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Next dream job can be in an HTTP header
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#152a developer checking out a response payload is considered l33t these days?
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#153X- prefixes in for non standard headers are deprecated because too many X- headers eventually became standards.
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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
It works in reverse - you probably wouldn't want to work in such an environment with frustrating practices towards developers.
What frustrating practices? I'm a developer (and mathematician), and I love puzzles :)
sure, but how much of the actual job will be solving puzzles? Seems unlikely to be representative of the work so the people who enjoy the actual work might begrudge the interview and the people who enjoy the interview might not enjoy the work.
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#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
What frustrating practices? I'm a developer (and mathematician), and I love puzzles :)
sure, but how much of the actual job will be solving puzzles? Seems unlikely to be representative of the work so the people who enjoy the actual work might begrudge the interview and the people who enjoy the interview might not enjoy the work.
At an intelligence agency? Possibly quite a bit.
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#156Earlier 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
Ha, as a Swiss, from the Bern region, I was thinking whether this strange sounding Ovaltine has anything to do with Ovomaltine and was about to look it up. In Switzerland, Ovomaltine is among the products with highest brand recognition ever and has a cult status because of their advertisement in the 80s and 90s. Never knew it was a thing outside of Switzerland
Used to be pretty big in Italy in late 70s/early 80s, then Nestlé destroyed all competition with their Nesquick. You can still find Ovomaltine in large supermarkets but it's clearly a bit player.
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you do a lot of searching for development keywords on Google, you get invited to https://www.google.com/foobar/
ive been searching development keywords for the guts of 5 years now, no invite.... i guess im not worthy
When you have to google for web development keywords, you are certainly not worthy. ;-)
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#158Earlier 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.
My understanding of hacker is specifically someone who exploits vulnerabilities in code. Regular programmers are like building architects, hackers are like people holding up a mask so that the facial recognition powered NEST lock will let them inside the building.
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#159We worked at a megacorp rental car company. Top-notch risk guy noticed the x-hacker header on our wordpress.com blog and launched a CSIRT. Automattic corp was trying to hack us. I had the infosec director sitting on my desk in minutes. They fired up a conference bridge with a half dozen VPs while we waited for the CIO.
"Get our wordpress account executive on the phone!" - yeah, don't have one, we pay 9.99 a month for a blog, they also don't have a phone number
"Open up a SEV1 support ticket" - yeah, it says their support team is on vacation this week
After about 90 minutes of hand-wringing on the conference call, I guess enough of them googled the message to figure out it was a recruiting pitch. I got confirmation from the community support forum a week later that we were indeed not hacked.
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#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
It works in reverse - you probably wouldn't want to work in such an environment with frustrating practices towards developers.
What frustrating practices? I'm a developer (and mathematician), and I love puzzles :)
Not everyone is working on awesome stuff at an intelligence agency. They still need people to work on their 20 year old hellscape of an ERP system in hated language(java,ada,cobol, etc).