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That's not unsafe, which is what the article is about.
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This is not news to experienced C developers. All it takes to avoid a missing NUL terminator is something like #define safer_strncpy(dest, src, n) \ do { \ if (n > 0) \ strncpy(dest, src, n)[n - 1] = '\0&
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Why a downvote for this? I don't understand. Others have pointed this out, too.
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Please expand "TLS" to "Thread-local Storage" in the misleading title.
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Maybe so, but the devaluation of rights goes far beyond executions. There are ways to oppress people that are almost as bad as wrongful execution, such as wrongful and malicious prosecution, wrongful imprisonment, profit-based prison system
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If you visit the links I posted, you will see that other countries suffer, too. I don't deny that some US businesses have predatory practices, and that is wrong, but it doesn't come close to the wholesale IP theft we are seeing, a
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This is a horrifying story and, I fear, part of a trend in the USA towards devaluing human rights.
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My second-most favorite pair of anagrams after the movie-showing giant bat is coprophagist topographics . Detailed maps of areas in which dung-eaters live? Worth buying just to avoid the neighborhood... :) Edit: These anagram pairs would a
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To amplify your point, cloning in the sense used in this discussion is intellectual property theft. It doesn't matter whether it deliberately attempts to pass itself off as the genuine article (i.e. a counterfeit item) or attempts to c
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Although my data is very limited, I am beginning to suspect that quite a bit of new documentation produced by the current administration looks like high school work. As admittedly minuscule evidence, I present the I-130 USCIS (was the INS)
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Honestly, Saunders MacLane's book, "Categories for the Working Mathematician", was very useful for this non-mathematician. It was surprisingly accessible if I started at the introduction and did not move forward until I grokk
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I wrote some pretty low-level stuff in VAX PASCAL, which had extensions to let you do just about anything. It was a nice language.
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I understand. Makes perfect sense. I think many very pertinent stories and points of view never surface because of the very real threat of retaliation or ostracism - burning bridges, as you say. I think that people who expose the mistakes,
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Thanks, didn't know about that one.
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I will vouch for this. A large company in many cases behaves like $startup_dysfunctionality + $dysfunctionality_from_fast_post_startup_growth + $years_of_wild_hiring + $years_of_reorgs + $useless_and_obstructive_policies_and_standards
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Moderators: This thread has essentially disappeared, along with a great deal of very useful comments, because there are apparently duplicates of it. Never mind that this has more comments than the others. Instead of being near the top of HN
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Not nearly that significant! I wish!
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> It is hard to describe to someone who never experienced a job that is overwhelmingly and exclusively awful how much of an impact it makes on you. And I am not talking about a job that you don't like or don't enjoy. I mean a j
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Totally concur.
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I'm such a person, and it's not restricted to SV. My worst experiences were in the South East. I think that many startups, regardless of region, are poorly managed, especially as they go through the transition from startup to some
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Ha! Funny you say that. When I was laid off the job I was stuck at because of the visa situation, my colleagues thought I had gone insane because I was so obviously happy and smiling right after getting the news. The fact is, it was such a
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I'd like to address the many comments that try to be helpful and offer advice, while expressing bemusement that the obvious step of just leaving and getting another job was apparently rejected in favor of suicide. Edward de Bono of Lat
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It's not just Uber. There is no shortage of toxic workplaces, sadly.
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It's well-meaning advice, but understand that, in situations like these, certain personality types don't think as rationally as you would expect. One size does not fit all when it comes to handling adversity.
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I think Uber is currently a lightning rod for everything that's wrong with technical employers, especially in the USA. I think there is a great deal of simmering rage against the widespread mistreatment of engineers, and Uber has, in a
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The are always simple answers to complex issues, and they are usually wrong. This answer desperately needs more insight.
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As others have written, it is similar to people reluctant to leave abusive relationships. Just as people who have not suffered clinical depression can advise to "just snap out of it", those who have not experienced this phenomenon
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This. Other comments amplify this point.
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Read my comment elsewhere in this article; it might give you a different perspective.
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Thank you for this. We need to hear more accounts like this one, and mine, to bring this issue into widespread view.

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