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> Our licenses, of course, also stipulated the things you mentioned, but hackers will be hackers, so we had to deal with some interesting circumstances from time to time.

Could you share two of your favourite stories related to this?


Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania

(For anyone unaware like me)


Why would you want to be able to access your personal projects from your phone? What context requires this over waiting and solving the problem at home?

What about work life balance? (yes, it's a personal project, but still)


A personal project might be something that is useful in your day to day life (e.g., a notes app, todo list, or calendar), or something that you want to be able to show to fiends/family when you see them in person (e.g. a photo album, or something related to a mutual hobby).


Sometimes the personal project is an app: it has an API it talks to.

Sometimes the personal project is a website: it has progress tracking that I want to check on.

Sometimes the personal project is for home automation, I want to check the status of it or tell my heater to turn on remotely.


i have a paperless filing system that i frequently access from the office for things like scans of bills that aren’t yet electronic, etc. it’s fantastic to be able to access it all (via VPN; never direct) wherever i like


What is it about the conversation that you find frustrating when listening to those types of podcasts?


It annoys me when I have gone to the trouble to hear about a specific topic only to have the hosts chat for the first 8 minutes about their personal lives or about stuff that is completely off topic. Focus would be appreciated.


For me it's the same. I don't have much time to listen to podcasts so general chat or low density talk just isn't efficient.

I like some conversational podcasts like After On where they tend to stick to discussing the topic at hand but I couldn't get into Stuff You Should Know or Joe Rogan as there was a lot of general chat in there or not high enough information density.

I don't want to hear 5 minutes of why somebody thinks something is worth doing a podcast on: just tell me the interesting stuff and I'll judge for myself.


Hey mate,

I've always been a bit perplexed as to how registrar's are created. How could I become a registrar?

Any advise or resources to explore this very open question would be wonderful.

Cheers J


Basically, you have to go through the ICANN accreditation process, which is documented here:

https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/accreditation-2012-02-...

The cheaper, and easier way, if you're looking to start selling domains with a lower barrier to entry (but less control over how much you pay/how you sell your domains) is to find a white-label reseller registrar.


> I've always been a bit perplexed as to how registrar's are created. How could I become a registrar?

In all that time of being perplexed, you never thought to do a simple Google search? https://www.google.com/search?q=how+registrar%27s+are+create...


Thanks for your response Micheal. That's an interesting website. I'll take a look!


Are you a bot?


The first aspect is that every* TLD has it own registry and system. For the generic ones you got ICANN accreditation process, but there is also a bunch of registrar reseller that act as a middle man between ICANN and other registrars.

Usually most processes involve some form of capital investment and/or technical capability. Country specific TLD can either be easier or much much harder depending on which country.

* Not really everyone.


It's also equally hard to trust give it's based on Hindu scripture, and the Wikipedia article itself states that they're considered mythical creatures.


Hmm. I am interested in this. Perhaps the modern forms have experienced enough predation that makes it difficult to follow this up. But we do such analysis often. Basically I would like to see if local ape populations continue to use our terms after a few isolated years.


So how is trusting authority working out for you so far? It's a piece of the puzzle, these stories come from somewhere. The general idea is to use your brain to put the pieces together.


You're right! Let's start looking for flying apes based on the legend of harpies and Icarus.


> these stories come from somewhere

A very rich imagination? It's so easy to see something perfectly normal and imagine a whole new world around it. Even more so if at the time there is no "rational" explanation for it.

A three headed malformed dog? It must be the monster guarding the entrance to Hell.


Is this a desktop-only demo?


As someone mentioned above, you absolutely need to sort out your CV. Here's a couple of points that differ from the other commenters:

- make it a one page CV - remove any work experience that's not relevant - write in active voice about each experience. Quantifying your contributions - remove hobbies, particularly anything related to religion. It's not relevant, and is recommended not to include such personal info in your CV. - only show your undergraduate degree. No one cares about GDE (unless applying to grad school) or your high school grades. - remove personal interests; no one cares. It's distracting from selling your work experience. - remove references and write "available on request". Background check happen after interviews. - remove languages unless relevant to the job. - remove volunteering experience; why on earth have you included CouchSurfng there? - remove your address. Too personal. - add link to your LinkedIn. - remove objective. This should come through in your experience what you're interested in. - remove those images. They offer no value to the ready and take up 20% of both pages.

You find jobs by applying. That simple. Your CV must sell your work experience as valuable to the employee and current yours does not.

Assume employers will spend 30 seconds skimming it before deciding if you will get a chance. Your current CV does not cut it.


On what basis are you quantifying this? You say you're ten years ahead ... Of what exactly? Compared to whom? Based on what?


How would you quantify it? I measure it in part by pursuing a track record that is meaningful to me not aligned on income or titles alone, but the innovation/change I've been able to be part of that is remarkable and memorable for it's time.

Sometimes I meet people who have a lot of experience/expertise (not a title) they have no business having at a particular age or experience level. They have really been able to extract a lot from their opportunities. Sometimes I get approached in this manner for senior, or leadership assistance while I'm young on the basis of my experience and track record.

Quantifiably speaking, experience, expertise seems to be listened to the more experienced I get. Also helpful is where it's relevant participating in startups or small businesses that scaled from from 0-5M, 0-10M, and now 0-60M/year.

A measure that I like is it by whether I can see opportunities early and recognize others who do the same and what I can learn from/with them.


Its identifiable, yes, but not personal. Otherwise, all free-form text entry would have to be processed prior to a GDPR request, which is not likely.

Take Facebook as an example, when you request your personal data, they present what is linked in their database to you, which is of course not where anyone mentions your name. Who is to say that my name (Paul Smith) identifies me and not some other Paul?


Actually, when someone is identifiable with a couple of pieces of data, that becomes personal data. For example, if you would be the only Paul Smith on earth, we would consider that personal data. If you are the only Paul Smith in the US and the context reveals that we are talking about someone in the US, those 2 pieces together are personal data (and so on).

That is what they mean with "indirect identification" in the link provided by jdietrich.


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