laurentl

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More like someone with "CTO of Starwood" on his resume at a time when "Starwood IT hacked" is the main headline. I tend to agree with his conclusion: without further information, it's useless to speculate about how
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Great article, even though I don't really care about surfing. One thing that struck me is how he describes the physical attraction of the wave, the need for it. After spending every surf session in your entire life waiting for a good w
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“What is the OWASP top 10?” I can forgive someone who can’t explain how XSS or CSRF works (I’m not sure I can explain it so clearly myself—kudos to the article’s author for the excellent explanation) if they know about the top 10 and have r
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I'll put out another (basic) idea that isn't listed below. If you have access to production logs and metrics, try to model things like page load times, server load, network latency, errors/timeout, number of page views/u
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You might want to look at daedtech.com, it's the blog of a software consultant who has a lot to say on the topic of starting your own consulting business.
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As a manager, I’ve had some success in such situations by demonstrating to the brilliant jerk that I’m at least as brilliant as him. This does not have to be specifically in his area of expertise, but it has to be on a topic he will respect
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It was tried in France without great success. The law was passed in 2006 but the application decree (which states how/when the law comes into effect) was never published. Consequently, this law was never upheld. Why? Field trials betwe
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by laurentl 8y ago
I don’t really see how you can hide (a rough idea of) age in an anonymous cv though. I’m guessing you still have the dates in front of the diplomas and previous jobs, or at the very least how long was spent at each previous job. It stands t
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Don’t forget video. Bluetooth adds latency, and “true wireless” (no cable between the earbuds) adds another layer of latency as the signal has to be sent from one earbud to the other. Noticeable enough that you have to manually add delay be
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OEIS is, to me, mind-boggling. When you consider that there is literally an infinite number of possible sequences, it’s amazing how often a completely arcane sequence you stumbled upon somewhere is listed in the OEIS. Also, it’s helped me s
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It’s hard to articulate, and my post was probably too pithy. I’m referring to the fact that we make most decisions in “self-driving” mode, without thinking too much about it. But sometimes you run into a situation where you find yourself th
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Taking the easy choice. Whenever you have to make a choice and there are an “easy” and a “hard” options, you should choose the hard option. It’s always the right one. Why? If the easy option was also the right one, you wouldn’t even be thin
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The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton Christensen (the book itself is 20 years old but I only read it recently). It’s a fantastic analysis of why successful companies get displaced by disruptive technologies —or, the other way around, why it
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Well, you can’t suddenly replace the quarterpounder with cheese with a royale with cheese.
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Nice website, a bit too MVP though: you might want to remove the lorem ipsums from the "how it works" page ( https://mvpboost.com/how-it-works/ ) :D On the idea, I don't really see what differentiates you
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That's a really interesting question (and one for which I don't know enough probability theory to give a good answer). At the very least, if you have N testers you can apply the technique pairwise to generate N(N - 1)/2 estim
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This sounds like a rough transition, and not one you were asking for I guess. I don’t have any relevant suggestions to share* but you have my sympathies. * well, except for the very generic ones to not confuse what’s happening to you and yo
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And do you know why you didn’t get the job when they added the new layer of management? Were you considered but rejected, did you even get a chance to apply or did you wake up one morning to a new boss and new title? I really feel for what
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by laurentl 8y ago
That’s actually a recurring question I have, given that we have a fairly long (21 chars) domain name: should we stick to first.last@company.com (which is fine but long to type), move to first names only (with the obvious question of what to
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Have you considered marketing yourself as a devops engineer? From the sound of it you already have most if not all of the required skills, and IMO this makes the transition easier as well as plays on your existing strengths (i.e. you’re not
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The link seems dead, is there another url ?
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What BjoernKW said, basically. Companies do enforce security policies. Most often, there’s a bit of cargo culting / going through the motions to prove to compliance or the SEC or whoever that you’re doing something. It’s also complicat
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by laurentl 8y ago
No, you’re not wrong. People don’t care. They don’t even know that they should care. People have no clue how their PC or smartphone or internet access work. They don’t know what a hard drive is, they don’t know what encryption does, and the
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Autopsy of a phishing attempt(link.medium.com)
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This. Developers often have a blind side to their own cost and will happily spend a week or more of their time (i.e. a few k$ at market rate) to shave $300 from an AWS bill.
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Autopsy of a phishing attempt(medium.com)
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Point taken. I love itertools :D
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Nitpick: this only works if the player played exactly three moves (in the version of Tic Tac Toe I know you can play for up to 5 moves). Generalizing to 4 moves is fairly simple, to 5 moves less so; you can test all '3 from 5' com
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This whole thing is a poster child for GDPR. Step 1: hi TLO, what information do you have on me? Step 2: right, delete all of it.
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You just can’t tell, when your job is hosting user content, e.g. managed website hosting (cpanel) or static pages (Azure static website hosting). I mention these two companies because I received 2 phishing attempts this week, both pretendin

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