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"Prior to Okta, David was the Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer at Symantec" So, his prior experience is as CSO at a company who's principal business is selling fake security products. Ho, boy.

If someone dies due to inability to summon emergency assistance, this will truly be a post-mortem instead of a badly named incident retrospective.

You can read plenty of behavioral signal from how candidates interact with interviewers while solving hard technical challenges. But many companies don't really invest much into training interviewers how to effectively interview and gather useful signal or calibrating their evaluation to the goals and standards of the organization.

coe.amazon.com if you're inside. Larry must have paid for this article. Some things it doesn't say: Large database migrations are hard -- especially so when there's been many years of accumulated dependency on the prior data store/model. Amazon conducts a lot of CoEs -- I suspect more than 1000/yr. Hundreds of prior CoEs implicate behavior of relational databases (and particularly Oracle) at scale -- there's a reason Amazon has an expensive multi-year program to get off Oracle.

Wikipedia remembers: "The Scroll Lock key was meant to lock all scrolling techniques, and is a vestige of the original IBM PC keyboard. In the original design, Scroll Lock was intended to modify the behavior of the arrow keys. When the Scroll Lock mode was on, the arrow keys would scroll the contents of a text window instead of moving the cursor. In this usage, Scroll Lock is a toggling lock key like Num Lock or Caps Lock, which have a state that persists after the key is released."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scroll_lock#Window_scrolling

I agree, and I work to preserve the historical timeline... The seed for my next pristine macbook: https://photos.app.goo.gl/h3Fx2DEe5cD7Mkqw6

Incognito window is your friend

Yes, root cause analysis and corrective action should only to be done with Cook's insights in mind.

"Post-accident attribution to a ‘root cause’ is nearly always wrong." "Post-accident remedies usually increase the coupling and complexity of the system. This increases the potential number of latent failures and also makes the detection and blocking of accident trajectories more difficult."

How Complex Systems Fail is short but loaded with value; if you haven't read it, go do so now!

Not only that, but glog authors observed the overhead of frequent fadvise and added rate limiting almost a year and half ago. https://github.com/google/glog/commit/dacd29679633c9b845708e...

+1 perf. -1 stale library use. -1 misdirected learning

> "you'll find no statues of committees"

Well, maybe one or two: http://theenchantedmanor.com//wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Nat...

Most vehicle recalls are not of the form: return your vehicle, we give you a new fixed one; but rather: bring your vehicle to one of our dealers and they'll perform some action to repair the defect.

The later is pretty analogous to issuing firmware and OS patches to mitigate the flaw.

If you aren't argu^H^H^H^Hdiscusing with the interviewer, you're doing it wrong. If that results in unfavourable evaluation, that's good data for you whether you should take that job.

No. The exact opposite, in fact.

Janus is a fork of Titan, BTW. The core Titan devs got acquired by Datastax and redirected to their graphDB offering. Titan stagnated, then got forked as Janus under the Linux Foundation.

Yeah and they've had service degradation and availability issues long before Slack also. ;-P

You make no sense with your statement about depreciation. Depreciation is expense which lowers profit. It's the accounting mechanism we use to spread one-time capital cash outlays over the service life of an asset so as to more realistically calculate profit and loss on an ongoing basis.

If someone stabbed you in the rectum, the bleeding is explained. You should still probably get it looked at.

No, long time past to discard it. Measure what you actually care about, not some synthetic, poorly understood "load"

> Over the last 8 weeks leading up to defense we still worked our normal FT employment and completed revision and defending our individual dissertations while averaging 5-7 hours of sleep a week.

Cool story bro, but utter bullshit. People who do that die, they don't have the mental capacity to defend a dissertation. Eight weeks at 1 hr/night is not something humans can do.

Alternatively: his membership in a privileged class is unlikely to grant him especially accurate insight into the experience of individuals in less privileged classes, and more likely to reinforce his bias to justify his own privileged position.

It's the method of DI known as Constructor Injection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_injection#Construct...

And people act outside the bounds of the law. SSN seems like a good natural key candidate, until you discover some of the people your business interacts with are illegal aliens.

Restaurants operate on pretty thin margins. You're confusing the cost of raw materials with the cost of prepared and served meals.

I know! I takes at least three rewrites to make it that terrible.

My cats figured this out quite a while ago.

Curious you drop the adjective "overwhelming" in your quote and confuse scientific theory with hypothesis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory "In modern science, the term "theory" refers to scientific theories, a well-confirmed type of explanation of nature, made in a way consistent with scientific method, and fulfilling the criteria required by modern science. Such theories are described in such a way that any scientist in the field is in a position to understand and either provide empirical support ("verify") or empirically contradict ("falsify") it. Scientific theories are the most reliable, rigorous, and comprehensive form of scientific knowledge, in contrast to more common uses of the word "theory" that imply that something is unproven or speculative (which is better characterized by the word 'hypothesis')."

> One would only actually test the backups about twice a year just to be damn sure they are still resulting in restorable data.

Nope. Nope. Nope.

You test every backup by automatically restoring from it in a sandbox and verifying its integrity and functionality in the restored state.

Backups are worthless unless verified for their intended use of recovering a functioning system.

Yet Intel sells essentially the same microarchitecture to both

This right here. Saving Yahoo was impossible. If I had been an investor I would be quite satisfied paying the CEO $200M to secure $12B increase in valuation.