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by winteriscoming 10y ago
It's like getting a foot in the door, which is a big thing in itself.
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by winteriscoming 10y ago
Reading the article it just feels like the author and the company just drifted apart over time. Something that happens very often in life. When the number of people involved in a certain thing are few, their goals and purpose typically are
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by winteriscoming 10y ago
>> I left out acquisitions on purpose because GitLab is not really suited for an acquisition, due to the remote-only work model. Didn't know remote work would play a role in this matter. Is that true?
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by winteriscoming 10y ago
Reminds me of a Shark Tank episode I saw about "Nubrella"[1] [1] www.nubrella.com
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by winteriscoming 10y ago
I have found that, let alone explaining it to laymen, it's hard enough to explain it to your own team members and expect them not to keep interrupting you. I have realized that, the bigger the team, the less productive I keep getting,
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by winteriscoming 10y ago
>> The company raised its fees for customers from $99 to $149 for an annual unlimited service, and delivery fees to $5.99 from $3.99. Anyone familiar with the product know, what the annual fee is for, when the customer seems to be cha
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by winteriscoming 10y ago
>> There is a concept called an "unreliable narrator." Tavis has a documented track record of poor interpersonal behavior. It's time that people stopped focusing exclusively on the quality of his discoveries and started
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by winteriscoming 10y ago
I can't say if you are serious (given the smiley), but if you are indeed serious, then it's really odd that something like this incident would increase your faith in the product. Gitlab.com is a repository hosting product i.e. it&
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by winteriscoming 10y ago
>> So while the chances of a mistake happening are the same (we're all human) ...and that's the point I was making in my comment
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by winteriscoming 10y ago
>> Their incident response gives me confidence that this sort of thing is much less likely to happen in the future That doesn't sound logical to me. The chances of such incidents happening isn't related to how they announce
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by winteriscoming 10y ago
Yet another gitlab post on how open and transparent they are and how they are being praised for that. It's now just looking more and more like gitlab being known for being a transparent company than being recognized for their product o
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by winteriscoming 10y ago
Apparently, only if you do that while being naked.
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by winteriscoming 10y ago
Aaargh!! Too late, wish I had known this a few minutes back
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HP to buy Nimble storage for $1.09B(mobile.reuters.com)
1 points by winteriscoming 10y ago|0 comments
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by winteriscoming 10y ago
Every time I see a post from Gitlab, I worry for them. I haven't used gitlab but have checked it out a few times. On the other hand I use github regularly. But this isn't about github vs gitlab. Instead this is about gitlab's
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by winteriscoming 10y ago
I guess some algorithm might have changed, because it's really odd to see that a thread like this one about S3 has already gained 2.5k votes https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13755673 . I don't remember seeing t
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by winteriscoming 10y ago
For those like me who are unfamiliar with what RCMP is - it's the Canadian police. The article is about the Canadian police commissioner raising concerns about the quality of IT support provided to them
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by winteriscoming 10y ago
>> "has anyone actively exploited this in the past?" Wouldn't your team now even have to decide how to deal with this even after some specific well known caches have been cleared? I mean there's no guarantee that s
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by winteriscoming 10y ago
I see what you are saying. So that function actually accepts a size_t which is a unsigned type. I now understand why this call to the function went through without any exceptions. When I posted my question, I was referring to this page[1] w
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Ask HN: (CloudFlare bug) - Why does write() in C allow negative length?
3 points by winteriscoming 10y ago|4 comments
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by winteriscoming 10y ago
After seeing how Cloudflare have handled this and tried to downplay and even try to imply Google is the problem here, I suspect if this bug wasn't discovered by a third party and they themselves found it out at some point, they pretty
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by winteriscoming 10y ago
>> We have continued to escalate this within Google to get the crawl team to prioritize the clearing of their caches as that is the highest priority remaining remediation step. If you are using the same attitude as you use in this com
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by winteriscoming 10y ago
More than knowing how they manage remote employees, at this point, with more than a week since the data loss incident, I would be genuinely curious to know if their backups are now functional and what plan they have put in place or planning
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by winteriscoming 10y ago
I have moved on to non-Windows OS for almost a decade now. But, Winamp is one of those rare softwares that I won't mind switching to Windows OS, just to use it.
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by winteriscoming 10y ago
I think it should be still possible technically to allow per installation wake words, just like local per install router passwords. Either during the first use or through some specific reconfigure process.
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by winteriscoming 10y ago
>> That was a sizable share of the $22,000 an accounting statement shows he made during the presidential campaign from ads for shoes, hair gel and web design that Google had placed on his site. Is this for real? That article also clai
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by winteriscoming 10y ago
>> And oh, please stop using the war metaphor. You are bringing in way too much aggression into something that can be done with a lot more calm and composure. Agree with you on that part. However, this specific article wasn't agg
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by winteriscoming 10y ago
Not related to the topic at hand, but I wish this site had an About page. I read this whole article and felt the author was very passionate about the online community he hosts, so I thought maybe I could hang around there a bit, but couldn&
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Ask HN: What did you do after quitting the IT industry and how have things been?
289 points by winteriscoming 10y ago|210 comments
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by winteriscoming 10y ago
In the comments of that article, the author says he's filed a complaint https://hjhart.github.io/2017/01/03/ticketmaster-is-a-horrib...

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