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by czep 11y ago
Threat model: I'm an ordinary consumer doing ordinary consumer things, and I don't want to have my identity stolen or my browsing habits being sold at auction. Highest feasible level of protection against state and nonstate adver
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Ask HN: How to harden an android phone
12 points by czep 11y ago|7 comments
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by czep 11y ago
What bums me out is the Thiokol executives who really were responsible for this national tragedy, did they ever feel any remorse? Did they repay their debts? Did they even acknowledge that they royally fucked up? No, they collected milli
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by czep 11y ago
You can build apps with R, but the result will be the ugliest code you have ever seen. For me, R for research and prototyping, then Python for productionalizing.
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by czep 11y ago
I, for one, must admit to having almost completely ignored Python 3 until very recently. One thing I discovered that is way awesomer than you can imagine is Unicode handling: it just works! I'd say Unicode was a tricky issue in 50% o
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by czep 11y ago
Designing good session identifiers for logging is not trivial. More importantly, with a lot of events happening in javascript, a lot of user interactions are occurring beyond the visibility of your server logs. Tracking js events is also
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Ask HN: Best broadband speed test
1 points by czep 11y ago|1 comments
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by czep 11y ago
Now that sites are being more aggressive when detecting ad blockers, but they still want search engines to index the site and so they happily serve content to the crawlers... Would it be possible to write a browser plugin that can let your
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by czep 11y ago
This is a huge misconception: tech is actually a small percentage of SF employment, especially at the high end. Those $4k+ rents are being paid by bankers and lawyers. It's still called the "Financial District" for a reaso
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by czep 11y ago
This is only because the current government is populated by reactionary conservatives who are making many such foolish propositions. I hardly think this qualifies as a legitimate reason. Besides, they will clearly fail, as the current bac
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by czep 11y ago
You just cited a blog which has this on their About Us page: "If whites permit themselves to become a minority population, they will lose their civilization, their heritage, and even their existence as a distinct people." Instead
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by czep 11y ago
> Of course, this theory makes the (incorrect) assumption that poor folks are working. Most poor are working. Not sure what your point was, but don't try to pull the "their poor because they're lazy" argument.
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by czep 11y ago
A reaction to all the poorly configured unsubscribe landing pages. I click unsubscribe, wait 15 seconds for a page to load offering me to "review my subscription settings" filled with 99 checkboxes I have to tick individually, fo
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by czep 11y ago
Just because you learned of it just now doesn't make it a "re-definition". Who gave you the right to call your definition the real one?
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by czep 11y ago
Thank you. At the very least this helps put things in perspective ;)
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Ask HN: How to negotiate severance?
9 points by czep 11y ago|8 comments
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by czep 11y ago
We're talking about computer names here which is admittedly a very nerdy topic but can we do so without descending to this level? You may find that funny, but it merely contributes to the stereotype of technical folk as basement-dwell
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by czep 11y ago
Philosophers work well too: leibniz, spinoza, kant, russell, quine, nietzsche. At various times I have used European capitals, characters from Futurama, characters from Dr Who (although everyone fought over who got 'k9'). Naming
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by czep 11y ago
With the probability of a major earthquake on the Hayward or San Andreas faults at 76% within 30 years, we need to invest in a similar system. How can we make this happen?
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Japan's earthquake early warning system(blog.japantimes.co.jp)
2 points by czep 11y ago|1 comments
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by czep 11y ago
Thanks for the link, great guidance from PG as always. From what I know, the CEO has already given the green light -- or at least enough of a green light to send in M&A. Although we didn't actually meet with the CEO, our contact w
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Ask HN: How to prepare for M&A meeting?
1 points by czep 11y ago|2 comments
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by czep 11y ago
But neither you nor they can do that math with sufficient precision. Certainly not to the degree of accuracy where 150k vs 130k will make or break them. There are a lot of unknowns: your raw talent + their code base + how well you will wo
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by czep 11y ago
But don't sell yourself short just because you're not Vint Cerf! You don't have to be a celebrity programmer to demand to be compensated what you're worth. Let them decide if you're capable of adding value on top
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by czep 11y ago
Yes that stinks but you did gain valuable experience nonetheless. You should get as much interviewing practice as you can, it's an investment in your career. The situation has happened to me too and it's frustrating and demorali
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by czep 11y ago
I'm trying to counteract what I consider a naive assumption that internal recruiters are more aligned with your interests or the firm's interests than are external recruiters. In a startup, yes, you are more likely to be talking
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by czep 11y ago
> Look, a negotiation is not about trying to mind read what the other party will accept. There's nothing wrong about discussing what you want. I agree 100% with your first sentence, but not the second. As you note, everything is ne
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by czep 11y ago
Dude, internal recruiters are on a 6 month contract, they have no more loyalty to the company than the water cooler repair man. They get paid to undercut you. If you reveal your salary to them, it's basically like handing them a pers
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by czep 11y ago
Because they don't know how much you will accept. They have salary bands, a budget, and past experience, but they've never encountered you before. If you give away your salary requirements, you may well cost yourself a great
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by czep 11y ago
> When asked this question I would suggest you ask the recruiter for his budget in return, or to simply state your salary requirement (rather than your current salary) instead. I would argue that even this should be avoided. Salary nego

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