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0xEFF··on California sues Activision Blizzard over unequal pay, sexual harassment
It’s already mandated if you’re a government employee, which millions of people are.
0xEFF··on Kubernetes is our generation's Multics
Kubernetes removes the complexity of keeping a process (service) available.

There’s a lot to unpack in that sentence, which is to say there’s a lot of complexity it removes.

Agree it does add as well.

I’m not convinced k8s is a net increase in complexity after everything is accounted for. Authentication, authorization, availability, monitoring, logging, deployment tooling, auto scaling, abstracting the underlying infrastructure, etc…

0xEFF··on Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over his rare Twitter handle
The boy who called wolf is an old children’s story for a reason.

What alternative behavior do you suggest?

0xEFF··on Young, Dumb, and Broke: Why Outdoorsy Types Suck at Money
Gear is fashion in this situation, complete with the yearly refresh to avoid looking unfashionable.
0xEFF··on How to win a hackathon without coming in first place
Could be the early stages of a Theranos play.
0xEFF··on JavaScript Object Signing and Encryption is a bad standard (2017)
And also GitHub, Gitlab, Auth0, OKTA, login.gov, Atlasssian, Kubernetes, Hashicorp, etc…

OIDC seems to be the de-facto standard today.

0xEFF··on Three programmers got fired, including me, due to a single app crash
$100/month pay surprised me as being way too low.
0xEFF··on Casa Client Case Study: The Tinder Trap
The only time average people wire money is when they close on a mortgage.
0xEFF··on America’s Obsession with Self-Help
None of those things are particularly American, or even western.
0xEFF··on Everything useful I know about kubectl
Modern istio provides a lot of value to a single application. mTLS security, telemetry, circuit breaking, canary deployments, and better external authentication and authorization. I’ve seen each done so many different ways. Nice to do it once at the mesh layer and have it be done for everything inside the cluster.
0xEFF··on Microsoft announces Windows 11
They didn’t get in trouble for bundling IE. The got in trouble for legal and technical restrictions on using alternatives to IE.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....

0xEFF··on The Prosperous Software Consultant (2018)
Just ask. A good client thinks of you as a trusted business partner and will want you to be fully informed.

Maybe you can help them make or save even more.

0xEFF··on Nixos-unstable’s ISO_minimal.x86_64-Linux is 100% reproducible
Forgive my ignorance but isn’t that Slackware?
0xEFF··on How do I opt my access point out of Google Location services?
If they did the same tracking but to other phones instead of access points would that cross a line?
0xEFF··on An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding
What’s the difference between “constant time” and “constant time amortized?”
0xEFF··on If someone’s having to read your docs, it’s not “simple”
It’s really just you. Or it’s just you. Either way, it’s you.
0xEFF··on “That Won't Work”
Agree, in many orgs if you don’t do design work upfront you risk getting killed when your project is successful enough to draw attention.

The written design defends against, “this is just a toy” even if you’ve thought it through for countless hours.

0xEFF··on An Unbelievable Demo
The appropriate mailing list email address is often listed right at the bottom of the blog article too.
0xEFF··on The Apple M1 compiles Linux 30% faster than my Intel i9
I dunno about the marketing, but I for one was excited about the first consumer devices capable of realtime, immersive 3D worlds. I played a lot of 16 player halo in college classrooms on big screen projectors. It was exciting.
0xEFF··on Ask HN: Which tools/services have your favorite UI/UX?
gcloud and kubectl with completion bindings
0xEFF··on Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly revealing
I don’t feel the need to dictate anything, but I care because my messaging app exchanges my personal data with my friends messaging app so there’s value knowing their copy is authentic.
0xEFF··on Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly revealing
The system call to run an app touches apples servers to verify the app for example.
0xEFF··on Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly revealing
Suppose you install a messaging app to talk to your friend. How do you know they installed their copy from the good App Store and not the bad one?
0xEFF··on Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly revealing
> If a developer isn't using that infrastructure, they don't owe anything.

How would a developer build an iOS app without using any system calls or OS frameworks? Xcode?

“Infrastructure” is a blurry concept in such a deeply integrated system.

0xEFF··on PHP 3.0 Final is out (1998)
Nearly 20 years ago I wrote a dynamic listing page in PHP that renders an html table from data in MySQL.

Today it still works.

0xEFF··on Extreme HTTP Performance Tuning
Use N clients. Increase N until you’re sure.
0xEFF··on Tesla Autopilot system was on during fatal California crash, more safety concern
It’s name is “autopilot.” There is no such thing as a “marketing name.”

Edit: OK, there is such a thing. I guess this is why I never played the truenamer class. Point still stands.

0xEFF··on Why do older individuals have greater control of their feelings?
The biggest change I noticed was having a kid. It’s like there’s been a process running in my head since birth called “affects me?” A few months after kiddo, there’s a new process, “affects kid?” The new process seems to have taken a third to a half of the resources the first was using. Much of what bothered me doesn’t affect the kid so I don’t care nearly as much.
0xEFF··on The Importance of Humility in Software Development (2020)
> That market is just nothing but developers who love their toolset and just want to write and learn amazing code.

The risk with this type of developer is they often prioritize their toolset and amazing code over the actual businesses needs. I’ve seen it lead to the wrong tool being used for the job.

A couple years later when these devs move on the business has a harder time maintaining the code they leave behind.

There are always drifters to be hired, which has some value.

0xEFF··on Snapchat Can Be Sued for Role in Fatal Car Crash, Court Rules
A filter that broadcasts your speedometer to your followers live is different though. Almost like watching a live race car driver.
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