Avalyst | 8 years ago | on: 1Password Travel Mode: Protect your data when crossing borders
Double IPA level of hop
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Avalyst | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you become productive in a new project as a senior developer?
Especially in a <10 person team
Avalyst | 8 years ago | on: Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation
The conspiracy theory is the one that he will be extradited to the US on "secret charges" as soon as he is arrested in Sweden. Some others in this thread compared it to other CIA grabs, for example one in Italy.
Avalyst | 8 years ago | on: Flight QF72: What happens when automation leaves pilots powerless?
> Safety officials are still investigating how safety checks failed to spot that the calibration data had been deleted.
So I guess the checks for checking the checks of the data failed? You can never have too much redundancy!
Avalyst | 8 years ago | on: Flight QF72: What happens when automation leaves pilots powerless?
Reminds me of SK751 [1] where an automated system prevented the pilots from powering down a broken engine, resulting in both engines failing and the plane crash landing in a field north of Stockholm.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_Airlines_Flight_7...
Avalyst | 8 years ago | on: Engineering management lessons (2014)
Programming is a skill just like management. I would argue that if you spend 5% writing and 95% reading you won't be maintaining that skill.
If you come from a strong technical background when first promoted (Being the go-to expert on the team or similar) then you can probably keep the respect of the team for a while but eventually others will rise to fill the gap (After all there is 95% of a rockstar programmer's time missing in the team). At that point your comments on code reviews will mostly be seen as micro management.
I would say that there are two ways to go about it, either fully trust your developers and let them develop and review their own code or stay as an active member of the team, doing as much coding as you can fit into your schedule. Which route you pick of course depends on the workload of managerial duties.
Avalyst | 8 years ago | on: Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation
But if he's worried about the Swedish police violating Swedish law, why would he care about whether or not the case is closed? If the CIA/Swedish police were to snatch him, in blatant violation of a number of laws, it's not like they would hold back just because some rape charges were dropped?
Avalyst | 8 years ago | on: Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation
The fact that he was in Sweden already? And the fact that he fled to the UK, the closest ally of the US in Europe as well as a NATO country, unlike Sweden? And perhaps the fact that he now plans to seek asylum in France, another NATO country?
It's very convenient how this conspiracy theory of the US snatching Assange from Sweden cropped up just as he was accused of a crime in Sweden I would say.
Avalyst | 8 years ago | on: Web Developer Security Checklist
Amazon has employees as well, yes? Employees with access to data centers? Employees that may be convinced to make some "mistakes" in the disposal of old disks combined with the early replacement of a few specific drives?
Of course this is very hypothetical and it requires the attacker to know what disk in what rack to target, I'm not saying it's the most likely scenario, I'm saying it can be avoided by flipping a switch and paying a few extra dollars so I'll keep it enabled.
Avalyst | 8 years ago | on: Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation
It does not but it limits the possibility to prosecute which is what the prosecutor came to terms with, at least according to her comments on the Swedish evening news. Basically the statue of limitations for this crime is 10 years, it's now been 7 and there is no resolution in sight so it's basically just a waste of time and money. Embarrassing if you ask me but that's the way it is.
Avalyst | 8 years ago | on: Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation
Do you have a source for this verdict?
Avalyst | 8 years ago | on: Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation
And so he should, after all at that point he would be a convicted rapist, no?
Avalyst | 8 years ago | on: Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation
It's one of the fundamentals of the Swedish legal system, you can't be sentenced in your absence or at least not without being heard
Avalyst | 8 years ago | on: DocuSign email address database breached and used for phishing campaign
Yep, it's not foolproof but it's better than nothing. And considering that the number of people using it aren't that many (I guess) spammers wouldn't bother
Avalyst | 8 years ago | on: DocuSign email address database breached and used for phishing campaign
Actually my experience is the opposite :)
Avalyst | 8 years ago | on: Web Developer Security Checklist
At rest basically means on disk. People might not think about this but AWS actually has a physical disk somewhere which someone could yank from the data center and read from. Not that likely but also not hard to protect yourself from.
Avalyst | 8 years ago | on: DocuSign email address database breached and used for phishing campaign
I do the same with Gmail, just add + at the end (As in [email protected]). Of course this has the drawback of some sites being to restrictive with their checks for valid emails and not allowing the + character
Avalyst | 8 years ago | on: Accidentally Stopping a Global Cyber Attack
I find it interesting that they didn't randomize a couple of long strings and tried to resolve those instead like the article mentioned has been done in the past
Avalyst | 9 years ago | on: In the Videogame Industry, Hiring People Is a Last Resort
Paywalled article
Avalyst | 9 years ago | on: The Non-Technical Guide to Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
My feeling exactly. Feels like a very clickbaity title
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