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by sulam 6y ago
I think you're reading something I didn't say. I was responding to the comment that said he should have gone public while still an employee.
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by sulam 6y ago
I very much hesitate to say which is more or less courageous. Certainly it takes fortitude to sit through the shitstorm that would result when you go to the media while you're still an employee. However you're still being paid, an
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by sulam 6y ago
Something I didn’t know before I became a VP at a middling tech co — as a senior leader, your actions are considered more reflective of the company in general and specifically legally. Obvious in hindsight, but an underling that gets fired
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by sulam 6y ago
Tim Bray? Won’t matter to his employability at all. May even help it, and low pass filter places he wouldn’t want to work anyway.
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by sulam 6y ago
He specifically addressed this in the post. He tried that first.
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by sulam 6y ago
As he said, you don’t go to the media when you’re a VP at a company. You go through channels. Anything else -would- make you radioactive, because it means you can’t be trusted to work at fixing things that you carry some responsibility for
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by sulam 7y ago
They are also presumably comfortable with improving their work with feedback, even in relatively small ways. Some HN readers seem to believe otherwise, though.
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by sulam 7y ago
Nitpick, but it recurs: s/challange/challenge/g
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by sulam 7y ago
True for me. I (used to) travel in various parts of Europe regularly and got Google (and the ads) in whatever place I happened to be.
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by sulam 7y ago
"it requires some weird permissions" -- https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/04/when-in-doubt-hang-up-lo... Corollary: when in doubt, don't.
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by sulam 7y ago
The '-' operator stopped working for me with Google a while back. Not sure why, it's fairly frustrating.
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by sulam 7y ago
Happy user of OBS here. Thanks for all the hard work.
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by sulam 7y ago
Mort?
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by sulam 7y ago
A "last foot" tech might not even have access to those tools, much less know how to use them.
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by sulam 7y ago
Speaking for myself, it does one thing incredibly well: email. It probably seems absurd to imagine it would do that thing better than other places where I can do that thing, but it's probably 20 or 30% better at email than my other opt
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by sulam 7y ago
I work for a company with significant manufacturing in China, our source is people on the ground. So, Anecdata, but well-connected anecdata.
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by sulam 7y ago
China is now seeing a wave of secondary infections as they relax travel restrictions and as people enter the country from elsewhere. They have not stopped the spread, they simply slowed it down.
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by sulam 7y ago
It’s only noisy if you don’t know what you’re looking at. Watch a professional poker game sometime and you’ll see the lengths people go to avoid non-verbally communicating the strength of their hand. Table talk is completely casual up until
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by sulam 7y ago
Tone is notoriously hard to communicate in written form. Body language is never conveyed. Intonation is non-existent. At best you get some word choice signaling, but while I think low latency may be over-rated in the "catalogue" a
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by sulam 7y ago
This is actually not accurate. The payments loop is entirely closed in an SE-based system. There are keys loaded on the enclave in manufacturing that come from the card networks, they encrypt tokens on the way to the SE and they can only be
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by sulam 7y ago
Really? Credit card tokens aren't valuable enough? Device-specific private keys? These secure enclaves are routinely used for extremely sensitive data, surely it's more worth stealing than someone's WiFi credentials.
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by sulam 7y ago
"Strap in folks, we're going through some turbulence... For the rest of your lives."
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by sulam 7y ago
GDPR and CCPA mean they must be able to delete your account if you request it.
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by sulam 7y ago
My classic offshoring story is of a team of people we brought in to do QA (literally to write the unit tests that Troy's blog post no one ever writes). This team was very bullish on getting to do more than "just" testing. My
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by sulam 7y ago
Not from me, and I don't remember one. Honestly while it did cause a brief problem, it didn't seem particularly noteworthy to the public.
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by sulam 7y ago
When I worked at Twitter we wanted to find out if we were finally going to survive New Years. Our head of SRE wanted me to test in prod, which horrified me but he convinced me in the end. In order to simulate the population of Japan I had t
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by sulam 7y ago
I think his point is that if you just follow protests then you are always going to be onto the next thing. Protests are largely fads. He says they should just get their heads straight -- IOW, fight against climate change simply because it&#
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by sulam 7y ago
M.A.P. is a US construction, it does not exist in Europe (or elsewhere).
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by sulam 7y ago
I would not recommend trying to interview as a manager for any large tech company without having first been a manager in another role. I would also not recommend doing this for small startups, but some may be willing to hire you into such a
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by sulam 7y ago
This is effectively equivalent to "trickle down economics." Ie, if we give money to the rich, they will use it to buy things or to invest, thereby growing the pie for everyone. Of course, merely saying "trickle down" is

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