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by yajoe 13y ago
thanks, these help
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by yajoe 13y ago
I'm a pack rat and I will archive these photos along with all of the other photos I've taken during my life. I currently have a terrabyte (not that much, but still enough to cause headaches) of such photos that are backed up in 3
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Ask HN: Tips getting RAWs from wedding photographers?
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by yajoe 13y ago
Love the idea. The rub is figuring out which article will influence people (100s are written every day at Seeking Alpha for many views of the same issue) -- if you can predict influence then I think you've found a nice little money m
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by yajoe 13y ago
I've been on the receiving end and posted a couple times trying to explain how it happens. In short, the NSA doesn't typically appear directly. Instead they use the courts and subpoenas to induce compliance for what seem like mundane cour
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Right, but this solution tries to fit what is otherwise continuous into discrete so his calculations are easier. It is naive and unrealistic. I've never seen that succeed, and the 'approximations' people do with those kind of numbers ar
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by yajoe 13y ago
I was at that shareholder meeting, and Bezos was answering a question about the future of Amazon Fresh asked by the only other person under 30 in the room of 100. Bezos didn't make any pronouncements with his response. Instead he praised th
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by yajoe 13y ago
Peopleware is among the best books about teams that I encourage all aspiring managers to read. One point to emphasize is why the authors believe individual offices work: quiet . There is a story about about a programming competition, and
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by yajoe 13y ago
For those who aren't aware or understand the reference, Amway is commonly understood and used as a metonym for pyramid schemes in the US. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amway#Controversy (Thanks for your post)
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by yajoe 13y ago
I agree! And I hope it's clear I like and respect your questions -- people like you are the key reasons I keep coming back here. About bitlocker, I agree with you that there likely isn't a backdoor built into the service beyond breaking cry
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by yajoe 13y ago
For those who are skeptical about these conspiracy theories, I've tried to explain why large vendors accede in a previous post and got great skeptical questions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5706695 tl;dr -- Most large public serv
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by yajoe 13y ago
This is a good discussion. You're absolutely right in describing the theory behind PGP (or GPG for the purists :), but unfortunately there is not yet a way to build a messaging service that has both features AND privacy. The should in yo
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by yajoe 13y ago
The point about the 5th amendment is that prior to last year's ruling, it was assumed that passwords (or private keys) could be compelled for any reason in the US, and systems were built with that assumption. I recommend you look into le
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by yajoe 13y ago
(Worked on RMS and Exchange) The govt comes by with a subpoena (secret, classified, or public) and requires Microsoft or the customer company to produce communication records that exist in a form that may be used as evidence. Failure to do
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by yajoe 13y ago
tl;dr -- meh. Newfound hope for Nook brand. B&N can go private. Microsoft has a shot to win at digital college textbooks. Bearish on rest. For anyone curious about the motivations behind this -- this sale frees up B&N to take it
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by yajoe 13y ago
I feel the exact way. I have been inspired to study electrical engineering ever since I read this story from 10 years ago: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/03/01/15/1829244 And the nerd/hacker/enthusiast in me would gladly put down the
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by yajoe 13y ago
> I left MSFT around 2006 The company changed significantly since then. Bill left. There was a layoff (well, a couple, but the first was a black swan nonetheless). There is a new review system and new rules about comp. It's not the sa
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by yajoe 13y ago
To throw some numbers at this question about salaries. Here is the Standard Offer for a college hire Level 59 Microsoft SDE (Developer) to Seattle over the years as I've observed them. 2005-2006: 70k 2007-2008: 80k 2009-2010: 85/90
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by yajoe 13y ago
I'm not a heavy user of Instagram and am unqualified to answer how the product would be different were the company independent. However, the most public change to Instagram that many blamed on facebook were the ToS changes that I've heard l
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by yajoe 14y ago
You are spot on. This is hardly a surprise to anyone who has been watching, and I personally just made a little bit of money on my bet he would get fired :) Time to share my understanding. My connection: I used to live off Legacy Drive i
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by yajoe 14y ago
Really cool to see the numbers and congrats on making the product! One nit to emphasize the value in basic accounting knowledge for others when going down the manufacturing route: it's $11.37 _gross_ margin (aka gross profit, see http://
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by yajoe 14y ago
No insider knowledge, but I've seen co-leads when someone departs for three reasons: 1) Make it clear to employees, shareholders, and the public that there will be another change coming. Everyone should know that a company run by co-CEOs i
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by yajoe 14y ago
I thought this was a repost of the same story from last February related to expired certs: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/02/azure_outage/ I'm pretty tolerant of mistakes (I make them all the time), but I have little patience
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Bingo. Full disclosure: I've worked on eDiscovery products and may be biased. This is a net good thing, I think, for a company to reduce its dependence on arbitrary communication that is written and backed up forever.
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They are effectively worthless if it can be shown they are added automatically to every mail. Privileged communication requires something explicit or genuine intent, i.e. the sender writing 'privileged' at the top. It actually can be quit
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Apparently lying or exaggerating is common in 'journalism.' Probably based on our desire to weave narratives. I don't disagree with you or know anything about this case, but let me provide an anecdote where (1) seems more likely despite t
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by yajoe 14y ago
For those looking for the tl;dr -- GitHub uses elastic search and upgraded the platform to a new version just before launching. Differences with the new version caused corruption in subsystems and cascaded to an outage. On the whole, GitHu
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by yajoe 14y ago
I knew I had heard the names before (I live in Seattle), and I have nothing but nice things to say about this team. It seems they shut down their other venture at the same time: https://spokely.com/ (there is cert issure your browser will
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by yajoe 14y ago
I appreciate your reasoned post about the Surface: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5146663 A couple clarifications to highlight how the jury is still out on this device and its long-term impact on the market. > 2.) The Surface
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by yajoe 14y ago
The answer is pretty plain: The Office division cut the team that was supposed to ship the Metro-styled Office apps for 2013 despite the Windows division objection. Windows then relented and added 'desktop mode' for ARM just to keep Office

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