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by josephwegner 7y ago
Fun fact: Nissan Connect, which allows you to track, start, stop, lock, unlock, trigger horn, and toggle headlights is also massively insecure. In order to gain control of a Nissan Connect-enabled car, you need to know the VIN of the car an
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Hydraulic Telegraph(en.wikipedia.org)
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Ask HN: Do you have a bucket list?
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by josephwegner 7y ago
This is a real "Dropbox is just rsync" sort of comment, but I personally use a small CLI util for this[1]. It automatically creates a new text file for each day that I use it and stores it in a dated folder/file. I can look a
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Firefox: Homeland security urges all users to update browsers immediately(fastcompany.com)
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by josephwegner 7y ago
I recently did a book club at work, reading the book Being Wrong. At one point the book shared some research that supported the notion that children largely engage in play as a method of flirting with error and mistake making. Mistakes made
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by josephwegner 7y ago
Literally just did this last week. Needed some more RAM for my laptop, and figured a quick drop into Fry's would work. It was pitiful and absolutely shocking. I have to say 70% of the store was empty, with multiple departments worth of
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by josephwegner 7y ago
I guess I'll post this here, on the off chance that someone shares my plight and has found success. I, like the author, have found that most traditional excercise is just... boring. And exhausting. And not enjoyable. I did biking for a
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by josephwegner 7y ago
They're around. They cluster, as you might expect. I worked at one a16z-funded startup where probably 1/3 of the engineering department were big spenders. I expect the cluster was a result of the CTO being an extremely big spender
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by josephwegner 7y ago
But the opportunity cost is not tiny. This is literally a twitter thread asking for financial support. And I do recognize that the thousands of petabytes will likely be chump change to store in a decade... but necessarily the economies of s
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by josephwegner 7y ago
I have very high confidence that every application on my computer has some gaping undiscovered vulnerability in it. It is the nature of software to be accidentally insecure. Dropping Zoom based on their security mistake would make sense if
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by josephwegner 7y ago
But this isn't documentation. This is a tutorial, in which progression and transitioning between steps is a fundamental part of the content. Representing that transition via animations is not inappropriate.
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by josephwegner 7y ago
I'm a late-20s American. I do have some basic understanding of metric units, although it is relative (a centimeter is about half an inch, a meter is a bit more than a yard, a kilometer is slightly more than half a mile.). That all goes
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by josephwegner 7y ago
Everytime I see these threads I end up feeling inadequate. For the rest of the folks like me, I will share a small tidbit of wisdom: Starting a business is really hard and it's totally OK to just go work for Salesforce. You do you.
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Overcoming My Fear of Failure(blog.heroku.com)
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by josephwegner 7y ago
Dang, well done. I spent three solid semesters wasting my "Computer Science" electives on breaking into the Novell system... I found tons of these encrypted passwords, and it never occurred to me to just crack one. I did find plen
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by josephwegner 7y ago
Nexus is my favorite in this genre... and in fact one of my favorite books ever. I had some trippy dreams while reading it :)
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Octal: HN Reader for iPhone(apps.apple.com)
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Pulumi 1.0(pulumi.com)
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by josephwegner 7y ago
I think you're spot on, and this is part of the reason I will have "no phones* after dinner/school/whatever" when my kids become smartphone age. I expect I will have similar rules about headphones in cars, or tablet
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by josephwegner 7y ago
Heroku did this about a year ago. They have a list of known pwned passwords (probably haveibeenpwned, but honestly I'm not sure), and disallow accounts to use those passwords. When that change was implemented, any account using a pwned
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by josephwegner 7y ago
I read this article with a bit of hunger and nostalgia to return to my former life as a startup engineer... but I think upon further thought I'm leaning against it again. As a bit of history, I worked as an engineer at startups for mos
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by josephwegner 7y ago
Don't most VCs overvalue most startups by ~100%? This doesn't seem that crazy to me.
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by josephwegner 7y ago
The same rule applies to smart locks as applies to dumb locks: A lock does no more than keep an honest man, honest. Any monkey can buy lock picks and pick a door lock. It's not hard. Generally if you buy a decent rake, it'll open
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by josephwegner 7y ago
Schlage Connect. I have the same rule in my house. Everything is Z-Wave.
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by josephwegner 7y ago
As a former (pre-sale) Keen employee, this makes me sad. I'm very sorry.
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Engineer charged with faking inspection reports for parts used in SpaceX rockets(theverge.com)
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by josephwegner 8y ago
You are absolutely correct, if the company is successful, equity might be worth quite a bit. It's unlikely that you will choose a startup that will be successful in a way that makes equity valuable. Venture Capitalists are in the busin
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by josephwegner 8y ago
These are the questions (and reasons for them) that I have used in the past: https://joewegner.com/blog/startup-interview-questions
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Cloudflare Registrar(cloudflare.com)
129 points by josephwegner 8y ago|107 comments

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