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> No, it is more accurate to say that leadership at Cloudflare does not know what they are doing nor have they known what to do for a good decade now. I think we're starting to see…

I read The Cuckoo's Egg only a few years ago (in my 30s) and it's an absolute delight. Easy to understand if you do any sort of linux administration, and really demonstrates how la…

AWS Lambda supports shipping your Lambdas as containers now. Very nice experience.

Yep. I've found that the ticket or tech debt isn't important until it becomes on fire and must be fixed ASAP. It doesn't matter that the possibility for the bug to happen has exist…

about 40 and growing

Having dealt with all of these in production, I can tell you the strategies I've used to combat these things: 1. Solid code reviews. Anyone of our developers can halt a code review…

> I've worked at a lot of places like this, and I'm continually surprised people enjoy it. That's been my experience as well. When a manager says they try to "shield you from the b…

I once read an account of someone that took Ibuprofen on an empty stomach and burned a hole in their stomach lining. Since then I always eat something first.

> Will the politicians still ignore the desires of its constituents vs special interests? No question. It seems like none of this actually matters until we can solve that problem.

> You have to really provide valuable, quality content for organic SEO This is the key. Google wants to make sure your readers are getting their questions answered. SEO is constant…

> If you call a script that does a few seconds of processing, and keep calling it, yes it will take down the server... aka, exploiting the script loading behavior...

> My network carrier already does some anti net neutral things that I like. What happens when they start doing things you don't like?

> They have to do more than just accept the comments. Or what? There's no one enforcing rules in this administration.

Fantastic response. ~4 hours from report to release.

It's hard to move fast and have a well engineered product.

You should check out Rocket League.

So what's the big picture here? We've suspected for years that football leads to brain trauma. Does that mean the NFL should shut down? Should they continue to operate as normal? T…

Yeah, let's not feel bad for the airlines. They do it to themselves.

It sounds like he's doing quality work, really. There's no secret. He claims to have a GREAT copy writer for his niche and provides them with the exact info they are looking at goo…

Yeah... this seems like a really fast way to lose customer trust.

I'd love to take you up on this offer as well... sdm350 at gmail

Solutions usually come from people who see in the problem only an interesting puzzle, and whose qualifications would never satisfy a select committee. -- John Gall in Systemantics[…

There are tradeoffs to all software. I use lastpass with a yubikey for 2fa and I feel safe enough. I briefly looked at other password managers when I was evaluating lastpass, but c…

You underestimate how lazy and unmotivated most people are.