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Indeed, what other manufacturers do not have is a Twitter account the size of @elonmusk

My parents use an Ubuntu PC for all their online banking on their saving accounts. My father knows how to keep it up to date and I help him to upgrade it to the latest LTS every 2-3 years.

It's just a peace of mind, otherwise I will be paranoid about their online security. They still do usual stuff on their smart phone and their windows laptop.

They can really use Ubuntu for all their needs at this point. I'm just too lazy to go there and install it on their laptop.

I changed 4 jobs in the last 6 years and the last one was 4 months ago. So yes, I'm confident. (changed 9 jobs in 16 years for variety of different reasons)

The average software we build is more complex than before too. I guess that's why interviews have become harder.

I think I have done around 100 interviews as interviewer too and the biggest problem I see is that many of people that advocate different training programs for passing interviews have wrong idea about the interview process.

You shouldn't practice for puzzles. The whole purpose of live coding interview is to see how you communicate and how you approach to solve a new problem. Nobody expects you to implement algorithm in less than an hour and without studying it first. Nobody actually expects you to complete the assignment, even though it's definitely a plus point if you do it. That's the only part of the interview process that doesn't require practice in my opinion (if you know how to code). Instead you should practice your communication skills, debugging skills, best practices, and focus the actual requirements for the job. If they are building distributed systems, they are obviously looking for talents that at least understand distributed systems.

This is a great way to incentivise people to work outside of business hours.

I thought everyone already knew this!

Labor cost and work conditions in East Asia is very different.

Even then you still have to look it up when you haven't used it for a while. It's clever, but not intuitive.

Firefox's built-in password manager. It works on mobile too.

In AWS, you can create everything under a Cloudformation stack, once you delete the stack, all its resources will be deleted automatically.

The problem however is all the beginner guides including those coming from AWS team themselves teach people to create resources via console without using a Cloudformation stack.

In mid-late 90s, when floppy disks were not dead yet, I used to help my father to extract lots of files from their devices to floppy disks. They were using floppy disks only because an application that they were using to extract and convert data from their devices was designed to only copy files in chunks to floppy disks.

One day, out of curiosity, I opened every single file of the application that they were using to convert and extract data to see if I could make sense of anything. I accidentally found out that there was a config file that had a destination path for copying converted files. It was hard coded to drive A (floppy drive).

I changed the path, tested the application, and it worked. I shared the trick with my father and he shared it with his organization. He became the employee of the year for that discovery.

Floppy disks were expensive on the scale that they were using them, and they often had to deal with a lot of data loss accidents. Their IT team even had a data recovery team specialized to recover data from broken floppy disks because usually it meant they had to send a team back to redo the work. The storage on the devices they were using was very limited, so often during their week-long operations, they had to extract data before they could continue their work, only to realize later that some chunks were missing from the first part, and then they had to redo that part of operation again.

Subjectively speaking of course. Also I haven't listened to all December episodes to be honest.

Great podcast overall and can't recommend it enough.

I guess he didn't meant the guy from marketing. But mods and customer support people do have admin access over accounts.

This is not kind of game that they're forced to play. So hate both.

I worked long enough in telecom industry to know that there is no way for regulators to leave major communication platforms without some sort of surveillance. They can't sleep without it, and they don't take "Oh! sorry it's encrypted" as an answer.

I don't buy this. Maybe it's true about FBI, but other agencies have the keys for right or wrong reasons.

I once asked a bunch of my colleagues if they ever used one of these awesome lists and their answer was no. I asked the same group if they bookmarked, stared, or shared an awesome list before, and more than half of them said yes.

Whatever that means.

I enjoyed many of the "The Rest Is History" episodes but oddly not any of the ones that they did in December.

https://play.acast.com/s/the-rest-is-history-podcast

Gigabit internet

The money I spent to upgrade home WIFI and have Ethernet for my desk

Lexus

The money I pay to book Tennis court every week

Donations

All my ergo equipments (chair, monitors, standing desk, lighting, keyboard, mouse ...)

I just hide both dock/taskbar and menubar and use a tiling window manager to switch between split and full screen.

Dock and menubar are waste of space for 99% of the time that you're using your computer.

It seems that it's due to powerloss.

[05:01 AM PST] We can confirm a loss of power within a single data center within a single Availability Zone (USE1-AZ4) in the US-EAST-1 Region. This is affecting availability and connectivity to EC2 instances that are part of the affected data center within the affected Availability Zone. We are also experiencing elevated RunInstance API error rates for launches within the affected Availability Zone. Connectivity and power to other data centers within the affected Availability Zone, or other Availability Zones within the US-EAST-1 Region are not affected by this issue, but we would recommend failing away from the affected Availability Zone (USE1-AZ4) if you are able to do so. We continue to work to address the issue and restore power within the affected data center.

Ironically software programmers have least trust in autopilot for obvious reasons.

Next time you drive at night time, compare what was visible to your eyes to what your dashcam captured. Then upload the video on Twitter, and compare it again.

Same video, without Twitter compression https://streamable.com/7ixg7l

Watch it full screen on your desktop monitor (still wouldn't be as good as human field of vision) and remember this was recorded by an average quality dashcam, not a high-end camera.

It doesn't help that public is too sensitive about this subject. Government can't scrutinize companies like Pfizer enough if they are worried about public reaction. And I'm not too surprised if some companies rush since a lot of money is on the table.

To be fair, this is the best effort we have ever had to develop a vaccine. So I don't think it's fair to blame these companies if their vaccine wasn't effective on new variants as they initially promised. But that doesn't mean that we shouldn't thoroughly scrutinize them.

Sadly true. As amazing as Haskell way of thinking is, most of the time (if not always), is a bad choice for building anything because you can't find developers to work on it.

Even this will be used in multi layers, like current chips. Aren't they already multi layer?

I don't use Cloud for their uptime, it's all about their managed services for me.

What they did to him all these years is nothing less than killing him.

It's not that simple. Incident responders and teams that own the pieces have to write the initial draft and review it. Perhaps two different copies. One with more details for internal and another for public. Multiple round of reviews, and then it goes to a separate team to proofread the public material. Meanwhile they also have to measure customer impact and sometimes even inform high tier customers about the incident and its impact.

"Straw.Page lets you create unique websites straight from your phone. A drag and drop website builder that works on mobile."

It clearly tells me what the product does unlike many landing pages these days. I often have to read docs to understand what a product does because someone decided to put too much effort to make it look unique.

I first thought it's because new TVs hide speakers on the back, but even a decent soundbar didn't help much. Best you can do is to use a headphone.

Telecommunication is highly regulated. They have to keep records for a long time and make them available to law enforcement.

Well, who cares when all they need is to use something like Pegasus to obtain full access to your phone simply by sending you a WhatsApp message (without having you even open the message).

Knowing how well guarded IOS is against app developers, I wonder what kind of zero-day would suddenly turn a message received in WhatsApp to full system access. I think NSO found a WhatsApp backdoor, not a zero-day bug.