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flamesofphx

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Autistic, Software Developer, and Crazed Crafting fanatic.
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flamesofphx··on White House unveils ‘whole of society’ push to expand cybersecurity workforce
Have tried it a bit, and decided to go back to basic sysadmin and programming, I feel like cybersecurity is the janitorial career path of IT.. Only difference is between them and a janitor is as a cybersecurity person as long as nothing happened yet you merely can report the crap.. If something is a concern or happened to the competition, you get told you need to do this as quite and cheaply as possible shovel the crap down the road. When something finally happens, basically a bunch of fans get installed so they can throw crap at it, in the end they end up with more crap and the fans do nothing except spread it. My real concern is I don't think they can do enough to incentivise it and even then it might be attracting the wrong crowd to it. Everything is starting to seem like it's just waiting for the right turd burglar to come along. It's all a pardiam shifting without a clutch.
flamesofphx··on Ask HN: I want a list of the labels firms use to refer to their workers
Most of Name/Label I know, I can't say here, or other places because the terms don't meet community standards... Peons being the least vulgar of them I think of... I am guessing though you mean the Public facing labels though, the company's want as a part of there image... That I imagine changes per company philosphy.
flamesofphx··on Ask HN: When does writing scripts turn into being “programmer”
Highly dependant on who you ask...

For some printing your first "Hello World" program qualifies you.. get that to be output on a webpage with a set of <h1> & <center> tags, you become full stack...

For other(s) though you could write an even more feature rich and faster version of ZFS filesystem, and they would still not consider you a programmer.

flamesofphx··on Ask HN: Has anyone made a profitable website/SaaS from purely donations?
Maybe not as much anymore, but I would say the wikipedia foundation did.
flamesofphx··on Ask HN: How do you discover features in unknown code bases?
Poke, probe, prod... See what changes, till you get a better idea... I mean what else can you do when there no comment/documentation and your dealing with something like:

function C($a, $b, $ba, %bb, $c, $d = NULL) { //insert random garbage with eval statement.. }

flamesofphx··on What blue color job is most comparable to SW Engineering?
<Wish_My_Response_Was_Sarcasm> ==> Waste Processing engineer (Or landfill Architect, aka garbage man)... 1. Deals with lot of trash.. 2. Requires Optimizing routes and sorting on the backend... 3. Hears lots of complaining if something goes down or doesn't work... 4. Continuous wishes for a better more efficient process. 5. Wishes and dreams are never budgeted for because the existing process currently works.
flamesofphx··on Ask HN: Why is jQuery hated but frequently used?
I don't mind it for things when really needed, if I just want a few of it's conveniences for a modern website, I will use one of the tiny replacements for it like "cash.js"... I am with a lot of the other, if they would make a "Real" slim version that cuts out all the really old browser support, I would be using it again...
flamesofphx··on PayPal's new AUP can take your money if you say something they disagree with
There gone, was only using it for minor things...
flamesofphx··on Sound Blaster (DOS)
Man Dr. Sbaitso was the last good Psychologist I knew... Well unless he asked if I was talking about brimstone..
flamesofphx··on Ask HN: What's the modern alternative to WordPress for a non-technical weblog?
Hiring a marketing firm or developer to do the changes when you ask. I kind of think of wordpress as the most basic complexity..
flamesofphx··on Ask HN: Is all code crap?
Absolutely, the great huge heaping volume of horse dung in human history.. bit by bit, the highest density load of garbage one could collect..

YEAH HUMANS!!

flamesofphx··on Ask HN: Is pornography harmful and what effects you noticed from abstaining?
Yes it does harm, honestly it gives a totally unrealistic idea of how fast a person can get a plumber to show up to their house... Honestly though don't need to porn because I have such an active and creative imagination, then again, had to deal with while repair websites as SAAS so sometimes seeing reminds me of work.. It's more sicking though see how much money some of the sites makes, and how the work around all the laws meant to prevent them from making such money... Shells with shells...
flamesofphx··on Ask HN: Is Gmail Having Issues?
For me it's been there spam filters... Seems like it's not catching anything... But yeah, now that I checked I was unable to get to my "Sent mail folder".
flamesofphx··on A project with a single 11,000-line code file
Those are rookie #'s, I have had php code doing mostly sql migration work in PDO twice that length in a single file :)
flamesofphx··on Ask HN: I'm in a position to move to anywhere in the USA, where should I go?
Corvalis, Or, cost less than the big city, and has a good broadband including fiber options...
flamesofphx··on Ask HN: Why do people work at evil megacorps?
I really do believe the old wivetales that everyone can be bought (Whether it be by money, power, or with fear). it's just there are some people out there willing to accept a pat on the back by those with power thinking they can avoid fear. For them its better to be a passenger on the train heading toward oblivion, then tied to its track. Then there are the egotists, who think they can work there way into a position or power, instead of remaining a cog. Finally there are those naive enough who think that miracles occur all the time, and they alone can enact some change in something already lost.
flamesofphx··on Ask HN: Have you ever caused an outage on a big website by accident?(as an user)
No Repercussion, but yes I was beta testing an interface, using it normally, the company must of been testing it live publically, and it was connected to their production database.. I was testing the edit user feature, and all I can say I believe the code was a little messed up and lacking a few "Where" statements... Short Version my profile edit: My testing "Mr. Andersoned" the whole person details/user tables..
flamesofphx··on Global chip shortage may soon turn into an oversupply crisis
Crossing fingers we will we be able to pick up 3080ti then for $100 bucks? I still think it may take much more time for the other affected industries to make up.. Which means there still some sort of supply chain communication problems...
flamesofphx··on Ask HN: What Counts as a Job in 'Technology'?
Job in technology: A IT Call center at large datacenter, where your expected to burn out in right around 6 months.. AKA Thrown to wolves, chaos...

Career in technology: Find the mythical programming team, who sincerely cares about you and it undying loyal, pays well and has a goal you could retire happy knowing you actually contributed something to society besides shoving some sort of debt on others.

flamesofphx··on How much would be 500k lines of hospital pricing data be worth?
Assumption Made: US, and NOT ICD10 Dataset.

Most likely it would actually cost you, at lot of the pricing data from different insurance companies in the US, is proprietary, and basically have to pay or have some sort of agreement with the insurance company (This can be anything from service restrictions, to paying for training) to publish the data in any way shape or form. Even then with program/systems with that purchasing companies are more interesting in companies that can keep the data updated, which often has changes monthly, and the structure can widely varying depending even practice type... Therapies codes/prices have a lot more modifiers than say a general physicians off who orders blood work and bills for usually only one/two types of appointments and doesn't have things like setting "Group, Clinical, Natural (For Therapies as example)"

flamesofphx··on “No handshakes, please”:The tech industry is terrified of the coronavirus (2020)
Honestly with me atleast in tech, not have to have physical connect and socially distance is wonderful!! Seriously people don't realize some of us see physical handshaking, fistbumping, whatever else they come up with is actually just a minor form of assault (Where you get to grab someone and slightly impose your will on them). I would not mind seeing physically greetings going away altogether.
flamesofphx··on GiveSendGo Has Been Hacked
Hackers like that though are more costly and harder to gather evidence against. I really think police now do cost benefit (At least in the us), before deciding if there going to do much in investigation. Then if they think there is external political, government, other large corporate involved, I would think they would cave. Some case with digital, they just find multiple traces and just give up... People forget that yeah leaving little or no evidence is great, but to stop or complicate the ability to convict, one can also intentionally contaminate a scene, or even overload it with garbage before and after. Conflicting statements, and a party can be great (As a metaphor)!!
flamesofphx··on Do you have a photographic memory?
I always say sort of, but the painter is pablo piccaso..
flamesofphx··on Ask HN: How do you handle “staging servers” in non-web environments?
You can make some pretty compelling test for equipment and sensors, for space applications, it's just costly... Creating a cold vacuum with occasional charged particle is not impossible. I just always just make sure there no metric to english conversions, and if there is no way to get around that triple check then at every design staged... This question is very specific to each test though.. But there is a lot of testing that can be done outside of an actually... Most sensitive things do not get exposed until the end devices is in stable orbit though too, so it's just a matter of making sure it's shielded there.. Cold and vacuum can actually be a major boon to many designs too.
flamesofphx··on Ask HN: Software Developer vs. Software Engineer
Sorry, Meant level as in low level coding versus high level... Software developer tend to use templates/framework to do most of the work, engineers build the darn frameworks, or more raw low level code. Both are coding, but it's sort of the difference in say crew member dumping out concrete vs the concrete finisher smooth or brooming the finish.
flamesofphx··on Ask HN: Software Developer vs. Software Engineer
I would say one just plays, and builds things in pre-existing frameworks (Software Developer)... And Software Engineer, makes new things or new frameworks from scratch. Both are capable of programming though, it's the level at which they operate. As for the title themselves to HR, I don't think it really matters they think you can create "The Next Facebook" in 5 minutes.
flamesofphx··on Meta establishes four-foot “personal boundary” to deter VR groping
Need to bring back pokes then... Facebook/Meta seems to go down hill, wonder what there next name going to be though?
flamesofphx··on Ask HN: Would curing loneliness via AI and/or medication end the human race?
I always thought star treks idea of the holodeck would lead to the end... I think just AR/VR might doing, combine that with AI or some goods meds, Yeah definitely can see that..
flamesofphx··on Ask HN: Websites for Professional Advisors in '22?
if you want just modern and fast, to avoid bloat, but with a few trick, just get a raw website builder to use grid css & cash.js as a replacement for jquery
flamesofphx··on Did spam filtering on Gmail get worse for everyone?
Confirmed, but it's not only google. Especially the phishing letters, Actually seeing obvious phishing messages, but the DKIM records are validating, and several other anti-spam measures are being bypassed.
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