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EToS

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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/etos; my proof: https://keybase.io/etos/sigs/iDaK5gBd_jogVTViaVH5_3htIQJhZAICnNxY4wgb-hk ]
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EToS··on Show HN: I built a self-hosted course platform in Clojure
snappy!
EToS··on GitHub is down again
sorry all, i took a month off and then opened github.com
EToS··on Do Things That Don't Scale (2013)
Founders of Stripe, AirBnb, Coinbase, DoorDash, Reddit, GitLab might disagree
EToS··on Firefox 121
Merry Christmas, hands free internet!
EToS··on We’re opening up access to Gov.uk forms
Its a great example of how to use design systems
EToS··on I made $3k in 16 attempts to launch my SaaS
another quick point, if customers are happy paying for the lifetime offer, maybe you can raise prices for the Enterprise offering
EToS··on I made $3k in 16 attempts to launch my SaaS
Personally, I'd drop the lifetime access pretty quickly and bank on the fact that customers will renew for a quality product/service.

Last thing you want is an income time bomb in 3 years where your most active and loyal customers no longer need to pay.

Maybe an alternative could be to offer free months subscription and a tshirt for every successful recommendation

EToS··on Google Bard waitlist
Its like paying to be a second class citizen! :)
EToS··on Meta plans to lay off 10k employees
Apparently, this.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Soydev

EToS··on Neovim Conf 2022
apologies, yes i believe its a fork
EToS··on Neovim Conf 2022
VIM = OG

NVIM = A fully compatible re-write with focus on better scripting (lua), performance etc

GUIs = Alternative for using VIM/NVIM inside a terminal, with better optimisation for performance, smooth scrolling, animations etc (e.g MacVim, Neovide etc)

EToS··on Neovim Conf 2022
Wow, its in 2 hours.. that's Blazingly fast
EToS··on Tell HN: Stytch Login SaaS Unicorn has common auth vulnerabilities
Could be an interesting marketing approach for a Security/Pen Test SaaS.. Heres a vulnerability, pay for our service and we'll provide a full report.
EToS··on Removal of Heroku free product plans
its a shame they didn't move to having a CC linked to the account, and keeping the free dyno tier
EToS··on Ask HN: Career Advice
At a guess, there are a few things which "could" be working against you:

- Leadership at certain companies can include a lot of people management, and so being in a team of one possibly does make the case for progression in the eyes of HR.

- The company isn't big enough to facilitate career progression for everyone.

- The project may be seen as innovative, but possibly something that will be absorbed into the best practices of all teams over the coming years, and so there may be less of a case to promote anyone in the team because of this. (this is where you need to read between the lines a little, as PO's will omit plans like this for obvious reasons)

- Unknowns.. the people who briefly worked on the team may have raised concerns during 1-1's / exit interviews that you're unaware of.

The best advice i could give is to leave any frustration at the door during the next few months, and keep an eye open for you're dream role at another company.

EToS··on FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores
First they copy our intellectual property, and now our flossing techniques!
EToS··on Show HN: Copper – A Go framework for your projects
Me too, although if its a lightweight helper you can ditch down the line its normally not an issue
EToS··on Heroku 22 Stack
Switched to GCP Cloud Run.. but do miss the Heroku CLI sometimes
EToS··on PyPI loops on redirect while downloading dependencies
time to make a coffee
EToS··on Pay Bills with Crypto
Seems like a cool idea until i read "A 3% service fee is applied".
EToS··on I Am Satoshi
To be fair, the previous names were also jokes like Gobble Gobble / Trick of Treat etc, so i wouldn't assume its something to be taken seriously!

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blame/0280e3c58f92b2fe0e8f...

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blame/8ced7ca3570333998ad2...

EToS··on Is 40 the New 60?
Being 40 shouldn't be an issue, however there are a few things to keep asking yourself to stay relevant on the way:

-- What is your goal?

If you don't know where you're going, the chances are your career trajectory could be plateauing, or even going backwards.

-- Are you progressing?

Pick a metric aligned with your goal and then measure yourself against it (e.g what you can measure, you can manage). Whether its specializing technically or moving vertically into management, its really important to keep moving in that direction, and to ensure that you are "compounding" your skills and successes along the way.

-- Are your skills transferable?

At all costs, ensure your skills are transferable. This will give you endless options and freedom to take breaks and move companies at will. NEVER allow yourself be the highly paid person on an obsolete project/system, not even for a year.

EToS··on Show HN: Monitoror – Unified monitoring wallboard
Site down :-)
EToS··on Engineers Shouldn’t Write ETL
Lots of people want their key discipline to be the centre of the universe, you see it across designers, content creators, engineers, testers etc.. The key to any team in my experience is to have a healthy mixture of specialists (narrow scope, high resolution) and polyglots (wide scope, lower resolution), and to promote collaboration as much as possible..
EToS··on Cryptographic filesystem for the cloud
I've used encfs with google drive for about 3 years now, I would love to see better client-side encryption tools out there targeted at cloud storage, but cannot see where CryFS offers much over encfs in this space.
EToS··on Jawbone is being liquidated as its CEO launches a related health startup
Im not surprised tbh, I've had 2 defective Jawbone Up's and the first took approx 12 months for a refund to be issued. Also had a defective jambox product. I think ultimately the product quality was not there, and they got found out in the marketplace.
EToS··on 90% of Python in 90 Minutes (2013)
Absolutely. Not using mutable variables as default arguments = 91%
EToS··on Thoughts on the Late 2016 MacBook Pro
If they dropped the "Pro" and the price, it would totally make sense to me. However, with the lack of recent investment in OS X, dropping of Thunderbolt line (i still hope this isn't real) and way too much over focus on the apple watch, its clear apple just wants another iphone/ipad style product, and they're running serious risk of losing power users at a point where microsoft has massively upped their game.
EToS··on What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)
I love ORMs, they help abstract the database technology which has been really useful in a recent project switching an app from MSSQL to PostgreSQL. I also personally as developer appreciate the programmatic syntax.

I would caveat the performance issue, sometimes there is no better way, however i would always try to make things work in the ORM first before switching into native SQL to get the job done.

EToS··on The “Cobra Effect” that is disabling paste on password fields
They also use 2FA i believe.. but then it makes logging in a right pain the ass for customers: 1) track down your massive identity number 2) enter 2nd, 5th, 8th characters of your password 3) locate your 2FA code from the HSBC device they send.
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