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2개월 전discuss

Probably India. I'm from Europe but have read in the past about this on Reddit / HN.

More info: https://qz.com/india/889524/the-us-says-oracle-is-encouragin...

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/09/09/h-1b-san-jose-tech-fi...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41785265

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2개월 전discuss

When installing IntelliJ IDEA extensions, I download the code and try to check it for malicious stuff using Claude Code... But not perfect since the code might not match what was released. We would need reproducible builds...

I was also toying with comparimg timestamps of git tags / GitHub releases / GitHub actions / plugin update timestamps as one indicator of potential tempering.

But not ideal.

eneveu

2개월 전discuss

> They were snatching people from the streets and killing them.

Can you give more info on this? Tried googling it but couldn't find much. I remember there were very strict quarantines, but don't remember reading anything about "killing" people snatched from the street.

eneveu

2개월 전discuss

Not much.

I think companies dream of increasing productivity using AI, so they want to encourage their devs to use AI more. Since it's notoriously very hard to measure software productivity, and they have no way to really measure how well engineers use AI, they measure number of tokens.

Which is dumb. Because a bad engineer might ask the AI to "convert this CSV to JSON" which would burn token, while a good engineer would ask the AI to "write a script to convert this CSV to JSON". Of course, this example is not ideal, since a SOTA model would probably just write a script anyway in the first case... But you get the idea.

eneveu

2개월 전discuss

Thought this was interesting to see how AI token usage is exploding at multiple companies, and how they try to deal with it.

No mention anywhere of context engineering (starting a new session once a task is done, using sub-agents, reducing context for MCPs), and it seems some companies are actually rewarding developers for wasting token, instead of being smart.

eneveu

2개월 전discuss

Interesting. Do I get this sandboxing out of the box when I install apps with Homebrew? Or do I need to do something specific?

Would love to enable this for all apps, and add exceptions for the ones that need more access.

I installed Lulu and BlockBlock recently, and want to do more to harden my Mac.

eneveu

3개월 전discuss

Yes it is.

https://claude.com/pricing

It's not available on Free plan, but it's available on Pro.

eneveu

5개월 전discuss

The cool thing when using AI (e.g. Claude Code) is that the conversation with the agent is saved, and you can retrieve from that convo the way you did things in the past. Not just the how, but also the why.

eneveu

8개월 전discuss

If you read Clean Code and other similar books, they don't necessarily advise moving the sub-functions to other files, or splitting them arbitrarily. They simply have the top function delegate to sub-functions that are lower in the same file. Even better if these sub-functions can be marked as private in your language (to avoid polluting the public API of your object). And here the goal is to use function names to document what each block of code (sub-function) does.

Example:

    def process_order(order):
        _validate(order)
        _reserve(order)
        _charge(order)
        _confirm(order)
    
    def _validate(order):
        ...
    
    def _reserve(order):
        ...

eneveu

작년discuss

Link no longer works. Article was moved to: https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/smart-people-don-t-chase-go...

eneveu

작년discuss

Previously, if you had a BigQuery external table on top of GCS files, and those files had Nearline / Coldline / Archive storage classes (e.g. due to a bucket lifecycle policy), you were not billed for retrieval fees when reading those files through the BQ external table.

This was a billing bug that was already mentioned in 2020 on StackOverflow.

But the bug has been fixed on February 21, 2025. So we are now billed for that. We started seeing 10.000 $ of retrieval fees due to that. I did a deep dive and found this.

The fact that some of our DBT projects were re-creating the external tables daily was not helping...

eneveu

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New Zealand startup Montoux shut down after a lawsuit from $46B fintech giant FIS, which accused it of stealing trade secrets—claims Montoux denied. The company had gained traction as an alternative to FIS’s Prophet software, but instead of competing, FIS sued.

Filed in Delaware, the lawsuit alleged Montoux used FIS code and trained AI on proprietary data. With legal costs hitting $600K upfront, Montoux couldn't afford to fight and liquidated. This "lawfare" tactic highlights how corporations use litigation to stifle competition, raising serious questions about monopolistic practices and the barriers to innovation.

eneveu

5년 전discuss

Even with a global lockdown, there will always be a reservoir of virus somewhere.

Some immunocompromised people can carry the virus for weeks.

Also, what about households where one person catches COVID the day before lockdown, incubates for a few days (asymptomatically), then transmits it to another person in the household, who also incubates for a few days...

At the end of the two week lockdowns, some people will still be contagious.

eneveu

5년 전discuss

Indeed, Jeff talks about it in this 2001 interview : https://youtu.be/p7FgXSoqfnI?t=7m05s

eneveu

6년 전discuss

Here is the link to the PDF: https://www.cftc.gov/sites/default/files/filings/orgrules/20...

eneveu

6년 전discuss

As a freelancer in Paris, I've been invoicing 625€ daily in 2018 and 2019, and 700€ in 2020, doing Big Data / Scala development with a sprinkle of devops, for the same customer. I think I could get 800-900€ if I find a customer that pays better and focus on the Big Data / GCP sectors. Just need to find a contract through word of mouth, and not through a recruiter that takes a 100-150€ margin...

You get less as a salaried employee in France though...

eneveu

6년 전discuss

Having servers offer scp instead of ssh is not the only problem.

What about this part of the article:

Finally, while the danger is remote, it is worth noting that a local file name containing `backticks` (a file named `touch you-lose`, for example) will be handled the same way on the other end; if a user can be convinced to perform a recursive copy of a directory tree containing a file with a malicious name, bad things can happen.

eneveu

6년 전discuss

It would be funny if the real Mike Hancoski googles himself and stumbles upon this thread.

eneveu

6년 전discuss

I think the JavaOne presentation was made by the LMAX devs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTeWxZvlCZ8

They built the Disruptor data structure around 2011 for their high performance financial exchange on the JVM: https://lmax-exchange.github.io/disruptor/files/Disruptor-1....

I used the Disruptor at a smart grid startup in 2012-2014, after LMAX open sourced it.

Martin Thompson has a lot of interesting presentations on the concept of mechanical sympathy:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=929OrIvbW18 - Adventures with concurrent programming in Java: A quest for predictable latency by Martin Thompson - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03GsLxVdVzU - Designing for Performance by Martin Thompson

eneveu

6년 전discuss

I wonder what would happen if he searched those keywords in incognito mode.

Google probably could link the incognito session with the real user session. But would it turn up in a search warrant ?

In this case, they used the IP address, so I guess incognito wouldn't help.

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