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My first development gig in high school was at the NHMFL working with the photo microscopy guys on various projects. It was a great experience that got my development career rolling. This was the mid/late 90's. We went from developing hyper card stacks to OSHA training educational tools and testing in HTML/perl. Good times.
I just shut down a VB6 app that had been running since 1998 at the company I work for last month. The leadership team finally decided they didn't want to sell that particular feature anymore. We still have a handful of apps from around that time period that do various small tasks. One day it will be a priority to get rid of them.
Authorize.Net is what we've used for online payments and our internal subscription processing for over a decade. API is easy to use. Never really had any downtime. Rates are competitive. No one has come along and given us much of a reason to change.
At this point if anyone in your family (including cousins) submit dna to one of those sites, they can use it to track it back to you with basic sleuthing skills. They've solved a handful of cold cases this way.
I am tired of people calling me a "victim" of identity theft. I'm not the victim. The companies and government agencies that allowed themselves to be defrauded by someone posing as me are the victims. If you didn't do your due diligence in properly verifying the identity of the person you handed out cash, goods or services too it's on you. That being said, the entire system is broken. I've had 5 cellphones taken out in my name, I've had multiple credit cards opened using my social security number. I've been interviewed by a special agent with the State Department because someone tried to get a passport using my data. I'm sick of dealing with other peoples fraud problems. Fix it already!
TIL that eggdrop is still being developed / maintained.. I had a few bots running around EFNet and Undernet in ~96. Hadn't heard this reference in years.
I am using PhantomJS for a similar project running on AWS Lambda - running into all sorts of rendering bugs / crashes. Wanted to make the switch to puppeteer, but as of now it requires a higher version of NodeJS than what Lambda supports. Was in the process of looking at Docker containers for my service, anyone have any thoughts on Heroku vs Docker?
Friendly reminder that building a wall isn't going to keep blue collar jobs around. Automation is going to kill them much quicker than immigrants will.
I've been using MotionEyeOS for several months now. I setup a a couple of Pi3's with some cheap Logitech USB webcams. Works great from inside the house - I used velcro to tape the cameras pointing out from various windows around the house and in the garage.
https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos
I am looking for something that will work outside and has night vision though.
You can usually easily figure out someones connect the dots password simply by looking at the smudge marks on the screen.