A fairly prosaic week this week.
I bumped into a phrase “met his Thermidor” this week and ended up learning about the Thermidorian Reaction.
Work felt bitty this week and it seemed to lack cohesion. I bounced between discussions and meetings and community events. Lots of one to ones this week.
We had a long session with a large group of people to discuss what and how we see working at GDS. The session was well run and it was interesting to hear others’ perspectives about their work.
I conducted a couple of telephone interviews for developer positions we have open.
Probably the most interesting for me was a half hour with one of our fraud experts, discussing some typical indicators and patterns of web based fraud in the context of accounts.
A Ruby benchmark snippet out of idle curiosity:
require 'benchmark'
n = 5000000
Benchmark.bm do |x|
x.report {n.times do; (n1 + n2).sort; end}
x.report {n.times do; (n1 + n2).sort!; end}
end
user system total real
4.002936 0.003981 4.006917 ( 4.010948)
3.734065 0.004691 3.738756 ( 3.742245)
Strengthening Security Configurations to Defend Against Attackers Targeting Cloud Services which has a big list of bullet points. Putting in place many of their suggestions is a large upfront task for any system launch.
Bypassing MFA with pass-the-cookie.
Mutation testing and related Ruby library mutant.