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toong··on I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack
I was about to say: welcome to HN
toong··on 15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram
"Legal reviewed it and did not flag any issues!"
toong··on Learning happens in environments optimized for understanding, not winning
If only we could get some HN statistics on number of unsubmitted replies on this comment thread ...
toong··on Client-side filtering of private data is a bad idea
Just sending the bloom filter values back? Neat!
toong··on Double-entry bookkeeping as a directed graph
You gained $20 worth of assets, so the counterpart of the $20 leaving your bank account is countered by your assets-account gaining $20

Now each year your book loses 1/5th of its value, due to wear and tear (4$ disappearing from your assets-account), this is countered by your depreciation-account (4$ tax write off, every year!)

After 5 years, it is worth $0 according to your books, but you manage to sell it again for $10: your bank account gets debited for $10, while your capital-gains-account gets credited for $10

toong··on Tarsnap outage postmortem
and now also go google what SLI means ;-)
toong··on SEC charges Kim Kardashian for unlawfully touting crypto security
No. The similar hip size might have confused you ?
toong··on Coinbase warns that bankruptcy could wipe out user funds
Just like it was for all the other crypto brokers that went down, exactly like that ;-)

I might tone it down just a bit to "Somewhat unlikely to happen. Today."

toong··on Austrian DSB: EU-US Data Transfers to Google Analytics Illegal
I have no skin in this game, but Jack clearly demonstrated that data is passing through servers that our controlled by US-owned entities - namely Cloudflare and Digital Ocean ... what am I missing ?
toong··on Magnus Carlsen wins longest world chess championship game of all time
Replying to sibling: no, he was not - it was obvious, even to a low-level recreational player (like me)
toong··on We killed our end-to-end test suite
Should a BMW test-driver take a car out on the test track, when a engineer/designer is tweaking the glove compartiment handle ?
toong··on Fastly Outage
It is time to remove that "100% uptime guarantee" claim from the website :grimacing:
toong··on Buildpacks vs. Dockerfiles
Might have been an intentional mistake ? It fits the arguments pro build-packs.
toong··on McKinsey to pay $573M to settle claims over opioid crisis role: source
They usually want their tech outcomes to be more like Netflix, but they don't want to have a tech-culture. So they bring in the consultants to implement "the digital transformation"!
toong··on Maximizing Developer Effectiveness
"Now that you're all working from home anyway, I might as well outsource your job to India! That will save me a truckload of money too!"
toong··on AWS Cognito is having issues and health dashboards are still green
Have you checked https://www.githubstatus.com/ ? ;-)
toong··on Forcing Functions in Software Development
If you are an enterprise software vendor (non-saas), orgs expect you use _their_ db.

If they already have an Oracle license, or a MS-SQL DBA around, you either say goodbye to Postgres or give the contract to your competitor.

toong··on Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads
In a not so-distant future dystopia you can only get monitors without ad-overlays, when you pay for the monthly subscription ...

You'll get the first month for free, when you sign up for the 2-year plan for 19.99$/month right now!!

toong··on Hotel guest in Thailand jailed for defamation after posting bad online reviews
I don't know, but something along these lines:

The airport guard searches your bag, finds the cocaine and proposes you pay a hefty sum to make the problem go away. The taxi driver gets his cut for planting the evidence.

toong··on How to contact Google SRE by dropping a shell in Cloud SQL
Are those kind of explorations even legal ? I understand there was no wrong intentions, just curiosity.

I want to read more about things like this, but it feels reckless on the authors part ?!

toong··on Canon's cloud platform has lost users' files and can't restore them
Store customer data immutable and encrypted, with a unique AES encryption key per customer. Encrypt that AES key again with a single RSA key-pair and store the encrypted AES-key in a database.

You can access your customer data, using the customer-specific AES key. You can access the customer-specific AES key using your private RSA key.

When you need to delete the customer data under GDPR, you can delete the encrypted AES key for that customer from your database.

toong··on Canon's cloud platform has lost users' files and can't restore them
Git allows you to rewrite history, that is not the problem.

But you might have a hard time chasing down every copy, it's a distributed system by design.

toong··on You've only added two lines – why did that take two days?
While I agree, the feedback I get from a session like that is useless:

"While you mentioned this during the demo, I noted: 1. Your state-drop down has only 3 entries. 2. There is a validation error 3. You get an error at the end.

We need you to fix this ASAP !!!"

toong··on UK Health Minister tests positive for coronavirus
Why does it even matter which country she's from ?

Do you have a link ?

toong··on Facebook sues Namecheap
If they impersonated you, aren't you technically requesting information about your self ?

Under European law, "you can request access to the personal data a company or organisation has about you, and you have the right to get a copy of your data, free of charge, in an accessible format." [1]

[1] https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/internet-tel...

toong··on How Much Does a Mile of Road Cost?
It's not simply against social norms: in (some/most?) European countries you can get a ticket for hogging the left (fast) lane. You are supposed to move over, if traffic allows.
toong··on Ask HN: How to improve code quality while maintaining decent velocity?
The student arrived late, fumbled with his phone the first 20 minutes, then started talking with his neighbor about something apparently very funny and now - when assignments are handed out - starts asking to explain everything again.
toong··on Uber Sinks to New Record Low as IPO Share Lockup Expires
Additionally, Tesla is pushing hard on battery tech etc, ...

As far as I understand, Uber does some autonomous vehicles R&D, but the required tech advances will probably not be developed by them ?

toong··on I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score
I believe that statement is incorrect :-)
toong··on Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO
Apple would destroy the open-development Gitlab culture instantly, building a walled garden and alienating Gitlab users' ?

I hope that scenario does not unfold, for anyone involved.

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