I am not sure why they found access to the company directory so enticing. There was plenty of red meat in the post, but being able to lookup other people in the company is just kind of essential. My employers have always had some kind of search functionality which gives you name, title, email, department, etc.
Readit News0cf8612b2e1e commented on I Hacked McDonald's (Security Contact Was Harder to Find Than Secret Recipe) bobdahacker.com/blog/mcdo... · Posted by u/Improvement
> Golang makes it easy to do the dumb, wrong, incorrect thing that looks like it works 99.7% of the time. How can that be wrong? It works in almost all cases!
my favorite example of this was the go authors refusing to add monotonic time into the standard library because they confidently misunderstood its necessity
(presumably because clocks at google don't ever step)
then after some huge outages (due to leap seconds) they finally added it
now the libraries are a complete a mess because the original clock/time abstractions weren't built with the concept of multiple clocks
and every go program written is littered with terrible bugs due to use of the wrong clock
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/12914 (https://github.com/golang/go/issues/12914#issuecomment-15075... might qualify for the worst comment ever)
This issue is probably my favorite Goism. Real issue identified and the feedback is, “You shouldn’t run hardware that way. Run servers like Google does without time jumping.” Similar with the original stance to code versioning. Just run a monorepo!
1. Of course they should be sterilized.
2. The most common causes of death for wild mice are predation, diseases, and starvation. Theoretically immortal mice have no chance in the real world if not very well-adapted to these conditions.
It’s also not hard to imagine that an immortal organism has higher metabolic needs. Meaning they are more prone to starvation and potentially less fit.
0cf8612b2e1e commented on Code formatting comes to uv experimentally pydevtools.com/blog/uv-fo... · Posted by u/tanelpoder
The HN commenters in a nutshell:
ruff: Aww, you're sweet!
uv format: Hello, human resources?
Meanwhile, they provide identical functionality. (`Under the hood, it calls Ruff’s formatter to automatically style your code according to consistent standards.`)
But why do it? Keep each tool focused on its specific goal. Will there eventually be a call to deprecate ruff because it already exists in uv?
Both tools are still evolving enough that I would not want their individual release cycles to impact each other.
0cf8612b2e1e commented on Code formatting comes to uv experimentally pydevtools.com/blog/uv-fo... · Posted by u/tanelpoder
As long as it does `ruff check --fix; ruff format` internally and not just one or the other, then I'm happy. Tired of running 2 commands every time.
Also needs to make sorting imports a default.
The last CEO lost his job over the backlash from the runtime fee. Guess you can try to boil the frog again at a lower temperature.
0cf8612b2e1e commented on Show HN: Bizcardz.ai – Custom metal business cards github.com/rhodey/bizcard... · Posted by u/rhodey
My first company after college would issue business cards to anyone for free if you filled out a form. It felt amazing. So far the only thing I've ever used them for is spreading thermal paste. I agree with you, the idea of business cards is so much more appealing than the reality.
I also dropped them into those restaurant fishbowls which claimed the winner would get a free soda or something. Hundreds of business cards, no free soda.
0cf8612b2e1e commented on Databricks is raising a Series K Investment at >$100B valuation databricks.com/company/ne... · Posted by u/djhu9
Investors put 10 billion in in a previous round; that's a lot. Somehow, more is needed now. 100M is just 1% of that. So it's not going to massively move the needle. But it does raise the question where all that cash is going.
My guess is that they might be about to embark on a shopping spree and acquire some more VC backed companies. They've actually bought quite a few companies already in the past few years. And they would need cash to buy more. The company itself seems healthy and generating revenue. So, it shouldn't strictly need a lot of extra capital. Acquisitions would be the exception. You can either do that via share swaps or cash. And of course cash would mostly go to the VCs backing the acquired companies. Which is an interesting way to liquidate investments. I would not be surprised to learn that there's a large overlap with the groups of VCs of those companies and those backing databricks. 100M$ on top of 10B sounds like somebody wants in on that action.
As a financial construction it's a bit shady of course. VCs are using money from big institutional investors to artificially inflate one of their companies so that it can create exits for some of their other investments via acquisitions financed with more investment. It creates a steady stream of "successes". But it sounds a bit like a pyramid game. At some point the big company will have to deliver some value. I assume the hope is some gigantic IPO here to offload the whole construction to the stock market.
The company itself seems healthy and generating revenue
0cf8612b2e1e commented on Vendors that treat single sign-on as a luxury feature sso.tax/... · Posted by u/vinnyglennon
Can you clarify, are you suggesting that the bills footed by large orgs that require SSO are paying the bills for these features?
I think the implication is that without a few whale customers, the minimum price would be significantly higher for everyone. The SSO whales subsidize everyone else.
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