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by HillRat 10y ago
It's a reference to Proust's Remembrance of Things Past , wherein he famously recounted how, upon eating a "dispiriting" madeline as an adult, he was abruptly and involuntarily taken back to the emotions of childhood, w
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by HillRat 10y ago
Balance sheets and cash flow statements are, if not the antidote to fear, at least a control measure. I think that cost accounting is the Achilles' heel of most startups, particularly those dealing with client work. The key is to alway
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by HillRat 10y ago
My belief is you should focus on understanding the problems your target users want to solve with your tool, and then design UX around making the product a powerful and convenient tool for solving those problems. I agree! And, when I talk
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by HillRat 10y ago
I've seen designers coddled and defended against avalanches of negative feedback under dubious auspices that users don't know what they want or that it's a natural thing to complain... Then those aren't designers, thos
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by HillRat 10y ago
Exactly. In this case -- working from antique memory here -- Solaris binaries were normally stripped, while the compromised versions placed by the hacker weren't, which was an immediate red flag. The system was compromised as part of a
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by HillRat 10y ago
Many years ago, that's how I found a vendor-managed (but not vendor-patched) system had been compromised; I went from "why the hell is that multi-pipe command segfaulting?"to "why the hell aren't the system binaries
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by HillRat 10y ago
Although they didn't include any of the data visualization or grid-management components in the open-source version, which makes it a less-performant, more-antiquated and less-functional version of, well, any other similar UI toolkit o
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by HillRat 10y ago
That was my thought as well -- there are some (thankfully few) weeks where I would end up adding five to ten hours of airport wait time if I checked my bags on every flight (considering that the times I do check bags I end up waiting 30-45
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by HillRat 10y ago
Between his time at Sun and Netflix, Cockcroft has had massive influence on architectural development practices over the past decade and a half. I'd say that his influence is more on par with folks like Wirth, Hoare and the GOF. Not ne
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by HillRat 10y ago
No amount of prep was going to help that train wreck -- Johnson never had a reputation as a particularly smart politician (he was rather proud of his ignorance, actually), but he showed less knowledge of world affairs than the average eve
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by HillRat 10y ago
Also, if Kevin is an attorney, he's remarkably free with what is arguably libelous speech to third parties.
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by HillRat 10y ago
Or, knowing the Russian penchant for secrecy surrounding the locations of government buildings and installations, they may have decided to not even try. Kind of like the way that plat maps for Soviet cities were intentionally obfuscated so
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by HillRat 10y ago
A lot -- maybe most -- QSAs would absolutely flag an analytics script on a checkout page as a security issue, though they probably wouldn't consider it a pass/fail issue. PCI-DSS is a viral system, infecting every system that co
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by HillRat 10y ago
There is the troubling fact that emails tracing the flow of funds from Syria to Russian banks vanished from the "Syrian files" email dump sent by hackers to WikiLeaks, despite the fact that the hackers considered those the Crown J
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by HillRat 10y ago
On the other hand, "state actor" could certainly refer to Ecuador deciding to turn off Assange's access. WikiLeaks tends to be fairly economical with the truth about its own operations, so being purposefully ambiguous isn&#x2
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by HillRat 10y ago
The shortest distance between two lines being a great circle, I'd look towards Ukraine for the likely explanation; given that HMG referred The Guardian to the Treasury, RBS probably was made aware that there are sanctions either on R
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by HillRat 10y ago
>The surprising costs of a mid-career break involve falling far enough behind industry trends and methods, that it would be faster to train a new person than retrain you. In programming -- and, I think, perhaps in most industries -- more
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by HillRat 10y ago
I haven't seen the crosstabs on the USC polls, but my gut feeling is that you're right; the kind of very fine demographic reweighting they're doing isn't common, because (A) it's a pain in the ass and of dubious rea
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by HillRat 10y ago
>For the record, I didn't publish vulnerable systems, I published stores that have malware. This is a crucial point, because it shows GitLab is basically nonresponsive to the key issue; it's the difference between "Here&#x
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by HillRat 10y ago
>Even in my role, I can justify a rewrite by identifying the savings in support, maintenance, and infrastructure, and balance.... It's not all that weird for a startup CTO / technical cofounder to say, because in those companie
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by HillRat 10y ago
My wife refused the "CTO" title at a smaller SMB (~250 headcount) because (A) she felt that the company was so small that it devalued the title, and (B) the title has already been so devalued elsewhere that it's actually a
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by HillRat 10y ago
In fact, I'd argue that simulationism is actually ontological simulationism, similar in some fundamental ways to Anselm's proof of the existence of God. As far as provability goes, simulationism comes up empty; you have to assum
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by HillRat 10y ago
Everything comes down to time and budget. Assuming you have a project budgeting model, make sure that for every project you add in estimates for analyzing, documenting, and integrating the backend layer, and call it out specifically as a re
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by HillRat 10y ago
Or, to put it another way, "We may never truly fathom cultures that were destroyed several centuries ago and are only studied through archaeological fragments and the memoirs of late-medieval invaders."
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by HillRat 10y ago
Those aren't just competitive spaces -- those are almost the paradigmatic examples of concepts that have repeatedly failed over the past two decades to demonstrate business value, but that startups and investors keep returning to like
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by HillRat 10y ago
And a bit more background on RedHack and its ongoing efforts against the government: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/09/turkey-red...
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by HillRat 10y ago
To be fair, Sun outlasted its market; the problem was that *nix desktop companies were targeting $10K "3M" workstations and ignoring the PC market (which offered a tenth of the capability at a tenth of the price). When consumer ma
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React Virtualized: Components for large data sets(bvaughn.github.io)
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by HillRat 10y ago
So if China can protect a local company that will clone uber, but with the difference of investing in local human capital and infrastructure, why not take that opportunity? China is the textbook beneficiary of global free trade -- as Dona
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by HillRat 10y ago
Luckey's political controversy makes a single appearance, amongst the higher-than-expected price, the platform lock-in, and the custom connectors, all of which are tied to the slow defection of developers from the platform, which has i

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