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by twunde 8y ago
Health tech is relatively scattered with hubs all across the US. I suspect that you may be looking for healthcare startups. There's a large concentration in San Francisco, NYC and Boston. The DC area has the government agencies, which
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HardenedBSD is a separate OS forked from FreeBSD with its own kernel development. While the BSDs may share some code, they're essentially all different OS'. There is no upstream like Linux has. As a side-note after Spectre/M
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I'm super happy to see that the BSDs were contacted (with the exception of HardenedBSD).
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Agreed. It's the main reason why iCloud isn't HIPAA compliant
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There's really no way to eyeball logs in any sort of complex environment. What you're looking for is a system that will automatically analyze logs and/or traffic for malicious events and alert on them. What you're look
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For laptop setup at a company you should be using some sort of MDM software. It's essentially configuration management, but with the understanding that this is for users who will want to change things. If you're an all Mac shop,
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Fair warning: Healthcare has a long sales cycle, is heavily regulated and is difficult to break into as an outsider. Generally you'll want someone on the founding team with a significant healthcare background and connections (even bett
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What's not mentioned is that there is a large outsourced population of COBOL devs. Talking with a former colleague who did COBOL for years, he can't find anything in COBOL that pays well, so he's staying at my last company do
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Assuming it's a somewhat mature product, I'd suggest reading "It's not luck" by Eliyahu M. Goldratt. It's aimed at mature companies, but it has several ideas worth investigating such as segmenting the market
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This time, it may actually be readable and should disclose with whom your data is shared with.
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While often true, the propublica article specifically points out the common practice of laying off employees and then rehiring them as contractors at a lower wage, which suggests that IBM still needs their skills, they just don't want
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There are two things that might be helpful for you. 1) A password manager like onepassword or lastpass would make managing logins much easier (and more secure). 2) Take a look at accounting software, especially ones that support importing P
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by twunde 9y ago
GDPR enforcement starts soon. This is a European privacy law WITH teeth. It applies to all companies with European customers including Europeans living in the US. There are several components, but one of the big changes is disclosing every
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This was recently discussed in https://federalnewsradio.com/tom-temin-commentary/2018/01/ir... HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16377329
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Yeah, but how many are just US-based without an office in the EU or a real presence in the EU? ICANN is an international organization with a regional office in the EU and an engagement center, with EU customers representing a big chunk of s
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by twunde 9y ago
I ran a semi-distributed team. 4 hours seems to be the sweet spot. Once you start moving to 5 hours, it's just a little too far to do easily and some things start being dropped. One thing I found helpful was to have flexible hours as
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by twunde 9y ago
You're really looking for info on adtech in general. Adtech solutions will typically use 1 or more of tracking pixels, iframes and javascript scripts. The key here is that all of these create a HTTP request to a service and includes me
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I'm willing to bet that for many companies, it's part of their regulations or pushed by their security teams as a best practice. The point was to add a second factor of authentication, but one that didn't require you to have
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A few years back, we had a junior candidate join us right before a major launch. He ended up being fired after a few months because after he spent 3 weeks doing nothing, when we tried to ramp him up, he struggled with the tasks he was assig
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I'll mention that COBOL devs are no longer doing just fine. I had an ex-coworker that had trouble finding well-paying COBOL jobs. A lot of it has been offshored or outsourced to low-paid consulting companies like Tata and the like.
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If you've worked anywhere with more than 50 employees, your emails are available for an admin to look at. This is required for legal discovery whenever a company is sued. For companies in regulated industries (healthcare, finance, etc
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The main difference is whether they think that you'll write maintainable code and extensible code. Will teammates be able to work with your code easily? Will others be able to maintain or extend the code when you're gone? Is it ea
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It takes 1-2 hours to setup a new laptop, email, other services with most of the laptop work automated using a MDM (Jamf in our case, although I would suggest looking at alternative vendors). Day of, it should take the new developer 1-2 hou
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This will change your life. What you're looking for is called MDM or mobile device management. This is essentially configuration management for laptops or phones, but designed so that these devices can be used in an ad-hoc manner. Ap
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I know very few startups that have or had a CSO/CISO. I would assume that most startups that have one, are in one of the following fields security/fintech/healthcare/education. Typically it falls on the CTO at early sta
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For a side-project you're probably going to want to use the migrations logic of whatever ORM/language you're using, but alternatively there are db devops tools like dbmaestro or datical, although those are typically targeted
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Most applications will log ip addresses by default. Why? 1) Many security products rely on IP addresses in order to blacklist known malicious users (including fail2ban) and/or detect hacking attempts. Monitoring for stolen credentials
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Take a look at Michael Horn ( http://www.nycstartuplawyer.com/ ), who's also known for being the founder of Craft Coffee.
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A resource you may find useful is AWS' GDPR compliance center: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/gdpr-center/ This has some white papers and general advice for achieving GDPR compliance on AWS.
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I've done both at various jobs 30-70 outsourced to engineering owned, 40-60 marketing site/app vs just one app. The most traditional "marketing site" is a wordpress website that's really designed to pitch the compa

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