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> It takes hard work to go from nothing to something. People doing the hard work are not confused about what’s meaningful.

If that were true, every startup would be successful.

Decentralization. Although this term does not yet apply to the avenues through which this outreach occurs, but give it ten to twenty years and that too will change.

Interesting. iOS Safari seems to force the address bar to stay visible on this page.

Hands down, the number one problem in hiring and retaining senior engineers is being able to match the compensation level. FAANG-type companies have a huge difference to practically everyone else. Startups, especially, can’t match the salary, and few make up for it in equity comparable to the risk level engineers take on by accepting the job. Senior engineers typically know better, and so you end up with mid or even junior applicants for senior roles, and out of desperation, they end up being the pick.

Ave Maria?

This isn’t true. Wireless mesh networks could make for an anonymous medium.

Pretty sure I was asked that question in an Amazon interview.

On the other hand, containerization typically occurs on an independent (from other owners) instance of a virtual machine, which typically is running on separate processor cores, helping increase the overall isolation despite residing on shared hardware. Exposed processor caches due to exploits like Meltdown are a significantly higher risk on a platform of this kind than on a containerized environment. V8 exists at a much higher level than hardware-level exploits. How does your platform mitigate these kinds of concerns? Presumably you have some kind of virtualization above this to manage roll out of your execution environment, but adding a shared execution context like V8 feels to me like the risk factor is doubled, not reduced.

Tone is relative. Although the words individually are not incindiary, the post being replied to was equally incindiary in nature. Subtlety in verbal attacks does not have true distinction, other than one having (weak) deniability of malevolence. Arguably, it’s because of this it is more dishonest.

To me, the most interesting thing in this entire post is the following:

> Funny enough, in the middle of that question, my internet died and interrupted the call for the first time in the six months I lived in that house. Odd. It came back ten minutes later, and I dialed back into the conference line, but the mood of the call pretty much 180’d.

I find that when strange things happen like this, they’re hardly coincidence. Did you run a traceroute after the disconnect anywhere? Did you see an IP address change? If so, was it a significant change in the CIDR block it was within?

This isn’t always true, fortunately. I’ve seen JetBlue attendants yell at people who kept trying to jump in boarding classes. Line cutters are scum.

Why is this surprising? Their entire business model for having a news wing is to funnel traders into their terminal. Being the first to break market-relevant stories sounds like a plus, not a negative, even if the incentivization model is potentially encouraging to write stories with a bias towards moving markets.

“Warning: if your threat model is a state-sponsored agency, you are better off without macOS, see OpenBSD.”

While my excessively paranoid self is inclined to agree, I am curious as to the author’s reasoning here.