general processing almost always wins in the long term

unless you're writing password crackers or something

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

sorry i'm a bit of a killjoy

but I have a neckbeardy giant box(es) of hardware I've accumulated over the years so it's kinda speaking from exp

no no, this seems practical what you're telling me

I'm paranoid about finding work anyways

So anything that helps is good

yeah it's all fun and games until like... you're fighting some stupid hardware bug or wasting time with some bogus line connection

devops is "hot" or whatever. learn saltstack or coreos or something.

easy job in most metro markets

everyone wants to save money and replace oldschool admins.

aws learner account comes in handy there

I see

don't do web programming. shit is terribad.

Networking debugging always makes me think of thise: http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html

I do mostly web programming :/

NodeJS is fun

if you're good enough at it you can make good scratch but don't get stuck is all

What should I move to?

it's a treadmill

you move to whatever is trendo

Isn't the web getting trendo?

RoR was popular 5 years ago and now it's shiet right

Everybody is making SaaS stuff

yeah idk i'm probably biased.

what do you work on nowadays?

infra stuff, the meta task of spinning up lots of your SaaS webapps

and keeping all the plates in the air, monitored and not pwned by the worst enemy: ourselves

accidentally pwning your webapps?

it happens

people aren't that good

I got a piece of software running in the wild

someone bought it

It's made to download spotify songs with a web interface

The input for the url is directly pipped into command line as root

without input santization

It's not pwned yet!

there's a laundry list of stuff you watch out for but yeah i mean, your rinkydink app probabilistically isn't an attractive target to anyone besides folks hunting for trophies right

there's xss stuff in addition to input sql / stack smash attacks or whatever

but i was actually referring to devs who push out malperforming code