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Adutude | 7 years ago | on: FrontPage 98: Elegant and Exquisite (1997)

Elegant and Exquisite, Hoo Hoo, Hee Hee, Gufaw!! I was running an ISP at that time. This caused me no end of headaches in getting the FrontPage extensions working on various and sundry web servers. It allowed people to easily create websites, but caused a nightmare of support and infrastructure issues just to keep it working. So glad this piece of tech faded into infamy.

Adutude | 7 years ago | on: Why Johnny Doesn’t Use Two Factor – A Study of the FIDO U2F Security Key [pdf]

This article is good as far as UX goes. Myself, I love my Yubikey. I use it to store my ssh keys, then tunnel them using ssh-agent/gpg-agent, something along the lines of this article. https://www.bootc.net/archives/2013/06/09/my-perfect-gnupg-s... and this article https://wiki.gnupg.org/AgentForwarding. It's set up so that you have to have the key to get into the bastion host first, then you have to tunnel your key through the bastion to get to the other side. If you remove the key it breaks your connection. A good way to ssh w/out having your private keys sitting on a disk.

Adutude | 8 years ago | on: Both in rich and poor countries, universal health care brings huge benefits

I couldn't agree more. I don't think U.S. has a real progressive party, the choices are off the rails conservatism, or conservative lite. IMO, a progressive/liberal is concerned someone might go hungry, a conservative is concerned that they might miss out because someone got some food they didn't earn/deserve.

Adutude | 8 years ago | on: Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways

I stopped using the slack client because it was causing my desktop to hang, so I started using the IRC interface, which works great for my purposes. Since they are getting rid of how I access slack, I guess I'm done w/ slack.

Adutude | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)

Tropare|Laguna Beach, CA, US|ONSITE|Full-time|Sysadmin

Are you interested in helping to solve today's challenges in managing and utilizing big data for international Fortune 500 companies? We are a small team of developers working on new and innovative products and services for managing large amounts of data, delivered on multiple platforms to our enterprise customers. Come join our highly skilled team to solve big data challenges in a wonderful scenic location, right next to some great surf spots and mountain biking trails. Healthy lifestyle and open communications are a big part of our corporate culture.

As our Sysadmin/DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for managing our cloud based infrastructure for our multi-tiered architecture. You will use your experience to manage and automate administrative functions across the company and make sure that our servers are secure, up to date and running 24/7. As our technology stack matures you will be responsible for growing the position from a mostly sysadmin role to include development operations. You will help us identify and implement the tools we will need to reach our goal of a sensible continuous deployment model and assist in automating the software development lifecycle from development, to QA to production.

This is a full-time, on-site position. We will not be considering any remote work, and are not, at this time, providing relocation, so you must be able to commute to Laguna Beach, CA. You must also be able to legally work in the US, we currently do not have any facilities to provide sponsorships or visas. Principals only please, we do not wish to be contacted by recruiters.

Please send resumes and professional references to [email protected]

Adutude | 8 years ago | on: The State of Atom's Performance

From the atom FAQ in answer to the question "Atom feels slow or is consuming too much CPU or memory"

"Atom isn’t designed to be a tiny native-code editor. If the ultimate in speed is what you’re after, Atom probably isn’t what you’re looking for at least for now … and possibly not ever depending on what you’re expecting."

I tried Atom as an alternative to Eclipse, about 3 months back, as I consider Eclipse to be pretty bloated and slow, but Atom made Eclipse look like a speed demon. I tried running with --safe, removing plugins, but nothing seemed to help, it was still painfully slow. Perhaps it's my machine or some other local issue, but I run Eclipse with lots of plugins and it runs great, in comparison.

After reading the above in the FAQ and many many posts about how Atom was running slow and the responses those issues received, it seemed to me like they actually do admit there are performance problems but have the attitude of "That's just how it works, if you don't like it use something else"

Adutude | 8 years ago | on: Students learn more effectively from print textbooks than screens, study says

Interesting tidbit, in the sentence in the article " To explore these patterns further, we conducted three studies that explored college students' ability to comprehend information on paper and from screens."

"Three studies" is linked to a single study, not three. The study is on the site tandfonline.com (Taylor and Francis), where you have to pay to read the study.

Also interesting is that Taylor and Francis, on their website taylorandfrancis.com, says "Taylor & Francis Group publishes books for all levels of academic study and professional development, across a wide range of subjects and disciplines."

So long story short, this is a study saying that books are better, that's on a site who's main business is publishing books. Not saying the study is inaccurate, but I find an article, about how books are better, on a book publishers site, somewhat suspect.

Adutude | 9 years ago | on: Let's stop bashing C#

I used C# to write an Excel toolbar. The big problem I had with it is that there were features they had only implemented in Visual Basic/C++. It appeared that C# was incomplete in it's implementation of MS API's

Adutude | 9 years ago | on: It's not too late for slow parenting

I have two children and I am now a grandparent. I have to agree that there is no hurry. Too often parents get caught up in comparing their children to the "Norm". Truth is that they all have their own schedule, and they are all different. In my opinion, you and your children will lead a much happier, more well adjusted life, if you let your kids set their own pace. Enjoy every moment and step along the way, don't try to make it go faster, childhood is very fleeting.

Adutude | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2016)

Tropare, inc. provides big data services and mobile apps to fortune 500 enterprise customers. Our products and services are powered by our own patented technologies to provide high performance, purpose built solutions.

We are a small focused company that has been in business for 5 years. We have been profitable and growing since the first year. We have now grown to the point, where we need to add a member to our team.

We run on a variety of platforms and use quite a bit of Perl, Javascript and C. We also run our solutions in the cloud, mostly AWS.

We are currently seeking an entry level developer that has some web and database, development experience, in a professional capacity, for 1-3 years. Our new team member will be passionate about developing quality software. As our new developer, you'll be working with Perl, MySQL, Linux and Javascript on the back-end to our mobile app platform.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone, with good coding skills, that is looking to gain experience with a team of seasoned software development veterans. The position is on-site, and our office is on one of the most beautiful stretches of the California coast.

Knowledge of Perl, PHP or similar, SQL databases, XML, Javascript, and Linux is required. Experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL, mod_perl, jQuery, AJAX, OpenAuth, Git, and AWS is desired.

Duties and Responsibilities: Maintain and extend functionality of back-end systems to support changes required by client requests. Develop new client facing web tools. Assist in troubleshooting software issues. Show creativity in developing solutions.

Position is on-site at our office in Laguna Beach, California, US (we are two blocks from the beach).

Please e-mail resumes/cover letters to scott[at]tropare[dot]com. We'll respond with a short quiz that tests your skills. Principals only, no agencies or recruiters.

Adutude | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?

In my opinion there isn't anything about Reddit that is like HN. It's why I stopped reading Reddit and came here. Too many haters and trolls on Reddit.

Adutude | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)

We are currently seeking a Perl programmer, that has experience developing back-end Perl applications running on mod_perl2, under Apache2, on Linux. This position is on-site, and our office is on one of the most beautiful stretches of the California coast.

We are looking for someone with 1-3 years of experience in web and database programming in a professional capacity. Knowledge of Perl, PHP or similar, databases, XML, Javascript, and Linux is required. Experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL, mod_perl, jQuery, AJAX, OpenAuth, Git, and AWS is desired.

Duties and Responsibilities: Maintain and extend functionality of backend systems to support changes required by client requests. Develop new client facing web tools. Assist in troubleshooting software issues. Show creativity in developing solutions.

Position is on-site at our office in Laguna Beach (we are two blocks from the beach).

Desired Skills:

Linux (Ubuntu, Amazon)

Open Auth/Openidc (The ins and outs Google, MS, etc) .

MySQL, Postgresql

AWS

Javascript

jQuery/jQuery-UI

AJAX

Mobile Application Development all platforms (IOS, Android, Blackberry)

Surfing (water based)

Please e-mail resumes/cover letters to scott[at]tropare[dot]com. We'll respond witha short quite that tests your skills. Principals only, no agencies or recruiters.

Adutude | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)

Tropare, Inc. | Laguna Beach, CA. US | Full-Time Onsite

We are currently seeking a mid level Perl programmer, that has experience writing Perl programs running on mod_perl, under apache, on Linux. Position is on-site at our office in Laguna Beach (we are two blocks from the beach). We develop applications for companies in the fortune 20 on down.

Required skills: Perl (of course) Using mod_perl CGI mod, dealing with sessions, etc. MySQL DBI:DBD Regex SQL (MySQL flavor) HTML CSS

Our site is http://www.tropare.com

Please e-mail resumes to scott_AT_tropare.com. We'll respond with a short quiz that tests your skills. Principals only please, no agencies or recruiters.

Adutude | 9 years ago | on: Fear and Loathing in Linux, or Who Needs /etc/motd (2010)

I think this might be a bikeshed discussion.

http://bikeshed.com

Adutude | 9 years ago | on: Home Depot Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Visa, MasterCard

It would be nice if hacker news did not accept links to pay-walled sites

Adutude | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Machine Learning overview for non-engineers

Ah but we must not forget the Tao Book 7 http://www.mit.edu/~xela/tao.html

"You can demonstrate a program for a corporate executive, but you can't make him computer literate."