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Re:Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real wor...
on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @09:43AM (#26724791)
Almost any salaried position in a big enterprise involves very little real work. It's mostly email, meetings and power point.
Re:Tell HN: Mailgun lowers free-tier API from 10k to 625 emails per month
on Thursday January 30, 2020 @07:16PM (#22197539)
Switched to SES.
Re:A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store
on Saturday October 12, 2019 @10:19AM (#21233302)
I switched to FF after Prism was publicized. It's good. Go for it.
Re:AMA with Substack and Matt Taibbi about a new business model for jo...
on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @04:52PM (#17241925)
Hi Matt, have you read Graeber's "Bullshit Jobs: A Theory" yet? It has an interesting perspective on what drives the trend to minimize pay for writers.
Re:Review of _Bullshit Jobs_
on Sunday May 27, 2018 @12:42PM (#17167728)
Here are the first 3 paragraphs of the section on Duct-tapers from Chapter 2.
https://monosnap.com/file/L41lTePrEn3wAJxD4sMZxeIYacxDqK
This was striking for me because I immediately thought that all the stuff I've authored for salt, ansible, grunt, etc. is duct tape. And I hated doing that work. I always did.
It's necessary and necessarily complex but a lot of the complexity is because fitting all this stuff together is going to be a mess no matter what. We can argue about better and worse approaches to managing the complexities (micro-services, whatever) but it's still complex and I resent that.
Re:Custodians of PHP vote to keep a crypto lib abandoned in 2003 in PHP 7
on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @02:28PM (#9029317)
cweagans is right. PHP is deeply unfashionable, ridiculous even to some programmers using other langauges. But quietly, somewhere out of sight, it has been enjoying something of a renaissance in recent years. Generally I'm pleased with changes in the culture, tools, standards and even in the language. But just can't get behind this decision to keep mcrypt.
Re:Custodians of PHP vote to keep a crypto lib abandoned in 2003 in PHP 7
on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @12:08PM (#9028405)
It appears those with a vote regard adoption of PHP 7 as the higher priority and therefore compat with existing code using mcrypt must be ensured. http://news.php.net/php.internals/82191
Yii Framework 2.0.0 GA
Ansible reminds me of PHP’s salad days
Encrypted OS X and Windows volumes on one flash drive
Re:Cognitive Overhead, Or Why Your Product Isn’t As Simple As You Think
on Sunday April 21, 2013 @09:32AM (#5584771)
This is hilarious: "Web 2.0 took over, yielding big buttons, less text, more images, and happier users."
Yii Framework switches: Ruby replacing PHP
Re:Ask HN: What PHP Framework should I use?
on Wednesday January 23, 2013 @04:25PM (#5105380)
yii
Re:I quit Twitter for a month and it changed my thinking about mostly ...
on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @03:52PM (#4873193)
isn't this basically what Jaron Lanier was getting at in You Are Not a Gadget?
Re:The definitive guide to forms based website authentication
on Wednesday November 07, 2012 @01:25PM (#4754494)
it's mostly good. NIST abolished their algo for pasword entropy estimation some time ago. i do not much like any password strength tests, most of which rate any number of terrible passwords as strong. as such i think they give a false sense of security. maybe consider cracklib.
as DenisM said, always use SSL for all traffic if security matters and don't trust SO for security advice.