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by shric 5y ago
Unless I need to, I don't like converting investments into cash due to capital gains tax (it's quite high here in Australia while earning at the highest tax bracket), so I keep about 6 months in cash
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by shric 5y ago
I'd rather not promote a business model of bloating 10-20 pages of information into 200-300 pages to justify selling a book.
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by shric 5y ago
What about non-human, non-mammals, you insensitive clod :p
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by shric 5y ago
Looks like it lets you vote for both options
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by shric 5y ago
The only relatively mainstream site I can think of that doesn't use https is the Australian Bureau of Meteorology [1]. The weather isn't exactly sensitive info but I don't see any excuse not to just set this up. [1] https:&#
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by shric 5y ago
He did, but he retired a few months ago.
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by shric 5y ago
WhatsApp is huge in many countries. You and I may have the tech skill and privacy concerns to move to something like signal but 99% of users either don't care or aren't aware of the difference.
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by shric 5y ago
I love C, but strongly disagree with the "learn C" part. It's not a suitable language for interviews even if you're an expert. C is by far my strongest language but I wouldn't dream of using it in any generic FAANG
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by shric 5y ago
Because they prefer the British spelling, presumably?
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by shric 5y ago
I remember an article a few years ago about Google's 86TB google3 source code repo. Someone on HN asked "I know Google is big but how on earth do they have 86TB?". Someone then quipped "someone accidentally checked in no
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by shric 5y ago
One thing I'd update for today is use Ed25519 keys instead of RSA
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by shric 5y ago
Cash also fairly rapidly depreciates
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by shric 5y ago
Yes, but the cheat detection isn't.
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by shric 5y ago
Ask yourself "if I was given the equivalent in cash instead of equity (e.g. a bonus or just an increased base), would I buy shares in my employers' company?" If the answer is no, then it makes sense to sell immediately.
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by shric 5y ago
What would be really clever is if it could alter, say, source code or natural language prose of sufficient length to force a specific CRC preserving the semantics of the program/prose e.g. by reordering or changing words and/or id
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by shric 5y ago
If you have paywall issues try disabling JavaScript or https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.afr.com%2Fwork-and...
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CBA sued after sacking of staffer who discussed pay(afr.com)
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by shric 5y ago
Is it really a screening tool for the company? It more likely just says something about that particular interviewer. It's not like a company has a policy of telling interviewers to scrutinize past job appointments. That can be done by
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by shric 5y ago
Really close to https://youtu.be/CS9ptA3Ya9E (satire from Mitchell and Webb)
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by shric 5y ago
Previously: 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14299628 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20965386
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by shric 5y ago
A common pattern is to dump log files or to use as a dead letter queue for failed event processing. These things typically are arbitrarily named by e.g. a prefix and a unix timestamp
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by shric 5y ago
You're off by a factor of 100. It's 0.016% or approximately 1 in 6000 people.
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by shric 5y ago
It was reverted: https://github.com/reactiveui/splat/pull/779
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by shric 5y ago
Yes, and that's simply and demonstrably false. There are not always middlemen, as I have already explained.
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by shric 5y ago
I can infer what they mean, it doesn't make it a correct statement. Maybe I'm being pedantic, but routers are devices too, and I have computers with multiple NICs that act as routers as well as servers. Intranet vs internet is an
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by shric 5y ago
My router and my desktop is one of several billion counterexamples.
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by shric 5y ago
> No two devices on the internet are directly connected. I get the need for brevity and simplicity in a post like this, but is there really a need for obviously false statements?
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by shric 5y ago
https://archive.is/VY3Qm
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by shric 5y ago
I guess it depends on how you value the security of storing your money in socks vs banks. Also, an interest rate of -0.5% is not that much worse than 0% -- they're both a few percentage points below inflation.
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by shric 5y ago
That's perfectly HN-y; good read, thank you.

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