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craz··on That job you applied for might not exist
I’m trying to figure out how I feel about this. I guess it depends on how arduous the application process is. If it’s just one click apply on LinkedIn and it gives them an idea of supply in the labour market then I’m not losing sleep over it as an applicant. But if they are expecting cover letters and taking people through rounds of interviews, that’s pretty inconsiderate and speaks to a rotten company culture.

This is short sighted as this will ultimately push more job seekers into going through external recruiters and these companies will be left paying recruitment premiums.

craz··on How We Turn Authorization Logic into SQL
If you found this post interesting, here’s another great post about doing a similar thing with OPA Policies: https://blog.openpolicyagent.org/write-policy-in-opa-enforce...
craz··on Show HN: Codemap – Codebase Visualizer for JavaScript, TypeScript, and Python
I’ve been using SourceTrail[0] since they open sourced it to get my head around a large Java project. It doesn’t yet support TypeScript projects so I’m really interested to see how Codemap goes on our React app.

[0] https://www.sourcetrail.com/

craz··on A testing system for catching visual regressions in Web applications
It's been replaced by Jest: https://facebook.github.io/jest/
craz··on Cassandra is not row level consistent
You'll want to use a library that implements Redlock: http://redis.io/topics/distlock
craz··on How to get into an admin account on a Windows computer
Also time, our university did something like this on their library computers. It meant waiting 5min after someone logged out for it to do a system restore before the next person could log in. Which seemed like forever when you're rushing to print a paper.
craz··on The 2551 iOS apps that Twitter scans for in AppGraph
Apple should bin [UIApplication canOpenURL:]. Apps can call openURL: and provide a fallback if it fails.
craz··on Microsoft’s ‘RoomAlive’ transforms any room into a giant Xbox game
Is it really that far-flung of an idea? A modern tablet will get you 90% of the way there. Google Glass would get you the rest.
craz··on Microsoft’s ‘RoomAlive’ transforms any room into a giant Xbox game
Maybe not as a gaming experience. But this could be super cool in the kitchen. Imagine having your recipe or cooking video projected onto the bench or wall and follow you around as you prepare the meal. No more worrying about getting food on your laptop.
craz··on Poll: What database does your company/you use?
I suppose it really depends on the poll. Answering ‘What is your age?’ would be frustrating if all the options were scrambled. But anything subjective like ‘What’s your favourite programming language?’ would certainly benefit from random ordering.
craz··on iOS cache_encryptedA.db contains unencrypted geo-locations harvested by apps
Isn't this just part of assisted GPS? iOS caches the locations of recently seen wireless access points to speed up location services.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GPS

craz··on Github account compromised
Similar to mine. Nothing for years, then three attempts in last couple of days. I wonder if they got my email from the Adobe breach.
craz··on A new UI annoyance
Thanks. I'll have another play around with it and see what I can come up with.
craz··on A new UI annoyance
I do this in my app: http://i.imgur.com/lR9eB.png

I think it's a fairly common UI pattern.

craz··on Apple Suspends Over-the-Phone AppleID Password Resets
I think having to re-enable remote wipe on each device after a password reset would be a reasonable compromise.
craz··on Redesigning the country selector
I've always wondered why more sites don't do this. Even without the fancy auto-complete, just set the default country using a geo-ip lookup.
craz··on Digg/Delicious Traffic Down 40%. Social Bookmarking Fragmentation
Google and Instapaper killed Delicious for me.

I used to bookmark anything interesting. 3 years ago my bookmarks menu wouldn't fit on the screen at once, and that was just the category folders. Later someone showed me Delicious, and I stated migrating my bookmarks there. But search engines have gotten so good, I don't even bookmark pages anymore.

Why bother tagging when searching's faster? I only have to vaguely remember what the page was about and I'm there (or somewhere better).

craz··on Gmail now has a (temporary) notice upon sign-in that you're forwarding some mail
True. Alternatively, given they know how often a person checks their email, they could show the warning for some multiple of that time (with a lower limit e.g. show for at least 1 week).
craz··on Gmail now has a (temporary) notice upon sign-in that you're forwarding some mail
I suppose they could limit the warning to once per IP address (or set a cookie) and reset it whenever your forwarding settings change.
craz··on TrueCrypt Discrepancy
I guess if the download is served from a CDN or mirror the checksum would still be helpful.