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"Important" in the sense that many IT organizations have predicated their data forensics and incident response capabilities on being able to intercept and analyze traffic at arbitr…

I think the arguments are that there's a degree of security through obfuscation by forcing everything over a single common port (443), the transmission integrity benefits of TCP ve…

Correct. TLS-wrapped protocols don't seek to offer anonymity of the source and destination. They're designed to protect the confidentiality and integrity of data in transit. The be…

Turns out the most important part of the entire text is the acknowledgements section.

A PhD is intended to demonstrate that a person is capable of pursuing a course of research within a field of study, and has a mastery of the existing knowledge and pertinent skills…

But for data we can use the seed files and associated patterns, right? Since it's just text in those files, they're trivially checked into source control, diffed, distributed etc.

Is this approach materially different/more scalable than using the active record, ORM, and seed file patterns supported by popular MVC frameworks (e.g., like how Rails does it http…

> Use these charts where the communication goal is to show intent or generality, and not absolute precision. Or just because they're fun and look weird. I love the intent and execu…

Neat to see that they started by interviewing a diverse subset of their engineers; that type of user-centric research is invaluable. Moreover, I wonder what of their methodology co…

I wonder if Amazon hopes to eventually get into manufacturing of pharmaceuticals. How long before we start to see AmazonBasics versions of Aspirin?

Agreed! I have a template built that allows me to spin up a basic web app with all my baseline common dependencies ready to go and a handful of little nice-to-haves in place and de…

> Who will take his place? Who will be the Stephen Hawking of my children's generation? I nominate Brian Greene from Columbia University! Rhodes Scholar, mind-bending types of work…

Fair enough. Maybe I'm being an idealist hoping for some idealism in the world. And yeah, there've been several theories about who it might be. It's like the Banksy of the cryptocu…

Fair enough. I know lots of researchers are very personally invested in their work and I can imagine the sting. I promise I wasn't calling you a blowhard or anything :)

You're absolutely right. There are. Blowhard professors, in my opinion, are the ones that prioritize recognition over research. There's a thread in certain research circles that wo…

I don't know. I think there's a benefit to having anonymized research. It forces the work to stand on its own. Sort of an extension to blinded peer-review processes. Plus, I highly…

Livable wage? Researchers at Silicon Valley powerhouse companies aren't exactly toiling away for peanuts, are they? Also, the implication of my statement is that blowhards tend to …

Definitely.

Exactly!