Transpiled doesn't necessarily mean obfuscated. The output of the typescript compiler is almost identical to the input, but with the type annotations removed. It also includes inline sourcemaps so your stack traces continue to be readable. Honestly, it's not a problem.
I met him in person once. Slashdot had a conference/party type thing in Boston in the early 2000s. He showed me around the Slashdot admin panel and let me approve a post on his behalf (just clicking the button). He was cool. Sorry to hear that he's passed.
It sounds like the logs in question were of the form fields being submitted by the user password reset form. Even if you're using SSL (which they are) and the passwords are only stored as a hash (which it sounds like is true at GitHub), there's still a moment where the server has the plaintext password. Some logging frameworks will automatically omit or redact the value of any field like `secret` or `password`. Perhaps in this case they forgot to also redact `password_confirmation` or something.
I've been having exactly the same problem for years. I've gotten porn site confirmations, job interview followups, background checks, even spam from their mortgage broker. How can people be so careless? Truly absurd and frustrating. My internet doppelgänger is an idiot.
How can date manipulation bring down a mission critical asset for 7 hours? Maybe someone can explain how you could accidentally write code that breaks this badly on Leap Day. I've never written anything that stores the data internally as anything other than epoch seconds or epoch milliseconds, precisely because it seems like a can of worms. I understand this is the norm for many Microsoft projects, right?
Yes, he clearly doesn't understand why there are laws in this country. I personally think he set us back 15 years when, deciding whether the standard PC manifest would include a modem vs. a CD-ROM, chose the latter, asserting (and mandating) that the masses should consume information but not produce it. I think that's shameful.
On the other hand, most of his actions under Microsoft will be considered as historical minutiae in a thousand years, whereas the effects of elimination of Malaria or of vastly improved water and sanitation will be felt long after.
Say what you want about Microsoft, but that's no longer the same thing as Bill Gates. I've been a/. user for around a decade and have certainly made my share of bad Bill Gates jokes, but the guy is literally trying to save the world now. He has the money and the connections to do it, and the projects he's working on are incredibly selfless. Let's give him a break. OP was being very immature IMHO.
I started remapping my capslock key to escape over two years ago and never looked back. By my estimation, my pinky will have travelled a bazillion miles less by the time I retire (vim user here) than if I left escape at the top left extent of my keyboard.
My blog has instructions on doing this in Linux, Mac OSX and Windows.
I am responsible for IT decision making for a similar-sized startup. I have around 15-years of IT-like activities behind me. At my current job, I keep costs low and the organization agile with a few simple rules.
Everyone gets a refurbished MacBook Pro with AppleCare. If it breaks (pretty much never), the user takes it to the Apple Genius Bar. Once the warranties run out, there's an Apple-certified support center near by. We replace computers every 2-3 years and keep a spare around just in case. Everyone gets a $100 USB drive for TimeMachine backups, so a damaged or lost laptop is at worst a few hours of lost productivity. If a user wants to run something other than MacOS X they're welcome to do so on their own.
We have no servers in-house other than a small Linux box which serves as a router. The network is managed with the goal that it be no more complicated than anyone's home network. "Network is down? Reboot the router." Granted, we have a symmetrical 10mbps RF link via TowerStream so it's pretty fast, but still, K.I.S.S.
All email, calendaring, etc are handled by Google Apps. $50 per person per year is ridiculously cheap for what it gets us. Most file server type needs are met by either Google Docs or DropBox.
For phones, we have an old PC running an Asterisk derivative and some VOIP desk phones from craigslist. We also have a GSM booster on the roof, and most people who need phones to work have company-funded iPhones. We're also looking at moving to Google Voice now that it's included in Google Apps.
Seriously reconsider the wisdom in running an authentication server for 20 users. You will spend more time configuring, patching, backing up and fixing that directory server than you would managing a spreadsheet of 20 local admin account passwords.
Run your corporate web server in-house? No effin' way. EC2 or a co-lo, never in house. You cannot cost-effectively match what a decent colocation provider can give you with regard to cooling, power, network capacity, redundancy or room for growth. They's what they do and they almost certainly do it better than you.
Honestly, I think this is genuinely clever. To my knowledge, this is a original idea and the inventor should be able to profit from it. Well played, Jeff. Looking forward to seeing it on Amazon.com.
What I would like to see is mandatory labelling. I want Staples and Best Buy to adopt some sort of standard energy impact sticker, like the nutrition labels the FDA requires for food. Ever bought a window air conditioning unit from Sears? All models are displayed with a big yellow sticker from the EPA listing their effeciancy. I bought the one with the highest effeciancy and was comfortable all summer long. What if home electronics were all displayed with something in the same vein? Let's make this into a pissing contest! Let people brag about how little power their gear uses!
I've already seen the film twice, so what really shocked me is how well that worked. The video started almost instantly, and I'm on a modest DSL line shared with a neighbor. Good quality. Some noticable compression artifacts and the sound was just slightly out of sync, but still, very good for what it is.
And to those complaining about free advertising: Let's complain instead about the granularity of SlashCode's RSS. There should be a seperate feed for each section, and some way of getting your customized index as a feed. Then you can easily exclude Sci-Fi stuff you think is so off topic.
But I digress. Everything the studio can do to help Sereinty/Firefly/Whedon Enterprises is good. I hope we see more quality naturalistic science fiction like this and Battlestar Gallactica in the future.
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Just out of curiosity, do you give your users administrative rights? Palm's inabiltity to grasp the simple concept of least required privilege is what drove me away from them.
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Our network is heavily FOSS-biased and run Windows only on the desktops, jumping through hoops to avoid giving Microsoft a cent more than I am legally obligated to. That being said, I won't let my users connect their Palms to our desktops. It's way to hard to get working with non-privilaged users. If they want a PDA, they have to go PocketPC. The software does what you expect it to do. Works regardless of privilage level, syncs with Outlook without clumsy and expensive 3rd party software, and did I mention that it actually works?
Palm, who buys PDAs? Business people. What software do business people use? Windows and Outlook. In most businesses that have a lot of people with PDAs, do they all have Administrative rights? I sure hope not, but that's what you designed your software for. You deserve to loose your market share, you bastards.
I just moved into a new apartment and had been debating getting cable, mostly for [Adult Swim] and Battlestar Gallactica. The latter is usually available via P2P by the next morning, so now I guess Comcast can just kiss my whole asshole.
Leap second doesn't mean adding a 61st second. All modern operating systems include NTP clients, which as far as I can tell, just make the 60th second last twice as long.
This means more people buying Mac Minis, and more free year-old computers for the Linux community to develop, test, and play on. Bring on the competition for the two best alternatives to Microsoft's hegemony.
Why are Logitech and friends not using Bluetooth? It seems the most logical choice--broad compatibility, better utilization of that narrow and crowded frequency range, plus they can at a lower price because so many laptops and desktops already ship with Bluetooth support.
My organization has about 80 Windows 2000 Professional desktops and no plans on upgrading yet. We are very good about getting all the updates as soon as they come out, but still see no reason to switch. I am honestly not trolling here, but what incentives besides "MS won't fix any further bugs" do we have? Is there anything that you found being worth the switch? We have roaming profiles and, up till now, very homogenious installs. The other side of the coin is how well XP behaves in Samba3 NT4-like domain. If it's any flakier than 2K, forget about it.
"Space applications clearly come to mind. If you're sending a robot to one of Jupiter's moons, and the robot breaks, then the mission is over," Dr Lipson told the BBC.
This is great. I wonder if Dr Lipson picked that scenario knowing the images it would conjure up. Even better if you consider that The BBC had a cameo in the film.
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Transpiled doesn't necessarily mean obfuscated. The output of the typescript compiler is almost identical to the input, but with the type annotations removed. It also includes inline sourcemaps so your stack traces continue to be readable. Honestly, it's not a problem.
I met him in person once. Slashdot had a conference/party type thing in Boston in the early 2000s. He showed me around the Slashdot admin panel and let me approve a post on his behalf (just clicking the button). He was cool. Sorry to hear that he's passed.
It sounds like the logs in question were of the form fields being submitted by the user password reset form. Even if you're using SSL (which they are) and the passwords are only stored as a hash (which it sounds like is true at GitHub), there's still a moment where the server has the plaintext password. Some logging frameworks will automatically omit or redact the value of any field like `secret` or `password`. Perhaps in this case they forgot to also redact `password_confirmation` or something.
I've been having exactly the same problem for years. I've gotten porn site confirmations, job interview followups, background checks, even spam from their mortgage broker. How can people be so careless? Truly absurd and frustrating. My internet doppelgänger is an idiot.
How can date manipulation bring down a mission critical asset for 7 hours? Maybe someone can explain how you could accidentally write code that breaks this badly on Leap Day. I've never written anything that stores the data internally as anything other than epoch seconds or epoch milliseconds, precisely because it seems like a can of worms. I understand this is the norm for many Microsoft projects, right?
I agree with you, and I don't.
Yes, he clearly doesn't understand why there are laws in this country. I personally think he set us back 15 years when, deciding whether the standard PC manifest would include a modem vs. a CD-ROM, chose the latter, asserting (and mandating) that the masses should consume information but not produce it. I think that's shameful.
On the other hand, most of his actions under Microsoft will be considered as historical minutiae in a thousand years, whereas the effects of elimination of Malaria or of vastly improved water and sanitation will be felt long after.
Say what you want about Microsoft, but that's no longer the same thing as Bill Gates. I've been a /. user for around a decade and have certainly made my share of bad Bill Gates jokes, but the guy is literally trying to save the world now. He has the money and the connections to do it, and the projects he's working on are incredibly selfless. Let's give him a break. OP was being very immature IMHO.
I started remapping my capslock key to escape over two years ago and never looked back. By my estimation, my pinky will have travelled a bazillion miles less by the time I retire (vim user here) than if I left escape at the top left extent of my keyboard.
My blog has instructions on doing this in Linux, Mac OSX and Windows.
http://blog.jacobelder.com/2008/04/take-back-your-keyboard.html
I am responsible for IT decision making for a similar-sized startup. I have around 15-years of IT-like activities behind me. At my current job, I keep costs low and the organization agile with a few simple rules.
Everyone gets a refurbished MacBook Pro with AppleCare. If it breaks (pretty much never), the user takes it to the Apple Genius Bar. Once the warranties run out, there's an Apple-certified support center near by. We replace computers every 2-3 years and keep a spare around just in case. Everyone gets a $100 USB drive for TimeMachine backups, so a damaged or lost laptop is at worst a few hours of lost productivity. If a user wants to run something other than MacOS X they're welcome to do so on their own.
We have no servers in-house other than a small Linux box which serves as a router. The network is managed with the goal that it be no more complicated than anyone's home network. "Network is down? Reboot the router." Granted, we have a symmetrical 10mbps RF link via TowerStream so it's pretty fast, but still, K.I.S.S.
All email, calendaring, etc are handled by Google Apps. $50 per person per year is ridiculously cheap for what it gets us. Most file server type needs are met by either Google Docs or DropBox.
For phones, we have an old PC running an Asterisk derivative and some VOIP desk phones from craigslist. We also have a GSM booster on the roof, and most people who need phones to work have company-funded iPhones. We're also looking at moving to Google Voice now that it's included in Google Apps.
Seriously reconsider the wisdom in running an authentication server for 20 users. You will spend more time configuring, patching, backing up and fixing that directory server than you would managing a spreadsheet of 20 local admin account passwords.
Run your corporate web server in-house? No effin' way. EC2 or a co-lo, never in house. You cannot cost-effectively match what a decent colocation provider can give you with regard to cooling, power, network capacity, redundancy or room for growth. They's what they do and they almost certainly do it better than you.
Honestly, I think this is genuinely clever. To my knowledge, this is a original idea and the inventor should be able to profit from it. Well played, Jeff. Looking forward to seeing it on Amazon.com.
What's stopping me from getting my own DNA water, and spraying it all over your stuff that I want to steal?
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Open in, fork it, and follow both memes.
Kidding!
And then George W. Bush will watch the Gay Cowboy Movie.
The only fact of this article is that Dvorak knows how to stir up publicity and churn up his own ad revenue.
What I would like to see is mandatory labelling. I want Staples and Best Buy to adopt some sort of standard energy impact sticker, like the nutrition labels the FDA requires for food. Ever bought a window air conditioning unit from Sears? All models are displayed with a big yellow sticker from the EPA listing their effeciancy. I bought the one with the highest effeciancy and was comfortable all summer long. What if home electronics were all displayed with something in the same vein? Let's make this into a pissing contest! Let people brag about how little power their gear uses!
I've already seen the film twice, so what really shocked me is how well that worked. The video started almost instantly, and I'm on a modest DSL line shared with a neighbor. Good quality. Some noticable compression artifacts and the sound was just slightly out of sync, but still, very good for what it is.
And to those complaining about free advertising: Let's complain instead about the granularity of SlashCode's RSS. There should be a seperate feed for each section, and some way of getting your customized index as a feed. Then you can easily exclude Sci-Fi stuff you think is so off topic.
But I digress. Everything the studio can do to help Sereinty/Firefly/Whedon Enterprises is good. I hope we see more quality naturalistic science fiction like this and Battlestar Gallactica in the future.
Just out of curiosity, do you give your users administrative rights? Palm's inabiltity to grasp the simple concept of least required privilege is what drove me away from them.
Our network is heavily FOSS-biased and run Windows only on the desktops, jumping through hoops to avoid giving Microsoft a cent more than I am legally obligated to. That being said, I won't let my users connect their Palms to our desktops. It's way to hard to get working with non-privilaged users. If they want a PDA, they have to go PocketPC. The software does what you expect it to do. Works regardless of privilage level, syncs with Outlook without clumsy and expensive 3rd party software, and did I mention that it actually works?
Palm, who buys PDAs? Business people. What software do business people use? Windows and Outlook. In most businesses that have a lot of people with PDAs, do they all have Administrative rights? I sure hope not, but that's what you designed your software for. You deserve to loose your market share, you bastards.
I just moved into a new apartment and had been debating getting cable, mostly for [Adult Swim] and Battlestar Gallactica. The latter is usually available via P2P by the next morning, so now I guess Comcast can just kiss my whole asshole.
Leap second doesn't mean adding a 61st second. All modern operating systems include NTP clients, which as far as I can tell, just make the 60th second last twice as long.
This means more people buying Mac Minis, and more free year-old computers for the Linux community to develop, test, and play on. Bring on the competition for the two best alternatives to Microsoft's hegemony.
Maybe they think "boxen" is a stupid, stupid word.
Why are Logitech and friends not using Bluetooth? It seems the most logical choice--broad compatibility, better utilization of that narrow and crowded frequency range, plus they can at a lower price because so many laptops and desktops already ship with Bluetooth support.
My organization has about 80 Windows 2000 Professional desktops and no plans on upgrading yet. We are very good about getting all the updates as soon as they come out, but still see no reason to switch. I am honestly not trolling here, but what incentives besides "MS won't fix any further bugs" do we have? Is there anything that you found being worth the switch? We have roaming profiles and, up till now, very homogenious installs. The other side of the coin is how well XP behaves in Samba3 NT4-like domain. If it's any flakier than 2K, forget about it.
"Space applications clearly come to mind. If you're sending a robot to one of Jupiter's moons, and the robot breaks, then the mission is over," Dr Lipson told the BBC.
This is great. I wonder if Dr Lipson picked that scenario knowing the images it would conjure up. Even better if you consider that The BBC had a cameo in the film.