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by jongjong 3mo ago
I've come to dislike hacker culture. Worst part is that when the hackers succeed with their objectives and take over systems; they become the authority coordinating others and they are often 10x worse than the authorities who came befo
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by jongjong 3mo ago
Yes and my perspective is that GDPR has harmed EU startups and helped US companies by virtue of them being incumbents and having the resources to dedicate to compliance. Probably can't be fixed as easily now because of corporate cultur
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by jongjong 3mo ago
This is where I disagree as a software engineer who has seen EU products built and not adopted... I've also built products myself which were fully functioning and scalable but not widely adopted. Building is not the bottleneck. It feel
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by jongjong 3mo ago
Yes. A lot of people have a very loose definition. Which is strange to me. Some people think of the postman who brings them letters as "helping" but I don't consider it that way as they're being paid. The people who volu
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by jongjong 3mo ago
The thing is, the pie feels as though it is fixed in tech sector due to monopolization. It's fixed in terms of who can have a slice at all. So while the size of the pie and people's slice can grow, who can sit at the table feels f
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by jongjong 3mo ago
It feels like they've been paid to sell out the users themselves, not just the data. It's weird that EU is so dependant on US tech when it comes to media platforms... While there are alternatives out there. In a lot of related are
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by jongjong 3mo ago
It's incredibly difficult for me to ask for help because I was raised to always pull myself up by the bootstraps. This attitude has seeped into my moral framework. If I get help, it's special treatment; it's an unfair advanta
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by jongjong 3mo ago
Quitting is a bad move. You should just quiet quit and start acting and don't take anything too seriously. Probably all your colleagues feel the same way anyway. Everyone is just hustling and bullshitting at this point. Everyone is las
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by jongjong 3mo ago
You just shouldn't take anything too seriously. I used to resent being paid by the hour instead of based on deliverables. But nowadays, in the current environment, I am extremely glad that I get paid hourly. It's a different skill
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by jongjong 3mo ago
It's a systemic issue unfortunately. When some of these unethical CEOs say that they feel like they have no control and that if they didn't do it, someone else would, I believe them and it makes sense. That's why they should
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by jongjong 3mo ago
Great article. I think the problem though is that people changed, fundamentally. In the day of the crappy forum, people actually cared about interesting ideas, thoughts, experiments, community. You could join a forum and after a few months,
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by jongjong 3mo ago
"The proof was only as good as the spec." Is the sentence which will go on the tombstone of Formal Verification. The spec has always been the problem. Whether the flaws in the spec arise from the customer or from the developer fil
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by jongjong 3mo ago
He is fighting a losing battle. That's why nobody in the administration cared. Academic integrity already doesn't exist anymore. As Nassim Taleb would say; there are plenty of highly educated idiots with PhDs. Even the idea that M
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by jongjong 3mo ago
I don't know which country this is but this sure seems like a country where doctors have an incentive to maximize the amount/cost of treatment. I've seen the two extremes in different countries; either they have a tendency to
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by jongjong 3mo ago
I found a DoS vulnerability in Coinbase several months ago on Hacker One. It took me literally 30 minutes to find. First time I did this in my life. I could craft a message cheaply which, when sent as the HTTP payload to a specific endpoint
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by jongjong 3mo ago
This isn't going to work because the LLM doesn't have enough context. Many security issues involve a failure mode which cuts across multiple parts of the code. A PR which seems perfectly valid on its own may be the missing piece w
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by jongjong 3mo ago
Reading the comments here, I'm struck by how many people seem to view code quality as an optional thing. It's almost as if software can function correctly without it. But it can't. Code quality is not a nice-to-have, it'
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by jongjong 3mo ago
The worse designed the code, the more frequently it has to be re-factored. I've worked on long running projects which required essentially no refactoring when implementing new features and I've also worked on projects which had to
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by jongjong 3mo ago
And this code is often full of security vulnerabilities. It's just hacks on top of hacks on top of hacks. You end up with 100K lines of code full of weird fallbacks, doing something which could have been done more reliably with just 1K
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by jongjong 3mo ago
One thing that I'm certain of, is that there are always costs to writing more lines than what is necessary to solve a specific problem. I've experienced this before AI, and I've experienced this, magnified, with AI. For a wel
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by jongjong 3mo ago
I feel like what should have happened with AI is that teams should have started to put more effort into planning and pre-implementation discussions. Second thing, team leads should have felt more comfortable to reject large Pull Requests. W
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by jongjong 3mo ago
This reminds me of how the founders of the so-called 'open source' cryptocurrency project I joined suppressed my work in the community. They monopolize opportunities, suppressing natural-born entrepreneurs; force us into very narr
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by jongjong 3mo ago
I realise this but it's still incredible to think because that's about 22k applicants per company. Even if that's just part of each company's total hiring pipeline, it's clear; something's wrong. I don't k
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by jongjong 3mo ago
The current situation reminds me of how far we've come from old ideals of delaying gratification today in order to have more later. It seems like this ideology has been corrupted into a short-sighted "Establish a monopoly position
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by jongjong 3mo ago
I think the discrimination aspect is downstream from this fact: > We follow 3.4 million people who submit 4 million job applications to 1,700 job postings across 150 employers and 11 industry sectors. Each job application was assessed b
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by jongjong 3mo ago
I think part of the confusion is that the base isn't always clear. A lot of times, when first exposed to logs, we are shown only base 10 or base e so it's just written as the word log or ln... This omission obscures the meaning an
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by jongjong 4mo ago
It's crazy to think that if Elon Musk hadn't mentioned Schmidhuber, most people would have no idea. It's nauseating how all the researchers who happened to work for big tech got tons of media coverage but Schmidhuber and his
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by jongjong 4mo ago
I find my explanation simpler. // The power to which I must raise 10 to get 100 is 2. log10(100) = 2 // The power to which I must raise 10 to get 1000 is 3. log10(1000) = 3 // The power to which I must raise 3
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by jongjong 4mo ago
It happened during college. I had a weird relationship with Math growing up; I alternated between getting very high grades and terrible grades depending on the teacher. I didn't like all the notations and conventions of Math and the wa
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by jongjong 4mo ago
I already feel like most established big company software projects are unmaintainable. With AI, it's going to be even more so. Currently, even though a lot of software is unmaintainable in a general sense, there's usually some eng

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