dbenhur
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4 years ago
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on: Okta’s Investigation of the January 2022 Compromise
"Prior to Okta, David was the Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer at Symantec" So, his prior experience is as CSO at a company who's principal business is selling fake security products. Ho, boy.
dbenhur
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7 years ago
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on: 911 emergency services go down across the US after CenturyLink outage
If someone dies due to inability to summon emergency assistance, this will truly be a post-mortem instead of a badly named incident retrospective.
dbenhur
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7 years ago
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on: At Blind, a security lapse revealed private complaints from tech employees
You can read plenty of behavioral signal from how candidates interact with interviewers while solving hard technical challenges. But many companies don't really invest much into training interviewers how to effectively interview and gather useful signal or calibrating their evaluation to the goals and standards of the organization.
dbenhur
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7 years ago
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on: Amazon move off Oracle caused Prime Day outage in one of its biggest warehouses
coe.amazon.com if you're inside. Larry must have paid for this article. Some things it doesn't say: Large database migrations are hard -- especially so when there's been many years of accumulated dependency on the prior data store/model. Amazon conducts a lot of CoEs -- I suspect more than 1000/yr. Hundreds of prior CoEs implicate behavior of relational databases (and particularly Oracle) at scale -- there's a reason Amazon has an expensive multi-year program to get off Oracle.
dbenhur
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7 years ago
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on: A Spectre is Haunting Unicode
Wikipedia remembers: "The Scroll Lock key was meant to lock all scrolling techniques, and is a vestige of the original IBM PC keyboard. In the original design, Scroll Lock was intended to modify the behavior of the arrow keys. When the Scroll Lock mode was on, the arrow keys would scroll the contents of a text window instead of moving the cursor. In this usage, Scroll Lock is a toggling lock key like Num Lock or Caps Lock, which have a state that persists after the key is released."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scroll_lock#Window_scrolling
dbenhur
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7 years ago
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on: The Peril of the Laptop Sticker
dbenhur
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7 years ago
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on: What I Learned Working for Steve Ballmer
Incognito window is your friend
dbenhur
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7 years ago
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on: Amazon EKS – Now Generally Available
dbenhur
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7 years ago
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on: The Cult of the Root Cause
Yes, root cause analysis and corrective action should only to be done with Cook's insights in mind.
"Post-accident attribution to a ‘root cause’ is nearly always wrong."
"Post-accident remedies usually increase the coupling and complexity of the system. This increases the potential number of latent failures and also makes the detection and blocking of accident trajectories more difficult."
How Complex Systems Fail is short but loaded with value; if you haven't read it, go do so now!
dbenhur
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8 years ago
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on: Another reason why Docker containers may be slow
dbenhur
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8 years ago
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on: OpenStreetMap Is in Trouble
dbenhur
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8 years ago
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on: Meltdown Update Kernel doesnt boot
Most vehicle recalls are not of the form: return your vehicle, we give you a new fixed one; but rather: bring your vehicle to one of our dealers and they'll perform some action to repair the defect.
The later is pretty analogous to issuing firmware and OS patches to mitigate the flaw.
dbenhur
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8 years ago
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on: Is abstraction overrated in programming? Chess, interviews and OOP
If you aren't argu^H^H^H^Hdiscusing with the interviewer, you're doing it wrong. If that results in unfavourable evaluation, that's good data for you whether you should take that job.
dbenhur
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8 years ago
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on: Detailed Financial Histories Exposed for Thousands
No. The exact opposite, in fact.
dbenhur
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8 years ago
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on: Amazon Neptune – Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud
Janus is a fork of Titan, BTW. The core Titan devs got acquired by Datastax and redirected to their graphDB offering. Titan stagnated, then got forked as Janus under the Linux Foundation.
dbenhur
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8 years ago
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on: Slack is offline
Yeah and they've had service degradation and availability issues long before Slack also. ;-P
dbenhur
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8 years ago
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on: Wind Energy Is One of the Cheapest, and It's Getting Cheaper
You make no sense with your statement about depreciation. Depreciation is expense which lowers profit. It's the accounting mechanism we use to spread one-time capital cash outlays over the service life of an asset so as to more realistically calculate profit and loss on an ongoing basis.
dbenhur
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8 years ago
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on: I’m 35 and I may suddenly have lost the rest of my life
If someone stabbed you in the rectum, the bleeding is explained. You should still probably get it looked at.
dbenhur
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8 years ago
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on: Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery
No, long time past to discard it. Measure what you actually care about, not some synthetic, poorly understood "load"
dbenhur
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8 years ago
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on: Ageism is forcing many to look outside Silicon Valley
> Over the last 8 weeks leading up to defense we still worked our normal FT employment and completed revision and defending our individual dissertations while averaging 5-7 hours of sleep a week.
Cool story bro, but utter bullshit. People who do that die, they don't have the mental capacity to defend a dissertation. Eight weeks at 1 hr/night is not something humans can do.
