Very funny. reminds me of the Google Foo-Bar interview process.
Next dream job can be in an HTTP header
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#102We did this in our binary - adding a message in there which would be seen if attempting to reverse engineer or crack it. No emails from that yet though :)
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google Foobar does it right and lets you skip to actually be considered, which is nice.
Has Google even bothered with Foobar for like past 2-3 years? It appears so frequently on non-incognito searches that surely every developer must have seen it by now.
I’ve never seen it, live in the US, and I google developer things all the time. Maybe it’s because I work in Ruby and not one of the more googley languages?
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know you're joking, but I looked it up :) 'Ovaltine was developed in Bern, Switzerland, where it is known by its original name, Ovomaltine (from ovum, Latin for "egg", and malt, which were originally its key ingredients).' [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovaltine
Oh! That explains why I’d always get really sick after drinking/eating Ovaltine based products!
Because of the malt? Egg and egg products are no longer used.
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
> only hackers read source-code maybe I'm behind the times, but is 'hacker' now colloquial to mean 'anyone who codes'? Plenty of normal software engineers / devs, who are by no means 'hackers' (myself included) read the source code.
Inside the community, a hacker (as opposed to "cracker" or "security hacker") is someone who uses technology in a creative way.
so what do we call undesirables like anonymous and so on?
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#106So no one has heard of RFC6648 ?
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6648
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#107I had a similar idea for financing Open Source software projects. The contributing sponsors would get their URL and add-text into a comment at the top of the source-code. The bigger your sponsorship the higher up in the list your company will be. The adds would of course be targeted at hackers, such as come work for us, since only hackers read source-code. So it would be a very targeted ad (like the http-header thing…
Don't do it. People will hate you for it... and never, ever let you live it down. :-/
Other than the Caddy debacle, there was a short-lived attempt to run ads in the output of npm install, which also backfired spectacularly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20786981.
I think if there was a magic button to remove any and all advertising from the internet, most people would press it, consequences be damned. You really need to think hard before hitching your cart to that horse.
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#108I noticed recently that all the API responses from Twilio have an X-Shenanigans: none header.
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#109I noticed recently that all the API responses from Twilio have an X-Shenanigans: none header.
I'd expect they would also ensure the Evil bit was set to 0. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3514
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Why do they call it Ovaltine? The mug is round. The jar is round. They should call it Roundtine.
I know you're joking, but I looked it up :) 'Ovaltine was developed in Bern, Switzerland, where it is known by its original name, Ovomaltine (from ovum, Latin for "egg", and malt, which were originally its key ingredients).' [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovaltine
It's a Jerry Seinfeld bit.