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I really like the selection on Uber eats but the delivery fee is typically 2.5-5x higher than GrubHub, thusly I rarely use it.

Might be a contributing factor.

I started running a non-exit relay node. It wasn't a shock when Cloudflare started discriminating against me but to my surprise Netflix stopped working!

Thought I'd raise some awareness for this ongoing issue, be it a bug or a feature.

What's the point in hiding the fundamentals of OOP, rather than starting with them very quickly? You can't get very far before you're calling methods on the strings you're printing.

I'm genuinely curious, I sat through an intro to programming & follow-up course in PHP and that line of thinking seemed to confuse the students. They weren't sure of what a function was even though they were using functions! The professor never got around to explaining OO or any fundamentals.

> that would seem to make others that much more desirable.

I was thinking the same thing. Hooray for being marriage material.

I don't think that's really a fair comparison if we're taking Uber at their word since the car is still a dev unit.

It seems like a known problem, cars would not stop at any red light period and the driver just forgot to stop because he wasn't paying attention.

I've noticed two sent messages weren't in my sent folder on separate occasions. Found it really odd.

ie, they were sent, no longer drafts, and not stuck in the outbox.

Is it just the spam filter?

lol

Please note, I've never seen your code, so don't take this personally.

That's because they want you to be productive. IME/O, having someone on the team that can't really make an app is antithetical.

You could definitely look for a job in QA and ask them to set you up as a dev, then work on dev in your spare work hours.

Dang, OP forgot to put /s

> Furthermore I'd love if we could work completely offline, with pen and paper.

Why is that? I loathe writing code on paper, seems like it'd be a serious regression.

How would this look to you?

I was thinking recently that I'd like a liberated Android, found CopperheadOS, but I'm still not sure I'd like to use it on the desktop.

Asus and Motorola have made dockable phones.

https://www.engadget.com/products/motorola/atrix-4g-lapdock/

https://www.engadget.com/products/asus/transformer/book/v/

I'm already well aware of best practices and I was really surprised that they didn't have any documentation or anything.

I meant, is going to school for CS worth working at a place like that.

They really aren't willing to make changes, as I said the goal is to push out apps as quickly as possible.

Coming from my previous job, where I was the only developer, I have full jsdocs/phpdocs, quite a few tests and high level user manuals. They have nothing resembling that.

If you're just checking for wether the box is up, a ping might be enough. If you want to see if the actual web server is down, you'd need to send a HTTP request.

Phantomjs is unnecessary as you won't need to render any JavaScript.

I don't see why you couldn't just make a crawler and test for status codes, but if the site is under DDoS it will time out.

Then, of course, you'll need cron or something to check it at regular intervals. I guess this is probably the most interesting part of the question, at least to me.

Gucifer more or less said this at DefCon this summer, blame the IT companies, and I'm definitely in agreement.

I don't think anyone should go to jail, like pretty much ever (let me pay a fine or kill me rather than lock me up), but I don't see a reason why whoever set this up, for example, shouldn't be held liable in the same way a doctor is liable with malpractice insurance to cover it.

It seems it'd fit the US laws very well, tech companies would buy insurance policies that'd pay out when their shit software or infrastructure is hacked.

Huge companies like Google or Apple could self insure.

That'd also give some incentive to the MBA's to take security seriously, as proving they take the extra steps would lower their premiums.

So, if I'm a full stack developer without a CS degree, would you say it's worth it to take a shitty software development role @ a Uni to go back and get a CS degree?

I say it's shitty because they don't follow best practices and just focus on pushing out workflow apps as quickly as possible. No docs, old tooling, etc. Really a mess.

That's the situation I'm in now, first full time job. I majored in business [first economics, then MIS], big mistake. Now I'm working for the uni with plans to get a second bachelor's in CS beginning in the Fall (for free).

People always ask me why I majored in business. I've had recruiters say to me "Have you considered a minor in CS", etc. despite a very nice portfolio and 2 years worth of clients.

So, since I must deal with HR and would like to be taken seriously as an engineer, I'm going against the advice of the great Charles Manson and going out of my way to prove something to the phonies.

Plus, I wanna learn my maths much better but can't bring myself to go it alone so I figure it's worth it in that regard.

Right. I didn't like either of them, I'm not a Republican or a Democrat.

I just think it's odd to say that Trump should be impeached for something his opponent did while in office.

So, wasn't Hillary Clinton breaking the Constitution when she was accepting donations from Saudi Arabia at the Clinton Foundation while secretary of state?

IMO, Android has gotten better every year. I love material design.

As a developer (clear distinction from designer) my favorite thing about mobile development is the UI components. I can create something much more compelling with MD with much less effort.

Right. When your mom is the physical, dark haired embodiment Estelle Costanza it's a difficult decision.

Why not both?

It's absolutely crazy to me that the state can just burst into your home and kill you if you try to defend yourself.

document.write("hello world"); document.querySelector("body").innerHTML = "hello world";

alert("hello world"); prompt("hello world");

console.log("hello world"); console.info("hello world"); console.warn("hello world");

process.stdout.write("hello world");

FIFA looked so promising. I can't remember what bullshit political reason kept Madden off of the PS Vita, but that's why I sold mine.

Very much looking forward to the switch.

You're a lucky human

My question to you is, how can you change your unconscious thoughts and behaviors?

Think of this in relation to thought crime, from 1984 by George Orwell. You say to yourself, "Okay, I am depressed. I have thoughts of suicide and in general, I am miserable 24/7. Let's stop"

What do you do when, untriggered, a mistake from your past or even a happy memory of what once was comes to the front of your mind and you begin to dwell on it?

Do you tell yourself "Okay, stop thinking about this now"?

It doesn't really work like that, especially when you don't have someone to talk to.

I've struggled with these things for some time, largely alone. For me and a lot of people I've come across, depression isn't just sadness, or immense sadeness.

Depression is hopelessness, dread, [lots of] anxiety, self loathing and loneliness.

Depression is wanting so badly for someone to help but the few that are willing can't since you're unable to articulate what you need because you don't even know.

Depression makes you feel isolated and different from all of the people around you, forces you to be withdrawn. You want to break out so badly but you can't, and at worst people (friends and strangers alike) actively avoid you because you seem so off. Conversations are ended abruptly, odd looks are given, and that just adds to all the stress.

IME, it's hard to do anything when you're depressed. When I was seriously depressed, I couldn't write code :(

Its my favorite hobby, I love creating things, but I often couldn't bring myself to open the text editor or even open my laptop. When I did, I was constantly distracted.

Honestly, I still love to code but I'm yet to find the same gusto even still, when I'm markedly better but not feeling as secure as I was before.

I don't know how writers and other creatives can pull it off when they're depressed, I know I'm much better at it when I'm feeling stable.

Ask HN: how have ya'll delt with depression, other than psychoactive drugs?

I assume that's the case. Securing mongodb isn't rocket science, it's not all that different from any other database, so I can't imagine a business with any value has unsecured mongodb instances.

What I mean is, it's pretty ignorant that just because authentication isn't on by default you don't turn it on at all.

Even if you don't want to or don't think to configure mongodb itself setting up a firewall also seems to be common sense.

Thus, the only reason they'd be unsecured is they're either for random tests or hobby.

Exactly my point.

I hate telling people to do things, then they come to me when they inevitably do something wrong :p.

... works for me