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by hnwizard 3y ago
Full time | CTO | Dubai or Singapore Chief Technology Officer Location: Singapore or Dubai We’re looking for an energetic CTO who’s not afraid to roll up their sleeves As CTO for our Security and Privacy Division, you’ll shape the technolo
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by hnwizard 3y ago
Extraordinary wizards. Founding fathers. True legends. RIP
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by hnwizard 3y ago
Job Description: Chief Technology Officer Location: Singapore or Dubai We’re looking for an energetic CTO who’s not afraid to roll up their sleeves As CTO for our Security and Privacy Division, you’ll shape the technology vision, developmen
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Product-Market Fit: The Pill That Determines Startup Survival(medium.com)
3 points by hnwizard 3y ago|0 comments
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by hnwizard 3y ago
Netflix serves all of this data from their caches, very close to end users, paying probably nothing for said bandwidth.
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by hnwizard 3y ago
Just for the sake of enlightening some people. Roughly $1000 per month buys you unlimited/unmetered 10GBe (10GBps) connectivity to your server/rack (do you know what this is?), from a tier-1 network provider. This translates to r
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by hnwizard 3y ago
Completely agreed about data gravity, but it's not just that, it's also customer opted-in vendor-lockin. The customer (because they are lazy, don't know better, aren't capable of, or all three) opts in to use various &qu
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by hnwizard 3y ago
Remote, full time, performance and scale Asking for a friend: their company needs an architect an engineer in one who is capable of understanding an overly-complex system that is literally a clusterf*ck of how not to use the cloud including
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by hnwizard 3y ago
It's such a brief amount of time, it's impractical for it to do something useful during that time, like sync a file.
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by hnwizard 3y ago
As per the mobius sync FAQ: "No iOS app can run continuously in the background. This means that Möbius Sync can only connect to other devices whilst the app is open, for a short time thereafter, and whenever it is triggered to run brie
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by hnwizard 3y ago
I for one don't understand why HN people are interested in this? I guess I don't understand HN, this is just so random. But the points speak for themselves. Weird.
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by hnwizard 3y ago
This is so amazing! Exactly 36 years ago, I was 7 years old and I remember going into an electronics shop that caught my eye. I was literally always interested in electronics. I finally summoned up the courage and went in. The inside this
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by hnwizard 3y ago
tl;dr it's a scam. Austria, is a zone of experimentation for large German companies like T-Mobile, REWE and friends. Longer explanation, the bottom line is that they can do it and get away with it, why and how are just excuses and caus
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by hnwizard 3y ago
It's really evil and indeed against the customer, and it applies to pretty much any real product out there nowadays from cars to washing machines to water boilers. It's all designed to fall apart, break and stop working. What abo
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by hnwizard 3y ago
I totally agree, there's no economic incentive, and sadly the "industry" will make sure complexity/size/scale will keep on growing. How much more performance and quantity do we need in CPU/RAM/storage&#x2
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by hnwizard 3y ago
That's also what I'm afraid of...
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by hnwizard 3y ago
I didnt mean to compare it with calculators that are entirely powered by light. More to modern watches, smartwatches and whatever modern devices we have.
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by hnwizard 3y ago
oh well
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by hnwizard 3y ago
You should be reaching the charge decay of that cell more or less now. :) But yes, incredible. These are products made with a lot of care, unlike modern counterparts that are just so very lax on these things.
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by hnwizard 3y ago
There's a staggering, mind blowing, astronomical levels of bloat and complexity in modern systems, be it SoCs, Operating systems or apps. Many mobile apps nowadays are larger in binary size than whole operating systems+applications doi
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by hnwizard 3y ago
There is another absolute classic from the same era: http://ftp.elf.stuba.sk/ It holds an amazing array of DOS era PC utilities. There was also ftp.uu.net which among other things, was used to drop and download files betwee
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Ask HN: ChatGPT for Drafting Privacy Policy and TOS?
1 points by hnwizard 3y ago|1 comments
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by hnwizard 3y ago
I don't disagree, but there are always multiple solutions to problems we face, and the solution is not always simply to move on to the next product. No product would ever cater to each and every need, and that's fine. You have cho
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by hnwizard 3y ago
nginx has been a fantastic project ever since its launch with little real competition out there. That said, I've been running it since the early days, on super heavy production loads and never felt the need to have some more "dece