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by bostik 7y ago
> here's the operative question: were they wrong to set their priorities the way they did? Yes. Let me ask this the other way, in a different context. Say your company builds rapid-assembly prefab building components. You have bui
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by bostik 7y ago
The SEO toxic sludge has become so pervasive that I can't trust any search these days. Here's an example from just last week. I was searching for the official AWS security certificates (namely, for ISO27001), which AWS neatly publ
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by bostik 7y ago
Branding? The leading octets in MAC addresses are often called "vendor prefixes", and are assigned to various hardware vendors. Apple probably wants to ensure that all their devices show up in ARP scans and MAC lookups as Apple d
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by bostik 7y ago
Let me count the ways. 1. Long state of indecision. For a very long time, as the news from around the world brought images of falling skies, the Finnish government actively avoided making any decisions. G: "we defer to THL". THL
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by bostik 7y ago
Looking at the log-graphs of confirmed cases, Sweden is a freaky outlier. Other countries with reliable (ish) numbers show a nearly continuous smooth slope, where as Sweden's graph has a rather curious inflection point. In the official
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by bostik 7y ago
I've been thinking about this for a while. A fairly simple solution would be to turn the incentives around. In the EU, people are already the rightful owners of their data, so that needs to be applied world wide. But that's not en
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by bostik 7y ago
I agree that at current state almost all physical self-service systems suck. Royally. The only exceptions I can think of are petrol pumps, ATMs (please read on), and to a certain extent, ticket kiosks. I would claim that ATMs are in fact
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by bostik 7y ago
As far as phishing goes, few things are more effective than popping a medium sized law firm and sending form letters from their (legit) systems as a real person. Click-through rate for a technically legitimate "you are party to a lawsu
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by bostik 7y ago
Heh, personal tastes matter. A friend wanted a decent chef's knife but didn't know which one would be good. I have a Global, the handle of which he found too "flimsy". His hands are wider than mine, so I took a risk and
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by bostik 7y ago
I would think this is orthogonal to REST-vs-RPC: > the presumption that GET is safe for [reads] GET requests are supposed to be idempotent and side-effect free. Sadly, too often, they are not. Internal state gets mutated, a query paramet
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by bostik 7y ago
There would also be an incentive to manufacture more times of need.
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by bostik 7y ago
I'd like it if someone actually thought of the adults, for a change.
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by bostik 7y ago
The US regulators are painfully aware of device rooting and how it allows to subvert any client-side security measures. Disclosure: I have been dealing with certain state regulators and their morbid fear of forged geo-location data for a nu
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by bostik 7y ago
Which is exactly why I specified that the wronged party gets to name the item in the other's catalog.
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by bostik 7y ago
The solution is to go nuclear and enshrine adversarial balance in law. If a company, or an agent acting in their name , makes a fraudulent copyright claim, then have the wronged party name one item in the offending company's catalog t
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by bostik 7y ago
Smarkets | Full Time | ONSITE (London, UK; also Downtown LA, California) We're a modern betting exchange, going technology first to enable proper price competition in a field of fat commissions. Join a small and agile team in our beaut
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by bostik 7y ago
I've come up with a few interview questions, and reviewed a few more. In my experience there's a ~decent rule of thumb for gauging difficulty and time required to solve a given problem. A person in your company, after having read
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by bostik 7y ago
Very likely true. Fact: the regulations forbid telling the customer that they are being investigated for AML violations. Because absence of signal is itself a signal, the banks are highly incentivised to keep all kinds of communications a
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by bostik 7y ago
Disclosure: I am an outlier, and work for a company where salaries are public.[ß] I have never read through the full list of what anyone makes. I honestly don't care. I have checked whether a particular engineer has got a raise I hav
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by bostik 7y ago
TSDBs are a special case of databases. And oh boy, time-series is hard . Your regular RDBMS is going to be either write-heavy or read-heavy. You can pretty easily[ß] optimise the database for one of these utilisation patterns. But a TSDB b
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by bostik 7y ago
Agile as a named methodology may date to 90s, but the concept of rapid iterations, incremental improvement, and constant feedback cycles has been on the books since at least 1950s. The last time[0] I vented on the subject, I had to dig out
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by bostik 7y ago
It's definitely part of the job. If you don't understand what the problem is that you're trying to solve, how can you verify that the constraints you are working with actually make sense?
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by bostik 7y ago
A large part of the problem is that grand majority of software (at least if it's facing actual human clients) is constantly trying to search or validate market-fit. If you don't get it out first, you're going to lose to a com
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by bostik 7y ago
The article mentions how one part of change is that regulations may have changed. I work in a heavily regulated industry, and am dealing with a set of regulators nearly all who depend on just one particular auditing company to ... effective
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by bostik 7y ago
Not defending Google, but this is dangerous myopia: > Those are the kinds of mistakes that kill most companies. All companies make big mistakes and burn lots of money on failed projects. The difference between a medium-sized company an
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by bostik 7y ago
Oh cool, so they work now? When I was setting up internal PKI back in 2015, I wanted to limit the CA to be less dangerous. At the time name constraints did not work. At all. It wasn't possible to create a CSR with the field in OpenSSL,
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by bostik 7y ago
> An overnight mission at McMurdo Depending on the time the year, perhaps. What's the longest possible time from sunset to sunrise at those latitudes?
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by bostik 7y ago
For number 3, I mean lonely in general. I've experienced it myself and witnessed a number of good people get burned. As engineers, makers, tinkerers and creators, we tend to find our social networks among like-minded folk. When I was r
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by bostik 7y ago
As someone who did 7 years remote-only, I have gathered some insights. 1: Synchronisation of effort for a team is absolutely crucial . 2: The top priority is for the teams to communicate amongst themselves fluently, and feel comfortable to
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by bostik 7y ago
Maybe they can convince and buy pro.be domain from the Belgian registry (who have marked it as "not available"). That way you could have a subdomain for every conceivable phenomenon, surface and orifice.

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