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by mwfunk 9y ago
Well that's easy to avoid- don't give anyone ammunition with which to dismiss you as an asshole. It's totally unrelated to whether or not someone really is an asshole. It's trivially easy, and if it's not trivially
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Sandboxing isn't to prevent people from damaging their own computer (i.e., the "sudo rm -rf /" case), it's to impose a ceiling on how much damage can be done by an exploited process that the user doesn't realiz
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by mwfunk 9y ago
If you feel that way and want to contribute, the thing to do is to spend 30 seconds with Google (if that) answering your own question, then posting a summary of what you've learned for other HN readers who may not have heard of Julia.
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by mwfunk 9y ago
I agree with you that historically unions were (and still are) critical in making the world a better place, by being the only force representing the exploited. I don't dispute that at all. But there can be a dark side too. I grew up in
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by mwfunk 9y ago
People who are fresh out of school can be way overconfident, in part because they don’t know what they don’t know yet. No generational trends required, I was certainly that way in the ‘90s. So many times when I hear people complain about ki
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by mwfunk 9y ago
Anecdotal of course, but in my experience, when hiring professional engineers, neither I nor anyone I know would judge someone for not having a Github page to look at. If they have one, great, I'll take a look, but if not, no big deal.
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If you're presenting what you have on Github to a potential employer as a shining example of what you're capable of, then yeah, it should be polished as hell, because you are literally presenting it to someone as an example of the
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They do have a well-funded and well-publicized bounty program for security exploits.
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Why?
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Prop 13 is an excellent point, and specific to California. I can’t imagine how different the housing situation would be without it. Maybe a little different, maybe a lot, but certainly better for almost everyone in the big picture.
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It’s basically hell on earth if you’re there at the wrong time. Imagine an all-you-can-eat buffet restaurant that is pretty much nothing but a big salad bar plus a small selection of soups and sides. That sounds good to me, but the unfortun
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That’s not remotely as immoral as leaving grandma on the street. It’s a compromise, like everything else in the world that does more good than bad.
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That’s a problem of demographics and unemployment, not a Ponzi scheme. Ponzi schemes are scams, but they do effectively take money from people and give it to other people, which doesn’t happen if there’s no funds to transfer. I don’t think
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by mwfunk 9y ago
How do does one get involuntarily booted from coverage provided by the ACA? Or did she voluntarily drop coverage? If the latter, that’s 100% on her, but if the former then that seems like it should be impossible and I’m very curious how it
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by mwfunk 9y ago
This is great advice in the right context, but it's not a universal context. If it's a big tech company in SV, for example, or really any company > 100 people in a crowded and desirable industry to be in, cold emailing people i
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by mwfunk 9y ago
America has historically been unusual in that it was explicitly founded on commonly shared ideas rather than ethnic, religious, or regional identities. Obviously it has fallen short of that ideal many times throughout its history, but for t
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I would not interpret it that way at all. Being able to understand requirements and implement stuff based on those requirements, or work as part of a team, or maintain dedication to a task for weeks or months at a time, has nothing to do wi
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by mwfunk 9y ago
Google Project Zero does not support full public disclosure immediately- quite the opposite. They support full public disclosure after giving the vendor an opportunity to ship a fix to their customers in a reasonable period of time. Nobody&
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by mwfunk 9y ago
I tend to agree. I think of the conscious mind as more like an executive at the top of a huge organization, with like 10 different layers of management and tens of thousands of mostly unseen people beneath it in the org chart. Every time yo
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by mwfunk 9y ago
This is excellent advice. I would add that another key ingredient is never resting on your laurels, and continually learning and improving. Successful people (and companies) often get to a comfortable place where they can get away with doin
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by mwfunk 9y ago
He’s someone who has written a fair amount of software in his spare time (which is all of it, since his wife’s been supporting him for decades). He’s written some (IMO, at the time) entertaining writings on software development, but I don’t
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by mwfunk 9y ago
The article makes sense if portability was the only reason to use containers. Fat binaries solve the portability problem in a way that may or may not make sense for a given project, but fat binariries don’t address any of the other issues t
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by mwfunk 9y ago
If you don't think it's important, and the fact that you put 'so important' and 'high stakes' in quotes implies that you very much don't think it's important, then you'll make much more of an imp
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by mwfunk 9y ago
There have been many votes on PR statehood, and the people of PR have always voted to remain a territory. I don't know enough about this to form a strong opinion, so I'd be interested to hear from PR residents as to why statehood
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by mwfunk 9y ago
It's absolutely an issue. Sad but true. I would bet that most American citizens don't realize that PR is also part of America, or that the people that live there are American citizens as well.
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It's up to Puerto Rico. Every few years they have votes on statehood, and so far they've always turned it down.
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I really think the big steps forward come from people who have thought deeply about the challenges and are just as passionate about overcoming those challenges, not from people who weren't aware of the challenges going into it that did
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I would say that having a healthy skepticism (which is not the same thing as pessimism or cynicism) helps make it more likely for things to work out in the long run. It's the difference between saying, "Elon Musk wants to colonize
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I wouldn't say that the use of language in writing is a superficial thing to focus on. The language is the medium through which the author expresses whatever information they're trying to convey. It's always going to be one o
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This is one of those conversations that has been going on for decades (if not centuries or millennia). If your life involves making something in private, then putting it out there for other people to see/buy/whatever, every such p

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