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What caused the large AWS outage?(newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
8 points by jjguy 11mo ago|1 comments
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by jjguy 2y ago
I didn’t personally know your dad, but like many others here depended on his work with QModem during the late 80s and early 90s. The fact we are all on Hacker News is evidence of how it impacted our lives - and the relevance of the communi
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by jjguy 2y ago
Hey look on the bright side. If this is legit, then it will inevitably become a reference in the bill to overhaul the DMCA when it (finally) gets introduced! The beginning of the end, the moment when thr DMCA jumped the shark (for the broa
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Supply-Chain Firewall: Protecting Developers from Malicious Open Source Packages(securitylabs.datadoghq.com)
5 points by jjguy 2y ago|0 comments
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iPhone Mirroring at work may expose employees’ personal information(sevcosecurity.com)
58 points by jjguy 2y ago|73 comments
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Don't use iPhone Screen Mirroring on a work computer(sevcosecurity.com)
5 points by jjguy 2y ago|1 comments
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by jjguy 2y ago
Based on how well CrowdStrike has managed their response to date, this is a plausible scenario.
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by jjguy 3y ago
All this, but there is also some negative PR getting funded, presumably by the incumbent car manufacturers threatened by Tesla. Remember that NYT article came out in 2018 that painted such a terrible picture of Elon (1)? A year later it sh
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by jjguy 3y ago
For those of you unfamiliar with the specific challenges IoT patching brings, here is a blog post from just last week on one aspect of the topic: http://tomalrichblog.blogspot.com/2023/08/british-cuisine-de... FTA
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Show HN: Cybersecurity Company Jingle Service(sodiumhalogen.com)
1 points by jjguy 3y ago|0 comments
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by jjguy 4y ago
With respect to the name “X” - I’ll bet he revives the OG x.com brand - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com
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by jjguy 4y ago
It’s called a hedcut. WSJ built a generator in 2019, but it's only available to subscribers. [1]. There are artists that offer commissions, including at least one WSJ artist. [2] 1 - https://www.wsj.com/articles/w
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by jjguy 4y ago
Join an existing startup in the same field. Not only will you learn a lot - on someone else’s dime - but you will meet plenty of people hungry to do the same.
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by jjguy 4y ago
Ancestry.com is a very well designed product with lots of data and a powerful network effect. I designed a search products for incident response data - also high volume, noisy but highly relational data set - ancestry’s design is very thou
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by jjguy 5y ago
My view, you are describing the Kindle. Amazon sees the same potential - and risk - and has been quietly iterating for over a decade in the segment. If you want to go seriously explore it as a product, I’d start with a deep dive study there
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by jjguy 6y ago
I like your anecdote, I might steal that one. IANAL, but I negotiate a lot of enterprise SaaS agreements. When considering the SLA, it is important to remember it is a legal document, not an engineering one. It has engineering impact and is
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by jjguy 6y ago
That is a per-user privacy setting. You can flip your profile to public.
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by jjguy 6y ago
I’d recommend joining an existing, early stage startup in the same/similar niche you eventually want to build your own product in. While there, make an effort to network with the non-technical staff. Not only will you learn a ton abou
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Did a Chinese Hack Kill Canada’s Greatest Tech Company?(bloomberg.com)
6 points by jjguy 6y ago|1 comments
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by jjguy 6y ago
I frequently recommend https://openviewpartners.com/blog/founder-led-selling/ as a good early stage enterprise sales framework. It is addressing a different, but complementary, set of questions to this post. I
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by jjguy 6y ago
Reading all the negativity here reminds me of the iPod reception back in 2001! This is prescient y’all. This is the technology future I want, not that dystopian blade runner world!
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by jjguy 7y ago
This is the new normal, folks. Consumer technology is manufactured for six to twelve months, but live in our homes for three to five years. Today's manufacturers cannot afford to update software for hardware devices they have already
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by jjguy 7y ago
http://www.mathmaniacs.org/lessons/01-binary/socratic.html That exercise is excellent to teach kids how to count in binary and why computers are based on it.
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Steven Sinofsky on Apple’s pricing strategy(mobile.twitter.com)
1 points by jjguy 8y ago|0 comments
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by jjguy 8y ago
Graph databases are the NoSQL of this half decade. Move cautiously. Just because you conceptualize it in your mental model does not mean you need a graph database. Further, recognize most (all?) implementations are not yet as performant o
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by jjguy 8y ago
I have an unusual food allergy to poultry. I had the same question - seeking deeper understanding so I could better manage my life. I searched online, had family in the medical research hunt for papers and finally made an appointment with
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by jjguy 8y ago
No. It is an unreasonable paranoia, to steal kenneth’s words. In addition to kenneth’s very practical perspective on the technical challenges, the other consideration is that you are simply not worth the trouble. Grabbing audio, video or p
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by jjguy 8y ago
This is why I continue to hang out on HN. Is there anywhere else on the internet this kind of connection would happen?
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by jjguy 8y ago
For those of you who read this article and believe there may be a thread of a good idea within, go read Neuromancer. Gibson had a vision of an Internet with decentralized social media, including decentralized code execution, 35 years ago, a
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by jjguy 9y ago
If you like history like this, you should also read “showstopper: the breakneck race to create Windows NT” (1). It profiles Cutler’s team as they go through the period described briefly in this article to make Windows NT an actual contender

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