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by insertcredit 8y ago
It's not written in Rust.
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by insertcredit 8y ago
If you asked your engineer peers how they would feel if you were paid an equivalent salary, I am confident some of them would admit that they would not like it. Privately, I think most of them would definitely not like it but would probably
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by insertcredit 8y ago
Nobody said anything about what Steve should have been doing. Given that money is the core issue in his post and he's mentioned sweet SV dollars in this thread, it doesn't hurt to note the prevailing attitude these days which (la
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by insertcredit 8y ago
Rust is morphing into a complexity beast that rivals C++. When the cognitive load require to read and write Rust code far exceeds that required of other, more popular languages, the future does not look rosy.
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by insertcredit 8y ago
Given that not even Taleb disputes IQ effectiveness on the left-end of the spectrum, meaning the low end, letting waves of refugees in from sub-saharan Africa (average IQ below 70 [1][2]) would definitely be a net loss for a first-world cou
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by insertcredit 8y ago
There is a lot of unnecessary fluff in this piece. Suggestion to the author: Focus your writing on the main points and try not to dilute them. The majority of what you have written here drops the SnR significantly and takes away from what y
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by insertcredit 8y ago
I saw your post at lisp.reddit.com today and there was a redditor there that brought forth webkit security concerns that IMV you did not properly address. Thread is here ( https://old.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments&#x2F
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by insertcredit 8y ago
Lisp always catered to people with a certain state of mind. It was never a language positioned for popular appeal, and by that I mean the masses of 9-5 "brogrammers" we have today. Looking at how many people fall in love (or not)
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by insertcredit 8y ago
There is no difference between Scheme and Common Lisp when it comes to parentheses and beauty. Everything you mention (simplicity, regularity, few basic principles) apply just the same to Common Lisp. The differences between the two are mos
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by insertcredit 8y ago
Most "other" languages don't have Lisp-like macros, so I'm not sure what you are talking about here. I don't think Lisp is much more difficult to like, on the contrary, out of all the languages I know well (C, C++,
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by insertcredit 8y ago
Not quite true: There would not exist exploitable buffer overflows if that was the case.
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by insertcredit 8y ago
I worked at Google for close to 10 years. I resigned when I had made enough money to retire comfortably (for the next 40 years) in a European city. The first two years were enjoyable but then it started going downhill, fast. Some close frie
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by insertcredit 8y ago
If that's the best technical talk you've ever seen, I have to feel sorry for you. Cantrill may rant all he wants about Oracle but he's not exactly doing better, with all the peddling of node.js to the masses. It is rare for m
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by insertcredit 8y ago
I'm stating the following since I've seen you appeal to your work history and say "trust me, I've been in this for a long time" far too many times to give you a pass here. There are plenty of tptacek posts on HN, wh
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by insertcredit 8y ago
It's clear to me that this is nowhere near accurate and I'm not sure why you insist on making these sort of claims. One only has to look at self-driving cars to disprove you. Dan Geer also entirely disagrees with what you wrote [1
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by insertcredit 8y ago
You don't agree at all that increasingly critical parts of society have been subsumed by the Internet during the last _28_ years? What planet are you living on? Please elaborate because I don't see how you can even remotely defend
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by insertcredit 8y ago
Having done 25 myself, I was willing to get hired as an employee doing reveng a long time ago. But that was before 2010 and you're probably right today. Good reverse engineers can print money and don't have to work for pointy hair
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by insertcredit 8y ago
What I'm referring to is the core of cybersecurity: Reverse engineering & vulnerability research.
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by insertcredit 8y ago
I'm not currently in a position to hire people, see my previous reply to danesparza. Doing these and other similar challenges and reading and understanding phrack articles would give you a solid foundation to start doing reverse engine
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by insertcredit 8y ago
I'm not currently in a position to hire people, but having served in that role in the past, I would given the opportunity not hesitate to follow through with what I said (practical concerns aside such as figuring out if someone went th
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by insertcredit 8y ago
This is a complete waste of time and money with the usual bullshit material taught by people who don't really have a clue and completely-out-of-touch-with-reality academic focus (write a buffer overflow!). If you really want to learn i
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by insertcredit 8y ago
If you're not making any money from selling your books, why not make them available for free? They will reach a much wider audience.
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by insertcredit 8y ago
Can't download or print (chrome/safari). Working for anyone else?
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by insertcredit 8y ago
I was 40 years old and had enough money to comfortably retire from the daily grind. This was something I always wanted to do.
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by insertcredit 8y ago
I was reading on the computer or, away from my desk. I don't want to spell out exactly what I did, in terms of management, but I'm certain I wasn't the only one doing it. When you're a software engineer, you get a lot of
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by insertcredit 8y ago
Why not do both? I got to work on things I really cared about and got to keep a high salaried job and all the perks that come with it (I quit on my terms, not theirs, once I had enough to retire). My employer may not have cared about the th
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by insertcredit 8y ago
When I was working at Google (now retired living in Germany), I spent my first year there working insane hours and pushing myself beyond self-imposed limits. However, after dealing with burnout and having some close friends implode on the j