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by joesmo 10y ago
"As a practical matter, the (lawful) production of secure software in the United States becomes the exclusive domain of corporate entities large and rich enough to support (and at least attempt to secure) some kind of key-escrow and la
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by joesmo 10y ago
Maybe if you read my post, you'd see that I specifically mention "variable names of proper length that reflect their semantics (not necessarily long)," so I don't really appreciate being called a "long variable fana
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by joesmo 10y ago
Corporations lose money through regulation and lives are saved. I'm sure you can see why many Americans are horrified by it: they value money over human lives.
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by joesmo 10y ago
Unless you're the one that dies and becomes the scientific proof.
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by joesmo 10y ago
Detracts immensely. The story is super interesting yet the author babbles on and on with inanities. Poor writing that was clearly not edited well. Remove all unnecessary text was certainly a rule not followed.
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by joesmo 10y ago
When was the last time you read a math formula that was two million lines long? I don't see why short variable names would be better. With a proper editor you don't even save on typing and I've never seen code with short name
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by joesmo 10y ago
All guns are illegal anywhere outside your home and place of work in New Jersey with very few, minor exceptions for certain types of guns which will be sorted out after your arrest. This is the model gun control advocates want for the whole
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by joesmo 10y ago
Tell that to the families of the people who will die because of unreliable technology. I'm sure they will be consoled by the fact that their loved one died so others in the future, when we figure out how to create a 100% reliable smart
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by joesmo 10y ago
Exactly! If the fingerprint scanner on the gun works like the one on my phone, many people will unnecessarily die. What do their families do then? Sue Congress? Seriously, the idea of smart guns is really stupid. Can you build a system that
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by joesmo 10y ago
Not if you can't code, which most engineers cannot (nothing wrong with that). In fact, I'd say without a team of highly trained software engineers and a whole lot of time and money, having the code for a CAD program is almost usel
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by joesmo 10y ago
While we're at it, let's just write everything in spaghetti ASP because you don't need a [insert programming language here] framework.
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by joesmo 10y ago
"I nearly killed myself for Pillar, and this is the result of that hard work and dedication." And hopefully now, he'll learn his lesson and never do it again as pretty much everyone in the industry learns if they don't b
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by joesmo 10y ago
That's how I'm currently running our apps. There are still loads of problems and bugs on the AWS side, but that's to be expected. However, it's far from ideal in resource usage and automation (of the whole infrastructure
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by joesmo 10y ago
So I read this headline as: "Switzerland has great privacy laws; US not happy about them"
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by joesmo 10y ago
"We currently use a white board for most of the coding exercises. I am not satisfied with this because it penalizes different ways of thinking and communicating." So ask the interviewee to bring in a laptop (since he'll alrea
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by joesmo 10y ago
The 5th Amendment always applies. It is a right I have always, no matter what that cannot be legally removed. I do not have to be charged with anything to exercise it. This is a common misconception. If testimony is compelled, as in this ca
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by joesmo 10y ago
As rare as actual child porn is, the government loves these cases because the defendant is considered guilty before even being arrested, certainly before he gets in front of a judge/jury and there's so much taboo around the issue
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by joesmo 10y ago
One way or another, it looks like we'll find out if the 5th Amendment still holds any water in this country. My guess is probably not, but it all depends on how much money this guy has, I imagine.
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by joesmo 10y ago
Does the new PS4K play games in actual 4k (not upscaled bullshit)? No. It won't have titles designed to run on 4k screens. It won't be able to have games run at 4k. Sony has already told us this. This is simply an update for peop
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by joesmo 10y ago
Totally agree. It then leads to this stupidity: "Never start a line with (, [, or `." https://github.com/feross/standard/blob/master/RULES.md#semi... Now I have 4 extra rules to remember and de
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by joesmo 10y ago
Businesses cannot be trusted. If they could be trusted, you wouldn't need all this regulation. Even as it stands, many businesses don't follow regulations and there are generally no repercussions for that. It's the employees
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by joesmo 10y ago
Yet despite being assholes (ruthless in their parlance) who obviously have not on-boarded said employee or even told him what is expected of his code, I doubt their software has any less bugs than the software from shops who are not asshole
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by joesmo 10y ago
"The risk of choosing the wrong person is so great" I assume you don't live in the US or if you do, please elaborate because in the US there are virtually no such risks with at-will employment. It's so incredibly easy to
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by joesmo 10y ago
Given time alone in a quiet room with a computer, these are not huge demands. Trying to do this in front of people, on a whiteboard, with limited time, and having to explain yourself to idiots is indeed, the very definition of "stupid
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by joesmo 10y ago
These are some of the blandest, most routine requests someone can make. There isn't a single one that's weird, especially given Stallman's background. If this is the most "weird" the OP could find out of 22 pages, t
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by joesmo 10y ago
Do security researchers routinely hide the exploits they find and use them for their own nefarious purposes?
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by joesmo 11y ago
Seems like they're just taking a play out of the US's playbook then.
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by joesmo 11y ago
Still not as bad as when they stole my Prime membership money.
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by joesmo 11y ago
I'd say that is real progress. Canada going ahead with it despite the treaty is a big "FUCK YOU" to the treaty, the US, and all the horrible shit the treaty stands for, shit the US forced down the throats of the world lik
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by joesmo 11y ago
Argentina is a sovereign nation and should tell Monsanto to fuck off.

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