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by tobtoh 15y ago
You're right Corin - the title is a little misleading with hindsight. However, I was trying to reflect the angle that made the page interesting (ie that it's counter-intuitive that using less unique digits is more secure) whilst still tryin
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iPhone 4-digit passcodes more secure when containing only 3 unique digits(mindyourdecisions.com)
81 points by tobtoh 15y ago|37 comments
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by tobtoh 15y ago
I've been using Flipboard to get my Facebook fix on my ipad and I've now come to prefer the Flipboard view of FB more than the native view. Much better presentation of external content and I still get the status updates, but without all the
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by tobtoh 15y ago
I got the feeling that there was probably some pre-arranged agreement that the IPO question was off limits, but that the interviewer went ahead and asked the question anyway. Hence his non-plussed look and the slight shake of his head as if
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by tobtoh 15y ago
What you said intuitively appears true, but it's actually not the case in real life. Helping others is not limited by time or money - you can help others in large or small ways. And the OP is absolutely correct, if you are not already helpi
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by tobtoh 15y ago
Did you even read the article (the OP and the nymag article)? Those articles were nothing about whining or narcissim - it was all about the sense of displacement and confusion that many 1st gen Asian-americans feel. If you have ever travell
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by tobtoh 15y ago
> It bothers me that as a generation, we are rejecting our parents way to play the game, when instead we should be rejecting the game. I think this is the initial reaction to many 1st gen asians struggling to work out the paths to succe
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by tobtoh 15y ago
To a degree yes it does. But an inability to self-promote will, in most cases, limit your influence/reach. Good example is Chrome/Safari/Firefox/IE - they all do roughly the same things, for most people, there is little difference between t
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by tobtoh 15y ago
Code only speaks for itself to other coders. If all you seek is to mix with other programmers or work on a small self-contained project that is purely code based, then that is fine (I say this in a non-derogatory manner). But most things in
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by tobtoh 15y ago
> The code blog author writing useful advice is great. That same blog author submitting all his posts to Hacker News contributes nothing more to his greatness. Submitting his blog to HN is part of communicating - and - spreading his adv
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by tobtoh 15y ago
But if this is the case, then shouldn't your article be about 'how money is creating a lot of engineers in India' rather than saying that India has an engineering culture? I see it in a similar vein to how there are so many finance people i
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by tobtoh 15y ago
Is it really an interesting read? (this isn't a criticism of bimbly, more at poor quality blog posts in general (a particular bee in my bonnet at the moment)) The blog post basically consisted of a made up example to make a point that the b
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by tobtoh 15y ago
Technical skills like this don't translate well ..." Heheh I knew I should never have used an analogy, there is always something that won't quite hold true to the point you are trying to make :) The main point I'm trying to make is I believ
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by tobtoh 15y ago
If that is what the author is trying to say, then I think they are stating the blindingly obvious. Hire people who understand the fundamentals - that goes for every single job and is a given. "There is nothing special about the web that mak
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by tobtoh 15y ago
I do - my personal email (I have my own domain) is only given out to personal friends and with the explicit instruction that they better not use it to sign up to competitions or 'tell a friend / share the reward' forms. Some still do of cou
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by tobtoh 16y ago
Isn't the subtitle: Make sure you keep confidential info confidential? Being cynical, I would say that up to the point the info leaked, you had a good developer at a cheap rate who actually thought he was being paid well. A win win for the
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by tobtoh 16y ago
As a manager, it's been a personally eye-opening experience seeing how companies pay staff and how the constraints a manager has to work under affects their pay rise decisions. People wishfully hope that they get paid based on their contrib
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by tobtoh 16y ago
Most managers I know would love to have the ability to prune and rehire staff to rebalance teams and optimise skills, enthusiasm etc. However in many cases (particularly in big companies), managers have very little say in their headcount nu
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by tobtoh 16y ago
I wish when sites throw up a video interview, they would provide a transcript of the conversation. Particularly with interviews, I find video to be particularly inefficient - I can't quickly scan through to find out if there is anything of
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Gawker redesign is killing traffic to all but two sites(signature9.com)
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by tobtoh 16y ago
Yes if you are taking about the general populace, I absolutely agree good people skills are far more common. However we're talking about BA/PMs in a technical company (at least that is my assumption given the original question) in which cas
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by tobtoh 16y ago
I believe it's because it's far harder to find people with good people skills than find people with good technical skills. If you talk to people who hire/interview and manage people as their primary role, you will often hear them say that t
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by tobtoh 16y ago
Also, many people have trouble pronouncing foreign names particularly those that don't come from an english background. Much easier to give your western name than watch someone mangle pronouncing your name several times and still get it wro
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by tobtoh 16y ago
The only advantage I see in blu-ray discs is the image quality - everything else is a severe letdown - the glacial load times, the unskippable trailers and warnings etc. I'm actually less inclined to purchase blu-ray discs than DVDs - I use
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by tobtoh 16y ago
Cool app. But I have a pet peeve with information pages that only provide video as a description. Whilst I understand that especially for an app like this, the best 'information' is to demonstrate how it works via a video, it doesn't help p
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by tobtoh 16y ago
If you liked the article, you should also read this blog post: "How to keep someone with you forever" - http://issendai.livejournal.com/572510.html It's written from the opposite point of view and goes into more details - ie if you were a
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by tobtoh 16y ago
Yup - sadly I have to agree with you - and unfortunately with no support from senior management, all that encourages is PHB behaviour. However, part of being a good manager (although they seldom teach managers how to do this) is being able
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by tobtoh 16y ago
There isn't a magic bullet to 'fix' a boss who doesn't understand how to manage staff. The best you can do is lead by 'reverse example' and suggestions. ie keep asking your boss for the long term goal/strategy plan, give constructive sugges
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by tobtoh 16y ago
One of the things I was taught was that when leading/managing a team, the six things (in order of importance) you should focus on for ensuring a high performing satisfied team are: 1. Clarity - ensure your team understands the end goal and
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by tobtoh 16y ago
Is that someone elses quote, or did you come up with that yourself? Either way - I like it!

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