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by mcherm 10y ago
I'm not the grandparent poster, but I can say why I would want that. I'm not perfect. I make mistakes. If I were a founder and I made a mistake running my company, I would want my investors to tell me. I would want them to tell
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by mcherm 10y ago
> So go ahead and tell Mr. Fielding that his definition of REST is incorrect. Not "incorrect", but I'd be happy to tell him that his term has been co-opted by the programming masses to means something vaguely related to th
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by mcherm 10y ago
> What's this "we" business? Who's "we"? > I don't know about you, but I'm an engineer. I am neither a manager, nor an executive, nor an HR goon. Guess what? I'm also an engineer. (My offic
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by mcherm 10y ago
> What they describe is not REST. [...] a strict requirement of the REST architectural style. [...] You have a word "REST" for which you are apparently granted access to Plato's "true" definitions, which enables
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by mcherm 10y ago
Mild sexism is endemic to a portion of our industry. But I honestly have not previously encountered allegations on the level of "my boss propositioned me on my first day and HR said they wouldn't do anything". I would like to
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by mcherm 10y ago
> why isn't just answering to the first mail " sorry, not interested" then keep working there not an option ? It is an option. In fact, it sounds like that is nearly what Ms. Fowler did -- she reported the interaction to
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by mcherm 10y ago
Why on earth do you think that? Mandatory binding arbitration clauses in employment contracts have been enforced before.
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by mcherm 10y ago
Thanks, that was quite helpful. I would say that "compress, then encrypt is bad" is the wrong message to take away from this type of vulnerability. In the case of CRIME in particular, the issue was that: 1. The attacker provided p
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by mcherm 10y ago
> compressing then encrypting is a no-no Perhaps it is just my own meager understanding of cryptography, but I didn't know of anything that would make this a bad idea. Can you explain why it is potentially a problem?
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by mcherm 10y ago
Yet another thing I'd rather not have.
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by mcherm 10y ago
If adding the word "even" clarifies things for even just a tiny percentage of readers (clearly Tenoke found it helpful, and so did I), then it is worth doing. Sure, the article is quite long (Scott Alexander's writing often i
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by mcherm 10y ago
Your example from RethinkDB really struck home to me. The idea that superior technology might lose out due to poor marketing or (in this case) a system that is optimized for the real world rather than being optimized for benchmarks really d
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by mcherm 10y ago
> Just out of curiosity, what kind of numbers are you talking about? Unfortunately, that's exactly the kind of thing my employer does not want me to talk about. > Call me a masochist but that sounds really fun. Oh, it is. It&#x27
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by mcherm 10y ago
So, I work for one of the larger US banks, so I'm qualified to answer this question! I'll narrow this down to one particular section of our consumer bank, because that serves as a fairly "clean" example, not much affecte
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by mcherm 10y ago
> This piece is so incredibly irresponsible. Perhaps. Can you write a better one?
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by mcherm 10y ago
Not true. HTTPS encrypts the URL as well as the content of the communication. Someone surveilling the conversation with the ability to observe all network traffic but without the ability to decrypt SSL traffic would be able to tell that the
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by mcherm 10y ago
No. Confounding variables are NOT fixed by using larger sample sizes.
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by mcherm 10y ago
> Screaming baby in the office = I quit. I'm glad my current employer has "no children in the office" as written policy in our handbook. Clearly different environments work for different people. I'm not trying to sugg
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by mcherm 10y ago
Furthermore, lots of things are considered "not novel" or "obvious" by nearly every expert in the field, but not by patent examiners. But one specific area which patent examiners are VERY good at reviewing is old patents
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by mcherm 10y ago
Being allowed to say "I received between 0 and 999 NSLs affecting 0 to 999 customers" doesn't really convey the same information as a canary.
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by mcherm 10y ago
I don't know what this project has done, but I can tell you how I would build it, and why this approach would be better than the approach used by our current system of certificate authorities. (1) In this model, the user decides whic
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by mcherm 10y ago
The author concludes by saying: >I think I've written before that this profusion of solutions is the sign of a well-designed system. The tools and concepts are powerful, and can be combined in many ways to solve many problems that t
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by mcherm 10y ago
If they were smart grown-ups they would be advertising the hell out of this: there's a lot more than $10 million to be made by allowing players to believe that a sufficiently smart "system" can beat the house. A really sm
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by mcherm 10y ago
At least you can manage more than zero things...
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by mcherm 10y ago
That's pretty much what we do. The difficulty lies in determining what counts as a moral wrong. Some societies have left this in the hands of the judge (or feudal lord). Most modern societies require legislatures to write down the wron
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by mcherm 10y ago
I gave it a little thought: if the "prev" and "next" buttons included some visual indicator of how many more items there were in that direction, I think that would help a lot. Bonus points if it comes with a subtle anima
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by mcherm 10y ago
In the case of bitcoin, I don't believe anyone could mine their own genesis block and build a chain even remotely approaching the length of the "standard" bitcoin chain. In fact, this applies more generally: after a blockchai
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by mcherm 10y ago
In the case of the bitcoin blockchain, I think there is an extremely simple protocol: just use the longest (most work) chain among the various contenders for "correct".
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by mcherm 10y ago
Hmm... Definitely DIFFERENT, and I ought to give it a deeper try before giving serious feedback. But I'll go ahead and give my initial impressions anyway since you asked. My first thought is that I don't like it much. Probably bec
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by mcherm 10y ago
> it's pretty common (and in some cases exceedingly disliked by customers -- I'm looking at you, offshore support) to outsource your phone customer service. Good point. It _is_ disliked by customers. The only thing worse than o

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