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pieter1976 | 11 months ago | on: Three Chapters at Cloudflare: Programmer to CTO to Board of Directors

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pieter1976 | 4 years ago | on: Launch HN: Moonshot Brands (YC W21) – We buy and grow e-commerce companies

Sounds a bit like Rocket Internet's business.

pieter1976 | 8 years ago | on: Resurrecting Apple ][ code from a 1980 B movie

Some people have way too much time on their hand. But thanks goodness for emulators.

pieter1976 | 9 years ago | on: Fixing a bug in “Airwolf” code from 1984 [video]

The whole channel seems interesting https://www.youtube.com/c/BehindtheScreens Based on This Tumblr: https://moviecode.tumblr.com/

pieter1976 | 9 years ago | on: Network Performance Issues in multiple locations

For CDN, yes. For DDoS mitigation, no. Before they removed the figure from their website they claimed about 1/5th the DDoS mitigation capacity as Cloudflare.

pieter1976 | 9 years ago | on: The TSA's Selective Laptop Ban

Where does this end? After the liquid ban everything was banned from aircraft accept passport and boarding pass for a while. Imagine that becomes the norm.

Then terrorists realise that the rectum has a capacity of 500 to 800ml and decide to stuff a bomb large enough to puncture an aircraft wall in the anus and then remove it in flight.

pieter1976 | 9 years ago | on: The TSA's Selective Laptop Ban

At some point we are going to have to realise that terrorists are always going to want to target aircraft and just live with it. This ban makes no sense because $BAD_GUY can just via some intermediate airport with their iPad Bomb.

It's interesting that El Al has not decided to ban laptops (despite undoubtedly being a target) and, in fact, advises people not to put valuables in the hold: https://www.elal.com/en/PassengersInfo/Baggage/Pages/Policy....

"EL AL reminds all passengers not to pack valuable items in baggage send to the hold of the plane. These items should be carried in the hand luggage"

pieter1976 | 9 years ago | on: Aaron Swartz’s Theory on How to Save the World

Dutch not so different from British then.

pieter1976 | 9 years ago | on: Aaron Swartz’s Theory on How to Save the World

And there is the problem. He is being treated as a symbol, rather than a fellow human being who walked the planet with the rest of us and had his own demons.

pieter1976 | 9 years ago | on: Aaron Swartz’s Theory on How to Save the World

I have never understood the raising up of Aaron Swartz to demi-god status by this community. It is tragic that he took his own life and I fully expect to be downvoted here for expressing this opinion as it is a thing you can't say here (http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html).

pieter1976 | 9 years ago | on: Oracle buys Dyn

I assume that was sarcasm, right?

pieter1976 | 9 years ago | on: Britain’s vote to exit the EU sends Europe’s space sector scrambling for answers

Wouldn't be any surprise if Tim Peake turns out to be Britain's first and last official astronaut.

pieter1976 | 10 years ago | on: Is Hyperloop the future of travel?

Haven't really fast trains (sometimes maglev) inside evacuated tubes been proposed over and over again. Trying to work out what is new here.

For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vactrain

pieter1976 | 10 years ago | on: Konrad Zuse and the digital revolution he started 75 years ago

Good to see Zuse on HN. It's possible to go and see his machines in Germany and I highly recommend it. This is a "forgotten" part of computing history because of WWII and deserves the light of day.

pieter1976 | 10 years ago | on: Peter Thiel to serve as Trump delegate

I guess this is on HN because people are surprised that not all programmers are atheist members of the Democratic party.

pieter1976 | 10 years ago | on: A conference for polyglot programmers – Regular tickets on sale

The whole polyglot programmer thing is totally weird to me. Why would you not be a polyglot programmer? And why are we celebrating it as if it was something special?

pieter1976 | 10 years ago | on: Richard Stallman's 22-Page Rider (2011)

I do not eat breakfast. Please do not ask me any questions about what I will do breakfast. Please just do not bring it up.

It's one thing not to want to eat breakfast, but making it a taboo subject seems extreme.

pieter1976 | 10 years ago | on: Chernobyl's legacy 30 years on

Two years ago I was lucky enough to visit Chernobyl with an organized tour out of Kyev. Strange to think of part of this planet as a forbidden zone, even stranger that it's a tourist attraction.

pieter1976 | 10 years ago | on: How the CIA writes history

In the film Spotlight there's a similar worry about disappearance of public records and a race to get them when they are released before a sort of Boston/Catholic Omerta makes them disappear.

pieter1976 | 10 years ago | on: Spy Chief Complains That Edward Snowden Sped Up Spread of Encryption by 7 Years

Sounds right. I work for a major Internet company and we locked down everything tight post-Snowden.