jumper_F00BA2

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   by jumper_F00BA2 8y ago

   Sympathy for the interviewer. Well guess what, you're not going to find much luck pulling this yarn. Some interviewers get the fist. And that's just the way it goes. If I'm supposed to play toady to this dog and pony show we&
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   by jumper_F00BA2 8y ago

   So some self-important "tech luminary" claims to have engineered a secret weapon feedback loop, and it's so incredible that it hacked everyone's brain, and wowee, he's so smart. It's easy to pin post-hoc ration
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   by jumper_F00BA2 8y ago

   Thanks! I could probably write something, but the world wouldn't let me enjoy it. So I languish in pointless tech jobs producing executable web fluff that lives between the browser and the database (' middleware '), that will
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   by jumper_F00BA2 8y ago

   Thanks again! I am not an author. It'd be tough to carve out a niche for myself with mere words.
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   by jumper_F00BA2 8y ago

   When faced with questions that have answers I could obviously discern by writing and running two lines of code, I willfully shrug, answer by intuition, hoping that's the trap for the wrong answer, and wait for a facial expression. Toda
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   by jumper_F00BA2 8y ago

   No. That's not how human behavior works. The " dopamine-fix/pleasure-addiction " concept is deeply flawed, and serves only as Pop Culture's mental crutch, occupying place where an explanation for a deeper problem be
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   by jumper_F00BA2 8y ago

   This is the curious part about criminal justice, which like jury nullification, bribery and witness intimidation, people would very much prefer to conclude as non-existent: evidence contamination and tampering, despite auditable records for
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   by jumper_F00BA2 8y ago

   Ah, come on. It's time to get real about all the Spencer Gifts level of bells and whistles added to all this technical garbage, as a convenience upsell. Luxury items are exactly that. A luxury. When everything is perfect, a luxury is w
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   by jumper_F00BA2 8y ago

   1. In an isolated power plant, you ground things by literally stabbing a long conductor, with an appropriate diameter of perhaps an inch, about ten feet down into the ground. The depth is a key factor, usually to reach natural moisture in t
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    by jumper_F00BA2 8y ago

    Not to mention... searching... Google? Really. Does that sound like something anyone would ever expect to return fruitful results enabling criminal activity? Does anyone imagine this being the sort of thing a person operating an encrypted s
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    by jumper_F00BA2 8y ago

    I think the level of security provided by passwords or password managers is probably of little import, when confronted by a nation-state actor, and indeed a top tier nation-state actor, with nigh unlimited resources, and an axe to grind o