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by coldcode 5y ago
When you depend on third parties for critical but not directly business related tech you are just as vulnerable to disruption as if you directly got hacked. Even huge companies with ridiculous valuations can fail to audit indirect suppliers
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by coldcode 5y ago
Our 40 years you see everything. This last employer was known for this sort of thing, yet still successful despite their best efforts to mess everything up.
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by coldcode 5y ago
I post art every day on my twitter at https://twitter.com/digconart
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by coldcode 5y ago
Rather than look for another job I retired at 63.5. My job was long hours, high stress, high visibility, continuous deadlines and changes that never ended at a large non FAANG company. Compensation was OK (not FAANG but OK for where I am).
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by coldcode 5y ago
A lot of these articles assume the work being estimated will remain relevant during the estimated timeframe. My last (very large, not FAANG) employer started every project with a hard deadline, estimates were only used for budgeting not tim
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by coldcode 5y ago
I wonder when it can start observing.
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by coldcode 5y ago
Funny, I drank a lot of sugary soda as a kid (real sugar, not HFCS) and ate lots of candy. I still managed a long career as a programmer until last year. I wonder if there is more to this study than simply sugar consumption; perhaps its in
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by coldcode 5y ago
Someone should use HN comments to make a chatbot. That would at least be fun.
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by coldcode 5y ago
This small child has a better UX than many things I have been forced to implement. At least as it iterates, improvements occur that make the UX better and provide a more pleasant experience.
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by coldcode 5y ago
If I was the lawyer for the reporter I'd ask Tim Berners-Lee to testify. What a great testimony that would be.
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by coldcode 5y ago
I think it scared the hell out of me when it made a noise and smoked more than the jolt itself.
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by coldcode 5y ago
When I was around 5-6 I wanted to know what would happen if I put a hairpin into a light socket. It seemed a reasonable experiment beforehand; after I picked myself up after flying across the room I learned a valuable lesson. Around the sam
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by coldcode 5y ago
At my last (very large but not FAANG) employer we collected huge amounts of metrics in our apps, ignored them entirely, and based everything on executive whims. Is this Whim-Driven Development?
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by coldcode 5y ago
I left Apple almost exactly a year before this, but I remember how totally horrific the Copland dev was, hundreds of engineers writing crap with hardly any coordination. It was pretty depressing to come to work because we had almost no mone
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by coldcode 5y ago
Since I started using Safari and iCloud Private Relay, hiding my IP address, this no longer works, since the IP they see changes a lot and is only vaguely in your area. I think FB etc. knows the address range of the IP that are exposed and
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by coldcode 5y ago
Children born during the pandemic are not yet in school. This research makes little sense, measuring cognitive differences of 2 year olds is highly unlikely to be meaningful.
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by coldcode 5y ago
Nothing in programming is proven since everything changes all the time. Otherwise we would still be programming in Cobol, Fortran, LISP and APL without changes from the 1950's. It's like saying tanks from WW1 were good enough to l
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by coldcode 5y ago
Remote inside your environment might make sense, but sending your source to an external entity to compile sounds like a security nightmare.
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by coldcode 5y ago
I worked at a company where the CIO routinely bought technologies for us to use, but we never did as they were mostly pointless to our business. He also always wrote articles for the companies bragging how much the software improved our bus
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by coldcode 5y ago
The healthcare place I worked (mid 00's) kept all the prod passwords in a text file accessible to half the company. No auditing of logins into those servers either, so who knows what was leaked.
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by coldcode 5y ago
Exactly it's just a job description and name. In my last job our org rarely promoted anyone technical (only managers and above) so almost everyone was either Lead Software Engineer, or Senior Software Engineer. Other orgs promoted ever
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by coldcode 5y ago
Any genetic mutation which causes premature death of the host, or fails to be communicative will generally die off. Any mutation which keeps the host alive (or at least longer), or makes it easier to transmit the virus to another host, will
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by coldcode 5y ago
As a generative artist I love seeing what other people do. Sadly I am not conversant in CL so its difficult to understand.
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by coldcode 5y ago
As usual people ignore messages that basically told them what was happening. Reminds me of the Target hack where they installed some anti hacking system which immediately tossed out warnings which seemed excessive so they turned it off for
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by coldcode 5y ago
Shit happens. My last employer is now mostly on AWS, and mostly in that region, so things broke all over the place yesterday (oddly enough the only service that is multi region was auth). In the past when we were mostly in our own datacente
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by coldcode 5y ago
A good book (very long and highly detailed) is: The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945. You can really see how each side wound up where it did. Neither side wanted war, the Japanese all assumed they would los
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by coldcode 5y ago
It's a ski jump, the plane only needs a short roll.
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by coldcode 5y ago
Making overly complex products developed in an absence of engineering input is also a major issue, at my last employer this was endemic to everything product threw at us. If you have no concept of how difficult something is to build you hav
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by coldcode 5y ago
As long as companies view security as a worthless expense, and the only penalty is some monitoring (that no one uses) and a brief story everyone will forget, nothing will change. I doubt the stock will even be affected. Maybe the CEO should
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by coldcode 5y ago
One thing that gets me is that people have such a pathetic life that they feel they have to share these lame posts.

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