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by lbriner 4y ago
None of those seem much easier to understand than the others. I suspect this is a classic example of "let's take something that is really messy in pcre and compare it other more brief equivalents" but I could easily turn the
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There is a lot of tokenism in hiring. A Fortune 500 might be marketing a new "push to AI" or whatever and want to seem legit by hiring loads of people, quickly realising that it doesn't work like that but at least it looks go
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by lbriner 4y ago
As others have said, there are some gotchas with the idea but you could probably do something similar that doesn't involve stock like with a profit-sharing fund or a fixed amount to spend on your socials or something!
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by lbriner 4y ago
That's only if you raise another round and don't have enough equity for the founders to just gives some of theirs. OP is talking about something more automatic for every new hire.
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by lbriner 4y ago
Yes, I was told the same. Lots of us have bought e.g. expensive power tools or electronics gadgets that we have hardly ever used!
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by lbriner 4y ago
I'm not an expert but I think this is what the original letter authors objected to. If you build these mechanisms on top of a blockchain which is inherently baked in stone, then there is no point in having the blockchain be so strict.
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by lbriner 4y ago
Maybe he simply smells that Twitter, like many companies, have been downplaying the problem of fake accounts for years and has enough clout to try and force the truth into the open. Maybe he wants a discount but maybe he just doesn't w
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by lbriner 4y ago
An interesting problem is whether the complexity is unavoidable and if it is, we need to teach migration and proxying in Software Engineering 101. We have an old app: dotnet webforms, it's clearly hanging on for its life and needs repl
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by lbriner 4y ago
Good luck but your motivations will probably not line up with the masters who dictate things that become complexity. For example, I look at our software running on .net MVC and think as an Engineer, it simple and knowable but the Front-End
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What makes me slightly angry is the supplier saying they don't know what is causing it when all they had to do was go there and look! That is my biggest gripe with corporates and bureaucracies, they talk a lot when a simple bit of acti
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I understand the desire for freedom of choice or configuration but the bit that is missing is who is supposed to do this? Sure, Google have ringfenced Android for most people and then they restrict it, yes, but Android is open source so eve
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> Not exactly Yes, exactly. The ID checks "at the gate" don't help if the people on the inside running the system can just go and add some additional votes, either for people who didn't turn up (which they know about)
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These articles always seem to have an underlying assumption that really great people are being denied access to jobs because they can't get through these interviews but it is implying that the people who do get through these are not al
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by lbriner 4y ago
The complaints about cloud costs vs on-prem often compare apples with pears. Complaining that a machine that "I could buy for $1000" costs like $4000/year on cloud missing an enormous number of costs that people don't co
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by lbriner 4y ago
I would really hope that people who make security tools would have the best-of-breed electronic engineers but clearly not. The crack was pretty rudimentary and would take an experienced electronics test technician about an hour by the looks
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by lbriner 4y ago
If you have seen posts on HN all the time, why was your account only created 30 minutes ago? Want to have a go at people but don't want to lose precious karma?
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Twitter have no obligation to provide any data to a potential buyer unless there is a contract to protect the effort they have to expend in order to get the information. Even when there are common due-dil type questions that the company mig
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by lbriner 4y ago
Isn't the issue that these are a paid product and the supplier has to keep adding "value" (or pretending they are) to keep selling new software? Some things get better over time like better graphics cards and 64 bit but MS wo
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Because then a load of stuff would stop working!?
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I don't think that the exact problem is double counting IP addresses or multiple CDN shards that are basically the same but there are several concerning things: 1) Why would relatively specific services need to contact so many differen
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The problem is that politicians and armchair critics prefer simple sound-bites like "government spending caused this problem" or perhaps "a lack of government spending caused this problem", I can't imagine how many
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When I visited Hakata, there were many of these places underground too. The lack of light made it feel like it would be annoying if you worked there but the lack of noise and traffic made it a nice way of walking across the centre of Fukuok
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by lbriner 4y ago
It isn't that surprising. The original tube lines were built just below the surface and they had to go down the middle of the road partly because it was easier and partly to try and avoid damage to old buildings (and demolition althoug
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OP mentions in the article that the surface route was 3 minutes slower but maybe he was walking slower!
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Smaller countries like Japan/UK have other issues with sprawl which is that people often want the best of both. I'm happy to enjoy the buzz of working in a city and its lots of choice of shops and restaurants but I want to live so
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Yes it is to a lesser or greater degree. I guess a lot of languages struggle with the balance between Communism and Dictatorship. If you allow genuine communism, people don't agree on things, stuff gets built to different levels of qua
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The problem is that most devs expect agility but many modules live for 10 years+ based on whatever they were based on back in the day with no real desire to rewrite it with the latest package management thingy. So then we end up with a mix
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I think this causes so much confusion but it really shouldn't. A bearer token means just that, if you have this token (JWT or otherwise) then it proves you have access to something period. Unlike opaque tokens, JWTs have a built-in exp
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But the auditers were experts and used all the latest and greatest tools. I think they are implying that if they couldn't find it with code inspection then a hacker wouldn't find it by probing. Of course, they might not find zero-
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Lots of really good points in here. I have worked at various companies who have struggled after the initial growth. Hubris can take over and we feel the need to over-extend, to sit at the big-boys table, to court the corporates with their f

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