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by joewee 9y ago
I choose the topic, did enough research to paint the narrative I had in my head, but a lot of the role of a columnist is opinion based on personal experience and expertise.
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I had to write a weekly technology column for a number of years. The best method I found was to prepare a outline of the content you are going to write as a series of questions. For my column I used 5 questions in a logical progression. Exa
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Ask HN: Encrypted, shared browser based notes?
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A lot of American infrastructure was built during the new deal era when the federal government had a lot more desire to implement national projects, I don’t think that is still the case. The states are expected to build and manage their inf
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by joewee 9y ago
This explains a lot about my speech patterns, I never realized they developed as a result of my childhood stutter.
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I did, but based on my limited experience he only goes deep into questioning when he’s vetting someone or when he sees or hears something that doesn’t seem right. He’s a stickler for details. With an engineers mind for logic and reasoning.
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by joewee 9y ago
Re Gates; he and his staff identify Subject Matter Experts (SME) for the topics he’s interested in. As you can imagine he has a good network. SMEs are always looking for funding, so he’ll use one of his funding vehicles to invite the SME to
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Perhaps he/she had the data on a SAN while performing development from a more “secure” computer and one of his personal computers with AV installed was connected to the same SAN. A likely scenario as far as scenarios go.
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11.0.1 it’s a separate update. Not included in the main update. Very confusing.
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I think the solution is even simpler. I'll call it "Market Driven Decision Making" - Define the problem statement with your customer - Brain storm solutions with your team and advisors - Stack rank solutions by time to implem
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I think its the reason why there's a lot of cyber crime from eastern Europe.
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Nigeria has a higher per capita than India, which is considered the #7 economy in the world. What low per capita income tells me is that despite being a wealthy country citizens don't have a lot of opportunity to earn wealth. Which is
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by joewee 10y ago
odd things about this story: 1) were the tools taken out of a secure environment? Or did he download it from the net when it was published? 2) how could he have taken such sensitive tools out? 3) why so many leaks of an ongoing investigatio
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Nigeria is #1 / #2 wealthiest country in Africa (GDP). It ranks amoung the highest in terms of advanced degree graduates in Africa. But it has a extremely low Human Development Index, there isn't much opportunity for the educated.
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Ad free source: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/news/depression146s_...
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The proximity based lockdown is interesting but won't prevent the likely scenario of being grabbed while you are using the computer. Silkroad is a famous incident, but I think its the only option in any scenerio where the attacker know
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Is there open source software that performs similar photo analysis / forensics?
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This. There is a large section of private banking that have creative ways to provide loans/financing to major shareholders. As long as your stock remains stable, you can finance anything up to your net worth.
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I perform a lot of data analysis and separately I've been involved in hiring decisions. I've seen two common issues: 1) humans make decisions based on statistically insignificant sample sizes 2) we are incapable of identifying our
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by joewee 10y ago
This explanation summarizes why tech companies lack diversity. Sampling bias at its best. This logic is a smart persons way of saying you only want to hire people similar to those you've already hired.
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This piece contains no data and seems to rely heavily on one individuals experience.
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White House Weighs Sanctions After Second Breach of a Computer System(nytimes.com)
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Sounds like you suffer from an usually strong sense of entitlement. It's generally not bad but it doesn't help if you want friends, friends need to feel as though you are on the same level as them. Hard to solve in a forum but nex
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The six corporations that decide the news(businessinsider.com)
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Why Sales in Japan Is Not So Different(linkedin.com)
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Met a brain surgeon who said the hardest part of being a new surgeon is listening to your patient deteriorating before you as you perform the surgery. Especially kids. To continue their careers they need to steel themselves from emotional a
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Whisper suffers from critical security flaws(xipiter.com)
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Bruteforce iPhone password with this hardware device(macobserver.com)
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SIM card makers hacked by NSA and GCHQ(arstechnica.com)
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California headed towards a mega drought within 35 years(m.mic.com)
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