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Curious, where did you source the data from? Did you just scrape the invidividual bank web sites?

The authors of that article got pictured on the cover of the New York Times for finding that security issue: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/technology/researchers-fi...

This brought me back. I was a member of the UC Berkeley Computer Science Undergraduate Association ( https://www.csua.berkeley.edu ) in the early aughts. Through the CSUA I came ac…

This article would be more accurately titled, "Why you shouldn't try to build a venture capital funded business." Of course, my suggested title is not nearly as compelling and edgy…

Cool, I'll reach out, and let you know if he's interested!

I have a friend that's super smart, currently works in biotech, and studied computer science, would you be interested in chatting with him about possible applications? Happy to mak…

Are launch congratulations in order? If so, congratulations! I'm super excited to see where you take this, and I hope you're able to find a solid business model to support you and …

I love this little deep dive!

+1 for use of Conventional Comments. It's a simple lift for a noticeable improvement in clarity, and guidance on what to do next.

Let's not forget his latest project, https://datasette.io/

Where's Fucked Company when you need it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucked_Company NB: Do not navigate to fuckedcompany dot com, it's squatted.

Hard agree. History is littered with dead startups that designed for scale before they had enough usage to justify it. Within reason, having users knock your site over resulting in…

Yes, I partied with Nick Weaver. The lottery scheduler was implemented in the late 90’s, but soda’s kernel ran with the lottery schedule well into the aughts. I agree that shell ac…

I respectfully disagree. There was a vibrant community on soda well into the early aughts, even if it was running FreeBSD on x86 vs. some older more esoteric hardware architecture.…

Yes, that is correct.

Hi! I think that, in my cursory reading, I misunderstood what the code is doing. I thought it was importing the module you're trying to analyze... I'll have to read more closely wh…

True. Is soda still a thing? IIRC, soda also allowed non-root users to use the wall utility?

Neat, I'll take a look! I thought I was going to need to write something similar!

This looks really neat. One thing I noticed on reading the source code, it appears to actually import the modules: Quoting the docstring on the `track_module` function: """This fun…

Love Figlet, we used to use it frequently on the shared unix machine where members of the Berkeley Computer Science Undergraduate Association (CSUA) would hang out: https://www.csu…

Robotech, specifically Macross. I know there have been a couple attempts, but I haven't seen one that scratched the itch. I want variable controls depending on the mode of the Valk…

1. The job of an employee at a for-profit company is to create business value. This is often lost on engineers and other technically focused startup employees. Working on a project…

I've used both Markdown and RST extensively. I feel RST has a steeper learning curve than Markdown, and that can be an obstacle to a successful documentation culture at an organiza…

This seems reminiscent of the (in)famous R.I.P. Good Times deck that Sequoia distributed to there portfolio companies back in 2008: https://articles.sequoiacap.com/rip-good-times

I've been there. What worked for me was talking to my manager, and arranging to unplug by taking a significant amount of time off. For me, this was two weeks initially, which I ext…