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Gah! Thank you.

Does anyone else get an invalid cert authority for Cisco Umbrella CA? Both Safari and Chrome don't like that CA.

I’m the author of the original post. Re-reading it now nearly 14 years later is a bit embarrassing. I love where I ended up so it was all for the best that they didn’t offer me a job.

As akurilin stated, they had an immensely talented and very passionate group of gamers. I think everyone wants to work with folks that are passionate about their work and their field. It is a shame that WAR didn’t succeed as it was an ambitious vision. Many of the folks I interviewed with have gone on to end up elsewhere with successful careers—which I’m very glad to see.

I do wonder how Dan Luu came across my old blog post. I really enjoy his blog. Maybe I need to start blogging again.

I give these three books out to new managers in my org:

* High Output Management by Andy Grove https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679762884/

* Turn the Ship Around by David Marquet https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591846404/

* The Score Takes Care of Itself by Bill Walsh https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591843472/

For interns I give out these two books:

* The Pragmatic Programmer https://www.amazon.com/Pragmatic-Programmer-Journeyman-Maste...

* The Passionate Programmer https://pragprog.com/book/cfcar2/the-passionate-programmer

I use https://github.com/denisphillips/boxible it's like GitHub's Boxen project but instead of Puppet it uses Ansible.

Why would there be a gap in your resume? Just because you receive a basic income doesn't mean you won't work. I suppose there will be some who would minimize their lifestyle to live off of the basic income but I suspect many will continue to earn far more.

I was laid off in 2006 as a Sr. Software Engineer writing systems software in C++ and Java. Thankfully my employer provided 3 months of severance. Through local connections I was able to land a new job immediately at the same title/level (albeit at a slightly less salary but higher total compensation). Thus I started my new job the Monday immediately following my last Friday of work (e.g. with no gap). So I banked the 3 months severance.

In retrospect, I wish I had taken advantage of the break between jobs to spend more time with my kids.

It depends how UBI is funded. If it's based on consumption then the people buying your cars end up paying more (say 20%), the additional amount goes to fund UBI. When you buy raw materials and machinery for your factory you pay more (just as the consumers do) which goes to fund UBI. So instead of 10 robots maybe you can only purchase 8 for your factory, initially.

In most places within the US we pay state and local sales taxes today. If we eliminated income tax, AMT, and other taxes on earnings and instead went after consumption, I think it would be a simpler system with fewer loopholes. Obviously transactions between individuals wouldn't be taxed unless there was a way to enforce it (e.g. make eBay capture that 20% consumption tax) but we have that issue today with the states trying to figure out how they can tax online sales.

I'm curious why you think this would be necessary. If UBI was for citizens only and it was funded by consumption, visitors would end up paying into it and then would have to petition for reimbursement (much like I have to do when I visit countries with VAT in Europe). Many folks won't bother because the amounts are small.

As far as immigration, they'd need a job to survive here much like they do today and only once they achieve citizenship would they be eligible for UBI. I wouldn't see this changing much from today.

As edmccard said, there are roughly 318 million people in the US. Not all of them are above the age of 18. Let's say adults get $1,500/month plus $500 for each dependent. So a married couple with two kids would get $4,000/month.

If we assume that 24% are under 18, that's roughly 242 million who get $1,500/month (for a total of $363 billion/month) plus the 76 million children that receive $500/month (for a total of $38 billion/month). That's $4.812 trillion/year which exceeds the current annual US budget by a little over $1 trillion.

So it doesn't look like $30 trillion/year. I agree that it seems unrealistic but perhaps the monthly amount can be lowered. Those who want to live better (or in more expensive locations) would still have to hold jobs. It does give others who cannot or do not want to work the opportunity to move to cost effective locations (where housing and utilities are cheap).

I'm curious why you don't think that a basic income would accepted politically? If it were provided to everyone without regard to their other sources of income it would differ from other approaches like welfare. I realize that the money has to come from somewhere, so perhaps a transition to a consumption tax rather than income tax would work. Of course the basic income would need to be significant enough to offset the increased cost of consumption for basic needs.

Is anyone able to find the wreck of the Primrose on Google Maps satellite image? I've looked around the perimeter of the island but cannot see it -- did the Indian government clean it up?

It depends on the implementation of the resolver, but in general when no information is known about a nameserver, the resolver will pick one at random. Overtime, it'll keep track of the latency and pick one (usually randomly within a band specifying a range of latencies). See this paper for more info: https://www.dns-oarc.net/files/workshop-201203/OARC-workshop...

Based on this, why aren't movie studios creating trailers based on minimal treatments, releasing them with dates a year or two in the future and then only creating the movie if the data shows that it'd be a blockbuster? Basically Lean development for movies.

Granted, I think we'd miss out on potentially great movies, but it seems like a way for the studios to further reduce their risk, so I think they'd be all over this. Perhaps they're already doing it and I'm just unaware.

Wow, so does this make Marco Arment a millionaire? Apparently he still has a financial stake in Tumblr: http://qr.ae/pKNI7

So how do you determine, during an interview, if the candidate has a strong sense of mission about their work and also feel that they have much personal autonomy? Perhaps the second piece happens after they're hired when you give them the autonomy, but it seems like a strong sense of mission isn't enough -- they need to be able to execute on it either through their own actions or by influencing others. And, of course, you need to find some whose mission aligns with the needs of your company.

After looking through the comments I'm surprised there's no speculation on the promising startup that PG reached out to the YC partners about. Any ideas?

So why doesn't a huge car company buy them and put Elon in charge of everything? Or is this just too far fetched?

Very nice. Though where's the iOS port that they use to offer for sale? Was the code for that not released?

The terms of service discuss a monthly subscription payment but I cannot find any fees listed anywhere on the website. I assume it's free for now and sometime in the future they'll announce pricing. What if I don't like the pricing model? Can I export my content and sell my book somewhere else? How easy is it to get my book out of Papyrus?

That's exactly who I was looking for ;)

Interesting project though there are more than just two candidates. I'm not interested in either of the two choices you provided.

So is there something happening right now that older folks are rejecting due to sociological factors but the next generation is embracing?

Most large service providers disallow ICMP (which prevents these types of ping attacks), unfortunately that also messes with path MTU discovery. One potential way of dealing with these bot nets forging source IPs is to perform an analysis on the IP TTLs -- if a single source is sending you a large amount of traffic, I wouldn't expect to see widely varying IP TTLs as the majority of packets should take the same number of hops to reach you. If a bot net army, distributed around the globe, is spoofing the source IP, I'd expect to see a wide variance in the IP TTLs and thus know that something was up (and thus blackhole traffic claiming to be from that source IP).

Excellent! I'd love to see more companies follow suit. I have a bunch of 'logowear' and it annoys me greatly when a company puts TM or R after its logo on shirts, hats, jackets, etc. It seems absurd to me to need to protect their mark so vigorously on clothing when it's a tech company -- I don't mind seeing TM/R in advertisements, on their website, etc. but don't place it on clothing!

DNSSEC-signed responses can be very large. Here's an example of turning a 31 byte request into a 3974 byte response: http://dnscurve.org/amplification.html That's ~128x amplification -- with a 100Mbps connection, roughly 12.8Gbps of responses would be sent to the forged IP source.

I wonder how much profit there is to create loops? Company outsources to India which outsources to the US which outsources back to India which outsources back to the US, etc. I guess they make it work by finding cheap labor in the US (compared to training Indians).

I did this but was expecting more from Google. As an example, it was easier to add two factor auth to my Blizzard account (and install their authenticator) than it was for Google. These are the steps for Google: - Add mobile phone to account - Enter code from SMS - Generate random passwords for multiple apps which don't support two factor auth (this took awhile). - I wasn't given any instructions on how to switch from SMS to Google Authenticator app so I had to search for those instructions and then set that up.

Granted Blizzard controls the entire experience, they're not dealing with 3rd party apps, but it seems like Google could make this easier. And once it's trivially easy to setup, then it can be made the default.

Ok, that makes sense. When I saw 'Year to 30 June' I thought January 1, 2012 to June 30, 2012.

How come only ~1.3x annualized revenue (the press release said: Year to 30 June 2012, Matasano revenue was $5.0m)? That seems like a very low multiplier -- are consulting companies treated differently from product companies in this regard?