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by wwwwwwwwww 9y ago
The dev team is very territorial about their code. They're virtually in a separate business unit - I don't even have read access to the source code. To make things worse, the dev lead's boss always defers to his team's
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by wwwwwwwwww 9y ago
Profession: "Security" Engineer [08:00] Wake up [09:05] Arrive at work a little after 9 to fight the power [09:15] Coffee. The daily pilgrimage to the Mr. Coffee is the highlight of my day. [09:25] Go to meeting scheduled by demon
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by wwwwwwwwww 10y ago
pretty much this. At my school it's an almost universal phenomenon among international students. They literally run a cheating cartel that shares completed labs, tests, and homework. They even have a guy that they buy to take their tes
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by wwwwwwwwww 11y ago
Correction, startup is a code word for "tech company that doesn't make enough money to justify its valuation" Or if you're a VC, it's "tech company whose current valuation is based on future value"
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by wwwwwwwwww 11y ago
Snowden stopped being a whistleblower to me when the docs about the CIA's sigint spying gear was published. There's a lot of docs that are useful for laypeople to improve their privacy, and then there's the ones that are goin
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by wwwwwwwwww 11y ago
does this control for years of experience?
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by wwwwwwwwww 11y ago
As a counter, joining a fraternity was the best decision I had ever made. After my first few years of college, I still had no social network and very few friends. After rushing a fraternity, I became part of an ultra-inclusive group and mad
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
this is definitely my favorite reply so far i know lots of people personally and professionally who will go their entire lives believing with absolute fervor that they're almost always right and that they're smart. as a result, th
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
recently, people have been fired from their jobs when their political affiliations/donations have been made public i wouldn't put it past someone somewhere out there in the politically correct machine to fire/not hire someone
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
Overdrinking is a problem that I only think is going to get worse until there's some serious changes made to how drinking is treated legally. When I was in college, I was a part of my fraternity's "risk management" team,
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
at the last conference I attended, ~9/10 of the engineers were using thinkpads and latitudes personal examples are worthless because of the ridic small sample size
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
how about "Don't take health advice from econ grad students on the internet, take it from your doctor"
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
It doesn't help at all. Unless youre working with devices like FETs that are named using the electron flow convention, keeping the electron flow in mind is not terribly helpful. However there are some subfields of electronics where it
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You Won’t Believe What This Web Site Does to the Liberal Left (2013)(thesocietypages.org)
3 points by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago|1 comments
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
because choosing a language for a commercial project is rarely about safety or effectiveness - it's about language popularity, availability of libraries, and replaceability of the programmers.
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
what do i have to do to get the nytimes to run ads for my products like this?
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
general question: is there any way to find out what VCs/individuals end up buying into this round?
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
Wow, what a clever and constructive comment! Not only do you dismiss the article in its entirety, you get to let us know how much you dislike microsoft too! Bravo! How about instead of posting dismissive trashy 1 liners like this, you force
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
> If you don't like your data being stored somewhere, why are you even on HackerNews? having my sleeping records and a table of what times during the day that I shit is a lot more sensitive information than the trash I post on hacke
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
the issue is that they're collecting this data in the first place. I cant help but wonder how much it would cost to get the sleep records of a competitor of mine - or if it's not for sale, how much the data would be worth on the
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
maybe if we're lucky the entire bay area will break off and form a new continent. face it, that's the only way you're gonna get your Silicon Valley state, Draper!
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
I'm stuck here trying to figure out if this is a satire article promoting that silicon valley show.
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
the problem with that is then people would have to build actually businesses rather than loss leader "startups" that are only around to break even and pray for an acquisition
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
who needs type safety when you have all the web scale of javascript?
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
i'm glad someone who works at the company like you was able to enlighten us as to microsoft's internal practices oh wait
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
yeah, definitely not very web scale!
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
I look forward to reading the breakdown on how bad the security for this system ends up being. I can see it now - each lock would be connected to the hotel's wpa-wps network (shared with the guests of course) and use a dhcp server with
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
if he wasnt giving it in a constructive manner, he would have said it was shit and clicked the post button just because he isnt treating his comment like a hugbox invitation doesnt mean it isnt constructive
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
welcome to the silicon valley bubble
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
>With truly evil billionaires out there - the Koch brothers come to mind what the fuck do you think gives you the right to claim someone is evil? I literally cannot imagine how much of a goddamn bubble you must live in to think you have

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