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by sdrinf 5y ago
What I find particularly funny, looking at the big-picture capability of "designer tool generating extendable code", this was basically available since... visual studio 2005? Yet, no one have found a business model for interfacing
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by sdrinf 5y ago
heads-up: worm is going to make you depressed. It is, fundamentally, an exercise in taking "hope" & the expectation for "things to generally become better", and beating it systematically into a pulp over a few thousa
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by sdrinf 5y ago
Called Apple today, gave them a 2-week heads-up on leaving the ecosystem. Current plan, if corporate lets this blow over without any action on their part, is a pixel 5 instead of the SE, and my laptop instead of the ipad. Sad day.
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by sdrinf 5y ago
Poked around a little bit on the livecd system, screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/OsxT3GI
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by sdrinf 6y ago
Heavy bitlocker user here, and up until now assumed the first approach is what's going on; how do I verify which system is used, and switch to the former in a few words? Thanks for the heads-up!
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by sdrinf 6y ago
Originally from Hungary, lived in Budapest between 2002-2008, currently in San Francisco, have been visiting the country since 2008 every year for 2 weeks. It's hard for me to overstate how bad of a choice Hungary is for anything remo
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by sdrinf 6y ago
Your attention is a scarce resource. A basic point here, is that rage eats your attention for breakfast, and by cost of opportunity, bubbles you into your tribe. By cutting out rage & related weeds, you can actually expose yourself to a
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by sdrinf 6y ago
| Under Moloch, everyone is irresistibly incentivized to ignore the things that unite us in favor of forever picking at the things that divide us in exactly the way that is most likely to make them more divisive. In social networks the leve
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by sdrinf 6y ago
Except chrome isn't really a "property app" so much as a "proprietary OS"; it's the platform in which ~70% of desktop users spend >10 hours a day. This is different from eg Facebook, in that FB's valu
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by sdrinf 7y ago
Good rule of thumb, is April fools is funny, only if the recipient laughs with you afterwards. Spreading misinformation is not funny. Making others miserable is not funny. Schadenfraude is not funny. We need levity and laughter more than ev
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by sdrinf 7y ago
I agree with all of the points raised, and share the same experiences. But this one: > I might as well become a founder and start my own at that point Great! So, how would you recruit your first 10 employees?
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by sdrinf 7y ago
The idea of a reliability-indicator has been floating around for some time for few-to-no viable results. A much more broad-spectrum immunity-system building exercise is Crash Course's Navigating Digital Information ( https:/&#x2F
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by sdrinf 7y ago
Minor (but biggest for us) painpoint: CI pipeline tooling in a microservice environment. This breaks down into a few parts: * CI tooling (ie for git push master to be automatically deployed to kubernetes) requires eg git + travis which is s
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by sdrinf 7y ago
The cost-benefit analysis is interesting: > If one already has an effective level of security — say, by way of illustration, one that protects against 99 percent of foreseeable threats — is it reasonable to incur massive further costs to
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by sdrinf 7y ago
I did this a year ago, and it considerably improved my Fb feed’s signal/noise ratio. Specific procedure I’d recommend is to make this a regular process: open fb feed, read until you find a thing which does not improves your life, click
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by sdrinf 8y ago
Relatedly, the valley still does not have a good story for first employees. Given the economics of stock options, there is currently no good economical reason to go working for a startup when the option of working for an already IPOd &
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by sdrinf 8y ago
List prices, like chargemaster. Yes, on one hand, insurance negotiates %x0 discount on it (but eg in the above case, my insurer, Anthem was -ostensibly- charged full price on it) . OTOH, see example above, whereby simple intervention of des
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by sdrinf 8y ago
PSA: As of 2019, federal law requires all hospital & doctors to post prices in a machine-readable format. The results are pretty striking, esp here in the Bay: eg UCSF ( https://www.ucsfhealth.org/about/pricing-tran
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by sdrinf 8y ago
The fundamental principle-agent issue here, is that startup-y people, who thrive on small teams getting stuff done, are essential for getting a startup up the ground; however it is exactly the point where startups hold the least cash to com
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by sdrinf 8y ago
For future reference: this article, and specifically it's title is deliberately misleading to form the general impression of "mandatory tracking", so that they get clickthroughs. From the horse's mouth: | John Hancock Vi
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by sdrinf 8y ago
I posted this a few years back, problem has since become only more difficult: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11626999 Writing an open, and distributed web crawler / indexer is a nice programming exercise. Writing
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by sdrinf 8y ago
> please tell me if you think I left out something important. You did: the position of neutrality. The position of not taking a stance either way. The position of actually doing stuff, like, in the real world, orthogonal to that of poli
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by sdrinf 8y ago
This line of reasoning is implicitely making the false equalence of "everyone who isn't with me is, by default, against me". Going down this route, you are forcing me to take a position on issues I don't nearly feel havi
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by sdrinf 8y ago
These are two different set of people: computer scientists develop algos / ml / etc, and want to publish them. UX designers , entrepreneurs, and other customer-focused people in the industry observe human behavior, and (amongst ot
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by sdrinf 8y ago
CA Labour code section 2870-2872 > "2870. (a) Any provision in an employment agreement which provides that an employee shall assign, or offer to assign, any of his or her rights in an invention to his or her employer shall not appl
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by sdrinf 8y ago
While I do agree on the social harm of censorship, unfortunately your approach is susceptible to asymmetric info-attacks under adversarial conditions. Specifically, under the condition where the debate actually matters, your compulsion can
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by sdrinf 9y ago
> non-pki protocols are in the works. Could you kindly link to relevant threads / RFCs / orgs / undertakings currently working on that, please?
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by sdrinf 9y ago
While HTTPS is being burned into the architecture of the Web, I have a humble question to ask: what is the dear HN community's next-best-option in a scenario if letsencrypt dies/gets sued/goes under/servers not accessibl
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by sdrinf 9y ago
| Sure. But if my little businesses, with only a few people and a modest budget available to do literally everything, can manage to treat our customers with more attention and respect than one of the richest and most powerful businesses in
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by sdrinf 9y ago
Under adversarial conditions (basically, any large-scale ops), this becomes the highest-leverage way for adversaries to aggressively DDoS the weakest point of such support queue. Also, consider the conditions: * You are a scammer * You pay

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