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by nathantotten 9y ago
Yeah, this of course happens at the CEO levels, but I don't think it undermines the principle. If those people reading the emails are empowered to actually fix problems and if they are reporting back experiences to the CEO or relevant
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by nathantotten 9y ago
The real test will be if the CEO of Intel faces this same punishment[1]. Seems like this mostly gets enforced at lower rungs. [1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/intel...
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by nathantotten 9y ago
I honestly don’t think many executives are trying to hide their emails that hard. Steve Jobs always got a lot of press when he would reply to customers, but the reality is that executives actually value this communication. It helps them lea
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by nathantotten 9y ago
I frequently shop at Home Depot. Last year I was remodeling my bathroom and I had some extra parts (unused) and I went to return them. I was mistakenly flagged by Retail Equation and several of the things I was returning were denied. It was
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by nathantotten 9y ago
So no free tier? That’s kind of a bummer, but I guess it’s time I start paying Cloudflare for something. :)
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by nathantotten 9y ago
I actually really like this idea. There are so many random things on github that get broken over time. The implementation though clearly is problematic and github has no choice but to block this behaviour. I could image though a system wher
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by nathantotten 9y ago
Not my scope of expertise, but I believe corporations are prohibited from donating money directly to a candidate based on federal campaign laws. They could of course give money to an action committee, but there are lots of restrictions on c
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by nathantotten 9y ago
I’m not totally convinced that absolves the system/UX. It seems more like an excuse/justification.
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by nathantotten 9y ago
The obvious comparison for the HN crowd is the gitlab database outage last year. Fascinating to see how they responded compared to the government of Hawaii. https://about.gitlab.com/2017/02/10/postmortem-of-da
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by nathantotten 9y ago
Valid point, but the article doesn't mention anything like that. :)
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by nathantotten 9y ago
It is worth noting though that some of these costs are simply tax credits for revenue that wouldn't be collected if the factory isn't build. So they are comparing the "cost" to a basis that assumes the factory gets built
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by nathantotten 9y ago
I think that's being a little extreme. I would guess that a CSO is typically somebody who has the experience, but has worked their way up. It is natural that as you progress in leadership in a company you become less knowledgeable abou
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by nathantotten 9y ago
Yeah, that makes sense. You’re right there needs to be a reward for achieving some measure of security.
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by nathantotten 9y ago
IMO, the specifics of how to secure are less important than ensuring proper cost of not securing your systems. I think having rigid rules like PCI would be significant burden and not allow flexibility as technology and business changes. On
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by nathantotten 9y ago
I would assume that a CSO at a F500 company is mostly responsible for things like budgeting, hiring, and high level strategy. I would think not knowing these specifics is reasonable. What isn’t excusable though is these companies ignoring a
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by nathantotten 9y ago
TLDR: @realDonaldTrump can post whatever he wants and we won't do anything about it. Also, we claim that he doesn't impact our growth.
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by nathantotten 9y ago
Yes. Thanks. :)
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by nathantotten 9y ago
Auth0 is probably pretty close. I spent 3 years there (recently left, but not because of anything negative with the company). They hire remote, they are super flexible with work hours, etc. Culture is that of basically be responsible and ge
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by nathantotten 9y ago
I’m all for activism, but it’s pretty clear that Pai doesn’t care what “the people” think. He isn’t an elected official, he doesn’t need to raise money, he is guaranteed a few board seats or consulting positions after his term that will pay
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by nathantotten 9y ago
I know this is off topic from this thread, but I’m honestly curious as to why you think this. What evidence exists to support your statement? Normally, I would just assume this type of comment is simply trolling, but I looked at your profil
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by nathantotten 9y ago
Well, in this case "Amazon" is actually a team of people.
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by nathantotten 9y ago
I recently moved and took everything with me. This included replacing z-wave light switches and outlets with normal ones. I swapped everything out before we listed the house. The reality is that most people will just be confused by this sor
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by nathantotten 9y ago
Yeah, they had a post form that had a field for username that was available only to the founders. So they could post content and then invent a username to make it appear that there were lots of unique users. They discuss it in this podcast.
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by nathantotten 9y ago
You have to consider this in the context at the time. Yes it would have been expensive, but Microsoft was investing BILLIONS into Windows Phone. Microsoft and partners spent something like $700 million dollars just on marketing for the laun
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by nathantotten 9y ago
This is a stretch IMO. I was working there too at the time and the focus on apps was never as strong as it should have been. Yes, they paid out lots of money to get devs to build apps, but they never really dedicated the resources to buildi
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by nathantotten 9y ago
At least for European customers. This won’t help everyone.
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by nathantotten 9y ago
Bed bath and beyond too. We ordered some cleaning product on Amazon that was delivered by BBB recently so I checked the price. We paid 3x on Amazon.
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by nathantotten 9y ago
Where I work, engineers hire engineers. You are right on some level that it is hard to know exactly what a company does, but for many jobs in software that isn't entirely true. Read the companies blog, look at their open source project
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by nathantotten 9y ago
Good point. And I would seriously consider an applicant that wrote such an application, but better than putting it in his resume would be to write a quick note. "Hey, I've been looking for a new role. As part of my process I wrote
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by nathantotten 9y ago
We do for the most part. We might hire a number of people from the same position, but we typically write a post for each type of position or team. Even at Microsoft this was often the case - of course there was a generic template, but you w

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