Ryan Dooley 3rdman

How to use 1Password and 2FA with eTrade

IMPORTANT!
As of May 17, 2020, `python-vipaccess` stopped working for provisioning new Symantec VIP Access tokens (which was its raison d'être).
As of May 27, 2020, it's working again.
It might stop working again. and we might not be able to get it to work again (see #39)

Note: Your password cannot be more than 26 characters for you to use 2FA in general. eTrade makes you enter your 2FA code appened to your password to login and limits the length of password input to 32 characters, thus further restricting the maximum length of your actual password.

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

Whether you're trying to give back to the open source community or collaborating on your own projects, knowing how to properly fork and generate pull requests is essential. Unfortunately, it's quite easy to make mistakes or not know what you should do when you're initially learning the process. I know that I certainly had considerable initial trouble with it, and I found a lot of the information on GitHub and around the internet to be rather piecemeal and incomplete - part of the process described here, another there, common hangups in a different place, and so on.

In an attempt to coallate this information for myself and others, this short tutorial is what I've found to be fairly standard procedure for creating a fork, doing your work, issuing a pull request, and merging that pull request back into the original project.

Creating a Fork

Just head over to the GitHub page and click the "Fork" button. It's just that simple. Once you've done that, you can use your favorite git client to clone your repo or j

Effective Engineer - Notes

By Edmond Lau
Highly Recommended 👍
http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

What's an Effective Engineer?

They are the people who get things done. Effective Engineers produce results.

Adopt the Right Mindsets

#System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

##Basic Steps

Clarify and agree on the scope of the system

User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
- Who is going to use it?
- How are they going to use it?

	\documentclass[sigconf,anonymous=$anonymous$]{acmart}

	\usepackage{booktabs}
	\usepackage{caption} % http://mirror.easyname.at/ctan/macros/latex/contrib/caption/caption-eng.pdf

	\usepackage{balance} % balancing bibstyles as per request in accepted submission
	\usepackage{graphicx}
	% We will generate all images so they have a width \maxwidth. This means
	% that they will get their normal width if they fit onto the page, but
	% are scaled down if they would overflow the margins.

	/*
	* I add this to html files generated with pandoc.
	*/

	html {
	font-size: 100%;
	overflow-y: scroll;
	-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;
	-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;
	}

	...
	import urllib2, lxml.html
	...


	file = urllib2.urlopen('http://m.rp5.ru/7259/ru')
	data = file.read()
	file.close()

	doc = lxml.html.document_fromstring(data)

	== Rules ==
	On Infrastructure
	-----------------
	There is one system, not a collection of systems.
	The desired state of the system should be a known quantity.
	The "known quantity" must be machine parseable.
	The actual state of the system must self-correct to the desired state.
	The only authoritative source for the actual state of the system is the system.
	The entire system must be deployable using source media and text files.

	---
	- name: Load NRPE variables from Hiera
	connection: local
	hiera: path=lib/hiera/bin/hiera key="{{ item.value }}" fact="{{ item.key }}" source=hiera.yaml
	args:
	context:
	environment: "{{ environment }}"
	sitecode_lc: "{{ sitecode_lc }}"
	with_dictionary:
	nrpe_server_port: "nrpe_server_port"