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Someone sent me an email asking me what advice I had for new developers. I get this question a bunch, so I wanted to put all my thoughts in one place, that I can update as I get more ideas!

I answered this a bunch on my AMA repo, so here's some initial general answers, before I get to some of the specific questions:

• how to find a project to work on: notwaldorf/ama#33
• how I learn: notwaldorf/ama#32
• what to learn: notwaldorf/ama#51
• advice for your first job: notwaldorf/ama#59

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How to recover lost Python source code if it's still resident in-memory

I screwed up using git ("git checkout --" on the wrong file) and managed to delete the code I had just written... but it was still running in a process in a docker container. Here's how I got it back, using https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyrasite/ and https://pypi.python.org/pypi/uncompyle6

Attach a shell to the docker container

Install GDB (needed by pyrasite)

apt-get update && apt-get install gdb

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enum HTTPStatusCodes: Int {
    // 100 Informational
    case Continue = 100
    case SwitchingProtocols
    case Processing
    // 200 Success
    case OK = 200
    case Created
    case Accepted
    case NonAuthoritativeInformation

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"""
Django middleware for generating request flame graphs.
Requires the flamegraph.pl perl script:
https://github.com/brendangregg/FlameGraph/blob/master/flamegraph.pl

Installation:
1. Create a directory for flame graphs
2. Copy the flamegraph.pl script to it
3. Add the FLAMES_DIR django setting
4. Add the flames.FlamesMiddleware to MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES

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What I did to get Python 3.4.2 on Ubuntu 14.04. The stock version of Python 3 on Ubuntu is 3.4.0. Which is missing some of the best parts! (asyncio, etc). Luckily I discovered pyenv which solved my problem.

Install pyenv

Pyenv (not to be confused with pyvenv) is the Python equivelant of rbenv. It lets you configure which Python environment/version is available per directory, user, or other session variables.

I followed the instructions here to install pyenv in my home directory. Verbatem, those instructions are:

sudo apt-get install git python-pip make build-essential libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev

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Creating your own ag.vim

Vim provides built-in mechanisms to search through projects in the form of the grep command. However, on large projects, grep is known to be slow; and hence people have been switching to simpler searchers like ack, and faster, parallel (metal?) searchers like ag and pt. Correspondingly, several plugins have been created that integrate these tools in vim: ack.vim, ag.vim, etc.

However, it's actually very easy to get the functionalities these plugins provide (faster search, results in quickfix-window, jumps, previews, and so on) in vanilla Vim itself; in fact, Vim already populates the grep-search results in a quickfix window. We just need to tell Vim to do the following things (use-case: ag):

• Use ag as the default grep program
• Open quickfix window by default
• Create mappin

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FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro

Since 2008 or 2009 I work on Apple hardware and OS: back then I grew tired of Linux desktop (which is going to be MASSIVE NEXT YEAR, at least since 2001), and switched to something that Just Works. Six years later, it less and less Just Works, started turning into spyware and nagware, and doesn't need much less maintenance than Linux desktop — at least for my work, which is system administration and software development, probably it is better for the mythical End User person. Work needed to get software I need running is not less obscure than work I'd need to do on Linux or othe Unix-like system. I am finding myself turning away from GUI programs that I used to appreciate, and most of the time I use OSX to just run a terminal, Firefox, and Emacs. GUI that used to be nice and unintrusive, got annoying. Either I came full circle in the last 15 years of my computer usage, or the OSX experience degraded in last 5 years. Again, this is from a sysadmin/developer ki

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android.permission.ACCESS_ALL_DOWNLOADS
android.permission.ACCESS_BLUETOOTH_SHARE
android.permission.ACCESS_CACHE_FILESYSTEM
android.permission.ACCESS_CHECKIN_PROPERTIES
android.permission.ACCESS_CONTENT_PROVIDERS_EXTERNALLY
android.permission.ACCESS_DOWNLOAD_MANAGER
android.permission.ACCESS_DOWNLOAD_MANAGER_ADVANCED
android.permission.ACCESS_DRM_CERTIFICATES
android.permission.ACCESS_EPHEMERAL_APPS
android.permission.ACCESS_FM_RADIO

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A Progressive Web Appplication uses modern web capabilities to deliver an app-like user experience, these applications are sometimes built as isomorphic web applications. In these cases, much of the code that runs on the client also runs the server.

This combination of approaches and the various technologies that make them possible are being used to build a new class of web applications that can often come together quicker and in many cases are indistinguishable from native applications.

So much so, thanks to Electron, you can often wrap these web applications as "native applications". These web-native applications look great too, if you use Slack or Visual Studio Code you know what I am talking about.

I believe Web Crypto is a great addition to this toolchain. With the Web Crypto these applications can incorporate strong,

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The purpose of this document is to make recommendations on how to browse in a privacy and security conscious manner. This information is compiled from a number of sources, which are referenced throughout the document, as well as my own experiences with the described technologies.

I welcome contributions and comments on the information contained. Please see the How to Contribute section for information on contributing your own knowledge.

Table of Contents

• Motivation
• Audience
• TL;DR?
• Updates
• Technologies that Affect Security and Privacy