johnnyRose

This is neat! Commenting to see my own.

I was able to enter a room I created without allowing microphone access.

I created a simple Firefox extension to skip Google’s search result redirect.

I was motivated after the redirect page “hung” several times in one day, and I didn’t fully trust some of the existing extensions.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/skip-google-r...

This is a lot of fun! Definitely makes me miss my favorite Irish pub (located in the Midwest).

Nit: I wish the traditional music cycled between a few different songs. What's provided is pretty repetitive, and is already stuck in my head.

I used this approach as part of a personal learning project. It ended up working very well because I was using Mongo, so I could just use $graphLookup with an index on the next ID.

It was definitely fast enough for my purposes, sorting about 30k items in 3 different linked lists in just a second or two. The function allows you to limit your depth or modify your starting location in the linked list (graph) which opens a lot of possibilities and/or performance improvements when only loading the first N records.

Hello! My team is currently creating microservices written in .NET Core. A lot of my teammates don't commit appsettings in their .NET Core microservices, opting instead to simply commit changes to our docker-compose file. This is fine until we need to debug something, and then it becomes painful to manually map the environment variables from the docker-compose file over to appsettings.development.json. I created this to make my life a little bit easier, and hopefully it helps some other folks too!

It's not perfect, and won't support every possible format for docker-compose environment variables (block scalars, for example), which seemed a little overkill for a weekend project.

I'm definitely open to feedback and suggestions! Thanks!

Plenty of reasons. The most obvious use that comes to mind is to avert government censorship. Then there are whistleblowers. There are more reasons to desire anonymity than illegal activity.

Edit: also, ISPs can sell your browsing information now: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/04/04/isps-can...

Nice tool, I'd love to try it. Is your sign-up broken? It just comes back with an empty red alert.

You're right - in my experience, most programmers have it pretty good.

What I've noticed is that stress/overworking comes when the team is pressured for time. As a mental, as opposed to physical laborer, sometimes less is more, and sometimes that means leaving an hour early just to figure out the solution to your problems on the drive home.

Managers who think "butts in seats, hands on keyboards" equals "more productivity" can't effectively manage programmers.

I'm curious how requirements are determined at these huge tech companies. Do the programmers have any weight as to which features are implemented, or are requirements typically handed down from someone else? I'm sure this varies from place to place but I'd like to hear your two cents.

The heat has to go somewhere. If your machine is feeling hot, the heat is escaping. Trying to prevent that by using a less conductive material may not end well for your laptop.

Their Series A raised $10.8M back in 2015: https://keybase.io/blog/2015-07-15/keybase-raises-series-a

I have looked into this in the past and came to the same conclusion. Essentially, the "password" sent to the website is the client-side salted/hashed version of the user's actual password. The server could then salt/hash the "password" another time before storing it. This could result in the same issue if the "password" is logged, but it protects the user's true password from being discovered. Maybe a security expert can weight in on this, because I don't understand why this wouldn't be the standard.

Do you mean better, faster, _and_ cheaper in a single device? Honestly curious, what do you recommend over Raspberry Pi?

Not hugely significant, but a company I worked for before our unit was purchased used to offer a health program that, among other things, offered 10% off "healthy" foods at Walmart stores. This is a very small perk in comparison but it made a big and lasting difference in the groceries I purchased.

Some of the other perks to this program were a gym reimbursement after a certain number of verified workouts, nearly-free health insurance, and a rewards program which allowed you to redeem points for gift cards. Too much to explain in detail but it really incentivized a healthy lifestyle and has made a lasting difference in my health.

Not affiliated, but https://www.vitalitygroup.com/ if anyone is curious.

My advice would be to choose your battles, because you can't win them all. There are many ways to accomplish most tasks and sometimes good enough is good enough.

That being said, it's OK to have high standards. I've found myself in similar situations in the past and I discovered it's helpful to look at code reviews as a learning experience for everyone. If you find yourself reviewing truly horrendous code, it's an opportunity for you to develop your patience, teaching, and communication skills.

I use KBFS and encrypted Git almost every day.

I've never needed the identity proofs. The teams/chat features are great but I rarely use those either. Maybe when adoption increases, but until then I'm loving my free 250 GB cloud drive and unlimited Git repos up to 100 GB.

It's not particularly intellectual, but The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey has definitely changed my life for the better. I wish I had read it years ago.

I hear that. I was once employed as the sole full time internal webapp developer for a local company with 600-ish employees to serve. Over time, more applications == more code == more bugs == more features/improvements == more "customers" to interact with... Being able to move that quickly was a lot of fun, but managing everything was challenging.

I recently read about Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme, created by Adi Shamir, one of the creators of RSA. I've been fascinated by its elegance and simplicity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing

I frequently find myself encountering this problem when I feel like writing. Ideas to write about would be great - I've never been a great free-writer.

Steer clear from them - as far away as possible. Document important dates such as when/how/why you first came up with the idea, when you began working on it, when the startup approached you, etc. Absolutely do not look at anything technical from them and definitely any discussions about their product.

How would you feel if you hired a freelancer to work on your product and then shortly after they launched a similar product?

I would pay someone to diversify and invest it for me. Assuming a 6% return rate (on average), the principal would generate approximately $150,000/year in interest. Obviously more if you reinvest some of it.

Eventually I would probably dip into the principal to afford a nice home with some land somewhere. I haven't settled on the details yet.

Honestly, the most valuable part of this would be that my time is freed up to work on things I'm passionate about.

Poor guy. Linus just melted his face off.

Makes me scared to even _consider_ contributing...

This type of thing is a big reason why young companies with young co-founders have such a bad rap.

Never mind... They just deleted that, too. :)