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exac··on Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Leaked Stanford Talk
It is actually insane that they did this. I literally stopped recommending people use GCP over this - you can't get started easily because you have to use another platform for the domain. Why even use GCP at all?
exac··on Jeremy Rowley resigns from DigiCert due to mass-revocation incident
According to his LinkedIn he joined DigiCert as a lawyer. This is an organizational failure of DigiCert's leadership to put a non-technical person in the CISO role.
exac··on Show HN: I built a IMDB for all kinds of micro-creators
I suppose this is why the accessibility keybinds don't appear to work, so I can't TAB to focus anything.
exac··on Stirling PDF: Self-hosted, web-based PDF manipulation tool
Well it was developed initially by ChatGPT. First file I open I see repeated comments.

https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/blob/7f577a60...

exac··on Site claims to have harvested 4B+ Discord chats, all yours for a price
In my anecdotal experience, more than 99% of communication in Discord happens completely in text across all communities.
exac··on March job growth zoomed: payrolls jumped by 303,000, unemployment drops to 3.8%
Likely that their Q2 budgets get approved around the same time.
exac··on NATS: First Impressions
The first paragraph in the article explains it. It is similar to RabbitMQ.

> NATS is an open-source messaging system. At its core, NATS provides publish-subscribe messaging, but has expanded to enable other features. It has a request/reply mechanism which you can use for service-to-service communication (in lieu of HTTP APIs). And it now includes a persistence layer which means it can on workloads you'd normally turn to Kafka for. The project is supported by the CNCF.

exac··on Why is Prettier rock solid?
For example, the latest Prettier makes XHTML files invalid by changing DOCTYPE to lowercase:

https://github.com/prettier/prettier/issues/15476

Prettier moves ts-ignore comments which can cause TypeScript errors:

https://github.com/prettier/prettier/issues/15876

Interpreting nested CSS functions' "-" as minus and inserting a space:

https://github.com/prettier/prettier/issues/15369

exac··on Seven signs of ethical collapse (2012)
Here they are:

1. Pressure to maintain numbers

2. Fear and silence

3. Young ‘uns and a bigger-than-life CEO

4. Weak board of directors

5. Conflicts of interest overlooked or unaddressed

6. Innovation like no other company

7. Goodness in some areas atones for evil in others

exac··on It's the Job of My Dreams, but I'd Have to Write a Cover Letter, So Nevermind
Over the last 15 years, I have had the same experience (sample size is tiny though).
exac··on Unity cancels town hall over reported death threats
He isn't. He is saying that if a company simply says they have received death-threats from someone or some people, then his view of the entire community changes, and he aligns himself with the company. If the community consensus was to encourage their members to make these types of threats, then he would have more standing. It isn't.
exac··on Your brain on emoji
Look at the re-sale market for used iPhones. Youth do not want to be caught dead with Android phones.
exac··on Luck be a Landlord is now banned in 13 countries on the Google Play Store
Perhaps they are not, but it makes sense for them to keep their Iranian policies up to date so they can enter the country as soon as possible if they are allowed.
exac··on Luck be a Landlord is now banned in 13 countries on the Google Play Store
It seems to be a recurring case with app review processes that Apple and Google only review your app, and won't allow comparisons to be made to other apps.

From a game theory perspective, perhaps this makes sense, as any bargaining power that a successful app might have to come to a special agreement with Apple/Google is diminished if their app isn't in compliance.

exac··on SanDisk’s silence deafens as high-profile users say Extreme SSDs still broken
SSD's are rated for 3-10 years or some number of terabytes written to disk.

My system's SSD's are both 3 years old, and most of my friends' are over 5 years old. So I would say it is a problem.

exac··on What dif­fer­enti­ates front-end frame­works
Using the current date for the article /s

There must be a browser plugin that offers the date a website was first indexed.

exac··on Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract 3 papers
> The report, at 95 pages in length, contained a number of unflattering details about Tessier-Lavigne’s lab, including the conclusion that at least four papers with Tessier-Lavigne as principal author contained significant manipulation of research data

I am surprised that Marc didn't retract a fourth paper, based on: https://stanforddaily.com/2023/07/19/sources-refused-to-part...

exac··on Java Records in Android Studio Flamingo
In Firefox, at least, none of their code is formatted; there are no line breaks.
exac··on Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat to third-party apps
It may be the case that they have foreseen the backlash, and they plan to publicly compromise with this as a solution.
exac··on PowerToys Release 0.70 with Mouse Without Borders and PowerToys Peek
Barrier is amazing for cross-platform (MacBook on a desk beside a Windows/Linux workstation). Does Mouse Without Borders work cross-platform?
exac··on Migrating from Supabase
> Local development was tough

> Unfortunately, we just couldn’t get it to work

Every time I read one of these migration stories, I find myself waiting with baited breath for the part the team couldn't achieve. After finding it, the remainder of the story becomes difficult to read.

It isn't necessarily the team's fault, the developer experience clearly has room for improvement. Props to Val Town for being so honest, it is difficult to do.

exac··on Ways to shoot yourself in the foot with Postgres
No.
exac··on Adobe Firefly: AI Art Generator
I don't think they missed it, their second point is that the DX (developer experience) is good.
exac··on We apologize. We did a terrible job announcing the end of Docker Free Teams
This speaks to the product culture at Docker. They are unable to admit they are changing direction after negative customer feedback, so they are pretending this was always their plan, and shifting the blame to their customers.

It is similar to pseudo-blameless engineering cultures, where engineers won't admit to bugs, or update the status indicator, least they face the shame of writing a post mortem, or having it brought up in their performance review.

exac··on Reliability: It’s not great
I know I've personally spent a large portion of my time updating systems to be compliant in the last few years, in North American companies.
exac··on It is becoming difficult for me to be productive in Python
The (PHP guy) interviewer failed the interview with you.
exac··on Meta to ask many managers to become individual contributors or leave
Individual Contributor
exac··on Japan's hydrogen strategy does nothing for decarbonisation: study
I think he means that they are intentionally trying to get the government to push hydrogen for the next few years while they are secretly working on electric cars. If the government focuses on electric and spends money building electrical infrastructure, the domestic automakers stand to lose a lot of ground to foreign companies that have already developed electric technology. They don't want a repeat of Tesla installing a supercharger network and controlling the infrastructure.
exac··on Ideas for a JavaScript Stricter Mode

    The result will automatically be await-ed.
Please don't do this, it is more confusing to omit the await keyword.
exac··on Startups are an act of desperation
The set of companies that are rejected from YC can also succeed or fail.
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