perlgeek

63 ms·

901.
by perlgeek 6y ago
> Maybe shorting, in particular naked shorting, is not ideal. But there needs to be a way to reward people for taking shitty companies down. And there's already a less risky mechanism for that: put options.
902.
by perlgeek 6y ago
I'm a bit disappointed by all the good guy/bad guy judgement going on here on HN, when both players are working with the market forces to get the best result. From AWS' perspective, taking an OSS Project and offering it as a
903.
by perlgeek 6y ago
A bit off-topic, but after reading this and a few other court decisions (for example in the context of contesting election results), it strikes me that they are pretty well-written. They provide context for a lay audience, and while their l
904.
by perlgeek 6y ago
There are 10 kinds of programmers: those who know binary, and, uhm, nine others.
905.
by perlgeek 6y ago
I'd say the universal query capability is the killer feature of SQL. In the OP they spent two weeks designing and implementing transaction-save indexes -- something that all major SQL RDBMS (and even many NoSQL solutions) have out of t
906.
by perlgeek 6y ago
Dropbox is also to blame for user's expectations, because they did offer more in the past, for free.
907.
by perlgeek 6y ago
Or this is a distraction to make it look like not a nation state hack.
908.
by perlgeek 6y ago
I meant to write "publications and/or public speaking"
909.
by perlgeek 6y ago
Here (noris.de), a principal engineer is expected to: * do some publications and/or publications in their field of expertise * provide technical leadership (input on technology decisions, some architecture support, help write guideline
910.
by perlgeek 6y ago
Pasting the contents here: How we work with the Facebook Companies In this article, we are providing additional information to our users in the European Region. What are the Facebook Companies? WhatsApp is one of the Facebook Companies. The
911.
by perlgeek 6y ago
My experience with RocketChat is that it works quite well on the surface, but after using it for some time, some very annoying bugs emerge: * You get notifications for channels for which you have suppressed those notifications * Some chan
912.
by perlgeek 6y ago
> Because the mRNA vaccines are too complicated to manufacture and deploy. Don't you think some of the other vaccines (like AstraZeneca's, or maybe Novavax or the Russian one) will be deployed at a large scale? It might take th
913.
by perlgeek 6y ago
That sounds like an interesting narrative. How well is it accepted in the historical community (or whatever you call the community of history scholars)? I'm afraid it's pretty easy to come up with lots of interesting narratives, a
914.
by perlgeek 6y ago
This is a nice collection of options that you have, but you should evaluate each of them very carefully before actually implementing them. Switch to libc to musl? You need to talk to the application developers first to see if their applicat
915.
by perlgeek 6y ago
How likely do you think this is to make a significant dent in, say, the next 18 months? > Server-side systems and thin clients are almost bullet proof. Thin clients, maybe. Service-side systems, not so much. I remember multiple pre-auth
916.
by perlgeek 6y ago
> but I'm not sure anyone has the resources, political will and the national interest right now. Well, this will change if/when ransomware attacks are becoming a big enough issue to noticeably impact the economy, health care, o
917.
by perlgeek 6y ago
> I think what people are missing with all these analogies about burglaries and negligence is the funny difference between cyberspace and meatspace: In cyberspace, your attacker can be anywhere on the planet, located in virtually any ju
918.
by perlgeek 6y ago
Are they? How is maintenance? How sensitive are they in changes to wind? How much training does the crew need to operate either? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind-assisted_propulsion says > In comparison to kite s
919.
by perlgeek 6y ago
If you have to take action for it not to do something, it's opt-out, not opt-in.
920.
by perlgeek 6y ago
sci-hub.st works here (Telekom in Germany).
921.
by perlgeek 6y ago
my ISP's DNS resolver just returns NXDOMAIN for that. $ dig @8.8.8.8 sci-hub.se. +short 186.2.163.219
922.
by perlgeek 6y ago
The traditional IPO will still be available; so companies that feel the need for underwriters can do so, and the very public tech unicorns don't need to anymore. Best of both worlds, no?
923.
by perlgeek 6y ago
Do device drivers typically need to be Turing complete? I would have expect drivers for simple USB devices for example to be pretty simple state machines.
924.
by perlgeek 6y ago
Is it possible to write device drivers in eBPF? (I've asked this before, but haven't gotten any response, and no clear answer from Google/DDG either).
925.
by perlgeek 6y ago
It does limit options. Some wealthy Chinese like to send their children to the US or Europe for University; if he does, he certainly cannot visit them, without the risk of getting arrested. The US has been doing such things in the past, for
926.
by perlgeek 6y ago
> it was migrating part of the working product due to some unclear reason of "best practices". I want to push back on that. Of course, the reasons are unclear to an outsider. Migrations are an unavoidable in any system that is
927.
by perlgeek 6y ago
Your neurons also learn by processes similar to regression and statistical analysis. Why would it be OK to call it learning in a human or an animal, but not in software?
928.
by perlgeek 6y ago
That's a competitive advantage they have, which dis-incentivizes them from pushing IPv6 adoption.
929.
by perlgeek 6y ago
Your eyes cannot see orange directly, but as an overlap of different intensities of the stimulation of different receptors in the base colors. So as long as the filters in the camera have roughly the same transmission curve as the sensitivi
930.
by perlgeek 6y ago
A bit of a controversial one: give your reviewer one obvious (but minor) mistake to catch. For some reason, it feels really unsatisfying to a lot of people to conduct an extensive code review, and come up with exactly zero items to change.

More ›