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SallySwanSmith··on Should I turn down a Amazon AWS job offer over this?
Yes, it is.
SallySwanSmith··on ThinkPad X1 Carbon
Given it's not even fully announced yet, yet alone released... that'd be a no.
SallySwanSmith··on I'm becoming scared of Facebook
Do you think your Friend was coerced into making the status update? Or do you think the status update was faked by facebook?
SallySwanSmith··on I'm becoming scared of Facebook
> Furthermore, when things are encrypted, it distorts the actual size of the message.

That said, it'll never make the messages smaller

SallySwanSmith··on I'm becoming scared of Facebook
This would surly eat up battery life at a very noticeable rate to process out words while a phone is in your pocket.
SallySwanSmith··on I'm becoming scared of Facebook
They're deactivating their account:

https://www.facebook.com/help/214376678584711

this is vastly differently then deleting the account:

https://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674

The delete can take up to 90 days to remove all traces, but it is gone and will not allow logins when the process starts.

SallySwanSmith··on I'm becoming scared of Facebook
> There is a specific feature inside the Facebook app that does exactly this: listens to ambient sound around you to hear the TV ads, radio ads, etc that it can identify to know more about you.

Citation needed.

SallySwanSmith··on WoSign and letsencrypt.cn
Why would that matter? They can set up a similar service and use the wosign ca and Mozilla/google wouldn't know anything is amiss
SallySwanSmith··on Amazon Restaurants
Amazon restaurants is hardly new. My first order was over a year ago. Is there something else new that I'm missing?
SallySwanSmith··on Polybit makes mistake. Owns up.
Is the only thing that was widely inappropriate and tone deaf to the community the fact that it was a email to golang folks about a nodejs project or the fact that it was just spam or something else that I'm not picking up on?
SallySwanSmith··on “Sites like these give PHP a bad reputation”
or you just use the iCloud keychain, you know, the iCloud component designed to store passwords securely...
SallySwanSmith··on HTTPS Certificates Show Where Their Key Comes From
It seems like they won't say unless you are willing to pay

> Enigma Bridge has expanded on the discovery and built a tool that can with great accuracy tell which security mechanisms companies use for their https key generation.

SallySwanSmith··on Image hoster pushes 1.8 PB per month through Cloudflare CDN
Because if it was static human readable text content, they'd let you push that much though just fine. It's unlikely that you ever would get to that level, but they don't mind if you do.
SallySwanSmith··on Comcast's 1TB data caps start to roll out nationwide
And I just switched to a local provider and am cancelling my xfinity tv and internet. I'm done with them.
SallySwanSmith··on Ask HN: How do you keep motivated if nobody supports you?
Indeed. I reject people all the time that can code just fine, but due to the technical details of the position, they don't seem to have the technical depth in a certain area that may be entirely unrelated to just generic coding.
SallySwanSmith··on Ask HN: How do you keep motivated if nobody supports you?
Making simple mistakes like being off by a factor of 10 and not looking at something you're uploading to get feedback on to ensure it's complete doesn't bode well for how you would handle an interview process...
SallySwanSmith··on Ask HN: How do you keep motivated if nobody supports you?
Stop living in the past and suck it up cupcake. You've been though interviews that went poorly. Reflect, learn, grow, try again. You're not that good. It's more then just some raw amount of code or random projects that you spew out while interested and then abandon when you're bored.

As for the complaining about lack of support. I'm sorry, but you're being supported! You have a roof over your head and food in your belly. You have a computer and freedom of choice.

It may not be the support you want or imagine, but it's support. Don't forget that and don't take that for granted.

SallySwanSmith··on Ask HN: Is 170k a good salary for a software developer in Seattle?
SDE3 at Amazon is a career position. Generally most people will never move beyond SDE3, so you'll have people with a lot more then 10 years there.
SallySwanSmith··on Ask HN: Is 170k a good salary for a software developer in Seattle?
This is not really true. I love amazon and been there quite awhile now. They shed the dead weight often, but if you like a challenge, you'll make it just fine
SallySwanSmith··on Ask HN: Is 170k a good salary for a software developer in Seattle?
Depending on your level, this is not true. This is pretty much only for entry level direct out of college.
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