Jonathan Hult jhult

Most VPN Services are Terrible

Short version: I strongly do not recommend using any of these providers. You are, of course, free to use whatever you like. My TL;DR advice: Roll your own and use Algo or Streisand. For messaging & voice, use Signal. For increased anonymity, use Tor for desktop (though recognize that doing so may actually put you at greater risk), and Onion Browser for mobile.

This mini-rant came on the heels of an interesting twitter discussion: https://twitter.com/kennwhite/status/591074055018582016

"Scar Tissues Make Relationships Wear Out"

04/26/2103. From a lecture by Professor John Ousterhout at Stanford, class CS142.

This is my most touchy-feely thought for the weekend. Here’s the basic idea: It’s really hard to build relationships that last for a long time. If you haven’t discovered this, you will discover this sooner or later. And it's hard both for personal relationships and for business relationships. And to me, it's pretty amazing that two people can stay married for 25 years without killing each other.

[Laughter]

> But honestly, most professional relationships don't last anywhere near that long. The best bands always seem to break up after 2 or 3 years. And business partnerships fall apart, and there's all these problems in these relationships that just don't last. So, why is that? Well, in my view, it’s relationships don't fail because there some single catastrophic event to destroy them, although often there is a single catastrophic event around the the end of the relation

Use curl to get the JSON response for the latest release
Use grep to find the line containing file URL
Use cut and tr to extract the URL
Use wget to download it

curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/jgm/pandoc/releases/latest \
| grep "browser_download_url.*deb" \
| cut -d : -f 2,3 \
| tr -d \" \

Office Web Apps Viewer

('.ppt' '.pptx' '.doc', '.docx', '.xls', '.xlsx')

http://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=[OFFICE_FILE_URL]

<iframe src='https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/embed.aspx?src=[OFFICE_FILE_URL]' width='px' height='px' frameborder='0'>
</iframe>

OneDrive Embed Links

A scrape of Buzzfeed's ranked list of Mitch Hedberg jokes, via https://www.buzzfeed.com/mrloganrhoades/a-complete-ranking-of-almost-every-single-mitch-hedberg-joke?utm_term=.ng0r5LEb3J#.pkZw8O5zJ3

Scraped via:

curl -Ss "https://www.buzzfeed.com/mrloganrhoades/a-complete-ranking-of-almost-every-single-mitch-hedberg-joke?utm_term=.ng0r5LEb3J#.pkZw8O5zJ3" | pup --plain 'p text{}' > mitch_hedberg.txt

And then manually cleaned up.

Technical details for https://stackoverflow.com/a/44169445/6730571

Details of investigation:

On a base system, /usr/bin/java is a symlink that points to /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/Current/Commands/java, which is an Apple wrapper tool that locates and executes the actual java.

(Do not touch anything in those 2 system directories. It should actually be impossible due to "System Integrity Protection" anyway.)

If you don't have Java installed, attempting to execute java will open a dialog that invites you to install it.

	(function() {
	function createNode(text) {
	var node = document.createElement('pre');
	node.style.width = '1px';
	node.style.height = '1px';
	node.style.position = 'fixed';
	node.style.top = '5px';
	node.textContent = text;
	return node;
	}

	package com.collokia.webapp.routes;


	import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpHeaders;
	import io.vertx.core.net.SocketAddress;
	import io.vertx.ext.web.RoutingContext;
	import io.vertx.ext.web.Session;
	import sun.reflect.generics.reflectiveObjects.NotImplementedException;

	import javax.servlet.*;

	// Usage:
	// Copy and paste all of this into a debug console window of the "Who is Hiring?" comment thread
	// then use as follows:
	//
	// query(term \| [term, term, ...], term \| [term, term, ...], ...)
	//
	// When arguments are in an array then that means an "or" and when they are seperate that means "and"
	//
	// Term is of the format:
	// ((-)text/RegExp) ( '-' means negation )