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by cj 2y ago
You can read the code, but it’s complex and convoluted. He referenced Backbone as a comparison point. If you compare Backbone’s source code to React’s source code, you’ll get what he means. Basically, libraries like Backbone are small and s
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by cj 2y ago
There’s a difference between on-call being in your job description and occasionally responding to slack messages to help out during an incident off hours.
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by cj 2y ago
Here’s a deterrent: 1) revoke all of their academic accreditations and degrees 2) put them on a public “do not publish” list permanently banning them from being named on any paper in a journal
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by cj 2y ago
> The proper response would be a suit to enforce a trademark Which I believe was their legal response. The problem is it should have stopped there. I'm sure Matt's lawyers aren't very happy with him at the moment. Legally,
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by cj 2y ago
Ah actually they’re 8mm cassette tapes and vhs-c. From 20-40 years ago
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by cj 2y ago
Side note: any recommendations for digitization services for ~80 mini DV tapes? Currently planning to try out LegacyBox, but the reviews are mixed.
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by cj 2y ago
Probably related. Their current fundraising efforts are enormous. Rumor is the minimum check they'll accept is $250 million. Valuation in the $150 billion range. It would be surprising if these exits weren't in some way connected
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by cj 2y ago
Apple truly has been very slow to market with a lot of basic features like this. And even this feature is only available to enterprises/schools with an IT department. For a mature OS (if you subscribe to the idea that iPadOS is an OS i
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by cj 2y ago
> I'm genuinely confused why they released it like that. I agree. Right now it's not very useful, but has the potential to be if they keep investing in it. Maybe. I think Google, Microsoft, etc are all pressured to release som
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by cj 2y ago
Moat could be things like direct integration into Gmail (ask it to find your last 5 receipts from Amazon), Drive (chat with PDF), Slides (create images / flow charts), etc. Not sure if their models are the moat. But they definitely hav
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by cj 2y ago
Interesting. I hadn’t considered it might be a security feature of his router!
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by cj 2y ago
We recently had a developer join our team and he got stuck setting up his dev environment. We use a .dev domain as a localhost alias, and turns out his ISP’s DNS wouldn’t resolve 127.0.0.1 (or whatever it is) for the .dev domain. Changing h
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by cj 2y ago
It's a solution to the problem of "our servers crashed at 2am, the product isn't functioning, and we have no one working right now capable of fixing it" How does it work at EU/UK companies?
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by cj 2y ago
Maybe my perspective is biased - I live on a river and fly my DJI Mini 4 Pro 1-2x a week sitting in my back yard, connected to wifi. The threat vector for my usage pattern is basically, a rogue firmware update could transmit the video feed,
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by cj 2y ago
Interesting: Reading the first page of the bitcointalk forum, the puzzle originated from this wallet, which has an incredible amount of volume going through it. 10,000+ transactions and over a million BTC sent/received. https:/&
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by cj 2y ago
> that doesn't mean someone can magically transport the data. The drone (and controller) needs internet connectivity to download firmware updates. The drone and controller both have wifi and both automatically connect to wifi when i
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by cj 2y ago
If I had to guess, they would do what was described in the article and try to descope (or better scope / negotiate) the question in a way they could answer with the tools they had. With a targeted question, and the Dewey decimal system
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by cj 2y ago
SIEM = Security Information & Event Management Factually, it is necessary for auditing and absolutely correlates with the extreme of needing to monitor the “usage” of “secrets”. In a highly auditable/“secure” environment, you can’t
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by cj 2y ago
Essentially, it’s straddling two extremes: 1) employees are trusted with secrets, so we have to audit that employees are treating those secrets securely (via tracking, monitoring, etc) 2) we don’t allow employees to have access to secrets w
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by cj 2y ago
My marketing department this week asked for my approval to spend $50k placing our logo in an IT newsletter with 300k subscribers. If you have an email list of 2 million… a lot of companies will pay $50-100k for a mention.
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by cj 2y ago
Related article from 4 days ago (with comments on scraping, specifically discussing removing HTML tags) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41428274 Edit: looks like it's actually the same author
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by cj 2y ago
> If the SaaS target customers are smaller companies / startups, then this may be viable I’m your target audience. The #1 issue I have with this concept is, as a customer, I would have to trust that you understand the performance li
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by cj 2y ago
What ended up working was hiring a Sales Manager instead of a VP. The lesser title attracted candidates who were happy to take direction from founders, and the founder still stays in the “head of sales” seat. Once the sales manager is rampe
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by cj 2y ago
Is Apple’s version of this any better? Clipboard is synced between phone/computers logged into iCloud although it doesn’t log history (at least visibly)
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by cj 2y ago
No, SAML is the standard these days and it’s supported nearly everywhere (where it matters). No vendor lock-in. Although I’m not sure why you’d go with a 3rd party idp rather than just using Google Workspace (or Microsoft equivalent).
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by cj 2y ago
As our company scaled, 7-figure ARR, the common refrain was it was time we hire a VP of Sales to help make our sales process "repeatable, scalable, blah blah". So we tried twice over 3 years with 2 different VP's. Both paid $
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by cj 2y ago
Agreed, to an extent. If this happening as frequently as the article suggests, and if Arcadia operates over 50 hospitals, you’d think there would be at least 1 law firm dedicated solely to prosecuting this specific hospital. Skip the class
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by cj 2y ago
If the goal is to shock people into thinking a certain way, 20,000 deformed infants has more or less the same shock-value as 1 million deaths. (Obviously talking about Thalidomide here)
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by cj 2y ago
Presumably any organization/government smart enough to break cryptography would be smart enough not to do anything that would reveal their ability, unless they wanted their ability known.
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by cj 2y ago
I was watching a WW2 documentary yesterday and learned Nazi Germany’s encryption had already been (mostly) cracked by the time they entered the war, which (don’t quote me) significantly influenced the outcome of the war. They thought their

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