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by trunnell 5y ago
But your video on twitter, although very creative, documents exactly the type of accelerating self-referential tornado that that makes people skeptical. All just one big art project? Just a fun game? That'd probably be fine with eve
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by trunnell 5y ago
> But the math and incentives are there. Can you elaborate on this? The best critiques of blockchain tech, cryptocurrencies, NFTs, DeFi, etc. describe fatal flaws at the core of those technologies. For example, the lack of monetary poli
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by trunnell 5y ago
The question is what cost are we willing to pay for buildings and cities to be more beautiful? The author doesn’t address cost at all and it is one of the primary inputs to buildings. Not just the construction cost but the operating costs
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by trunnell 5y ago
Agreed, I've seen a hybrid schedule work well, where a team chooses which days they will all be in the office. > However lately all important tech decisions comes from "enterprise architects" Honestly that sounds terribl
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by trunnell 5y ago
You're right! My bad.
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by trunnell 5y ago
Oops, those costs should be per month, not per year... but now I can't edit the post.
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by trunnell 5y ago
It's just a thought experiment. It's one thing to say offices are good. It's another to say their benefit outweighs the cost. I think the added cost may be worth it, but I'd be surprised to find majority agreement. &gt
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by trunnell 5y ago
"Private offices with doors that close" - that's the standard at Fog Creek Software, the company behind Stack Overflow, Trello, and other great products. Microsoft also provides offices (or at least used to). These companie
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by trunnell 5y ago
There's wisdom in this comment. But note that the dynamics of the conversation are a function of company culture. "Make execs comfortable" is a reflection of culture. Another path is to simply hold leaders accountable for o
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by trunnell 5y ago
I agree with all of your points except for the very last one. Are we shooting the messenger (npm audit) here? Seems like the problem is lack of trust and lack of information about security of dependencies. Npm audit is just pointing that
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by trunnell 5y ago
How much of the problem here is that npm audit is a little annoying and creates problems unrelated to security? Or do commenters here actually believe that npm audit should treat a DoS of a development machine as a non-vulnerability? (Pleas
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by trunnell 5y ago
I think the typical scenario is that you understand how big of problem it is only in retrospect. In the moment, your first thought is that there is some type of quick fix that will restore functionality (if your site is down) or evict the i
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by trunnell 5y ago
I see your point that even worse things can happen when dev machines are compromised. The point I tried to make is that even a DoS of your machine can be a big problem. > There is nothing any attacker can do with the static files on the
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by trunnell 5y ago
A lack of imagination by the author, unfortunately... A DoS on your build machine and dev machine can be indeed be critical issues. Imagine this scenario: Your source code is somehow compromised and attackers slip in rogue code to your pro
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by trunnell 5y ago
I recently read Gates’ book How To Avoid a Climate Disaster which left me with the impression that the overriding factor in building costs is the energy required (and CO2 produced) for construction, heating, and cooling. Unfortunately I d
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by trunnell 5y ago
That makes more sense. So the bar raiser is there to nudge people toward better hires, but generally isn't overruling the HM?
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by trunnell 5y ago
Wow. The hiring manager doesn't get to make the final decision? I make sure that managers reporting to me always make the final decision on hiring (and firing) for their teams. That makes it more fair to hold them accountable for the
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by trunnell 5y ago
Why is it a pyramid scheme? I’ll give you my opinion. I think bitcoin was a research project - it wasn’t designed to succeed as a real currency. Consider: 1) It has a fixed money supply. There will only ever be a fixed amount of bitcoin
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by trunnell 5y ago
“Someone that rose through the ranks” IME, being able to actually do the work involved is the single best filter to reduce the risk of “idea people.” People with “great ideas” who also previously did similar work themselves can be hugely va
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by trunnell 6y ago
It’s hard to see how you could be arguing in good faith given that your point of “fearless concurrency” being an overstated “sales pitch” has now been answered with multiple substantive answers. Please stop moving the goal posts from “progr
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by trunnell 6y ago
Maybe we need to advocate for changes to US law such that citizens maintain their expectation of privacy when sending messages through third parties. Then it would be like it used to be when law enforcement needed a warrant to obtain an in
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by trunnell 7y ago
Thanks for the correction.
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by trunnell 7y ago
This seems to be a case of mismatched expectations. Many want Rust to save us from our current nightmare hellscape of vulnerability-ridden foundations. So actix-web comes along-- a Rust web framework that is faster than everything else incl
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by trunnell 7y ago
That's good advice on how to treat others-- don't act entitled toward open source maintainers. Thank them for their work. But what exactly are the responsibilities of a maintainer? How far should you go to fix bugs? How thoroug
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by trunnell 8y ago
Is it fair to say this is objectionable mostly due to the government enforcement of one "score" per person? After all, we have a "karma score" here on HN and we think it's great... in part, presumably, because it&#
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by trunnell 9y ago
It'd be cool to have digital cash, but I think we're decades away. Unfortunately, it seems that cryptocurrency enthusiasts focus more on the crypto than on the currency. To be taken seriously, there need to be realistic approache
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by trunnell 10y ago
You're welcome!
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by trunnell 10y ago
Hi, I work on the streaming algorithms at Netflix. You are correct that throughput variability matters a lot as well. The trouble is that the variability is somewhat unpredictable (at least, with our methods so far). And you're also r
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by trunnell 10y ago
A question for the more politically inclined: Feinstein's seat is up in 2018, and she'll probably retire. How do we ensure our next Senator has a more technically literate position on encryption? Who are the plausible candidates?
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by trunnell 11y ago
Doing the math to compare resolution to the Hololens... Hololens has "2.5K radiants," where a radiant is a "light point per radian." [1] A radian is ~57.3 degrees, so 2500/57.3 = 44 pixels per degree. Meta has a

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