fictioncircle

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by fictioncircle 9y ago
Owasp presentations, Blackhat presentations, etc. usually give you a general idea of what people are seeing and then you research the specific attack(s) in depth. This isn't the sort of thing you can commit to memory. https:/&#x2
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by fictioncircle 9y ago
> Exactly my point. Rarely is there one "correct" implementation. For any given problem asked in such interviews there is certainly one correct implementation and if you believe otherwise you are not providing sufficient inform
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by fictioncircle 9y ago
I never said it was morally correct. I answered the question.
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by fictioncircle 9y ago
Correct. It is not the prosecutor's office who pays the bill.
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by fictioncircle 9y ago
The problem is the politician's kneejerk response is to reduce security by introducing backdoors. (See the legislation they actually try to pass) They don't do what you suggest they should.
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by fictioncircle 9y ago
> The actual algorithm is irrelevant, so looking it up wouldn't be helpful. It isn't irrelevant if you are attempting to implement it correctly. > If you look something up and the interviewer asks you what the O() of your ap
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by fictioncircle 9y ago
The problem is we have no way to know if they are the "good ones" or the "bad ones" until after the fact so unless you feel you have no alternative, it is better to avoid contact with them.
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by fictioncircle 9y ago
It drives up costs and they have budget concerns would be my guess.
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by fictioncircle 9y ago
They are controversial because they frequently don't let you look anything up and most developers are used to being able to do that as part of their normal process.
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by fictioncircle 9y ago
My point was, it wasn't from memory and because any mistakes I make are very painful and tedious to repair my first instinct is to Google things to double check everything before taking action. So, no, I'm going to refuse a screen
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by fictioncircle 9y ago
> Their tech screen was so ludicrously easy it made me wonder what the current standard is for developers. Just fyi, its probably because many developers don't touch binary. I work with numbers all day but they are currency transact
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by fictioncircle 9y ago
And yet every job I've applied to tells me I'm asking for too much money if I ask for my current salary + 10%.
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by fictioncircle 9y ago
The most recent study (2015) on your second link that is a literal survey has 93.7% consensus. The next valid study in (2014) is 87%. It then throws in a study that includes people who aren't scientists with lower numbers. Then you hav
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by fictioncircle 9y ago
> A doctor that manipulates you for some purpose that has nothing to do with your health may very well end up losing a license and go to jail. A journalists doing the same just calls it Tuesday. So your argument is scientists are equiva
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by fictioncircle 9y ago
> Also, it is somewhat ironic that you chose doctors as an example, as this is the area where it is common practice to get a second opinion when presented with a material conclusion. A second opinion doesn't require a 20 person samp
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by fictioncircle 9y ago
Using that logic, you can never trust a single doctor because you need to see 20 of them to get a balanced perspective.
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by fictioncircle 9y ago
97% agreement is higher than the level of consensus on much of medical care, diet, or technology. https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/ Multiple studies published in peer-reviewed scientific journals1 show tha
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by fictioncircle 9y ago
> My point is, the less active money there is around, the less accurate our concept of a correct value can be. This situation has the potential to de-stabilise the economy sooner rather than later. That won't happen (probably). The
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by fictioncircle 9y ago
> Talking about honorable and competent people on the board of directors. I recently realized that Apple's board of directors includes Al Gore. He's certainly a honorable man, but what does he know about making and selling iPh
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by fictioncircle 10y ago
Farming in the US is heavily subsidized due to a nexus of national security, the farm lobby, and food stamps. So it's a legitimate concern many nation's have, even EU countries have similar programs. In the US it has gotten out of
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by fictioncircle 10y ago
The fact its still there implies its the basket that is bad.
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by fictioncircle 10y ago
Once you hit $20 million in sales ($300-400k), the difference gets very noticeable vs. paying one internal IT and a couple security consultants to audit the work.
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by fictioncircle 10y ago
https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/stock-trading-bot > I'm surprised this article is still up when it seems pretty clear it's a scam and all the comments on Hacker News agree. https://news.
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by fictioncircle 10y ago
> Also a good way to ensure sick people heroically come to work and infect everyone else. The bonus pool is likely finite and can be manipulated by sick people heroically infecting other teams to improve your team's metrics relative
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by fictioncircle 10y ago
> Did I state the compensation for government employees is more than every other job out there? Which is an admission that your following sentence is a fiction: > My point is you can't award your self a unreasonable pay package a
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by fictioncircle 10y ago
> Government departments promised each other outrageous compensation and somebody who is coming 30 years and wasn't even present back then is supposed to be skinned to the bone so that grand pa can swing his golf club in Scotland? O
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by fictioncircle 10y ago
> This is part of the real reason why California is imposing the new gas tax in the name of infrastructure. > Part of the reason why even reasonable people do not take left's claims of "tax to protect environment" serio
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by fictioncircle 10y ago
> That's certainly an interesting take. In all of my dealings with small banks, it was always easy to get an EVP on the phone to sort out problems. That's now virtually impossible dealing with large banks. Frequently I find tha
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by fictioncircle 10y ago
> The claim of national security can't hold any weight if its bs else any matter you can imagine could become a matter of national security. Good luck convincing the government of that. We are past that event horizon. xD
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by fictioncircle 10y ago
There is a difference between national security (even if its bs) and citizens exercising their right to complain about government policy?

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