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Well at one point after coup every theory about what happened seemed reasonable to many people in Turkey. "That seems reasonable, that also seems reasonable, hmm that is also possible..." However I don't think it is (all) fake. Because many high ranked generals risked their lives and there were moments where the winner is unknown. The coup was a failure because: they had no people or political party support, they were forced to act quickly(Government would purge most of the generals in incoming days), they couldn't get the support of all military personnel. Probably, this was their last hope for power-grab and they gambled.
This just doesn't feel right to me.
Firstly, what's a "Private Encrypted Browser" supposed to be? What's making it private? What's even being encrypted? There's a high density of buzzwords and a serious lack of explanation.

While it's not always fair to judge a book by its cover, statements like "Smart Incognito™ and Built In 256-bit Encryption" sure feel weird. Good security doesn't come from random trademarked buzzwords or providing a bit number without any context. Actually, those are major warning signs that the product is probably not nearly as secure as it pretends to be. The fact that this is not open-source just underlines that point nicely. Projects that are serious about privacy and security as their main goals always provide source code, not doing so is a sure sign that something other than privacy and security is the main goal.

The entire project seems very flashy but it just gives of an odd smell. The video,too, explains very little and leaves many more questions than it answers. All this seems to be is a somewhat convenient frontend for a proprietary vpn system which allows you to have multiple connections running and associate them to tabs. That's not bad but it's certainly not some world changing super-private thing and the fact that you're trying to present your proprietary VPN solution as your great gift to humanity just rubs me the wrong way.

It doesn't help that VPNs are basically pointless for anonymity since any browsing experience that's usable by normal people (e.g. executes javascript) can be trivially de-anonymised.
The disk space seems especially weird. Others have mentioned this but even services like Google Drive or Dropbox can give you storage at ~$8/TB so who's on the other end of this transaction, willing to pay premium prices for low end storage?
I first saw it discussed in either Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers" or Dubner and Levitt's "Freakonomics". They sort of blend together in my head because I read them both over the span of a couple days and they touched on really similar themes (which I hadn't expected), but I suspect it was the former.

Wherever I read it, they listed it as just one of several reasons Asians tend to be good at math, with cultural factors being another important factor. Something about how, while Westerners generally had to just plant wheat and similar crops at a specific times and they would grow fine with a base amount of effort, the yield of a rice paddy was directly related to the effort put into maintaining it. According to them, this ingrained (hah, grain) into Asian societies the idea that your success is directly proportional to the effort you put into something.

I haven't studied it myself, but I thought that theory was interesting.
wow, you are right!

only problem I cannot see "always try https instead of blocking"
I disagree with your assessment. I do not live in Silicon Valley nor do I make 6-figure salary.
I've seen it on a lot of websites.

It's better if you don't remember which email you used to signup, as it validates it right away without you having to enter the password, so you can make multiple attempts more quickly.

It somewhat looks better because after you've entered your email they can show your profile picture.

On Chrome at least, autocomplete still works, so you don't have to enter your password manually if you have it saved. I don't know if other browsers (or even Chrome on certain websites) might get confused if username and passwords aren't together.

It makes it seem easier to login. Having to fill 1 field twice feels better than having to fill 2 fields once (in my opinion, at least).
We know these type of questions would come up. We're thinking a lot about how to build trust as a new player in the world of privacy tools and being transparent about who we are is part of that plan. We've been in the mobile startup world for almost ten years now and based in Seattle. We'll put up our bios, share video intro and you'll be able to meet us at the conventions, etc. Of course at the end of the day, that's not enough either. We'll also start reaching out to other companies we admire in this industry to review our product and we will work hard to earn their respect, so you can have real 3rd party validation. Also love to hear what you would want to know from us to make you give Tenta a try.
Cover letters are the worst. Do hiring managers really read them?
Without full access to all the code it seems untrusted
>I think HTTP (over TCP) has won because the web has won.

For sure. If I were building a mobile app that had to talk to a server, a RESTful API would be the first thing that comes to mind.

It's not the most lightweight protocol, but it's the protocol with a structure and interface that's designed for this -- making it a natural choice.

You could to a certain extent implement a REST-like API over SSH, or UDP for that matter, but that takes extra effort, and the fact of the matter is that many developers are just working on a higher level of abstraction, and lack the expertise to build new protocol. (My reasoning is that the lower barrier of entry into software development has created many developers with skillsets specialized in use of more "modern" technologies).

TL;DR -- IMO, using verbs to act on resources is easier to grok than working in terms of packets for most developers, and is sufficient in most situations. I still believe there are better alternatives for high-performance networking.
Just to clarify, given the highly defensive yet also authoritative sounding posts this account has made since being created apparently specifically to respond here: do you _work_ for Jet, fowlerpower?
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"Just a little" reduction in grade can mean quite a lot. The grade on a typical staircase is about 60%--for every meter of horizontal distance, the staircase rises 60 cm. In terms of hiking, one trail I went downhill had a persistent 30% grade for 1.5km or so, very much to the complaint of my knees. A persistent 10% grade would usually be considered quite strenuous for hiking.

For roads, the maximum permissible grade is lower. The steepest road in the world is about 37% grade; the exit on a highway signed "Truckers: DO NOT USE" was 13% grade. In general, anything above about 5% grade requires excessive grade warning signs.

Railroads have even stricter grade tolerances. The original B&O used "inclined planes" (effectively stationary locomotives providing extra pulling power) to navigate the tortuous 5% grade in Mt. Airy. This was quickly replaced with a 1.5% grade loop and eventually a tunnel (.8% grade). In general, freight railroads like the max grade to be around .5-1%, although mountainous terrain is usually not so forgiving (most of the major passes in the Rocky Mountains run about ~2-2.5% grade). The steeper grades require either extra locomotives to be put on the trains or the weight of the trains to be drastically reduced.
You're the type of person I don't hire:

> As developers

Developers aren't special. They are a profession which doesn't even necessitate advanced degrees/certifications like most other high-pay industries (med/law/finance/engineering). This instantly comes across as self-importance.

> we should always be looking out for our best interests

Sure, but not at the expense of my company. I'm assuming you have some experience based on your commentary. My expectation of a senior dev isn't to just hit keys and write 600 functions before they leave my company. I expect them to make everyone around them better. That doesn't happen if you spend your lunch hours looking for the next job.

> The whole idea of company loyalty is bs in my opinion

None of this is about company loyalty. It's about hiring useful employees that don't cost you money. Hiring is expensive. A rule of thumb for a medium sized company is that it takes 1 years salary to hire someone worth that salary. So If I'm paying you a salary of $100k, In six months I've actually spent $150k. When you put the numbers on paper, anyone viewing them would call me an idiot.
Most tech jobs requires college degrees though. Maybe in SF and NYC and HN we talk about how they're not relevant but out in the real world, outside of big cities I always see "B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent".
Outliers exist, and you can build a team of them (it's been done, it will be done). The "trick" is to get people to "work" on something they love doing and are proud of.

Also, and Carmack nails it, people are different. You might think it's unhealthy, or unnatural, but some people are obsessive, perfectionist, focused or just really passionate about something. Also, some people are just better organized. Again, Carmack's right, you probably can't be at your peak for extended periods of time, but there's plenty of things you can get done that don't require your peak.

When this issue is raised from concern of people being taken advantage of, fine, I agree. But just because some people can't do it, doesn't mean no one can (just look at the extreme range of physical and creative abilities that people have). And, like all other life style choices, what's the point of judging other people?
How do you hope to monetize your product, considering there are already free secure browsers and paid VPN providers? Are you going to become your own VPN provider as well as browser developer?

edit: Oh, I see all the other media apps now. You're trying to become a "privacy platform", I guess? Just use our products so you don't have to think about privacy? And locking down the access so once you put your media in Tenta's valut only Tenta's apps can do anything with it, that's smart. Downside: You're going to look very attractive to criminals.

Additional question: are you going to implement a warrant canary?
No that's not all it is, and the person who does not understand the law is you. Quebec language laws require for instance that commercial signs not only have French, but that French be predominant. Why does a sign having big print in English and small print in French, prevent a native French speaker from working there?

Also, realistically if you hire many programmers who only speak English, it's simply not realistic to hire a programmer who speaks French exclusively because he can't communicate with the team. Putting "copiez" on your photocopier does not alleviate that.

These laws are discrimination, pure and simple, and have been found as such by the Canadian Supreme Court on many occasions. Most Quebecois just don't care about paltry things like individual rights, where their language is involved.
> You can't give up being a military-age male, when it comes to the draft.

Right, you can't quit the militia, as that term is understood in the interpretation of the Constitution, and there is an express Constitutional power of the federal government to call up the militia.

OTOH, the existence of that express Constitutional power and the long-understood Constitutional meaning of "militia" means that military conscription isn't a good reference point for the Constitutionality of any other type of mandatory public service.
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Yup, there are methods to fight this problem already. Our goal is to build a browser which faithfully produces the web while respecting users privacy
Yes, that is obvious from their web site footer. Does Tenta, LLC mean anything to you?
Woof. Surely there is some in between here. I'm not sure if this was intentional but I don't see why hard work on the part of early startup employees needs to be diminished.
I would like to know, does this support IPv6? Opera tried offering a built-in browser VPN, but it only supported IPv4 websites.
A lot of the attributes of "skilled people" could apply to all people. For instance:

"Skilled people don’t plan their next focus area. Sometimes it seems completely unrelated to their previous focus area."

So does this mean we should not plan our next focus area?
What if someone is naturally inclined to plan their focus area, should they resist the urge?
It means the claims are unverifiable. The test set especially should be available.
> Older workers are ... less likely to have a college degree.
... older workers today are increasingly likely to have a degree.

Make up your mind. Who proofreads these things?
While the parent is a little terse, I do think that having your own domain would certainly help your professional image. This is a generous offer- I hope someone takes you up on it.
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Not sure who are you answering to..

I will try again (a last time).

If the GDP per capita is bigger that 40 years ago, it's obvious that we have the resource to sustain the population.

What I was trying to express, unsuccessfully it seems, is that the economy should work for all the members of society, specially when there are more than enough resources.

Also, I was trying to criticize the framework that is sold to us continuously, where the people is in the service of the economy, instead of the opposite.
I assume this would be a paid service (and I have no problem with it), so a concrete figure ($$$) or tentative figures (tier based?) would help potential users either follow up and start using the beta or forget it.
Sort of:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/26ca4d4e-decd-11d9-92cd-00000e2511...

Walmart brought all kinds of weird american business ethics to Germany, like shouting the company's name every morning, an "ethics code" which disallowed employees to flirt with each other and a mandate to spy/report on colleagues. This was struck down in German courts and gave bad press. Together with a pro-union work force and cut throat competition of Aldi/Lidl/Metro Walmart did indeed fail miserably (and no one misses them).
An important caveat to not planning your next focus area is that you need to also always be exploring.
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We don't care much about it because it's not politically incorrect for men to acknowledge that they're just not as into these things as women.
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> the general outline of a five-year plan

A general outline is useful to have. A useful four-year plan is kind of like "graduate from college". Lots of room for improvisation along the way, but the ability to measure if life is headed in the direction you want to be headed.

In practice, I've found it impossible to follow a plan beyond two years due to external factors (friends and co-workers move, industries change, laws change, deaths, etc.). Those external factors seem to speed up with age. However, having a "general outline" (like waypoints on a journey) helps to correct course or select an alternate path when those inevitable changes happen.
Where can we report vulnerabilities? ;-)
Sorry for the "she", my mistake.

As for th eIP, my case is a bit strange, I have an app that I GPL'ed, now I want to sell a service where I actually add functionality to the app. The client gets the functionality, I get to put the functionality in the app (ie I open source it).

I also work in Belgium. Here, the author is the one who writes the code (in case of freelancing; it's the opposite if you're employee). Unfortunately, even if the law is fine, my client doesn't want to hear it ...
I'm from Europe, have visited Turkey in the past, but have lost all affiliation to it.

Erdogan even sues comedians abroad for telling a joke.. I really hope he never enters as eu member, it shouldn't be on the table in the first place.

Turkey isn't the same any more.
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It's worth reading some of Keith's posts about systems and OS on Quora, some of the most interesting stuff I've seen on those topics: https://www.quora.com/profile/Keith-Adams
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The GCs used in go or crystal tend not to eat memory more than 10% more than the peak memory of a c implementation. The perception of GC == hundreds of MBs of memory usage comes from java, where the GC aggressively preallocates, and has the memory baggage of a whole vm too. I rarely see crystal or go programs use excesses of memory.
Some do.

I have a colleague who gets really annoyed with bad cover letters when we're interviewing and considers not taking the effort to make it good enough of a reason to reject someone (or at least count is severely against them).

Personally I don't care much about your ability to write something that sounds good. So write them and make them good, because you don't know who of us you're interviewing with I guess (metaphorically).
I'm curious where Rust fits in on your hierarchy with their emphasis on "zero cost abstractions". Of course that's more a lofty ideal than reality but it means that at least in some cases it does much better than C++. Is it a long program? Something that could be posted in a Github Gist maybe?
I live here, and started the company here. It is massively difficult to move the company without incurring the ire of the tax authorities. Moving was my first response to this situation, but lawyers and accountants have advised against it.
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Regarding display errors: Our app has a fun little bug. While navigating quickly, items from a previous tab will show up on the next tab.

Our automation is very patient and waits for everything to load and then waits another 1 second more, so the automation never sees the bug.
When you get amateurs to do your security, you get amateur security.
Massalin's Synthesis was a research OS designed for low-latency media processing. It's been decades since I read the thesis, so don't trust me to summarize it, but I think it was something like: set up layers in kernel space, but collapse them with runtime code generation (fusing loops), keep switching overhead low instead of buffering a lot, and schedule with a phase-locked loop in software.

http://valerieaurora.org/synthesis/SynthesisOS/ch1.html
I feel like this experiment could go horribly wrong. There are countless examples in history of what happens when we introduce new fauna into an environment (asian carp in the US, killer bees in Brazil, rabbits in Australia... )
> it would be more efficient for a company to setup their own hardware and rent CPU cycles that way. [...] This is essentially what AWS already offers.

I think it's theoretically possible for electricity costs to overwhelm hardware costs but so far, I haven't seen any numbers that make this disparity obvious. Some example AWS costs[1]:

g2.2xlarge is $0.65/hour
g2.8xlarge is $2.68/hour

Notice how 65 cents and $2.68 costs significantly more than the Iceland electricity rates of 4.3 cents/kwh. The hardware capex is "baked" into the AWS rates. The hardware capex for residential home computers is $0.

More analysis would be required to see if particular computation tasks can done 15x faster on AWS optimized instances than the unoptimized residential computers ($0.65/$0.043==15x).

Without concrete spreadsheet of tasks, performance runtimes, and cloud costs, I still don't see obvious evidence that AWS (or Google Cloud) will be more cost efficient than unused home computers.

[1]https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/
I thought so for along time, but now, growing older myself, I wonder if that would have a really bad impact and create even more static societies with people fighting even harder for no change because they might lose something. Not just in business and families, also in science, that old saying about new ideas only taking old when the people holding the old ones die still holds true since we have not changed (same brains) since it was first said.
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We've used Zabbix for 5 years to monitor about 200 servers/computers and 100 networked devices using a combination of TCP pings, SNMP, HTTP, SSH and the resident agent.

It's really well thought, flexible beyond what we use, and configurable entirely from a web interface. There aren't good alternative to the web interfaces, though, so projects of this kind are nice.
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> You might have noticed that the hardware we used was a nasty hack – the shared bus was floating around 0V when nobody was transmitting or when someone was transmitting a zero (which would be -12V on a regular RS-232 connection), so it was extremely prone to electromagnetic noise.

A simple pull down resistor would have helped in this case.
Art deco was probably the last period before the triumph of utilitarian architecture. A lot has changed since the 30s, the loss of craftmansship, but also the "engineerifying" of the architecture profession.

That loss of finesse has been acute, and one way to address this regression, and it's an approach that's been waxing and waning since WW2, is by looking at the building as a sculpture in itself, as opposed to its own art form that can accommodate other fine arts like sculpture or ornamentation.

The "well done"-picture is a case in point. The whole building is shaped to pop from a distance, but it will look uninspiring up close. Great architecture, like Miami's art deco, doesn't have this, it looks good at all scales. Smaller buildings get away with simple forms, if you use high quality natural materials that are pleasing to the touch. But generally, the larger a building gets, the more care it requires the architect to introduce a hierarchical order, that gradually refines as you approach.

So I don't think Seattle's style will endure, because it isn't sensual up close, and mostly drab from a-far.
> Just a year ago, Didi was valuated at only $13B... even then, the $2B would've resulted in a ~13% ownership stake. Last year, they were valuated under $10B. Tencent got a ~20% stake in Didi for just $15M only 3 years ago.

Interesting. Btw, what share did Apple get for their $1B?
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