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by mtlynch 3y ago
Not GP, but this is what I see: https://imgur.com/gTQ4J80 I can read it, but I can understand having trouble with dim gray text on a black background.
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by mtlynch 3y ago
That's fair. I interpreted "no walls" as "open borders" but you're right that there are ways of enforcing limitations on immigration that aren't physical barriers at the border.
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by mtlynch 3y ago
I'm not sure how to interpret these lines in a way that doesn't suggest support for unchecked immigration: > Do not be so stupid to think that > A place should only belong to those who are born there >... > It is not
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by mtlynch 3y ago
There's a very simple version of this where a recording of a confused but very polite and cooperative elderly man answers the phone and speaks when the other person pauses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_(bot)
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by mtlynch 3y ago
In these cases, Microsoft is legally required to hand over these communications. It doesn't matter if they're end-to-end encrypted with something like Signal. Microsoft would still be required to hand over what the court requested
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by mtlynch 3y ago
Great bit of trivia. Thank you for sharing!
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by mtlynch 3y ago
Wow, I never expected to hear from so many Fog Creek folks! Thanks for sharing that bit of trivia, Anil. How'd that happen?
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by mtlynch 3y ago
Hi, Liz! Really glad to hear you enjoyed the post! > I will swim upstream here and declare I think it's a perfect film lol. Seriously though, for me it captures a moment in time that I will forever look fondly upon. The documentary
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by mtlynch 3y ago
Thanks for reading and for the correction! I've updated the post.
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by mtlynch 3y ago
Oh, interesting. I'd seen it pop up on YouTube before, but the versions I saw were all pretty bad DVD rips. Some of the old threads mention that the versions were uploaded by Boondoggle Media, the film's producer and the same uplo
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by mtlynch 3y ago
Thanks! > (Me being awkward and arrogant also does play into it, but, like everyone else, I've grown a lot since then. Seeing how far I've come is at worst a reminder not to let myself be like that again, but usually just ends
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by mtlynch 3y ago
Oh, I didn't realize it was that late. Swartz, Huffman, and Ohanian are the only YC participants they interview, and they show them all working side-by-side, so I assumed they were all working on Reddit, but I just checked how they int
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by mtlynch 3y ago
Author here. Cool to see your response here! > I'm a bit confused at how you'd come up with that summary of my career. I worded that poorly, you're right. I meant early-stage startups at the scale of Fog Creek when you st
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by mtlynch 3y ago
Joel started his career at Microsoft in Redmond, WA, where it was common for developers to have their own private offices. I was there from 2007-2010, long after Joel had left, but I mostly had a private office the whole time. I had to shar
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by mtlynch 3y ago
Yeah, I recall seeing a low-quality DVD rip on YouTube a few years ago. When I was researching the article, I found lots of places online where Joel and the other people in the documentary had linked to YouTube URLs that are now dead, so I
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by mtlynch 3y ago
> It's crazy looking back and seeing how different everything was. Yeah, that struck me as well. For some reason, I expected their tooling to be much more modern, but then you see them running Windows XP, and I have this visceral r
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Aardvark'd: The Fog Creek documentary, 18 years later(mtlynch.io)
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by mtlynch 3y ago
You can't both have autonomy over the same resource. It sounds like you and your partner have a mutual understanding of the other's spending, and your expenses are low enough and/or your income is high enough that it doesn&
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by mtlynch 3y ago
This is neat! I've thought about doing something similar with my shell history to help me figure out which shell aliases I should create.
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by mtlynch 3y ago
Thanks, that's very helpful perspective! I wasn't aware of that post from Graphene, but oof does that make me want to stay away from Fairphone for a few years. I'm in a similar boat to you. I ended up picking the Pixel 7a. I
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by mtlynch 3y ago
Yeah, eval is the main culprit, but there's also Function, setTimeout, setInterval and friends.[0] The other gotcha is that with a secure CSP policy, you can no longer do things like <button onclick="handleClick"> becau
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by mtlynch 3y ago
I was upgrading my Pixel 4a recently, and one of my top concerns was security updates. I wanted a phone that would continue receiving timely Android security fixes for at least 3 years, ideally 5+ years. I liked the idea of Fairphone, but I
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by mtlynch 3y ago
> I know XSS is dying due to CORS CORS isn't related to XSS. CORS actually isn't a security protection at all. It's a way for web apps to explicitly disable standard protections that browsers apply to enforce same origin
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by mtlynch 3y ago
Ah, that's helpful, thanks! I do indeed have the Leap 2.
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by mtlynch 3y ago
Hard to say. I can't find any explanation of the differences between v1 and v2. I bought mine in April 2018 from Amazon, and my receipt just says, "Steelcase Leap, Black" with no version.
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by mtlynch 3y ago
I second the recommendation of Steelcase. I bought my Steelcase Leap chair five years ago, and it's still rock solid and has no noticeable wear. My wife recently decided to buy one too, and she got hers refurbished from a company calle
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by mtlynch 3y ago
This seems like a rewrite of better reporting by Motherboard: https://www.vice.com/en/article/93kwaa/harvard-tells-grad-st...
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by mtlynch 3y ago
> In the summer of 2016 we moved to England. We wanted our kids to see what it was like living in another country, and since I was a British citizen by birth, that seemed the obvious choice. We only meant to stay for a year, but we liked
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by mtlynch 3y ago
> I am curious why you don't think they aren't better than the alternatives? Are they amazing and beyond improvement? Of course not. But most of the alternatives are crap. Do you think the quality of the alternatives might be
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by mtlynch 3y ago
It sounds like the subtext is that this dev was incompetent, but if all they did is mess up a staging environment, it sounds like things were working as intended. If a junior dev can cause catastrophic harm from one wrong command, it's

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