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Great write-up. Great entrepreneurial tenacity. Would love more insight on the wireless challenges and how you tackle them? I wonder if a software monitoring app could detect increased noise and automate channel hopping.

Surely that must exist -- on the other hand, you mentioned the vendors do everything to lower the BOM, so perhaps they are lazy and this software is needed. Could be a good OSS project.

Congrats Julia (and Kevin)! Amazing company you've built.

Agreed 100%. I think a lot of the credit goes to @balloob (Paulus Schoutsen).

This project is far and away becoming the standard for Home Automation. Incredible to watch over the last couple years.

The Prenda case has been amazing to watch. For years.... If you're interested, this is some of the most amazing jaw-dropping legal coverage of how stupid these lawyers were... and obviously, they are also criminals. https://www.popehat.com/tag/prenda-law/

-David

This is underrated. Bert is so reasonable, and the DNS is so brittle. Worth really saying, hey, "who is benefitting" with many of the new proposals.

I take that as a compliment. I really like working with almost every single one of my peers.

I'm not responsible for the buildings or teams in SJC15 and the OP knows that. The people who work with me at Cisco know that when I say I'll help, I do.

I'm supportive. Feel free to ping me and I'll see if I can give you some pointers of how to make some progress on that ask.

The acquisition track record for the Cisco Security business is pretty incredible. Like HBS Case Study good. Sourcefire, ThreatGrid, OpenDNS, Lancope, CloudLock, Observable. Great products and teams brought to scale and maintained. Even IronPort 10+ years later has done fantastically well.

I'm thrilled that Duo will be joining an amazing business filled with a deep bench of security talent and wonderful customers. It's a really strong fit with what Duo has already built and with where both teams are going, now together.

I guess I should mention I was founder / CEO of OpenDNS, was acquired by Cisco, previously led the Cisco Security business, and am still an executive at Cisco. So maybe a bit biased, but still factually on the mark. ;-)

Not really. There's not anything close to what I'd call a strong market for it.

This further drives centralization of the Internet and the idea that the Internet == Web == Browser.

It's disappointing to see this coming from someone so steeped in Internet contributions and history and believing it to be a good idea.

Bypassing system DNS is not just an enterprise no-go, it probably will end up reducing privacy.

The idea that ISPs sniff DNS is largely a red-herring, and further it's already easily addressed by DNSCrypt or DNS over (d)TLS.

but it doesn't unlike. You have to re-like/un-like it now, too, beyond 3200.

790b9db572a6a819f11ad0e0cac7d261 --- will update later.

Absolutely not.

Wow. This is amazing. Makes me want to make my software way more accessible to users.

That little vignette was actually perfect.

Mind blown.

Clearly this was not what they intended, and I'm sure it'll get fixed this week.

Great story. The curious part of me would love to see a video of how he codes and how fast / accurate / contextual the screen-reading software is. Yes, I see the irony in wanting to see a video of that. Still, want to see what the experience is like for him, at least to the degree I could understand.

Cisco has 800,000 customers and thousands of active products in the market. I think Cisco does an exemplary job on how it handles security both proactively: in design, in development, in production, and in response to disclosures and discoveries. Same with Microsoft, and the other few companies on the planet who operate at this scale.

I think it's easy to find our mistakes, but keep in mind our corporate culture is to shine a light as honestly and transparently as possible on security issues, and we strive to err on the side of caution and communication.

(I work for Cisco)

This isn't accurate at all. I know judges and entrepreneurs who have been on the show. For an entertainment TV show, it's pretty darn real.

[Just speculation]

It could very easily have been a plane replacing one like N313P, or similar, outfitted with higher-performance engines.

Perhaps on a test flight to see how it handles. There are plenty of military landing spots up and down the west coast for a plane like that. An empty plane with big engines could go very fast, and maneuver quickly.

That'd be my best guess. If they had used a shell registration and transponder, the flight would still be tracked and then there'd be a flight record they don't want.

Here's an example of planes that are in this category, and it's not unheard of for a 737 to get souped up engines[1]: https://www.therenditionproject.org.uk/flights/aircraft/inde...

1: Trump put RR engines on his 757, for instance.

Is your experience that when routes reconverge, they still select the same end POP they did prior to the flap?

Assuming the end POP is still reachable along another regional route, I believe all the data I've seen shows that the client almost always hits the same destination they did before the flap.

"Second, BGP routes are not that stable."

This has been disproved for close to ten years empirically and academically[1]. Route flaps generally result in convergence to the exact same destination if it has another path and is still online. If it's offline, then it's working as intended, and that's no different from a server being rotated via a DNS pool going down.

1: Quick search: https://www.google.com/search?q=tcp+anycast+paper&ie=utf-8&o...

"Ramen Profitable" ≠ Profitable for most public companies, and even if they did, would be immaterial. I'm sure most of the 30% referenced above are barely profitable.

At Cisco, I operate at a roughly 20% profit margin on a roughly $50,000,000,000 annual business. Most acquisitions are immaterial from a profitability standpoint.

It's the acquirers problem. They will deal with it.

Just send a letter to their legal counsel. They will pay you your money owed out of the escrow'd funds.

Do it quick before the escrow is released.

I don't understand the appeal of doing this live. To me, one of the most valuable characteristics of the Internet is that it is asynchronous by default. You can create content, and I can view it later. That's the default state.

Even Snapchat and Instagram Stories let me watch it up to 24 hours after you publish it.

I fail to see how creating a new constraint that violates the default state of the Internet makes sense long-term.

Would love to hear the counter argument. Just musing... Perhaps at some point they will run them in different time zones? That's still not fixing the asynchronous benefit of the Internet.

To add -- DVRs proved that time-delay is an advantage, and this startup is undoing that. I'm just so curious how that gets massive scale. I've yet to see live video get real, meaningful traction and I largely believe it's because people don't want to always tune in at the same time when the alternative is far superior.

Another example -- lotto tickets. They have a live drawing, but you can buy tickets for up to a week in advance (or whatever duration).

Update: I realize now this is Amazon offering SSO services, not just supporting SAML / Federated authentication.

Ignore rest of my comment:

  Proof you can build a massive, multi-billion dollar enterprise business without supporting SSO.

  I would not have immediately guessed that statement to be true, and I would have thought AWS already had SSO support.

Pathetic. The whole point is to celebrate with the employees and their families and recognize the hard work everyone has put in over the year. A stranger not connected to an employee would take away from that value.

If you want more women at the event, hire more women at the company and create a culture that encourages that.

Holding bitcoin as it goes up in value isn't a gain. Selling or exchanging it for another currency / coin would be when someone would realize a gain or loss.

Forex traders do on their positions when they realize a gain or loss. So yes.