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by curun1r 9y ago
You could make it more than just a fight over coastal access. You could make it so that he has more at stake than just this case. He publishes a list of companies his firm has a financial interest in: http://www.khoslaventures.co
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And it's because of dumb non-programmers that we have 12am immediately following 11pm. If we were to, instead, recognize the beginning/middle of the day as 0, the am/pm transitions would be sensible. Starting at 0 is almost a
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The 15 years you see on paper. The 1 year 15 times you see during the interview. Almost no candidate comes in with a fabricated version of constant learning throughout their career. Many will try to fabricate or embellish the end state--wha
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He said he wanted to stay remote. If he was willing to come to the Valley or SF or even Silicon Beach, he could get more.
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This may be unconventional advice, but with your level of experience, I say don't try to maximize compensation right now. Instead, look to find the best experience possible so you can have the best narrative possible when you've g
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Hence the attempt at humor through deliberate misinterpretation of an ambiguously-worded statement where the intent was clear.
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Especially now that we're seeing effects of air pollution that go beyond respiratory issues: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25310992
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> But congestion? That's going to get a lot worse, it's not going to be the utopia that people here seem to expect. Some congestion, but other congestion will get better. Parking shortage is a form of congestion that will get b
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I'm the same way. In middle school, I was sent to the principal's office because I complained to the teacher about a painful noise and the teacher thought I was just being disruptive. There it was determined that the "silent&
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It's probably going to depend on the Supreme Court now, since other circuit courts have issued opposing decisions. Here's one from the last time I remember it being discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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I'd just like to say how dispiriting I find this question considering I how envious of my friends $4k+ computer I was because it had 64mb of RAM and could play C&C Red Alert with absolutely no slowdown. Let that sink in...in the mi
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It probably should, since it would mean that the site isn't hashing passwords with even the most ancient cipher. Bonus ineptness points are given for not using a prepared statement or sanitizing the SQL query. As a software developer,
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by curun1r 9y ago
Awesome! Given the somewhat excessive egress prices charged by AWS/S3 and GCP/Cloud Storage for sites hosted on those services, I've always considered Netlify (and others with similar services) as the companion piece to Lambd
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by curun1r 9y ago
> Are you seriously suggesting that we shouldn't help disadvantaged black Americans simply because disadvantaged Jewish Americans didn't need it? Perhaps he's suggesting that black, white, Jewish, etc aren't the chara
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> Probably because financial success is more important in such countries, gender stereotypes be damned I don't know that you can say that financial success is more important in those countries, but I think you can say that tech is a
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> I know plenty of guys that tinkered with PC's as young as 10 years old, and zero women that did so. It's seen as a boy thing, like cars. The interesting thing, to me, is that you can't look at those 10-year-olds in isola
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I'm surprised that so many people, especially intelligent people from Google like you, completely ignore the "false negative" part and respond to his claim as if he'd said "false positive" instead. You're
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I'd go one step further and say that he's being fired for completely misunderstanding the nature of Google's diversity efforts. He's responding to an attempt to create an equitable work environment. Google is more intere
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> That is, those people don’t deserve to be at Google, and he doesn’t believe that they are qualified. You should read what he wrote more closely. He said that Google was creating hiring practices that "lowered the bar by decreasi
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by curun1r 9y ago
Perhaps rather than legalizing hacking, we should inject a common middleman into the vulnerability reporting process. In the US, it could be the Consumer Product Safety Commission. It would ensure that those accepting reports are knowledgea
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I'm assuming it's satire referring to those required job postings that are intended to single out a specific H1-B candidate but need to be posted anyways to satisfy the "we looked for an American and couldn't find one&qu
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This is a case where the airline should sign the information in the QR code. Lounges get the airlines' public keys and pick the one for the passenger's flight and, after verifying the signature, can trust the information in the QR
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> but after one year you are hit with a huge bill That's the thing, it's really not much of a bill if you do it right. Aside from possibly the S3 bandwidth bill, which could easily be avoided by using something like Netlify, no
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by curun1r 9y ago
Your characterization of startup cloud costs is laughably outdated. With credits for startups and the ability to go serverless, I've known startups that didn't pay a dime for hosting their entire first year despite reaching the th
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This is part of DNS. Having a period after the domain tells DNS not to search any search domains setup on the system. If your system was setup with the search domain example.com, www.independent.co.uk could also be evaluated as www.independ
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Is this really new? I remember when System.nanoTime was introduced in the early 2000s largely because of the reasons stated here. System.currentTimeMillis was slow and had jitter which made it non-monotonic but it was the best method to cal
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> Electric car sales are widely expected overtake gasoline cars in the next 30 years I'd go one step further WRT trends in the next 30 years. Sales won't matter much and car ownership is going to nosedive. Self-driving cars mak
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I spent much of last year in Southeast Asia within ten degrees of the equator and rarely had A/C. It wasn't a problem for me, though my computer was often unhappy. I went to Egypt as a teenager and remember the temperature in Shar
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Having implemented crypto algorithms for educational and enjoyment purposes, I've always looked at "don't roll your own crypto" as less having to do with the actual writing of code which, as you state, isn't really
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> Then Libsodium danced on the same line, and I was able to compare the results (they behave the same, phew). Do they really? What about timing attacks? Does all your code run in constant time? If not, there's a whole class of vulne

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