mjbmitch's comments

On: Music for Programming (2011)

[mjbmitch]

I somehow misread your post as saying you had "in-ear, bone conduction" noise cancelling headphones. What a sight those would be.

On: 64-bit unix timestamp is not supported in MySQL functions (2005)

[mjbmitch]

The precision is likely the default of whatever instrument recorded the timestamps. At this point, however, having to use VARCHARs instead of some native representation of ISO 8601 is entirely the fault of Oracle. It has been a published standard for over 30 years and should be directly supported.

[PhasmaFelis → mjbmitch]

> At this point, however, having to use VARCHARs instead of some native representation of ISO 8601 is entirely the fault of Oracle.

I wish I could blame Oracle. We're using Watcom SQL on a Sybase DB.

On: Github became the web's largest font piracy site (2017)

[mjbmitch]

Distribution licenses are something people other than lawyers ought to care about.

On: Robots.txt as a Security Measure?

[mjbmitch]

If you're an adversary trying to snoop on port 22, why would you bother to respect the conventions of robot.txt to begin with?

[sixplusone → mjbmitch]

Not necessarily the same bot. And they're not snooping so much as brute-forcing default/common/random(?) usernames & passwords.

On: America’s Monopoly Crisis Hits the Military

[mjbmitch]

In case anyone hasn't heard about SAIC in a while, they now go by Leidos.

[nickpsecurity → mjbmitch]

Thanks! Just made a few headlines make more sense to me.

On: Google brings nonbinary emoji to Android Q

[mjbmitch]

I believe the poster was referring to the trend of casual messaging—not specifically chat—taking on more of a memic composition in the form of images, GIFs, and the like.

On: Kotlin is now Google’s preferred language for Android app development

[mjbmitch]

If you ever hop back into the realm of Java, take a look at Project Lombok [1]. It adds a list of helpful annotations for those sort of features.

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[1] https://projectlombok.org

On: No Medium – Build Your Own Site, Please

[mjbmitch]

I'm over here trying to find the island they all swam to.