Well usually new engineers will work on existing bugs so could be pretty quick - a week or two.

I agree the corporations hate risk, but everything they do creates massive amounts of it. I've worked at small companies that were very well-run, and it's actually boring compared to where I'm at now. To some extent I thrive on the chaos.

Do I have some special version of chrome that randomly removes every 500th word, or does no one on blogs or news sites run their articles by proofreaders anymore?

Typos are everywhere

It takes five minutes to put an extra set of eyes on an article!

I blame the selfie-generation.

Spelling mistakes and bad grammar must be the new must have when reporting on anything to the public. If I go onto google news and open anything that is under the "Top Stories" I feel like i'm viewing high school reports that were completed the morning it was due.

Who knows if spotting a mistake, gives satisfaction to any of the readers and lures them back. Luckily HackerNews covers pretty much everything that I want to spend my time reading.

A story off hacker news is what bugged me enough to post about it!

Which I can sort of forgive, even though it was from like a CEO of a startup or something, and thus probably a high school dropout.

But even on purportedly reputable news sites, nearly every story has glaring misspellings or typos or words that completely missing.

When I had an article on the front page of HN, I was sent several emails pointing out all of my typos. Many were from England who weren't happy with my American spelling. I appreciated it and fixed everything quickly.

The thing is if you read very quickly you aren't really reading every word.

I usually know there was a typo/mistake in a sentence, but try not to stop and read it closely to see the exact error. If writing flows well and is thus easier to read quickly, I'll forgive it.

Sadly, I lack that mental ability to differentiate between important words and background noise. It's why I don't read terribly quickly. Too much of a nihilist egalitarian to believe some words can possibly be more valuable than others.

Speaking of reading, I remember when this was announced, but haven't followed it since.

Anyone using it? http://www.spritzinc.com/

i can't imagine trying to read technical or educational material that quickly

I used one of the clones way back when it was first announced and liked it, but it generally wasn't that much faster than my normal reading speed.

I tried a month or so ago to use spritz, but it seemed inferior to the clone I had used. The light red isn't vibrant enough to hold the eye (clone used bright orange) and it seemed like the amount of time words were displayed wasn't good (long words stay too long).

Oh and obviously it sucks for anything with code snippets or comment threads.

Has anyone ever used Facebook/Twitter to authenticate users? I'm trying to do that right now, and I'm just wondering what the standard usage is. It's easy enough to set up the various SDKs to authenticate on a mobile app, but I'm not sure what to do on my own server. My thought is to possibly pass the fb/twitter auth token immediately after login, get a session key after validating that token on my server, then use the session key for all subsequent requests. Or, I can validate the auth token on every single request, forcing the user to log out if facebook or twitter ever decides that it's invalid. The downside is that requires a call to facebook or twitter every single request instead of simply matching the session key to one in my own database. Don't think that would be a huge issue, but wondering what's best practice.

Anecdotally, I just revoked Tinder's permissions on Facebook, then tried to send a message to someone, and it went through, so it doesn't look like they check for permission on every request. Closing the app and reopening it did trigger another request for permission

what we do is the first thing you described. user gives the client permission on the mobile device, being redirected to fb app if installed or fb on safari/browser otherwise to say "ok, grant access," then the auth token is given to your app, your app sends the auth token to your own server, which verifies it again (to prevent possible client tampering), and at that point we give the user one of our own session tokens, and the user is now "logged in" on our own system, the same way an email/pw user would be.

I finally saw a software demo for an ERP and channels management tool that I liked today. It was insanely powerful, fast, and infinitely customizable. It was built on a .Net stack, and surprise of surprises, it has a fully open API. You could create your own tables, views, and many other things. Cost a good buck to say the least.

But then I started thinking about this a bit. There is no one I work with that would be able to use the thing correctly. It was easy to pick on the warehouse staff even though the scan gun interface wasn't impossible, but I started thinking about all of my other coworkers. The system requires a ton of setup, along with a decent knowledge of SQL & processing languages to get moving. With the ability to create reports and UI with custom queries... well, it sort of leaves everyone in the company in the dust. It says a lot that I was the only one who understood what was going on. Everyone else was kind of lost. My assistant, who I'd imagine would be most able to deal with this system, told me he only understood 75% of what was going on.

I could totally see it being a joy to use, but I don't see it ever being used very well by a non-tech. I'd imagine there is a strong abstraction vision here. There would be one or two people who would run the deep end and then everyone else would only touch the top of the system. I'm not sure if the company I work for is the type to do this and to be honest, I'm not sure if they understood they may be buying into this.

Why not post the name of the tool?

I prefer not to out my bosses' names.

I recently set up an SSO server where I work. Like gaming_mouse, took the first approach you mention. What framework are you working in? On the offchance it's .NET, I can recommend some other stuff.

I've started using vagrant more for development since I'm working on a bunch of different things that don't play well together. But man, its so much slower working in a VM. I'm seriously thinking of going back to just using two separate computers.

Is this just the nature of the beast, or is it probably something in our setup?

had a laptop that ran ubuntu about as well as a vm did on a desktop
/shrug

i don't know, but parellels on my 2013 8G MBP sucks, but is just good enough to be useable.

the more serious answer is that I looked for reviews of the company and didn't find any. I don't want the only review to be mine on a poker site. They list some pretty large clients on their website fwiw.

In my limited experience, VMs are all pretty much sucky and slow