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"Prior to Okta, David was the Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer at Symantec" So, his prior experience is as CSO at a company who's principal business is selling fake…

If someone dies due to inability to summon emergency assistance, this will truly be a post-mortem instead of a badly named incident retrospective.

You can read plenty of behavioral signal from how candidates interact with interviewers while solving hard technical challenges. But many companies don't really invest much into tr…

coe.amazon.com if you're inside. Larry must have paid for this article. Some things it doesn't say: Large database migrations are hard -- especially so when there's been many years…

Wikipedia remembers: "The Scroll Lock key was meant to lock all scrolling techniques, and is a vestige of the original IBM PC keyboard. In the original design, Scroll Lock was inte…

I agree, and I work to preserve the historical timeline... The seed for my next pristine macbook: https://photos.app.goo.gl/h3Fx2DEe5cD7Mkqw6

Incognito window is your friend

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui...

Yes, root cause analysis and corrective action should only to be done with Cook's insights in mind. "Post-accident attribution to a ‘root cause’ is nearly always wrong." "Post-acci…

Not only that, but glog authors observed the overhead of frequent fadvise and added rate limiting almost a year and half ago. https://github.com/google/glog/commit/dacd29679633c9b8…

> "you'll find no statues of committees" Well, maybe one or two: http://theenchantedmanor.com//wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Nat...

Most vehicle recalls are not of the form: return your vehicle, we give you a new fixed one; but rather: bring your vehicle to one of our dealers and they'll perform some action to …

If you aren't argu^H^H^H^Hdiscusing with the interviewer, you're doing it wrong. If that results in unfavourable evaluation, that's good data for you whether you should take that j…

No. The exact opposite, in fact.

Janus is a fork of Titan, BTW. The core Titan devs got acquired by Datastax and redirected to their graphDB offering. Titan stagnated, then got forked as Janus under the Linux Foun…

Yeah and they've had service degradation and availability issues long before Slack also. ;-P

You make no sense with your statement about depreciation. Depreciation is expense which lowers profit. It's the accounting mechanism we use to spread one-time capital cash outlays …

If someone stabbed you in the rectum, the bleeding is explained. You should still probably get it looked at.

No, long time past to discard it. Measure what you actually care about, not some synthetic, poorly understood "load"

> Over the last 8 weeks leading up to defense we still worked our normal FT employment and completed revision and defending our individual dissertations while averaging 5-7 hours o…

Alternatively: his membership in a privileged class is unlikely to grant him especially accurate insight into the experience of individuals in less privileged classes, and more lik…

It's the method of DI known as Constructor Injection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_injection#Construct...

And people act outside the bounds of the law. SSN seems like a good natural key candidate, until you discover some of the people your business interacts with are illegal aliens.

Restaurants operate on pretty thin margins. You're confusing the cost of raw materials with the cost of prepared and served meals.

I know! I takes at least three rewrites to make it that terrible.