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by d_watt 4y ago
Thanks for the detailed response. I definitely don't take it angrily. One additional point of context is I managed a Series B SAAS companies first SOC 2 (and its renewal) in the recent past, so I definitely understand what you're
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Slightly different, but in a past life working in a field the company had extreme access to people's homes, we definitely weeded out some people who should not be given access to a strangers home using background checks. Again, they&#x
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by d_watt 4y ago
If you're in B2B, plenty of larger companies will disqualify for not having SOC2/ISO27001. Also, it can help get you out of repeat security assessment questionnaires, so it can actually give you time back, depending on how many of
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by d_watt 4y ago
Those systems tend to stamp your account information into the PDF, as well.
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Part of taking on SOC 2 is also choosing whether you want your attitude to be "Let's do the minimum to get past the audit" and "Let's take this framework, and figure out where we can learn from it." The post me
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by d_watt 4y ago
I've never met a company that gave SOC 2 out without an NDA. In fact, I'd consider it a negative indicator of maturity to not require it.
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I'll agree that there are many situations where blockchain is being misapplied. I think it's very unfair to say there aren't any applications though. Blockchain solves the problem of "everyone has an agreed upon history
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Interesting. When you say that's the problem they're intended to solve, do you have a link to that as their intended use case. IE is that "a" usecase or "the" usecase? I've never seen submodules used for t
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by d_watt 4y ago
Relatively few people are against the blockchain as an interesting technology for creating distributed truth in areas that can actually benefit from that. I think if we're extending your age of sail metaphor, I think people are against
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by d_watt 4y ago
Git submodules aren't bad in that they're buggy, they do what the documentation suggests. I think they're difficult to use, because it breaks my mental model of how I expect a repository to work. It creates a new level of abs
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by d_watt 4y ago
Interesting. What would you say the use case is for this, rather than setting up read replicas? Not having to maintain routing to the replicas on the application side?
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1. While that’s true there’s no reason to think that extreme case is normal for these. 2. Even if it was, it’s sort of irrelevant. When considering the safety of the feature, the whole process, including allowing the driver to become distra
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by d_watt 4y ago
I know this is the discussion as old as JWTs, but the tradeoff here is how do deauthenticate the user. If you delete/disable the user, or change their role, there's still a stateful JWT out there claiming they have certain grants.
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by d_watt 4y ago
Every B2B app I've ever worked on eventually needs some type of calendar view / integration.
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My even dumber reason 5 years go was sublime's extension system at the time didn't allow styling of the file explorer, so git status wasn't available. The entire editor being easily tweakble is the killer feature of web-tech
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You having a legal right to discuss pay means your companies can't prevent it, and you could sue for wrongful termination if they fired you for it. This is as opposed to the government having no opinion, and a company could fire you fo
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by d_watt 4y ago
As a small anecdote as someone who switched from atom, the killer feature for VS Code is being extendable AND performant. I used to use atom for a flexible text editor, and then still have to use sublime text if I wanted to open a large fil
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by d_watt 4y ago
It's in the article, the section being discussed in this thread: https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2022/05/19/speeding-up-sort-p...
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by d_watt 4y ago
Not for OLAP, but this seems to be about OLTP. If you're trying to sort 10GB of data for a traditional OLTP query, I would consider that "too large" and need of some data structure optimization. Also it's specifically ab
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Thanks for the link. Now I need to dig deeper on all the concerns brought up there around non-atomicity and table level locking! Seems like it could be useful specifically for bulk uploads.
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Does this fill the same role as "Insert - On Conflict Do Update," but it doesn't require unique indexes?
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I'll +1 firebase as the easiest managed solution for this work. There are competitors like supabase that can do the same thing. Alternatively, where both your examples are about showing things to the user, maybe product walkthrough sof
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by d_watt 5y ago
Just to throw in another anecdote, I realized a bias I was having interviewing. Talking with candidates who used airpods was such bad audio, that I was less engaged and generally had to devote more energy to understanding them, leaving me w
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by d_watt 5y ago
For some reason, it's stuck in my head that CSVs can't be streamed, as they cannot be parsed until you have the whole thing, due to the nuance of quotes, excaping, and newlines. IE 1,2,3 a,b,c d,e", " g,h,i Or is there a
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Ask HN: Open-source data model definition
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Probably one of the questions here is how your company defines Senior. I’ll assume we actually mean “senior” and not “We give out senior to anyone with more than 3 years of experience because the title make it easier to hire.” I don’t think
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by d_watt 5y ago
Can't you also value a thing for the history they represent? The tomb of the unknown soldier isn't sacred because it's human remains, they're sacred because of their story.
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I've been curious, if this is true, why hasn't intel moved the goalpost for 7nm and declared victory, rather than the constant black eye of not having achieved that "marketing" number for years?
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It depends on the implementation and definition of “datetime” in whatever you’re working with. Taking Postgres as an example: date: the concept of a calendar date (Your birthday) timestamp: the concept of of a calendar datetime (You should
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Ultimately, this is the same problem as “is ‘04’ > 3”? That is to say, you can only properly compare two things of the same types, and you can either implicitly or explicitly cast. The easiest option is that comparators should only work

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