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foone
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As the year wrap's up, let's run through some of the worst public security mistakes and delays in fixes by AWS in 2020. A thread.

First, that time when an AWS employee posted confidential AWS customer information including including AWS access keys for those customer accounts to

Fresh data breach news-
Amazon AWS engineer exposes work-related keys, passwords, and documents marked "Amazon Confidential" via public Github repository: https://t.co/7gkIegnslx
Discovered within 30 minutes of exposure by my team at @UpGuard.
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Reported to AWS Security and it is not a bug.
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Amazon launched their bug bounty, but specifically excluded AWS, which has no bug bounty.

Amazon Vulnerability Research Program - Doesn't include AWS D:https://t.co/stJHDG68pj #BugBounty #AWS
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🧵👇🏻

1. Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2):

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2. Relational Database Service (RDS):

RDS is a distributed relational database service.

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- Amazon Aurora
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- MariaDB
- Oracle Database
- SQL Server

3. Elastic Container Service (ECS):

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$Kenneth Cassel \U0001f40d$

Kenneth Cassel 🐍...
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Software engineering interview experiences don't have to be terrible.

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👇🏼 (Thanks @PaulYacoubian for the idea)

Starting from the top of the funnel, I heard of this company (fintech startup, close to $1b valuation, based in NYC) from a podcast they were advertising on, and I liked the mission.

I went to their website and applied.

Their application portal used greenhouse. One page and no need for re-typing resume info.

They had an open field that said "Tell me something we should know about you".

I wrote about how I was a career switcher, had kids, went to school while working full time, etc.

Here's where they started to stand out.

They emailed me back a few days later and sent me a calendly link to schedule my first interview.

Letting the candidate choose a time for an interview is a small detail but is great for reducing candidate stress.

I scheduled my first interview. I received an email detailing what the interview would be about, what to expect, and what to prepare for. It would be a casual chat.

My interviewer mentioned and asked tons of questions about the free-response field I had filled out earlier.

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The Great Software Stagnation is real, but we have to understand it to fight it. The CAUSE of the TGSS is not "teh interwebs". The cause is the "direct manipulation" paradigm : the "worst idea in computer science" \1

The Great Software\xa0Stagnation https://t.co/A6peSPERaU
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Progress in CS comes from discovering ever more abstract and expressive languages to tell the computer to do something. But replacing "tell the computer to do something in language" with "do it yourself using these gestures" halts that progress. \2

Stagnation started in the 1970s after the first GUIs were invented. Every genre of software that gives users a "friendly" GUI interface, effectively freezes progress at that level of abstraction / expressivity. Because we can never abandon old direct manipulation metaphors \3

The 1990s were simply the point when most people in the world finally got access to a personal computer with a GUI. So that's where we see most of the ideas frozen. \4

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I'm increasingly interested in the idea of "personal moats" in the context of careers.

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- Hard to learn and hard to do (but perhaps easier for you)
- Skills that are rare and valuable
- Legible
- Compounding over time
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2/ Like a company moat, you want to build career capital while you sleep.

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3/ You don’t want to build a competitive advantage that is fleeting or that will get commoditized

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4/ Before the arrival of recorded music, what used to be scarce was the actual music itself — required an in-person artist.

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$Ferruccio Balestreri \U0001f308$

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I’m torn on how to approach the idea of luck. I’m the first to admit that I am one of the luckiest people on the planet. To be born into a prosperous American family in 1960 with smart parents is to start life on third base. The odds against my very existence are astronomical.

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