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Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response

dc2 — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 18:02:57 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_sensory_meridian_response

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18461611

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by dc2 in "Facts and charts that show the world is getting better"

dc2 — Sun, 21 Oct 2018 18:45:20 +0000

This is a breath of fresh air.

New comment by dc2 in "How Twitter poisoned politics"

dc2 — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 17:29:12 +0000

Twitter is like trying to watch a football game where all 40,000 members of the audience have a microphone and each think they should be the announcer.

You turn the TV volume off, but members of the media have been perusing the seats for a interesting cherry-picked "announcer". Finding one, they parrot it to the rest of the world and that guy's opinion shows up on your phone anyway.

New comment by dc2 in "I Downloaded the Information That Facebook Has on Me"

dc2 — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 19:49:59 +0000

It's interesting to note that the data Google stored was more alarming, though was taken up at the bottom of the article and with less detail. It also didn't make the headline. This is because bashing Facebook gets more views currently. This is a good example of how media bias can distort opinion, while maintaining that all data stated is accurate.

In other words, it's not enough that media is accurate. Bias is just as important.

New comment by dc2 in "Ask HN: Why are law documents (GDPR) so difficult to understand?"

dc2 — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 19:27:58 +0000

See reply to Tomte on that.

New comment by dc2 in "Ask HN: Why are law documents (GDPR) so difficult to understand?"

dc2 — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 19:25:41 +0000

Well I'm talking about exactly that - social pressure.

Just because popular opinion (aka the vocal social media / news / social media echo chamber) approves of something, it doesn't mean it is correct.

Governments and courts have definite pressure to legalize marijuana, for example. That pressure is based on popular public opinion. Therefore approving it gives that legal body or state acceptance / goodwill. This is an incentive that goes quite far.

It can also be popular to smash a company.

New comment by dc2 in "Ask HN: Why are law documents (GDPR) so difficult to understand?"

dc2 — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 16:49:26 +0000

I do understand this.

I am just wondering what happens when there is a vested interest in attacking or suppressing the company involved.

For example, if a company becomes unpopular on social media and by "public opinion" (such as Facebook right now), a court can feel pressured into a slanted decision. Given that so much is now based on opinion, what defense does the company have?

It seems that if someone had the intention to nail a company on GDPR as a PR attack, regardless of the amount of effort the company put in, they almost certainly could.

(I don't work for Facebook)

New comment by dc2 in "After rising for 100 years, electricity demand is flat"

dc2 — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 17:23:32 +0000

It's disheartening that this article is painted as a disaster. This is fantastic news!

New comment by dc2 in "The diversity of SQL formatting standards"

dc2 — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 18:08:18 +0000

> I am of the opinion that so long as you can read the source code easily, the formatting is secondary.

I have never heard this opinion applied to any other language.

New comment by dc2 in "[dead]"

dc2 — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 15:05:51 +0000

I've been developing for 10 years. I have never had a team, so I have had to build each stack from scratch, myself, including the research and decision making of each tool to use in the stack.

I've put together about 4 generations of systems in this time, each with entirely fresh stacks. The first was pre-build-tools, so I had to write my own module loaders and bundlers from scratch.

The latest web stack uses containerized deployment in a micro service architecture, sql, nosql, rest, graphql, a jwt-based authentication gateway and a modern front end stack.

Do I qualify as a full stack dev?

New comment by dc2 in "Mailit: A Tiny Drop-In REST API to Send Emails"

dc2 — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 16:06:02 +0000

Author here. There seems to be a lot of discussion over use cases. Here's the use case I built it for:

All traffic for my (large) application hits a load balanced API gateway. Its role is to authenticate and forward requests to one of many services.

The gateway is the only point of exposure to internal services. After something has cleared the gateway on a route with roles approved for that user, there is little worry about security. Certificates between servers and containerized deployments such as Kubernetes help on this as well.

I'm not going to write email-sending logic in my gateway. It just handles AAA and then proxies the request.

By forwarding to microservices instead of a monolith, I can scale workload better and have less risk of a mail bug taking down other services.

New comment by dc2 in "Addict: An Active Directory REST API"

dc2 — Sat, 29 Jul 2017 16:24:04 +0000

Well that's good. I built it to fill my niche and hoping others would find use for it as well.

New comment by dc2 in "Addict: A Full REST API for Active Directory in 30 Seconds"

dc2 — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 04:32:50 +0000

Well, thanks for that. I've actually had to deal with it for quite a while, believe it or not. And the current design is working out for my use. I do hope it does help others.

New comment by dc2 in "Addict: A Full REST API for Active Directory in 30 Seconds"

dc2 — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 04:23:31 +0000

Fair enough. I updated the readme for now, and will work on those points!

New comment by dc2 in "Addict: A Full REST API for Active Directory in 30 Seconds"

dc2 — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 04:07:01 +0000

> Also, what is ":user" - how do you define the way an account is found in the tree?

That checks sAMAccountName, which is unique. Searches that can return multiple results will do so.

> Why are their dedicated endpoints for password, expiry, enable/disable/unlock. These are all just attributes on the user object.

It wouldn't be very user friendly to require a PATCH so a user can change a password. All of these operations are quite granular. You aren't going to enable an account and change a password at the same time very often.

The overriding drive in building this was ease of use, because that bugs me with AD. I'm definitely open to suggestions, though :)

Addict: A Full REST API for Active Directory in 30 Seconds

dc2 — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 03:41:19 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/dthree/addict/#

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14871784

Points: 2

# Comments: 6

New comment by dc2 in "Slack's 404 page"

dc2 — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 23:28:52 +0000

This is amazing. Slack was developed by accident - it was an internal tool for the company. Maybe this 404 should now become their mainline.

New comment by dc2 in "Show HN: Addict – a full AD REST API in 30 seconds (seriously)"

dc2 — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 19:12:20 +0000

Hi HN. I'm unfortunately stuck with Active Directory, and I wanted to make the chore as easy as possible for people. Criticism / suggestions welcome!

Show HN: Addict – a full AD REST API in 30 seconds (seriously)

dc2 — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 19:10:18 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/dthree/addict

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14868401

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

Addict: Full AD/LDAP REST API in 2 Minutes

dc2 — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 08:11:16 +0000

Article URL: Https://github.com/dthree/addict/##

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14863490

Points: 1

# Comments: 0