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Rachel by the Bay

rachelbythebay.com

Popular posts: 128
Total points: 36,485
HN comments: 20,042
Rank: #11 personal

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Systems & Performance 50 Career & Management 46 Software Engineering 27 Networking & Internet 19 Life, Learning & Writing 18 Security & Privacy 14

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1

The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing

2023963 points707 comments Hardware & Electronics details

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A terrible schema from a clueless programmer

2021842 points450 comments Databases & Data details

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fork() can fail

2014760 points430 commentscited by 4Systems & Performance details

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HR is not your friend, and other things I think you should know

2021730 points458 comments Career & Management details

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Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, repeat

2024688 points378 comments Career & Management details

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I usually run 'w' first when troubleshooting unknown machines

2018685 points243 comments Tools & Productivity details

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“Just remove the duck” (2013)

2015682 points384 commentscited by 11Career & Management details

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Load 'em up and throw 'em under the bus

2023662 points168 comments Career & Management details

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A change of heart regarding employee metrics

2024650 points389 comments Career & Management details

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Remote code execution, git, and OS X

2016616 points370 commentscited by 7Security & Privacy details

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Look for the duct tape

2018616 points183 comments Career & Management details

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Asking nicely for root command execution and getting it

2021589 points137 comments Security & Privacy details

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Web page annoyances that I don't inflict on you

2025569 points294 comments Web & Frontend details

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Some items from my “reliability list”

2019567 points169 commentscited by 3Infrastructure & DevOps details

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How the Valley treats experienced people

2018554 points512 comments Career & Management details

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Type in the exact number of machines to proceed

2020554 points333 commentscited by 5Systems & Performance details

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ATDT relief

2018524 points143 comments Systems & Performance details

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1213486160 has a friend: 1195725856

2016522 points100 comments Math & Algorithms details

19

Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run?

2020495 points350 comments Systems & Performance details

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Patch runs ed, and ed can run anything

2018490 points147 comments Software Engineering details

21

When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown

2026453 points252 comments Security & Privacy details

22

Your nines are not my nines

2019424 points160 commentscited by 8Infrastructure & DevOps details

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Hold on there: WPA3 connections fail after 11 hours

2024423 points175 commentscited by 3Networking & Internet details

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Trying to sneak in a sketchy .so over the weekend

2020410 points220 comments Security & Privacy details

25

Why I no longer have an old-school cert on my HTTPS site

2025409 points419 comments Security & Privacy details

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We have to talk about this Python, Gunicorn, Gevent thing

2020402 points302 commentscited by 6Software Engineering details

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Old box, dumb code, few thousand connections, no big deal

2020395 points280 comments Systems & Performance details

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40 Milliseconds of latency that just would not go away

2020386 points97 comments Systems & Performance details

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I've screwed up plenty of things too

2020376 points149 comments Career & Management details

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Clang now makes binaries an original Pi B+ can't run

2023375 points137 comments Software Engineering details