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apnews.com 6y ago

Cyber expert Marcus Hutchins gets time-served in malware case

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www.theguardian.com 7y ago

Flyboard inventor poised for record Channel crossing

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: A good way to support SSO in bootstrapped SaaS?

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: Advice for avoiding being a bad participant in meetings

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uk.rs-online.com 7y ago

Percentage of jobs openings relating to AI at big tech companies

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medium.com 7y ago

Building a Real-Time collaborative text editor for the web (DraftJS and ShareDB)

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www.cnil.fr 7y ago

French Data Protection Authority Guidance on Blockchain and GDPR [pdf]

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github.com 7y ago

CovenantSQL: A decentralized, trusted, SQL database with blockchain features

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cstack.github.io 7y ago

Writing a (simple) sqlite clone from scratch in C

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github.com 7y ago

Cenit IO – 100% open integration Platform (iPaaS)

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azure.microsoft.com 7y ago

Microsoft open sources Trill to deliver insights on a trillion events a day

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sivers.org 7y ago

Saying no to everything else

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james-iry.blogspot.com 7y ago

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

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sivers.org 7y ago

You don’t need confidence, just contribution

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sivers.org 7y ago

I’m a very slow thinker (2016)

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: Test Automation in 2018

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martinfowler.com 9y ago

The Different Workflows of Refactoring

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www.securitytube.net 10y ago

Assembly Language Megaprimer for Linux

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tomtunguz.com 11y ago

The Sudden Shift in SaaS Product Pricing

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www.macstories.net 11y ago

Workflow Review: Integrated Automation for iOS 8

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www.securityweek.com 13y ago

Why China is the World's Favorite Usual Suspect in Cyber Attacks

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www.ericsink.com 14y ago

Finding a Product Idea for Your Micro-ISV

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www.tabjuice.com 14y ago

Social Commerce Psychology Infographic

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media.ofcom.org.uk 14y ago

Ofcom Research into Smartphone usage in the UK

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As well as a reminder for those not good at staying on task, it sounds worth considering for those who spend their day satisfying constant small ad hoc requests who later get asked "What have you been doing all day?"

Hopefully it has a "same as last time" button, I doubt this has the same cognitive distraction level as fielding a question from a colleague as well. I.e. understand their question, think of the context, etc etc

Relearn CSS layout 7 years ago

I think there's often a leeway given to the full stack dev that they have strengths and limitations. I haven't got to the point where I could compete with the true / good front end dev with my skills.

Even at the backend you have the application backend (c# or whatever) and then sql/rdbms. If you are that good perhaps you deserve thrice the pay by this logic ;).

Jokes aside, at the last good company I worked for where I knew other people's pay, I was compensated for the entirety of my skills compared to the good front end dev. We earned the same, and I was quite happy with that.

Jack of all trades...

Relearn CSS layout 7 years ago

This is great.

I would prefer that browser compatability is mentioned, for my own purposes that would be IE11.

Perhaps set a baseline of what browsers are considered in the intro and then highlight deviance as it occurs.

Relearn CSS layout 7 years ago

Bear in mind the tutorial is prefixed "Relearn..."

Though I'd class myself as a "full stack developer" css for a long time was the 2nd class citizen, with most of my time spent on learning to use front end frameworks in their idiomatic way, the "it depends" peculiarities of SQL and RDBMSs and making inroads on the vast tomb that represents architectuliary sound back ends.

So an article focussed on improving my "it's only css but it works" knowledge is one of the best things I've seen on HN in quite some time :)

"At some point, I bet someone in a design meeting said "Hey, I think this might compromise security, can we study that before implementing it?" And the decision to implement it without that study, or despite it, was made."

Because we should assume all your past missteps were due to willful negligence? Yeah, let's not just start making shit up to support the group think outrage.

Not so much being a bad participant, but something I've found are developers who propose a solution to a problem outside of a meeting, but when it's then thrown out to the group for suggestions they remain quiet. Hard to know what advice to give for building confidence.

"First off, we're huge fans of both Meteor and Asana. I spoke with Geoff @ Meteor a couple years ago when we were first starting to build out the Airtable product and was very impressed by their approach and vision. We've closely followed the developer blogs of both those projects (and in Meteor's case, their source code). With those learnings, we built our own realtime database engine that supports relational data (which Meteor doesn't yet support) and also some other major features like the ability to undo any user action out of order (like git revert), which is necessary to support undo in a multi-user context (because the last thing that you did may not be the last change globally if other people are concurrently making changes). Undo is a particularly challenging feature to implement in a structured relational database context, because it can't be reduced to a set of simplistic character insertion operations as is the case for a google word doc, or a spreadsheet (which is a simple 2d array of values without type constraints, foreign key relations, etc)."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8374468

DuckDuckGo Traffic 8 years ago

Why does google allow !g? They are competitors after all?

Edit, ok, I see it redirects the user to Google.com

For those of you reminising over days gone by in electronic music (UK folks for whom Sasha, Judge Jules, Paul Oakenfold and Fatboy Slim were common names) a few links. It's also funny how history is repeating itself.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...

http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2018/03/dom-phillips-in...

Sasha is still going strong of course, my favorite mix of the moment

https://m.soundcloud.com/last-night-on-earth/sasha-presents-...

If you're a "bit OCD" and about to embark on code reviewing your developers work, might I suggest you think about what your standards are and document/communicate them before bombarding devs with change requests? That makes the whole process less frustrating IME. Also, to begin with, you might want to ask yourself "Would i go and ask the person to change this after it was committed" as a self check as to whether stuff needs changed - just to ease people in, until those guidelines are fleshed out. You could well say you plan to tighten it up - and eventually rely on developers to review each others work.

Another process is a mini show and tell, where before each user story / feature is committed its shown in action to the person who requested it / QAs etc at the developers desk. Problems seen here may not even be the developers fault. A tendency towards reactionary defensiveness, and the recent goings on, might be best considered before doing this right now though. (It may well be you don't give the leeway you would a non family member for this as well.)

I took this approach after reading Clean Code, though I must say, I often regret not adding the comment as well when I return to the code much later. Still try to make the code as readable as possible though.