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Yep! I love it for simple projects.

That's really neat. It reminds me of generating a CLI based on docstring, which is another pattern that I like a lot.

Yeah? I'm seeing a lot of SDE roles in the $250k+/yr range, and I've never seen tech writing anywhere near there.

What I've seen is that the salary is dramatically lower, and as you noted, the opportunities to advance into management are more more difficult to obtain. (My wife spent time as a …

> cross-generational achievements and accomplishments I think you're trying to say, "having an advantage due to your birth or family." You're really suggesting that someone's name,…

Note also that James Gosling works at AWS[1]. [1] https://www.geekwire.com/2017/legendary-computer-scientist-j...

Yeah, I got really used to it! On the new devices without a home button it’s a little tricky to find that functionality since it’s disabled by default.

> bring the next hand out or drop your phone.... This is not a great solution, but in "Accessibility Options" you can enable the gesture to swipe down on the bottom to bring the to…

Absolutely agreed. Brains are bizarre. My mother-in-law once had what we (and her primary physician) believed was a serious flu. The moment we realized that it was much worse than …

Yeah, that’s why I said maybe Seattle. I sort of suspect not. (And I live here.)

I’m sure that’s true somewhere like NYC, and maybe it’s even true in Seattle, but it appears to be distinctly less true in smaller towns. In small town America it’s literally just …

Pretty much all of the experts on this topic disagree with you. My understanding is that in order to have a good voting system you must be able to verify the result even if the sof…

> Smoke less This. Seriously. Being just a little high can be really fun! It’s so easy to just keep smoking until you’re a fucking mess, especially if you’re someone who used to sm…

I have no idea what the actual story was, but I would imagine it can be both true and not true in the way you’re imagining. Say you really need new simple scalable storage because …

I don’t know the origin story, but that doesn’t discredit anything. Lots of Amazon teams predate AWS, and so does some of their technology. You wouldn’t make a new service and then…

Sure, but then you’re calling your DB to validate the JWT every time anyway. You’ve just removed the whole “JWTs are cool because they’re stateless” benefit.

Very cool! I think fuzzers are SO interesting. One of my favorite examples is lcamtuf’s post on generating valid JPGs from nothing [1]. Just so awesome. 1: https://lcamtuf.blogspot…

> Or in other words, a fuzzer is a program that tries to create source code that finds bugs in a compiler. This is a very narrow definition of a fuzzer. There are a lot of types of…

Client side development in general. Libraries, SDKs, etc, are also generally lower stress. They don’t tend to just break in the middle of the night or whatever.

I’m sure that’s true, but my point is that if you have that much money riding on a system you should have to figuratively (if not literally!) put two keys in and turn the lock at t…

Oh no. I hope you find another time in your life where you’re treated as well as you were then.

The longer I work the more convinced I become that kindness is critical. 22 year old me would not agree, but he was wrong.

Sounds like someone else’s fault, unless he owned and designed the system. No single engineer should be able to cause that kind of damage. Quorum rules, etc.

Ubuntu is certainly not known as a lightweight distro.

I’m curious to hear more about what the device itself was doing. It’s doing RSA decryption, of course, but is that it? Can we still recover “d” if the phone is doing other stuff at…