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by eric_b 8y ago
> "According to the reports, political prisoners, mainly Falun Gong practitioners, are being executed "on demand" in order to provide organs to recipients." Wild... I had no idea this was going on. There are a lot o
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by eric_b 8y ago
The source code is paramount, no argument there. But this wasn't about that. I find the metadata less important, but as you say, I don't make the decisions. The factor you aren't considering is opportunity cost given produc
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by eric_b 8y ago
I'd have opted for 1 personally (losing 30 minutes of data) assuming I knew the alternative was 24 hours. I'll grant you they probably figured it would be much faster than that. Alternatively, why not just let the West-Coast repl
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by eric_b 8y ago
If I read things correctly, they made a fairly... interesting... tradeoff: 954 still-as-yet-unreconciled DB writes in exchange for 24 hours of site downtime. I think I'd have made a different choice, but cool that they were upfront abo
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by eric_b 8y ago
Yep, no doubt. The problem is they aren't getting rid of old foot guns, just adding new ones. And the new way with hooks isn't obviously superior to the old way (debatable to be sure, but with all the constraints hooks are not a
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by eric_b 8y ago
There are a lot of gotchas with these. Don't call in conditionals, branches, loops. Can only be called from function components. Order of invocation matters (yeck!) If the goal is helping developers "fall in to the pit of succes
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by eric_b 8y ago
It's this kind of morally righteous fury that bugs me. You compare web security to unsafe carnival rides? Please. Equifax had one of the worst breaches imaginable. So did Target. Far as I know, no one died. You know, I don't t
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by eric_b 8y ago
Troy's stance makes me uneasy. I'm sure publicly shaming these companies is effective, but where does the line get drawn? In my experience the infosec community strongly believes security is the most important thing, full stop
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by eric_b 8y ago
I think you're overthinking it. It's mostly just asking around. Go to a blue collar bar and chat with some of the guys sitting there. In small towns the VFWs or Legions are good choices. Talk to the ones drinking by themselves a
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by eric_b 8y ago
I agree it's a blind spot, but also a kind of arrogance and privilege. I know all about the unadvertised work world because I lived it for years. Many other Americans do too, but not the kind of people who frequent this forum. A gro
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by eric_b 8y ago
You sound pretty out of touch. In Iowa there is an enormous agriculture industry - an industry not known for asking a lot of personal questions about origin or current status. If you can show up and do the work (and maybe pass a drug test
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by eric_b 8y ago
As the author discovered, reliable transportation and a permanent residence are often prerequisites for many office jobs. However, I do know that in Iowa there are many other kinds of jobs, lots of which would pay a wage sufficient to get
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by eric_b 8y ago
Stephen Reinhardt was a self proclaimed activist judge. Wikipedia has decent info on how he conducted himself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Reinhardt#Judicial_phi... The very makeup of the court is unusual, a
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by eric_b 8y ago
The Ninth Circuit has a fairly obvious agenda. They are activist judges - using the bench to push policy. Whether you agree with them or not, there is nothing impartial about the way they conduct their work.
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by eric_b 8y ago
> "Keep enough spare capacity around to handle losing one of the biggest datacenters in the world" is pretty unreasonable. Err what? It's entirely reasonable to expect Azure to handle the loss of a single DC and not have a
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by eric_b 8y ago
In Minneapolis the best schools are not the best funded. The North Minneapolis schools, which perform the worst, have the highest funding per pupil by a fair margin. I wish we could stop talking about education as though it's just a q
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by eric_b 8y ago
There was no mass exposure of sensitive data. Two paths existed for determined attackers to get the home address and possibly SSN for individually targeted accounts. The process was manual and would have been difficult to automate to comp
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by eric_b 8y ago
HipChat was a great tool 3 years ago. Atlassian left it to wither on the vine. Really too bad, as I enjoyed its simplicity. Also, data export is great, sure, but what I really want is someone to re-setup all our build and monitoring notif
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by eric_b 8y ago
The gist of this seemed to be that we need to either allow unrestricted immigration, mainly from Africa, or up our robot game. So really, if the "robots are going to take all our jobs" people are correct, we should just stay the c
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by eric_b 8y ago
Prediction: SPAs and GraphQL are quickly heading towards the last few bullet points.
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by eric_b 8y ago
I second this! I always look for the chollida post in any kind of earnings release.
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by eric_b 8y ago
Honestly that captain is too calm. Sounds like she's drunk or drugged. I understand calm under fire, but she's talking slower than everyone else on that radio. Seems like quick replies to the point would be better than her lacka
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by eric_b 9y ago
That's great that you've got a set of principles that you live by, and are able to stick to them. However, your principles are not everyone's principles, and what you consider moral and ethical is not universal. Grellas had
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by eric_b 9y ago
I should wade back in and try again. I attempt to use a Linux distro as my daily driver every couple of years or so. I can usually get pretty close, but inevitably I end up going back to Windows and MacOS. There's small UI affordances
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by eric_b 9y ago
I'll be interested to see how this bifurcation of the Windows team plays out. Windows 10 has been a mixed bag - some nice new features but also a lot of half baked buggy stuff. The evergreen nature of Windows 10 feels like the right
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by eric_b 9y ago
StackPath came out of nowhere. As far as I could tell at the time, they didn't have any public products. And all of a sudden they bought MaxCDN. I could never tell if it was actually an acquisition or more of a merger or something el
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by eric_b 9y ago
This was really great. Very well written story. The fact that he was able to re-invent himself so many times is a testament to human will and adaptability. I'd wager his violin training in some way prepared him for "what it takes
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by eric_b 9y ago
Or my personal favorite: "Driving erratically"
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by eric_b 9y ago
I work from home a lot. I don't like shaving. I enjoy comfortable clothes. I go to the gym on the days I work from home. I also have what has been described to me as the male version of "resting bitch face" - which I take t
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by eric_b 9y ago
I would have said MaxCDN, but they recently got "acquired" by StackPath, so who knows what direction that's going.

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