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há 2 horasdiscuss

Location: Melbourne, Australia Remote: Yes. Willing to relocate: Maybe, depends on opportunity Technologies: Typescript, C#, Terraform/AWS, Bicep/Azure, Docker, SQL and heaps of DX.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/centur/ Email: [email protected]

Experienced engineer\infra-devops\team lead with 20 years of working in small teams and startups. Cover many bases in a small team. Looking for product\platform-related work (not consultancy-style projects) with long term ownership. Tend to prefer deep IC contributions with some team leading responsibilities - prefer to stay hands-on 70/30 split :)

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mês passadodiscuss

First time poster on those HN threads and I also got somewhat strange experience. Not exactly the same but a suspiciously strange co-incidence. I got an unsolicited offer from someone with assistecinformatica.com.br mail to sell my main domain. No surprise that some bots trying to harvest users domains with mail reputation for their purposes from "Who wants to be hired" threads.

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mês passadodiscuss

Location: Melbourne, Australia Remote: Yes. Willing to relocate: Maybe, depends on opportunity Technologies: Typescript, C#, Terraform/AWS, Bicep/Azure, Docker, SQL and heaps of DX. Pairing with LLM to learn myself some Rust

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/centur/ (PDF version - https://sharpops-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/p/alexey/IQAppMuOpmcl...) Email: [email protected]

Experienced engineer\infra-devops\team lead with 20 years of working in small teams and startups. Cover many bases in a small team. Looking for product\platform-related work (not consultancy-style projects) with long term ownership. Tend to prefer deep IC contributions with some team leading responsibilities - prefer to stay hands-on 70/30 split :)

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há 6 mesesdiscuss

Honestly, I'm absolutely not. I still vividly remember those times when we have to install codecs separately. And every month something something new and incompatible pops up on a radar, which sent all users on a wild hunt for that exact codec and instructions how to tweak it so the funny clip could play. Oh dear I'm not loking back to times od all versions of divX xVid, matroska, mkv avi wma, mp4, mp3 vba ogg and everything else, all thos cryptic incantations to summon a non-broken video frame on a modern hardvare, for everyone but few people in anime community who drove that insanity on everyone else. I'll die on a hill of VLC, despite all its flaws, because it gave an escape route for everyone else - if you don't give a F about "pixel perfect lowest overhead most progressive compression that is still a scientific experiment but we want to encode a clip with it" and simply want to view a video - vlc was the way. Nothing else made so much good to users who simply want to watch a video and not be extatic about its perfect colour profile, loosless sound and smallest size possible.

All other players lost their plot when they tried to steer users into some madness pit of millions tweaks and configurations that somehow excites aughors of those players and some cohort of people who encode videos that way.

I istall vlc very single time, because this is a blunt answer to all video playing problems, even if its imperfect. And walked away from ever single player who tries to sell me something better asking to configure 100 parameters I've no idea about. Hope this answers the question why VLC won.

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há 7 mesesdiscuss

Not discovered from scratch, but was a big fan when it was alive and kicking. Went there from time to time to get some mood boosters. So was very sad when found that it's gone (original one). Thanks a lot for sharing that bash-org-archive.com exists, what a great fun going down this memory lane.

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há 11 mesesdiscuss

100% agree. Did the same back in early OAuth2 days, before main platforms got libraries and support (we were transitioning from OpenId 2.0, not yet OIDC ). OAuth2 spec is surprisingly straightforward and readable, couplet with basic understanding of ABNF that is used in all RFCs - it was a joy to read and implement. And this understanding also stuck with me for many years and helped massively in my career :).

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ano passadodiscuss

IIRC dot is one of the characters that can't be discarded when checking local addr part (RFC 5322). So [email protected] and [email protected] are different addresses really. As far as I understand - it's a Gmail's team decision to configure local addr interpretation and allow `[email protected]` and `[email protected]` to be treated as the same address. I'd expect that dot trick rarely works anywhere outside of gmail world.

+ sign is part of the standard (`atext` token, RFC 5322), so sites, which disallow it in address are doing it wrong. The fact, that industry adopted a practice of using everything after + sign as a "tag" is not captured anywhere so this creates even more mess in already messy space (e.g MS followed GSuite in this too and added subaddressing - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/recipients-in-exc...)

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há 2 anosdiscuss

You still can buy Office standalone licenses with Classic Office (aka desktop apps). I got myself 2019 and 2021 versions (different OSes) and prefer them. However I've a personal MS365 subscription for business, I like permanent licenses for products more. On a related note - I bought some permanent licenses for devtools, where they advertised subscription model only :) Directly reached developers and asked if it's possible or not. Works well for both sides - I probably paid for the tool more than their average subscription lifetime, but I've got few tools that I need to use occasionally but over a longer period of time - e.g. one tool I used maybe 10-15 times, but over a 7 years. That does not work with bigger companies though :(

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há 2 anosdiscuss

I don't think it will see any, people moved from Russia not because a single person in power, but because of systemic problems on all levels - kindergartens, schools, police and safety, rights to do a legit business. It's never a head person, it's always a system that been enabled and groomed by a head person or party

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há 2 anosdiscuss

Back in windows and powershell days, this was my favorite "security reminder" prank. Everyone who forgot to lock their machine and walked away got this script executed on their machines. TLDR: it schedules a task "Security Reminder" to play "I'm watching you" via voice synth, every 30 mins.

```

$action = New-ScheduledTaskAction -Execute 'Powershell.exe' -Argument '-NoProfile -WindowStyle Hidden -command "& {[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName(""System.Speech"") | Out-Null; (New-Object (""System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer"")).Speak(""I''m watching you"")}"'

$period = New-TimeSpan -Minutes 30;

$trigger = New-ScheduledTaskTrigger -RepetitionInterval (New-TimeSpan -Minutes 30) -RepetitionDuration (New-TimeSpan -Days 1024) -At 9am -Once

Register-ScheduledTask -Action $action -Trigger $trigger -TaskName "Security reminder" -Description "Security Reminder"

```

You can imagine people faces, especially many were sitting in headphones in open space offices. Those were the days...

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há 4 anosdiscuss

This one is my favourite concept, bloom filter goes after that. Cool stuff about Geohash that you can expand it's concept into 3 or more dimensions and whole ide just makes you think a bit differently about coding and operating over small tokens of data. fantastic stuff

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