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A New Future for Icanhazip

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980 points nkcmr | 13 comments | 06 Jun 21 19:21 UTC | HN request time: 1.045s | source | bottom
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superasn ◴[06 Jun 21 20:49 UTC] No.27416196[source]▶
Wow so this person has been running this site for so many years, paying bills, answering god knows how many idiots and even getting close to trouble with 3 letter agencies and senators for absolutely nothing.. hats off to you sir, any other person would have thrown in the towel a long time ago.

Also i feel little bad you didn't get any money out of it whether the site was designed to make money or not. It would have been a wonderful end to the story if you got something back for all the years of hardwork you put into running it. You do have my appreciation if that means anything though.

P.S. this story is very similar to rawgit which was a wonderful site but also fell prey to malware aholes.

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jedberg ◴[06 Jun 21 21:57 UTC] No.27416729[source]▶
> Also i feel little bad you didn't get any money out of I

Most likely it got them a much higher paying job than they would have otherwise gotten. Walking in and saying you single handedly run a site with billions of requests per day and petabytes of traffic will get you noticed.

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1. rajishx ◴[06 Jun 21 22:07 UTC] No.27416807[source]▶
Major didn't need icanhazip.com to get a good paying and quality job, this man is legend (at RAX when working with him)
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2. jedberg ◴[06 Jun 21 22:21 UTC] No.27416897[source]▶
Being good is neither necessary or sufficient for getting a high paying job.

Being able to get in front of a hiring manager who is offering a high paying job and convincing them to hire you is the only thing. And having a very popular website with a ton of traffic is more likely to get you in front of a hiring manager with a good job than actually being good.

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3. movedx ◴[06 Jun 21 22:45 UTC] No.27417043[source]▶
Ditto (London office.)
4. mjcarden ◴[06 Jun 21 23:50 UTC] No.27417478[source]▶
He hasn't updated this for a while, but it gives you a good picture of the kind of guy Major is: https://majorhayden.com/
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5. richardwhiuk ◴[07 Jun 21 00:26 UTC] No.27417660[source]▶
His CVE is good enough to get past any hiring manager for whom hosting the site would be interesting.

Rackspace:

- Principal Architect, OpenStack - Cloud Architect, Cloud Servers

- Chief Security Architect, Director

6. kreelman ◴[07 Jun 21 00:32 UTC] No.27417698[source]▶
Such a fun resume.

I'd love to set one up like that.

Since I have mostly Windows Experience, it would probably need to be a .chm file :)

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7. indigodaddy ◴[07 Jun 21 00:57 UTC] No.27417856[source]▶
RHCA(rchitect)

That cert is no joke.

RHCA(dminstrator) is a great cert to get (not super difficult but not super easy, but like all RH certs you need to actually know the material).

RHCE is awesome to have, and a good bit harder than RHCAdministrator. But when I grow up I want RHCArchitect...

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8. geerlingguy ◴[07 Jun 21 01:07 UTC] No.27417916{3}[source]▶
The certs are more just to tick some checkboxes when working with certain enterprise clients (my guess).

I hate certs, but if you want in on certain projects, it doesn't hurt to have the desired certs, especially if you can get your employer to foot the bill.

Anyways, knowing him personally, I can attest he's a really good dev and wholesome person. Sad to see this site get bogged down with malicious activity, because like downforeveryoneorjustme, I kind of have it committed to muscle memory. Hope CloudFlare can keep it going strong!

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9. indigodaddy ◴[07 Jun 21 01:22 UTC] No.27418012{4}[source]▶
Yeah he seems like an awesome dude and engineer/leader. Definitely will be following his blog now. Interestingly however, I had never heard of icanhazip before today. Had always used ifconfig.me.
10. dwq65 ◴[07 Jun 21 01:44 UTC] No.27418115[source]▶
To drive this home, if anyone were to tell me they’re keeping ~400kRPS afloat singlehandedly, that’s “I’ll write you a req, what do you want to do?” territory.
11. badsectoracula ◴[07 Jun 21 06:05 UTC] No.27419508{3}[source]▶
Make sure you do that floating effect (where part of the text 'rises' from the text) IE4 and some other early CHM files had when you opened it to show off that there was a browser engine underneath with full javascript and all :-)
12. Cthulhu_ ◴[07 Jun 21 08:08 UTC] No.27420218{4}[source]▶
The certs prove you have the knowledge, so you don't have to boast. I've only got one certificate (AWS generic one), and I underestimated how much you need to study for things like that. I mean that was more of a nice to have, I don't actually have aspirations to go into AWS or the "ops" side of things, I just felt like it was something I needed to know more about.
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13. indigodaddy ◴[07 Jun 21 18:11 UTC] No.27425973{5}[source]▶
Yeah once your career is somewhat established, they don’t mean all that much. My RHCA (Administrator) aged out in 2017, and I’ve felt little need to renew it.