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crtlaltdel commented on Some overwhelmed parents are abandoning at-home schooling   theglobeandmail.com/canad... · Posted by u/finphil
whatshisface · 5 years ago
>1. Parents are now the primary enforcement mechanism for doing schoolwork, which is not a role they have necessarily been trained to do

Parents were always the primary enforcement mechanism for doing homework, what would the school do if a kid was getting all Fs because they didn't care? The most a school can do is force kids to be quiet, and even then if the kids refuse to be quiet the school can't punish them - a child that does not voluntarily submit to punishments like sitting and not talking can only be sent home.

crtlaltdel · 5 years ago
they can be physical isolated at school...not that id know anything about it...changing subject...
crtlaltdel commented on Stripe raises $600M at nearly $36B valuation   axios.com/stripe-fundrais... · Posted by u/hhs
sjunlee · 5 years ago
Is Stripe still hiring during COVID-19?
crtlaltdel · 5 years ago
quite a few shops are hiring rn. i’ve been told google plans on easing up on hiring over the rest of 2020, but it wasn’t described to me as a freeze. there are a bunch of startups that managed to close funding before this broke open, they’ve been hiring as well if thats your thing
crtlaltdel commented on Show HN: Verify JSON using minimal schema   github.com/yusufnb/verify... · Posted by u/yusufnb
crtlaltdel · 5 years ago
i saw this and was thinking “hrm...this is the sorts thing i use lodash for...if i even need it”.

and now i see lodash is a dependency.

crtlaltdel commented on Launch HN: Zynq (YC W20) – Book meetings instantly with your team    · Posted by u/zerzar
smt88 · 5 years ago
Been in software for 20 years. Never heard of Xilinx or their Zynq product. I expect most of Zynq's intended customers will be the same.
crtlaltdel · 5 years ago
im well acquainted with fpga development so recognized the name from that context.

regardless of that, they will have to up their seo game if they wanna outrank...

crtlaltdel commented on Userdir URLs like https://example.org/~username/ are dangerous   blog.hboeck.de/archives/8... · Posted by u/hannob
rlpb · 5 years ago
> All userdir URLs on one server run on the same host and thus are in the same origin. It has XSS by design.

The ship has now sailed, but I still think it's worth pointing out that it is Javascript's security model that is broken by design, that XSS vulnerabilities are the result, and the same origin policy is an incomplete workaround as illustrated by the article. This becomes clear when you consider that userdir URLs pre-date Javascript.

The public suffix list is yet another incomplete workaround for the security flaw in the same origin policy (that "same origin" isn't a concept that can be clearly defined).

The modern web stack is a security house of cards, as demonstrated.

crtlaltdel · 5 years ago
noticing a lot of comments about how this is a “javascript” problem. i just want to clarify whether or not people are asserting this is a _language design_ issue, or an implementation of the runtime specifically within the context of web browsers and web servers?

is this a js problem?

crtlaltdel commented on Launch HN: PillarPlus (YC W20) – Automatically create construction blueprints    · Posted by u/namankas
avs733 · 5 years ago
How does this integrate with existing software? Given how change resistant construction tends to be, have you considered that these workflows are culturally embedded (at least in the US) rather than just a work process that can be swapped?
crtlaltdel · 5 years ago
i’ve found these tools tend to be most readily adopted at the spec, estimate/quote and sales engineering phases. the output becomes part of a proposal.
crtlaltdel commented on Launch HN: PillarPlus (YC W20) – Automatically create construction blueprints    · Posted by u/namankas
brudgers · 5 years ago
How are professional licensing requirements addressed?

Projects large enough to require sophisticated MEP design require that the the design be engineered by a qualified professional who is individually responsible for health safety and welfare. This is not an artifact of modern guild cultures. The principle of personal builder responsibility goes all the way back to the code of Hammurabi.

crtlaltdel · 5 years ago
in some places, like most places in the usa, a PE will need to stamp it. the assumption would be they review, approve and stamp. i designed several hundred controls systems for projects in dozens of states without a PE license in the same manner. super common
crtlaltdel commented on Lora-based device-to-device smartphone communication for crisis scenarios [pdf]   dtn7.github.io/assets/hoe... · Posted by u/oliver2213
crtlaltdel · 5 years ago
happy to see this. as a rf tech, lora was promising when i first ran into it cira 2014/15
crtlaltdel commented on Zoom’s Use of Facebook’s SDK in iOS Client   blog.zoom.us/wordpress/20... · Posted by u/patrickyevsukov
mikenew · 5 years ago
So it sounds like Zoom was using the Facebook SDK, and now they're not.

I've been and iOS developer for a long time. I can tell you from experience that everyone does this. I have never worked for anyone who didn't ask for their app to include some combination of Facebook, Google, Flurry, AppCenter, Segment, Intercom, Parse, or whatever other random analytics framework the PM happens to be infatuated with.

Getting mad at Zoom for using the Facebook SDK is missing the point. They and a million others are always going to be doing this. Get mad at Apple for not letting you wireshark your own iPhone. Or having no way to package open source software where you can actually see what's running. As long as you're running binary blobs that can make whatever network connections they please, people are going to take your data and send it to places you don't know about.

Yeah maybe you can pass laws about it. But is that really a great solution? Who audits that? How do you determine what's legal and what's not? We should be pushing for a platform that makes it obvious what the software you're running is up to. The random pitchfork crusade against whatever company happens to catch a bad news cycle just isn't going to get us anywhere.

crtlaltdel · 5 years ago
yeah same here, on web and mobile this is super common. i just went through this with a PM.
crtlaltdel commented on Ask HN: Is HN a ‘healthy online community’? I’m doing a case study for a class    · Posted by u/sankalpb
crtlaltdel · 5 years ago
imo, “mostly”. its my impression that this community is very defensive at times, especially when it comes to issues of inequality along gender lines

u/crtlaltdel

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