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by nemild 9y ago
To anyone reading, please do send a pull request (or an email, see my HN profile) with examples. I put this together in my free time, but would love to crowdsource more examples and general points.
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by nemild 9y ago
I'm confused, what does better early computer science education have to do with cybersecurity?
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You're absolutely right, that's often the intent. I approached my project with the hope of creating antibodies that makes those techniques less valuable. Or at minimal, help a few people better understand the incentives/techn
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by nemild 9y ago
If it's useful for anyone, I made a list of all the ways engineering media can be manipulated (including journalists): https://github.com/nemild/hacking-engineers I added this example to it since it's a parti
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by nemild 9y ago
That's awesome, and an inspiration. And I really encourage you to find a good team (rather than just focusing on salary), it'll really level you up quickly — and set you up for lots of good opportunities as the years go by.
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by nemild 9y ago
Thanks for sharing! I empathize with a lot of what you said. I wrote about my own challenges with ethics in software (and added your comment as a citation): https://www.nemil.com/musings/software-engineers-and-ethics...
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by nemild 9y ago
From Abraham Lincoln in 1842, speaking about his preferred approach: It is an old and a true maxim, that a "drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall." So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince
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by nemild 9y ago
Ha ha, I think we shared the same journey — and realizations. I wrote some reflections during my last experience: Chasing the Shiny and New https://www.nemil.com/musings/shinyandnew.html
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by nemild 9y ago
But just to be clear, it's really a function of what you're building. The answer isn't simply Angular/React good, jQuery bad. (And I'm sorry if I'm being too reductionist) For example, I'm shocked how many
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by nemild 9y ago
Absolutely, I know several journalists who think about how to pitch the "health food" of boring, but important articles with clickbait titles. Another question to ask: In old print media, is it ok to have crazily sensationalistic
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by nemild 9y ago
I also quoted Rethink's post in "The Marketing Behind MongoDB" in part 3 of my series on MongoDB: > I sympathize with RethinkDB's team — they did what thoughtful engineers are trained to do. Engineering purity and hum
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by nemild 9y ago
I'm happy to discuss with you offline (see my profile). The point I'm trying to make is that increasing the ability for greater enforcement mechanisms, should — on average — reduce the cost of loans. As I point out, there are real
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But loans for these activities (such as a loanshark) have their own set of risks that have to be factored in and affect the interest rate: - You may have no legal recourse and no collateral to seize - The loan may be funding risky or illega
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by nemild 9y ago
Absolutely, and I say that having worked in microfinance before receiving this request. But to me, that doesn't mean we engineers can't still draw a line somewhere, especially if we are called on to participate. Just because peer
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by nemild 9y ago
If useful, I wrote my own thoughts on ethics in software, after reflecting on certain experiences over the years: > A serial tech entrepreneur in Silicon Valley once asked me to design a “social stockade” for his financial services custo
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by nemild 9y ago
Isn't it a bit weird to have the waitlist form for such a large company be hosted by a third-party (Typeform)?
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by nemild 9y ago
Other great writing books: - Writing Down the Bones - Bird by Bird - On Writing Well (nonfiction writing only) - The War of Art I generally have tried to follow the feedback of writing consistently, even if you don't feel like it. Step
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by nemild 9y ago
The danger in a space like this is throwing the baby out with the bath water. - Yes, there are an insane amount of scams, and lots of dumb money flowing in - Yes, many use cases of blockchains should really be databases - Yes, many blockcha
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by nemild 9y ago
A more simple example is a crypto contract. Imagine a bank on Ethereum that accepts deposits and allows withdrawals (first example here: https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/solidity/ ) Anyone can deposit and withdra
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by nemild 9y ago
In that vein, you may really like The Power of Full Engagement.
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by nemild 9y ago
Lots of different ways: - Find a function call you're making in a library and see how it works - Look through the top python libraries (see https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python ) and pick a few of the simpler o
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by nemild 9y ago
While this is a start, we need a more rational debate about technological trends and their impact. We (technologists) all get very excited about the possible future (Internet, Social Media, cryptocurrencies) without being honest with the pr
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by nemild 9y ago
I wish I could upvote your comment many times. I wish the parent comment pointed out what use case they have for Vim, as this really dictates the "right" approach. I wrote about this previously in the context of Vim vs Emacs, thou
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by nemild 9y ago
There's lot here, but I'll make it short: - The fed does not exercise control over Bitcoin directly, so Bitcoin is still fundamentally different than fiat currencies - All fiat onramps into crypto are controlled by governments, wh
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by nemild 9y ago
Nadia Eghbal from Github also has a great guide: Lemonade Stand: A handy guide to financial support for open source https://github.com/nayafia/lemonade-stand
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by nemild 9y ago
I agree that this is a worthy area of inquiry. If you're interested in data, I highly encourage this type of research - and the data is probably out there to do this. I do data analysis on news coverage, and there's data to show t
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See: https://www.ethereum.org/token Look up ERC 20 - it's the standard token contract spec. Should be easy to understand if you program other languages. Also, I wrote a Solidity tutorial (pull requests welcome as the l
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It felt like a modern day scarlet letter, instead of a innovative new way to deliver cheaper loans. There are other techniques to deliver cheaper loans, which don't lead to social ostracism (and which don't violate any social netw
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by nemild 9y ago
In the vein of Kumail's critique, if it's useful to anyone, I wrote some thoughts about software engineering and ethics from my own experiences: A serial tech entrepreneur in Silicon Valley once asked me to design a “social stocka
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by nemild 9y ago
Your point expresses the classic innovator's dilemma; in this case, impossible to improve usability if you have to maintain existing SLA forever.

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