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by cubes 10mo ago
Curious, where did you source the data from? Did you just scrape the invidividual bank web sites?
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by cubes 1y ago
The authors of that article got pictured on the cover of the New York Times for finding that security issue: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/technology/researchers-fi...
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by cubes 1y ago
This brought me back. I was a member of the UC Berkeley Computer Science Undergraduate Association ( https://www.csua.berkeley.edu ) in the early aughts. Through the CSUA I came across a job posting for a sysadmin job at Skotos Te
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by cubes 3y ago
This article would be more accurately titled, "Why you shouldn't try to build a venture capital funded business." Of course, my suggested title is not nearly as compelling and edgy as the actual title, and would be less likel
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by cubes 3y ago
Cool, I'll reach out, and let you know if he's interested!
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by cubes 3y ago
I have a friend that's super smart, currently works in biotech, and studied computer science, would you be interested in chatting with him about possible applications? Happy to make an introduction if you like!
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by cubes 3y ago
Are launch congratulations in order? If so, congratulations! I'm super excited to see where you take this, and I hope you're able to find a solid business model to support you and your work.
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by cubes 3y ago
I love this little deep dive!
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by cubes 4y ago
+1 for use of Conventional Comments. It's a simple lift for a noticeable improvement in clarity, and guidance on what to do next.
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by cubes 4y ago
Let's not forget his latest project, https://datasette.io/
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by cubes 4y ago
Where's Fucked Company when you need it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucked_Company NB: Do not navigate to fuckedcompany dot com, it's squatted.
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by cubes 4y ago
Hard agree. History is littered with dead startups that designed for scale before they had enough usage to justify it. Within reason, having users knock your site over resulting in failures like the Twitter Fail Whale is a good problem to h
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by cubes 4y ago
Yes, I partied with Nick Weaver. The lottery scheduler was implemented in the late 90’s, but soda’s kernel ran with the lottery schedule well into the aughts. I agree that shell accounts weren’t as important by the aughts, but the culture w
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by cubes 4y ago
I respectfully disagree. There was a vibrant community on soda well into the early aughts, even if it was running FreeBSD on x86 vs. some older more esoteric hardware architecture. It's good to see that the CSUA encyclopedia still exis
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by cubes 4y ago
Yes, that is correct.
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by cubes 4y ago
Hi! I think that, in my cursory reading, I misunderstood what the code is doing. I thought it was importing the module you're trying to analyze... I'll have to read more closely when I have some spare time.
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by cubes 4y ago
True. Is soda still a thing? IIRC, soda also allowed non-root users to use the wall utility?
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by cubes 4y ago
Neat, I'll take a look! I thought I was going to need to write something similar!
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by cubes 4y ago
This looks really neat. One thing I noticed on reading the source code, it appears to actually import the modules: Quoting the docstring on the `track_module` function: """This function executes the tracking of a single
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by cubes 4y ago
Love Figlet, we used to use it frequently on the shared unix machine where members of the Berkeley Computer Science Undergraduate Association (CSUA) would hang out: https://www.csua.berkeley.edu/
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by cubes 4y ago
Robotech, specifically Macross. I know there have been a couple attempts, but I haven't seen one that scratched the itch. I want variable controls depending on the mode of the Valkyrie/Veritech.
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by cubes 4y ago
1. The job of an employee at a for-profit company is to create business value. This is often lost on engineers and other technically focused startup employees. Working on a project that you consider interesting or of technical merit is a wa
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by cubes 4y ago
I've used both Markdown and RST extensively. I feel RST has a steeper learning curve than Markdown, and that can be an obstacle to a successful documentation culture at an organization. As a former colleague liked to say, "The bar
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by cubes 4y ago
This seems reminiscent of the (in)famous R.I.P. Good Times deck that Sequoia distributed to there portfolio companies back in 2008: https://articles.sequoiacap.com/rip-good-times
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by cubes 4y ago
I've been there. What worked for me was talking to my manager, and arranging to unplug by taking a significant amount of time off. For me, this was two weeks initially, which I extended to three. IMO, three weeks is the minimum I wou
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by cubes 6y ago
Python 2 and 3 or 3 only? I looked for this on the linked site, and it wasn't immediately obvious.
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by cubes 6y ago
That's super helpful. I'm currently at Eventbrite, and we're probably in the same order of magnitude.
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by cubes 6y ago
How fast does Pysa typically run? If I want to run it as part of my CI system, how much additional time might I expect it to add? Obviously this varies from code base to code base, but I'm curious what the experience at Instagram is li
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by cubes 6y ago
> So how do you get into the habit of creative thinking? > > Well, the best way is to just do it! Such actionable advice! Much wow!
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by cubes 13y ago
Congratulations Todd and team!

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