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New comment by mikegirouard in "Using Makefile(s) for Go"

mikegirouard — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 13:12:09 +0000

It's really frustrating seeing so many Makefiles that don't _make_ anything.

Make syntax is really odd. I see so many folks go out of their way to deal w/quirks of make when they really just need a shell script. You can see this anti-pattern very quickly when you see `.PHONY` targets for everything.

I think make is useful for some aspects of go. GOPATH is becoming less relevant now, but still helpful when you want to have build-time dependencies in $PATH

    $(GOPATH)/bin/some-dependency:
        go get -u ...

I still use make when building artifacts, especially in CI. But as a default, I almost always try to talk folks out of using make for this sort of stuff.

Twin Peaks killing raises questions about algorithm that helped free suspect

mikegirouard — Sat, 12 Aug 2017 23:56:12 +0000

Article URL: http://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Twin-Peaks-killing-raises-questions-about-11797572.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15000734

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

New comment by mikegirouard in "Introducing the Firefox debugger.html"

mikegirouard — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 19:13:49 +0000

That makes sense. I figured that there was most likely two different run modes (in browser vs stand-alone). Thanks for clarifying.

New comment by mikegirouard in "Introducing the Firefox debugger.html"

mikegirouard — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 17:55:18 +0000

I'm sure it's been considered already, but I'm immediately concerned about the security implications of running a node server when debugging. Perhaps that is only the case when debugging in a stand-alone setup?

Think if you RDP to Firefox or Chrome and forget that the server is running. Does that mean that if I browse to http://your.machine:8000 that I can control your browser?

Git Standup

mikegirouard — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 21:46:05 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/kamranahmedse/git-standup

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11523386

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Stressed, Tired, Rushed: A Portrait of the Modern Family

mikegirouard — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 02:59:04 +0000

Article URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/05/upshot/stressed-tired-rushed-a-portrait-of-the-modern-family.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10527232

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by mikegirouard in "ProtonMail pays $6k ransom, gets taken out by DDoS anyway"

mikegirouard — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 00:52:26 +0000

I'm reminded of a similar article on ransoms and FBI's strange advice to pay up.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10482242

I think this is a good example of why this is bad advice.

My college is forcing me to install their SSL certificate

mikegirouard — Sat, 07 Nov 2015 22:02:05 +0000

Article URL: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/104576/my-college-is-forcing-me-to-install-their-ssl-certificate-how-to-protect-my-pri

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10526403

Points: 26

# Comments: 2

New comment by mikegirouard in "Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002"

mikegirouard — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 18:19:24 +0000

What an excellent post.

This inspired me to dig up an old screenshot from the same time:

https://web.archive.org/web/20020408224844/http://p0w3r.com/...

Most likely this was on a Red Hat desktop I was running (before the enterprise switch). Man, I really miss running WindowMaker…

New comment by mikegirouard in "Re:work – tools and lessons to make work better"

mikegirouard — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 17:52:57 +0000

I came here to note this exactly.

Googling for the word seems to imply that the term is being used in a few different contexts — and it is a real word. I suppose my beef is that Google's re:work and 37S' both deal with the workplace. It's a little too close in context IMO.

New comment by mikegirouard in "Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?"

mikegirouard — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 20:56:21 +0000

I saw your post right after I noticed a broken logo on their booking form. I think this seems to be an interesting lead.

New comment by mikegirouard in "Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?"

mikegirouard — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 20:53:08 +0000

I tried to book an appointment with a bogus email and got a 500.

The logo image was broken and I noticed an interesting path when viewing it's `src` attribute:

    https://s3q1w2e3.s3.amazonaws.com/brands/logos/

I wonder if this is a template theme or perhaps some sort of parent company that has many brands.

New comment by mikegirouard in "Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?"

mikegirouard — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 20:47:42 +0000

This appears to be very plausible.

Googling "Fly Maids, Inc" shows their terms and privacy pages w/last modified dates of 2013 and 2014 respectively.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Fly+Maids,+Inc%22

New comment by mikegirouard in "Why you might want to choose Ceylon"

mikegirouard — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 13:53:30 +0000

There is also Vim support (albeit a work in progress)

https://github.com/chochos/ceylon-vim

New comment by mikegirouard in "ADP Drops Lawsuit Against Human Resources Startup Zenefits"

mikegirouard — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 01:00:47 +0000

There was a comment in the post from Scott Yates I found to be insightful. Apparently he's a customer of both ADP and Zenefits and felt the effects first hand.

https://www.blogmutt.com/blog/adp-and-zenefits-end-their-sil...

I can't add more to the conversation, but I found it added another (more interesting) angle to the situation.

New comment by mikegirouard in "Stefan Esser's laptop was apparently tampered with in a hotel"

mikegirouard — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 22:40:35 +0000

You might want to take a look at the rest of his timeline. Apparently they tampered with the hard drive.

https://twitter.com/i0n1c/status/658761878861139968

Stefan Esser's laptop was apparently tampered with in a hotel

mikegirouard — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 22:07:54 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/i0n1c/status/658751231154913280

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10454831

Points: 12

# Comments: 4

New Tricks for Browser Fingerprinting [pdf]

mikegirouard — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 00:12:32 +0000

Article URL: https://zyan.scripts.mit.edu/presentations/toorcon2015.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10449010

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mikegirouard in "Khan Academy's React style guide"

mikegirouard — Wed, 21 Oct 2015 17:10:14 +0000

I thought so too. I guess this is a good time to remind ourselves that we are not our work and it's best not to be too attached to the things we create.

It's worth noting however that the heading says to minimize jQuery and more specifically jQuery plugins. My guess is that jQuery is fine as long as it's serving a low-level function (XHR, etc).

New comment by mikegirouard in "Arachne: a self-contained graphical web browser for DOS and Linux"

mikegirouard — Wed, 21 Oct 2015 05:56:05 +0000

It's awesome to see this posted. It brings back a lot of fond memories.

I came across Arachne about 15 years ago when I was exploring programming and writing graphical shells on top of DOS. As foreigner points out in this thread, it's entire UI is HTML. This blew my mind and eventually led me into the world of web development.