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9y ago
Safe is being an employee. Risk is the other direction. How much risk you can tolerate is up to you and how much you have in assets, savings, etc.
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9y ago
Nah, we'll just have a transpiler and PerlPack™ and PPM
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9y ago
You can't drop all of this responsibility on developers. You need people checking behind them. But if we want to pay developers like surgeons and have malpractice insurance, all the better, I guess.
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9y ago
I just got into Unreal Engine with the VR template project, which includes grabbing/teleportation functionality by default. It's been really easy to get into and if you have a headset, I'd really recommend trying it out if yo
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9y ago
At this point, we should just experiment with a disconnected coastal elite just to see what happens.
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9y ago
Create enough FUD around the technical interview and you'll always get people trying different things to improve their chances with these kinds of approaches. I can't count how many people have assumed I'm good just because I
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9y ago
>They build what they think is a good idea, and not what the customer actually needs. That is what good PMs are for (ignoring many customers don't know what they want or change their mind). Have you guys ever thought about how it fe
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9y ago
Just build a plugin/extension system. Then you have a base product you market to new customers and a developing marketplace of plugins which you can likely sell for a lot if your product is focused well enough.
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9y ago
>But you can't really see all the game's content because so much territory is controlled by hostile teams There's not that much to see out in those systems. You're definitely not missing any major story lines or lore
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9y ago
>I hope more public security shaming like this happens This has been going on for a few years at least from my perspective. Shaming doesn't work well enough IMO, but maybe that's because I haven't seen or heard from compan
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9y ago
>Great so you just made it illegal or impossible to create a start up, congratulations. All of this is under the context you'd be handling a lot of PII or sensitive information, in which case, yes, I don't want just any start u
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9y ago
>What if management doesn't hire a security team? That's clearly negligence. >What if management hires incompetent security team? That's harder to do because you have to establish competence, which has led to a bunch of
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9y ago
>Who exactly is responsible for unrecognized vulnerabilities? Everyone? No one? One dude who everyone sorta thought handled security stuff? It's as clear as mud. Security team with people who do it full time. Betting your security o
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9y ago
>purge their PII from a credit authority I can't see that happening if they do any kind of offsite back up and archiving. They will purge you from the current master, say they purged you, and you'll be none-the-wiser.
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9y ago
Real estate probably won't be a part of the post-scarcity economy, otherwise I'd bet on just buying a home in 30 years while forgetting what a mortgage was for.
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9y ago
The property group takes on risk if something like a roof needs replacing unless they just keep a lot of cash sitting around for just such a thing. They may also have access to better loans but I have no idea for sure. I don't want to
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9y ago
> also, obviously, after 20 years you have no more payments. You have maintenance. And if something bad happens with the foundation, that's very expensive to fix. Unless you just plan to die and have the house demolished and the pro
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9y ago
>Until Equifax and the like get sued out of business, Equifax and its shareholders won't feel the heat. Equifax's breach might be deserving of it being sold to the government for pennies and having leadership reorganized (read:
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9y ago
The struggle has been getting away from writing HTML in strings just like getting away from SQL in strings (excluding security/SQL injection reasons) which do not have handy IDE features like telling you that <cavnas> is not a va
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9y ago
>And yet engineers are taught to be liberal in what they accept and strict in what they send From the desk of recruiters, most likely.
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>but those colleges will become a black mark on one's CV and so the good students would choose not to attend those colleges, right? How many colleges can you name off-the-cuff that you'd never hire from? Do you actively follow
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9y ago
Where's your mouse-hover tooltip dictionary lookups now, internet?
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9y ago
Oversight and mentorship doesn't exist for entry level self-taught doctors or lawyers. Everyone starting out would be learning the hard lessons the hard way, and for law and medicine, that means jail, injury, and deaths.
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9y ago
All of them would have to obey minimum pay regulation. If Apple knowingly hires a company violating that law, then absolutely go after them. If loopholes come from that regulation, then that has to be fixed too.
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9y ago
>Company contracting the outsourcing company can dictate what is paid to the contractors. That should still have a floor through labor laws. If it doesn't, that too needs to change. >Company contracting the outsourcing company do
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9y ago
But if the outsourcing companies were providing opportunities on their own, their employees could afford classes, living expenses and work on skills to eventually work at Apple. Apple gets quality janitors and security guards while paying t
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9y ago
>Citing "the market" is yet another way of avoiding responsibility. I didn't cite "the market" at all because I actually suggested regulation which is contrary to "the market" argument often thrown arou
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9y ago
You can hold multiple people accountable, but I'm pretty sure Google should be less accountable than the outsourcing companies. If you want to hold major companies accountable for the outsourcing companies they hire, fine, make a regul
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9y ago
>Focus on core competence and outsource the rest. The approach has made companies more nimble and more productive, and delivered huge profits for shareholders. It has also fueled inequality and helps explain why many working-class Americ
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9y ago
Why spend the time learning about investing beyond the basics if you could be researching a niche in your field to double or add a zero to your income? It doesn't seem worth it to me if you don't have connections within the indust
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