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How about 2 passwords instead of 2-factor authentication?
Interesting. Back when I switched my Firefox builds from Core2 Duo T8300 @ 2.40 GHz + spinning disk + OS X to i7-950 @ 3.07GHz + SSD + Ubuntu, GUI responsiveness during Firefox build went from OK to bad. Canonical's support suggested getting a second computer as a build machine.
I feel this would work only for people who live the exactly average lives. You know, "people made out of ticky tacky, who all look just the same"[0]. The moment you want to make something outside of the catalogue, or outside of the standard schedule, you'll be hitting the limits of service model.

That said, I find myself wishing for some of my life to be turned into a service. I'd gladly give away a large fraction of my income in order not to have to bother with most house appliances, food, shopping and clothing. But I suspect different people would prefer a different set of services. The risk is that, as everything becomes a service, there will be no products at all, and you either take a service or live (die?) without it.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM8JhvfoqdA
Call a company meeting. Tell everyone who is staying to sneak out before hand and not attend the meeting. Lay off everyone at the meeting while you lock them out of their computers. Do this on the last day of the month so nobody has insurance the next day.
FreeBSD uses FreeBSD init and Mewburn rc. Mewburn rc is somewhat different to van Smoorenburg rc. It has a huge library of standard shell script functions, and the actual rc files that ship with the operating system, and accompany packages, sometimes boil down to a few shell variable assignments and then an invocation of one of the shell library functions that does everything. This is not universally the case, however, and there are some giant exceptions.

Now read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11550802 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10357589 . (The mentioned van Smoorenburg rc script has since moved to https://github.com/dun/conman/blob/master/etc/conman.init.in .)

The TrueOS people have replaced Mewburn rc with OpenRC, retaining the FreeBSD init as far as I am aware. I suggested to them back in January 2017 that since OpenRC has s6 integration, they might do well to add s6 to that to gain full service management. I never received a reply. I haven't heard that Laurent Bercot was contacted, either.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13458186

* http://www.mail-archive.com/supervision@list.skarnet.org/msg...

I personally use the nosh system and service managers on FreeBSD and TrueOS, of course. I released version 1.34 last week.
The basics have happened, and you can use it right now. It's not on by default yet though. Still a ton of work being done.
Thanks, that I was.
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What is the story about? I am not signing up for linkedin.com to read it. (They never honor "Do not email" requests.)
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Yep, hardware sprites.
There are only two or three big manufacturers left, and they each own many brands. They rotate which one is reliable to create more consumer confusion and trick you into buying major appliances more frequently.

The difference between a 3 year and 20 year fridge is usually only a few dollars (maybe 10), and has nothing to do with efficiency.

Case in point: The outer shell of new chest freezers are made of substantially thinner sheet metal and paint. This causes them to dent rapidly, and, in moist climates, rust through. It also reduces shipping and manufacturing costs, since it cuts the weight by a few pounds.
No, they're making a simple digital model that conclusively disproves the notion that 'because disparity in wealth exists, meritocracy exists'. Knowingly or not, that's the point being made.

If you want an even more insanely staggered distribution, let people with resources increase their chances of being given a dollar. This establishes that even in the complete absence of merit, a striking distribution will arise and stably persist, and it's created out of the mechanical behavior constraint of 'possibly being broke and having no dollar to give'. That alone creates what looks like a 'meritocracy' with 'high performers'.

Add literally any form of actual merit, and this gets more extreme still. The funny thing is, the merit-less distribution is not wildly out of line with what people think the distribution should be WITH merit.
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> Avoid: SMS has been at the center of a lot of two-factor hacks, most recently as a way to hijack Telegram accounts in Iran. High-security accounts are already moving away from it, but a frightening number of services still keep it as an option, giving anyone who compromises your carrier account an easy way in.

I feel like this is badly phrased. SMS 2FA is far worse than other types, but still better than no 2FA.
The important point about Go in this case is that it's fundamentally more efficient because it has real modules and can do incremental compilation.

Sometimes people don't realize this because they always use `go build` which, as the result of a design flaw, discards the incremental objects. When you use `go install` (or `go build -i`) each subsequent build is super fast.
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CSS custom properties do however suffer from the same problems as CSS selectors and HTML custom elements, especially the global namespace they use.

CSS custom property name conflicts will be just as painful as CSS class name conflicts and HTML custom element name conflicts.

But luckily CSS-in-JS (aka CSS) libraries embracing them already seem to handle them much like class names: an implementation detail you shouldn't worry about so they'll just generate the names for you instead of forcing you to keep track of them.

Of course this means the actual source for these variables will live in JS but this is generally what you want anyway.
Yes, as per Rob Pike’s comments on the subject: https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponenti...
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You are trying to read the comment as positive of Apple's thank you and exposure, when it sounded to me much more like a reality check: I would go so far as to say Thomas's point might have been "when Apple thanks you you will come to regret wasting your time--which you now know was always valuable--on them". That isn't "you should thank Apple for making you realize that"...
It seems like there are some restrictions on them, but they are kind of vague about exactly how restrictive they are.

> Sync events will often complete while the user has a page open to the site, so requiring user permission would be a poor experience. Instead, we’re limiting when syncs can be registered and triggered to prevent abuse. E.g.:

> You can only register for a sync event when the user has a window open to the site.

> The event execution time is capped, so you can’t use them to ping a server every x seconds, mine bitcoins or whatever.
AFAIK, they intend to continue to offer Ubuntu as a choice. Their hardware is vastly superior to the garbage that is MB.
Are you sure that's not because it is unusual for an IT specialist in Poland to be fired in the first place? Most of the time it is an employee giving notice because he's got a better offer elsewhere, not being laid off.

I've actually seen such thing in Poland for a DB admin - the guy was asked to come to his manager's office where he was told that he's fired, and other admins used that time to change all the production DB passwords.
just nuking each other when resources get sparse should do the trick, the planet will be fine either way.

Unless we survive long enough to cause runaway greenhouse effect.
I have Brummie ancestors - a native of Birmingham (UK), from its dialect, which in turn comes from a slang name for the city, Brummagem (originally Bromwichham, a village subsumed by Birmingham, with its name taken from the Saxon words for Broom (the shrub) and for salt).

Unlike Manchester, Birmingham has little hope of a Latin demonym from the Romans: there was no 'there' there then.

From other relatives, I know that Wilkes-Barre, PA's dialect is called Heyna /Hayna ("ain't it so", used like the Canadian "eh" as a question tag), but I do not know that it is much used as a demonym.
To make a bad baseball analogy: VC is like trying to step up to bat, swinging at every pitch and only considering it a success if you hit a grand slam homerun.

If they'd taken less money, maybe they could have gone after a smaller (but more profitable) niche. Maybe they wouldn't have aggressively hired sales teams in as many countries across the globe.

Look at something like the VR/AR space - right now there's a firm upper limit to the number of potential buyers in that space. So, you have this whole sector where things got overfunded and _weird_.

Like what do you do when you've got $100mil in funding. VCs are expecting a Billion dollar exit. You've made a great product, but the timing is still too soon? That the whole industry needs 5 more years to mature?
you can pretend the journal doesn't even exist if you want

Why must I have it if I don't need or want it? What is this, Windows?
Sound like a lot of places if you can't impress them with something on your resume. take it off or put in a caveat about you working with it minimally.
Expect Firefox to demand a potent GPU just to load soon enough, thanks to GTK3...
I think the Latin saying is even cooler: "Fortuna favet fortibus", which is usually translated to English as "Fortune favors the bold".
I was working for an famous US company in their Romanian offices. When I resigned nobody escorted me out of the premises.

And that's:

- in a developing country

- in a country not known for its excellent reputation regarding fraud, corruption, theft, etc.

- as an employee holding the "keys to the kingdom" (access to multiple production environments, admin level access to source control systems used by 90% of the company's products, etc., etc.)

I know that I wasn't fired, I resigned, so things are not quite the same, but people who were fired got the same treatment. Just leave the company stuff behind, pack your personal stuff and leave at date X.
>"The bad news is that because the prognosis for these patients is better than average, models trained on the data incorrectly learn that asthma lowers risk, when in fact asthmatics have much higher risk (if not hospitalized)."

The model learned correctly in this scenario. If you go to the hospital for pneumonia it is apparently in your best interest to claim a history of asthma.
I don't expect or ask you to praise it, but in software security, "snake oil" has a particular meaning that absolutely does not apply to Grsecurity.

Grsecurity might not be appropriate for the kinds of systems you deploy --- or, even, in your professional judgement, for any production system!

But "snake oil" refers to security products that don't do anything, and that are built in bad faith to bilk users out of their money. Grsecurity clearly isn't that, as anyone can see by Googling (just for instance) "RAP RIP ROP."
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This is not the correct link.
Here's the right one: https://www.promptworks.com/blog/pycon-2017-highlights
Clueless legislation. When you look inside a modern smartphone or laptop, you’ll find that all available space is crammed with components or batteries. If you want components to be replaceable, you’d need much more space for doors and hatches, and waterproofing would be all but impossible.

Especially when it comes to batteries, this is moronic. Ultrabooks are only possible, because multiple, weirdly shaped battery packs can be installed wherever there’s room inside the casing.

This effectively means that hardware producers would need to create a larger, shittier version of their products just for the EU market, and EU citizens would be forbidden from purchasing the good versions of things. I sense a massive wave of parallel imports coming…
I just wanted to say good work. I'm impressed you dug so deep. A fix here could really impact the entire Windows 10 user base.
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Hardware is pretty tough. But it's possible to turn it into a nice business. You probably own a lot more hardware than software, and spend more on it - all that was produced by mostly successful hardware companies.

What's really tough is turning a Bluetooth speaker business or a smart-watch business into a multi-billion dollar business. It's the over-investment and sunk-cost problem that ruined Jawbone, not the hardware nature.
This is why properly implemented 2FA provides backup codes when you first set it up.

I'm frankly glad that Amazon are requiring you to go to such lengths to prove your identity to bypass the 2FA and access your account. I think you should appreciate that they're taking the integrity of your account so seriously.
I think it's important to remember that Apple has a history of leaning to the decision which is most financially beneficial to Apple, wrt opening up the flood door to piracy.
See iTunes/iPods policy changes over it's lifetime.

Interesting paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2244111
We don't have to. That is 'Western Civilization' :)
I managed to find the original PDF :
http://infohouse.p2ric.org/ref/37/36505.pdf

Re-optimizing said supply chains in an oil constrained, and eventually oil free world seems extremely non-trivial. I wonder if we will soon have to scale up the methods (both computationally, & in human/practical industrial re-organization terms) to plot new paths and then connect them, before the graph changes so much that the potential for profit disappears.

In the near term,I could see human engineers using deep learning or other computational methods for multi-scale optimization to reduce costs and carbon footprint based on locality of original sources (food/biofuels/..) In the medium term, I would bet that AI agents will exist precisely to optimize these tasks. There's hundreds of billions to be (re)-made in (re)-wiring the economy properly.
I only enable 2FA if it's TOTP or HOTP. In the case of TOTP I save the key (the data in the QR code) in my password manager (KeePass), in the case of HOTP my backup key is in my fireproof safe at home along with other important documents. That's admittedly a small portable box with a carry handle, so easy for a burglar to steal, but it's also easy to get to and I can take it with me if I ever have to evacuate or move.
>You're totally correct. But I never wanted to.

We don't care why you can't code. We care that you can't, and therefore are unable to understand the work of people who do.

Again: the reason for your technical incompetence is not the issue. We're not passing a moral judgement on your inability to code. We're passing a professional judgement to the effect of "you are unable to understand our work and therefore cannot make sound judgements about it".

The fact that you confuse these two things is a succinct example of everything that is wrong with non-technical management.
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Or "How to micromanage your engineers while not knowing anything technical."
That's just not true. Most of KDE's 3->4 rewrite was about rewriting from Qt3 to Qt4 for better API and also introducing abstraction layers like Solid and Phonon only and only for the sake of API stability.
If the price of progress is that we can no longer repair or recycle stuff then it isn't really progress but a mortgage on the future of our children.
To quote the AWS ManPage[0]:

> We recommend that when you configure a virtual MFA device to use with AWS that you save a copy of the QR code or the secret key in a secure place. That way, if you lose the phone or have to reinstall the MFA software application for any reason, you can reconfigure the app to use the same virtual MFA. This avoids the need to create a new virtual MFA in AWS for the user or root user.

That's the nice thing about TOTP[1] ("Google Authenticator"); a single relatively short string can be backed up to later restore access, or you can even print the QR code on a black & white printer.

[0] http://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_credentia...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_One-time_Password_A...
Not sure about that.

FizzBuzz is an interview question you just expect.

RosettaCode has every FizzBuzz solution out there. Tons of people know how to FizzBuzz.

This is just "learning enough to pass the test" - a canned answer like the one you know you have for "How do you deal with multiple simultaneous high priority projects?" or "What's your biggest weakness?"

You may be filtering out lazy lazy candidates with FizzBuzz. But just because they can do it doesn't mean they can ship code.
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>> SMS 2FA is far worse than other types, but still better than no 2FA.

It seems like every time I read about how SMS2FA was hacked it was done by some state level power that would've gotten in through some other method. I don't know if that's confirmation bias or actually true, but I think you're right, SMS is better than no 2FA. Just because the NSA etc... can easily break it doesn't mean it's useless right now. (maybe not the case in a year or two?)
It is more fair to do fizzbuzz. Seeing someone being taken over you because he is good at bullshitting is super infuriating. Might be fine if the position was "sales", not fine for engineers.

Fizzbuzz is cool. I am quite confident I can do it.
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Have a stroke and get separated?

I imagine the advice would be to do what works for you with the hand you're dealt. The context sounds like part of the decision to leave his or her old lifestyle and start something with VR, but also why it didn't work out. Making apps and small games sounds like a third career after the JFDI one, but one without complaints, since it is pleasant and stress free.
Rant time! Some time ago, I bought a Tolino, an e-reader by Deutsche Telekom that is sold in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands. Huge mistake! At first, I loved not having to lug around printed books. Then the screen broke, I got the device replaced. Then the updates started. It looks like the device is running Android. Instead of a sweet half hour of light reading in the evening it was a sweaty two hours of searching my two passwords (one for the device and the Thalia bookstore, and one for the Adobe DRM, which I need to enter everytime I want to read in a book I fu*king paid for, and don't get me started on the keyboard and the slow screen refresh rate) before the unskippable update finished. The update broke my account, so I had to physically go to a bookstore to have them restore my account, which is the exact opposite of what I had in mind when purchasing this piece of utter garbage. Then I started realizing that books on Amazon are like 50% cheaper than in the Tolino store, and there is no way to buy books on Amazon and read them on Tolino. Oh, and they don't have a lot of books either, especially if they're not in German! What a horrible experience, I will never again buy anything made by Tolino, Thalia or Deutsche Telekom.
> It was as if banks like Goldman were wrapping ribbons around watermelons, tossing them out 50-story windows and opening the phones for bids.

That is a Taibbi metaphor if there ever was a Taibbi metaphor.
The courts have to rule if it's legal. For a number of reasons, including international human rights law, morality does come into legality. (IANAL, and the above is my understanding.)
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it sounds like this company actually has ongoing profits, which means the shares do have value even without a liquidation event. Even closely-held small firms with little turnover can be valued (e.g., partnership buy-outs, unexpected death of a key shareholder, divorce).
I'm not sure it really is - but it could be. I think it depends on the hidebound bureaucracy of the company you're applying to. It's been a while since I've worked in India (close to 20 years now). So things have most likely changed massively. When I was there I've known of folks who just quit and folks who gave a decent notice. Those that stayed the notice period got a severance certificate. Those that just quit didn't get one. I don't believe it impacted careers much. That time the notice period was 1 month, not ideal like the US 15-day notice but not too bad either (1 month was the pay period). When I left I negotiated the notice period down to 3 weeks. 2 to 3 months notice is oppressive.
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>Refactoring as a "yellow flag" is not only dangerous, it's the opposite of how you should treat it.

Hmm, I actually thought it was pretty reasonable. Refactoring is real and necessary, but it also gets thrown around a lot in order to mislead. Contractors who are overbooked and not working on your project always seem to be "refactoring".
What salary does Soti offer? Your points about the office location are valid, but do you know how much they are paying their developers? You make it seem like they are paying less than Google/Amazon. But how much less? Would your comments be the same if they were in fact paying just as much as Google? I think it's productive to talk in numbers, or else Canadians will be perpetually wondering if they are paid below market or not.
> and the ones we see now are just the survivors (Survivor bias)

No, old gear was definitely constructed better. I've repaired many appliances over the years and stuff from the 60's was built to last with a noticeable degradation in quality over the 70's and the 80's, since the 90's it's pretty much a constant. There is absolutely no way that a household appliance made after 1975 lasts for 60 years.
Wouldn't there be a big advantage to running a bit coin miner somewhere cold with cheap electricity like Quebec?
Looks interesting. I wonder how these apps compare to the individual competitors in the space such as MailChimp and Freshbooks
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I think the budget options available now didn't exist in the past either; components are cheap now — you may be able to get a fridge for $300 that lasts 5 years, but 50 years ago your only option might be paying the equivilant of $2k for something that lasted 30 years. Today I'd guess a $3,000 fridge lasts longer than a $300 one, and most people are buying a $300 fridge (if someone can prove otherwise, I'd be happy to be proven wrong).
Not bad. Do you plan to add more coins in the future? Also, I wouldn't mind seeing HTTPS/Let's Encrypt.
This is an article to save and come back 20 years and read.
hmm, i need a software to alter my voice for me: secretary voice, sales voice, support voice, etc :)