slashdot is piiiiiiissed about javascript

http://it.slashdot.org/story/15/06/0...ntry-level-job

I looked for something like this a couple of years ago for a poker training site without any luck.

I ended up using AWS/CloudFront with signed temporary URLs with a policy where the IP of the current user could access the requested file for x minutes.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonClo...teContent.html

Yea, just keep monitoring temp for a bit, if it stays cool after 2 weeks you should be fine.

Do you know offhand if you can do it without CloudFront? I'd be ok with using S3 directly if it's possible. I've only ever used S3 in a public way.

You can. It's basically the same but I think you can use your aws secret access key instead of openssl/private key to sign the request making it a little bit easier.

I agree that OO Javascript can get pretty wonky. But if you primarily use if for asynchronous middleware, promises, closures, etc. as in node - it's a dream. It's so easy for me to make site-wide refactors and design a flexible framework around.

Yeah we use the signed temporary URLs for a bunch of stuff. Pretty easy.

Suzzer,

This goes a little off the rails at the end but it's the best concrete piece I could find.

http://thinkprogress.org/culture/201...women-in-tech/

I also recall reading some things around the time of that article from people who had interviewed there and felt uncomfortable about the culture there, but those articles are harder to find

What's so bad about the markup in code? You don't have to use it (can go pure JS) but I think it makes perfect sense from an abstraction point of view. Think in components, keep component stuff bundled.

I disagree. I think I mentioned it ITT before...I talked to a couple of MS employees a bit back (those involved in MS-OS) and pretty much the universal take was "we could have open sourced a bunch of stuff but Balmer is very much against it". I think he's pretty old school MS and the discussions seemed pretty genuinely frustrated. I pretty much got the sense "if Balmer is gone you'll see a bunch of stuff open sourced" and that was in the 2005-2008 timeframe.

It matters a lot. Core technology like languages (and to a lesser degree tools) being free is very important to pretty much every programmer I know. Open sourcing .net was pretty great. They have very smart language people. Pretty sure everything they do will be open moving forward.

Anyone else a longtime /. reader that has found a better tech news site replacement? The average article comments make it seem like the worst website ever since DICE bought them, but it does seem to be getting pretty click-batey and lacking in editorial oversight, and the recent Sourceforge thing has me looking around. SoylentNews seems ok, but a bit lacking in content.

Would it make sense to use some type of non-temp signed URL for this? I plan to have around 6 hours of video broken up into a few videos. People make 1 payment, then they can watch the vids.

They wouldn't be timed, but I'd like to somehow restrict it based on something so they can't just share the stream URL directly. I know some people will pirate the videos and I'm cool with that, but I'd like to deter it as much as possible without getting into DRM non-sense.

Oh yeah I remember all this. I just forgot it was Tinder.

Well they haven't gotten back to me anyway. Going back and looking at the linkedin email - it was kinda generic and spammy. Still weird they wouldn't reply. The chick who sent it is the hottest recruiter I've ever seen.

http://www.gotinder.com/tinder-one-sheet.pdf





Why yes, yes I would like to have a little chat with you about the exciting career opportunities you have at Tinder. Something tells me she may be getting some of that founder special attention.

She's definitely cute. It seems like that's almost a prerequisite for being a female recruiter

Yeah you expect cute. But that's like staring at the sun cute.

Yeah as I mentioned earlier in the thread VS 2013 Community Edition is VS 2013 Professional and it is free basically. The license is such that there are some restrictions on what an enterprise can use to develop software that they sell but on individuals none. Microsoft has announced that VS 2015 will have a similar version. Uninstall all your VS express versions and just run the community version. However, regarding C++ 11, I think it is fair to say that GNU does a better job of implementing the standard but there are a few things with Unicode that VS does better. I wrote a command line app that runs on Linux and Windows. Some of the workarounds to get VS to compile the app were a PIA.

https://news.ycombinator.com/news

There was also a metareader that combines this and reddit and some other source that looked pretty good but I can't remember it.

It probably depends on how you plan to distribute the links. If you're just going to email them, a temp url wouldn't work very well. If you're going to embed your videos in a player on a website, the urls get regenerated each time the page loads.

Require a user/pass to access the page and put in some simple mechanism to detect account sharing. I think that's about the best you can do without getting into DRM.

90% of the recruiting industry is hiring hot girls right out of college and paying them 35k to make 40-60 phone calls and blast 200 emails a day.

I'm going to replace recruiters with algorithms once I sell this company I'm at now.

Then I will take over the world.

Who needs hawt wimminz when you have algorithms and shutterstock?

Lol@35k out of college
[x] not worth it

i think i made $37k in my first job out of college. boss called me in after 4 months to tell me that i was getting a raise to $40k, and it just happened to be the day that i received an offer from another company. i would go back and relive that day.

Is there any popular browser extension that manages Sessions.

I typically have 10 individual safari windows open at all times; each holding on average 10 tabs and I hate turning off computer.
Since when I login, I have to restore previous session and bam get hit with network burst of reloads. If I forget to reopen or something clears the session history I'm screwed.

Dunno about safari, but chrome and Firefox have tab managers. Just set up The Great Suspender on chrome and it works really well. All tabs suspended until they are the focus, which they then auto-reload. To suspended if not viewed for 5-120 minutes

14.04 is the latest long term support version. If you're on that it won't (auto)upgrade to a higher releadse unless there's a new LTS.
The x.04 releases where x%2==0 are the long term support releases (LTS) that are fully supported for 5 years.

Here's how to upgrade from 14.04->14.10 (it's recommended that you do the upgrades step by step so to 14.10 first, then to 15.04 then 15.10 if you want to)
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UtopicUpgrades

This post feels like it is from 2005.