josh2600

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   by josh2600 11y ago

   Part of the fallacy of this is the implication that you need "good" engineers for most startups. I think, frankly, that many startups need a website with a google form + some excel sheets to get started and if the thing takes off
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   by josh2600 11y ago

   I understand and appreciate your point. Mine was that, in the larger context that is computing, you must build on top of something because redoing everything from scratch every time would be ridiculous. You likely trust your CPU instruction
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   by josh2600 11y ago

   Do you write your compiler from scratch every time you push an update to your web server? Edit: it is turtles all the way down (and the only way it's not impossible is by virtue of standing on the shoulders of giants).
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   by josh2600 11y ago

   It's really hard to build trust when products disappear. Building on top of google is hard for this reason, and Facebook is beginning to look eerily similar. Recall all of the wonderful social graph access that once existed and see, no
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   by josh2600 11y ago

   Thanks. I was about to chime in with how ridiculous events of all kinds are... They're just so hard and nothing ever goes according to plan. One of my favorite phrases is "You can't spell 'party' without 'disas
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   by josh2600 11y ago

   RE: Abductions, it's entirely possible that those stories could be, instead, related to MK Ultra [0] rather than Air force testing. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra
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   by josh2600 11y ago

   "How is a poor American citizen supposed to make a judgment on if having a locked down Internet where they can only use AOL is better than this Internet they might not have even heard of with millions of websites? They only see one sid
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   by josh2600 11y ago

   For context: http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/19/8621581/sony-music-spotify...
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   by josh2600 11y ago

   I worked very closely with Five9 for years. I can say that every company has their flaws but the key thing I took away from my time with them is that technology is in service of business goals, not the other way around. There were always di
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    by josh2600 11y ago

    Just like how in the US we all use AOL, because of the free discs, right? I mean, who would ever want anything beyond AOL once they've had AOL, right?
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    by josh2600 11y ago

    "Nailed 14nm". Lol. I guess maybe you missed all the news about Intel fubar'ing it's 14nm and having to order more 16nm capacity from TSMC to deal with the pain? http://techbuyersguru.com/hotdealsblog&#x2
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    by josh2600 11y ago

    Maybe I'm just naive, but I don't really understood the security narrative of containers or kernel namespacing. If you have a zero-day for a VM, you still have to deal with the supervisor OS even if you can get out of the VM but i
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    by josh2600 11y ago

    Also a big admirer of Whisper. They need people who can build software that doesn't suck, not crypto nerds. In addition, you get to work with Moxie who's one of the most badass engineers I've ever met. Sometimes you just wann
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    by josh2600 11y ago

    Doesn't solve the problem of the network reporting your location (disabling the baseband does, but operating system level permissions don't impact the network). I know that's outside the scope of your comment, but I wanted to
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    Internet.org is not Evil(medium.com)

    3 points by josh2600 11y ago|0 comments
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    by josh2600 11y ago

    "Job security guaranteed"... That's so ludicrous, I don't know where to begin. Forget driverless cars for a moment and think about the fact that a few bad ratings can remove your ability to earn income from this source f
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    by josh2600 11y ago

    Part of the beauty of Omega is that there aren't just multiple schedulers, but schedulers with different profiles (this solves the head of line problem for long-running jobs while accelerating small jobs). Mesos, from the Borg paper[0]
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    by josh2600 11y ago

    This job swapping problem is a different sort of problem. In your example, I have cluster saturation as a concern. Google would love to saturate their cluster, but I would wager they usually are nowhere near saturation (scheduling a job on
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    by josh2600 11y ago

    http://research.google.com/pubs/pub41684.html Basically, there's a server that holds state for the cluster. When a scheduler attempts to load a job into the cluster, it grabs state from the aforementioned server,
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    by josh2600 11y ago

    The village is called "The Institute for Higher Yearning". Also worth checking out BattleBlimps, which was developed by False Profit Labs: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/battle-blimps . Hydrogen filled bli
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    by josh2600 11y ago

    FWIW, minus the Burning Platform memo, it's entirely possible that we could still be looking at Nokia as a large player on the world stage.
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    by josh2600 11y ago

    Counterpoint: uber, but yes I hear you.
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    by josh2600 11y ago

    Climbing up is a lot harder than climbing down.
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    by josh2600 11y ago

    I don't know if I agree with you. For example, it's entirely possible he's talking about not building active reactors in lieu of passive ones...
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    by josh2600 11y ago

    1) You can't eliminate Caller ID spoofing without overhauling the whole phone network, which won't happen until carriers are forced to do so by regulatory forces. A strong narrative here is the relative security guarantees of IPse
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    by josh2600 11y ago

    I'm not a Google apologist and I don't appreciate your tone. I'm attempting to orient myself so that I can think about what is right and wrong with respect to responsible disclosure in a clear and coherent fashion.
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    by josh2600 11y ago

    Can you help me understand this? They're complaining about a bug in the patch implementation and the patch implementation did not exist prior to the patch; ergo, if Google didn't patch the code, they wouldn't be able to write
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    by josh2600 11y ago

    Did I read that right? They reported the bug to Google on August 7th and disclosed it publicly on August 13th? Is this still responsible disclosure if they give Google basically 6 days to respond and use the original notification date as ju
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    by josh2600 11y ago

    Current sources of value != future sources of value. The price of Google's stock is based on forward-looking prospects, not on current metrics.
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    by josh2600 11y ago

    Yep, I misread it the second time through, sorry!