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The author works at Kiwi.com, and says there are '70,000 times a day a customer clicks the Pay button on our platform' which is a little under 1 QPS. Uber, by comparison: 'Trips du…

The thing that made it so notable at the time is that it was basically using 'all the things'... a hardcoded password by Siemens, a zero day in some Siemens code, a couple stolen p…

> did increase the amount of people crossing parallel to traffic when the signals indicated "don't walk". This is a feature, not a bug. With the setup of "two 1 way streets feed in…

A solution that solves the noise problem without returning to beg buttons, is to make the intersection a flashing red at night. It becomes a 4 way stop where pedestrians have the r…

Lobby to pass a law in your country that gives everyone a $1 per person in household tax credit. Agree to fund it. Use that as an example, get it inserted into the next big trade a…

They don't care if you come out with more, just less.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2... Amazon allows ACH / direct debit payment methods with more longevity than a credit card.

The separate lump sum life insurance is brilliant. Assuming all goes well, it will be a nice initial boost to handle one off 'start of new setup' expenses and ensure a buffer of sa…

That's a good point.

You can pasteurize it yourself with very little extra effort when making espresso drinks, since you need to heat the milk with a steam wand anyway. The flavor and especially foam o…

Your best bet is to set up something like FreeSWITCH that you can text with keywords or your own custom arguments, and have custom scripts craft a response.

So 1 day off per week of oncall, and oncall once every 8 weeks. Do you live in a crossword puzzle? That's the only spot I see "half fortnight" instead of week.

This is indeed one of the best in the thread! It's rare to see both 'oncall only once every two months" and "Paid very well for both on call time and active time". Lieu time is als…

I'm assuming it's not "spend 5 minutes ACKing a page, get a day off". I have seen it as "If you get paged and have to work 11pm to 2am, cancel your morning meetings and come in at …

> Convert a single existing FTE role into a consulting engagement to get you started if you can Can you give an example of what this would look like?

if you generate a lookalike full of UUIDs, you don't really need to blur except for dramatic effect I guess.

Are you going to ask in advance "what type of plug should my laptop have to connect to your monitor" or bring a pocket full of ports?

So how should they should stock a 12 can vending machine? Coke Pepsi Diet Coke Diet Pepsi etc

They have two versions of that: One where you can figure out exactly what you are getting if you want. It shows you enough detail about the "mystery hotel" (Example: Free Parking, …

Agree it wasn't entirely clear. From the specifications Solar Panel input -> 5V 2A output

I'm getting mixed messages here. Amazon won't sell these devices because they don't allow Prime video streaming. Meanwhile, Amazon disabled Prime instant video on the Google TV, ev…

Any way to share content between devices? Or have a central repository of content on a LAN that you can download to your device? An Android app with content sharing could enable a …

You can't put physical cash into the mobile banking. Yes you can. You can typically deposit without fees at airtime resellers and cell network retail outlets. Faster and cheaper th…

The article stated that there was a portion of individuals who did not even possess a bank account. Mobile banking isn't going to do anything for that. Per this article, only 20% o…