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5h··on Emacs is special regarding UIs
I've been using Vim for a very long time now, recently adding CoC has slowed things a bit however I am quite fond of some of the features, so I might start enabling it only when I want those.

I'm not looking to encouragement to change (after 20 years in Vim that ship has likely sailed for good), I was just curious if the speed of Emacs lisp was a frequent bugbear.

5h··on Emacs is special regarding UIs
As a non Emacs user, is the speed of Emacs Lisp a frustration in typical day to day usage?
5h··on Docker Releases Plugin for Simplified Deployments into AWS
I picked up CDK & built out the same essential setup + DB, an EC2-ECS instance for ad-hoc stuff and a bunch of things to appease Config & Security Hub in ~420 lines of quite sparse python, that builds out to ~3000 lines of cloudformation yaml.

I feel CDK has the mix between optional granularity & high-level constructs just right, while this plugin looks nice for a quick MVP standup i'd be surprised to see it in use for production workloads

5h··on Garmin services and production go down after ransomware attack
Or their network isolation is very poor, super common in older tech companies.
5h··on Unable to deal with Chrome Extension Team, Kozmos is shutting down
Literally the first sentence of the GDPR:

This Regulation lays down rules relating to the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and rules relating to the free movement of personal data.

No snark, this situation sucks, but after dealing with GDPR for a while it's not well understood in tech societies

5h··on Ask HN: Burning Out
I've not read the other comments, so this has probably been said already many times over.

Talk to the founders.

What reasons are there to not talk to them if you are planning on leaving anyway?

It may be a painful conversation but it'll only be a few minutes.

“A person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.” etc

5h··on Virgin Media (UK) stores passwords in plain text, sends them through the mail
This is the same bunch of clowns who MITM you even after disabling their porn-filter, and the "fix" is to install their root cert.
5h··on Remote Code Execution on a Facebook server
They were running django 1.6 ....
5h··on The Nightmare Letter: A Subject Access Request Under GDPR
Reading this actually makes me feel pretty good, my team & I have been working on GDPR tooling for our app for the past couple of months & combined with the fact-sheets we've prepared answering such a letter while complying with the individuals rights would be pretty straightforward.
5h··on Npm operational incident, 6 Jan 2018
Just had a quick look - the "kik" package isn't in even use anymore - the whole thing was just drama theatre from by a messaging app I've never heard of. Despite it having 200 million users. Apparently.
5h··on Ask HN: What is the most painful problem you have day-to-day as a software dev?
Suffering through technical interviews where the potential employers are inexperienced at delivering said interviews.

Simultaneously nitpicking & grandstanding without once discussing the realities of software lifecycle, managing complexity, change of business focus, development pragmatism etc is a red flag.

In a recent interview - with the entire development team for a 10 customer product with great potential - spending a couple of hours picking over a mutli-tier caching architecture to serve a million views of a million variants of a million products, when your login form is broken, doesn't impress me much as a candidate.

5h··on Linux on Samsung Galaxy smartphones
Sure - I've been using this one https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pocket-Folding-Bluetooth-Tablet-Key...

It's cheap enough so that when it inevitably breaks I won't be too concerned. It fits in the back pocket of my jeans too which is handy.

5h··on Linux on Samsung Galaxy smartphones
I've been using termux and a fold out bluetooth keyboard for django development & code review for quite a while on my pixel XL.

I absolutely love having my dev work on my phone, being able to hack away or do code review for 5 minutes wherever is incredible.

At home using a chrome-cast and have it on a big screen.

It would be nice to have a window manager I suppose - but i'll probably end up in a full screen terminal anywya.

When mobile the biggest problem for me is just plain old screen size - I'm tempted to get a cheap Chinese tablet and use it as a remote screen somehow - leaving my phone in my pocket.

5h··on Django REST framework 3.5
Why use a website - just have your users call you and ask you to do things.
5h··on GitHub censored my research data
No, they would not be required - they are a private business and set their own terms.

As for being responsible - that is their motivation.

Should I assume that now you have access to this list that you will be contacting the site owners to notify them their sites are infected & exploitable? Would that be responsible on your part?

5h··on GitHub censored my research data
Are they in the business of journalism?

Lots of people are saying "But the sites are already exploited" ... they are probably still exploitable further also, and GH/GL don't want to be at that party.

5h··on An AWS Region is coming to France
Still no further info on the London region since their announcement post[1] said:

> Today, I am excited to add the United Kingdom to that list! The AWS UK region will be our third in the European Union (EU), and we're shooting to have it ready by the end of 2016 (or early 2017). This region will provide even lower latency and strong data sovereignty to local users.

[1] http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2015/11/aws-announces-uk...

5h··on Could the Scottish Parliament Stop the UK from Leaving the EU?
The parent post wasn't replying to you - so I'd argue it wasn't calling your thinking anything whatsoever.

While I'd agree such terms are being carelessly banded about, there's no need to go looking for reasons to be offended here.

5h··on Could the Scottish Parliament Stop the UK from Leaving the EU?
Your parent poster said "that xenophobia/racism is now an "every day" thing."

People with pre-existing xenophobic/racist have found vindication & legitimisation with the referendum result.

Many papers today are carrying stories of attacks along these lines, I'm sure the rest will in the following days also.

"It's over. We are out. Accept it or feel free to move to a European country... I don't mind."

The back-pedalling has only just begun. People voted leave for a lot of reasons, and they will have their displeasure at progress heard to differing degrees.

I'd suggest you give it a little while before you take it as read that any side won for the cause they voted for.

5h··on AWS and Zombies
That's interesting in light of http://www.rackspace.co.uk/managed-aws
5h··on Uninstalling Facebook app saves up to 15% of iPhone battery life
I've noticed this too, curious now - I'll ask some of my mobile developer contacts.
5h··on Uninstalling Facebook app saves up to 15% of iPhone battery life
The above is Android - I should have said that - but I think the same applies to both ecosystems.
5h··on Uninstalling Facebook app saves up to 15% of iPhone battery life
Looking at my phone, a few make me wonder how we got here today.

Skype 149MB, Chrome 134MB, Sheets 122MB, Slides 115MB, Docs 101MB, Outlook 101MB, HSBC 73.97MB, Uber 60.98, Fitbit 79.77 ...

Skpye, HSBC, Uber & Fitbit all seem way larger than they should be

I've never knowingly used the Slides app.

5h··on Xfinity's Security System Flaws Open Homes to Thieves
Troll headline.

The flaw results in false positives.

If jamming frequencies caused all the locks to disengage, that would "Open homes to thieves".

5h··on Big RAM laptops are abundant as Lenovo does its Skylake refresh
My several year old x220t has an i7 and 12gb of ram, don't think i'll be replacing it for at least another 2-3 years
5h··on What if we ditched CSS?
Your post said "What if we ditched CSS?" with zero other context.

The links do use CSS, and there are non css options available in most rendering engines for such things, e.g. canvas/svg.

Personally I see no advantage to using things like lay.js in the top linked example over SVG, and further feel that a lot of the hate driven towards CSS stems from misunderstanding or misuse. Not that it is perfect, far from it, but to proxy it behind another language can only ever add limitations.

Compass/SASS solve most of my shallow verbosity based gripes tbh.

5h··on What if we ditched CSS?
This is the number 11 from the clock

    <div style="position: absolute; display: block; visibility: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; backface-visibility: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; transform-style: preserve-3d; overflow: hidden; outline: none; border: none; font-size: 28.44px; font-family: sans-serif; color: black; text-decoration: none; text-align: left; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.4em; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; cursor: default; transform: translate(50.834px, 12.5738px); -webkit-user-select: none; height: 39.816px; width: 32px;">11</div>
Nope, no css here.
5h··on Everyone’s been rejected – these are our stories
It happens the other way around also.

In an interview for a CTO type position a while ago, the only technical member of the interview panel was visibly aghast that I had never made a bootstrap theme - which, despite me explaining where that sort of task fits into the webapp ecosystem to the others, had already rubbed off on the rest of the panel. The extensive team/project building portfolio presented was irrelevant.

I thanked them for their time and didn't call back as I've had my fill of toxic work environments out there.

5h··on Virtualizing APIs with Go and Python
That's kind of what i was thinking - somewhere between good ol' cgi and a reverse proxy ....

Unfortunate because I'm semi-looking for a simple service that will let me configure a stateful new frontend to an old API - title made me think it might be along those lines.

5h··on Entering Public Beta
I think `Most` was quite adequate given the achievement though.
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