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earless1··on Deploying branches to GitHub.com
I've been trying so hard to move my organization towards a chatops approach. We are making progress, it's just slower than I want.
earless1··on Major League Baseball's MLB Advanced Media Is a Quiet Digital Giant
I posed this comment the other day on another thread, but it is also relevant here

At AWS Re:Invent last year someone from the MLB gave a great presentation[1] on technology usage in baseball and its benefits. It really opened up my eyes to a whole segment that I had never really considered.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=847HY-JATrs

earless1··on LA Dodgers Technology Accelerator ($120,000 for 6% equity)
At AWS Re:Invent last year someone from the MLB gave a great presentation[1] on technology usage in baseball and its benefits. It really opened up my eyes to a whole segment that I had never really considered.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=847HY-JATrs

earless1··on Vulnerability in HTTP.sys Could Allow Remote Code Execution
So the disclosure mentions that there are no mitigating factors. does this mean that certain versions of windows run Http servers by default that users can't disable?

That's pretty scary

earless1··on Prosecutors suspect man hacked lottery computers to score winning ticket
I think is is pretty interesting that the human element is what caused this guy to get caught. bragging about having a rootkit and buying the ticket himself seems like something he should have known better than to do.
earless1··on Mockbin: generate custom endpoints to test, mock, and track HTTP requests
Thanks for the link
earless1··on Mockbin: generate custom endpoints to test, mock, and track HTTP requests
Does this tool also have the ability to record responses from API endpoints for future use?, or do I have to already have the response object available?
earless1··on Georgia: Why so many counties?
Thanks for the read. I moved to Atlanta metro area from Miami about 9 years ago and always wondered this. I currently drive across 5 counties on my way to work.
earless1··on A little note about Slack’s Bug Bounty program
If a company is progressive enough to participate in bug bounty programs they need to be damn certain that they are doing everything possible to interact with their community in a clear and friendly manner. The Slack security team clearly dropped the ball here is regards to properly communicating with the researcher and responding to them in a reasonable amount of time. This type of behavior is unacceptable and goes against the spirit of crowd sourced security research.
earless1··on Show HN: Secure key distribution (in Go)
I've been looking to build something like this, but backed by ETCD. I've had the hardest time finding other implementations or even figuring out what to call such a system. Credential storage and management is hard, especially in a large environment.
earless1··on Mozilla MASCHE – Memory Forensic Library
Thanks for the insight!
earless1··on Mozilla MASCHE – Memory Forensic Library
I've been working with both Go and Rust recently and enjoy both languages. Any reason why Go was chosen over Rust for this project?
earless1··on We are under attack
Anyone who has ever dealt with Akimai knows that you have to have your Buckets O' cash ready. Cloudflare would probably be the best bang for the buck.
earless1··on Amazon RDS now supports PostgreSQL 9.4.1
Before cross region replication was available for MySql we use to just ship our snapshots to our failover region. We also stood up an EC2 MySQL instance as a slave to the RDS instance in our primary region. This approach allowed us to use RDS back then and still be capable of a regional failover within a reasonable amount of time.
earless1··on Stopping expensive queries before they start
I agree, if there is proper testing in lower environments which includes data sets that are similar to production then this should not really be necessary.

On the flip side, we have had issues in production that really slowed down our service or even took it down. In those situations it is much more preferable to stop those specific queries than to have the entire service unresponsive.

earless1··on Stopping expensive queries before they start
Link to github repo: https://github.com/pgexperts/pg_plan_filter
earless1··on Why Every Gadget Feels Like “Shark Dick”
Now because of this article I will always have shark dick in the back of my mind when dealing with these materials.
earless1··on Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app
This product is awesome. I really appreciate the thought and effort that has gone into it. I wish you the best of luck.
earless1··on “A spambot barfed its post recipe on my blog”
How are these templates parsed? I mean what code goes through these and decides which word to use?
earless1··on Ask HN: What is your linux IDS and AVS?
Alert Logic for IDS
earless1··on How to Hack an ADT Alarm System
This was fairly recent and might be what he was referring to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGmAUQzQJHE
earless1··on The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan
11.5 + 15 != 25
earless1··on Show HN: Harpia – an easy to use Gist client for OS X
Nice work! this looks very useful
earless1··on Hologram: taking EC2 Instance Roles everywhere
On the Ec2 side security groups can be used to only allow access for the company IP. Then VPN can be used to secure connections from coffee houses back the the office.
earless1··on Ask HN: Do you use microservices?
What is your app doing that requires a 2.3Gb JSON file?
earless1··on The Other Side of Diversity
Thanks for the perspective. I just find it odd that people would find me intimidating especially other men who are of equal or greater size.
earless1··on The Other Side of Diversity
I am not even sure how to properly describe it. My friends who know the real me know that I am more of an in your face kind of person, not in a bad or menacing way but in a way that may make some co-workers uncomfortable.

I like to have spirited debates with friends, which from the outside might look like arguing or some sort of confrontation. When dealing with co-workers or people that I am not very close with I do my best to tone down my personality.

I am not a small guy and certain people I've come across have even confided in me that they were for some reason intimidated by me when they first meet me. I don't think that would be the case if I were not black. not really sure what that's about

Even little things like the type of music I am willing to admit I enjoy are different between peer groups.

not sure if that answers your question but that kind of sums it up

earless1··on The Other Side of Diversity
I am a black (Haitian and Dominican decent) 26-year-old male DevOps Engineer living in Atlanta and I can totally understand where she is coming from. I always try to not think much of it, but somehow there is definitely this feeling that I don't belong. I could never put my finger on exactly what it is because I do get along great with my co-workers and have never seen my race as a hindrance. I just feel like there is no room for the real me, so all my co-workers get is the side of me I want them to see which is the EDM loving, Linux ninja that I'm expected to be.

It is feels even worse when I go to a tech conference like the upcoming AWS re:Invent because I'm usually the only black guy around, but I still participate as much as possible and even placed in last year’s hackathon.

I hope I don't come off as whiny because I still very much love what I do and would not trade it for the world. I have met and worked with some awesome people over the years and have learned so much. Sorry for the mini-rant, I just wanted to give some of my perspective on the matter

earless1··on Dynomite – Making Non-Distributed Databases Distributed
Because there is no such thing as a one size fits all datasotre. Some data may make way more sense stored in a relational database, while some data makes more sense as key:value pairs. Some data may be infrequently accessed and stored to disk while others are stored in memory for quick access. Trying to make a single datastore work for many use cases will cause more pain than it is worth.
earless1··on YC W15 emails are out
Why not build atop something like https://github.com/ASKBOT for this?
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