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by dotBen 4y ago
Self-taught in the 90's, employed as a SWE in early 2000's at a top-tier employer. I was not successful and ultimately pivoted to Product Management and have had a successful career since. I mastered functional and then object-o
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by dotBen 4y ago
Yes I assumed we were talking about fan boost. Glad to hear it's going/gone, I don't follow FE closely enough to have known it's been discontinued.
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by dotBen 4y ago
But it's just as easy to point a DNS record from hr.internal.dropbox.com or techblog.dropbox.com to trusted third party vendors as it is to set up a new domain, but the use of subdomains maintains the security model.
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by dotBen 4y ago
Side note - proliferating the use of other top-level domains for official use (as they have done here for their tech blog) certainly doesn't help Dropbox's security envelope when it comes to phishing. "Access your new employ
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by dotBen 4y ago
Yes, and if you are an actual motorsport fan creating a 'mario kart boost' mode makes your sport look dumb. At least the way F1 does KERS is more controlled and logical (maximum amount of charge = maximum amount of additional hors
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by dotBen 4y ago
Then bluntly but respectfully, join a startup (or a non profit like archive.org, Mozilla, Signal etc). Don't hang out at Twitter. Not sure if you personally are a Twitter employee but Twitter fits a certain demographic of employee who
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by dotBen 4y ago
Your comment basically sums up the entire goal and strategy of this exercise - it's surprising how many smart people here seem to have missed the point, gone down rabbit holes about how you can't traverse functions on printed pape
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by dotBen 4y ago
Same, and I don't even play vinyl anymore
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by dotBen 4y ago
Tl;dr - you should have bought 1210 or 1200's, mkII mkIII or mkV, 20 years ago :)
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by dotBen 4y ago
In addition to other good ideas here - identify and reach out to recruiters. Engineers, like most professional jobs, are either hired through the team's professional network or otherwise recruiters because no hiring manager is going to
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by dotBen 4y ago
It's a standard industry term, you're pushing an uphill battle if you want to change that. Also, if you want to pedantic (which you are a little bit) 'contribution' (ie individual contributor ) in its strictest interpre
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by dotBen 4y ago
Yes they were! I remember a lot of Usborne books in the house generally.
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by dotBen 4y ago
I get the point about government access and agree it's a sad state of affairs. The difference is Tesla has a lot to lose if they can't demonstrate adequate consumer protection of the data from theft/unauthorized access - and
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by dotBen 4y ago
Lots of late 30's/early 40-something Brits in this sub thread I think :D BBC Micro was the first computer I ever used, in 1986 upon entering primary school. I remember learning DART and programing the turtle to move around using L
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by dotBen 4y ago
Learning to manage a self hosting environment is a great skill to learn but I would point out there are plenty of people on HN who have these skills but prefer to rely on managed providers. Even including people who manage infrastructure pr
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by dotBen 4y ago
Platforms not providing OAuth and the ability to delegate access to an appropriate sub-set of data and utility permission is nothing new. Almost every major platform I can think of was slow to provide what it's innovation community wan
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by dotBen 4y ago
Whether or not this is a canary for negative impact to the integrity of WhatsApp e2e, this move was enough to move my primary communication to Signal. Jan Koum not only had unvested shares, he was on the BOARD of Facebook and decided to qui
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by dotBen 4y ago
There were only two series of the UK version made, and a lot of it was unscripted or loosely scripted and a lot of improv on Ricky Gervais's part. The first two series of the US edition of The Office was kind of uncomfortable because i
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by dotBen 4y ago
I'm pretty sure this pilot is the same script as episode 1 of the original UK series. Clearly someone felt the need to recast and reshoot the series with US actors (plus Richard Ayoade), like they did the US Office. I wonder if that&#
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by dotBen 4y ago
I'm sorry to hear that.
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by dotBen 4y ago
The founder of Ubiquiti used to be a radio engineer on the AirPort product at Apple. Part of the reason he left was because the line became devalued in Apple's product lineup and would ultimately be shelved.
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by dotBen 4y ago
Yes, this is exactly right - his post is clearly the product of legal negotiations with Ubiquity and probably cleared by both them and his own counsel. He's well advised not to say more than he needs to, even if people in this communi
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by dotBen 4y ago
> I don't really understand the freak outs here. Because most people reuse the same email address and password, and are potentially way more exposed than you are.
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by dotBen 4y ago
They don't but realistically that is the incentive and motivation for many people - including technologists who ultimately decide to use their understanding of the market to leverage capital rather than code or perform a similar techni
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by dotBen 4y ago
Ironically the fact that you've written on that paper your ownership information actually makes said paper worth less than if you hadn't.
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by dotBen 4y ago
UDM Pros include their own local Unifi management runtime which will administer the full local network. After the security incident a few years ago, Ubiquiti pushed an update that let's you login to it via a local credential rather tha
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by dotBen 4y ago
Sure a QR code is cool, but it's pointless for getting laptops onto a network and for the most part isn't that the main usecase for needing to get onto someone's 3rd party wifi (eg at an office, airBnB, etc?). My phone has ex
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by dotBen 4y ago
But you can elect not to have your domain privacy protected. And if a bad actor is trying to grief another person they could list out their entire address, email, phone etc in the public WHOIS then transfer it over to them to create the &q
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by dotBen 4y ago
Sure, and if I may I'll politely rail back as a former hiring manager... :D I have no doubt that the senior software engineer with plenty of .net/python/whatever experience could pick up the needed JS if they were given the
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by dotBen 4y ago
(former hiring manager here) depends on seniority of role and candidate. If you are interviewing for an Eng I or Eng II role (or even more junior, if the company does that) at a large tech company you are likely going to get a 'blind

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