seldo

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by seldo 14y ago
What, no "Denial"?
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by seldo 14y ago
The main site itself was very unlikely to be vulnerable, but support apps, internal apps, etc. are all vectors.
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by seldo 14y ago
There is another possibility, which is that they didn't work out what was going on until Thursday. And anyone whose account has been compromised has received an email , a far more likely way of seeing the message than relying on everybody
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by seldo 14y ago
The timing of this hack, and the fact that Twitter was (at least at one point) a Rails app, and still uses Ruby on the front end, makes me think this is likely a YAML vulnerability exploit. Can anyone confirm/rule this out?
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by seldo 14y ago
I know that's what you meant. Regarding male-only traits as prestigious implies that they are superior to female-only traits. That implication is sexism. Whether or not you think sexism is insulting -- and it appears you do not -- it was de
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by seldo 14y ago
Complimenting a woman by saying she's like a man is pretty much the definition of sexism.
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by seldo 14y ago
Shhh! Americans are blissfully unaware that everyone in Europe is legally entitled to 2-3x more vacation than Americans get. 25 days of vacation is the biggest thing I miss about working in London :-p
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by seldo 14y ago
"Unlimited vacation" translates to "no vacation". What does "as long as you're getting your work done" mean? There's no point in the year when nobody would be happier if you got something done sooner. There's never a time when taking vacati
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by seldo 14y ago
Previous coverage of DRACO on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3771214 (March 2012) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2847675 (August 2011) I believe there were some earlier threads as well but I'm not finding them in a cursory
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by seldo 14y ago
I regret that I have but one upvote to give.
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by seldo 14y ago
It is never my intention to troll, as I hope my commenting record attests. Which of my statements do you consider unjustified?
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by seldo 14y ago
Immigration rights are not tax breaks, and they are a hugely valuable benefit of marriage. Marriage gets you a green card within two years; attempting to do the same as, say, a 25 year old with a bachelor's degree could take upwards of 7 ye
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by seldo 14y ago
This has been repeatedly suggested, but given all the fuss from the religious right over giving others equal rights, the uproar that would be caused by attempting to take rights away from them would be enormous, and political suicide.
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by seldo 14y ago
This was Mitt Romney's suggestion for gay marriage, but the truth is that there are all sorts of rights that can only be conferred by marriage. For example: you can't write a contract that says your business partner should pay less taxes, b
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by seldo 14y ago
Each download isn't a copy of some files, it's a statement that Aaron's cause was the right one, even if I disagreed with his methods.
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by seldo 14y ago
A number of people have recommended this to me; I'm talking to my immigration lawyers now about what happened and the best way to prevent it happening again, but this is a strong possibility.
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by seldo 14y ago
I went to college in the UK. Before, during and after, I worked at a series of startups. I gained experience in PHP, MySQL, etc.. -- a slow but steady accumulation of skill. Then I got a job with Yahoo in the UK, who despite their (many!) f
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by seldo 14y ago
One of those incentives could be if US citizens decided to complain about the immigration system -- the point of the post is to attempt to marginally contribute towards that happening.
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by seldo 14y ago
Understand that my native country, Trinidad, has laws still on the books that make my sexuality illegal. You have to be pretty shitty to be worse at respecting my dignity and principles than that, so the US has a low bar. But yes, I could p
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by seldo 14y ago
I wrote a long, long blog post about why: http://seldo.com/weblog/2012/11/29/why_all_americans_should_... But the TLDR is: immigration brings skilled workers into the country, who produce more than they consume, raising GDP. So stopping t
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by seldo 14y ago
You're right: I'm here because the benefits outweigh the disadvantages. But this kind of stuff is what tips the balance the other way, not for me, but for other people like yourself. The problem with the US immigration system is that none o
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by seldo 14y ago
I promise I'm male, Jacques :-)
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by seldo 14y ago
It's highly unlikely to be a name match -- my name is not very common, and combined with my gender is literally globally unique: there is no other male called Laurie Voss in the whole world.
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by seldo 14y ago
It would be awesome if they were allowed to Google me from their stations, since the Internet is very clear that there is only one male human being called Laurie Voss in the entire world, and Twitter provides daily records of my movements
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by seldo 14y ago
You're not wrong. On further consideration, I've edited the post to reflect that it was a rude and unnecessary observation.
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by seldo 14y ago
This was MIA. And yes, SFO is by far the friendliest airport I've ever arrived at (the others being Dallas/Fort Worth and JFK).
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by seldo 14y ago
...he took exception to something I wrote about him 2 days later? As I've mentioned in another reply, I was scrupulously polite at the time.
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by seldo 14y ago
Partly because I think it's a relevant detail -- I think he genuinely didn't understand that a web developer is a type of software developer. But partly because they scared the shit out of me, and the system is stupid and unnecessarily host
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by seldo 14y ago
I can see why you'd think that, but I was totally polite and respectful to the immigration officer at all times -- like I said, I'm a very nervous immigrant, so I would never do anything to jeopardize my processing. I don't fidget or roll m
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by seldo 14y ago
Amazon is currently reporting simultaneous issues in ELB, Cloudsearch, and Elastic Beanstalk. I suspect they use some common underlying service which is the root of the failure in all three, but I don't know what service that might be. (The

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