Message from @shadowedROM
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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
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
it happens way too often, stupid race conditions esp with front end js these days, which is really frustrating because that's tough to run a test for; it's the halting problem etc