
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by thatjamesdude 6y ago
Hey OP, just wanted to say thank you for putting this together! You have some amazing references in that readme, I particularly love the link to the go routine scheduler. You've also done such a wonderful job with explaining the why an
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by thatjamesdude 6y ago
I am just shy of 10 years professional experience now and I have learned 1 very important lesson: You can safely ignore the opinion of anyone/anything that claims there's a "golden solution". That goes for ALL aspects of
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by thatjamesdude 6y ago
Are you referring to the opt in database of details you were expected to update yourself?
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by thatjamesdude 6y ago
Is there a difference between equal and consistent application? I agree, but it seems we're saying the same thing?
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by thatjamesdude 6y ago
That feels like a false equivalency, because what I'm talking about is the right to be forgotten. Which is only a fallacy because data is a commodity, not because it's technically impossible. And yes you can't really be forgo
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by thatjamesdude 6y ago
Let's not twist the argument. Those channels exist to spread private, identifiable data and this breaks the law. A better version of your argument is Apple is the landlord where people are planning lynchings. Again, I side with the Bel
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by thatjamesdude 6y ago
Whilst I agree with the specifics here, the problem is the general case. I don't agree that you should be allowed to post people's private, identifying data to a public forum without consent. This HAS to apply equally, because the
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by thatjamesdude 6y ago
That's side stepping the real problem very neatly though. Speaking as a citizen of a country with "real" identification laws, how would you like the banks to identify you? SSN? Absolutely not. That number is not meant to be u
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by thatjamesdude 6y ago
Broadly I agree, but as a South African currently sitting in the economic capital of the country: The article is way off, with a mostly rubbish conclusion(edit). What happened to us started long, long before the collapse of SARS (our tax ag
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by thatjamesdude 6y ago
Something being established is not a grand argument for it's usage. The reasons it got established are relavent, and if you feel the end result of said establishment is obtuse or inane, why would you use it? That's not to say Go&#
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by thatjamesdude 6y ago
Strongly disagree. It's not intrinsic motivation, it's fear of failing. That's a terrible lesson to instill in children. I do agree that's a useful life skill, but that is really scraping the barrel for reasons why homew