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> You should validate that the request is signed correctly I agree with you here, but wondering what you see the benefit of per-app PKI is, versus signing all webhooks with the sam…

> Hasn't this pandemic pretty well proved that when people aren't at the office they want a little more space? Yea, and they want a pool and a free pony too. Given that people can'…

Hey man, as someone who also formerly worked in a different industry, thank you for raising this question. The longer I'm in software development (six years now) the more confident…

The claim that "we get our money from our customers" is, on its face, wrong. Of course we're paid by the company, not the customer. The simple truth this article misses is that you…

Just took another look and the data in the article is seasonally adjusted.

From the article: the worst two-month stretch of job losses since the Great Recession.

Came here to say the Technics 1200 turntable. Everything you need in a turntable and nothing you don't: pitch adjustment, 45rpm adapter, 33/45rpm speed buttons, and a light. The fe…

From the article: "New high-end cars are among the most sophisticated machines on the planet, containing 100 million or more lines of code." Does anyone know where this number come…

Ah so in your view, why was the order flow of retail brokerages worth hundreds of millions of dollars per year to these HFT firms? Michael Lewis is not the only person accusing HFT…

The book explains that one company was running their own fiber optic cable between Chicago and New York to shave a handful of milliseconds off the latency. HFT firms also built the…

Good catch, thanks for pointing it out.

> is it their responsibility to make sure he gets a sufficient amount of sleep? No, its their responsibility to foster a workplace that doesn't lead people to die from overwork. Ev…

> ...some courts in the SF area to make you pay the ticket before you can contest it (read this somewhere, not sure 100% on truthfulness of it) Yea, that's false.

> If everyone called it in, there would be a lot of unhappy people holding paper instead of metal. This actually isn't true. All the physical ETFs claiming to be holding physical g…

This whole comment comes off as a sociopathic and mildly paranoid screed. The idea that software is an extremely anti-intellectual industry is remarkably out of touch. The numbers …

For those interested in more about the algorithm, one of the guys who created Shazam released a whitepaper on it. http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~dpwe/papers/Wang03-shazam.pdf

Presumably share volume, though I'm not sure what the multiplier is (my guess would be 1000x).