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by nieve 7y ago
I may be misunderstanding you, but I find it difficult to believe Hashicorp could put together a big enough set of investors to drop a couple of billion on SUSE. You occasionally see smaller companies buy bigger, more established ones with
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by nieve 7y ago
I have to wonder how many bitter Pyrrhic victory jokes get made by victims of poor implementation based on the creator's last name - Pyrrh. I've seen too many companies destroyed by superficially attractive budgeting schemes, even
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by nieve 7y ago
The one that I've noticed getting much worse over the last couple of years is Google (and to a smaller extent DuckDuckGo) removing the least common search term if there aren't thousands of hits. Precise search terms are very valua
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by nieve 7y ago
That's true for apps & devices, but generally I think they can assume that a human is doing the logging in for one of their websites. If they can't assure themselves that it's mostly true they have a serious issue.
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by nieve 7y ago
My bet was on a mix of just a predictable edge case and Google not prioritizing testing when users have stopped activity. I don't think they sat down and decided the kind of people who care about the inactive account manager were espec
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by nieve 7y ago
No, thank god. I was hired as technical lead for the team put together when my new employers inherited a medium-sized low profile social network primarily popular in SA and SEA from their parent company. We got a report on something in the
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by nieve 7y ago
If I recall correctly their documentation suggests that a single login to the Gmail web app or several other properties should count as well as the official Gmail apps, but no web logins I tested had any effect for me. Sadly I can't re
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by nieve 7y ago
Be very careful about combining Inactive Account Manager with telling Google not to store activity data. I started getting countdown to deletion warnings telling me I needed to log in to show I wasn't inactive, but no matter how often
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by nieve 7y ago
Oh good, I'm sure most organizations can use something like that guide as well as the tools. There's a lot of legitimate worry about both the wellness side & the legal exposure issues, but it seems like beyond the common wisdo
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by nieve 7y ago
A false positive rate of 1/1000 is hard to assess without actual prevalence stats, but with a decent-sized userbase it seems likely you're still going to get a significant number of false positives. Is it intended that users of yo
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by nieve 7y ago
I think this is actually the desirable behavior. If you've got very long-running connections and you want to force a switch-over you can always drop the connection even if you don't have some in-band mechanism. If you're cons
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by nieve 7y ago
Assuming your statement that you don't sell user data is correct, are you willing to state that you do not share it with other companies without money changing hands directly? That's a pretty big gap in your claims.
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by nieve 7y ago
If you've got a database you can fit in memory that's got very sporadic access pattern it could be a nice boost even on SSDs. My biggest personal project has a 15GB database on disk, all of it a single table of 7.5M comments and a
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by nieve 7y ago
The US cares about money laundering by US entities abroad as well and there's no get out of jail free card for "well, the other guys said it was okay". On top of that one of their selling points is how universal and frictionl
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by nieve 7y ago
Full disclosure: I'm a sql & emacs geek so that may warp my views on interfaces. I suspect there are a lot of features that are used by no more than 5-10% of users, but we'd scream bloody murder if they were taken away. No two
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by nieve 7y ago
A something else that you're avoiding naming?
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by nieve 7y ago
I suspect you can find a way to brace them in many circumstances, some of the common bicycle theft techniques are pretty constrained. The down side of this method for a thief is that they look very much like a handgun for obvious reasons. T
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by nieve 7y ago
Except display text on an e-ink reflective screen. They're fundamentally different for most people.
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by nieve 7y ago
The one I've seen missed most often in startups is directly implied by a lot of the other points and obvious to anyone with long experience: Take the time and put a lot of thought into how to break up your big transitions into smaller
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by nieve 7y ago
A random selection from a set of in-series numbers is still random, it's just got a potentially known range.
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by nieve 7y ago
http://www.xuldev.org/scrapbook/ https://github.com/danny0838/firefox-scrapbook/wiki/Intro There's zero hope of implementing something like the unfortunately named Scrapbook Plus &a
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by nieve 8y ago
At a previous employer that policy was continually causing problems and I'd been able to fly under their radar since all they did was issue hardware to myself and my minions†. Eventually IT staff came around needing the root password f
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by nieve 8y ago
Only one data point, but I've got a custom search engine for a community that has pretty close to the ideal usage pattern for this: append-only with no update or deletes. A pure count(*) over 6.8M rows on a slow VPS takes 135,015ms and
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by nieve 8y ago
That's the clearest, most concrete, and most useful response to discovering a vunlnerability in a dev infrastructure site I've ever seen.
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by nieve 8y ago
This mindset can spread to higher levels if it's allowed to. At one point during the dot-com bubble the company I worked for was acquired by one where ad sales and biz dev were granted credit for all income and everything else in the c
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by nieve 8y ago
Exactly - the average for the darkest three tones is 17% and for the lightest two 24%, that's a huge bias in the opposite direction of the author's conclusion. I'm not sure if he deliberately mischaracterized the data for cli
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by nieve 8y ago
Agreed in theory, but I've seen plenty of hand-rolled solutions even so and I think the dbs are at least slightly more likely to get standardization via ORM devs. One of the most painful I've run across was a system that was alloc
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by nieve 8y ago
I doubt we're ever going to get standardization on a given ip data type even within most languages, much less across them, but there's a tiny bit of hope that the various databases might converge on something vaguely portable. It&
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by nieve 8y ago
It won't solve most of the problems, but if you're using PostgreSQL its native inet datatype (which supports 4 or 6) instead of a text or binary string can save a world of pain and there are alternatives in some other RDBMSs: htt
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by nieve 8y ago
I'm not sure if you've lived in low-density rural areas that are dependent on many roads, but when you do you see traffic isn't always the dominant factor. In many rural & suburban parts of the US road maintenance is heav

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