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ziikutv··on How to force manufacturers to take IoT security seriously?
Would it be worth an effort if there was an open source protocol of secure communication of IOT devices?

For example, many solutions use MQTT, why not make a secure TCP/UDP one by implementing one of the higher layers in OSI stack?

ziikutv··on Ask HN: What Happened to Model Driven Development
Should I invest time into this if I ant to go into automotive and similar industries?
ziikutv··on Textbook manifesto (2016)
Yeah and one of them decided to venture into book writing, had connections and was friends with other professors...

That's one way to sell that pig lipsticks.

Edit: And incorrect about department = array(Professors)

ziikutv··on Textbook manifesto (2016)
Its funny. This was my exact shower thought this morning.

I find books overly verbose, and too formal. I do not think there is a need to dumb-down technical content. I also disagree with having a page limit as it would likely lead to omission of topics that might be otherwise useful.

I think the publishing industry has to change or be weeded out by self-publishers and video makers. I have learned many topics of my courses through Slide decks and Youtube videos to avoid reading.

My plan was to start re-learning everything from Uni and write informal tutorial (snippets) of blog posts about the topics and perhaps compiling to a open source book. I'll keep you guys posted so you folks can blindly upvote my fancy submission titles =D

Addendum: I'd really like to pug Brian Douglas' Youtube playlists on Control Theory. AMAZING. Got an A thanks to him.

ziikutv··on Ask HN: What Happened to Model Driven Development
Yeah. I was told it leads to rapid development.... disagree.

Just making a project in class i found it to Beverly tedious jumping between diagrams.

Much rather prefer code.

ziikutv··on Ask HN: What Happened to Model Driven Development
Canada. Google: SYSC 4805
ziikutv··on Textbook manifesto (2016)
Professors often do not have the choice to pick a book. They have to teach off of one recommended by department.

more politics into the education industry.

ziikutv··on Principles for C programming
Thanks for the read. Very educational.

I would suggest increasing the font-weight of your bolded text. I could not differentiate the two when skimming over the article; only when I read very carefully did I notice that you had somethings bolded.

ziikutv··on Principles for C programming
For somethings like setting up boards, typedef is sometimes required too; or at least that is what I was told in my class xD
ziikutv··on Launch HN: Wifi Dabba (YC W17) – Low-Cost Wifi in India
The tokens seem to be physical. Does that mean you print them on the spot?

Edit: Addendum: Also, if they are physical, why did you consider physical over simply displaying them on a tiny screen? I can think of one reason, I can buy a token and activate it later at home.

Danm.. I remember going to Chai-wallahs and reactivating my dongle. Cost me a lot of money for very little bandwidth usage.

ziikutv··on Uber Driver Tip-Hustling Schemes
Oh! Forget to say this, I bought him McChicken and Fries. And a Poutine for me.
ziikutv··on Uber Driver Tip-Hustling Schemes
I can see some abuse here. If I live in a suburb, set it as my home zone, then just work downtown.

Perhaps limit the "home area" designation at the end of the day. So before someone is "ending" their day, they can click a button and service only in their home area.

That way, the usefulness of the service is not compromised as much.

ziikutv··on Uber Driver Tip-Hustling Schemes
To me it sounds like they should consider adding a feature where a driver can pick an area they want to give rides in.
ziikutv··on Uber Driver Tip-Hustling Schemes
I remembered getting hustled to buy my driver McDonalds then coming home to realize I got billed $36 dollars for his time; a trip that usually costs $9. He guilt me into thinking he does not get paid the more he waits. Alcohol...
ziikutv··on Launch HN: Wifi Dabba (YC W17) – Low-Cost Wifi in India
Can you talk a little bit about how you power the Dabbas and refresh the tokens if they are only valid for 24 days.

Do you guys function like "doodh wallahs" in that you visit the locations every morning to reset power and tokens? Would seem like a hassle but convenient from the point of view of the chai wallahs.

ziikutv··on Launch HN: Wifi Dabba (YC W17) – Low-Cost Wifi in India
I am willing to bet it is something very trivial like Raspberry PIs connected to dongles.

If you look at the map a lot of the locations are very concentrated; this is likely because there are shit tonne of "Chai Wallah" places in India :). However, looking at the outliers, I am not expecting a device that is creating something similar to a net nor a wifi extender.

It would be way cheaper than having some other sort of a receiver.

ziikutv··on How I Made $70k Self-Publishing a Book about Ruby on Rails
Good read. I am wondering, why did you decide not to do a free HTML version of the book; aside from the obvious, it is tedious to do.

Did you consider Physical printing of books?

ziikutv··on Nevertheless, She Coded
I think what one person said about this really hit home for me.

Rising tides raise all boats or something like that.

Btw I was just summarizing the various points brought up in other comments for the person who asked.

ziikutv··on Show HN: PumpkinDB, an event sourcing database engine
Fair enough. I'm gonna be done this shitty program and have a piece of papers with some fancy seal on it in a couple of months. I'd be happy to contribute.

Bookmarked until then.

ziikutv··on Nevertheless, She Coded
Main one being about the wage gaps being inflated. Not sure if thats true.

Additionally, why don't we speak about rights of minorities on this forum. I don't think xor meant anything negative by this. A good question to ask but I guess not today?

ziikutv··on Nevertheless, She Coded
Simple.

Do soldiers reason when given orders?

Do sheep flock alone?

This forum, like most places is no different. Regardless of what you are trying to say, best to just stfu because there will be another person awaiting to single their virtues.

Also, 99% of stats on the internet are bullshit, including this one.

Take everything with a grain of salt and just be a nice person. That's my motto. In addition to don't raise pitch forks when I hear a stat

Happy woman's day.

ziikutv··on Show HN: PumpkinDB, an event sourcing database engine
Well, its a fancy word. Thats basically what I took away from it. Also, I agree, read the whole doc and took way longer to understand what it does.

Clearly, they are smart, but bad copywriters :)

Please write better docs.

ziikutv··on How to Be a Stoic
I love learning about Archaeology and corollary some of the philosophies of civilizations.

Stoicism has been one of the most appealing one to me. However, one issue I have with Stoicism is similar to that of religions.

Most people who follow Stoicism or any other religion, tend to pick and choose to what is the best fit of them.

Stoicism is not about giving up anything (common misunderstanding) but it IS to moderate everything including things like our carnal desires. I do not think anyone does this nowadays.

Does this mean we need a Stoicism 2.0 like we do in many religions? _______ 2.0? Not entirely sure...

ziikutv··on Using Neutrino to jump-start modern JavaScript development
Great! More tooling
ziikutv··on A command line script to remind you to drink water
I like how you didn't bother cutting out the part where you have downloaded movies :)
ziikutv··on Show HN: A microservice that makes adding authentication to your app easy
Fair enough. However, my opinion of this matter still stands. I think something like a library or even an executable/process should try to decouple itself from deployment process; and should be designed as such. Its very opinionated - I must admit - but it tends to take away a lot of friction from adopting. Also, usually, when we add things like Docker to the mix, it is quiet unclear if the said microservice can function without Docker (perhaps it's using something X specific and cannot work without it); if it can, lets mention it otherwise even if it is something I want, I won't spend the time to test it myself (yeah I am very a very picky lad I know but I bet this is something a lot of people do)
ziikutv··on Show HN: A microservice that makes adding authentication to your app easy
Upvotes happen from titles only
ziikutv··on Show HN: A microservice that makes adding authentication to your app easy
"It's build with Nginx/OpenResty, Lapis and Docker. This enables the service to be very performant and requires only minimal system resources."

So does this mean I need to have Docker and all of the other things mentioned to use this?

Suggestion: Don't couple your product with dev-ops stuff. Try to keep things separate :)

ziikutv··on Someone Created a Startup Just like Mine and Here Is Why That Is Awesome
You basically violated his privacy, talking about when he signed up etc.

I wonder if this was an attempt at virtue signaling (by making yourself seem untouched by him copying) or calling someone out; kind of pretentious.

You even tries to have another jab by asking him about his email procedure; trying to make him look bad.

Edit: I just wanted to point this out as an example of how much of CJ this community is. Everyone touts the same principles, but rarely follow them. Simply reading PG's essays is not enough.

Regardless, thanks for the read.

ziikutv··on What programming languages are used most on weekends?
Assembly is too vague of a tag
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