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by nemild 8y ago
And more: https://consensys.github.io/smart-contract-best-practices/ http://dasp.co Disclaimer: I contributed to the first link. Also, I wrote this a while back for any experienced engineers that want to le
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I disagree. Both sides can have issues, and it's not primarily the fault of "managers." You can see some issues that I list elsewhere in this thread. The part I do agree with is that responsibility to address the issues oft
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Your view might be from spending lots of time on HN and around engineers? I spend time with both, and I can see issues on both sides. From the business side, here are examples I've seen: - Have to use this technology, everything else i
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This is a great list. I've been reflecting on this drive for microservices in early stage companies for the last four years, and you hit all the major points. One additional one I'll add is the marketing objectives of containeriza
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I took a Master in Margarita class in college during my study abroad, with each class physically exploring a key Moscow scene from the novel. Our first class started at Патриаршие пруды (Patriarch's Pond), near where Anushka drops the
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by nemild 8y ago
Lots more examples in my media literacy guide: https://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media Search for Access:
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If useful, I asked a similar question a while back — with some great responses: Ask HN: Senior developers, what would you tell a younger you? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13168798
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I write a media literacy guide, and this is the key takeaway. Engagement is king, and social media seems to exacerbate this effect. https://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media
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Julia Angwin was one of the key people who shed a light on GNU Privacy Guard's precarious funding, helping OSS dev Werner Koch get donations from Stripe, FB, and others: The World's Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who
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Partly for this reason, I’ve written a media literacy guide: https://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media/blob/master/README.... There’s also one specific to the tech industry: https://github.com&
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I really liked the Tao of TMUX. I also made a very succinct cheatsheet for tmux (along with a list of all the other key CLI commands for full stack engs): https://github.com/nemild/cli_for_full_stack#user-content-tm...
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Here's my data analysis justifying Dobelli's thesis: How Media Fuels our Fear of Western Terrorism https://www.nemil.com/s/part2-terrorism.html The deaths that are most covered are a tiny fraction (<1%) of
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I write a bunch about this. There is often a sense that the more news we consume, the more informed we are. My research shows the opposite, where where news gives us a deeply biased view of the world ( https://www.nemil.com/
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Simple. Lousiana has a big oil and gas industry: https://www.eia.gov/state/analysis.php?sid=LA I call it the truth distortion field when any large industry impacts what politicians say. Here’s some background: https:&
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The Today's Paper link is also a good way to scrape for data analysis (the API isn't great), such as this piece I did looking at their coverage over a decade: The deaths that are most covered are a tiny fraction (<1%) of the w
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In many ways, though, this is a content and social play. It's debatable if most bike manufacturers have that DNA. In light of what people are paying for Soul Cycle, etc., this makes a lot of sense, regardless how good the UI or bike is
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FYI, the cofounder of this website/product (Cake) is also the author of the post. So this has some similarities to content marketing.
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Anyone have tips on some good US flip phones that work with modern networks (4G)? In a perfect world, with GPS (but not required)?
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One reason this has been discovered as of late in tech circles is Bitcoin. Professor Arvind Narayanan at Princeton cited this in May 2015, as the Bitcoin community was having debates about decentralization and what it meant for governance.
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I write a media literacy guide for engineers: https://github.com/nemild/hack-an-engineer/blob/master/READM... The key thing this post is missing, is it talks about this as journalists could do better ,
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A related quote from this fascinating interview with Jonathan Tow (media researcher)[1] on FB research: > Often, these companies [like FB] are open to research partnerships and things, but it’s always on their terms. If you do research w
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That's fair. I was mostly reflecting on the time that most bootcamps spend on a student (2-3 months) relative to other programs. But I agree that no matter the program, security best practices are rarely taught.
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I made the same seat belt point to him, and here's the section with his response: > I do have concerns when 10gen explicitly targets junior developers ... What [Eliot, MongoDB CTO] says makes sense say 20 years ago, but with 25% of
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I'd be interested to know which version of MongoDB this was. This "no auth" was a default choice for MongoDB through at least 2013 (in this case, it helped to find nefarious actions). For more background, I wrote a three-part
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In 2018, we can finally use our advances in data science and social network design to precisely target outrage and make it maximally engaging.
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Re: financial support, have you seen Nadia Eghbal's Lemonade Stand for a whole set of ideas: A handy guide to financial support for open source. https://github.com/nayafia/lemonade-stand
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The PDF has a few slogans that you can Google. Some more links for you: Buy Facebook propaganda posters: https://www.wired.com/2016/11/buy-facebook-propaganda-poster... (there are 20ish here) Google Image Search f
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This has some posters at Facebook: http://fredturner.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/Turner-Art...
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For more on Facebook's art focus, see their Little Red Book (2012) given to every employee: http://www.businessinsider.com/inside-facebooks-little-red-b... At Stanford, Professor Fred Turner has written a critique of F
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I think the dichotomy was the language Facebook used to discuss their mission, not as profits but as a social company solely doing good. For example, in 2012, a book they gave to all their employees read: "Facebook was not originally c

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