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by gtsteve 8y ago
Oh dear. Given the audience for this article I'd assume that readers know that this configuration is not suitable for production... but then again it would probably be a good idea for the article to state that!
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by gtsteve 8y ago
I've tried writing this response a few times. Really I don't think this exists. Of course, you can usually resign if you don't like it inside a 3 month period with a shorter notice before the notice period goes up. However, r
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by gtsteve 8y ago
Great story, but I wouldn't call it "failed" because it showed that the company has really good security procedures. I don't know many companies that could have resisted this sort of internal threat. I've had pentes
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by gtsteve 8y ago
There are tricks around known to solve this, such as building intermediate solutions like what Gates proposes to do. When you have a serious issue in production that can be fixed with a global variable in 5 minutes or spending a day correct
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by gtsteve 8y ago
A lot of the key events are the same, although the timeline is moved around to introduce some characters sooner. The books go into far more detail about the cultures and their values, and backstory to the characters. I personally recommend
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by gtsteve 8y ago
I'm not a civil engineer but I do work with them occasionally. There are numerous challenges with this, probably the hardest is water pressure: if the water pressure cannot be guaranteed then poor plumbing can send waste water back int
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by gtsteve 8y ago
I'm a CTO (of a company quite a bit smaller than Uber) and I do basically everything in this article. One thing missed here (or that is out of scope of the article) which I think is actually very important is that engineering managers
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by gtsteve 8y ago
It happened in an embassy in another country, as opposed to an event that could be passed off as a mugging gone wrong. It was provably done by agents of the government, so that's what makes it especially inflammatory.
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by gtsteve 8y ago
Given some of the JS code I've seen recently, I honestly thought this was a serious library until I saw this: > Proponents of this new language (known as "sixers")
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by gtsteve 8y ago
You don't have to make a limited company but it might be necessary for some contracts. You might also have to carry insurance. An umbralla company might also be appropriate for you, especially if you're not 100% sure. It has been
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by gtsteve 8y ago
I don't see it as too much of a problem so long as you're not one of those teams that orchestrates their deployments using a Slack bot. Just make sure you have an agreed backup mechanism, i.e. Google Hangouts, Zoom, etc.
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by gtsteve 8y ago
All my team also uses Zoom, so we just switch to a group on Zoom when Slack goes down. It's not quite as nice as Slack but it gets the job done.
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by gtsteve 8y ago
Regarding referential integrity I don't disagree. It would be a process to be performed by an expert in who understands the data structures and what the effect of rolling them back would be. I might be wrong but I believe Aurora backup
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by gtsteve 8y ago
This is nice but it appears that the entire database instance gets rolled back to that point. It'd be a lot nicer if it could be done at a per-db or per-table granularity. Realistically I'd never use this feature because of the ri
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by gtsteve 8y ago
It's forked from MySQL 5.6 and 5.7. It's not open-source itself however so presumably they signed an agreement with Oracle to do this.
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by gtsteve 8y ago
> They nailed it with the slate keyboard edition. I'm not sure I agree. The keyboard is secondary to the reading experience, you only need it when you're searching on the online store or making notes. I've owned a Kindle 2
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by gtsteve 8y ago
OP, perhaps you might consider TopTal or similar? I have never worked for them but I hired a few of their guys for several momnths who were very good and they seemed to enjoy it. You might be barred from some kinds of projects but I'd
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by gtsteve 9y ago
My company uses AWS and started before Parameter Store and Secrets Manager and we try to not run our own infrastructure where possible because we are very small and don't have a big ops team. We simply store our secrets in a KMS-encryp
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by gtsteve 9y ago
This feels maybe a little bit more reasonable because you installed the camera yourself and have contracted a company to monitor it. You can opt out by cancelling the contract. In my example, the user has no choice, just as you frequently h
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by gtsteve 9y ago
A more aggressive example that seems to get the idea through to people: > Would you be OK with the police installing a camera in your house? Don't worry, they'll only look at it if they think you've done something wrong, y
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by gtsteve 9y ago
OK you've convinced me. I'll give it another shot. Edit: I just actually forgot how to list a directory in C# so I ran my first query: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=c%23+list+directory&atb=v112-5_y&i... It has
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by gtsteve 9y ago
I have tried DuckDuckGo in the past and it's pretty good but it doesn't quite have the reach or relevance of Google, at least for the topics I tend to search for. But perhaps this is because Google tracks me. When I search for &qu
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by gtsteve 9y ago
It feels a lot more powerful to have a contract that is audited than the current situation. At the very least a class action lawsuit can result if it is broken. I'm sure many do not care about paying for search and social media, and th
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by gtsteve 9y ago
I see a lot of complaints about tracking but has anyone proposed an alternative? These products have to be paid for somehow so how about a subscription fee to not be tracked by them? For example, I'm sure my search data is less to Goog
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by gtsteve 9y ago
Although you'd be forgiven for still being suspicious I'm afraid.
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by gtsteve 9y ago
So how would you represent an absence of a value? In an enum that'd be easy, but there is a semantic difference between an empty string and a null string. Or would you propose sending a boolean to indicate null as well as a string in a
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by gtsteve 9y ago
If this website looks blank it might be because Privacy Badger is blocking contentful.com, whatever that is. I'm not sure what to make of that really, any ideas?
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by gtsteve 9y ago
The equivalent AWS product is AWS SSO [0] which requires a Directory Service instance (circa $100/mo) [0] https://aws.amazon.com/single-sign-on/
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by gtsteve 9y ago
A reasonable question, but for now I'd prefer to keep my real-world and HN identities separate. It's not a well-known company at all except in a very small sub-industry that most don't even know exists.
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by gtsteve 9y ago
I don't know if you'd call my company a startup as such, but we use the MS stack. However, the reason for that is because I knew it very well before starting the company. If I were a Java expert, I'd have used that, and so on

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