Lessons scaling from 10 to 20 people
Ten person startups (or smaller) often have a lot of generalists. Everyone does a little of everything, which is what can make startups exciting. We had “support / office admin,” “product /...
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Posted on 2017-05-14T05:29:37+0000
At LA airport's new private terminal, the rich can watch normal people suffer
LAX’s mega-exclusive terminal has beds, massages, and an iPad to watch people slog through the main airport. But the manager denies it’s about inequality
Hasnain says:
"It is pricey. In addition to annual membership of $7,500, you pay $2,700 per domestic flight and $3,000 per international flight. The cost covers a group of up to four people. If you aren’t a member, you pay $3,500 for a domestic flight and $4,000 for international flight for a group of up to three people."
Posted on 2017-05-13T23:28:20+0000
Why Are Economists Giving Piketty the Cold Shoulder?
‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ raised important questions about inequality that the Ivory Tower would rather ignore.
Hasnain says:
"This dearth of reaction to such a critical work is not healthy. It is as if the rapturous reception by the public increased the resentment among Piketty’s academic economist colleagues. As an appeal to the public to resolve, or at least have a say in, what the experts consider their own domain, Piketty appears to have questioned the very value of having a credentialed economics elite empowered to make policy in the name of the public interest but not answerable to public opinion. The economics elite, it seems, answered by stonewalling Capital in the Twenty-First Century, so it would not have the impact on economics research agendas that it merits."
Posted on 2017-05-13T20:15:31+0000
Some Americans spend billions to get teeth whiter. Some wait in line to get them pulled.
You can work full time but not have the money to fix your teeth – visible reminders of the divide between rich and poor.
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""I am trying to think that this is not demeaning,” she said as she cleared the chair for the next person in line. “But it is. It’s like a Third World country.”"
Posted on 2017-05-13T19:01:17+0000
Rejection Letter - Charlie's Diary
I'd like to apologize in advance, but after consulting with my colleagues in other departments at Reality Publishing Corporation, I'm afraid we can't publish your book, "Zero Day: The story of MS17-010", as things stand. However, I'd like to add that it was a gripping read, very well written, and we...
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A hilarious account of the recent cyber attack.
"We start with a shadowy US government agency, the NSA, systematically analyzing the software of the biggest American computer companies in search of vulnerabilities. So far, so plausible: this is one of the jobs of an intelligence and counter-espionage agency focussed on information technology. However, instead of helping Microsoft fix them, we are supposed to believe that the NSA hoard their knowledge of weaknesses in Microsoft Windows, a vitally important piece of their own nation's infrastructure, in case they'll come in handy againt some hypothetical future enemy. (I'm sorry, but this just won't wash; surely the good guys would prioritize protecting their own corporate infrastructure? But this is just the first of the many logical inconsistencies which riddle the back story and plot of "Zero Day".)"
Posted on 2017-05-13T18:55:06+0000
China Tells Facebook to ‘Come Learn From Us’ on Censoring Content
Facebook’s recent difficulties with violent videos posted to the social network are giving it a taste of what it would be like to operate in China.
Hasnain says:
"The Chinese executives envy Facebook’s freedom to decide what content it polices and how. Censoring content is a life and death matter for their businesses."
Posted on 2017-05-13T16:52:50+0000
How to Accidentally Stop a Global Cyber Attacks | MalwareTech
So finally I’ve found enough time between emails and Skype calls to write up on the crazy events which occurred over Friday, which was supposed to be part of my week off (I made it a total of 4 days without working, so there’s that). You’ve probably read about the WannaCrypt fiasco on several news s...
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Posted on 2017-05-13T16:24:29+0000
Dirty Game Development Tricks
One of Game Developer's most popular features was our "Dirty Coding Tricks" bit from 2009, where we got devs to open up about some of their ugly hacks -- and in 2013 we're back with nine new from-the-trenches stories, including a few unorthodox tricks from other dev disciplines besides programming.
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The Ratchet and Clank example is amazing. They exploited a buffer overrun in their own code to be able to distribute updates
Posted on 2017-05-13T01:38:58+0000
SMBlog -- 12 May 2017
. The patch for the flaw exploited by this malware has been out for a while, but many companies haven't installed it. Naturally, this has prompted a lot of victim-blaming: they should have patched their systems. Yes, they should have, but many didn't. Why not? Because patching is
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Posted on 2017-05-13T01:35:00+0000
Where have all the insects gone?
Surveys in German nature reserves point to a dramatic decline in insect biomass
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Posted on 2017-05-12T23:34:51+0000