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Here in the US, NIST has deprecated the use of SMS as 2-factor auth[1] on the grounds that "there’s a risk that SMS messages can be intercepted or redirected".

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/nist-blog-clarifies-sms-deprec...

There was an easter egg in Windows 95 for clouds.mid.[1] You had to create a folder and rename it a few times, and then it would play the song[2]. Even hearing it now takes me back to a simpler time...

[1] https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/69883/musical-easter-egg... [2] https://soundcloud.com/brianorr/clouds

The vowel shift is one of the major reasons why Shakespeare's poetry doesn't rhyme when spoken with modern English. There was a rather fascinating video that went around awhile back of a father and son demonstrating the changes.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPlpphT7n9s

For what it's worth, Tidal pays its artists a whole lot more per stream than Spotify does.[1] That's the main reason I'm subscribed to Tidal.

[1] https://www.dittomusic.com/blog/how-much-do-music-streaming-...

I run Snapcast across my house connected to MPD running on a local Linux box, and have been pretty happy with it. I've had to do very little maintenance to keep things running.

The main thing I haven't been able to figure out is how to have multiple Snapcast streams and control which room listens to what. I don't actually think it's possible to do.. (though I could be wrong?)

The keyboard layouts are entirely customizable, so you could configure the keys to the right of T and left of Y to be the other one.

Have you looked at Hanami? https://hanamirb.org/

I'm in the same boat about RoR. I just find its size to be overkill for most uses. Hanami is considerably smaller and lightweight, but not to the point where it's more of a micro-framework (like Roda). I've been happy with it for a number of microservices and some larger websites.

I've been using Executor recently, but this looks to be way more powerful. Thanks for the tip.

There's also the Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum outside of Tokyo[1] (in Koganei, not the one in Ryogoku) that has some three dozen buildings that have been moved there. They go back as far as the Edo period. Well worth the time if you're in the area (though admittedly, kinda hard to get to).

[1] https://www.tatemonoen.jp/english/

I'm on a team that started doing Scrum a few months ago, and we're still figuring it out.

To be clear: are you saying that the one team that did Scrum well did so because they spent more time on the process? Reading what you wrote, spending two full days every two weeks to plan sounds, well, terribly dragged out. Does it feel like the time was well spent, or was it a slog?

Apparently ChakraCore will continue development for "various non-Edge uses".[1] Curious what that actually means..

[1] https://twitter.com/bterlson/status/1070754781822574592

Yeah, Jira is horrible. Between the workflows, search filters (create one, apply it to a board, but then you can't edit it?) and everything else, it's really clunky to use.

I've done test runs with other tracking software, and I can't really find anything better. Every tool sucks in its own way. Do you have a recommendation on something that you've found that's better than Jira?

Cyan also put out a game called Obduction a little over a year ago that's very much in the same vein as Myst (the Wikipedia article calls it a spiritual successor), only updated to fit the current times. It's really well done, and worth a look.

Just for proper attribution, these pages are the work of Steph Davidson.[1] It's generally believed that these page were created when Richard Turley was working at Bloomberg as their creative director.[2]

[1] http://stephdavidson.com/ [2] http://www.businessinsider.com/richard-turley-2011-4

For what it's worth, there are some fan cuts of the Hobbit movies that remove all the superfluous stuff and make it much closer to the book. Worth looking up.

Can't speak for the parent poster, but over here, yes, we use Consul's ACL. It's pretty solid and easy to use, and the GUI helps a whole lot. In terms of auditing, I've not dug too deeply into that, but there is really good logging.

Sure. It was a sense of arrogance and inflated ego more than anything else. Just because you went through ten weeks of boot camp doesn't mean that you're a master at your craft. Huge mistakes were made left and right without any sense of responsibility, accountability, or willingness to learn from one's mistakes.

At a previous job, we hired two people from General Assembly. One was decent; the other far less so. Admittedly, the hire that was less useful had other issues in terms of attitude, which perhaps we should have caught during the interview process.

Had a hard time loading it, so here's the cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:SDIaXc5...

The other piece of this is Laravel Homestead (https://github.com/laravel/homestead), a Vagrant box to make local development easier. Through Forge, you can deploy basically the same environment Homestead provides to any of the services. It's an easier way of keeping your dev and prod environments the same.

A great list overall. One alternative I'd offer: he recommends Github for Windows and Tortoise as Git clients. I've been using SourceTree for Windows (http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/) and it's excellent. They've done a great job maintaining and keeping it up to date.

Not to be overly pedantic, but Heroku does also support PHP.[1]

[1] https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-php

Newsblur is also written in Django - https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur

Per http://gizmodo.com/5980618/amazon-is-down, a hacker group named Nazi Gods has claimed responsibility for the downtime.

Because developing sites that work only in Chrome is similar to how sites used to be tailored to IE users. If we're all about interoperability and openness, having something that only works for one subset of users isn't all that open.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2397158,00.asp is a year old, but its message is still true: "Sure, anyone can make a site that works in Chrome, so it is open in that sense. But if that site only works in Chrome and not in other major browsers, we have a lack of openness in the Web ecosystem."

My employer also uses TriNet. We switched from ADP at the beginning of this year, and it's been a much better experience. They just seem to be more on top of things and can get us actual answers when we have questions. Their website for employees is a little funky, but is much easier to use than ADP.

If anyone in the future comes across this, there's the new Github for Windows client - http://windows.github.com

Until recently at work we've use Symfony1. It's going to end of life at the end of this year, and I think we're going to shy away from Symfony2 for now. It's a bit of a mess, I think, and it seems like they're going to correct a bunch of things in 2.1, but that won't be out for a few months. We'll probably reevaluate after that.

Our other goto framework is Cake. People do have a lot of good/bad things to say about Cake, but I rather like Cake 2. It's a little more mature now, and I don't really think it's as hugely complex as Symfony.

I use Zend on my own, but I'm becoming disillusioned with it. It seems to be overengineered and, after using Doctrine for as long as I have, its modeling leaves a lot to be desired.

Recently I've been researching FuelPHP (http://fuelphp.com/) and it seems to have potential. It's a little better designed than CodeIgniter and its ORM seems interesting.

Hope that helps.

Not to really detract from this, but it should be pointed out that the majority of this editor's edits were made using AutoWikiBrowser (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser), a tool that automates editing. It's used mostly for repetitive tasks such as article cleanup and vandalism reverting. So this was not one million handwritten edits, just one million edits in general.

Sorry, but I think I missed something here. First, this article is from last July. Second, it says that it's based on the US law named CALEA. The Wiki article on CALEA says that it covers all VoIP traffic. So.. what's the outrage? That Skype now functions the same way that, say, your VoIP phone service at home does? I'm not trying to be a jerk, I'm just curious what I'm not seeing.