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Quick description, Conda is like a supercharged "pip" from the Python world, and now supports other languages too. So it's like an npm/nvm as well, and beyond.

I'd like to know more about security though, as obviously this could be a huge single point of failure, but otherwise Conda is awesome.

He begins the talk "I was driving here at 90 mph...".

I find this interesting. As I recall Bill Gates had a pension for speeding too, accumulating many tickets in his Porsche in both New Mexico and later Washington State.

One Thing - Jetbrains IDE or anything else where you can configure a ton of options.

Have a cron script to constantly export the preference file and sync to cloud or local NAS.

Why are using Zetta Hosting Solutions LLC out of Bulgaria?

I'm a pretty rigorous Catholic, but they have a vanishingly small Christian and even Jewish population to my knowledge.

The Catholic Church was heavily penetrated by both Soviet and Chinese intelligence after World War II. Likely before as well.

Sorry I respect what you're doing, but just want myself and others to do the due diligence up front.

Best of luck otherwise.

Cloud certs are currently the most desired in the US right now. By that I mean, in order of precedence ... AWS, GCP/Azure, and then Oracle. I would also add the recent certs from Elastic/Hashicorp/Kubernetes are becoming more popular.

These certs I have consistently seen lead to jobs, even for those in difficult to place circumstances. They also I believe train you well for the job at hand.

I believe 4 Japanese-Americans in 3 separate attacks were killed the day of Pearl Harbor in SF.

Police were deployed to protect the community, but this was not until the afternoon of December 8th.

https://www.nytimes.com/1941/12/08/archives/guam-bombed-army...

I normally don't side with less security, but yes.

Historical internet websites come to mind. These are posted from time to time here.

I once read an article that theorized that as a covert means of pre-war, countries would publish bogus disease, human health, and pathology data along with fake stats on "how poisonous is XYZ things".

Wish I could find it. Struck me as creepy.

The most incredible thing about all this is that Parler was built on top of ... WordPress.

Robert Mercer put $10,000,000 into Parler, and they build out a WordPress app. I don't mean to be harsh, and I actually have a special affection for PHP (the first programming language I studied), but that is engineering malpractice.

Also FYI per the New Yorker story in 2018, Robert Mercer is the largest private owner of machine guns in the US. He runs them through the armory Centre Firearms [1].

[1] - https://CentreFirearms.com

FYI the debug logs are a very curious part of all this. Signal streams them usually to a domain they keep their ownership of somewhat hidden. The domain is: debuglogs.org and the endpoint is just api.debuglogs.org.

It appears to ultimately just front for AWS S3 backend so a very common architectural pattern.

I can't comment on all parts of Voice of America, but Ultrasurf and Dynamic Internet Technology have been a fraud for some time [1].

The Tor Project had a wonderful review some years ago where they showed how preposterous it was to expect to challenge "The Great Firewall" with these tools [2].

[1] - http://ultrasurf.us and http://dit-inc.us

[2] - https://blog.torproject.org/ultrasurf-definitive-review

Ok I could see this except for one thing I found out recently. "Long-existing hosting companies" have traded hands a bunch of times. Wild West Domains, Tucows, etc are like 6 different owners removed from the founders at this point. Sometimes the founders are kept on, but more as a figurehead who isn't supposed to ask detailed questions about what does and doesn't go on.

One of the better documented cases of hosting companies being a proxy for intelligence wars was the 2017 lawsuit Namecheap filed against eNom and Tucows. Long story short, Namecheap was supposed to be US intelligence, and eNom and Tucows were unknown/unnamed other intelligence group/agency [1].

[1] - https://domainnamewire.com/2017/09/01/namecheap-sues-enom-tu...

Their employee list is...strange. According to LinkedIn, all of their employees are also CEOs of their own other companies? One of their VPs has been both CEO of a lighting firm since 2014 or something, and also full time at M5 Hosting for a decade?

Likely Scenario: M5 is a front company. There just isn't enough care put into the websites / marketing, and not enough evidence on LinkedIn, to suggest this is a real business staffed by people who are working on stuff full time. And a hosting company definitely needs people full time...

The nicer they are in the interview the more that tends to indicate you will not receive an offer.

I used to wonder why this was, but kept seeing these types of anecdotes pop up again and again.

The best conclusion I have come to, which makes some sense, is that when you do well in an interview yet also some factor means you won't be moving on...the interviewer out of guilt feels compelled to be extra nice to you.

The entire Emergency Alert System for the US is bizarre. Onsolve and GovDelivery totally dominate it. They seem to have barely any engineering talent on LinkedIn.

GovDelivery, I think the same as Granicus, has always been plagued by mass spamming accusations. This comes up on reddit occasionally.

Either way, the video streaming servers, they are just what Elemental Technologies offered before they were (super allegedly) hacked by the PLA to get at Apple and Amazon in the Bloomberg article last year...

I'm a cloud engineer today with about a decade of experience. I mainly build and maintain K8s clusters for those who've made the unusual choice of going with EKS.

That being said, I did not understand until I was 17 that you could...just open a browser...and the internet was on.

As AOL rolled out broadband to its previously dial-up customer base, they did not want to confuse their very technically unskilled customers. So just like dialup, where a PPP connection has to be made initially, they preserved the concept in broadband. You still had to click all of the buttons as if you were signing into AOL. This also had the advantage of keeping people on the AOL browser.

Email today has grown very dark and is definitely not the fun whimsical world they mention it was when they started their business in the 1990's.

I vaguely remember this world. I was 10 before I understood that you could access the internet through a variety of ways, you didn't just have to use the default AOL browser my parents had.

Something disturbing regarding email though. Recently on Twitter I've seen ads for https://theXYZ.com, an email platform the purports to be both ad free and surveillance free mostly. This is not true for a few reasons technical reasons that most sysadmins can spot reading through their copy. More concerning though all of the pictures of their "company" and "data centers" appear to be stock images that have floated around on the internet for years. Who would do this and lie so brazenly?

What have people been using for Yubikeys as an alternative? Installing safes onsite and self monitoring?

Go with Linode. I am somewhat shocked that DO, while being great, doesn’t support Yubikeys. Really surprised me and was a dealbreaker.

Russian—speaking developers headquartered out of Ukraine. Lol.

That being said, it doesn’t appear to have been updated since 2017.

This reminds me of the Council on Jobs and Economic Competitiveness established by the Federal Government in 2009. This group, which included some of the biggest CEOs then and now, such as Jeff Immelt from GE (led to the group), met 4 times across 5 years.

No statement beyond a press release announcing the creation of the group was ever drafted. Nothing was ever done beyond 2 televised 60 minute meetings. The group officially shutdown in 2013.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President%27s_Council_on_Jobs_...

There are many fascinating relics and bizarre ancient remnants in human DNA. Endogenous Viral Elements are a great example of this. Referred to as “horizontal evolution”, there are a variety of organisms that have the ability to literally transfer their DNA to other species. Something like 5-8% of the Human Genome is the result of “injections” from these paleoviruses.

Part of that percentage is junk / redundant DNA strands humans evolved over time to make it more difficult for viruses to navigate and compromise our DNA.

Independent Contractor...aka Corp-to-Corp...should be minimum 30% higher than that. I would argue double, but I don’t know enough about the subject. That being said the only devs I know making more than 400k in Texas are independent contractors, usually who also are hiring a team for the client as well.

3-5 years for AWS / Azure should be minimum $70 per hr (I assume you have some certs).

7-10 years you are talking $80-95

This is in the major cities of Texas. If you accept less than the above that is fine, but those are the highest BUT ALSO quite reasonable rates I’ve seen. If you are contract-to-hire especially accepting lower isn’t bad.

There are some emerging platforms online for this, but shockingly the available mentors far outnumber the mentees.

For now I’ve found the twitter handle #mentoringmondays very handy. The twitter user @shehackspurple, an MSFT engineer, started this, and although not the ideal way to pair people up, has been enormously successful I think. I would search for this and check out some of the threads.

I would like to know the answer to this question too. In theory we should know everything about the internet and its underlying dependencies, it’s not like biological systems for example which are still so poorly understood. Why can these not be traced better?

An Wang, the founder of Wang Computers and the guy who essentially invented RAM (really core memory) came via this route: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Wang

Revature is not a scam, but they will treat you very poorly. I would compare it to being enlisted in the Army / bootcamp.

The design of this program is to replace some of the H1-B labor that is now being restricted. Just like H1-B you are not going to get treated great but you do have more rights certainly.

This is the best way to think about: the developer community is very active on Twitter / definitely liberal on labor issues. We all are also well paid and not very concerned about being fired. If Revature was a total scam, it would not be long before we heard stories on HN (indeed we are hearing one now) and then I guarantee both Revature and the companies employing their services would be faced with such fire and fury it would shake the whole tech world...just look at FB contractors right now.

NOTE: Trilogy Bootcamp sucks I know

I can’t speak to mainframes directly, but the greatest joy and the greatest learning I’ve experience have always seemed to come from legacy systems.

If you ever get to visit Seattle, Paul Allen, before his death, set up something called “The Living Computer Museum” [1]. I think it was maybe $4 in admission, but you could literally sit down and program a working PDP 1 (via a teletype machine for both input and output), PDP 11, Xerox Alto, Windows 3.1, and spectacularly, a Cray 1 supercomputer.

[1] https://livingcomputers.org/

Recently I discovered that Facebook has a policy that no one with pending misdemeanors can be hired if they are just a contractor. We recently had to turn away a 23 year old combat veteran who had deployed to Afghanistan because he had a pending Class C misdemeanor. That’s a max fine of $50 for the state this was in. All for a $16.50 an hour job.

The amount of indifference to suffering by people in the corporate world today has gotten...I am not even sure what the word is.