std::string str ("Nobody cares about development...");

[Free]

 

[Khamon]

Jarod sent me a picture of iptables last night. I genuinely felt a twinge of panic believing that he was working with a client still using iptables. But he was helping a student complete a school project in virtualbox and a good laugh was had by all.

 

[Free]

iptables

 

[JarodGodel]

"Good time" he says. Ha!

 

[Khamon]

 

[Essence Lumin]

The longest night of my career dealt with iptables.

I worked for a smallish to medium sized company who at the time had their entire network of 200 or so computers on public ip addresses (omg! I know, but this was a long time ago). The isp decided they wanted their blocks of public ip addresses back. We had 3 blocks of 256 ips we had to narrow down to a handful. We got some sort of proprietary router to do this. Not cisco, not juniper, I seem to remember it was a four letter name that sounded like IKEA or something. As it turns out we had to do this all in one night. We got started and it just wouldn't work. We came up with our plan. The other IT person would continue to try and get the proprietary router to work and I would try to set up a linux box to try and do the job.

This was at the time that kernel 2.4 had been out for a short while and ipchains from 2.2 had been deprecated in favor of iptables for 2.4. I had read about iptables but had never really done anything with it. Finally late at night I got it to work well enough for the moment and we put it into place. We all went home exhausted at 6:00 the next morning. We never did get the proprietary router to work.

 

[Khamon]

iptables are great until security

 

[Free]

The only joke I know that brings up iptables:

Never flush all your rules until you've verified the shit is still in the bowl.

 

[bubblesort]

Chrome 100 just dropped. I've been testing it, on sites like Netflix, reddit, twitter, twitch, various news sites, etc.

I have noticed no errors or change in performance. So it looks like the user agent string panic was over nothing.

 

[Free]

Google Chrome 2K...

 

[Free]

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

I went to a Best Western in California about five years ago and they assigned me room 404 but it wasn't ready so they had to give me another room and I'm sure they had no idea what I was laughing about.

Pity it wasn't room 302.

 

[Khamon]

We were confusing youngsters in a Tennessee hotel several years ago by laughing because someone had pried the proprietary door sign off of room 222. This is a random story that has nothing to do with coding. Ask me about the Laugh-in dancers sometime.

 

[Free]

 

[Free]

 

[bubblesort]

Here's a fun thread over on Reddit, where people are trying to outdo each other, to propose the most obnoxious programming language features. I suspect this is probably from some bored college student looking for ideas for their new esoteric programming language project, but I don't care, because it's fun.

 

[Soen Eber]

Six weeks ago I passed the assessment tests and three completed projects to get accepted into a paid boot camp. I just learned it will start June 13th, and will be required to learn Java full-stack and Angular.

I am suddenly very afraid. A framework and full-stack language in 12 weeks? Am I being set up to fail?

I did pass a semester in Java programming some years back which took me up to threaded programming, and I am close to finishing up learning basic JavaScript so I'm hoping I can use that to get familiar with Angular. Any other suggestions on how I can get prepared in five weeks for it? We will be expected to put 8 hours a day into this during the worst of the summer heat, so I suspect coffee shops, libraries, and any other place I can find with air conditioning and wifi will be frequently haunted. I will probably also shift my day cycle to be up early to take advantage of the morning's coolness.

 

[Khamon]

You got this Soen.

 

[Grandma Bates]

Six weeks ago I passed the assessment tests and three completed projects to get accepted into a paid boot camp. I just learned it will start June 13th, and will be required to learn Java full-stack and Angular.

I am suddenly very afraid. A framework and full-stack language in 12 weeks? Am I being set up to fail?

I did pass a semester in Java programming some years back which took me up to threaded programming, and I am close to finishing up learning basic JavaScript so I'm hoping I can use that to get familiar with Angular. Any other suggestions on how I can get prepared in five weeks for it? We will be expected to put 8 hours a day into this during the worst of the summer heat, so I suspect coffee shops, libraries, and any other place I can find with air conditioning and wifi will be frequently haunted. I will probably also shift my day cycle to be up early to take advantage of the morning's coolness.

Angular is based off of typescript, and there are a number of similarities with java. I had to learn angular for a project we did and was able to pick it up pretty quickly. (We do a lot in c++ and found it relatively easy to make the shift.) My guess is that there are a lot more resources for java beginners and that is a better place to start. If you can shift your mindset to program in an object oriented language and can get comfortable with inheritance and polymorphism then you will be in very good shape.

When I have to learn a new language I pick something silly that I find interesting and try to implement. I learned python by figuring out how to solve soduku puzzles. Find something you are curious about and turn it inside out.

 

[Noodles]

PHYSICS.planets.earth.gravity = 9.8

I swear I have seen something like this before.

Maybe I am thinking of Usenet names.