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Accessible Accessories Is Hiring an Intermediate Full Stack Developer
Hiring Starts January 4, 2021
Intermediate Full Stack Developer
Who we are: Accessible Accessories is the market leader in dealership software for automotive accessory sales and has been since 2007. Our software is used in hundreds of dealerships across Canada and is provided as a SAAS offering.

What we need

• Intermediate full stack software developer to join our team.

• Comfortable working with a small, close knit team to create new features and enhancements to our core product.

• Focus on creating quality software through solid development practices and backed by automated testing.

• Familiar with most of our technical environment and happy to learn the rest.

• Able to contribute ideas, plan solutions and develop approaches to help our team and company continue to achieve success.

Our technical environment

• PHP 7+ / Laravel 7+ for the core web product.

• Vue 2 framework / Javascript for website widget, new development.

• MySQL for database storage.

• AWS for hosting.

• PHPUnit / Selenium for automated testing.

• BitBucket (Git) for code repository.

• BitBucket Pipeline for continuous integration.

• Jira for ticketing.

• Agile / Scrum (two-week sprints, daily standup).

Note: This outline contains most of the aspects for the position.
Education and work experience required and are commensurate to salary.

No phone calls or faxes please. All inquiries will be kept confidential.

See Job posting @ https://acc-acc.ca/careers/index.php

Contact: careers@acc-acc.ca
Thanks. That sounds about as fruitful as I would have guessed.
This is a very good point that once your software has a UI/UX and good adoption it's very painful to change it. Personally I despise when UI/UX changes to my daily software as my muscle memory is so honed in on how to do the work quickly. Frankly I don't care if it's optimal or not because it's completely suboptimal once the change is made and I have to spend the 2 weeks relearning it.

I'm not sure what the solution is to this problem. Maybe some day we can treat any UI with a long availability promise and continuously version it. Then the user can stick with their current version as long as it makes sense to them and if they want to upgrade they can do so voluntarily.
What I'm saying is reevaluating bedroom norms and moors is fine, but let's also not make the mistake of thinking our prudish ancestors had it all wrong.

I think porn has both good and bad influences - but it is definitely not benign.
And the US must be defined by European standards? Your post is downvoted because it comes across as gatekeeping. Yes, there are liberals in the US.
I work maybe two hours a day. They're very productive, but I cannot be productive constantly for more than that due to having to wait on other people in order to get stuff done, and, of course, the inevitable burnout which will occur if I exceed that.
Google Inbox was so good. I was honestly shocked that they got rid of what felt like true innovation in the email space (at the time).
as far as the elaboration part i could if you like but in general, a yes means yes , and no means nothing i want to hear so ill act like i heard yes, attitude does not make new customers, but rather anticustomers. This creates a vector toward hostility rather than adoption.
you certainly can. it just requires you to wait whatever the timeout is set to. it doesn't come up all that often and i've used it for a long time.
I would say to the writer of that quote: Hey, if the only women who are attractive to you are servile robots with no opinions of their own, then enjoy your AI girlfriend!

All the while, I'm sure that the patrons of this are all slim, fit, protective, nurturing male breadwinners, right?
^ Found the person who microwaves 3 day old fish in the break room.
For a minute I misparsed the title and thought that the US Treeasury and Commerce departments' staff hacked their way around a SolarWinds compromise. That would have been cooler.
I find the Anthos docs and talks so confusing. Half of them say Anthos is for hybrid between on-prem and GCP. The other half say it's for multicloud and hybrid.
> I don't think they've introduced a single feature that makes it better since they added subreddits

I think they've added plenty.

* Text only posts.

* Polls.

* Being able save individual posts instead of just threads.

* Friends. I use it to follow a few people who make stuff outside of Reddit but post intermittently on their respective subreddits. I don't use it at all for following my actual friends.

* Various features that prevent one subreddit from raiding others. np links are one, but there are others.

* Subreddit CSS.

* Mods being able to hide scores and the downvote button on their subreddit. It's a shame this isn't something done at the API level, as it means apps just ignore it.

* Suggested comment sorting. Can mitigate the natural tendency for a group to become an echochamber.

* Some of the features of reddit Gold are pretty good but considering you have to pay for them, they ought to be.

* Buying rewards is probably the least bad monetization scheme they could have come up with.

* While their image and video hosting is kinda crappy, it is there and it seems like imgur had to get less aggressive about forcing you to get an account.
That doesn't compare against a 3900X or any other Ryzen CPU. It doesn't even compare against something not as heavily throttled as Apple's previous MacBooks.
Yep, when fighting against the browser that's baked into the operating system.

Then again, Edge now happily sets itself as default browser (and "fixes" default search engine selection) every few weeks on my W10 machine so nothing much has changed in this fight.
It’s not an answer to your question but in terms of technical work I do nothing of use whatsoever after lunch. When I was a SWE I compensated by not showing up to work until lunchtime. I get up early.

Accepting this was liberating.

(I attend work for 51.5 hours a week as a high school CS teacher. I do a fair amount of coding. Some of it, to their delight, live! More than a first tier manager at a tech company can jam in, although my responsibilities are similar.)
Doesn't it already? With clickbait being nothing like the actual news article, video, TV series, etc.

Social media influencers contorting themselves to press every button they can.
I hated this part of being on-call for government customers. I had to go through some crazy adjudication process all for the privilege of having to change my passwords every 60 days. And even though I used a password manager for them I couldn't paste them in because the VM I was required to use to access the systems didn't allow pasting from the outside.

So I just typed them into notes on the VM and left them there.
Changes in Emacs 17 (1999)
So you missed the other half of that example? "Now consider current times when your thermostat becomes completely unresponsive in the middle of winter because a vital network goes down. Imagine you're not able to operate your car during a crisis because networks are down?"

Something, something, "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. ... Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."
iOS 12.5 for older iPhones with support for Covid-19 exposure notifications
Survivor bias: the games people fondly remember and want to go back and play decades later are generally the ones with few if any problems. The buggy crap got purchased by an unlucky few and then was quickly abandoned and forgotten.

It's also why classic music, books, movies, etc are great - decades of pruning leaving a short list of best-ofs.
> male gaming nerds, not so much

Dating someone who plays games is not issue. Most young people of both genders play games. Athletes play games too, there never was any dichotomy between sport and playing video games.

But, dating obsessed gamer is kind of like being alone, except you get yelled at more. If excessively competitive sport dude is asshole to his mates, you don't get to witness that every evening either.
I think those concerns are better addressed elsewhere with tools like MFA, automatically disabling inactive accounts, or monitoring public services like HIBP to deactivate accounts quickly. Attackers can move quickly so you hit diminishing returns on rotation policies trying to avoid usability issues incentivizing worse passwords while not rotating long after the account has been compromised.
Just to follow up on this - Conde Nast's parent company, Advance Publications, still owns a majority stake in Reddit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Publications). Apparently they also own the Discovery Channel and Lycos.
> I see people buying internet-required devices as the same people who buy the registry cleaners. They don’t know enough about computers themselves, and the advertorials/computer magazines don’t do them any favors.

In some cases, you don't have a choice. As far as I know, all current Roomba models have their schedule programmed via an smartphone app. I don't have one, so I don't know if it exactly requires the internet, but it's close. Older models (like the ones I have) used buttons on the unit and had no need for any kind of network at all.
Where I used Google Drive in the past I now use NextCloud in the future.

Where Google Drive promised in the past "unlimited" storage, I can now provide for myself for cheaper and better.
I'm excited that this seems to reduce the time needed to compile Python regex by over 50%, something which Python currently offers no way to speed up or parallelize. You'd think that you'd be able to combine compiled regex to take advantage of repeated parts of patterns, or to compile regex across multiple processes and pickle them, but neither of those things are currently possible.
Well, your example also isn’t up to democratic vote. There may be more compelling reasons why bike licenses don’t exist, like how it’s not worth the trade-off of liberty, how it wouldn’t achieve anything, you can already be prosecuted
for causing an accident, the opinion of car owners against cyclists is usually just irrational hate rather than deliberated policy ideals, etc.
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Meanwhile Microsoft had managed to include all those requirements and actually push on capability.
What do you mean by "unsafe"? Some examples:

Is someone reading all the text you send to the server?

Is is possible that GPT-3 decides to use swears words in the middle of a sentence?

Can GPT-3 output a copy of copyrighted material?
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OTA Updates negates proper testing. Read this as good or bad but most everything is working this way now.
I don’t abhor those smells per se, but I hate when they stick to surfaces so everything smells like that. Yes, we could “tolerate” them, but why should we? If it were for short periods of time, sure, I guess, but long-term? There are less aggressive, more pleasant and soothing smells to enjoy
I don't have any problems with devices being connected to the internet, per se. Some issues may arise for devices with sensors like cameras that could be abused.

I have 3 robot vacuums (one is technically a mop). Two are internet connected, one is not. The two internet connected ones are kept up-to-date and get new capabilities from time to time. And one of these is also accessible from the local network too. This is great. At least I know that, should the company decide to support the product, I'll retain some of the capabilities.

Which is something that happened to my Pebble. The community did step in and provide some missing functionality, but it wasn't a seamless transition.

The biggest issue is the amount of e-waste we are creating by having - otherwise perfectly functional devices - being thrown away because their command and control servers were shutdown.

There should be some mandate that companies are required to support the internet connected product for X number of years, just like cars. If they go out of business they should be required to release the control software.
Yes I'm getting pretty bored of these kinds of posts that offer no real ideas (this was just a rant) in order to drive traffic to their paid newsletter.
> They do whatever seems to be the strongest possible thing

It's not that, it's inertia and poor incentive structures.

In a large organization, if a policy was set in place by someone else, then, even when you know it's a sub-par policy, it's still in your interest to leave it alone. Doing so gives you a way to deflect blame in the event of a breach related to that decision. You can just blame the policy itself. If, on the other hand, you change the policy, you're more likely to be held personally accountable.

That said, you're also absolutely right about the expertise problem. I don't know much about government, but, in private industry, I've observed that the best way to get put in charge of cybersecurity is to start from somewhere completely outside of IT, and become good friends with the CEO.
I'm using the "forest" (http://forestapp.cc/) app to track how much 'deep work' I can do. No affiliation but a huge fan of it.

It's been quite eye-opening how much work I can actually do in a day. In a good day it's about 4 hours. Usually less though.
Do you think there is a path forward for the Go team to release an XML library without namespace support that simply errors when they are encountered ("XML namespaces are considered harmful")?
The idea was (and is) that there are higher pleasures of the intellect and lower pleasures of the senses. The ancient philosophers generally argued that we should eschew the latter for the former, that sacrificing sensual pleasures for the life of the mind was ushering us into a the most permanent and stable form of enjoyment.

See Plato’s Philebus, and Aristotle NE VII, and many other treatments on this distinction.

I’m not saying your point is not valid, but I would not say that Western philosophy rejected pleasures as a whole, but that it was quite critical of optimizing one’s life for the pleasures of the senses.
If you want these sort of services, why use C?
Aren't anarchists different than leftists? I don't think an anarchist would support Obamacare, given that it forces people to pay/join.
IIRC MAME has a cheat that solves that issue.
“The link is deliberately suggesting that any research on race is bogus“

If this statement were true, then would be merit to your conclusions.

However it’s obviously not true.

The link clearly does suggest that the kinds of academic paper that search yields are bogus.

The original search was for “hermeneutic” “dialectics” “hegemonic” “intersectionality” “whiteness” (as best I can reconstruct).

This is quite obviously not a search for ‘any research on race’.

Indeed it is clearly a search for a very narrow kind of academic writing on ‘whiteness’, which itself is a term only used in a subset of academic theorizing about race.

Most kinds of research on race do not include these search terms.

Obviously PG does think this narrow subfield is bogus.

It’s puzzling that you have concluded that this means he thinks that ‘any’ research on race is bogus.

The best way I can made sense of this is to figure that you think that any criticism of academic writing about race is equivalent to denying white supremacy.
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The upcoming night trains will depart from Høje Taastrup since they arrive from Sweden, and don't want to go to the Central Station just to turn around (takes another hour or so to do).
> Your friend telling you about some cool product is not advertising because he wasn't paid for that.

I often get told unpaid by my friend about cool product because:

a) my friend wants to be viewed as a trustworthy influencer (trustworthy to ad execs) and hopes or expects to be paid later,

b) my friend is unconsciously parroting marketing speak from advertising they have seen,

neither of which are particularly helpful to me.

Stopping these cases would be an additional benefit of banning (or heavily taxing) paid advertising, I would expect it to be somewhat self-regulated.
Did a solo 3-passes trek in Nepal in Everest region, where I've spent some 9 days continually above 4500m, once slept in 5300m. Did take 1 shower (more like warm bucket) cca in the middle. No smell smelt at all. Same would go for Aconcagua expedition, also 1 shower, and that was 2.5 weeks. Some members of the team skipped that shower altogether.
I agree that child porn is not harmless. It's likely the most harmful segment of the pornography industry. But it's also disingenuous to characterize all pornography as child pornography.
Depending on your definition of "internet connected," I'd disagree with your first point. Most new cars come equipped with the hardware for a data-enabled cellular connection and many have been for years. While it's not a feature you necessarily see or know about, it's there. Presumably, the ones that are used by a service like OnStar are constantly polling in the background to get status updates for the account the vehicle is associated with.

But yes, to my knowledge, most (all?) operate fine without a cell signal.
Do you update the share prices every day? How do you get the data?
bollocks.

M1 devices are quality products. A more than necessary innovation. I expect them to do well if sold at reasonable prices.

The strategy of trying to sell them as outperforming the big boys on computationally intensive tasks, on the other hand, is plain absurd.
Have there been any statements / postmortems released from SolarWinds itself yet?
How high it goes also depends on the CPU design. We know TSMC's 7NM can make CPUs that hit 4.5ghz, the Ryzen 5000 does this. It's also quite likely that TSMC's 5nm can still hit the 4ghz+ range in a CPU application.

What we don't know is if the M1 can actually run at those frequencies, too, or if there's other bottlenecks that prevent the M1 from clocking higher than it does.
I think a lot of readers and visitors to Pornhub assumed that Pornhub was reputable (as reputable as a porn site could be), and were shocked by the expose. They could also have legitimate reason to worry that they might be culpable for inadvertently viewing illegal material, and would be angry at Pornhub for exposing them to that risk.

And lets' be frank. Most people are pretty uncomfortable about talking about their porn habits. Talking knowledgeably about what is on the site reveals them as a visitor. This is something that is difficult for people to discuss, and will only do so from the most defensible position possible.

I am angry at Pornhub too. Stolen content is one thing. But rape and pedophilia is another.
"Easily fix" is relative though. It was never a majority of car owners that fixed their own cars. I would never have maintained a thousand-dollar toolbox to fix and maintain my car - not then and not now. I'm just not mechanically inclined. For us, there's no difference - we need to take the car in to be serviced either way. The complexification of automobile engineering has disenfranchised a small minority of car owners. But for the rest of us, we just don't need to bring the car in for servicing as much. It's a huge win for the majority.
We could start by changing outdated cultural values. There is no reason why economical status should carry as much weight for the social health.

There is no more undateable men than there is an undateable skin color, especially if we are talking about portions like 20% of a population.

Ask what makes those people undateable and the answer will be rooted in culture.
My social media feeds are full of propaganda from all media and think tanks anyway. Having a personal touch from AI won't hurt.
That makes sense! I think context is a really big thing. If you could "merge" things together, that is super cool. Then you can relate two ideas together. Similar to Roam Research.
They can fix the core issue... they can not do so while maintaining the 1.0 backwards compatibility promise. The data structures in encoding/xml in Go 1.0 are fundamentally incorrect for this use case.
I paid for the accountability, feedback, and support (which, was provided before I was financially committed). Why would I pay 30k to just teach myself when I can do that with YouTube, Udemy, and documentation?
It's super uncomfortable when any site uses OR based search. Is there a way to perform AND based search so that when I write more words, the results reduce instead of increasing exponentially?
What this setting does, is that when an application requests the Microphone, then it automatically switches to HSP, and once the source is destroyed, it switches back to A2DP.
Anyone know if the internet suddenly got a little faster?
Won't they have to have verified uploads as well eventually?

I don't think this whole debacle will affect only pornhub.
Though it should be noted those “4 random word” passwords are strong only if the words are truly random (and the string is less likely to be memorable in this case).

A password generator that allows retries means people will hit that button until the string is memorable, reducing the entropy.
I mean can you imagine the uproar it would cause if Apple did that?
I think your retrospective is very Dattebayo centric and distorted.

Most big fansubbing groups hated CR back in the days when CR started, since CR took their fansunbs to fuel their business.

Once CR started to make/pay for their own translations (also hiring translators from some groups in the background) the situation got better, since then a clear, legal path was visible for the community.
Yeah adwords and adsense are terrible too. Whatever happened to simplicity, to occam s razor? Just stop, bring back ugly cgi forms
I know nothing about our body's long-term adaption (maybe you just need another 9 years mostly indoors to re-adapt? :), so this is very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
It seems to be laziness on the part of the IT system makers. There are (mostly) standardized ways to authenticate a CAC and associate it with a user for an information system. But people seem to prefer to roll their own. Either using traditional username/password combos, or a worse solution.

The worse one is this (seen a few times): Username/password and then you register your CAC with it. They only check the CAC itself for the cert expiration date. When it does finally expire (or gets revoked, say you need a new one early like happened to me a couple times, not to loss just became unreliable in the CAC reader), then you have to use the username/password combo (the password has been getting updated every 60-90 days during all this time) and register your new CAC.

But, since they aren't checking revocation data a stolen CAC + PIN (say it's weak, beaten out of you, or they observe you using it) even revoked would still be able to authenticate against that system until the cert expires or the admin (usually) manually removes the revoked CAC.
That statement is also false.

I have a Nest thermostat. It works fine without the network. I have a modern car. It works fine without the internet. Several of my friends have Teslas. They work fine offgrid.

It's just nonsense. Stop defending it.