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Stripe isn’t a platform, it’s a mouse(numair.medium.com)
136 points by numair 5y ago|80 comments
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by numair 5y ago
There were a bunch of people who worked with him on this in Taiwan. I don't think anything ever got released publicly, and I think Dan found the whole episode to be so frustrating that he never commented on it much in public.
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Ask HN: Accounting Software for Africa / South America / Row?
2 points by numair 5y ago|0 comments
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Dan Kaminsky spent an enormous amount of time and effort on creating a secure hardware framework 10 years ago. It went nowhere for a lot of the same reasons you discuss in this comment. The government and industry are all talk. Until we see
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If I were Apple, I would say “oops a couple security-sensitive APIs slipped through that we forgot to open up for requests for access,” and quickly publish an expanded list of all of the entitlements they’re currently saving for their clos
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Please don’t let your excitement take your focus off this part of the story: > The good news gets even better; non-AMP pages make considerably more revenue per pageview than AMP pages. Initially, I assumed this was due to the nature of h
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by numair 5y ago
1. I’ve seen great, failed, and dysfunctional companies and teams up-close and personal; companies that went from zero to $100B, from $50B to near-zero, and are stuck somewhere in zombie-land. In every case, the passionate employees defined
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by numair 5y ago
There is no reason Apple and Google couldn’t set up an App Store Certification framework which would allow trusted third parties to operate their own app stores that were regularly audited and liable for breaches of security. In fact, this
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The truth about Dan Kaminsky(numair.medium.com)
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by numair 6y ago
Before you listen to any one connected to early Facebook discussing their “company culture,” I suggest you read the link below and understand what I am saying. There are deep, dark reasons why the word “consent” has never been part of Faceb
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by numair 6y ago
Imagine there was an AOL executive in charge of AIM, and that Mark Zuckerberg offered the guy hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of Facebook stock to hobble efforts to keep the platform relevant. Sounds like a totally crazy conspiracy t
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by numair 6y ago
This is an incredibly offensive and insulting comment about people you don’t know, regarding software you openly state you don’t use on a daily basis. I would care a lot less if we were talking about billionaires building commercial startup
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by numair 6y ago
The website says that it’s by members of the founding team from Oculus. You know what else is from the founders of Oculus? A company making AI-directed killer drones and other toys being pitched as essentials for World War III. In 2021, the
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by numair 6y ago
I would say that building and running a cloud — multi-tenant outsourced digital infrastructure — seems to be the very definition of “highly operational.” Especially when you’re working at Microsoft, which continues its unregulated traditi
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by numair 6y ago
Imagine a company had a giant government relations team that went around and gave “seminars” showing politicians and government officials how to use their software to connect with local constituents, used that connectivity to then target th
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by numair 6y ago
If you think this sort of behavior is from a bygone era, or that the tech companies will somehow “fix” the problem: please ask your favorite Swedish streaming music company CEO why he turned a blind eye to one of his key investors running
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by numair 6y ago
The unforeseen side effects of what was meant to be a very orderly and master-planned wind-down of one bank for the benefit of all the others — that speaks to the exact point I was making about the ridiculous notion that these are mature, a
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by numair 6y ago
I am not going to go too far into this but, I was in meetings with Dick and senior executives from the other banks. The “lol sorry bro” attitude wasn’t just Dick’s way of telling the story.
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by numair 6y ago
Okay kids, story time. After the crash of 2008, I spent some time working with Dick Fuld. Yes, the former head of Lehman Brothers. Yes, the one people describe as “disgraced,” among other terms. Here’s the irony, though — Dick was one of th
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by numair 6y ago
Okay, I’ll take the bait. As someone with direct experience with the topic at hand, who has worked with / remains friends with people with direct experience regarding the subject of this conversation, I can say that many of the asserti
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by numair 6y ago
If the assertions regarding the fully-flat design are true, there is hope that this new model will resemble the greatest portable Mac of the 21st century: the PowerBook G4. For the uninitiated, watch the video of Steve Jobs announcing it at
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by numair 6y ago
Most of these sites have a marketing front-end built using Bootstrap, which was a framework released by Twitter a few years back. Look up Bootstrap themes.
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It’s as though someone watched an action movie and thought, what if we get rid of the need to cut the comms in the building itself, and if we chose a time and day when nobody would show up: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xLcH
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by numair 6y ago
There is a difference between “that’s a nice camera” and “wow.” The F5 was a “wow.” It is the “wow” factor that ultimately makes or breaks the internal psychology that drives greatness at companies.
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by numair 6y ago
This is already super-popular among large Japanese companies. Uniqlo was built on that tactic.
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Nikon hasn’t really made an amazing camera since the days of the F5 (the weapon of choice for greats such as Peter Lindbergh). I really feel that Japan Inc. needs a version of that Stephen Elop “burning platform” rant.
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by numair 6y ago
If I was a savvy corporate customer, I’d be more concerned that you’d get AWS’ed by a too-permissive license, which would either put you out of business or prevent you from growing. From that POV, being stuck with a dead or stale product f
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There was a point at which Facebook and Google were engaged in a death match (for example, Facebook built Connect as a pre-emptive action against a planned Google initiative that had leaked to them). And then suddenly, at some point, the ri
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I think the 2010s model of “just build it to be acquired by the industry giant” was a mistake, and is officially dead. You can’t expect to sell to the giants anymore, because they can’t expect to be allowed to buy everything that could grow
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This makes absolutely no sense and has no relation to any economic variables. Goodreads isn’t some struggling self-funded startup — it’s owned by Amazon.com. The acquisition was a deal that should have never been approved, if the Obama ad

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