mmxmb's comments

Netflix doesn’t do stock comp.

Yes, I’ve received a similar email from them in the past. It’s not the first time a financial services company asked me for these documents in the recent years. I assume they need it for their KYC/AML checks.

In my case, I believe it was triggered by a specific transfer I received. But I didn’t want to ask for details why that happened, since that’s usually considered a red flag by a financial services provider.

Telegram is operated from UAE. Durov left Russia in 2014.

Assuming this is a T2 Skilled worker visa, working for an approved employer that sponsored the visa application is one of the conditions of this visa type. Very similar to H1B.

> There's even a cottage industry of link tree / bio landing pages that consolidate all of your social handles, featured posts, etc into one page. Are those bio sites going to end up banned on Twitter too?

These are already prohibited by the linked policy:

“Prohibited platforms:

* Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Post and Nostr

* 3rd-party social media link aggregators such as linktr.ee, lnk.bio”

The chapter The Second-System Effect form The Mythical Man-Month book (Brooks, Jr. Frederick P.) talks about this problem:

“An architect's first work is apt to be spare and clean. He knows he doesn't know what he's doing, so he does it carefully and with great restraint.

As he designs the first work, frill after frill and embellishment after embellishment occur to him. These get stored away to be used "next time." Sooner or later the first system is finished, and the architect, with firm, confidence and a demonstrated mastery of that class of systems, is ready to build a second system.

This second is the most dangerous system a man ever designs. When he does his third and later ones, his prior experiences will confirm each other as to the general characteristics of such systems, and their differences will identify those parts of his experience that are particular and not generalizable.”

The overall advice is to practice self-discipline:

“How does the architect avoid the second-system effect? Well, obviously he can't skip his second system. But he can be conscious of the peculiar hazards of that system, and exert extra self-discipline to avoid functional ornamentation and to avoid extrapolation of functions that are obviated by changes in assumptions and purposes.

A discipline that will open an architect's eyes is to assign each little function a value: capability x is worth not more than m bytes of memory and n microseconds per invocation. These values will guide initial decisions and serve during implementation as a guide and warning to all.

How does the project manager avoid the second-system effect? By insisting on a senior architect who has at least two systems under his belt. Too, by staying aware of the special temptations, he can ask the right questions to ensure that the philosophical concepts and objectives are fully reflected in the detailed design.”

I disagree that clicking a hyperlink is not bad. If you have a determined attacker with some 0-days up their sleeves, simply opening a hyperlink may result in arbitrary code execution.

See an example from last summer: https://blog.coinbase.com/responding-to-firefox-0-days-in-th...

Lex Fridman's AI Podcast. He gets to invite a lot of very interesting people (not just from AI research space).

https://lexfridman.com/ai/

My personal favorite episodes are with Chris Lattner, Bjarne Stroustrup and Jim Keller.

Does anyone know what might have caused this recent downturn in Apple's software quality?

"IDA Home has been exclusively designed to bring the experience of IDA Pro to reverse-engineers hobbyists, for the equivalent of 1$ a day!"

I find it strange to imply that a RE hobbyist would use this software every single day.

I believe you need to get a Professional Engineer license in the province where you practice.

Off-topic: code formatting on Medium is terrible.

I used Typing club's Typing Jungle[1] for several months every morning for 15-30 minutes to go from slow hunt and peck to touch-typing at 60-70 WPM. They have almost 700 lessons of increasing difficulty.

Keep in mind that those lessons are for typing normal texts, not code (not enough lessons incorporating special symbols). It worked well for me since I don't care about speed that much when typing code. Being able to type prose much faster is more important to me.

I have typing.io[2] bookmarked for practicing typing code. I never really got into it since I feel like I get enough practice when writing my own code.

[1] https://www.typingclub.com

[2] https://typing.io

Another good resource: https://www.holloway.com/g/equity-compensation

They do find zero days in Firefox. The most recent that comes to mind: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-1...