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by bomdo 4y ago
Don't be so sure of that. If your PIN just happens to start with 00, it is fairly trivial to jury-rig a common 4-digit hacking device to crack your 6-digit PIN.
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by bomdo 5y ago
To add insult to injury, writing a press release like this (even including a screenshot with the very latest stuff) can feel just as good as actually shipping. At this point, eclipsing the story of "the cool game that never shipped&quo
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by bomdo 5y ago
Are you sure? 500K GBP would be 700K USD. See https://www.levels.fyi/comp.html?track=Software%20Engineer&r...
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by bomdo 5y ago
Thank you very much for both your comment and link. This cleared things up for me. It feels like an obvious oversight that there is not some company-wide Wiki to organize all of these docs. Since we are talking about Amazon/AWS, this h
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by bomdo 5y ago
I was always interested in this but could not yet find deep resources on it. Sadly the post skips over the format of these docs - is there a good resource for examples/templates of the different doc types (with comments?)? Also, how ar
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by bomdo 5y ago
For others interested in this, Wikimedia salaries are all public [0]. [0] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_salarie...
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by bomdo 5y ago
From your sources [1]: > COO, Scott Gelb [...], as a comedy bit, [...] has repeatedly touched subordinates’ balls or butt or farted in their faces. [...] his punishment—two months of unpaid leave and training. [1] From OP's intervie
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by bomdo 5y ago
I would assume this falls under Severability [1]. In most cases, the button you click on literally says "I accept", which the corporate lawyer would interpret in a similar way to signing a contract in full. In other words, if I cl
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by bomdo 5y ago
Culture is what is there when you subtract work and manager. Defining a "good" culture depends on your personal work style, role, experience and general life priorities. Interviews are much more of an art than science and asking g
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by bomdo 6y ago
I'd love to learn more about their canary rollouts. Is there any more info from either them or similar large sites about this? For example, what usually has to happen for a dev to trigger a rollback? Or how do they handle stateful chan
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by bomdo 6y ago
Having recently had a child, I learned about APGAR and marveled how the emotional "is my baby ok" was put into a super easy process. The chart from the article can be followed by absolutely anyone and babies can be sent to special
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by bomdo 6y ago
Both are valid. It depends on the footprint, type of SaaS (e.g. running complex offline-processing vs running heavily customized web-shops), your PII regulations and your ideal customer type and size. It can be easier to have custom subdoma
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by bomdo 6y ago
Can you comment on the kind of engineers that were interested in getting a job this way? Did you hire/interview any of them?
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by bomdo 6y ago
Not nitpicky at all - this is an important distinction to highlight for pointy-haired decision makers. This product is undoubtedly the P in PaaS, but there is no service behind it. If your company uses this as an alternative to a real Herok
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by bomdo 6y ago
Thanks for sharing. So no library for styling forms? Is all that styled by hand? The site looks great.
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by bomdo 7y ago
Saved real estate cost for one less desk at the office, productivity gains [1]. That said, companies that are fully remote (e.g. Gitlab [2]) tend to actually adjust your wage for having similar purchasing power wherever you choose to live.
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by bomdo 9y ago
Mesh networking is cool, but it doesn't scale without at least some cable connected nodes routing the traffic. And those will be impacted by network neutrality. On an unrelated note, incredibly shady things are currently being done by
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by bomdo 9y ago
Impressively, it also works for languages other than English (albeit having trouble with formatting here and there). Is there a behind-the-scenes somewhere? Is this regex magic alone?
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by bomdo 9y ago
I was a little surprised at the headline, since I expected 'outperforms' to mean that it had better end-results, which is of course not the case. GP is just much faster due to it's relative simplicity and the results are clos
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by bomdo 9y ago
I'm not doubting in any way that someone hacked your PC, but just in case you are currently suffering from CO poisoning [1], please try to take a day off and go outside for a walk. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by bomdo 10y ago
Apparently, being a platinum member entails donating $500k [1], so it's not that big a deal for Microsoft ($85B revenue[2]). And as the article states, there has been negativity in the linux community regarding the old arch-enemy joini
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by bomdo 10y ago
Joining a table for open discussion is great, no matter how you look at it. Also see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12967770
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by bomdo 10y ago
Yes, if proven. If someone promises 1000 clicks for your dollar and delivers only 999, they are at fault, have not fulfilled the contract and either you should be reimbursed or they have to deliver the missing click. That Facebook talk publ
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by bomdo 10y ago
The code is very readable! Especially because it's not using a lot of external libraries. Including the twitter bot is a very nice touch. Awesome! One of the key features of golang is concurrency. Your code is single-threaded, even tho
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by bomdo 10y ago
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/moonbaseotago/onerng-an... It's a ~$50 USB dongle, opensource and available for shipping. Anecdotally, I personally used it for an RF project that need uniform randomness
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by bomdo 10y ago
Great question. Even a human brain has to train for ~4-5 months to become interested in shapes ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_visual_development ). Once the human brain has been trained for these basic shapes for