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by gwittel 7y ago
Either many employees did tell them it was a bad idea and they ignored them. Or no one told them. Both ways reflect very poorly on Google. They rolled the dice hoping it would blow over. Government attention was likely the killer.
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by gwittel 7y ago
Favicon display seems rife for abuse. I wonder what happens if you put a favicon that looks like googles’ or that says “ad”. All sorts of fun to encourage clicks onto a malicious site because it looks safe.
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by gwittel 7y ago
While I’m glad they reverted, the doublespeak is absurd. As if they didn’t know users would hate it. User experience had nothing to do with this. It was all about revenue. The main question after this is what user hostile move will they
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by gwittel 7y ago
I haven’t seen an off the shelf thing. It might be possible with PKI incantations but the first that comes to mind without a third party is homomorphic encryption. Libs like MS SEAL only do limited numeric operations. Without reading the re
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by gwittel 7y ago
Similar experience. Many scanners seem to be designed around showing 'value' to management vs real value for engineering and security teams. Another example is Blackduck. Its slow, noisy, has tons of FPs (which you cannot globa
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by gwittel 7y ago
I bought Sourcetrail a few years ago. It’s been highly useful in diving into large, unfamiliar projects. Thank you! I hope the open model works for you. I know the cost stopped some of my co-workers from buying it. For others, I suggest g
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by gwittel 7y ago
As a high level IC, I run into this a lot and still struggle. Largely it boils down to setting expectations, sticking with them, and having support. I have to push back on meetings, along with manager support for 'no meeting days&#x2
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by gwittel 7y ago
Happened to us several times with our subscribe and save for baby food. Expired or near expired items. In the end we just don’t buy baby food from them. We’re shifting more and more spend away from Amazon due to this, and counterfeits due