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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
Again, I think you're in a bubble. I have met large groups of people that do exactly that. It's also worth mentioning that it's very common for companies and celebrities to use Twitter DMs as a sort of "customer support&
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
I don't mean this in any kind of condescending way, but I honestly think you might be in a bubble. If I was only looking at my immediate friend group, I would think the same way, as none of them use Twitter DMs at all . However, I rec
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
That can't be possible, CF's website explicitly says that their DNS is "always available" with "unparalleled redundancy and 100% uptime"! ;) In all seriousness, I wonder if they are going to have to change the
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
Absolutely. I'll be the first to say that compliance doesn't mean you're actually good at those things (and I actually have said as much here on HN). However, the point remains that things like change management aren&#x27
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
>none of the eight were Verified accounts. That just raises more questions for me! It would make sense if an attacker was trying to pull the data of some celebs/VIPs as an attempt to hopefully strike gold. But for them to do it on s
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
I think it likely varies on the person we're talking about. Is Obama personally tweeting and sending private memes in his DMs? Doubtful. Kanye or Elon Musk? I'd guess yes, actually.
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
>For up to eight of the Twitter accounts involved, the attackers took the additional step of downloading the account’s information through our “Your Twitter Data” tool. Yikes. Pretty much a confirmation of the speculation that the hacker
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
>If you have seen and work for organizations that know how to do this better, good for you. Let's be clear: I'm not talking about some small subset of fantasy companies. It is a strict compliance requirement for many of the wor
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
Ensuring that the appropriately-knowledgeable people for various types of changes, as well as appropriate testing processes, are part of the change management workflow is a part of good change management.
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
>I would assume CF operations folks would be constantly making changes that affect “production” many times a day. Some of it will be to be counteract an issue that originally started because of an external issue like they mention here. E
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
I mean this in only a slightly judgemental way: What kind of change management/testing is going on over there at CF? This is not the first time that someone at CF has made a hasty config change that brought down a significant part of t
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
>They may have sold 100 contracts for something that looks vaguely similar, but there will be zero continuity between the team or the code. There is such a thing as institutional knowledge, and if there is any benefit of a consulting c
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
>There is a belief that the size and complexity of the others must match the size and complexity of the client. So small, nimble companies don't even get considered. The budget gets set before any evaluation of the problem is done.
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
Smaller shops are a huge hit-or-miss minefield in my experience. Some of them can be rockstars, but those rockstars are typically already 100% engaged with a long-term client or are on the road to be acquired by Deloitte et al. On the other
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
My genuine experience is that when you are building something as large and high-profile as a large state's unemployment system, there is absolutely no possibility for the resulting software to be "good" anyway. This is espec
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
I'm a former tech consulting manager at one of the B4 and my experience is that the types of multi-million dollar software projects that they get involved in are lose-lose situations from the start. They are always high-profile, huge p
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
I worked at one of Deloitte's sister companies (another one of the Big 4). I used to think the same way you did, until I later had experience working with other software consulting companies. As bad as Deloitte et al are (and holy shit
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
The 747s are certainly long in the tooth and A350s, 777s, 787s are better in almost every way, but it's still sad to see the 747s go. They're iconic and always so much fun (to me) to see taking off/landing. Wouldn't be s
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
Bitcoin isn't just for "technical" people anymore. The 2017 craze caused a ton of non-techies to hear about Bitcoin and get involved. It was front page CNN a decent amount. Coinbase made it their mission to make Bitcoin as
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
Bizarrely, a lot. Just a couple weeks ago Hertz was the most traded stock on the NYSE and is still up there with incredibly high volume. People in this thread are really underestimating how easy it would be blend into the crowd of millions
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
>They even allowed me to bring a "cheat sheet" with notes about the stories I planned to tell Is this unusual in your experience? I don't think I've ever been to a job interview where I didn't bring along a notep
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
I interviewed with Amazon and I hated the LP bullshit. I hated it so much I gave a ton of feedback and had a very lengthy and illuminating conversation about the process with a friend of mine who works there. Amazon knows full well what the
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
AFAIK Verizon is doing something similar with edge compute in their 5G towers/data centers. If Starlink gets big enough, I'd expect them to do the same. However, I think it's much more likely for Starlink to put the edge comp
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
Last I saw, it requires an antenna that’s about the size of a television satellite dish. Maybe portable enough to stick on an RV or campervan, but almost certainly not something you can take with you while hiking or backwoods camping.
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
Musk himself has said that Starlink is primarily meant for rural customers, and most urbanites should not expect to use it. He even specifically addressed that Starlink will not "stick it" to Comcast+co, and may actually "hel
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
...and if you look at the second half of wherever you are quoting that from, you'll see that the person you're replying to is correct. Starlink is meant for rural customers, and according to Elon Musk himself it will not be &quo
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
I don't understand why everyone keeps repeating this "tone deaf" sentiment. A time when many people are unemployed and looking for work is exactly the right time to launch a campaign educating people about additional job op
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
I've been using this exact same cover on 3 different MBPs (yes I use 3 MBPs simultaneously, a 2016 13", a 2019 13", and 2019 15") for almost a year and haven't noticed anything even remotely close to it damaging the
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
In case you or others missed it, the parent commenter is quoting a comment that was posted on HN's original thread announcing Dropbox in 2007, where the poster questioned if Dropbox would ever generate income. Hindsight is of course 20
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
I would completely avoid things like this A2 instance (and other accelerated instances on other cloud providers) if you’re a self-described beginner. The GPU-accelerated instances in public clouds are terrifyingly expensive and way overki

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