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by hnarn 4y ago
It also sounds like a pretty good way to incentivize sloppiness, but I guess it might work if X,Y,Z are very clearly defined, including tests (and their quality), documentation (and its quality), and what not.
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by hnarn 4y ago
If we are briefly going to play astrology-for-engineers then I guess I'm what would be called a "stable", but I kind of take issue with the dichotomy this post paints up in order to achieve what every tech writer seems to wan
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by hnarn 4y ago
https://archive.ph/CDbRf
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by hnarn 4y ago
I know literally nothing about weather data standardization, but if the format was — for the sake of argument — unique to the US for example and another more popular format was used either internationally or de-facto by third parties, I’d s
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by hnarn 4y ago
> Taking over their DNS isn't going to help if they did things correctly. If you had read the post, you would have seen that they did, in fact, not “do things correctly”.
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by hnarn 4y ago
I can recommend the article “How US police training compares with the rest of the world” by the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56834733
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by hnarn 4y ago
http://archive.today/HnGhE
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by hnarn 4y ago
Just to steel man the argument, I think what the parent might mean is that when you move from something that used to be physical security only (a regular key) to something that is now both physical and over radio, or worst case radio only,
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by hnarn 4y ago
I wonder if this is the same server that “wasn’t fully rebooted in years”. https://bitcoinhackers.org/@lukedashjr/107769287522154866
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by hnarn 4y ago
You think the entirety of the FBI takes a day off on national holidays?
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by hnarn 4y ago
This is great because it highlights something a lot of people don’t understand about writing software professionally: you are a translator of domain knowledge into useful applications. If you have a lot of domain knowledge in something, reg
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by hnarn 4y ago
Don’t forget that while this is broadcast on NYE in Denmark and Sweden, in Norway it’s broadcast on Christmas which is something you should definitely bring up on a mixed Scandinavian family dinner. It’s also quite fun since there’s a joke
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by hnarn 4y ago
If you get better support from a news aggregation site’s comments than you get from official support channels, those support channels are defective. This discussion shouldn’t have to happen here to begin with.
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by hnarn 4y ago
I don’t think you need a “formal education” to see the benefits of strong typing. Whether someone is attracted to it or not probably has more to do with their specific use case. Strongly typed languages is simply a trade off where you get p
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by hnarn 4y ago
While you're at it and looking into things, maybe look into your support organization and have them properly handle these types of issues when they come in through regular channels as well. The fact that people have to use HN to get a
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by hnarn 4y ago
> It's not a US law, it's a state law. In my opinion (I am not attempting to state facts), the semantics of what is a “US law” and what is an “EU law” differ, because the US is a nation and the EU is not. Therefore it’s my opin
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by hnarn 4y ago
What’s your point?
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by hnarn 4y ago
I don’t agree that “banning users with fake names” is functionally equivalent to “ensure all users have verified identities”.
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by hnarn 4y ago
You're arguing against a strawman saying that no binaries should ever be anything but statically compiled, including system binaries bundled with the operating system. I certainly did not say that.
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by hnarn 4y ago
> I think LinkedIn is a good example of what you would get without anonymity I think that would be true if the only characteristic of LinkedIn was that it's "not anonymous", but that's not true. LinkedIn is very expli
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by hnarn 4y ago
That's not the point. Of course any information given to a candidate in an interview should not be privileged -- the point is that the fact that this is how things "should be" does not mean that it's an implicit agreem
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by hnarn 4y ago
This entire post gives me "the ick" as the kids say nowadays. The author is revealing lots of information about the company's infrastructure, given to him in an interview, as well as directly linking to the personal LinkedIn-
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by hnarn 4y ago
> In private hands our choice is limited, toxicity is rewarded, rage is called engagement, public trust is corroded, and basic human decency is often an afterthought. Sure. But why is it so? Have these "private hands" somehow m
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by hnarn 4y ago
> We pretending miners and exchanges can't be legislated out of existence Yes? I am assuming you are either not very technical, or do not know a lot about how cryptocurrencies work. Disclaimer: I am not a proponent of cryptocurrency
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by hnarn 4y ago
Can someone please steelman the argument that language can be harmful , because I just don’t get it. There’s physical and psychological harm, clearly it’s not physical so it’s saying that people are being harmed in a psychological way from
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by hnarn 4y ago
Unless we’re talking about embedded systems (and most of the time, not even then I’d guess for portable gaming devices for example), what is the actual drawback of these “huge” binaries? Wasn’t the reason to separate binaries and libraries
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by hnarn 4y ago
If we put aside the fact that I don't care, it's also completely irrelevant because it's anecdotal, and even if it wasn't anecdotal, I do not accept the implication that the competence of a specific company's CTO an
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by hnarn 4y ago
> I don't get why SRE is a job I've met CTOs that would agree with you. I no longer work with any of them.
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by hnarn 4y ago
I work as an SRE and while I agree with the "list of questions" as a general template for collaboration, I strongly disagree with the point that developers "own" the applications. If you work in the same company, you all
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by hnarn 4y ago
It’s very difficult for me, in all honesty, to even understand why the act of emergency alerts being re-enabled by a carrier leads to this kind of reaction.

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