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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Recruiting is tough. Thinking about my last job transition, there was probably a golden period of two weeks where I was truly open to all recruitment possibilities. By the end of those two weeks I was starting to move into the offer stages.
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
When you are a company leader, your words can have a material effect on your business. This is doubly so true at a disruptive point like leadership exits. Of course words are going to be delicately chosen? That being said I didn't noti
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Why would 2FA of all things be the critical issue? Tech savvy people should understand and use hardware security keys at this point to be securing their cloud accounts in general.
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Google has supported WebAuthn security keys for a while now. Don't give your phone number if you don't want to.
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
People who continue to work Facebook at are going to face tough questions not just from current-day peers, but from future generations about why they willingly continued to work for such a company when there were no shortage of other opport
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
I don't understand why this blog post has invited non-sequiturs about Kubernetes. Autoscaling is only one small part of what Kubernetes provides.
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
You're making a point about the permanence of laws by citing the Patriot Act, which started to expire in 2006 and expired completely in 2020.
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
There is an enormous amount of L7 tooling and practice that already exists for securing, optimizing, monitoring, and modifying HTTP traffic.
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
No permission prompt, just as there is no permission prompt for WebGL (which already enables crypto mining on your GPU). https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.13071&ved=2ahUKEwipqPGblenzAhWDbs...
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
I did not actively change my path; I was exposed to security through my daily work as a full-stack dev at a security-focused startup, I had great mentors and colleagues who I was able to learn a great deal from, and I discovered I had a re
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Are there any possibilities for you to first work at a company doing full stack dev in a way that allows you to interact with security teams? Stuff like implementing the OWASP top ten? That was how I built up a skill set and knowledge base
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
There's always other proxies for quality given changing life circumstances. Generous parental leave matters much more to me now than office vibe.
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
I don't think the trend can be reversed. I don't blame social media, I think RSS is incapable on the supply side as well. Quality content producers are not going to use RSS because - HTML/CSS/JS allow for much more sophi
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Does any package ecosystem do this? Rust had the opportunity to start off doing the right thing but instead uses long-lived API tokens which can get easily owned.
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
The Shield is probably the most valuable bit of electronics in my home. It's the right level of complexity for family/guests to consume media. Gamestream, the Plex Server, and the ability to serve as a NAS are big wins as well.
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Peak glorification will happen when Cloudflare puts out a blog post about rewriting their entire stack in Rust.
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
At a previous company we had someone angrily call in with a bug. We had moved a button several pixels and this broke some automation they had built which relied on the pixel coordinates of the button. It was exactly as dumb as it sounded. S
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
That's a fair opinion. Like many academics and data scientists are probably fine with Python as a tool for scripting or as a simple interface language for calling C libraries. But if Python continues as is, it will continue to to lose
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
There are some organizations with lots of domain knowledge and expertise around around developing, securing and deploying Python and they don't have the Innovation Currency to spend on investing in a new language. Specific to your poin
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
If this effort succeeds (and I hope it does) now Python developers will need to contend with the event-loop albatross of asyncio and all of its weird complexity. In an alternate Python timeline, asyncio was not introduced into the Python st
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
I've noticed tech employees conducting organizing activities using workplace resources, such as Slack. Even if I agree with the spirit of organizing activity, many people doing it seem totally out of their depth. Of course you are goin
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Reddit is an interesting one. Since it's an anonymous experience, I guess it'd be the same issues with any internet community. It can be stressful to see seemingly abhorrent viewpoints in such concentrated numbers. And it can be s
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
A centralized authority and hundreds of years of legal tradition to resolve property disputes?
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
C2PA is an actual serious attempt to figure out the problem of cryptographic claims over media, but doesn't attract the same type of attention because it isn't associated with blockchain boosters. That's a shame. https:&#x2F
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Deno was fortunate to have come into existence as Web APIs were maturing (unlike Node). Deno can build on all of the years of discussions and concensus that went into features like the Web Crypto APIs (which looks great!)
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Ask HN: How is the Great Resignation affecting your company?
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
The ability for people to give away their Legos is one of the most important ways I guage an organization's health. If I'm in an established organization and I see a VP or director prescribing technical solutions to engineering pr
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Maybe you should back up and ask why you are limiting your search to those four/five companies?
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
They don't teach "pointed haired boss 101" in school. It's great that you are smart, and know this stuff now. But most people have to go through the hard lessons of having their good will and faith be abused by bad-faith
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
"Customers aren't paying you for beautiful code" was how this was phrased to me to a manager. If the Twitch codebase hadn't leaked, how many people would have known that their naughty-word-blocker was implemented in a le

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