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by seiji 11y ago
Depends on what you mean by "spoof." Anybody can generate custom outgoing caller ID numbers. That's not really a "spoof," that's just lying about who you are when you make a call. Most phone "spoofing&quo
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by seiji 11y ago
http://money.cnn.com/2010/08/26/technology/teachbook/ is one case from the *Book part.
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by seiji 11y ago
It's the difference between "established company" and "startup" though, isn't it? Sure, at an established company with 50+ up to tens of thousands of employees, all these nuances and efficiency-by-working-less
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by seiji 11y ago
Is it better to move things around instead of just deleting things? Replies don't exist in a vacuum, so detaching from parent comments breaks meaning and intent, not just location on a page. Seems better to censor by deleting unwanted
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by seiji 11y ago
I started gathering links for you, but it's easier just to provide the source of all the links: https://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=github+postmortem&ie=...
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by seiji 11y ago
and I would have gotten away with it too if only it weren't for my one flaw... being incompetent at everything!
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by seiji 11y ago
Turns out we don't live in a hive mind society where knowledge transfer is laterally osmosified amongst all members of a singular class.
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by seiji 11y ago
It's not that there aren't exceptions, but it's pretty obvious old politicians aren't hip to technology from the past 30 years, isn't it? I didn't say "every old person is dumb and invalid and will rot in
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by seiji 11y ago
Popular city housing prices are global markets, not local markets. Turns out foreigners have lots of money to burn that locals can't match. Things like http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/04/28/realtor
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by seiji 11y ago
Facebook sues people for Face* names. Not an entirely unprecedented precedent. The real problem is you never know when you'll be sued for going too far. The only way to find out is to go too far and hope it doesn't happen. (lik
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by seiji 11y ago
be so clueless about email security Old people + technology = failure. Really common pattern. We like to believe people in positions of power know what they are doing, but sometimes the facade cracks and we see they are just regular old
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by seiji 11y ago
It's just casual life differences accumulating over time. They may not even notice it's strange to others since it's just how their life works now. Somebody who has been an employee at 4 successful startups over 10 years has
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by seiji 11y ago
The inequality can sting if you compare yourself to others. HN is probably the largest general purpose public forum frequently visited by multi-millionaires and multi-billionaires, so there's always somebody blabbing on about their &qu
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by seiji 11y ago
Yeah, there are a lot of clever ways it could be done, but with completely closed platforms we are just at the mercy of our proprietarily coded overlords.
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by seiji 11y ago
It's about purpose. Either you are basically a human robot doing spec work or you can drive your own creative output for goals larger than yourself. People don't know what they are capable of until they are pushed beyond limits th
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by seiji 11y ago
You do realize this is the website for 80-hour-work-week, launch-startup-in-3-months fans, right? This isn't the place for nonsensical "work life balance" (which really means "i'm lazy and don't want to do goo
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by seiji 11y ago
What's the upside for the amazon opportunity? Jobs at public tech companies also come with large stock packages that become usable after just a few short years.
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by seiji 11y ago
Or someone you sleep with wants to read your texts and all it takes is a light tap of a finger while you're unconscious to open your phone completely. as far as "international spy," we have national level security directors s
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by seiji 11y ago
Also: finger unlock only works after a password has been entered once (to generate the "finger unlock" key). Copying fingerprints or compelling finger access is moot if the device dumps the finger unlock key (as is done after 4
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by seiji 11y ago
Imagine a situation where your job is CRUD development. You write PHP and CSS and JavaScript for a series of ad campaigns (say, every marvel movie for the next 10 years). It's repetitive drone work. Then compare that to a situation w
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by seiji 11y ago
Situation: you're arrested/captured/etc. All they have to do is, on a new 6S phone, touch your finger to the sensor for 1/10th of a second. There's no emergency evac situation. You either have basically no protect
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by seiji 11y ago
Yeah, OTP is an awful name because it's meaningless in the context of programming without reading history from the 1980s. It should really just be called "erlang library frameworks" or something similarly sensible. This arti
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by seiji 11y ago
Well, YC was bootstrapped (marketing-wise) by the goodwill of pg's personal website too. That had plenty of same-minded exposure in the beginning. Ten years later, people now see YC as "we can give you a better future/make y
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by seiji 11y ago
High performing people often prefer environments with high stakes and high risk/reward. Being harsh is awful for people who can't stand it, but empowering for those who thrive that way.
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by seiji 11y ago
Have there been any cases of police illegally forcing fingerprint unlock against a person's express consent? Finger unlock is nice when you're in a non-hostile environment, but now with a 100ms finger brush, the entire phone opens
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by seiji 11y ago
now supports encrypted local backups. iTunes has supported encrypted local backups since the beginning of iOS. restore your data onto a new device without needing permission from you or Apple. and that's a great reason to verify yo
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by seiji 11y ago
The goal of modern law enforcement in the US is to just grow bigger and bigger and get more and more toys. Start program. Don't tell anybody about it. In fact, make it illegal for people to know about it. Buy millions of dollars in
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by seiji 11y ago
When there's ambiguity, be explicit. Many (too many) programers seem to take a viewpoint of "only type the minimum numbers of characters necessary to get something to work." Then they make their programming goal to be the
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by seiji 11y ago
Well, Amazon profit is fictional since they dump so much back into R&D&Growth. Amazon simply canceled $170 million ( http://recode.net/2014/10/23/amazon-takes-170-million-writed... ) due to their fire p
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by seiji 11y ago
HDFS has never been a good idea or implementation, it was just first and rode the fad wave to wide deployment (also see: mysql, php, javascript, ...). If it were stable and scalable to begin with, there wouldn't be 5 different billion

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