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scient

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    Comment #40180153

    The whole original point of what underpins FIDO2 was device locked, unphishable credentials. Wanting to export and move passkeys between devices is kind of counter to that. And I w…

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    Comment #39441716

    Services, or even microservices, are more of a strategy to allow teams to scale than services or products to scale. I think thats one of the biggest misconceptions for engineers. O…

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    Comment #39419554

    Large tables take hours, if not days. I attempted a test case on AWS using souped up io2 disks (the fastest most expensive disks they have) and a beast of a DB server (r5.12xl I th…

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    Comment #39419539

    Rails migrations really fail to be viable at scale. And its not really because of the migrations in Rails, its because changes in PostgreSQL get very very expensive. Things have go…

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    Comment #38466088

    Self hosting likely makes it much much worse. I'm willing to bet a lot on the fact that most authors of these comments do not have any kind of experience with serious security or c…

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    Comment #38466025

    Not just one... And Google is trying to push their identity products, but they are very far from being mature enough for enterprise needs. I generally suspect folks making comments…

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    Comment #34724578

    Seems like an Elon bootlicker babbling more than anything.

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    Comment #34724530

    [flagged]

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    Comment #34497990

    Noone. But the ones whining here about their employers seem to think its not hard, without actually trying it.

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    Comment #34497981

    If your compensation consists of base pay plus a bonus, that is usually tied to performance, then why should you get the bonus payout if you don't meet expectations?

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    Comment #33817925

    Thats absolutely not true.

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    Comment #33237269

    If the company is not public, there are no dividends. Crazy that stuff like this needs to be explained on a tech site.

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    Comment #32381271

    Same one that HTML7 solves.

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    Comment #29288890

    > Like providing people across the world with access to a financial system thet can't be denied from? And what a lot of people seem to realize is that there are reasons for this, t…

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    Comment #29288855

    So you take the money, walk away and someone else pays for it?

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    Comment #28577059

    Not all co-founders are co-owners. He likely owns below 5% of shares.

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    Comment #28026222

    Unfortunately I think the issue not AWS here. You say you lost interest when it became a frustrating exercise, I read it as you lost interest once you realized setting up a cloud e…

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    Comment #26001039

    Yeah, its pretty awful when the objectively worst president ever, who is nosediving the whole country, is being justifiably criticized over it in a "paranoid" manner, and the man w…

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    Comment #24739775

    With H1B you need to prove that you are unable to hire anyone from the US for the given position, including actually having to show that you have interviewed candidates and had a j…

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    Comment #24682627

    Am Estonian and agree with that. The investments via EU have yielded awesome results over the years.

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    Comment #24020159

    So what do you propose as the solution then that works better? This kind of complaining is neither useful, nor constructive.

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    Comment #22422670

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but its also nowhere as mortal or serious as these others you are listing.

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    Comment #22422600

    He has done enough damage with his "work" on leaks with Russia. No thanks.