symkat

> Someone has a job that makes them push a button every 5 minutes. They write a script so they never have to push a butten again. That person is clever and lazy. That is who you want.

I believe my story very strongly correlates with the spirt of GP's explanation; if you do not see the similarities I'm not sure I could explain further.

If you do see the similarities and simply disagree with the word 'lazy,' then I should make my assumptions of the word more clear. In GP's context I've assumed the definition by Larry Wall from the Three Virtues[1]:

> Laziness: The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure

[1]: http://threevirtues.com

It relates well to my experience.

At a hosting company I worked for, many of the system admins and developers were promoted from within technical support.

Technical support had one very awesome feature I only ever saw at this company -- you had a quota of how many tickets you should complete in a given day. If you completed that number, you could leave and were paid for the full day. If you had 80 tickets to complete and did them in 2 hours, you left. If you had 80 tickets and couldn't complete them, you left after working for 8 hours. You could work from home every other day if you were hitting your quota, and work from home increased your quota by like 10 tickets. Quota numbers were based on some average of your tickets over the last 8 weeks, and for most people were somewhere around 70-100.

Categorically, each and every person who was promoted out of tech support had written scripts to fix common issues that were happening and frequently only worked a couple of hours a day while they were in technical support; other times would spend a lot of extra time working out programs to automate their jobs. Looking back at it, I think each of us thought we were getting away with something, but it was noticed and encouraged.

But that would be missing the point. It’s the promise that they’ll handle things for you. You don’t need to know how to configure a web server, ha proxy, systemd, firewalls, set up network topology or failover, nagios, collect logs, update servers, pay attention to security announcements. You just need to write your thing and commit it to git, and they got you from there.

You may want that for a bunch of different reasons. Maybe you legitimately have no idea how to do all of that yourself and don’t want to learn. Maybe you can do all of that yourself, but you don’t want to… there can be a bunch of reasons for that from cost/benefit to not wanting to bother maintaining a server for a one-off project.

This space isn’t really new, dotCloud in 2010-2011 I think I did the same thing — they supported a lot more backend languages, there had been some Ruby on Rails ones that were similar ‘git repo to production site’ hosting services, but I forget their names.

One feature they have that particularly made me go, “Oh… you guys are smart,” is https://www.netlify.com/docs/form-handling/ Any random small site usually wants some kind of contact form, and they’ll capture some POST endpoints for you and handle that. I imagine over time more and more things along that line will be added.

I don’t normally do JS stuff, but I’ve been learning recently. My friend, John, records videos for YouTube where in one recording session they make a half-dozen episodes. He’s been going on about wanting an app that has a global timer aligned with the video recording, and then a sub timer aligned with the episode with play/pause/flag/comment/delete functionality. I made it to learn VueJS and give him a good birthday present.

I got it set up and deployed in under 15 minutes with Netlify, it has SSL, is speedy, and with Netlify I don’t have to maintain anything or think about it any more: https://timer.onthebranch.com/ so it was a big win for me there.

I believe you're mislabeling it as a non-issue, it seems to be the core problem they're trying to solve:

From the blog[0]:

> Yes, we all know that containers run unprivileged processes; but creating and running the containers themselves requires root privileges at some point.

> What is the awesome sauce we all gain from this?

> Well judging by the original GitHub issue about unprivileged runc containers, the largest group of commenters is from the scientific community who are restricted to not run certain programs as root.

[0]: https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/getting-towards-real-sandbox-...

Perl 5 is still actively developed[0] and has a large community releasing modules[1]. I still <3 it.

[0]: http://www.cpan.org/src/README.html [1]: https://metacpan.org/recent

I've submitted these sentiments to https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html before, but nothing seemed to become of it.

[1] Well, a lot of people who use reddit and are interested enough in apple to be on an apple subreddit.

They will have more fires, and they'll have people to put them out. It can suck not finishing something you started, but you made that decision when you took another job and gave notice.

Instead of trying to learn Postgres itself, try to do the following:

1) Get it installed and running

2) Write a schema for something (blog, billing system). Look through Postgres's documentation on types.

3) Get a role created for accessing the schema and update the hba config file to let your user access the schema from whatever servers you need to.

Postgres is pretty well documented, google "Postgres Whatever" will usually bring you to a postgres documentation page, for instance to understand the types 'Postgres data types' first result is: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/datatype.html

From Article: "84 percent decrease in suicides at stations with the blue lights."

Support and questions are handed through email. We have a contact form and various internal bits will direct a customer there with preselected subjects (e.g. "Question for Order #n" ).

I would never outsource it from the company, and want to have me and my co-founder primarily do it. It's the closest contact you have with users who are experiencing problems. If you're big enough, you're going to need dedicated support people, but I think founders should still have a grasp of what customers are asking you about.

I doubt Google itself copied them, but I have no problem seeing Wazes pulling all the information in while it was a tiny company, and then their DB being dumped into Google.

I spent a few months as a dispatcher in a taxi shop, and drivers weren't ICs, they were more like part of a b2b transaction. They rented the car and medallion from us for a flat rate for 12 hours, and could pick up whomever they wanted off the streets. When we got calls to arrange pickups, I went down the list contacting drivers until someone would take the fare. We only made money from renting the taxis to drivers.

I never really thought of it as the suburbs at the time. Thanks!

I found about 10 different local privilege escalation exploits sitting in /tmp and a handful of reverse shells running this evening =(

I think I found the judicial vernacular of "lol, no":

  Plaintiffs finally seek succor in the Ninth Amendment. 
  But, we have held, “[t]he Ninth Amendment is not an
  independent source of individual rights.” 
  Because plaintiffs fail plausibly to allege a violation 
  of any other constitutional right, their effort to 
  recast their unsuccessful claims as a violation of the 
  Ninth Amendment also fails.

The NPR article seems to discuss a father specifically attacking the personal belief exemption in California, so I don't see how the NY court's ruling would change that?

Perl, Python, and Ruby are all pretty competent and on the same level. Given that Perl is chosen as a language the question isn’t “Justify the use of Perl to the exclusion of Python and Ruby.” It’s “What can Python or Ruby do that Perl can’t?”

Some common arguments between Python and Perl can be found at http://coosoft.wordpress.com/2013/02/24/the-perl-vs-python-d... (I would add the author should have expanded on Object Oriented in Perl more. While native OO in Perl is exceptionally basic, third party OO frameworks for the language exist such as Moose and Moo complete with introspection, roles, type constraint, triggers, attributes, etc, etc).

Perl is a powerful modern language, actively developed by a committed community[1]. We’re just generally too busy doing things to blog about all the awesome stuff as much, so people’s perceptions of the language are often stuck in 1998.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=hH...

As primarily a Perl programer, I'd say there is a fairly even split between times I'm maintaining older code and writing new code in work environments. I've played with Ruby and Python a bit (by no means extensively), and when I started a web service last month (http://www.weightgrapher.com) I used Perl.

Dancer (Web framework), DBIx::Class (ORM), and other new tools make things pretty awesome; Perl isn't all CGI.pm scripts anymore.

I changed the primary hero button to a "See How It Works" that links to the about page.

The service is free and all functionality that's currently in it will remain free. I plan to subsidize it through affiliate advertising. Currently the links to the Aria scale are aff links that give me 12% of the sale. I prefer unobtrusive methods such as that, and more so it's a product I use and recommend. I wrote a site around getting the data from it.

The first version supports importing weight data from LoseIT (only premium members of their site can export data), and FitBit (all users work through a pubsub channel and forced syncing if you're into that). MyFitnessPal, and Withings' Scale are both on my todo list.

A community element will be added eventually with forums/friends, but it hasn't been a priority for this initial version. Exporting data also wasn't a priority at this stage, but will become one when people actually want to export data.

Things not shown: side bar of that page displays your weight, weight this day last week, last month, and a prediction of where you will be one month from now assuming linear extrapolation of weight shifting. Settings pages allow you to import data from LoseIT, link with a FitBit account, etc.

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