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by jka 6y ago
The fact that not many people know this unfortunately leads to a side-effect that it is less widely supported by third-party tooling around git. In terms of simplicity (for example, 'git revert x' is natural-language-like and expr
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by jka 6y ago
Hopefully this isn't taken as bad humour: I misread one word in the "way forward" section, seeing the word "benches" where it doesn't exist. That reveals something about my subconscious; in my mind, there are f
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by jka 6y ago
Thanks for sharing that, it does seem like a large risk for companies with open salary structure. Do you see any benefits in being able to compare your own salary and work output with those of your colleagues?
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by jka 6y ago
If we could quantify the amount of time and distraction caused by advertising, on aggregate, it's possible that opinions would change. A few companies do already have access to plenty of data that they could use to calculate these kind
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by jka 6y ago
My two cents are that it seems like a pretty good start. It'd probably be possible for well-funded organizations to use automated data collection and clandestine communication methods to collect detailed profile information about peopl
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Seven Beliefs that can silence women – and how to unlearn them [video](ted.com)
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by jka 6y ago
The parent comment was written early into my reaction to the news and I think I was a bit histrionic in my commentary about the security industry. People are helping, and that's commendable. It can be difficult when it appears that we
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by jka 6y ago
Thanks for the link; would you like to submit that as a separate HN submission as well, including [video] in the title? (I think that'd be within the site guidelines[1]) Might post it myself if you'd prefer not to; I figured it m
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by jka 6y ago
As someone trying to learn more about the current COVID situation in India: has PM Modi requested aid from other countries? I see a mention that he was briefed about attempts to import oxygen on 2021-04-16: https://pib.gov.in&#x2
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by jka 6y ago
Good question, thanks. I'll think about it. Also: do you have any suggestions? Edit: add second paragraph
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by jka 6y ago
Likely true, yep. The scalability of this kind of attack might be different nowadays (or in future), though.
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by jka 6y ago
My memory of Dan is seeing him speak on-stage at SF security b-sides, some time in the mid 2010s. He'd enjoyed a few drinks by the point he spoke to everyone, and the resulting honesty (accompanied by what I sensed as trepidation from
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Ask HN: Adversarial System Administration?
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by jka 6y ago
It's good to want to help. Constructing and using home-made medical solutions is often risky though. It sounds[1] like there are distribution issues for the existing oxygen supplies that regions of India produce. Perhaps additional di
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by jka 6y ago
You might have missed the era during which search queries (and motd messages) in the Ubuntu Desktop environment were forwarded to Amazon.
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Signal – Client-side call quality (2013)(signal.org)
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GitLab: DevOps Product Comparisons(about.gitlab.com)
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NASA Mars Sample Return(jpl.nasa.gov)
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by jka 6y ago
That's fair, although it's also possible that the way business is done could change (in fact, I think it has already been changing for at least a few decades, thanks to videoconferencing and telecommunications). Having sales teams
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by jka 6y ago
If paid placements had to be declared, strangely this might not turn out so badly. "Ah, time to sit down for a relaxing film this evening. Shall we watch the romantic comedy where Coca-Cola paid $20,000 to place a can of Fanta in a se
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by jka 6y ago
Thank you for the thought provoking article and discussion. I like to imagine that there is a virtual priority queue of software tasks out there, waiting to be done. Some of it is feature development, some of it is detailed bug investigatio
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by jka 6y ago
Although I tend privacy-by-default for most deployed technologies, the context of archiving does change the criteria quite a lot; you've selected a sensible and reasonable default, I reckon. Hopefully integrity is a consideration too?
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by jka 6y ago
Incredible, and what a great write-up. I think that's the front-runner at the moment :) Edit: addendum: To correct my own comment: I guess technically this doesn't pass the "without any other bugreports" criteria, so it
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by jka 6y ago
Thanks! My view has been fairly limited, from (rarely) cooking at home, and where 'locally sourced' tends to mean 'walking to the shops' instead of any kind of vendor relationships. What's the PPP challenge you men
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by jka 6y ago
Thanks - good examples. That also led me to https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/boss.html which is a unique curiosity. Do you know if that was a 7-year duration from previous release to bug discovery, or a 7-ye
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by jka 6y ago
Yep - and "support" is another possibility.
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by jka 6y ago
It's been tricky. I've worked in a number of software development roles now, and (like many engineers, I expect) I really enjoy solving technical problems, and find it difficult to push back on social pressure. Recently I've
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U.S.-China Joint Statement Addressing the Climate Crisis(state.gov)
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by jka 6y ago
Agree broadly with what you're saying; having a common mission is a good way to align on goals within a company and also with customers and community. It's debatable, but the phrase "target population" seems potentially
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by jka 6y ago
Impressive - tagged for mozilla 0.91 in the bugtracker twenty (!) years ago. I didn't express the criteria I had in mind very clearly; I'd been wondering about longest elapsed time without any other bugreports occurring (ruling ou

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