There are some really good very sublime digs on the whole scene.

There is also a line of attitude, aloofness, constant "I don't play games, lol," that gets thicker the more towards L.A. you go. Sorry, but the girls on L.A. are... what kind of town is it that everyone complains about how hard it is to find decent people to date when the average girl is like an 8?

I was saying that the girls are more chilled and easier to talk to in SF, which I found surprising because there is a dearth of them and I read too much HN.

Isn't it funny how people in the Bay hate Silicon Valley? They are like "oh, no one acts like that here!" I think they capture the feeling you get as a visitor very well. Even the opening scene with Kid Rock is exactly how it feels at a concert. I don't know how I'd think if I lived there.

I love SF. Silicon Valley not so much. So yeah we can agree on that.

Wow, I was not aware of this. TJ Holowaychuk, the creator of Express and a ton of other utilities - left node behind for Go about a year ago: https://medium.com/@tjholowaychuk/fa...s-4ba9e7f3e52b

Been going through my Google Summer of Code project and I am learning lots in iOS development. Got audio voip calls to work with unit tests covering more than 70+% of the code . So this is going a lot better than I expected.

Consequently, I just updated my resume, tempted to throw out a few feelers out there to see what bites even though I am currently in school. Quitting school is tempting, since going for another 2 years for a 2nd bachelors in CS seems so far away.

Though I probably should go through the cracking the coding interview book first.

"I got three nannies suing me right now. One of them for no reason."

"Effeminate K.D. Lang"!!!!

Yeah AFAIK they also have a web version now. I usually do my taxes early December (normally you should have them done before May though) and will check then.
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What's the radio streaming counterpart to twitchtv/youtube? I plan on doing a biweekly ~2h live radiocast.
If it's easy to monetize that would be a plus but I really doubt it's relevant :P
I've found Mixlr but would prefer something that works on Linux.

As someone one year into a two year program, this scares me and makes me feel like I'm way behind where I should be.

On the plus side, my crotchety Java teacher is actually proving to be something of a badass when it comes to programming languages. He teaches us useful, relevant stuff, how things work in the real world, and isn't afraid to challenge us.

He also gets mad at students who haven't prepared or out any effort in at all, which is fine because we can lose almost half a class trying to explain the book (that they didn't read) to some dumbass in class.

Leaving c++ for Java was definitely the right call. Understand the language and the fundamentals way better now. Two months of one intro class put me much further than a year of cpp classes combined.

I would try not to worry about it. There will always be people like that. I'm 14 or 15 years into professional development so I see it a lot more with younger people these days even though I don't feel old or behind any other time.

Good to hear you got a good prof and have found a language you like. I hate Java myself though and have kind of purposely gone out of my way to avoid learning it up until this year when I have had to do some android stuff.

Make sure you get the 2015 version of the book.

Yes I think so.

As an aside, I am seeing not that many places that are requiring C++ expertise especially C++ 11 expertise and most definitely not C++ 11 concurrency model expertise. I see lots of positions indicating C/C++ or C/C++/Java but my experience has been that these places aren't really requiring a lot of C++ expertise. Game development and trading seem to be two areas that do require it.

I think there is a great potential for utilizing the C++ 11 concurrency model for problem domains that require multithreaded solutions. I will be seeing if that is true in the coming months.

how did that earn me a sad face?!?

Ah shoot I have the previous edition in PDF. Looked over the 6th edition (2015) and it looks like it has more stuff on Big-O and more material. Definitely need to get that instead. Thanks

What is in the new one? I already have the older one

Actually, looking over the amazon reviews for the 6th edition, it doesn't seem that necessary to get over the 5th edition. Might just stick with the 5th edition for now.

Reviews are basically, if you have the 5th edition, it's not worth it to get the 6th (2015).

Not sure why the latest version of the book is a must. A lot of the concepts are very general and have not changed much over the past few years.

However the book is relatively cheap and I suppose any small edge you can get to help your chance when applying for jobs that pay as much as they do is a worthwhile investment.

I highly recommend buying this book and working through it. I believe buying that book is my best ROI purchase I've ever made by far.

I bought it, just need to get to the whole actually reading it thing

I'm super-sensitive...?

I was just looking for this article I read a few weeks back, but I can't find it. The title was something along the lines of "Stupid SV advice: start a start up."

It said something like "did your dad die, lose your job, have to put your dog to sleep, get a divorce. Start a startup!"

I moved out of state? Clearly, I should start a startup.

It brings me back to when I first moved to L.A. I was in an interview with someone and he looked at me and said: "I'll be upfront with you: I won't hire you."

Why?

"Because you are too smart, too determined, and too worldly. You just aren't the kind of guy that I, or anyone for that matter, will ever hire for anything. Go start your own business, that is where you belong."

I know that this was supposed to be well-intended advice, from a business owner to someone who he felt was more than "just some employee," but it really hurt my feelings. I don't want to be a business owner, a startup founder, or anything great.

I really just enough money to pay rent for a room, get an ice-skating pass, and take a greyhound to visit Neptune, West Virginia. Why? Because I already been to Jupiter, Florida.

/r/thatHappened

anyone have port forwarding experience / xp with a wd mycloud?

got a rasp pi, set it up at home, got port 20 forwarded and confirmed I could ssh into it via the public-facing ip address, set up port 80 and lamp server-ed the heck out of it, and went to test that and got... the web interface for my wd mycloud.

Tried it from my phone, not connected to my network. Same thing. Dafuq? This can't possibly be a good thing, right?

Thoughts on how to fix it so I can access my index.html instead of this?

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disabled cloud access on the device, so i can't access it via external IP (even with the phone app, boo), but the IP alone doesn't redirect to index.html. I can manually type it in i guess, but booooo-urns to that too

Shot in the dark but has anyone implemented an auth scheme using passport-local-mongoose and have figured out how to change a password when its hashed and salted? =/ The googles fails me.

Low Key, not entirely sure what you are trying to describe, but I'll try:

If you want to see index.html, you will have to do something like this: 000.000/path/to/index.html where 000.000 is an IP address (I know it's not a valid IP).

You will also have to make sure that index.hml is set to chmod o+x to be publicly readable, so that you can view it when you point your URL to it.

If you want index.html to be visible when you are at 000.000, you have to set up two variables in httpd.conf: base_path ; DocumentRoot, which will be paths, from root, to wherever you put index.html.

Does that sound like it could be your problem?

Nope but looking at their github, they have a setPassword in lib that you could use.
I personally would just ask user to supply password when logged in, with new password. Compare password with salted password to see if match and then hash new password with putting it in password collection in db.

I'm guessing this would be for accounts not connected to social media logins.

Btw they are using crypto to hash password, I use bcrypt to hash my password and it has a nice compareSync that takes non hashed password string to compare with hashed password. I think you should rip out the crypto code they use and replace it with bcrypt because its better for user passwords.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/bcryptjs

Yeah the setPassword method... saves the password in plain text. So um that can't be right. The "point" of the passport-local-mongoose package is it abstracts all of the bcrypt stuff away from the dev i.e. making a new user is as simple and safe as just calling one registration method and bang you have a user with a hashed and salted password. I'm hoping there's a simple example of updating a password somewhere but haven't had much luck.

But hey you don't need to be able to change a password for an MVP anyways right? /s