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by alexbecker 8y ago
I believe the confusion is around your statement "mark every sensitive field". I think you mean " overwrite every sensitive field", but that definitely took a re-reading to infer, and I'm still not 100% sure.
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by alexbecker 8y ago
I think it has something to do with the scroll hijacking. The text is almost white if it thinks you haven't "scrolled" to it yet.
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by alexbecker 8y ago
Remember when they redesigned them to look more like each other? That was great.
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by alexbecker 8y ago
I absolutely have the same problem. I think other people do to, but now I'm not sure if I've observed this or I'm just assuming other people have the same problems as me.
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by alexbecker 8y ago
Atlassian is the king of indecipherable symbols. My JIRA navigation strategies are: - Hover over each symbol one-by-one until tooltip shows itself (sometimes takes multiple tries); or - Google "how to find X in JIRA"
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by alexbecker 8y ago
I'm not advocating that. I'm just saying that this is, contrary to how it is cited, a specific subset of "the workforce", and pointing out that this subset furthermore is not necessarily representative of what one might
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by alexbecker 8y ago
The cited statistic "Women make up 57% of the workforce" is very misleading. Chasing down the chain of citations, this number appears to be the percentage of "Professional and related occupations" jobs occupied by women
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by alexbecker 8y ago
I think most readers assume these essays are meant to persuade. I have seen them advanced as "arguments", and RMS seems to act like he expects people to be persuaded by them. What makes you think these are closer to performance ar
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by alexbecker 8y ago
Coalition | Back-End, SRE, Data Scientist | San Francisco, CA | Onsite, Full-Time Coalition is working to solve cyber risk. We are a small team of security experts, insurance professionals, and intelligence community veterans building a bet
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by alexbecker 8y ago
Pipenv solves a very real problem, but it has a lot of problems of its own: - It's very slow: re-locking after updating 1 dependency often takes me ~1 minute. - It has lots of bugs. To name a few in 11.6.9: clobbers comments in the Pip
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by alexbecker 9y ago
I found my first software engineering job through an HN hiring post by a YC company. It was at a time when my life and resume were... not great. But I could code, and that was enough for them. It was the only offer I got. I became a softwar
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by alexbecker 9y ago
I left math after college for software engineering, but reading A Mathematicians Lament recently re-kindled my love for it. It is tragic how intuition, technique and mental models are left out of modern mathematics education and writing.
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by alexbecker 9y ago
The new dict implementation was introduced in 3.5 (with forced order randomization, which was removed in 3.6) because it is faster and uses less memory than the previous non-ordered dict. Ordering is merely a nice byproduct. So you're
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by alexbecker 9y ago
Coalition | Back-End Engineer, Full-Stack Engineer, Product Designer | San Francisco, CA | Onsite, Full-Time Coalition is working to solve cyber risk. We are a small, well-funded team of security experts, insurance professionals, and intell
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Show HN: Learn how mouse events in browsers work(alexcbecker.net)
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by alexbecker 9y ago
Looks like your homepage (archiveteam dot org, not linking for obvious reasons) has been hugged to death. I'm getting a "508 - Resource Limit Is Reached" response.
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by alexbecker 9y ago
For far more employers, "ability to program" is something they have no idea how to filter for in a pile of resumes, but "CS degree" seems like it might be a usable proxy.
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by alexbecker 9y ago
When I worked on Google AdWords, i18n was a huge deal despite it being a business-facing product. More than half of the revenue came from outside the US. I'm not sure what percentage wasn't in English, but it had to be large. I re
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by alexbecker 9y ago
As I understand it, the status code would improve performance in situations like the following: 1. Client requests X.html (which requires Y.css and Z.js) from Proxy. 2. Proxy forwards client's X.html request to Server. 3. [Server takes
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by alexbecker 9y ago
"Extrajurisdictional" is an interesting euphemism for a criminal enterprise.
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by alexbecker 9y ago
This sounds good but in my experience does not reflect real people very well. Most people tell small lies all the time, and this has little correlation with real bad behavior--I've met honest scoundrels and dishonest saints. If you thi
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by alexbecker 9y ago
It's not just incomes, it seems like news articles almost always use averages no matter how inappropriate they are. I've complained about this at some length: https://alexcbecker.net/blog.html#the-cult-of-averages
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by alexbecker 9y ago
My brother had lumbar fusion surgery after he hurt his back on the job. My parents tried to talk him out of it, but the workman's comp lawyer and the doctors convinced him anyway. Three years later, he spent almost all the workman&#x27
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by alexbecker 9y ago
Coalition | Front-End Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Onsite, Full-Time Coalition is working to solve cyber risk. We are a small, well-funded team of security experts, insurance professionals, and intelligence community veterans building a b
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by alexbecker 9y ago
Do you really believe there is nothing right or wrong regardless of what your peers say? If so, I find you deeply troubling. Most things aren't math equations. All distinctions in the real world are messy, seemingly arbitrary at some l
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by alexbecker 9y ago
I did something similar to this for redacting HTML pages a while back, although I never fully polished it: https://github.com/alexbecker/redact-js It's not something I'd use for serious security applications,
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by alexbecker 9y ago
Coalition | Front-End Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Onsite, Full-Time Coalition is working to solve cyber risk. We are a small, well-funded team of security experts, insurance professionals, and intelligence community veterans building a b
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by alexbecker 9y ago
It didn't used to be. We should be asking why things seem to have regressed, shouldn't we?
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by alexbecker 9y ago
I think the fifth is interpreted more broadly than that. You don't need to have a specific law in mind that you believe you have broken (and would reveal) to take the fifth; you merely need to believe that it is possibly that what yo
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by alexbecker 9y ago
Almost everyone I know has switched (myself included), and we haven't had any issues. The fares are sometimes higher for long-distance pools, but that's pretty much the only difference I've noticed.

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