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by hellcow 6y ago
> All these "competency tests" are good for is catching blatant lying. Is this a serious problem? Of the people I interview that claim they have years of experience, mastery over multiple languages, and expertise in various fra
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by hellcow 6y ago
I wrote this tool to help us manage many users in MySQL v5.7. We can whitelist and blacklist specific tables and columns in a declarative way across many users and have those privileges automatically update after migrations. Thought it migh
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Show HN: Powerful, Declarative SQL User Management(egt.run)
1 points by hellcow 6y ago|1 comments
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by hellcow 6y ago
Agreed. The lack of lifecycle events in v2 complicates things a great deal for seemingly no reason. Subscriptions and Events are similar enough that they could have become a single thing, instead of having two highly similar but not-quite-t
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by hellcow 6y ago
Please don't. Not everyone uses these additional libraries or preprocessors, and it was a big hurdle to figure out what was actually being generated behind the scenes in the v1 docs. A good approach is to show us what we need to do wit
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by hellcow 6y ago
I resisted the change to v2 for a long time. In the end I found that v2's state management is much better, so it might be worth a look for that alone.
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by hellcow 6y ago
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/06/25/comcasts-xfinity-in... Compare the username to the "Vice President, Technology Policy and Standards at Comcast Cable" in this blog post.
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by hellcow 6y ago
Respectfully, Comcast has an ATROCIOUS privacy record. Full stop. A quick search came up with [1] [2] [3]. Your employer actively and repeatedly abuses the privacy and trust of its customers. It also lobbies for damaging policies. I do not
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by hellcow 6y ago
They don't need to ship a backdoor because all files in iCloud (photos, documents, etc.) aren't E2E encrypted anyway. According to Reuters they readily share that with the government, despite all their FBI-thwarted-yet-again postu
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by hellcow 6y ago
You can listen to it in a browser. You can use an iPad. There are many ways to use Apple Music that do not involve an Android app.
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by hellcow 6y ago
Honestly, Meet has had huge updates in the past month or so that make it much better than Zoom. The image quality no longer looks like crap with more than 2 people in the room.
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by hellcow 6y ago
FYI - there's mixed HTTP/HTTPS content on this page. You can fix the security warnings by loading images with https.
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by hellcow 6y ago
For what it's worth, I had luck starting with Raspbian, then changing the apt sources to Debian sid (unstable) and upgrading without issues. The default Raspbian desktop environment becomes buggy, but XFCE4 works perfectly. If you want
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by hellcow 6y ago
There's no record of the claim ever being submitted because they don't send any confirmation. They just ignore it. If you're going to submit these forms, take screenshots as evidence.
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by hellcow 6y ago
They don't even honor that. My info and deletion requests from months ago were ignored.
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by hellcow 6y ago
You just described ChromeOS.
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by hellcow 6y ago
We met through our pre-seed investor--our first check. It was a combination of track record of founders and tech that seemed too good to be true, but he could see it working. Same reason a later seed investor put money in. "If it wor
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by hellcow 6y ago
We were trying to solve a difficult engineering challenge that no one in the industry had been able to replicate. If we could get it to work, it would reduce costs massively for businesses, so it seemed to me at the time that it wasn't
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by hellcow 6y ago
I started my current enterprise SAAS company 4 years ago. It took more than a year before we had our first customer (who left us!), 2.5 long years before we raised $350k on the promise of signing a big company. After 2.5 years "without
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by hellcow 6y ago
1. Every client (i.e. developer) has their own copy of shh but interacts with a shared .shh file in the project root. Secrets can be decrypted locally in memory then streamed to the remote servers over ssh. You could in theory run this on a
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by hellcow 6y ago
We use shh for secrets ( https://egt.run/shh ). It's designed to integrate really well with your existing CLI tools like vim, xargs, and diff. It offers user-based permissions, and secrets are encrypted into a single fil
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by hellcow 6y ago
> The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hy
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by hellcow 6y ago
> - In general reported download speeds are little lower than figures coming from other speed tests. We will revisit our methodology to understand the discrepancy. For what it's worth, Cloudflare shows me at 10mbps down, and Speedte
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by hellcow 6y ago
No one stepped up to write and maintain it. https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=156519841415403&w=2
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by hellcow 6y ago
Thanks all for your help. I am avoiding Atlassian, and editing a wiki is well beyond the skillset of most of our company. Looks like we're going homegrown with a sqlite-backed markdown knowledge base. Hopefully open-sourcing it will pr
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Ask HN: What's the best internal knowledge base
5 points by hellcow 6y ago|6 comments
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by hellcow 6y ago
upspin? https://upspin.io/
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by hellcow 6y ago
Startpage was acquired by an ad company: https://reclaimthenet.org/startpage-buyout-ad-tech-company/ .
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by hellcow 6y ago
That "stupid comparison" shows their phone booting in 13s. I just timed my Pixel 3 and it boots in the same time. That's really impressive any way you slice it.
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by hellcow 6y ago
Buy a one- or two-year-old Thinkpad, and it'll be supported as well as anything.

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