markwisde

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by markwisde 4y ago
Yeah we have the same coworker. He diminishes other people’s result and make it impossible to scale the team by taking over work than others could do and learn from. When he’s expressing his opinion that nobody seems to be able to do the wo
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by markwisde 4y ago
I’m a security engineer and nobody knows what’s best practice. Everyone is making it up at this point, and security is still a nascent field. Most companies don’t even have a security team. I think it’s still not clear how you should build
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by markwisde 4y ago
Nobody seems to know how you can build a successful security org
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by markwisde 4y ago
Considering the stories you can read in the security engineer handbook[1] written by FAANG security engineers I’m willing to believe that. [1]: https://securityhandbook.io/
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by markwisde 4y ago
If it’s interesting to someone I have a similar pipeline I used to write and deploy my book The Security Engineer Handbook [1]. I basically wrote everything using markdown files, and a pdf/epub/mobi is automatically generated from
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by markwisde 4y ago
I sold around 300 in my first year (which ended recently), which is much less than the other book I wrote via my publisher. Yet, even though it is sold at a lesser price, my self-published book made almost more money. This is essentially be
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by markwisde 5y ago
I don’t see how this solves the issue of colliding with a user-provided tryinto
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by markwisde 5y ago
“We can’t add tryinto to the prelude, as a solution we’re adding tryinto” What?
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by markwisde 5y ago
You mean text-align: left?
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by markwisde 5y ago
- Create a landing page via Github and use Github pages or Cloudflare pages to automatically update your domain when you push to your repo - set up stripe checkout on the client side only (so you dont have to deal with server logic) - simpl
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by markwisde 5y ago
Yes indeed! It is an ebook. I should probably write that in the landing page :)
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by markwisde 5y ago
Indeed. Royalties are the issue. I just published a book with a well-known editor and I’m making 10% per copy (ebook or print). The book is priced at more than 50$ and yet I’ll only make this amount by selling 10 copies (of course this is b
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Show HN: I wrote a book about working in a security team
3 points by markwisde 5y ago|1 comments