wieghant

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by wieghant 5y ago
It's monumentally stupid to think auth is easy. Yes there are standard cookbooks and checklists out there. The hubris to think that auth fails due to a crypto scheme choice is why average programmers consistently fail at it. The yearly
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by wieghant 6y ago
Yet we are as of right now where even our OS will go behind our back and act like malware to collect data even when we explicitly say no. The native apps are also all trending to online first and cache offline. I don't understand how a
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by wieghant 6y ago
Exactly. But for the savy it's easier to see from network tab in dev tools where your data is sent. No such luck with native apps. I don't almost never use wireshark to figure out what my native apps are doing. Also. The entire ar
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by wieghant 6y ago
During my time in conscription, one thing that stuck with me was 'Forbidden Order'. If a superior gives you an order that violates set rules or laws (e.g shoot civilians). You HAVE to obey and BOTH parties will be accountable. It&
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by wieghant 6y ago
Left and wished I had done it earlier. Once I gave my notice, that's when they gave a counter offer but I had made up my mind. Cost the company upcoming tenders and my entire team soon followed. Not something I'm proud of. But pri
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by wieghant 6y ago
I just recently understood the deep connection between bytes and hex, hex and decimal. Can someone ELI5 what would be the use case for having data represented in Base32H? I understand it conveys more info in less runes but it feels hard to
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by wieghant 6y ago
Feel like we've gone full-circle for the umpteenth time.
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by wieghant 6y ago
This is great. Clean. Simple. No nonsense. WebSockets is a cherry on top!
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by wieghant 8y ago
So I hear the cons for e-voting all the time. It's absolutely true no system is sound and secure. However consider this: most politicians aren't exactly tech-savy. There are way more cost-effective methods to "rig" elect
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by wieghant 8y ago
I liked the no bootstrap section. People lack the foresight of shooting themselves in the leg. Currently working on a project where the front-end guys ended up using !important for literally everything due to lack of knowledge on how Bootst
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by wieghant 8y ago
Recently needed multi-threading with Arduino. Going to give this a shot. I'm sure people more well-versed with non-POSIX may have gripes, but I'm just doing this for hobby purposes. I'm familiar with Linux, I need multi-threa
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by wieghant 8y ago
It's a cool project and I admire the attempt, however 1) It's been done before, it's not original 2) The cost is outrageous (I see you use more expensive materials, but it's not $1400 more expensive material) 3) Likely c
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by wieghant 8y ago
I just find Go a more pleasant experience. The source code is easily readable and understandable. I don't run into weird wrong version or dependency problems ever. Go get, go build and i'm done. Or if i download the binary, just d
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by wieghant 8y ago
Why did you choose executions over something mundane like blogs or comments? Reading last statements isn't exactly something I want to be distracted by. The data is interesting sure and if this just happened to be based on something yo
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Ask HN: Game development without fully fledged IDE like Unity?
6 points by wieghant 8y ago|4 comments
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by wieghant 8y ago
My goal wasn't to bolster a "fruitful professional relationship". She probably wouldn't have been hired if that was not the case. She excels at her work and there are no HR problems. Article focused on women feeling anti
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by wieghant 8y ago
That's not really what I was getting at. Most of the guys are just like you described. We usually can't even settle on a video game to play. However, even with the one thing in common with the whole group (slight interest in board
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by wieghant 8y ago
HackerNews isn't really a place to wave a empathy stick at. This is a place where years of work on startups and concepts come to die. If you came to find yes men, this is sadly the wrong place. Having said that, there are an unusual lo
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by wieghant 8y ago
But I'd rather stay up all night and clear Black Temple.
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by wieghant 8y ago
We recently got a new female analyst. We invite her for lunch and sometimes have small talk. Thing is, there's literally zero chemistry. We can't include here in our dumb Skype chat because its usually filled with incredibly dumb
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by wieghant 9y ago
> It's better than it once was, but you're going to have to check every single feature of HTML5 you use to figure out which browsers implement it There's tools for that and i'm pretty sure just writing plain html and
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by wieghant 9y ago
> Then you have the language creep (Typescript, Dart or anything to paliate JS deficiencies; LESS/SASS), the JS framework creep, the libraries decay, etc. That is totally a thing in Java too. Languages: Groovy, Kotlin, Scala. Framew
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by wieghant 9y ago
His just complaining and electron eats memory (supposed 200MB on startup). Find it funny he brings Java as a better alternative to the table.
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by wieghant 9y ago
As a language both are insane in parts. Not just architecture but the muddle of tooling also.
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by wieghant 9y ago
Look. I agree, that you shouldn't make desktop applications in Electron. The thing is, when you have a fresh grad student that was taught PHP as a web framework for most of the time and maybe Node, what do you think they will gravitate
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by wieghant 9y ago
Ughh, more pretentious mockery of millennials. So sick of being looked down on. You know what's more immature than being a 23 year old with inflated ego? Having the experience, yet proceeding to ridicule knowing full well that's n
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by wieghant 9y ago
* The Boaty McBoatface is /r/iamverysmart territory. It was lighthearted and brought interest from across the world - not everything has to be named after a Greek tragedy. * As for Brexit. Well, the public in general was unaware o
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by wieghant 9y ago
Corporal punishment in my opinion is lazy parenting. I've thought about this a lot. My parents divorced early, I was raised by my father. He loved me and my brother no doubt but after a hard days work he had no interest in doing normal
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by wieghant 9y ago
Disgusting. People defending his actions with culture and religion are even more so.