DigitalBison

7 ms·

1.
by DigitalBison 1y ago
I'm essentially the same way, with the caveat that I do occasionally go back and find something from one of those archived bookmarks. Maybe a couple times a year at most, which is all the validation my lizard brain needs to consider
2.
by DigitalBison 3y ago
I'm not the person you're condescending to, but it is possible IMO to simultaneously recognize the security value in deny-by-default and Principle of Least Privilege while also finding it challenging to work with AWS's IAM pe
3.
by DigitalBison 3y ago
I'm sure I'm slightly misremembering/exaggerating, but RAV4s of recent years seem like a similar size to how I recall the Highlander from that time period, and now Highlanders are more like how I recall those older 4Runners(?
4.
by DigitalBison 3y ago
If you don't mind my asking, is your caution about benzodiazepines out of concern for the addiction potential, the long-term effects (e.g. dementia risk), or something else (or a combination)?
5.
by DigitalBison 3y ago
I genuinely don't understand what point you think this article is making that backs up what you've said here -- would you mind elaborating? Full disclosure, I am diagnosed with ADHD and take stimulants daily, and initially felt pr
6.
by DigitalBison 3y ago
Please don't be hard on yourself for a vacation not "fixing" whatever is ailing you. If you're depressed or have ADHD or similar, you should consider seeking professional help (e.g. therapy and/or medication, if app
7.
by DigitalBison 3y ago
> To my knowledge, you cannot scan the brain of someone with ADHD and point out an abnormality associated with the disorder. Yet we give 8 year old boys stimulant medication because they can't sit still in a classroom for hours a da
8.
by DigitalBison 4y ago
This is exactly where I'm at. I'm a professional SDE and I'm pretty damn good at writing code and solving problems at all kinds of different levels of complexity and abstraction, although professionally I mostly write Java co
9.
by DigitalBison 6y ago
I agree with this, and disagree with the parent comment's framing of this as "going outside the chain of command", but I do think that if you have a healthy relationship and open communication with your direct manager, I can&
10.
by DigitalBison 6y ago
This is super org-dependent -- my entire org has completely switched to Slack, I only use Chime for meetings now (except for the occasional recruiter or someone outside my org who will ping me on Chime).
11.
by DigitalBison 7y ago
Oh totally, I can't dispute that. It's just good reading in general, but is more of a response to the grandparent comment stating "the software industry is a complete joke in terms of quality control". I think that'
12.
by DigitalBison 7y ago
This topic reminds me of this relatively old (but still super interesting) article about the team that worked on the space shuttle's onboard computer systems and the rigorous processes they followed to ensure correctness and safety: h
13.
by DigitalBison 8y ago
> With the possibility of almost uniquely identifying us on the web through fingerprinting... Google, of all companies is in the perfect position to know that my web request was made by me... And therefore I'm not a robot. The artic
14.
by DigitalBison 8y ago
It's been mentioned a few times already but I just wanted to +1 the suggestion of considering therapy. And I don't even mean that in a "you sound like you need therapy" sense; I think therapy can be a great tool for anyo
15.
by DigitalBison 8y ago
The way you put this really resonates with me. Often when I'm procrastinating it's because a task seems/feels/sounds really daunting, but the "daunting" feeling is because I'm imagining just how damn har
16.
by DigitalBison 8y ago
Seconded, as another Amazonian working in a remote office. The Seattle HQ absolutely hires folks from all over, but many of the remote sites tend to hire more locally. In fact, many of the remote sites exist precisely because of the local l
17.
by DigitalBison 9y ago
Can you go into more detail on what you mean by "they don't have inventory"?
18.
by DigitalBison 10y ago
The public postmortem from the big DynamoDB outage in 2015(?) is a great example I think: https://aws.amazon.com/message/5467D2/
19.
by DigitalBison 10y ago
You're thinking too small. Support it multi-tenant on a fleet of servers and sell it to customers, now you've got a service-as-a-service-as-a-platform.
20.
by DigitalBison 10y ago
In the United States at least, "track and field" refers to what other countries might call "athletics" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_and_field ). The term "athletics" in the US w
21.
by DigitalBison 11y ago
Not sure how recently it was changed, but on my phone running iOS 8.3 that setting is under Privacy -> Advertising.
22.
by DigitalBison 12y ago
MacBooks used to have accelerometers that were used to detect sudden motion and park the hard disk head to prevent a head crash. But it looks like they've stopped including the accelerometers in more recent models with SSDs, since ther
23.
by DigitalBison 12y ago
We do this to pretty good success at the Big 4 I work at as well. The process by which these post-morterms get assigned can occasionally get political -- e.g. manager A dislikes or is trying to make a move on manager B so he pushes for a de
24.
by DigitalBison 12y ago
>> Every developer, tester, and program manager is in a private office > The longer I spend in this environment (coming up to five years) the less I like it > I like the idea of having large, interesting open spaces for more soc
25.
by DigitalBison 12y ago
Maybe not as critical in a strict financial sense, but absolutely critical in a privacy and data confidentiality sense.
26.
by DigitalBison 12y ago
I don't mean to downplay the severity of this, and I could be missing something, but I fail to see how this is a new vulnerability that TrustLook has "discovered". We've seen countless stories on HN (unless I'm wild
27.
by DigitalBison 13y ago
I don't follow, what are you getting at?
28.
by DigitalBison 13y ago
The Hindu article mentions 4 injured, but not 8 dead. Is there another source on the 8 dead figure?
29.
by DigitalBison 13y ago
> daemontools / supervise doesn't have it and it's a fairly popular solution. Ok, it doesn't exactly support the quoted feature ("stop restarting if it exceeds X attempts in Y seconds"), but it does sleep fo
30.
by DigitalBison 13y ago
Yup. I had a similar experience in college when I applied for an internship at Facebook, got back an enthusiastic-sounding response asking me for my availability for a phone screen, and then the recruiter dropped off the face of the earth a

More ›