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Steve Jobs did not treat his pancreatic cancer when he was first diagnosed and it was treatable

That's his choice, it's _his_ cancer after all

I don't think that excuses all of the horrible things he did as a human

I think this is a bit of a leap. He's done some bad things sure, but the only ones you mentioned were...working on a yacht, using alternative medicine and getting a liver transplant

I have one of these too, and I honestly can't fault it. Runs Arch + i3 and they're very cheap in Australia since the education department handed them out in schools.

Once things get too sluggish for me I'll see what hardware hacks I can do to bring it back (I also wouldn't mind swapping the charging port to USB-C), but until then it works well for my needs.

I always found these incredibly rude, in my experience it's typically senior management, and specifically those who like to really make you feel like a nameless "human resource"

Though I haven't seen it in recent years with (better) workplace messaging platform, like Slack

418 I’m a teapot 2 years ago

iiNet was probably the best job I've ever had, certainly the place where I learnt the most, and had the most fun.

The coffeecam was cute, acb - the one primarily responsible for the coffeecam - also had American candies for sale around it (at least when I worked there at Hay Street)

Compare and contrast this with the Go Standards project-layout repo example[1] - which ironically is not a standard at all.

Personally I prefer a bit more rigidity in how the project is structured (/pkg/, /pkg/internal/, /cmd/) since it is more opinionated and requires less thinking. Typically my repos won't just have a Go backend but also a frontend too, and supporting assets, as well as documentation (designs, decisions, etc.)

[1] https://github.com/golang-standards/project-layout

(n)vim would work a real treat on a pi. Building locally might be tricky depending on the codebase, but it's not entirely unreasonable to expect to have a full fledged IDE on a pi (except Android development, lol)

This is neat, but I think it's better to use your work provided device(s)/laptop for work, and your personal devices for personal things.

Obviously check your contract, and IANAL but people should be cognizant of the fact that your employer _may_ be able to retain copyright on personal projects if you use a work device (then again some contracts may even try to claim that they retain copyright for work done in personal time on personal devices)

I think the _real_ takeaway here should be that your status page should be simple, with as little dependencies as possible, ideally none.

IMHO it should be a static page using Hugo, Jekyll or roll your own if you really have to.

None of this precludes you from using the same domain, though you'd want to use a subdomain, for instance status.product.com

you don't need to know the IP address , you can just dump the ARP cache and look for the MAC address you need.

on Linux:

  $ arp -n | grep "MAC_ADDRESS_HERE"
  192.168.86.23            ether   MAC_ADDRESS_HERE   C   wlp4s0
if it's in the ARP cache it's "home" (or rather was, within the last 60 seconds, or gc_stale_time)
Amazon Ion 6 years ago

Sure, PHP is against internal policy.

But if you take the initiative to open source a client library in PHP and it gets the attention of AWS it absolutely could result in an interview.

If you are interviewing and you whiteboard your solution in PHP they won't hold it against you. The language is less important than the concepts. Granted, if the only language you know is PHP that could be a risk in your career. I think that holds true for any developer, though.

Source: Used to work and interview at AWS

So maybe you meant something other than code size here, but using words like "minimal" and "subset" feel a bit (unintentionally, probably) misleading to me.

I understood it as as a subset of features. It doesn't seem to me that the author is trying to play code golf with their codebase, or optimize for binary size (and why would you in 2019, storage is cheap)

Do they have an email address for security incidents? What about responsible disclosure documentation? Could be a good indicator on whether they value the security report or not.

I'd personally disclose it to them in the interest of protecting everyone else that uses their platform. You have the power and ability to stop what sounds like a pretty catastrophic leak.

IANAL but you're intentions are clearly in the right place, they'd be uproar if they tried to prosecute you...having said that they might still try