mk89

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811.
by mk89 7y ago
You're talking about an industry where software is a cost. IT is generally a cost for all those companies whose business is "something else". For me obviously this is short sighted, however, that's the way it is. I have
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by mk89 7y ago
I am also extremely pissed. Still, I was searching for alternatives on Android. It's ridiculous that no other browser allows extensions, not even Chrome itself. Firefox is way more advanced on this. That's one more reason that is
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by mk89 7y ago
I disagree. Probably what they need is a better monitoring an alerting system that triggers when these certs are expiring. The software did what it was supposed to do -> prevent MITM attacks, fake extensions, etc. What they could have do
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by mk89 7y ago
Standard answer from a person that didn't understand the issue - "who is this bunch of idiots? Fire them all". Sounds like a C*O. :)
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by mk89 7y ago
I don't understand why you got down voted. I use also a blue light filter, and it helps. Of course, if you look up stuff until 2AM...there is no device helping you there, except for a battery off! :)
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by mk89 7y ago
Very wise choice. This will help you in life, not just with this difficult guy. Also, beware that even after you have mastered all the great communication skills you want, etc., you might still not get what you want. It takes a lot of effor
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by mk89 7y ago
On your own, you can do two things: 1) Leave ASAP 2) Take this as an opportunity to learn something which is really common with (senior) SW developers I am not gonna tell you that (2) is easy. It's actually extremely hard, it can get e
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by mk89 7y ago
You kind of described a highly disfunctional company, where you as a senior sw engineer literally had the power and authority to choose who would get promoted and who wouldn't.
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by mk89 7y ago
I am using Firefox 66.0.2. (how could I forget to mention that!).
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by mk89 7y ago
Using Firefox for android: if I open the page and scroll down, the address bar becomes invisible and the hsbc bar shows up. If I keep scrolling down, I just see hsbc. The moment I scroll up, the original address bar is shown, and even if I
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by mk89 8y ago
Profit, short term thinking, incompetence. This triplet is so common that seems to be part of a major study that lots of execs have properly mastered. Is there anywhere some study/statistics that shows the impact of those 3 elements t
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by mk89 8y ago
>Should we be clear that Africans are fucking over Africans and that it is not some external oppressing force that is to blame. Also yes. I understand your frustration. I have a (white) South African friend that feels the same, and when
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by mk89 8y ago
> I'd be a lot more comfortable with "We have a machine set up for you, but you can also bring your laptop," That's exactly how I do it. My goal is to assess the candidate's skills with realistic expectations, a
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by mk89 8y ago
I frankly still don't understand what's the expectation of such whiteboard exercises. It's just one method, and companies have to understand that one day maybe it will be superseded, hopefully soon. This "we have always
825.
by mk89 8y ago
Roundabouts with arms priority lead to deadlocks, I never thought about this. Interesting to see this in practice and to just give the rule "ring has priority" for granted.
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by mk89 8y ago
Brilliant! Censorship is a technique used by any person in power so far in history (at least as far as I know), no matter the government type. It has little to do with the "fear of committing the same mistakes as they did years ago&quo
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by mk89 8y ago
I used to think the same. However, I see that this fear has become a technique to crush anything else that doesn't follow the same thinking. As usual, extremes are not good, no matter what, and it is in such situations that other extre
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by mk89 8y ago
>Why should we create energy from something so complicated and hard to control when we have something simple and easy to grasp like water, solar and windpower? I think because it's way more expensive than having a mixed source of en
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by mk89 8y ago
Welcome to the age of (digital) data. China understood this several years ago, and who wants to enter that market? Basically everyone, despite the costs and regulations. It means that EU will have their own WhatsApp, Facebook, etc... If the
830.
by mk89 8y ago
And those are smartphones for you?
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by mk89 8y ago
They got into smartphones business late, tried to copy Samsung, and now they are failing. What a surprise. What did they offer new on the market? Why would I choose a Sony instead of a Samsung? I personally did, just to test with my own exp
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by mk89 8y ago
According to [0]: > The likes of Google News would have to pay publishers for press snippets shown in search results. I don't really understand the rationale behind this. Really, I am trying to put myself in the shoes of a policy ma
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by mk89 8y ago
Wait until your VPS is breached because your OS wasn't patched, or because the firewall wasn't correctly configured. Learning is good, however, at a certain point I think it's fair that you can't minimize DevOps expertis
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by mk89 8y ago
Wow. An engineer that brings innovation is now to blame. The work is something that more or less everyone can do, innovation? Not for everyone. How many patents does an engineer release on average? It's evident that the company doesn&#
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by mk89 8y ago
It's not uncommon to have prolific inventors in companies like IBM or so. Maybe the company realised that this person's patents were not worth enough, however, they might turn valuable in a few years, who knows, through some acqui
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by mk89 8y ago
Out of 2000 users, there was not one that had a look at username/password? Impressive. Also developers during dev. Seriously, this is not justifiable, it's pure laziness if we want to be positive.
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by mk89 8y ago
> BUT if we are honest, anonymizing log data is rarely a priority. Even if it is, leaking sensitive data can happen easily in a lot of different points in the infrastructure. In actual application code, client + server exception tracing
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by mk89 8y ago
> Big Tech decides regulations are too costly, leaves Europe completely That will never be the case as long as Europe has a functioning economy. Look at countries like China -> everyone (Google, Microsoft, Facebook...) wants to get in
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by mk89 8y ago
.. Or simply Facebook will blame it on algorithms that are complex, not trained etc... We have seen every possible experiment, there is always an excuse. They even had excuses for Cambridge Analytics.The best thing to do is just delete your
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by mk89 8y ago
> That's maybe what the US believes (or some of the "America is special" hardliners) and if you believe it too I would say their propaganda did a good job. They can neither militarily nor economically do this, even if they

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