DonaldFoss

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by DonaldFoss 8y ago
There are valid uses for some of these. Imagine where online User eXperience and User Interfaces would be without services that help tell someone what is working and what is not. Fortunately, many US companies are starting to consider a GUI
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by DonaldFoss 8y ago
I sympathize. It's terrible when a computer thinks you must not be human because you're not slow and don't make enough mistakes. I've been accused of being a bot before also.
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by DonaldFoss 9y ago
Don't discount Warren Buffet's mantra. When people are scared, he buys. When stockholders feel great, he sells. So fear=buy if fundamentals are good, exhuburence = sell and make profit. --Donald
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by DonaldFoss 9y ago
This applies to _most_ disciplines, not just math or math related fields.
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by DonaldFoss 9y ago
The real definition of distributed systems is endlessly challenging as you are always balancing trade-offs. The CAP theorem still holds, so we pick which 2 out 3 to be strengths and where to compromise as little as possible. It's a gu
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by DonaldFoss 10y ago
Much more than 12 days. Below is a copy/paste of a recent security vulnerability timeline: 2015-12-14 | me > dotCMS | 8 SQL injection vulnerabilities 2015-12-14 | dotCMS > me | they were planning fixes in upcoming release, estim
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by DonaldFoss 10y ago
I've worked with the McDonald's web team before. They do care about performance and security. I reverse engineered an undocumented (to them) protocol for a game system in order to write tests for it--which was really, super fun to
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by DonaldFoss 10y ago
It seems we revisit this topic or a branch of it often enough that it's almost becoming a meme. Here is a 2-page, 7.4K security checklist. If you verify and check each box, your application won't be bulletproof (it is software an
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by DonaldFoss 10y ago
Assuming a web page, does the page reload in less than 1 second? On a full sized keyboard, the normal rate is 3.3 key presses per second. On a mobile device, I'm sure an 8 character password will take far more than 1 second. For brute
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by DonaldFoss 10y ago
Peer review feedback loops do tend to make one carefully consider what one says, however if the peers are too homogeneous, you may not get challenged on many things outside the bubble of their collective belief system. Heterogeneous peer sy
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by DonaldFoss 10y ago
Try TheHill.com and AllSides.com. I find AllSides.com useful for presenting the same story from multiple sides and biases. The Hill aims to be apolitical and center biased, and does a fair job. Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with either
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by DonaldFoss 10y ago
Not a downvoter-the opposite in face. From a rational, logical, and chemistry point of view, one cannot have a balanced view or understanding without positives and negatives. The only thing that makes it work is critical thinking; or at lea
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by DonaldFoss 10y ago
Those biases were on full display this year, not even bothering with the normal veneer.
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by DonaldFoss 10y ago
Very nice. I saw the word "Zeitsouveränität" and knew the literal meaning but didn't realize it's modern usage. In reality, time sovereignty is the only worthwhile thing wealth gets us, because time is our most valuable
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by DonaldFoss 10y ago
Try learning foreign languages. To understand a language, one must possess a level of understanding of the underlying culture and history. Then one discovers that dialects arise from a common language with differences in geographic or socie
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by DonaldFoss 10y ago
After being married over 20 years, which I still find shocking that anyone has put up with me for so long, I find that "to let her be as emotional as she wants but stay rational and prudent" frequently backfires because she wants
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by DonaldFoss 10y ago
Mad props for the _ Ein Heldenleben_ reference. Richard Strauss was a genius, following in the footsteps and improving on Wagner. Side note: I'm continuously amazed at the breadth of knowledge and reference on HN. Is it perfect? No. It
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by DonaldFoss 10y ago
With 1 daughter in university and 2 in high school, I do something similar, adding in listening to their viewpoints, and asking them critical thinking questions about their views without necessarily disagreeing with them. It doesn't ma
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by DonaldFoss 10y ago
Tribal instincts, competing for scarce resources?
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by DonaldFoss 10y ago
I believe the parent poster is saying that fake news isn't a new phenomena; I don't believe it was condemnation of any specific news outlet. Any search of history can find fake news going way back; the difference today is the ease
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by DonaldFoss 10y ago
You hit the proverbial "nail on the head." Before 24/7 news channels and online access, the rush to "scoop" another newspaper still had a 16-hour cycle due to daily print runs. The infamous incorrect front page pres
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by DonaldFoss 10y ago
Mad props for extending the analogy to make our point. Nice job! Now I need to find language to complement someone without it sounding like OO programming style. HN, may I please have a simple +1 or upvote button? Needs to be usable on my s
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by DonaldFoss 10y ago
This alien concept (to many engineers) of beauty is a large part of makes new apps, especially web applications and SaaS startups, win or lose. Good design elements are the norm now, and expected. Gone are the days where someone would accep
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by DonaldFoss 10y ago
Vi (or gvim) is too easy by comparison. Making them use emacs would be a whole different story.
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by DonaldFoss 10y ago
Visual cohesion makes my day more productive because I spend less time mentally context switching between app philosophies. Mental context switching is just like high CPU system time, with the same results. I/O is slower, user time p
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by DonaldFoss 10y ago
+1 here. Ubuntu or a desktop that only uses Plasma apps may fit the bill. Plasma looks great but has a limited ecosystem. Ubuntu looks ok, but has a wider ecosystem. What's most amusing to me is that I spend a considerable amount of ti
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by DonaldFoss 10y ago
Top end macs? Based on the latest MBP offerings, I think Apple has forgotten what that is. Unless your senior exec is carrying around his Mac Pro from his desk. That's a nice piece of hardware--without even needing USB-C and new dongle
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by DonaldFoss 10y ago
While I knew a few who successfully worked full time at large legal firms, I once worked full time for a smaller firm (about 60 staff). Never again. I left after 6 months and vowed to never work for a law firm again. Life is too short and t
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by DonaldFoss 10y ago
As of 2016-10-21T09:20:19Z, it's doing better: -------------------------------------------------------------------- <Commodore Pet 16 Unix>:$ dig +trace github.com ; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> +trace github.co
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by DonaldFoss 11y ago
This is a massive design flaw, not a logic error. While I applaud the use of API's for modular design and communication, this is the wrong place for it.

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