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by zedgerman 6y ago
Depends on the business you’re in. Sometimes an “environment” is a rack (or 2) of servers and that might be 100k-400k/rack before space & power & bandwidth.
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by zedgerman 6y ago
Neat idea! Btw: Consider renaming your list of offensive terms “denylist” or similar.
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by zedgerman 7y ago
I agree /lives/ aren’t directly at stake, but depending on what your business is, /livelihoods/ are. When you’re an entrepreneur and have a small team, each of them may have a family. As the leader you are responsible f
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by zedgerman 7y ago
SourceInsight[1] always had an interesting perspective on this. It seems popular with the low-level C++ crowd in particular. [1] https://www.sourceinsight.com/doc/v4/userguide/index.html#t=...
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by zedgerman 7y ago
Maybe it’s still a hobby 10 years later?
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by zedgerman 7y ago
> unless of course that anticipated disclosure date was decided together with the vendor Does anybody know if it was? How does Project Zero make these decisions? Do they consider the install base already patched?
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by zedgerman 7y ago
Genuinely curious: What’s the reasoning behind “unrestricting” this ahead of its 90 day window? (It’s tagged Deadline-90, Reported-2019-Apr-18 On Project Zero, so that’s July 18th?)
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by zedgerman 7y ago
I’ve seen scripts get checked in and deployed just like you would a new service (code). Same Code Review process and same release pipeline. In this particular case, commands that were run on a Production machine were by-design limited to w
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by zedgerman 7y ago
It would have helped some to keep this quiet. The Stasi would have still found out that he fled the republic as long as he entered in West Germany under his real name. His girlfriend would still have been interrogated etc, perhaps a little
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by zedgerman 7y ago
The book “The Dictator’s Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is almost always Good Politics” explains this fairly well. It’s a great read, maybe a bit depressing. TLDR: it’s cheaper to pay off a small group (family) rather than a big group (populac
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by zedgerman 8y ago
[disclaimer: I haven’t been a people manager for too long, so take it with a grain of salt] I block off some time each day to do ‘something technical’. Sometimes it’s making something pretty that was ugly before. Sometimes it’s learning a
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by zedgerman 8y ago
Same here. Watching rockets land from orbit will maybe never get old. Awesome job to everyone at SpaceX! Godspeed for the rest of the mission!
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by zedgerman 8y ago
Dr Seuss wrote a book using only 50 words, which went on to sell millions[1]. A great artist can produce great work without being constrained by the medium. That does not mean the medium can/should not be improved further. That said,
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by zedgerman 8y ago
I’ve been at my current company since 2005. I’ve changed disciplines twice, business groups (1000s of employees) three times, teams four+ times, roles at least three times (IC, Tech Lead, Manager). Many smaller re-orgs occurred in between