dbenhur

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by dbenhur 4y ago
"Prior to Okta, David was the Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer at Symantec" So, his prior experience is as CSO at a company who's principal business is selling fake security products. Ho, boy.
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by dbenhur 8y ago
If someone dies due to inability to summon emergency assistance, this will truly be a post-mortem instead of a badly named incident retrospective.
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by dbenhur 8y ago
You can read plenty of behavioral signal from how candidates interact with interviewers while solving hard technical challenges. But many companies don't really invest much into training interviewers how to effectively interview and g
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by dbenhur 8y ago
coe.amazon.com if you're inside. Larry must have paid for this article. Some things it doesn't say: Large database migrations are hard -- especially so when there's been many years of accumulated dependency on the prior data
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by dbenhur 8y ago
Wikipedia remembers: "The Scroll Lock key was meant to lock all scrolling techniques, and is a vestige of the original IBM PC keyboard. In the original design, Scroll Lock was intended to modify the behavior of the arrow keys. When the
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by dbenhur 8y ago
I agree, and I work to preserve the historical timeline... The seed for my next pristine macbook: https://photos.app.goo.gl/h3Fx2DEe5cD7Mkqw6
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by dbenhur 8y ago
Incognito window is your friend
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by dbenhur 8y ago
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui...
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by dbenhur 8y ago
Yes, root cause analysis and corrective action should only to be done with Cook's insights in mind. "Post-accident attribution to a ‘root cause’ is nearly always wrong." "Post-accident remedies usually increase the coupl
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by dbenhur 8y ago
Not only that, but glog authors observed the overhead of frequent fadvise and added rate limiting almost a year and half ago. https://github.com/google/glog/commit/dacd29679633c9b845708e... +1 perf. -1 stale
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by dbenhur 9y ago
> "you'll find no statues of committees" Well, maybe one or two: http://theenchantedmanor.com//wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Nat...
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by dbenhur 9y ago
Most vehicle recalls are not of the form: return your vehicle, we give you a new fixed one; but rather: bring your vehicle to one of our dealers and they'll perform some action to repair the defect. The later is pretty analogous to iss
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by dbenhur 9y ago
If you aren't argu^H^H^H^Hdiscusing with the interviewer, you're doing it wrong. If that results in unfavourable evaluation, that's good data for you whether you should take that job.
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by dbenhur 9y ago
No. The exact opposite, in fact.
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by dbenhur 9y ago
Janus is a fork of Titan, BTW. The core Titan devs got acquired by Datastax and redirected to their graphDB offering. Titan stagnated, then got forked as Janus under the Linux Foundation.
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by dbenhur 9y ago
Yeah and they've had service degradation and availability issues long before Slack also. ;-P
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by dbenhur 9y ago
You make no sense with your statement about depreciation. Depreciation is expense which lowers profit. It's the accounting mechanism we use to spread one-time capital cash outlays over the service life of an asset so as to more realis
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by dbenhur 9y ago
If someone stabbed you in the rectum, the bleeding is explained. You should still probably get it looked at.
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by dbenhur 9y ago
No, long time past to discard it. Measure what you actually care about, not some synthetic, poorly understood "load"
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by dbenhur 9y ago
> Over the last 8 weeks leading up to defense we still worked our normal FT employment and completed revision and defending our individual dissertations while averaging 5-7 hours of sleep a week. Cool story bro, but utter bullshit. Peop
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by dbenhur 9y ago
Alternatively: his membership in a privileged class is unlikely to grant him especially accurate insight into the experience of individuals in less privileged classes, and more likely to reinforce his bias to justify his own privileged posi
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by dbenhur 9y ago
It's the method of DI known as Constructor Injection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_injection#Construct...
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by dbenhur 9y ago
And people act outside the bounds of the law. SSN seems like a good natural key candidate, until you discover some of the people your business interacts with are illegal aliens.
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by dbenhur 9y ago
Restaurants operate on pretty thin margins. You're confusing the cost of raw materials with the cost of prepared and served meals.
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by dbenhur 9y ago
I know! I takes at least three rewrites to make it that terrible.
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by dbenhur 9y ago
My cats figured this out quite a while ago.
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by dbenhur 9y ago
Curious you drop the adjective "overwhelming" in your quote and confuse scientific theory with hypothesis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory "In modern science, the term "theory" refers to s
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by dbenhur 10y ago
> One would only actually test the backups about twice a year just to be damn sure they are still resulting in restorable data. Nope. Nope. Nope. You test every backup by automatically restoring from it in a sandbox and verifying its int
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by dbenhur 10y ago
Yet Intel sells essentially the same microarchitecture to both
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by dbenhur 10y ago
This right here. Saving Yahoo was impossible. If I had been an investor I would be quite satisfied paying the CEO $200M to secure $12B increase in valuation.

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