solumos

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by solumos 6y ago
Very cool, this is actually somewhat related to what I'm working on at topica.io - let me know once you dive into interactive transcripts / search :)
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by solumos 6y ago
My guess is that anyone who ended up "saying something" to the CEO was either quieted by lies or forced out of the business.
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by solumos 6y ago
> For example after an announcement or company meeting where they announce the number of new customers Nothing like this ever happened, AFAICT > I would see some red flags and I would like to think I would be smart enough to start loo
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by solumos 6y ago
You're correct, my understanding of "full audit" vs "due diligence" was off.
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by solumos 6y ago
> Regular audits should be standard practice for any company of that size. The company was audited twice, but the auditors tied the fraudulent bank statements to the fraudulent financial statements (woops). > In any case, it will be i
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by solumos 6y ago
Uber got in Big Trouble for this a while back[0]. Basically, device fingerprinting[1]. It seems like it's sort of OK now? [0] https://the-parallax.com/2017/04/26/uber-device-fingerprinti... [1] https:&#
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by solumos 6y ago
Super cringey. TripleByte did this and everyone hated it.
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by solumos 6y ago
Simply shocking for a company that closed a $123MM Series A that in June, led by Lightspeed. https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/10/ns8-raises-123m-led-by-lig...
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by solumos 6y ago
Agreed - this definitely has some "Not Invented Here" baked into it. Seems like they didn't like some of the nomenclature associated with Jaeger/Zipkin, even though both are pretty extensible . . . > In the future, we
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by solumos 6y ago
> What is wrong with our industry? Capital providers that want a return (or at least not a loss) on their investment. More engagement + more users = decent source of ad revenue.
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by solumos 6y ago
Nope, Android sucks too - it either does the same thing (links to Google store), or deep-links to an incorrect page.
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by solumos 6y ago
It's funny to me that there are a bunch of dark patterns on the Wired site. Is it willful ignorance, or lack of self-awareness?
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by solumos 6y ago
> Vitamin D deficiency causes a 10 times higher death rate in Covid-19 patients according to recent studies. This is a hugely overstated conclusion - and none of the studies presented are able to make causal claims to back this up. This
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by solumos 6y ago
I disagree, I think it's statistically significant. I ran a quick z-test: p0 = 34 p1 = 45 n0 = 8004 n1 = 6622 z = -2.0924 p = 0.03662 So, the improvement is statistically significant at 95% confidence (p < 0.05) As far as practical
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by solumos 6y ago
Depends on the cost, and depends on the benefit. What I find interesting is that many SERPs on Google don't even lead to another page anymore[0]. Still, there are plenty of niche areas where the cost/benefit still definitely makes
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by solumos 6y ago
The one thing that bothers me with ANT is that it's supposed to be an "open" protocol, but in reality it's this proprietary thing that Garmin has locked down. In my experience, there are a lot of hoops to jump through ju
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by solumos 6y ago
There are many such artifacts from IBM's halcyon days. They really spared no expense in their campuses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Rochester https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibit
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by solumos 6y ago
Migrating to backups seems possible. Garmin is pretty complex in that it produces hardware and software across a few verticals, but I don't think there's anything that makes them particularly unique in the way they'd handle b
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by solumos 6y ago
I can imagine it's possible that a 1-week outage + cyber risk insurance claim + rebuilding from backups could net out to less than $10M.
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by solumos 6y ago
I'd be willing to bet that a clear majority of the most successful startups from the past 20 years were founded by people who were otherwise independently financially stable. It's very hard to focus on building a successful busin
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by solumos 6y ago
Well, I would, but I would be nervous about wasting "a lot of time" given the large-font warning. Have you ever run into the issue of installing something from an out-of-date package manager repo?
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by solumos 6y ago
I'd love to use a browser like this if I could download an installer. This download page brings back a lot of memories: http://links.twibright.com/download.php I swear I spent most of my foray into undergrad CS trying
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by solumos 6y ago
This is true - but I think the interesting (and understated) part of this argument is Big Tech's influence on the process. Say I want to fork etcd or build a greenfield alternative - I now have to compete with (or support) the Hivemind
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by solumos 6y ago
There's a lot of inflammatory buildup to the chief complaint: > With the massive influx of Kubernetes users came, of course, a large number of Xooglers who decided to infect etcd with Google technologies, as is their way23. Etcd&#x2
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by solumos 6y ago
It's memorable in that it's a lighthearted way of describing a pretty disastrous event without using expletives, with at least a dash of cultural significance. I agree it's a lame title.
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by solumos 6y ago
I'm always curious about delving deeper into the history of control theory. Specifically, the work pertaining to Cybernetics in the late 40s/50s. Has anyone gone down that rabbit hole and found anything interesting?
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by solumos 6y ago
I think what they're saying is that there are plenty of researchers/professors with ego, who think they're God's Gift. At the same time, there are many more researchers who are very humble and realize their contributions
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by solumos 7y ago
No, nobody was naked - the tide was just so strong that their swimsuits fell off.
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by solumos 7y ago
You should try OneLogin - LastPass is a dream by comparison.
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by solumos 7y ago
A friend of mine wrote a newsletter on this topic last year - banks are full of anti-patterns! https://whyisthisinteresting.substack.com/p/why-is-this-inte...

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