techslave

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by techslave 7y ago
no one is faulting her for taking the money
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by techslave 7y ago
also, obliged to keep her mouth shut
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by techslave 7y ago
> At founding, the company allotted about 13% of company stock for employee ownership. Is this meant to be disparaging? it’s actually above average (of 10%). Note that at each finding round, and as needed if you make too much money (don’
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by techslave 7y ago
title really needs the leading ‘How’ from TFA
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by techslave 7y ago
obviously it did. you cannot scale 100x at a moment’s notice
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by techslave 7y ago
all such contracts have “force majeure” clauses so that’s not a problem.
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by techslave 7y ago
> First off, you only are old on the outside. ... most times it's better to take a minute and decide and get it right than it is deciding in two seconds and getting it wrong. you’ve just described being old on the inside. it’s not c
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by techslave 7y ago
Is the CSME akin to Apple’s T2 chip?
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by techslave 7y ago
is that a copypasta error or verbatim? that statement itself could use a rewrite. irony at its best
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by techslave 7y ago
ah my old friend `sl’ not to mention the first and only useful application if terminal gif html
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by techslave 7y ago
so many words! such easy answer! pass. (with reluctance) i also want to comment on shuffling the CEO role. that’s a mistake, in the abstract. the CEO role isn’t a dart you throw. would you say, i guess i’ll be CTO or CMO because of xyz exte
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by techslave 7y ago
he said it’s a 50 person company. even if he had the authority you mention he would not be a “CIO”
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by techslave 7y ago
why not? they are trivial. not “trick” in the sense of poor questions which are easy enough once you’ve studied the problem for 20 years and know some trivia that is rare knowledge, but are otherwise insanely difficult. i think these are go
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by techslave 7y ago
get out ASAP. you are mismanaged and doomed
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by techslave 7y ago
branches. code review. obvi you can do both without SCM but boy does it help
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by techslave 7y ago
even if you have the cash, it’s very not smart to do so. you need about a million or so in liability (almost all cases settle under $5mm). insurance is far cheaper.
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by techslave 7y ago
> .com has a price floor of $7.85. Not true. CF claims it is $8.03. Let’s say it’s $7.85 + .18 tax or something. You don’t deal with the registry. You deal with a registrar. Just as they can charge a markup, they can give a discount. Reg
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by techslave 7y ago
DNS Spy costs money? wow the art of sysadmin really is dead. having this kind of tight control of DNS used to be a given.
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by techslave 7y ago
this is a repost from less than 3 months ago. sorry i don’t have the url. and sorry, but if you don’t have accountability you aren’t a leader.
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by techslave 7y ago
yeah. in my day there were sets but after my first (and only) one, i was left disappointed. “you can only build the one thing?” we didn’t have money for it so max value meant bricks, not sets.
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by techslave 7y ago
really? HN crowd is talking about 10 hr days as “exhausting” ? i can’t remember the last time i worked less than 5x10.
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by techslave 7y ago
it’s a horrible comment. OTOH it’s world class documentation. obviously i’m not comparing myself, but i often find myself the only one at my $JOB that documents things at similar level. 99% of the time because i’m touching code i don’t unde
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by techslave 7y ago
well it is samsung... one of the largest companies in the world
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by techslave 7y ago
lately? MDB has always been awful. Then again i did work at the largest MDB deployment (per MDB themselves) so saw all the problems.
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by techslave 7y ago
5% by transaction count or by value?
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by techslave 7y ago
the person? the level of process incompetence that would allow such a defect beggars belief. my vote is that this was intentional.
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by techslave 7y ago
via the post mortem process
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by techslave 7y ago
iot security. some kind of framework to allow iot devices to be secure by default. android things tried to address this but too much ecosystem and java requirement. needs to be simpler and lower level.
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by techslave 7y ago
$1.7MM. cheap, considering. honestly if I had the money I’d snatch it up
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by techslave 7y ago
because none has ever received it!

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