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by gxs 3y ago
Here we go, knew someone would jump in here with their opinions on why this is bad etc. You’re reading way too much into this, this simply solves a particular set of problems well in this context and that’s that. Anything you use can get tu
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by gxs 3y ago
Even in boring old business process land, it’s surprising how useful this is. Often you can simplify a code base full of conditional statements with a tidy lookup table. I think the reason this isn’t always thought of is because a lookup ta
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by gxs 3y ago
This is why I try to not correct people’s spelling in comments on the internet, your own comment is bound to have a misspelling or other grammatical faux pas somewhere in there.
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by gxs 3y ago
This hits the nail on the head. I’ve worked at both large and small companies, and engineers do tend to forget that no matter how good what they build is, it’s going nowhere without someone selling it. Similarly, people on the business side
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by gxs 3y ago
It does bug me when I see less than precise language, though I’m sure somewhere in this comment I’ll be less than precise and someone will point it out. If you look up the definition, the spirit of the word is definitely not to convey compa
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by gxs 3y ago
All platitudes are pure baloney, including this one. Good slides are good slides, bullet points or not. Slide’s message immediately grockable, not too jarring color scheme that’s appropriate for the occasion, and clear, crisp and concise la
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by gxs 3y ago
Let this be a lesson to people who never put up a fight over things like DRM, privacy, etc. Once you give up control, you never get it back. Sony is deleting things you paid for fair and square and there is nothing you can do about it.
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by gxs 3y ago
Whenever this is posted, it sort of reminds me of the IRS and one way they use to detect fraud. They observed that sometimes, the amounts in the tax returns were too “random” though not in exactly the same sense as the article. For example,
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by gxs 3y ago
Holy shit that’s a great way of putting it. I’m not double checking the math but that’s insane, 1.4 million, insane.
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by gxs 3y ago
You're absolutely wrong here. We have precedent to see what happened with internet search, advertising, and data collection. Everything turned out fine.
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by gxs 3y ago
I’m not, guess it wasn’t clear what I meant.
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by gxs 3y ago
What a little treasure trove of information. I can see a recent cs grad who’s never built anything benefit immensely from this. The bigger thing here is that it teaches you the vocabulary for you to then go on and research and form your own
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by gxs 3y ago
Nothing fancy, or special, but I use them so that I don’t have go to a site first and then search. Over the years I’ve built one up that recognizes various record ID formats or other record numbers and automatically takes you to that record
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by gxs 3y ago
I’ve been avoiding them like the plague. Thinking back years, going back to my first Debian install in 2000, in retrospect this is where things were always heading. It’s the same path every other industry has gone down, to ultimately yield
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by gxs 3y ago
While this isn’t in my wheel house, if you think it would be valuable I am happy to connect you with a friend who runs a battery as a service startup - they have connections to vendors etc. He was previously a founder of a solar company and
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by gxs 3y ago
You are being way too generous with this interpretation. Paul Graham is not dumb and he knows what a loaded term communism is. On top of that, you’re taking his comment and interpreting it in the most superficial way without even attempting
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by gxs 3y ago
Even if it goes both ways, at the very least it evens the playing field. Today it’s lopsided in the companies’ favor.
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by gxs 3y ago
Why do you think “leaders” are pushing for return to office? Why do you think Paul Graham compares it to communism? It’s not because of some culture building nonsense - it’s 2023 and by now we know it works. They do it because they hate the
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by gxs 3y ago
I’m so desperate for an alternative to google that a post like this, combined with what I’ve heard about kagi in the past is enough to make me give it an honest try. I’ve grown such a disdain for google, far cry from when I stood in the lon
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by gxs 3y ago
Presumably OP is saying the name on the actual ticket never changes. That is, even if you sell the account, the ticket is tied to the person.
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by gxs 3y ago
You are being luddites. COVID having forced you to be remote is not enough to validate this constant preaching from SV leadership (and only leadership - no one without millions in equity ever lobbies for this) that nothing can replace in pe
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by gxs 3y ago
Not sure who you went to, but the mall repair guys do a terrible job of telling you that the repairs never leave your phone the same. Truetone for example, 100% of the time will start working, that one is for sure on top of the random thing
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by gxs 3y ago
Alright bro, you win. If you think Apple still makes all its money from iPhones, all good.
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by gxs 3y ago
It’s funny that you chose to compare him to those CEOs in particular, seeing as to how they all inherited great business that were seemingly on autopilot. All of these companies were poised to explode in value as they have in the last few y
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by gxs 3y ago
I’m not putting myself anywhere on his level - want to make that clear - but I was specifically referring to clarity. I work with execs at our company a lot and am often in their email chains - agree on the lingo and shorthand for stuff, bu
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by gxs 3y ago
I don’t know, I understand why you’d rush to his defense, but in this case I don’t view him as an especially great ceo. He performs well, as you’d expect from an extremely well compensated CEO of one of the preeminent technology companies o
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by gxs 3y ago
Honestly what jumps out to me reading this is how unclear his communication is, and I don’t mean from the perspective of native/non native English speaker. It’s hard to understand specifically what he means here, which just may be due
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by gxs 3y ago
Ah, I was talking about OPs comment - it wasn't that passwords weren't changed often - it's that they were created a long time ago when that particular length/complexity was thought to be enough.
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by gxs 3y ago
Honestly, if this is truly the case, LastPass is partially to blame here. Sure, there's nothing in the TOS contractually obligating them to do this - but starting a low level awareness campaign to warn people with passwords that haven&
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by gxs 3y ago
Exactly. Yeah, not to mention, the SUVs he's comparing are especially large. Comparing passenger cars illustrates the point as the model S weighs almost the same as the Model Y. Mercedes E-class weighs 3,700 lbs compared to a model S w

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