exelius

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by exelius 11y ago
> I just have to say this: So typically american. The attitude presented in the article is indeed typically American -- but not for the reason I think you intended. The quintessential American quality is the belief that every person ha
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by exelius 11y ago
Yeah; unfortunately at startups where roles / expectations aren't clearly defined, this type of stuff happens. Honestly I doubt it was out of malice; it's simply easier at a small company for the CEO to make all the comp deci
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by exelius 11y ago
It is still relevant though; because for things like soft drinks that have an extremely low price-to-weight ratio, the only production model that makes sense is a local one. Coca-Cola doesn't just have 3 or 4 factories in the US that m
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by exelius 11y ago
Yeah, generally at any company large enough to have a dedicated HR function, dev leads usually don't get informed or consulted in salary decisions. I was confused by that one too; his expectations were out of line on that one IMO. The
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by exelius 11y ago
I personally hate stored procedures because they invite bad design. The code for them rarely makes it into source control, and even when it does there are often contextual parts of the schema that aren't included. If you can do them pr
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by exelius 11y ago
There are different approaches that make sense for different use cases. Is your use case a big database that you just run some commands on top of? Lambda seems great in that case! Just build a front-end client, have it interface directly wi
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by exelius 11y ago
I've found that the time itself is less valuable than articulating the workflow changes it can bring about. Saving an hour a week is great, but if you can save 30 seconds at the right time, it can have a much bigger impact. For example
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by exelius 11y ago
It's also likely that government accounting departments only report costs at the project level and not at the line-item level -- it is common practice to just report on CapEx vs. OpEx because there are so many variations as to how thin
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by exelius 11y ago
> And, in spite of our "mid 5 figures" price for the iOS+Android apps for a fairly simple app - the whole program of work the government department included this in, and hence the media reporting of "what the app cost&quot
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by exelius 11y ago
> the FBI is refusing to cooperate with the general public who own iPhones. Which I think is a perfectly rational thing for the FBI to do in the absence of a law stating that they must do so. I don't think it's the best thing f
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by exelius 11y ago
I would argue that Linux Vulkan support from Intel/AMD/NVidia is likely aimed more at Android than traditional Linux desktop distros. Also, the whole point of Vulkan is to move these card-specific optimizations outside of the core
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by exelius 11y ago
> Lest you jump to the argument that this would endanger operations, I would still point out two very salient facts: this information is not intelligence data, and as Schneier pointed out, this attack can be used against many in the US g
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by exelius 11y ago
> How do you determine if a vulnerability was there because it was overlooked in development, or if it was there because the government demanded it from the company but used the law to impose a gag order on the company preventing the pub
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by exelius 11y ago
That's the entire purpose of the FBI not disclosing this information though. Government agencies engage in game theory as well, and information asymmetry is a powerful tool.
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by exelius 11y ago
I guess the part I disagree with him on is that I actually expect the US government to act like malware authors. They've shown an affinity for the tactics before (using surveillance software, stingrays, etc) so it's at least perfe
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by exelius 11y ago
> Funny to call it reporting when it's more of an editorial by the renowned security researcher Bruce Schneier. I respect Bruce and he's done a ton of great work, but I obviously disagree with him on this point. I do not believ
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by exelius 11y ago
I agree with you, and I think this will eventually lead to a world where governments are unable to exert meaningful influence on large corporations. We're already starting to get there; I have a feeling that if the supreme court had fo
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by exelius 11y ago
This is bad reporting. The iPhone did not get less secure. It has always had this security hole. I, like many others here on HN, believe the vulnerability to be related to the lack of a secure hardware biometric / encryption module. If
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by exelius 11y ago
OpenGL is actually not all that common on Windows anymore -- D3D is more performant, and having a a DX11 compatible card isn't as big of a hurdle these days. Also, the big engines all support both for cross-platform reasons, but most d
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by exelius 11y ago
I think you just proved my point. No company would want to support this setup for the small number of users on Linux. It might be possible to support something narrow like SteamOS, but most of the times D3D wrappers end up failing as a port
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by exelius 11y ago
> It's possible Linux is still not ready for the Oculus, but it's not hard to use it as a gaming platform either. I repeat, the situation is not that dire. Well, that's why I said Linux is 3-5 years behind Windows rather t
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by exelius 11y ago
> Typically many game developers have no clue about Linux programming either. So poor performance doesn't surprise me. But ultimately, this is a weakness of the Linux platform. Most games today are cross-platform, so there is a core
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by exelius 11y ago
> Has anyone announced plans for a VR-capable Steam Machine? This is basically a non-starter until the video driver situation on Linux gets resolved. The core of the problem is that AMD/Nvidia only produce optimized drivers for thei
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by exelius 11y ago
Given that Linux gaming is perpetually 3-5 years behind Windows/console gaming, I'd say 3-5 years is probably a good bet for it running in any sort of usable capacity (i.e. more than a tech demo someone reverse engineered to prove
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by exelius 11y ago
Windows PCs (especially enterprise laptops) are a commodity at this point. One brand doesn't offer a significantly better/worse product than another outside of build quality (which even then is usually just a factor of price). You
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by exelius 11y ago
> The recently concluded lawsuit comes to mind — there was no business case for not settling it at the earliest. They didn't settle at all, and took it to the US Supreme Court. I'm inclined to disagree. Apple is a global compan
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by exelius 11y ago
> A startup in my town recently launched an app that basically acts as uber for established taxi companies. Interesting to see how that plays out. If it's like any other city, the taxi drivers will cancel the ride as soon as you get
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by exelius 11y ago
Sorry; I should have said grocery delivery only scales past a single neighborhood without a distribution center. You're certainly right; grocery delivery was more or less a regular service before the advent of the massive suburban supe
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by exelius 11y ago
Grocery delivery only really works as a business if you're shipping the orders from a distribution center. I believe Peapod (and others like FreshDirect) use this method: they have a giant warehouse full of food, and they load trucks u
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by exelius 11y ago
Uber only worked because they found a market that was heavily regulated at the local level. Most industries with this sort of regulation are extremely difficult to disrupt thanks to regulatory capture. But the taxi industry was almost exclu

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