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Now Is Not the Time for a Fonop in the Arctic(warontherocks.com)
1 points by eccbits 7y ago|0 comments
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Will Abandoning the Kurds Result in the Mass Release of Islamic State Fighters?(lawfareblog.com)
5 points by eccbits 7y ago|1 comments
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by eccbits 7y ago
Puts the UK Labor Party today into perspective - England’s attitude towards the Jews didn’t start as “anti-Zionism”.
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by eccbits 7y ago
Does anyone else feel this is... ridiculous? In that “at some point, you do have to start paying attention to the code you’re writing” way?
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by eccbits 7y ago
Don’t think the new CEO will be doing any of that sadly
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by eccbits 7y ago
What kind of culture did he create?
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by eccbits 7y ago
This person doesn’t seem to be a real technologist, unlike Spolsky. That maybe OK in most compsniea, but seems like a risky choice for a company so developer-focused.
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by eccbits 7y ago
Ehm why is this newsworthy? It was repeatedly shown to be nothing..
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by eccbits 7y ago
“This article is not meant to be a literary nor an exhaustive topical critique of the novels, which I am cannot fully do, because simply, I did not read the original novels. ” Why is this highly rated on HN then?!
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by eccbits 7y ago
Slack spends a lot of time promoting itself as a “work hard, them go home” culture. Do others fimd tat to be true? If so, why would burnout be a risk for someone at Slack?
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by eccbits 7y ago
It’s a serious paper by serious people — the headline may oversimplify, as headlines often do, but the fundamental point is right on: deidentifucation is very hard.
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by eccbits 7y ago
Great stuff!
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by eccbits 7y ago
This is surely about VME industrial bus, not about VAX processors or computers.
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by eccbits 8y ago
Yes. It is awful out there from a hiring manager's perspective
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by eccbits 8y ago
Odd fact: Skoda is owned by VW now
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by eccbits 8y ago
Don't know but wouldn't all cars be prone to rust in Russian winter and breakdowns on your awful roads? :) Came w toolkit, sounds like a gamer's overclocking PC!
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by eccbits 8y ago
Good example
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by eccbits 8y ago
Why is this flagged? 1. negative about India 2. negative about Facebook 3. asks hard questioms sbout ethics & technology 4. all of the above
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by eccbits 9y ago
What if you print it to microfiche?
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by eccbits 9y ago
Laspass is massively insecure in all aspects of its design & history - including many facepalm-worthy breaches... It's terrible.
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by eccbits 9y ago
While this is fun technologically, is there an onligation for the author to think of the negative impact? Certainly this isn't hekling the US.
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by eccbits 9y ago
When I saw the title I thought it was about a cryptocurrency
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by eccbits 9y ago
Exactly right.
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by eccbits 9y ago
It's well known that the main cyber threats come from two nationstate actors: Russia & China.
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by eccbits 9y ago
Good to see Boeing winning
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by eccbits 9y ago
This is not totally new as many places have volunteer fire departments - this extends the concept.
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by eccbits 9y ago
I'm not sure why this LostCause-flavored blog post is relevant to news or hackers.
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by eccbits 9y ago
Right. There are two ways you get to implementing binary search in an interview: (1) figuring it out from some basics & possibly hints or (2) reciting it from memory. 1 is useful, 2 is useless. Having used inteviewing.io, it facilitates
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by eccbits 9y ago
Exactly
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by eccbits 9y ago
Obviously there is motivation for Triplebyte, as any recruiting agency, to pick data that is lower. This encourages engineers to accept offers from TB clients vs others. (Similarly, promoting higher figures to companies/clients encoura

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