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by gizi 11y ago
Big problem. People will generally stop using phones of which they suspect that they are back-doored. At the same time, it would be a hopeless endeavour for law enforcement to get a swarm of (Chinese or other Asian) companies to help with u
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by gizi 11y ago
I have been working remotely for over ten years. I agree with most of what OP Mark says. There is one big caveat, however. Without specific measures to address the issue, working remotely is experienced as very isolating. Therefore, it requ
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by gizi 11y ago
Salaries are very inflationary. Especially housing just adapts to what people can pay. If people can pay more, housing will just cost more. Of course, this is also very much assisted by government regulations that prevent building new house
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by gizi 11y ago
I reject the use of voice calls (I actually no longer use a phone) because synchronous communications interrupt what you are doing right now, and more importantly because they lack a proof-of-work barrier. Written communications automatical
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by gizi 11y ago
> So if you apply for a position at Google and they offer you a job that suits your skill set and background you should not take the job because Google potentially has a list of thousands of people they could replace you with? wat? Yes,
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by gizi 11y ago
> technology is not the primary driver of value most of the time Most probably. My advice is just that it is a bad idea for a software engineer to work in an environment where technology is clearly not the primary driver of value. >
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by gizi 11y ago
> Your HR department has a list of 'potential hires' to replace any position in your company at a moments notice. The quickest way to build a bad reputation is to think you are not replaceable and act accordingly. Things are pr
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by gizi 11y ago
It probably works like that in the corporate world. But then again, most corporations today are pretty much like taxi companies waiting for their own Uber to put them out of business. The company of the future is rather a platform running o
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by gizi 11y ago
> ... the dev decided he wasn't getting enough of the pie and bailed, destroying the entire enterprise ... Business guys are typically going to make more money than the coders are, it's pointless to fight this. The dev apparent
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by gizi 11y ago
70% of what they are funding in SV is absolutely nonsensical, while 70% of what makes sense is not even located in SV. This percentage is bound to keep going up. SV will not remain the center of the technology startup world for much longer.
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by gizi 11y ago
A housing crisis is pretty much always caused by government policies. It would be perfectly possible to build a satellite town up to 50 miles outside a major agglomeration connected by a high-speed transport link, such as a highway or train
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by gizi 11y ago
> What they're worried about is 15 years from now, where all communications and storage technology is end-to-end encrypted ... Encryption is basically a branch of mathematics. Outlawing all mathematics that can be used for the purpo
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Jsonlex: Alternative text scanner to flex, based on PCRE(github.com)
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by gizi 11y ago
Besides diet and exercise, there is also the issue of social hygiene. Many people have become hardcore individualists. They do not even have a husband or a wife, let alone have meaningful interactions with other family members. You see, reg
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by gizi 11y ago
Many things can help you to overcome feelings of depression. It is not an issue impossible to address. However, what certainly contributes to it, is social isolation. Therefore, the rampant individualization of western/urban society ba
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by gizi 11y ago
The internet has completely changed contracting for me. The contract is the email thread up to the point at which we have an agreement. If the counter-party suggests that we sign another document than that, he is a liar and a cheater, and I
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by gizi 11y ago
I agree with snubbing glibc, systemd, and apt-get. Seriously, it is about time to put an end to the bloated fatibubbul fest going on over there! I intend to move my dockers to alpine. I will only come back to debian after and not before the
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by gizi 11y ago
I am only ever in the market for co-founder jobs, and not really looking at the moment, because I really like my current co-founder job. Besides good domain knowledge, and preferably an existing customer base, the non-technical co-founder w
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by gizi 11y ago
I stopped using Dropbox after the Snowden revelations broke loose. Dropbox does not use end-to-end encryption. You have to encrypt by yourself. That is not particularly hard, but it still means that you are storing your files in a honeypot
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by gizi 11y ago
With change inevitably and regularly hitting technology, everybody in the field will end up becoming self taught. The ones who are not, will sooner or later have to leave. A demonstrated ability to self teach is therefore the number one req
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by gizi 11y ago
The reason why universities do not teach welding, is because it would become too clear to everybody involved that the teacher is not particularly a good welder. If he were, he would be welding and not teaching. The same holds true for progr
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by gizi 11y ago
> but 99.9% of developers will never make half of what a specialized MD or successful lawyer or someone in finance might make. It is exactly the other way around. Mark Zuckerberg is a PHP programmer, not an MD or a lawyer. Same for Bill
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by gizi 11y ago
Pick a niche (with good characteristics) and make sure to be good at things in that niche. From there on, the client or employer will obviously pay you in the way that you want (freelance or employee). The work will also be maximally intere
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by gizi 11y ago
Uber are not a taxi company. Technology has changed the nature of the ball game. Suing Uber will not make any difference to that. In fact, it is not enough to sue Uber. They would also have to sue all the copycat platforms that mimic Uber a
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by gizi 11y ago
It is not 50,000 versus 100 but 50,000 versus 500,000 or even 5,000,000. Most people (in advanced economies) work for family businesses. The government would never bail them out. It only bails out large interests. That is unfair, because th
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by gizi 11y ago
The internet has solved most problems that the article is referring to; but not for everybody. From his "village of mountains, rivers and trees" he could create the next facebook on his laptop (or even something less ambitious). T
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by gizi 11y ago
I've dropped AZERTY more than 10 years ago. Nowadays I use QWERTY with "US, international with dead keys" as keyboard layout. It works much better than AZERTY. You don't need to remember where all the accented letters ar
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by gizi 11y ago
The startup scene consists of say 100 individuals or small groups who will try something. One will succeed and 99 will fail. This is normal. What is not normal, is that countries like France will persecute the 99 other ones, and even put th
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by gizi 11y ago
My job is to evolve and secure a particular bitcoin platform. Money directly stolen out of a platform wallet is an unneeded problem. It should never happen. It should not be possible for an attacker to give that instruction. The system shou
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by gizi 11y ago
You will probably just want one that is good enough and which happens to be available. In the end, why would she need to be better than good enough?

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