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This is a breath of fresh air.

Twitter is like trying to watch a football game where all 40,000 members of the audience have a microphone and each think they should be the announcer.

You turn the TV volume off, but members of the media have been perusing the seats for a interesting cherry-picked "announcer". Finding one, they parrot it to the rest of the world and that guy's opinion shows up on your phone anyway.

It's interesting to note that the data Google stored was more alarming, though was taken up at the bottom of the article and with less detail. It also didn't make the headline. This is because bashing Facebook gets more views currently. This is a good example of how media bias can distort opinion, while maintaining that all data stated is accurate.

In other words, it's not enough that media is accurate. Bias is just as important.

See reply to Tomte on that.

Well I'm talking about exactly that - social pressure.

Just because popular opinion (aka the vocal social media / news / social media echo chamber) approves of something, it doesn't mean it is correct.

Governments and courts have definite pressure to legalize marijuana, for example. That pressure is based on popular public opinion. Therefore approving it gives that legal body or state acceptance / goodwill. This is an incentive that goes quite far.

It can also be popular to smash a company.

I do understand this.

I am just wondering what happens when there is a vested interest in attacking or suppressing the company involved.

For example, if a company becomes unpopular on social media and by "public opinion" (such as Facebook right now), a court can feel pressured into a slanted decision. Given that so much is now based on opinion, what defense does the company have?

It seems that if someone had the intention to nail a company on GDPR as a PR attack, regardless of the amount of effort the company put in, they almost certainly could.

(I don't work for Facebook)

It's disheartening that this article is painted as a disaster. This is fantastic news!

> I am of the opinion that so long as you can read the source code easily, the formatting is secondary.

I have never heard this opinion applied to any other language.

I've been developing for 10 years. I have never had a team, so I have had to build each stack from scratch, myself, including the research and decision making of each tool to use in the stack.

I've put together about 4 generations of systems in this time, each with entirely fresh stacks. The first was pre-build-tools, so I had to write my own module loaders and bundlers from scratch.

The latest web stack uses containerized deployment in a micro service architecture, sql, nosql, rest, graphql, a jwt-based authentication gateway and a modern front end stack.

Do I qualify as a full stack dev?

Author here. There seems to be a lot of discussion over use cases. Here's the use case I built it for:

All traffic for my (large) application hits a load balanced API gateway. Its role is to authenticate and forward requests to one of many services.

The gateway is the only point of exposure to internal services. After something has cleared the gateway on a route with roles approved for that user, there is little worry about security. Certificates between servers and containerized deployments such as Kubernetes help on this as well.

I'm not going to write email-sending logic in my gateway. It just handles AAA and then proxies the request.

By forwarding to microservices instead of a monolith, I can scale workload better and have less risk of a mail bug taking down other services.

Well that's good. I built it to fill my niche and hoping others would find use for it as well.

Well, thanks for that. I've actually had to deal with it for quite a while, believe it or not. And the current design is working out for my use. I do hope it does help others.

Fair enough. I updated the readme for now, and will work on those points!

> Also, what is ":user" - how do you define the way an account is found in the tree?

That checks sAMAccountName, which is unique. Searches that can return multiple results will do so.

> Why are their dedicated endpoints for password, expiry, enable/disable/unlock. These are all just attributes on the user object.

It wouldn't be very user friendly to require a PATCH so a user can change a password. All of these operations are quite granular. You aren't going to enable an account and change a password at the same time very often.

The overriding drive in building this was ease of use, because that bugs me with AD. I'm definitely open to suggestions, though :)

This is amazing. Slack was developed by accident - it was an internal tool for the company. Maybe this 404 should now become their mainline.

Hi HN. I'm unfortunately stuck with Active Directory, and I wanted to make the chore as easy as possible for people. Criticism / suggestions welcome!

Writing TDD tests made me a better developer because it pointed out just how coupled my applications were.

For a <5Kb library, I recommend removing the underscore dependency. You should make this as lightweight as possible if you want a lot of adoption.

This needs a Windows build, as Windows users need this the most.

People like you are toxic, and cannot be argued with.

This guy's source is terse and clean. I like it.

Agreed. I'm the author of Vorpal.js and already have community-maintained docs on Github's Wiki: https://github.com/dthree/vorpal/wiki

Now I have to duplicate onto another community-maintained Wiki? This is only going to ask for problems. I don't really say "have to" lightly - StackOverflow is most definitely going to yield better search results in the long run.

Just a note, _iostreamer_, you can use `command.parse` in Vorpal to pre-append parens to every command before it's evaluated (your project is written in Vorpal).

BTW, love this idea.

- the Vorpal guy

I very proudly have not clicked the link, because it so such wild click bait, that it would be against my integrity.

This appears superficial, and that this is paid as well with no (visible) published open source turns me off. The mistakes in the GIF communicate that this was a slapped-together product.

Additionally, requiring mouse clicks for a visual replacement of the alias command with a few extra bells and whistles is not the greatest appeal to a community of developers.

I hope that the fact that this was written in Go does not outweigh its shortcomings in the eyes of HN.

Hey, he stole my ASCII sword idea! http://vorpal.js.org

Although I would argue he found a better use for it.

> While Einstein was not a neuroscientist, he sure knew what he was talking about in regards to the human capacity to achieve.

This line gets to me because it paints a neuroscientist in an unqualified light. This kind of implicit trust breeds pseudoscience through inflated egos.

I feel Stack Overflow mods have to a least some degree a different purpose in the site than the average user. Far too many times, I find that the answers judged bad by mods or close-voted are the ones that ended up helping me. Isn't that the point?

Third paragraph in has a typo:

> It also have remarkably little user interaction with its content.

Who is Kalkis Research? How am I supposed to take them seriously?

I don't know why this is trending on HN. It's a sloppy implementation of something that has been done better already. I cringed after installing this.