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by neilv 1y ago
> Microsoft's new approach is the latest sign of the company increasing performance pressure on employees. It has fired thousands of employees deemed low performers this year and introduced a new performance improvement plan meant
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> Attaullah Baig, who served as head of security for WhatsApp from 2021 to 2025, claims that approximately 1,500 engineers had unrestricted access to user data without proper oversight, potentially violating a US government order that i
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by neilv 1y ago
> No adblocker detected. Consider using an extension like uBlock Origin to save time and bandwidth. And attention and privacy. This notice is a great idea. I might remove the "like" from the notice, since "uBlock Origin&
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by neilv 1y ago
> First, add tests, then do your changes This can be a superpower. I once had to replace a PostgreSQL-interfacing layer of a large+complex+important system, and most of the original tests had been lost. It's the kind of change tha
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IMHO, Toyota did an awesome job of taking the 2004 Prius funny wedge compact eco-nerd-mobile look (which might have been exactly what it needed at the time), and making it look sleek and modern and powerful. I'm imagining a designer lo
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> Now that the bubble has burst, the speculators are out of the picture, off flipping meme coins, where no one makes them feel inadequate or insists that they buy three things they don’t want to get the one thing they do. > “The ju
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by neilv 1y ago
That quote is brilliant. Corporate communications has playbook damage control responses, and this quote seems to be suggesting that the quoted response is one of them (it's "familiar"). Whether "former employees" ar
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by neilv 1y ago
I've worked with at least two such "Nukes". One a researcher, the other a tech startup founder. Both very smart, team-oriented, amiable and down to earth, and inspiring respect (through their ability and how they conduct th
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by neilv 1y ago
At home, I built an OPNsense box to evaluate (using Sophos XG135 Rev 3 hardware, along with an OpenWrt nice Netgear WiFi AP on POE), but then went back to a plastic OpenWrt all-in-one box. OPNsense (and pfSense) are neat, but I personally d
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Given that Zuckerberg is a public figure with a lot of power over the world, and there's some scandals at least on his watch, I suppose that some speculation about relevant aspects of private life is appropriate. Obviously there were s
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by neilv 1y ago
Seems reasonable by Mozilla, to me, given precedents like the new Debian release not doing 32-bit release builds. And doing security updates on ESR for a year is decent. (Though people using non-ESR stream builds of Firefox will much soone
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by neilv 1y ago
Thank you for your work on PostmarketOS.
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by neilv 1y ago
Looks like PostmarketOS (mainline Linux for phones, with choice of frontend, such as Plasma Mobile or Phosh) has demoted all their previous "Main"-tier devices to "Community" or lower tier: https://wiki.postma
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by neilv 1y ago
Controller seemed fairly straightforward to me initially , when I was first learning Smalltalk (ParcPlace), and I took my simple understanding on faith. My programs were simple, so M was data, V was presentations of the data, C was inter
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by neilv 1y ago
I knew Rational did Ada (and later acquired awesome products from Atria and Pure), but didn't know they had their own workstation hardware in the '80s. And it had a nice portrait orientation monitor like some early Xerox workstati
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by neilv 1y ago
If anyone is interested, but didn't read it because it looked long-form... it's only ~3,500 words, and is a very accessible writeup about this serious matter. The bulk of the piece is also a more sympathetic reporting of the story
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by neilv 1y ago
True, it also applies to people who want to maintain their position, not climb higher. (At least in orgs that don't have "up or out" culture.)
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Something can be flagged (or downvoted) because people think the topic or discussion is off-charter or incorrect, or to suppress information/discussion for ulterior reasons. In some forums, tactics like flaming, disinformation, off-top
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by neilv 1y ago
People died under troubling circumstances. Hopefully the strange quirks of the news org's writing style don't derail discussion.
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by neilv 1y ago
Yesterday's HN post on the story, with some discussion, but was flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45143759 [flagged] US special forces killed North Korean civilians in botched 2019 mission (reuters.co
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by neilv 1y ago
For formatting code blocks on HN, prefixing each line with 4+ leading spaces works: (define sum-tree (lam/anon (t) (cond ((mt? t) 0) ((node? t) (+ (node-v t) ($MyInvocatio
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by neilv 1y ago
In such ecosystems, for long-term, evolving production work (when you don't know all your eventual needs upfront), you need to have the institutional capability to build from scratch whatever components you might need. Just in case wh
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by neilv 1y ago
The HN guidelines suggest assuming the strongest interpretation of what someone said, so obviously the commenter was making a joke. :)
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It mostly is, but the author asserts that the advice is also applicable to (the minority of?) people with other goals. The author deals with the question of the advice recipient's goals near the start of the piece: > For some peopl
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by neilv 1y ago
Marketing/brand question: How do brands like Google (Alphabet) get away with moves like breaking products like this? Is it because they continue to offer valued other services? Is it because the affected people of any untrustworthy mov
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As a poor-student-ish activity in a US college town, I used to systematically walk trash pickup zones of the city streets the night before the zone's pickup, looking for useful household items that people customarily set beside their t
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by neilv 1y ago
That systems of interlocks sounds somewhat reassuring. Though, what we can see recently of some checks on other extraordinary powers don't seem to be working well.
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Thanks for the explanation. Isn't this a pretty dangerous power and precedent to have, if you're the good guys? Especially if you don't have a lot of confidence that the top of the command chain will always be of the utmost i
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> The civilians appeared to be diving for shellfish when they inadvertently came across the detachment of SEALs as they splashed ashore at night, the Times reported. The American forces opened fire, killing all those aboard the small fi
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> I write with the vague hope that some unique expression of myself makes some tiny difference to this universe. I used to have to talk more on Internet privacy. Now I feel like enough people are talking about that one, that I usually

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