Hacker News: rhpistole

New comment by rhpistole in "Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10"

rhpistole — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 12:11:11 +0000

This was true in previous versions, but with the Fall Creators Update you can mount mapped network drives inside of Linux:

  sudo mount -t drvfs z: /mnt/z

New comment by rhpistole in "Cutting your salary by 40%"

rhpistole — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 13:20:25 +0000

If the underlying hypothesis that overworked developers are bad developers is true (and I believe it is), then it should be a competitive advantage to not overwork your developers.

New comment by rhpistole in "Cutting your salary by 40%"

rhpistole — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 13:14:38 +0000

Yeah, except what this actually means is, "You don't have any interests outside of work and you do not have kids that may take you away from work and you don't have a SO/spouse to tell you that you're being taken advantage of."

It's not really about your interests, it's about you being naive.

New comment by rhpistole in "Java Reflection, 1000x Faster"

rhpistole — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 00:59:41 +0000

That's the kind of solution I've used before when performing reflection in a tight loop. The important thing there is to cache the result of the compiled expression or the dynamic IL code because the compile time/emit is slower than a single use of reflection.

New comment by rhpistole in "iPhone X"

rhpistole — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 19:23:07 +0000

Since it seems so much less invasive, I'd be worried the the arguments that you shouldn't need a warrant to do it will seem much more persuasive.

New comment by rhpistole in "iPhone X"

rhpistole — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 19:07:12 +0000

It seems like it'd be a lot easier to compel someone to unlock a phone using FaceID than TouchID and that scares me.

New comment by rhpistole in "GitHub's post-CSP journey"

rhpistole — Fri, 20 Jan 2017 16:25:15 +0000

You can use it to identify unsophisticated attacks, sure.

However, if someone has the ability to make malicious HTTP requests on my behalf using my browser can you really be sure that they don't have the ability to make malicious HTTP requests with altered headers through a malicious extension or a browser specific exploit or some other vector?

You still have to do all the other attack mitigation strategies in addition to checking the Origin header, and I'm not sure the extra complexity buys you anything in the long-term.

New comment by rhpistole in "Check-in before code review is an antipattern"

rhpistole — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 01:24:42 +0000

Furthermore it's mostly a rant against subversion rather than going making any kind of argument about his assertions.

Plus anybody who advocates the use of git rebase --interactive as a sensible response to code review feedback is clearly insane.

New comment by rhpistole in "China Is Making Domain Name History"

rhpistole — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 17:16:46 +0000

My 3 letter .org turned 17 years old last week.

Not that I'm interested in selling, but nobody's ever tried to buy it from me for more than the registration fees. I feel left out.

New comment by rhpistole in "How I became a morning person"

rhpistole — Sat, 12 Dec 2015 23:22:58 +0000

Give up coffee, work out regularly, go to bed at the same time every night, get tested for sleep apnea.

Changed my life.

New comment by rhpistole in "Fixing a Disk Space Alert at 3 AM"

rhpistole — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 14:14:49 +0000

I cannot imagine being in this situation and not either looking for queries to kill in mysql or restarting the daemon.

And as others have mentioned, having an open file descriptor to a deleted temp file is a classic unix pattern, truncating them is a horrific idea.

New comment by rhpistole in "Alexa Skills Kit Developer Preview"

rhpistole — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 16:53:54 +0000

It's not at all clear to me how they're namespacing the invocation names.

Do they need to be unique across all skills?

Will there be a land-rush on all the good two and three work invocation names?

Do I manually select which skills will be enabled for my Echo, and only those invocation names will be accepted? What about conflicts?

New comment by rhpistole in "What is Flask-Admin?"

rhpistole — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 16:17:26 +0000

Maybe lead with that it is a CRUD package for the Python framework Flask rather than expecting readers to be familiar with the Python ecosystem enough to be aware of what it is?

New comment by rhpistole in "The Evidence Points to a Better Way to Fight Insomnia"

rhpistole — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 12:50:04 +0000

I spent two weeks in the hospital from my chronic insomnia once, anybody who tells me I just need to relax or stop reading in bed is about as helpful as someone who tells somebody with chronic depression to cheer up.

Not everything is in your head, and no amount of positive thinking will change that.

New comment by rhpistole in "When a+b+c does not equal c+b+a"

rhpistole — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 13:38:01 +0000

Operator overloading always looks like a clean solution, but complexity finds a way to leak through.

Avoid it, unless you're really overloading things that always behave.

New comment by rhpistole in "My Title IX Inquisition"

rhpistole — Sat, 30 May 2015 04:47:11 +0000

I would go so far as to say that if you're in a dispute with anyone and they tell you you're not allowed to have a lawyer present, you damn well better have a lawyer present.