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by laurentl 8y ago
I would say that regular drills are useful to develop reflexes and awareness in the guardian. See e.g. fire drills in office buildings to make sure everyone knows where the emergency exit is and knows to leave the building without panicking
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by laurentl 8y ago
> ours can also scam to mailbox This would be a Nigerian scanner then? ;) “Dear sir or madam, I have come in possession of a very valuable document scan which I am unable to get out of the country...”
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by laurentl 8y ago
I hadn’t really thought about it before, but this makes clear that renewable != clean.
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by laurentl 8y ago
I don’t want to sound glib, but if you find yourself asking if you’re in development hell then the answer is probably yes. Other than that meta-remark, you can take a look at how the cost and delay estimates evolve after a deadline is misse
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by laurentl 8y ago
This is pretty complete but I’ll add a few more: -rich formatting. It’s easier to scroll through your notes if the headings and sub-headings stand out. Also, automatic bullet lists with multiple indentation (I do a lot of these) - ability t
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by laurentl 8y ago
For project Euler specifically: - look at the size of the inputs, it usually tells me what type of complexity my solution should have: if n is around 1000 I’ll be looking at O(n 2) algorithms, if n is around 1000000 then it’s O(n) or O(n l
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by laurentl 8y ago
> it seems the finding is about a technicality that could be a genuine mistake (1 day after GDPR Google's TOS didn't mention Google Ireland yet) To clarify, the fine is due to the consent mechanism in Android. The fact that the
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by laurentl 8y ago
Just to highlight that OP was (rightly) talking about business consumers. As a business, under GDPR I am responsible for the compliance of my subcontractors (which includes Google Cloud or Azure for instance). I read about this Google blund
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by laurentl 8y ago
Another point to note is that production code needs to meet a higher bar in terms of testing and auditability. It’s one thing to train a NN on a data scientist’s machine and show that on test data, the new system performs 10% better; and an
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by laurentl 8y ago
In the second case, one might hope that those entities will check their audit logs and make sure no-one used the tools of the state for their own end.
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by laurentl 8y ago
As other comments have pointed out, there’s not a lot you can do if the technical person wants to bring the house down. But there are other cases you should cover against, like the techie getting run over by a bus. The first thing that come
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by laurentl 8y ago
We’ve been using SSM parameter store to store our secrets (as secure strings). To manage access in a more granular manner we use a namespace approach where the parameters are prefixed with the service or API they’re attached to, or “global”
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by laurentl 8y ago
I have a generic question which I ask in all interviews, whether hiring for a dev, manager, project leader. It works wonders for me. For each position in the candidate's resume (or the last 3 if the resume is too long) I ask "what
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by laurentl 8y ago
Reading your post made me realize that I've unwittingly used your technique, without clearly understanding why it works. When hiring for an intern/junior position, I will often ask for a sample of a candidate's school project
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by laurentl 8y ago
This is a bit of a strawman argument: the parent post does not claim that everyone should have the same share of the pie, but that one should get a minimal share rather than nothing.
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by laurentl 8y ago
Good for you! Where in the EU? There is quite a bit of variation in work regulations and norms (e.g. minimum wage and salary variance) depending on the member states.
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by laurentl 8y ago
The old-school guys also think (rightly in some cases) that they have an added value. 10 years ago I was building a cloud platform and explaining to the security team that they would no longer receive tickets to manually configure routes on
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by laurentl 8y ago
A lot of statements in the article seem off. The position on the S-curve, the claim that TDD replaced QA teams, even the fact that “serverless is coding for hardware engineer” or however it was formulated (the author probably meant “infrast
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by laurentl 8y ago
> Cross-platform replacements would quickly emerge For messaging, one could argue that it already exists: Signal (which has already benefited from FB’s announcement that they collect WhatsApp)
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by laurentl 8y ago
Yes. TFA mentions it in passing, but to me JS’s main issue is not the language but the ecosystem. You can’t install an npm package without inheriting hundreds of dependencies. Reading a typical package-lock.json file makes me cringe. I feel
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by laurentl 8y ago
“More comments than its score” is something that jumps out at me when I skim the front page. So, for that matter, is “high score and very few comments”. I know that the latter will probably be something really interesting or even awe-inspir
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by laurentl 8y ago
Sorry, I meant "the first by CNIL" (or even more specifically, the first in the list of previous fines that was a couple of posts above)
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by laurentl 8y ago
This right here. Actions speak louder than words, and if your first action is to go contrary to the company culture you profess, how do you expect anyone to believe in it?
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by laurentl 8y ago
Thanks for clarifying. Given the interests you cite (e.g. AI R&D), a specialized degree might be necessary to break into the field - I don’t really see a clear path from “starting a new career in IT” to “working on advanced topics” that
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by laurentl 8y ago
Furthermore, this is the first fine falling under GDPR. The previous fines handed out by the CNIL were pre-GDRP, with much lower maximum amounts (300 k€). So a 250k€ fine is close to the maximum they could fine, which makes sense given the
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by laurentl 8y ago
It’s also the first fine to be handed out after the GDPR came into effect (the other fines on the page are for infractions discovered before May 2017). Which is one of the reasons the GDPR was passed: previous laws had much less teeth when
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by laurentl 8y ago
Do you have a specific job in mind? It seems obvious that you want to pivot to an IT/tech role but the particulars (aside from not wanting to work in web development) aren’t clear. I assume you will be looking for something interesting
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by laurentl 8y ago
A closer analogy would be “Spotify/Pandora cannot stream new albums for a period of X months” since AWS has the option to develop the missing features, and will if they’re requested by enough customers (AWS is extremely pragmatic when
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by laurentl 8y ago
Any idea if and how this ruling (if upheld) can be used to refuse phone seizures / password requests by CBP when entering the country? The ruling relies on the 5th amendment so its scope is limited to American citizens I guess. And wha
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by laurentl 8y ago
Not to mention that in several cases, the managed service is run with Windows Server (think managed .asp hosting, or using a Windows-only middleware). So you have to tack on the extra resources for a Windows machine and the license costs. F

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