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by pianoben 4y ago
Yes, that's exactly what they did and why it was a problem. They represented themselves as the sole author. I want to say that they'd never even sent in a single PR, but this was over 10 years ago and I just heard the story over
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by pianoben 4y ago
My memory is a little fuzzy, but back in 2012 or so, this programming whiz applied for a job at Square on the security team (I think?). He was impressive, and had written an SSL implementation (EDIT: it was actually a certificate authority
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by pianoben 4y ago
Mandrake! What a blast from the past. I also remember Gentoo and Slackware from around the same time, though apparently the latter predates the former by a decade or so.
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by pianoben 4y ago
Conceptually, I don't see how this is much different from JIT compilers in the JVM, CLR, and similar runtimes. You don't hear so much from Java devs about how they can't* see the machine code their customers are running. Th
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by pianoben 4y ago
Ridiculous clickbait title.
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by pianoben 4y ago
One of my favorite composers! She wrote one of the, if not the earliest-known musical dramas, Ordo Virtutum[0], in which the Virtues are confronted by (and overcome) Satan. It's interesting for a number of reasons, but I especially
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by pianoben 4y ago
That's assuming the recruiters haven't also been laid off - most of my big-tech recruiter contacts lost their jobs well before their engineering coworkers did.
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by pianoben 4y ago
If you randomly generate numbers using `math/rand`, then every invocation of your program is going to see the same sequence of "random" numbers. If you happen to persist those random numbers and expect a uniform distribution
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by pianoben 4y ago
This change makes me SO HAPPY: The math/rand package now automatically seeds the global random number generator (used by top-level functions like Float64 and Int) with a random value, and the top-level Seed function has
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by pianoben 4y ago
We used it at my first job, up until a disgruntled contractor locked every single file in our repo on the day he got fired. We couldn't do a damn thing for like a week, until we migrated to... TFS, sadly, but even that was an improv
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by pianoben 4y ago
Division of labor within a larger criminal organization - line workers snatch the phones, and IT "unlocks" them.
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by pianoben 4y ago
> out of sheer stupidity I have to push back on this. It's not stupidity to not realize you need another Apple device to have any reasonable chance of navigating their support channels. It's not something they go out of the
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by pianoben 4y ago
> And the scientists discuss how it happens. For your benefit, I'll describe it here. Condescension noted :) You've described what I understand to be a common(-ly presented online) hypothesis about how an mRNA vaccine might inj
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by pianoben 4y ago
My mistake; I misread something somewhere, and thought that the population was 30-and-younger men.
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by pianoben 4y ago
> Standardized autopsies were performed on 25 persons who had died unexpectedly and within 20 days after anti-SARS-CoV-2 vaccination. Sample size of 25 out of a population of... how many tens of millions of young (EDIT: not actually youn
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by pianoben 4y ago
Not so; the mRNA technology used to develop and deliver the vaccine has been in progress for decades. The hardest parts were done before SARS-CoV-2 ever existed, but it's wrong to claim that "the vaccines" needed to be tweak
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by pianoben 4y ago
A small tech company whose founders decided that they preferred to take cash out of their startup rather than pursue a VC-desired exit. In other words, they converted their startup into what is sometimes known as a "small business&quot
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by pianoben 4y ago
Exercising options in a startup that I was convinced wasn't going anywhere but had great tech, and would be a decent acquisition within a year or two. Turns out, they shook off both their doldrums and their VC-fueled overambition and
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by pianoben 4y ago
Go and Rust each do have exceptions - in both languages they are called "panics". Both can (usually) be intercepted and recovered.
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by pianoben 4y ago
I've been a mobile dev for many years now. Every team I've been on either largely avoided Swift for the first 3-5 years, or was burned hard due to the constant churn. It's much more stable these days, but personally I'm
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by pianoben 4y ago
I think that often it's less about repaying a favor, and more about bringing in a ringer to take a stagnant/failing investment to a soft landing (acquihire or similar). Well, that's when they boot the CEO/COO. For HR VP
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by pianoben 4y ago
> They have a stable of people owed favors they may appoint to C-suites of startups Too true - I've lived through that one! The better VCs at least don't become indebted to incapable people - or they know better than to repa
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by pianoben 4y ago
This is very much how I felt around 2005-2007, just prior to the iPhone. It's incredible how quickly this feeling of stagnation fell away in the face of the New. Have faith that something New will come again, and you'll be the
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by pianoben 4y ago
I like the JetBrains model. You subscribe (annually, in my case), and for as long as you maintain the subscriptions, you get updates. If you cancel, you keep and can use the version you bought forever. The vendor gets recurring revenue,
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by pianoben 4y ago
Or, they run in to limits with Github and mistake them for git limitations...
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by pianoben 4y ago
I was not ready to cry today :(
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by pianoben 4y ago
I feel like it changed noticeably around 2012-2014. Before then it was okay , and since then it's terribad. Basically, in lockstep with the skyrocketing cost-of-living in SF associated with the city's tech boom.
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by pianoben 4y ago
Man, that's not even remotely close to my experience. I used that station (and 16th st) regularly and saw: - frequent drug use - frequent drug sales - congested and filthy station entrances/exits - zonked out naked dudes starti
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by pianoben 4y ago
Let me rephrase and see if I got this right: > Repeated layoffs strengthen a workforce It sounds to me like you may not have been through a layoff before...
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by pianoben 4y ago
(NB: No relation to the widely-used Android/Java DI library)

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