Comment on: Extremely severe bug leaves dizzying number of software and devices vulnerable

FYI, the fix is out for CentOS/Red Hat. To verify you're safe:

rpm -qa glibc

And look for version 2.17-106.

4 17 Feb 2016 21:33 u/jen1980 in v/programming
Comment on: Your opinion about Java: now and in the future on the labour market

We've had more open Java developer positions than developers for seven years and running! They're in high demand.

1 04 Feb 2016 08:10 u/jen1980 in v/programming
Comment on: Remember GitTorrent, the distributed answer to a centralized Github? It now appears dead in the water.

The downtime is annoying. We use it for one project with about 20 developers, so it's annoying:

$ git pull
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet.git/': Failed to connect to github.com port 443: Connection refused
1 03 Feb 2016 22:32 u/jen1980 in v/programming
Comment on: xkcd comic: Git

Just find a happy path that works. The people that try to experiment usually shoot themselves in the foot.

2 30 Oct 2015 16:54 u/jen1980 in v/programming