jneal

what a complete waste of time

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Is this really newsworthy? This has been the case for over a decade.

I had this same issue just a few weeks ago. I recall being asked for my 2FA on a few separate occasions and could never disable it or switch to a new authenticator app even though I had backup codes. However, I tried it a 3rd time one day and for whatever reason I was able to do it. If I recall correctly, it suddenly gave me the option to instead authenticate with my password again, which I did. Good luck!

I'd say there's a swing depending on priority. We care about code quality and having high test coverage, but sometimes the business needs something done yesterday and we sacrifice quality to get it out the door. I don't agree with this sacrifice, as I feel it hurts us in the long run by slowing down future work.

> The game limits multiplayer interaction big time. It's no more than 3 parties allowed in an instance at any one time

Just one quick correction. Destiny 1 limited instances to 3 parties, but Destiny 2 changed that up a bit. Patrol areas are now 5 parties (up to 15 players) and social spaces are 9 parties (up to 24 players).

It probably sounds silly, but I've been the victim of similar scams and so I started video taping myself opening every single package I receive. I be sure to show the tracking information on the box and then leave the camera rolling as I open it and inspect the contents.

In the OP's case, it doesn't seem like Amazon would even care to watch the recording seeing as how they are ignoring pictures that clearly show the item delivered to the wrong address with incorrect contents, but it gives me peace of mind at least.

I don't understand why Amazon keeps claiming it was sent to the person's address when it was clearly shipped elsewhere. He even has a picture that shows the tracking number and the fact that it was delivered somewhere else. This should be an open and shut case for Amazon, a very obvious scam.

I'm honestly curious...if diversity is such an important issue to so many people, why do large sports organizations such as the NFL, NBA, etc, still separate women into their own leagues and not allow them into the "men's league"? And probably in the range of billions of people support such organizations.

I personally feel are humans are equal regardless of race sex origin or any other factor. If you are a human, you have every right that any other human has and there is no place for discrimination of any kind.

I hope you can find a company where you are treated as an equal. I can honestly say I've never worked for a company like you describe, so it sounds more like an issue with the company and not the entire industry as you seem to suggest.

As a male, I wouldn't stand for this type of behavior from my colleagues. Personally, I'd be going up the corporate ladder or human resources until I found someone that make this type of behavior cease, and if it didn't, I would be gone. I can't even imagine being on the receiving end of something like that.

Martin is working on a book about Clean Architecture:

https://www.amazon.com/Clean-Architecture-Craftsmans-Softwar...

I'm sure the book will have many real world code examples, as is fairly typical of his previous works.

I very much agree. A few years ago I was searching for a new job and there was this one place specifically that had an opening that sounded like a perfect fit for my skill set. They had an extremely long application process that involved "Pre-Employment Testing" (something called Criteria?). Anyway, I spent hours working on this application only to never hear back.

Funny enough, after landing an even better gig, I randomly got contacted by one of their recruiters on LinkedIn asking if I would be interested in the opportunity they were still hiring for. No mention of the fact that I had already applied and never heard back.

I've been testing out 4 since it hit beta, and haven't had any issues. Code literally just works after updating to the new version with 0 issues, in my case at least.

I'd say when I was first learning about many of the design patterns, this was my biggest hurdle as well. The examples and analogies were unrelated to real-world scenarios and didn't do much to help me understand the concepts.

It wasn't until I came up with my own real-world examples that were specific to my domain and really applied the design patterns in practice that I really started to understand everything. I don't think it's really the real-world example that helped so much as the actual process it took to arrive at an implementation.

Same here. My first web page was on "expage" but I quickly ended up on Geocities and Angelfire for quite awhile. When I finally moved on to 'real' hosts I used Hypermart and Virtualave to host my Perl.

This is pretty scary. When you hear security professionals explain to laymen how to identify phishing attacks, it's almost always check the URL, make sure you're actually at google.com and not go0gle.com, or something like that.

I can't even imagine what legitimate use there is to placing an entire HTML document into the URL. Just seems like a hack someone came up with as a solution to a problem, not the right solution, but a solution nonetheless.

Definitely agree. It's not very surprising at this day and age, but if you told me this would happen 10 years ago I would have laughed and discounted the idea completely.

It's actually pretty sad. It seems to weed out the smartest folks so that you only hire those mediocre enough to not understand these problems within the hiring test.

The problem with democracy is the people are easily influenced by false truths.

I'm all for democracy, but I also realize that a well informed vote and an uninformed vote are equal and therein lies the problem. It's not really something that can be fixed within a true democracy.

This reminds me of something that happened to me in high school back in 1999. I found an Excel doc in a public network drive that contained every single student's SSN, DOB, whether they had free/reduced lunch, address, phone, etc. I was admittedly snooping around, but this was all public stuff every student and teacher had full access to.

When I found it, I told one of the teachers that I trusted and she insisted that I must tell the principal. So I went down to the principal's office and told her. My primary goal was to get this removed or made private because even at that young age I knew this was very sensitive data and I wouldn't want just anyone having access to my information like that.

When I got home from school, I found my mother upset because we'd been called to return to school for an emergency meeting. I was questioned, and when I told them I only wanted this sensitive information properly secured I was told by the county IT administrator "Did you ever stop to think if maybe this information was public for a reason?" I took a second, and literally wanted to say "There is no reason this information should ever be public" but I ended up keeping my mouth shut in hopes to not get into further trouble.

I was nearly expelled for "hacking". They placed me on "academic probation" and threatened that if I did so much as forget my school ID at home one day, I would be immediately expelled without question. I was removed from my elective classes that involved computers and was disallowed from touching any computers at school.

Fun fact: Someone on the yearbook staff accidentally deleted the only copy of the yearbook files and our yearbook was in danger of basically not being made. I was called to the principal's office and asked to help. I was able to recover the deleted files and save the day. At some point they realized I never had malicious intent, but I still hold a small grudge for the way I was treated as a criminal for uncovering such a big security hole.

I've personally always used alt+left to go back. I know backspace does the same thing, but the only reason I know that is because I seem to hit more frequently than you'd expect while not focused on a form field causing my browser to go back unexpectedly. I've never lost data, though, it always seems to persists when I go forward.

> No matter how much I have or achieve in life, there is always going to be somebody smarter than me, who has more.

I wish more people understood this concept. I'd even go as far to say it has nothing to do with "somebody smarter than me." Certainly there are people out there not as smart as I who make more and have nicer things. But don't dwell on such comparisons. If you are happy with what you have, that is what matters.

Yea, that is a lot of cereal. I definitely didn't need that much food but for some reason I wanted that much food. Oh, and I wouldn't have had the OJ on top of that personally.

Today I still eat cereal but usually a cup at most, and either without milk or with almond milk. I started on a diet (the south beach diet) about 5 years ago and I lost over 100 pounds. I don't consider myself to be following any specific diet nowadays, I'm just more healthy and smart about what I eat, and I eat much smaller portions. I also exercise 3 times weekly, and need to find time to increase that even more.

I will say when I first started my diet I dropped cereal and just ate scrambled eggs almost every morning. My morning energy levels skyrocketed.

I'd say 1000 calories is a little much, but I think the original point here still stands. I don't have nutrition facts sitting right in front of me, but I do know often times cereal is given in very small quantities, like 130 calories per 3/4 cup. I'd say I used to eat around 3 cups of cereal each morning, so that's 520 calories not counting milk and OJ. The Milk is usually 1 cup, about 110 calories I believe. And 2 cups of OJ is probably around 220. That's 850 calories. It's not entirely inconceivable, and by the given math (which I haven't vetted) that's 8.5 miles still...

Runscope is a great service. I learned about it around a year and a half ago and utilized it to monitor and log an API I was building to act as midware betweens a user-consumed IOS app and an android administrative app for a huge event ('the big game'). It really helped us because we were on such a tight time line. I can't count how many times there was an issue with one of the two apps and I was able to quickly track it down and notify the proper team so they could fix the issue.

There is a small miscommunication here. It's America's airlines (the entire industry) not American Airlines (the company).

This article from November last year has more details: http://priceonomics.com/can-airlines-make-money/

> Overall, the industry has lost $35 billion since deregulation.

I understand your apprehension because I feel the same way, to some degree. But I'm excited about the new types of tech that I can already imagine using this API. There are so many fascinating ideas that come to mind, and I'm usually not that creative of a person.

I think Google understands how big this could be (well, why else do they do anything I suppose?). I guess you'd just have to put faith in them. I imagine those that do will build some amazing projects from this.

This is something I have been curious about as well. It seems like Google at the very least should be blacklisting download.com or at least showing the message they show for "bad" sites: "Warning: Visiting this site may harm your computer!"

I'm not going to speak directly regarding the way this individual handled this situation, but in general, if you experience any form of sexual harassment I highly recommend you speak with HR immediately following the incident. Don't allow it to escalate, things can only get worse. Even if it's your first day on the job, you should never feel speaking to HR regarding an incident is a bad idea.

Correct, it's not likely to change at this point. Official release is slated for Dec 3 according to their Twitter[1], so it appears they are getting everything ready to launch.

[1] https://twitter.com/official_php/status/669940548128534528