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> 2) the voter in question is largely disconnected from the news, does not have a lot of perspective beyond their own experience and forms a political value system entirely based on their own interests without considering the needs or ex
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Both browsers are very large, very old software. Both companies are big enough to support fast response to exploits. There’s really nothing technical you can point out that makes one more secure. Firefox scores better on privacy which tips
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I'm not sure this is the case. Source code availability for current and historic versions is what has made Linux so popular for studying OS design. Linux, the BSDs, the Mach kernel and many other embedded and academic OSes more intere
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> It makes me a bit sad that it's not easy to find anything today that can compete with what I played with as a kid thirty years ago. My wife is a teacher. I came home from work and she was making Google slides and the stock art was
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> . I'd be inventing their core technology (which didn't exist yet and which their CTO wasn't fit to do) and probably interviewing every engineer and growing them. I see this a lot in failing startups: The CTO is a pure ma
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> I never thought I'd hear those words. I didn't either. T-Mobile is that bad.
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They were made by LG right before they exited the business and had problems with the screens greening out when they got warm - as in 90°F (i.e. summer in pocket temperatures).
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I was on Sprint and T-Mobile bought Sprint. T-Mobile is robotically cruel to customers. T-Mobile is rule-bound and failure to comply results in employees being fired. Here's the difference: I got a defective phone with sprint: phone r
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Flowers grow well in manure. Sometimes you have to look to be sure of what you are smelling.
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> Supply and demand don't exactly work on an inelastic market like rent. I used to set my properties rent to be competitive with the other rentals in the area. In would vary a lot - sometimes more sometimes less. At this point there
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> I also see how RealPage likely got caught up and thought this was business insights they were selling as a data aggregator Almost everyone I've met who has ended up in trouble with the law in business got where they are by this ex
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If code smell is being weaponized to assault a coworkers code, then you are using the phrase incorrectly and have some cultural issues on your development team. The phrase came from Martin Fowler's book "Refactoring" https:&
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I was at a recruiting tech conference where a HR person from Boeing was talking about their impending age-out problem. Their average employee age was close to retirement.
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All of this is true. "Being ok for trivial things... that programmers tend to work" with is precisely why SQL has won over the years. SQL has never been a great general-purpose language, but is fantastic at the things programmers
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> The author's mistake was not posting somewhere like NANOG or Full-Disclosure with a detailed write-up. This is an organizational equivalent of a code smell. Something is off when support people aren't writing up the anomalies
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>> The thing that's security theater isn't encrypting at rest in general > The thing that's security theater is encrypting insecurely Security theater should be defined as: Doing things that outwardly appear to impro
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> is still collusion when arranged by algorithm Saying "my software said to do x" isn't a defense when you are accused of x. In fact, it may be seen as negligent or systemic, both of which are bad places to be. I'm n
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I learned Lua modding the game Homeworld and writing access control filters for NGINX. So easy to understand, mostly because Lua is pretty bare bones. I've always wanted to fit it into a project, but Javascript and Python are tough co
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I just exited my startup and now work for a much bigger company. I'm going from a Google-based productivity stack to a Microsoft one, and so far Teams is the worst and best change. Google Meet was fantastic for "just working"
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> I don't think so. OK.
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> That may be true but we don't know that it is true I think a walk through a shopping mall might provide some clear evidence.
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There is usually a severability clause that basically says if a clause is illegal it voids that clause not the whole contract… this is pretty standard practice.
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Conventional wisdom is autocratic. Disrupt that.
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> What we need is much better whistleblower programs. Programs where people are paid out $MM and witness protection if there are lose level of risks. If you need this, your culture is beyond lost and your management team will sabotage it
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It seems like once a week I get reminded how critical making sure that employees are safe to speak their mind, *especially* when the company's revenue or profits are concerned with what they want to say. So many times I've seen ho
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Security wasn’t really a design consideration especially in the one use one PC era. We’re still trying to secure hardware and software descended from that era.
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150K NATO troops in Ukraine.
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> I wonder if we, in secret, have “mutually assured destruction” of cyber-warfare. Low-orbit nuclear EMP would be that option. Not cyber... technically.
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> Change Healthcare has lost $872M since it was attacked in February. The question is, what is the cost to secure? I've been in so many meetings where the cost of security is 10-15x the cost of a breach. It's horrifying.
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BTW, I think all but one of my startups would fit the pg essay, but when you read articles like this one, the evidence is not that pg style startups are going crazy, but rather self-employment and small business is growing... mostly self-em

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