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by B-Con 12y ago
Niche subreddits can actually be fantastic. I'm subscribed to many related to my personal hobbies and interests, and in general the content and conduct is reasonable. In contrast, most of the mainstream ones that are worth avoiding, wi
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by B-Con 12y ago
This is Facebook and Twitter. Maybe most of the interesting content to you and me are links, but we aren't most people. Many (most?) people want to see uploaded pictures, write brief messages to each other, and catch up on people'
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by B-Con 12y ago
Journalists have been blaming Google for removing their articles from search results due to the "Right to be Forgotten". Horrible display of ignorance. It is tempting to overestimate the public's technical understanding. The
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by B-Con 12y ago
As I recall, this was a significant complaint. If NIST was OK with lowering the security requirements then they should have done it at the outset and examined all the algorithms with that standard. The move itself wasn't shady, it was
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by B-Con 12y ago
> In a wiser society, prospective partners would put each other through detailed psychological questionnaires and send themselves off to be assessed at length by teams of psychologists. My wife and I did premarital counseling. I highly
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by B-Con 12y ago
Or just make it hard to find all the instances. For example, this article itself references the content in the article that was removed from search results. The effectiveness of having the original link removed is probably very minimal unle
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by B-Con 12y ago
> then you need to call out every advertising, marketing, and PR firm on the planet, along with every political talkshow, campaign, sales letter, and half-time speech... Except that in every one of those examples, you know you're be
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by B-Con 12y ago
I got nothing. After looping the video twice, the third time I still had no association between the sound and the sentence. As I write this, I can't even remember what the sentence was. Interestingly, I have a horrible auditory memory
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by B-Con 12y ago
This really doesn't feel satisfying. What about the bizarre way the project was taken down? They really recommend Bitlocker? They literally think you should just grep for "crypt" and use the result for your needs? I guess I c
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by B-Con 12y ago
It's plummeting because it's run by in outdated ways by companies that haven't adapted to new technology. A forward-thinking company that embraces technology would have some advantages.
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by B-Con 12y ago
> absolutely ignore people who's argument is along the lines of "you are not smart enough to implement this standard. let someone else do it.”. fuck everything about that statement, and it’s false sense of superiority. In gener
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by B-Con 12y ago
That seems fairly self explaining. By the definition of having more karma, they're better acquainted with the site and have successful experience appealing to the audience.
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by B-Con 12y ago
Fundamentally, the problem is the community. If you don't attract people who make good comments and you don't have a high enough ratio, you won't have a good system no matter what you do. And I think newspapers have a couple
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by B-Con 13y ago
> It would be a remarkable coincidence if ours were the first era to get everything just right. I love this kind of insight. I think that we, as humans, are very egotistical by nature. The time we're living in is surely the time w
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by B-Con 13y ago
I have hopes for Crypto II. Based on Crypto I, Boneh likes to do a good job with the course and being who he is, he's probably just incredibly busy (the original Crypto I itself had two minor delays in the middle of the class), so it k
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by B-Con 13y ago
And it was linked to by one of Google's preparatory e-mails. :-)
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by B-Con 13y ago
> At its peak, I was getting between 100 and 200 page views per minutes. It seems like it peaked at just over 3 hits per second, which is, frankly, a little lower than I would've expected, and seems very manageable. I'm curious
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by B-Con 13y ago
The interviews cover a lot of potential material in depth and I think the perspective is that not everyone works with all of those topics frequently and may need a refresher. Since Google knows what skills they want the interviewees to have
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by B-Con 13y ago
IIRC, SW and SE interviews in SRE are about 80% the same, the primary difference is that one of the 5 on-site interviews is on a different topic and the phone screens may emphasize slightly different topics. But the tracks for the two posit
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by B-Con 13y ago
Yep, I got a very similar e-mail before the on-site. There was some more in some e-mails before the phone interviews, like links to man pages, some (public on YouTube) Google videos, and some sample coding problems. FWIW, I bought "Pro
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by B-Con 13y ago
Neat, I just interviewed for Google for the SRE position as well. This described my experience very closely. > I found it amazing that for each of the interviews I was given enough information in advance to actually be able to prepare
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by B-Con 13y ago
> They want to lock everyone into everything. Just like everyone else. And we’re all worse off for it. I really like Schneier's commentary on how large companies are migrating toward a feudal system[1]. His perspective is from secur
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by B-Con 13y ago
Last time I was at a dealership it was to buy a used car. As soon as we started talking numbers I found there was an additional $800 of work that had been done to the car (window tinting and some door guard thing) that I had to pay for. I s
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by B-Con 13y ago
Occasionally helpful, yes. But in my experience, usually unnecessary. Filesystems will sync themselves prior to being unmounted, which takes care of most of the obvious sync usecases.
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by B-Con 13y ago
> Please, movie people, let me pay for this. Pay for what, the ability to stream a movie? Don't we already have a dozen options for that? I don't think this interesting as a feature, it's the backend technology that's
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by B-Con 13y ago
How possible is it that this is sarcasm or just a joke? I know HN likes to pretend it can't ever read between the lines, but, seriously, are there even remote odds that that snippet you quoted is actually expressing deep feelings of su
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by B-Con 13y ago
That's a good point. It was missing from my list because I honestly never use G+ search and didn't know how to best assess it.
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by B-Con 13y ago
> Their search engine was and still is the glue that holds the web together. So, why didn't they build around that? Yeah, if only every product they offered either: a) had comprehensive search capabilities (YouTube, GMail, map, etc)
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by B-Con 13y ago
I don't see anything to suggest that Arch uses eglibc. The glibc package in the repos is clearly the original glibc (look at the name, package URL, and build config) and there is no other package named "eglibc". Also, a very
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by B-Con 13y ago
I used Lumosity for about a year. I did it fairly consistently about every other day and my wife did it with me about every third day. Personally, I thought it helped. I'm obviously a very biased source and a good number of biases come

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