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drchickensalad

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Staff Software Engineer in NYC

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drchickensalad··on Using Java 9 Modularization to Ship Zero-Dependency Apps
I'm pretty sure you would have gotten replies if it was just worded "Does anybody know any possible benefits of using gradle here?" or the like. I don't think it's much more than that.
drchickensalad··on Escaping Docker container using waitid() – CVE-2017-5123
And it has quite a consensus as the best solution to this problem. Goto being considered harmful is a generally true statement. However, this usage is a more specific exception to the rule, with objective benefits vs alternatives.
drchickensalad··on At Vice, Cutting-Edge Media and Allegations of Old-School Sexual Harassment
It's not that point I read from the parent. It's that they're prime candidates so it's unfortunate to waste that connection. Not that it in any way is hard to resist urges.
drchickensalad··on Firefox is on a slippery slope
The emoji character set originated in Japan. When it was turned to Unicode, they weren't going to just remove characters because some of the world doesn't care for it.
drchickensalad··on HTTPS on Your Landing Page Is Important
What is the alternative to javascript redirecting when you can't do it as the http response?
drchickensalad··on YouTube Demonetization Screenshot Leaks and Secret YouTube Meeting
The fact this is often glossed over causes many problems in society. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-age-of-the-algori... makes some interesting and good arguments imo.
drchickensalad··on High-Level Problems with Git and How to Fix Them
Well you can clone with --depth=1, so performance wise it's not too bad at all, but yeah still gets all the other latest files.
drchickensalad··on Show HN: Ondevice SSH – Terminal emulator for devices without public IP address
Ssh local forwarding gives you pretty simple access to all ports though?
drchickensalad··on New Uber CEO Knew of Hack for Months
> when their main job is to keep it safe and available.

LOL. I don't think their incentives are in line with that at all. It may be what we want but then we're just lying to ourselves.

drchickensalad··on WebAssembly support now shipping in all major browsers
There is a massive performance difference between compiling to js and compiling to wasm.
drchickensalad··on Snap Inc. Third Quarter 2017 Results
Not for a very bandwidth-focused business like snap.
drchickensalad··on Why Do We Still Commute?
So then what about the government revenue loss from tax credits?
drchickensalad··on We only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest (2016)
I've always known referrals to do exactly that; guarantee an interview.
drchickensalad··on Buy a Sofa Online? Wayfair Is Counting on It
Costco is absolutely insane. I have no idea how they're in business and I enjoy every minute of it.
drchickensalad··on Jessica Alba's Honest Co. Slashes Its Valuation
PhD _student_
drchickensalad··on With a $1k Price, Apple’s iPhone Crosses a Threshold
What the hell are you doing with your windows?
drchickensalad··on The Icewind Dale Problem
I also recommend Divinity: Original Sin
drchickensalad··on Nuke Map: Interactive Nuclear Bomb Map
Massive fear
drchickensalad··on 300M Freely Downloadable Pwned Passwords
If you want it lossless, a trie can be great. Not sure if one implemented in Python would be worth it though; should be a package with it in C.
drchickensalad··on Employees Who Stay in Companies Longer Than Two Years Get Paid 50% Less
To play devil's advocate, what makes them unemployable in that scenario? Is it just that employers are so picky as to commonly choose people who stay at a company longer over all other factors? Also saying they have to work at Starbucks implies they can't get ANY software job, which I'm not sure I see the reason for.
drchickensalad··on Poverty is not a personal choice, but a reflection of society
Why do you assume those with debt can afford to invest instead of get immediate payoff so they can survive?
drchickensalad··on How is GNU `yes` so fast?
PHP here is just calling c functions. The actual non-benchmark php people pay for is completely orthagonal to these results.
drchickensalad··on Slap – A Sublime-like terminal-based text editor
It's not the same at all. Calling it that is an insult to sublime multi-cursors.
drchickensalad··on Arctic stronghold of world’s seeds flooded after permafrost melts
You should check out the latest black mirror episode.
drchickensalad··on Microsoft to Deliver Microsoft Cloud from Datacenters in Africa
Not much really, you'd be surprised
drchickensalad··on The Electric-Car Boom Is Real
This heavily applies to software development too.

In the inverse, people for some reason with software like to assume the natural state of code is to work. If you assume it doesn't and look for spots where it could fail then, you find the problems.

It's amazing what a state of mind can do.

drchickensalad··on Software Developers after 40, 50 and 60 Who're Still Coding
Principal is not normal.
drchickensalad··on An Alternative Approach to Rate Limiting
You have to send all the traffic from one client to one server then right? Seems not without heavy drawbacks.

Otherwise you can easily get them to hit their limit super early with bad luck.

drchickensalad··on HTTP/2 is not the future, it’s the present
Even if it's not a mission critical web request, isp's injecting content into your http pages is unacceptable.

Even if the government could brute force or fingerprint one of your TLS sessions, they can't do it for everyone for every site.

Just because Amazon wasn't broken doesn't mean we can't improve it.

Also your comment about a think tank coming up with this idea is an odd insult, given how broadly you can empirically see people support this.

drchickensalad··on Mexican Newspaper Shuts Down, Saying It Is Too Dangerous to Continue
Some neighborhoods != All of Chicago
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