How to guarantee I will not read your email.
Andy Lester
@petdance
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I wrote ack. I do a lot of Perl but boy is Python appealing.
If like to see a URL shortener that uses 3-4-letter words. Slightly longer but it would be easier when dealing with transferring from the printed page. (26+26+10)^5 is about a billion. Assuming 2000 reasonably common 3-4 letter words, three of them would give 8 billion choices.
SaraMGHiring a software engineer in their late 40s:
Pros:
* Understands your stack better than you do after glancing through the repo for five minutes.
* Will rewrite said stack 2x as fast, and half as buggy if you let them.
Cons:
* Gives zero fucks.
* Knows we're not *really* like family here.
* No, seriously, absolutely zero fucks given.
Do not cite the deep magic to me, product manager, I was there when it was written.
The lesson here for developers is that not capping the size of the input field, and not verifying the size constraints on the server side, has led to a successful denial-of-service attack.
Another anti-Shibboleth to exclude recruiters: Equating git and GitHub.
I just got email for a job where part of the application process is to include my “GIT login” for code examples. I have to assume they mean my GitHub username.
Handy bash aliases:
alias up='cd ..'
alias ':e'=vim
alias i4='sed "s/^/ /"'
alias headerdump='curl -D- -o/dev/null -s'
I've long known about ^A and ^E to jump to beginning and end of the line in bash history (and anything else that uses readline) but I just now learned about ^U and ^K to delete to beginning and end of the line.
Baseball fans: Do you watch the All-Star Game or the Home Run Derby? Why or why not?
Margaret EldridgeNow that season one of Silo has ended, time to discuss. Andy Lester @petdance talks about the generator repair and what it teaches us about how *not* to do an upgrade:
https://medium.com/pragmatic-programmers/silo-3724446c0438
Andy's book with PragProg:
https://pragprog.com/titles/algh/land-the-tech-job-you-love/
Dave JacobyIf you're wanting to listen to albums from the 80s, and you see the remix remaster bonus trax edition, remember that there was only like 40 minutes of music on an album, and they chose the good tracks to fit on them. Even decent tracks are a poor fit to the rest of the album, as they decided 40 years ago when they released the thing in the first place.
It's ALL musical shovelware, and even in my favorite bands, I hate it.
Murmur ends with "West of the Fields", people.