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cwisecarver··on [dead]
If the Hillary stories about her email were relevant then this is too. This is at least the third story from different news sources that I've seen flagged to death on this topic.
cwisecarver··on Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory
I can see the argument but 99+% of this audience isn't cloudflare. My comment was more directed at those who aren't. Special use-cases are all over the place. It's just making sure you're choosing because your use-case really is special and that when you re-implement something that you're doing it because it's different and better, not because you'd rather write something than integrate.
cwisecarver··on Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory
This sounds to me like an object lesson in "Why you shouldn't write your own HTML parser."

Every time I see a dev trying to parse HTML with a custom solution or regex or anything other than a proven OSS library designed to parse HTML I recoil reflexively. Sure, maybe you don't need a parser to see if that strong tag is properly closed but the alternative is ...

cwisecarver··on Ask HN: What is the worst software that you have to use?
Try Flowdock for a week. Then try slack again.
cwisecarver··on Apple Said to Work on Mac Chip That Would Lessen Intel Role
Apple would have them by the plums at least for a little while.
cwisecarver··on Ajit Pai confirmed as new head of the FCC
I think DC's workforce is thinking about getting into contracting or consulting. Anytime Republicans cut into the actual federal workforce they just make up for it with outside contracting. Then they can say they cut the workforce while still paying 2.5X+ the amount they would if they just hired someone.
cwisecarver··on [dead]
There was a Women's March. Where's the tech march? This isn't a tech story unless you count being alive as a tech issue.
cwisecarver··on What Apple Gives You for $100 as a Safari Extension Developer
The iOS marketshare is a orders of magnitude larger than that of macOS so the target vector is larger. Malware and the like would be hugely more profitable on iOS than macOS.
cwisecarver··on ThinkPad X1 Carbon
My 2015 MacBook Pro has a quad-core i7. No 32GB of RAM but that seems like more of a chipset issue than a space one. Or if you ask Phil Schiller it's a battery life issue.
cwisecarver··on An American Intelligence Service Insider Leaked the Podesta Emails to Wikileaks
Not saying this is bs or not but the source of this article is Zero Hedge. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-15/revealed-who-gave-d...
cwisecarver··on 1PB data loss fears as Australian Tax Office suffers HP storage crash
This is how Mad Max starts.
cwisecarver··on Apple fixes MacBook Pro battery life by removing time estimate
This is not a dupe, so far as I can tell.
cwisecarver··on Ask HN: Senior developers, what would you tell a younger you?
This: most user stories / user requests are raw diamonds waiting to be polished. ("What do they really want me to solve")
cwisecarver··on Ask HN: Senior developers, what would you tell a younger you?
* Learn how to learn.

* Admit when you don't know something and then rectify it (if it's interesting to you).

* A stable solution is better than the bleeding-edge solution.

* Smaller (simpler) is better. (KISS)

* Learn how to gauge technical ability in a conversation with someone and compensate for that on the fly. Non-techies will love you.

* 80hr weeks will not make the company love you. They will only make everyone else in your life dislike you. And eventually, the people at the company.

* Shop around. You don't have to take the job offers but keep interviewing. You learn as much about yourself as they learn about you.

* Find a problem-space you love and develop it. Tech is tech but business is business. Finding an area that you like to solve tech problems in will make you happy.

* Don't make technical arguments personal. Make your point, with facts, let them make theirs. Agree if you're wrong.

cwisecarver··on Apple removing battery life estimates following MacBook Pro complaints
I honestly wish they'd focus on battery tech instead of whiz-bang features like the touchbar.

Just accept that you're not going to make a touchscreen Mac. Accept it. That's fine. I don't want one anyway.

Give me a quad-core newish processor with 32GB of RAM, the fastest SSD that I can imagine, and ten hours of battery life.

If a 15" laptop weights between 2 and 3.5 lbs I don't care. I'm carrying it in a backpack 99% of the time. I'm not going to notice the difference. I will notice the difference when it stops working because my 2.257lb laptop stopped working after 2hrs because it's thin and light.

cwisecarver··on AirPods are now available
I'm really hoping that Apple opens up an API to them. They have built in mics like here-one and the new Bose headphones. I would really like to see what app developers can do on a (somewhat) open platform. Intelligent noise cancelling, lowering the volume automatically when it detects someone talking to you, etc.
cwisecarver··on Local Django on Kubernetes with Minikube
Can you outline the differences between minikube and kube-solo?
cwisecarver··on Local Django on Kubernetes with Minikube
Getting development as close to production as possible means you discover problems sooner. I've been trying to get kube-solo up running our entire infrastructure (mongo, postgres, elastic, two python 3.5 apps, one python 2.7 app) for a few days. I think, after this post, I'm going to switch over to minikube now that I know it's officially part of the kubernetes project.
cwisecarver··on Ubiquiti Networks UniFi Controller in an Ubuntu LXD Machine Container
They have some hardware that runs it's management interface on the device itself. Their UniFi and USG and some of their more prosumer-ish switches and stuff require you to run the UniFi Controller, which is web-based, on a computer. Our ops guys manage our 3 UniFi APs running the UniFi Controller on their individual laptops. If they need to change configuration they fire up the UniFi Controller and hit a webpage on their localhost.

The devices, once configured, run independently of the UniFi Controller. It's just needed for configuration changes or monitoring outside of snmp. (or apparently the guest portal)

cwisecarver··on Pebble's next step
I backed the Time 2 and the Core. I was way more excited about the Core. I have a 1st-gen Apple Watch and am perfectly happy with that. I was going to give the Time 2 to my father-in-law for Christmas. It's really disappointing. I'm really looking forward to someone explaining the what and whys of this. Based on Fitbit's stock price over the last year I can't imagine this acquisition will turn out good for either party, the developers going to Fitbit, or the wearable community in general.
cwisecarver··on [dead]
This isn't politics and it's relevant to the community.
cwisecarver··on [dead]
I hope this is an open API. I would love to look at the statistics around what gets flagged on which sites.
cwisecarver··on Show HN: Emacs-Bootstrap
I went into the Safari console, selected the form element and ran $0.submit() and it worked...?
cwisecarver··on Show HN: Emacs-Bootstrap
I can't get it to generate in either Chrome or Safari.
cwisecarver··on Edward Snowden Demonstrates How Easy It Is to Hack a Voting Machine
Same in VA but the machine in no way indicates that it read it correctly.
cwisecarver··on Edward Snowden Demonstrates How Easy It Is to Hack a Voting Machine
If we have to use machines why wouldn't we just source two machines from rival vendors. One machine takes the vote from the voter through whatever method, records the vote and prints a receipt that clearly states that voters choices. Machine two reads the receipt in front of the voter and keeps a second tally of votes. The two tallies are then compared at the end of the night.
cwisecarver··on A History of Hard Drives
I was really hoping for a description of MFM vs IDE vs SCSI. I guess I'll just have to hit up Wikipedia to refresh my memory.
cwisecarver··on Ask HN: Anyone interested in building tools for showing bias in news?
IIRC one of the main tenants of science, when I was learning it in middle school in the early '90s, was that it's fact until it's disproven. We don't know everything about it which is what makes it different than religion. There's no faith involved.

I know a lot of it is corrupt and aiming for a target but good scientists will tell you that they're basing their findings on studies which may have flaws and they'd want you to try and reproduce their studies to tell them if they've gotten something wrong.

cwisecarver··on Twitter suspends alt-right figureheads
The even bigger problem is we're assuming they were banned for "hate" speech because Twitter hasn't even said why yet. If they took down tweets that they felt were hate speech and communicated to the speaker and the community I would be more okay with it. A silent ban of dozens of accounts is their right as a business but I'll still say it's a stupid decision.
cwisecarver··on Dear Democrats, Read This If You Do Not Understand Why Trump Won
The problem is that the "other echo chamber" isn't making arguments that are based on facts, not true facts at least. You can't have an argument with a climate change denier. It's unpossible. If we can't agree on a common set of facts then there's nothing else to talk about.

The way to fix it is to force anyone that broadcasts a video signal over cable or the airwaves or the internet to have a few hours a night of commercial free news. If they publish something that's patently not true then the government should revoke their license to broadcast on every medium. The only problem with that is that it would be very easy to get state run media in that situation.

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