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by hox 12y ago
They do. They have lots of documents and guidance on best practice for security. As for code, they started the SELinux project. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security-Enhanced_Linux
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by hox 12y ago
You are living with blinders on if you don't think every state in the world has espionage programs for both offensive and defensive purposes.
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by hox 12y ago
There is, hence the emails and phone calls that were missed.
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by hox 12y ago
And please for the love of all that is secure, use IAM roles. Even for your personal things. it's not that hard and you can stop things like this from happening even with the auth credentials.
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by hox 12y ago
Replace "women" with "a diverse team", and really that's what she said. And in my experience she is correct.
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by hox 12y ago
If anything, this article points out one thing to me: spend your time doing what you love. If that's work, great. If you love your family or life outside of work more, do whatever you can to spend more time with them. Sacrifice by find
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by hox 12y ago
Also known as the "Five-Whys" elsewhere. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys
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by hox 12y ago
So the comments are focusing on the candidate, but how exactly does this reduce the "expensive" up front cost of resume review, phone screens, and on-site interviews cited? The described process still performs reviews and screens,
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by hox 12y ago
I'm not trying to get into semantics. I attend Catholic mass every Sunday and identify as part of the Catholic community, but that doesn't mean I let centuries old teachings dictate my own personal beliefs. That is the difference
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by hox 12y ago
Who is to say that one's definition of "God" must conform to what a church teaches?
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by hox 12y ago
Twilio follows a similar model for large scale changes, but at a distributed service level using a shadow proxy ( https://github.com/twilio/shadow ) rather than having parallel code paths.
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by hox 12y ago
Not everyone wants to use hubot. I actually think having a communally maintained bit as part of an engineering group can be kinda fun, but to each their own.
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by hox 12y ago
All US Twilio numbers.
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by hox 12y ago
This project and most emoji projects I've seen are meant as light-hearted takes on an existing product. The added benefit of a URL shortened service is the extended character alphabet to choose from, thus shorter links. Of course you c
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Show HN: Traffic.wtf, all-emoji URL shortener weekend project(traffic.wtf)
4 points by hox 12y ago|2 comments
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by hox 12y ago
Very good point, and I agree that the hiring manager in place tends to be the biggest cause of bias in hiring decisions. However, more mature organizations tend to either have more checks in place or more formalized HR processed that can ho
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by hox 12y ago
True of course, but with startups this is more of a necessary evil; for larger organizations it is a sign of engineering dysfunction.
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by hox 12y ago
Things not addressed that I think are important: 1. Salary. Startups always seem to offer lower salary in return for said equity. 2. Career development. Startups demand that you build somewhat hacks solutions for the sake of time. In many i
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by hox 12y ago
Not only that, but there is no attempt made to gather metrics based on similar configurations / feature sets. The author specifically mentions that the AMQP systems persist their messages to disk by default, and this was the configurat
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by hox 12y ago
You seem to only care about theft. What about restricting access to those who have other reasons to break into someone's property? Spurned lovers, coworkers, friends you can't really trust... The kind of people who would actually
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by hox 12y ago
Nice! Redis really does have a great code base to work with. I previously wrote on article on adding a custom datatype, essentially walking step by step through each necessary modification. If interested, this article can be found here: ht
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Twilio adds support for SMS on toll-free numbers(twilio.com)
20 points by hox 12y ago|3 comments
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by hox 12y ago
Even with revenue projections and being able to work back to personal gain, employees often aren't privy to liquidation preferences and the variety of classes of stock that has been handed out. If an employee has 1% of a company and th
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by hox 12y ago
not in the sf Bay Area. I swear every company out here requires one to show face 10 hours a day.
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by hox 12y ago
Or 5, or get up early and be done even earlier.
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by hox 12y ago
nonsense. I'm not an advocate of large process by any means, but a number of principles of the agile movement can benefit developers of any skill level or experience. and more importantly it can help a team collectively more than it ca
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by hox 12y ago
You sir are a saint. Dealing with net_ldap and AD was the bane of my existence for a while.
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by hox 12y ago
This can be said of any open source library, but it is unfortunately true that the average Ruby gem seems to be more hobby-grade than enterprise-grade. The fact of the matter is, if you are developing an application and are integrating 3rd-
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by hox 12y ago
but but but Steve Newcomb's post from the other day states "getting a full salary is generally not a good dependency - if it is, you've got bigger problems with that candidate." sorry, had to. absolutely crazy that devel
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by hox 13y ago
Great to see both workday and veeva mentioned here, both tri-valley software companies proving that success can come in the Bay Area outside of Silicon Valley and San Fran.

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