louthy

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by louthy 6d ago
Please take a look at the posting guidelines [1] and consider using more respectful and constructive responses. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by louthy 7d ago
The bar is: do you have effective compliance in place? And are you audited? (ISO27001 [1] or similar). If you are hacked and you are seen to have not given a shit about compliance, or independent penetration tests, or proper documentation o
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by louthy 7d ago
I realise I’m a sample size of 1, but for me caring was good for business: caring means you can empathise, if you can empathise you can understand, if you can understand you can build a better product.
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by louthy 7d ago
> This is the default business mindset. It isn’t, it is how some people approach business. Not all. Again, in my opinion this is just cynical and constantly - almost psychopathically - propagated here as though it’s some kind of virtue
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by louthy 7d ago
Maybe I wasn’t clear in my message. But the buck stopping with the executives is when ‘the company’ breaks law. Usually because of gross negligence or corporate manslaughter. With my last company, managing medical records, I was always cons
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by louthy 8d ago
If you want to be certified for SOC or ISO in the US you have to check all your suppliers too. You can’t outsource your responsibility if you want to comply. I know this because I have been through it in the US, EU, and UK. If your supplier
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by louthy 8d ago
Your replies here suggest a level of cynicism that is, well, … , it ain’t pretty. In my experience, putting proper compliance procedures in place, following industry best practice in relation to data management and data security actually le
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by louthy 8d ago
That’s not how it works. Especially with compliance schemes like ISO27001, Hippa, etc. they require an audit chain through the supply line. Obviously it depends on what data you’re managing to whether your customers care about whether you’
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by louthy 8d ago
4% of revenue in the EU, 4% of revenue in the UK, and 10% of revenue in Korea should be enough of an incentive to start caring about how you deal with your customer’s privacy and personal data. One assumes the rest of the world won’t be far
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by louthy 8d ago
Perfect isn’t required. The bar is “gross negligence”. Perfect is impossible, but proper compliance procedures, proper process, and a commitment to following industry best practice will always see you on the right side of the negligence bar
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by louthy 8d ago
> It feels better only as long as everybody else cares too. Not sure who “everybody else” is in your statement, but as someone who founded a healthcare tech platform (since sold) [1], I spent 20 years caring about the many millions of pa
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by louthy 8d ago
Yes, being competent requires effort. It certainly feels much better being an proactive member of society rather than a self-serving arsehole though. So, there is that.
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by louthy 8d ago
Or … and hear me out on this one … care?
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by louthy 9d ago
True, there are of course exceptions! :D (Also, other architectures might use J for 'Jump' rather than 'Branch'). I don't make the rules ;)
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by louthy 9d ago
You don’t need to, but if you ever want to really optimise some code, understanding what it turns into on the target CPU really helps. Especially if you know the implications for any particular instruction (cost of memory access, potential
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by louthy 10d ago
Well, there's my super-secret future-of-software-development-and-data-autonomy project, but we're not to talk about that, so shhh! (basically my next startup idea, once I've finished inventing it). Then, there's lang
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by louthy 10d ago
> To what extent are people still coding by hand these days? I write everything myself. After 41 years of coding, I think in code — code flows from my brain through my fingers effortlessly: translating my thoughts to English for an LLM t
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by louthy 10d ago
> “the old days” Is this just plain old rage baiting? I literally can’t tell any more.
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by louthy 10d ago
Fair enough.
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by louthy 10d ago
I use the Pump Club app when lifting, it has the day's programme to follow: I simply enter the reps after each exercise. It never occurred to me that I'd want to automatically track reps. I mean, it could be kinda useful, but I&#x
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by louthy 11d ago
If you constrain the device to ‘fitness tracker” and not lifestyle/sleep/health/illness/fitness telemetry, sure. I wear an Oura Ring for the complete suite of telemetry, not just for tracking workouts. I also lift, I’ll
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by louthy 12d ago
That’s corporate negligence. The executives are liable unless there is evidence of malfeasance by one of the employees.
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by louthy 24d ago
I use Krita, but I miss Paint.NET It’s lighter, simpler, and faster with a much more intuitive UX. for basic image manipulation tasks it’s awesome. For creation of art I’d use Krita, it is more feature complete. But if Paint.NET appeared on
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by louthy 24d ago
If you find this stuff interesting, you can read about the failure of the first game I worked on here [1]. I replied in the comments [2] It says 1997, but dev started in ‘95, I joined in ‘96. I was pretty gutted at the time, I was just 21 y
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by louthy 25d ago
> Does it seem like companies just aren’t that well run anymore? If you mean the games industry, it was always poorly run. I worked in games in the 90s and 00s it was a cottage industry of nerds, many of whom had success with an 8bit gam
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by louthy 1mo ago
I’m not being “silly”, each party is more extreme than the last. Rupert Lowe is an ethno-nationalist who clearly believes in ethnic cleansing (through forced deportation, at least) and is clearly a fascist with deep religious intolerance (a
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by louthy 1mo ago
I remember working in the games industry in the 90s and early 2000s; getting a game past Sony testing was so fricking difficult, but it was because once that black disc was cut, there was no way to get an update. You had to be on the money,
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by louthy 1mo ago
I don’t need to thinly veil anything: most people who constantly bang on about immigration are racists. Those who talk about migration from a structural perspective: infrastructure costs, capacity, etc. have legitimate grounds. But, I would
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by louthy 1mo ago
> The UK has only seen mass immigration since after WWII, by the way Pretty sure we have been invaded by: Vikings, Romans, Germanic tribes which gave us our name, Normans, Beaker folk, Huguenots, and our Empire past literally led to us g
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by louthy 1mo ago
> That's exactly why the Conservatives lost the last general election No, it isn’t. Rampant corruption, parties at No.10, Liz Truss, and then inflation because of the Ukraine war causing a cost of living and cost of energy crisis. Y

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