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duey··on Currency (Restrictions on the Use of Cash) Bill 2019
"That said, some forms of electronic payment more closely mirror physical currency. In particular, crypto-currencies and other digital currencies are generally unregulated and do not create clear records of transactions in a form that can easily be used to identify the parties to a transaction."

https://www.treasury.gov.au/sites/default/files/2019-07/expo...

duey··on How to start a Go project in 2018
No, use golang:1.10-alpine for the build, keep the second stage the same.
duey··on How to start a Go project in 2018
You can remove CGO_ENABLED=0 by using the Go Alpine image (golang:1.10-alpine). The issue is caused by Alpine images being musl libc based.
duey··on Blue Moon: The “Craft” Beer Made by Coors
This is really common in Australia - I've found the biggest giveaway of a fake-craft brand is that the alcohol content is generally 4.8% (which just happens to be the governments definition of a full-strength beer).
duey··on Rusthon – A Pythonic language that compiles to Rust and C++
Why would you use this over LLVM? e.g. pyston (LLVM Python) and then using llc -march=rustc/c/cpp/whatever to convert?
duey··on Goals Gone Wild: Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting (2009)
I've witnessed this first hand - we recently started rolling out measured goals in our warehouses. This involved staff getting set daily goal counts for certain tasks (products shipped, products put on shelves etc.). As soon as we rolled out metrics everything that wasn't measured became a low priority. For example, we were not measuring cycle counts (stock take) so immediately the number of cycle counts plummeted, which increased our out-of-stock errors. We had instances of staff hoarding incoming shipments from suppliers at their workstations in order to get higher rankings.

Overall the warehouses went from being generally efficient to extreme performers on measured metrics. I think metrics can be clearly powerful, but you have to be very careful about what metrics you choose to implement.

duey··on The Scraping Problem and Ethics
Not in the long term obviously, but you can't make a product extremely difficult to buy and then complain that everyone is taking the easy route.
duey··on The Scraping Problem and Ethics
The OSVDB website contains no signup page for commercial access. No pricing either, purely sign up via contacting someone. From my experience whenever I see this, I just refuse to use the service and look elsewhere. Contacting someone is annoying and opens you up to repeat sales calls. Perhaps they should make commercial API access easier to access rather than complain about scrapers.
duey··on [dead]
Paywall free: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:eIDjXrk...
duey··on How "junior" developers can become regex wizards
During University one of the projects we were given was to write a regular expression parser and evaluator. From the moment that project was complete I have never had trouble understanding regular expressions. I thought it was an excellent way to learn them.
duey··on Apple Confirms That Its Dev Center Has Been Breached By Hackers
Having out of date packages on production servers is also dangerous. It really depends what you consider your biggest risk to be: downtime vs getting hacked due to an out-of-date packages? I personally would take downtime, but every place is different.
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"The message will be accompanied by a short video message by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, and images required for the re-creation of fundraiser banners."

The thought that a few million years from now an alien race will encounter a message from Jimmy Wales asking for money is fitting for Wikipedia.

duey··on SSH into your EC2 instances with ease
Could also just name your hosts appropriately and use something like puppet to create and update DNS records for your hosts automatically.
duey··on Path fined $800,000 by FTC
Curious, if Path is acquired does the purchaser also acquire the 20 year privacy assessment requirements? Does this make acquisition unlikely?
duey··on Test-Driven Development Bypasses Your Brain
I've always viewed TDD as a process that works for some people. It's always important to remember that people learn, develop and think differently. If TDD works for you, great. But do not force it upon other people, as it may not work for them.

(This isn't to say that unit tests are bad, but rather writing tests first may not benefit all people)

duey··on Ad Blocking Raises Alarm Among Firms Like Google
> That is: users hate ads. But someone has to pay for all this stuff.

Curious if this is actually the case. I certainly don't hate ads, except when they are obnoxiously annoying but that is getting rare these days.

duey··on Programmer creates 800,000 books algorithmically, starts selling them on Amazon
I work in ecommerce and this guy and others like him have been creating this stuff for 3-4 years. It's a massive annoyance for us as the only real identifier we got from suppliers is the publisher name, we blocked them for awhile but then we started seeing a massive range of publisher names coming through in order to get around blocks (I assume every other retailer was blocking them as well).

When we first started seeing the automated content books, literally overnight our product set increased several million titles - I now estimate that about 20 million of the 50 million products we have are automated books (they come out with new "editions" all the time as well). This obviously has a massive impact on our search results - these books have keyword laden titles and descriptions, and without a solid identifier it was very difficult to get rid of them. Thankfully recently the suppliers that print these products have started flagging them as crapware.

As for the customer response to this type of product - it's definitely negative, with a massive return rate. As far as I am concerned, this is a massive scam - hedging on the fact that some people are to lazy to return the books.

duey··on This white powder will kill me one day
I actually like these health articles appearing on HN - I understand it's not on-topic, but the majority of people here sit on computers all day so the occasional tip is useful.

I guess you could argue being healthier makes you a better entrepreneur/engineer/etc?

duey··on China Skepticism
China is a super power. I don't believe poor living standards preclude it from being so. The Chinese exert huge influence over the Asia region. It's why your starting to see USA place a lot of emphasis on a military presence in the Asia region.

The interesting thing is a lot of the countries in the Asia/Pac region primarily trade with China, even US allies (e.g. Australia). If the US starts to get agressive (in the cold-war sense) within the region, at what point does economics trump allies?

duey··on Gaming Console Ouya Raises $1 Million on Kickstarter in 8 Hours
This looks like a really awesome idea, but I can't help but wonder if they are walking into a patent minefield?