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by gtsteve 8y ago
No. It sounds like a really nice idea but I can't have you e-mailing my customers, that'd just be embarrassing. I would also need to really understand your security posture. I couldn't use it for my app as all its functionali
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by gtsteve 8y ago
Try scaling to a $4m/yr business. That'll give you something to do with your day for sure! You'll need to take on staff and you might need an office and you can get that sense of camaraderie back. There's good advice in
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by gtsteve 8y ago
> 2x160GB Probably it was stock that never got used in that case. You'd never find liquidated servers with hard disks normally. Disks are normally destroyed mechanically. About 10 years back I worked for a company that had this mech
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by gtsteve 8y ago
I see their articles all over the place but it seems crazy that they aren't in control of their own publishing platform. I actually thought they were just an offshoot of Medium to begin with. They do seem to be doing good things but it
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by gtsteve 8y ago
For me it depends on the complexity of the technology. Some javascript controls library where I only need a few parts of what they do? No thanks, I'll look elsewhere or just program that myself. Something more complicated like a graphi
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by gtsteve 8y ago
Blockchain is of course an interesting idea but what I don't really like about it is that someone with more than 50% control can take over the blockchain. While you could see that unfriendly action happening, an adversary could probabl
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by gtsteve 8y ago
Yes, I have done this. I joined a small start-up as a developer, and they admitted they needed to increase their professionalism and they would stand behind me as I did so. This was around 2005 or so when standards weren't as good as t
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by gtsteve 8y ago
There is no additional charge for SSM parameter store but rate limits apply (and I can't find out what they are). I have read accounts from people on HN who work on large AWS accounts who have been bitten by this. The secret manager bi
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by gtsteve 8y ago
Perhaps they like the fiber cable because it's tougher than other cables. I think many animals have an instinct to do stuff like this to sharpen their teeth perhaps or to clean them. Perhaps do some research, find something they'd
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by gtsteve 8y ago
A model you might look at if you are a majority or 100% shareholder is to have a separate AWS account that you control 100%. You can have write-only S3 buckets that another AWS account can post to. You should be able to do this with other c
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by gtsteve 8y ago
About 10 years ago I read a book called "Rich Dad, Poor Dad". In summary, it describes a different way of thinking about money and wealth and the mindset of a successful person versus one who struggles with money. For a long time
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by gtsteve 8y ago
Perhaps you'd write into your terms of business that you could only have one refund per person per year or something like that to limit this sort of edge case behaviour. I recall it being a sports nutrition business but selling somethi
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by gtsteve 8y ago
I don't run this sort of business but I recall reading in a book (I believe Tim Ferris' 4 hour work week) that he offered a 110% money back guarantee and in the entire history of his business only one person took him up on it. I&#
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by gtsteve 8y ago
Some developers use them in the place of random password generation for example. In this article, we discovered why it's not a good idea. In other words, you shouldn't use a non-cryptographic RNG for security purposes.
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by gtsteve 8y ago
You can run your Lambda function within the same network as your other servers. It just appears as a new IP address inside your network and can call whatever you permit it to.
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by gtsteve 8y ago
She can't be a director of a company for a long time, however she still built a business, raised money, built a huge profile and generated a massive amount of hype. Someone somewhere will want that experience on their team, and be will
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by gtsteve 8y ago
There is a button on the form that says "Just give me the book", which grants you access without giving away any details.
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by gtsteve 8y ago
My understanding that these databases effectively contain a checksum which has a very low chance of collision. I don't know if you could actually make DNA material from that checksum.
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by gtsteve 8y ago
What if keepalive is used and multiple packages are downloaded? Surely that is at least plausible deniability.
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by gtsteve 8y ago
I used DDG for a while and I found amusingly I almost missed Google tracking me. I'd search for a restaurant to find opening times or address and the first result would be a restaurant of the same name but in a different city or differ
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by gtsteve 8y ago
My 9-person company is 100% remote, but we have been from the start so we've always had that culture. Note however we all work from our own homes; we are not simultaneously travelling. I wouldn't take issue with someone doing that
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by gtsteve 8y ago
It appears to be a personal website; I believe it is miscategorised.
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by gtsteve 8y ago
On this topic, I recall reading earlier computers (of the 80s) used radio tuners tuned into nothing to generate random numbers. Of course, you need some way to randomly choose the frequency but then what comes out should be pretty unpredict
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by gtsteve 8y ago
I wondered that myself. It turns out to be a dev kit for a smartphone. https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/
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by gtsteve 8y ago
Yes, but it's hitting me harder the older I age. I wonder if I'm on the wrong side of history sometimes; I wonder if our children will consider drinking to be similar to how most of us view smoking today.
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by gtsteve 8y ago
I think this might be because food is quite different to the other products you buy from Amazon - you typically buy ingredients and you typically do this once or more a week. Amazon makes a mistake every so often with a delivery but with th
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by gtsteve 8y ago
You can keep hold of data for a good business reason such as the one you stated. A hash of the e-mail address is probably reasonable, but you might also want some logic to detect users who use g-mail style addresses, i.e. "exampleuser+
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by gtsteve 8y ago
MySQL is still under development, and there are numerous forks. I use it for my company; it's still a very good database option, albeit perhaps a little basic. However the fact that it's owned by Oracle does make it a little bit s
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by gtsteve 8y ago
I've developed a few Chrome extensions myself - it needs that to work. The only way to make it work is to injecting a script into your current webpage, which changes the appearance. Unfortunately there is no way to also disable the net
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by gtsteve 8y ago
Thank you, I have learned something new! I believed it was somewhat similar to having access to the Docker socket and I was always sure to restrict it. Everyone please ignore me.

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