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by mpeg 3y ago
Yes, when he says he doesn’t work well in an office people here are reading he wants to work from home. In reality, he’s probably thinking he’d rather be on the road than stay in his SV ivory tower. Two stories about Benioff you might find
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by mpeg 3y ago
They’re selling unlimited design as a subscription (not a new idea) and the free components are a hook to get customers for their service. I’m not connected to it in any way but it seems like a well intentioned venture so I find the negativ
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by mpeg 3y ago
It’s nice to see your perspective as someone familiar with better systems. I have always found this story fascinating; in my junior days I worked at a relatively big adtech platform (ie billions of impressions per day) and as cowboy as we w
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by mpeg 3y ago
It's the fact that the score is handled within the game mechanics itself – so the way to get a high score is not just to play but to play with the goal of modifying R12 (so it points to a high value) They could have easily made score b
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by mpeg 3y ago
This is so clever, I couldn't help but smile when I saw "Your score is stored in memory at the address pointed to by R12" :) Thanks for sharing, it does makes me miss DEFCON, maybe next year...
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by mpeg 3y ago
I think the most frustrating part of remote work are people who expect synchronous communication. Conversations that go like “good morning, how are you?” and then wait until you reply to say “so I was wondering about x” It’s annoying, waste
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by mpeg 3y ago
Consulting is absolute shit. The only way to make it work is if you already have the contacts with companies that have the money to spend or if you have a channel that can get you those contacts (eg. a huge following on twitter, or a popula
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by mpeg 3y ago
I didn't start working that early but still find it hard to define because these days "full stack" is someone who can write frontend and backend web apps – but on my first few jobs "full stack" was anything from wri
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by mpeg 3y ago
I have had the same experience job hunting with 15 years experience as full stack and leadership. The market is awful right now, I either get rejected outright with some automated email or I get through to interviews where they clearly have
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by mpeg 3y ago
Are you me? I too have an 8GB m1 air that I bought in a rush. It's a nice machine but 8GB can be annoying sometimes and it's definitely noticeable when running docker/VMs (it would help if browsers weren't so memory hung
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by mpeg 3y ago
Yes, maxed out m2 air – excellent machine, really worth the money, it's extremely quiet (no fans) and light. The memory has not been an issue at all running multiple VMs (usually linux for docker and parallels for windows tools), can g
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by mpeg 3y ago
Look, I don't mind at all when I get a cold email that is thoughtful and well targeted. But LLM written emails are very obvious, and irritate me to no end because I feel like this is the future of marketing – endless waves of automatic
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by mpeg 3y ago
You're not missing anything, if anything that's a great example of why you shouldn't use an LLM to handle your whole sales pitch without supervision, the person being pitched to is clearly not interested in the product but as
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by mpeg 3y ago
Is this available on proton for business too?
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by mpeg 3y ago
Actually that’s a common misunderstanding of the ePrivacy directive (often bundled with the GDPR(, if you’re only providing an accept dialog you might as well save the effort and not show a cookie notice at all. You need to obtain consent b
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by mpeg 3y ago
My experience has been the complete opposite, as a junior you are less picky and pretty much every role hits your requirements so you apply for a couple jobs and get offered most of them. As a senior, you have to apply for lots of jobs beca
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by mpeg 3y ago
I think this might be a cultural difference, in Europe taking months to be able to contribute to a codebase would get you fired pretty quickly.
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by mpeg 3y ago
Yeah I used to think like you, but I kept getting screened out of interviews because my cv was missing keywords. Then I listed every technology I ever worked with and suddenly I was getting interviews. I never tailored the cv to each job as
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by mpeg 3y ago
I’m not a next.js or react fan at all, but “like always” is a weird thing to say about a feature that is Apache only. While Apache was wildly popular htaccess files and cgi/fcgi adapters for php, Perl and such were everywhere. These da
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by mpeg 3y ago
If your machine is compromised, OpenAI credentials are the least of your worries.
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by mpeg 3y ago
I don’t know of many tech startups that want to hire average developers for their core team. The average is low, yes, but there are also well paid roles that the kind of person a startup in SV would want are probably already doing. Anecdota
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by mpeg 3y ago
Is it wrong? Assuming he refers to top talent, $50-80k isn’t enough to get anyone. You’d hardly be able to hire a top developer in Southeast Asia for this kind of money No one is taking about average employees
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by mpeg 3y ago
Contractual basis too, is often the easiest way to collect and store PII. Eg if you have a contract with someone you can often store a lot of their data to fulfil the contract. There is meant to be a sense of proportionality, but as many th
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by mpeg 3y ago
Technically correct, but arguable... There are lots of UK and EU-based companies that blatantly breach the GDPR and get away with it as the regulatory bodies don't have the resources to chase after every breach at home, let alone abroa
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by mpeg 3y ago
Depends on the product, payments products generally use fingerprinting and present extra prompts if you're using an unknown device – that is kind of one of the main problems of the GDPR though, there are nuances and it's usually n
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by mpeg 3y ago
Storing the log files (or IP addresses in general) is not a problem IF you're using them only with a legitimate interest basis. For instance, you can use this stored IP address to help identify whether your user has had their account b
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by mpeg 3y ago
We went through this in the ad world before GDPR existed. Companies were selling datasets for advertising and, I remember one of my clients (one of the largest ad agencies in the world) telling me they had over 100 sources of data they augm
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by mpeg 3y ago
Off-topic, but someone's been watching Halt and Catch Fire (one of my favourite TV shows ever) – "computers aren't the thing, they're the thing that gets us to the thing"
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by mpeg 3y ago
I've only been programming professionally for 15~ years and I fully agree with the article. In my career I've gone through so many tech stacks, most of which are dead or dying today. A lot of my projects you could today replace wi
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by mpeg 3y ago
Finished them all, very fun. The last level took quite a few tries – I don't want to spoil it but I got it to spit out synonyms of the prompt words, which included the password

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