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nogbit··on Audacity 3.0
One of the best and most consistent open source projects over the years. You should be proud, well done.
nogbit··on Milky Way, 12 years, 1250 hours of exposures and 125 x 22 degrees of sky
Because those sats are pointing down at us.
nogbit··on What went wrong with the Texas power grid?
That’s rough. I’ve bundled up without power with little ones for 4 day, but it was mid 20’s. Keep warm however you can, safely...and good luck, don’t wait and cross fingers, take action.
nogbit··on 50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)
Bags as well, the bread in the grocery stores is full of sugar. In the US anyway.
nogbit··on Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Other Companies
I think this is critical. The actual runtime of any code needs to do way more than what it’s doing now.

Simply relying on package signing and the like permits trusted but malicious actors. With Deno packages configured well it can really lock down and limit a ton of attack vectors.

nogbit··on Amazon Location Service
Top comment there, should be called something like AWS WGS84 to really confuse people like all the other services.
nogbit··on CISA: The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history
I did an undergrad in Cybersecurity. Every system can never be fully secure, so election systems therefore can’t be an exception. I did physical security in the USAF long ago, same, you can’t be fully secure.

Layers, more of them, help to secure a system.

nogbit··on A 40KB Optimization Saved Us 50TB of Bandwidth
You removed long polling from Socket.io which kills your mobile users since they can’t NAT that web socket. Have you received feedback from your mobile users?
nogbit··on Chewing Food More Thoroughly Results in Reduced Insulin Output (2013)
Love it! You solved one of the things I’ve always had a hunch but never brave enough to prove myself.
nogbit··on Netflix is creating a problem by cancelling TV shows too soon
More mini series are needed. The UK has this in spades and executes well. They have an end written before the first episode starts. 3 episodes or 10, but not the same drivel season after season.
nogbit··on Thinking of a Cybersecurity Career?
Some companies care about their brand and how a breach can negatively impact that, add this to your list and now you have four things.
nogbit··on Ask HN: Is all of FAANG like this?
Smaller firms will have more greenfield opportunities that allow you to move at a much faster pace. Larger enterprises (FAANG or not) will have software that "works", and to make changes to it requires more consideration across the board.
nogbit··on Transcribed police scanners in real-time
This is so wrong it needs to be taken offline. The Translations aren’t even close and that’s dangerous.

I seriously looked into doing this myself, but for this reason and costs I bailed.

nogbit··on FCC approves 100% foreign ownership of U.S. broadcast properties [pdf]
Ya, this is going to end well for us.

From wikipedia... Cumulus Media, Inc. is an American broadcasting company and is the third largest owner and operator of AM and FM radio stations in the United States behind Entercom and iHeartMedia, Inc. As of June 2019, Cumulus lists ownership of 428 stations in 87 media markets.

nogbit··on People think they're calling restaurants directly but Grubhub is getting a fee
Is it so hard to call?

You still use Yelp after all we know about them?

A simple search on just about any maps app gives a direct contact info, have you tried that?

Give the card over the phone is arguably more or as secure as online.

They read the order back to you don't they?

They are trying to compete, call them directly and cut out all these middle men.

nogbit··on Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?
Are you looking for job satisfaction or happiness? If the former then look for another job, but the grass isn't always greener.
nogbit··on Things I’ve learned in 20 years of programming
Sad to hear. Every job I've had I've been able to get into that flow. But Ive also always had my own office or work from home. 20+ years of doing this professionally and as a hobby.

My advice is to find some way to take some pride in the work you do and or change employers when that flow stops happening. life is too short not to.

nogbit··on Cloud Run Button: Click-to-deploy your Git repos to GCP
Exactly, going to production is 80%. This button while cool is only 20% of the story.
nogbit··on Show HN: CC Search – search engine for 300M CC-licensed images
Even more creepy is the related images for that link. None of them are related in any way shape or form to it or eachother.
nogbit··on Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage
I read it that way as well :)
nogbit··on Stealing the Enemy's Urban Advantage: The Battle of Sadr City
Surprised? You shouldn't be, it's a big business/industry and it's legal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Companies_by_arms_sales
nogbit··on Most of What We Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People
I've been reading almost daily since probably the beginning. I comment very rarely. Most news in general is garbage, but I do enjoy tech + startup news and enjoy reading comments here before clicking on to the source. It's fast, simple and I use http://hckrnews.com as my portal into ycombinator.com.

I almost left during the year of the US primaries as the news was majority political and simply more garbage, so I'm glad that got cleaned up.

Often I don't have anything "more" to say on top of what has been said, so I wont add noise. That may be a common thread with lurkers. When I do have a unique perspective and I feel adds value and not noise I may comment, keyword is "may".

I couldn't care less about karma, popularity, social scores or the like (just more garbage). As long as this site and it's users continue to provide value to me by filtering and aggregating tech news I will continue to use it.

Just another lurker mooching off of non lurkers. Selfish yes, but it works.

nogbit··on Improbable and Epic Games establish $25M fund for ‘more open engines’
It also requires solid partnerships with console companies (MS, Sony, Nintendo etc) unless they were to also go a FOSS route with their systems.
nogbit··on Roadmap to becoming a web developer in 2019
Following this chart would be the anti-pattern to KISS.

Instead, learn how to ask people "what sucks the most?" and then go and build solutions.

I've been doing that for more than 20 years for CxO's, product owners, developers themselves and consumers. One thing that has been constant is the solution is always different and the technology and tools come and go.

I would also add understanding the underlying protocols will help you immensely in any front/back/ops/busdev roles. They stick around a whole lot longer than tooling or frameworks/abstractions.

nogbit··on Google shifted $23B to tax haven Bermuda in 2017
The floor is lava, if you touch it you die.

No it's not.

It is, because I say it is and that's the game we are playing.

OK, I'll play.

....

Here's this 3000 page book, it says you own me 30% of what you just made.

Really, let me read it. No, it says I owe you nothing.

Really, OK, I suppose it does.

nogbit··on MagicaVoxel: A free voxel art editor and path tracing renderer
Your google play link is broken https://www.larvalabs.com/roadtrip/
nogbit··on Fbs: Create Linux GUIs with Qt in minutes
GUI dev, especially rich desktop apps are more enjoyable to build, at least to start with, via a rich layout GUI of it's own.

One ends up re-parenting and moving things around so much that it's easier to be agile in a GUI than it is with code.

nogbit··on AWS Outperforms GCP in the 2018 Cloud Report
Launch EKS on AWS, wait 20-30min. Launch GKE on GCP, wait 5min.
nogbit··on Fortnite dev launches Epic Games Store that takes 12% of revenue
At least now Valve can play their Half Life 3 card if this new store gains some "steam", I'm sure Gabe N. has been dying to have a reason to.

I'm all for competition, Epic Games rocks!

nogbit··on The Surprising Power of the Long Game
Nor do you want to work when your old (most people in most jobs). Balance is key.
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