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by seabird 8y ago
Have you considered that maybe their work is their hobby, and a huge part of their life and purpose? I work somewhere where a lot of my coworkers and management are incredibly dedicated and passionate about what we do. They will show up a
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by seabird 8y ago
I don't know what possesses people to implement moronic surprises like this in software that people use to actually get things done. I remember just about shitting my pants when trying to boot a computer using Super GRUB Disk on April
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by seabird 8y ago
I'd personally opt for the over-the-top flaming myself, as well. Although it doesn't cultivate a professional image, I strongly prefer it over the "but before I kill you, Mr. Bond..." tone that this example gives off. I&
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by seabird 8y ago
I have a lot of fond memories and appreciation attached to software like this. I only realized that when I spoke with somebody who made a point that's stuck with me for years now; when he was young, his dad installed something comparab
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by seabird 8y ago
Can we hear a little more about this? It seems so far off the deep end that I'm morbidly curious about the reasoning behind it.
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by seabird 8y ago
I recently rewrote a flashing tool that was used for programming engineering samples (which there is an extremely limited supply of) and production equipment. Literally everything (and I mean everything) in the old implementation was a glob
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by seabird 8y ago
If you ask me, this is a pretty awful approach. "Bug-free", secure, and fast are not the only metrics of whether or not a codebase is worth keeping alive. Some codebases are so obscenely dangerous that you really shouldn't be
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by seabird 8y ago
This is a situation where I would argue that giving "exact" images of the output is not helpful, and I'm somebody who normally hates fruity presentations of info. Having the reader make their own associations allows it to be
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by seabird 8y ago
There's plenty of phones on par with the iPhone that blow it away in the cost department. Android hardware has had good screens, good cameras, good specs, and plenty of screen unlock gimmicks (face recognition unlock was introduced ~3
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by seabird 8y ago
"It's OK to throw away money because a big business can afford it" is not a very compelling argument. If an increase in property tax is more than enough to cover it, what reason would you have to collect the business tax othe
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by seabird 8y ago
People don't rip on Microsoft for poor decisions and anti-competitive practices 20 years ago. They rip on Microsoft because the Microsoft ecosystem is a Rube Goldberg-esque shitshow of poorly integrated acquisitions, "features&quo
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by seabird 8y ago
Location is the biggest factor in the US. Living in a large city can often require your salary to double for it to be livable. It also really depends on what software you're working on. Embedded developers are generally "in the tr
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by seabird 8y ago
Hilariously enough, Roblox provides what is likely one of the best programming/development environments for a game targeting a very young audience. Making a change of any sort to Minecraft is needlessly arcane; decompile, deobfuscate,
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by seabird 8y ago
I re-read the article a few times and saw no mention of the product being counterfeit. They are all chintzy, poorly constructed, and come out of the same factory or two. Even if there was a brand name to counterfeit, the "counterfeit&q
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by seabird 8y ago
I don't understand how the author managed to write this, post it, and not realize how absurd it is. Many booby streamers depend entirely on presenting a hyper-sexualized image of themselves. It allows them to extract revenue from an au
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by seabird 9y ago
>which is because it did not have a catastrophic outcome at the time The problem with that statement is that you believe it was a catastrophic outcome. For the first time in history, media and new technology is able to instantly tell y
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by seabird 9y ago
Every time I see the "guns can't beat tanks" observation, it's usually painfully misguided/oversimplified. I mention this not to justify some "blood of the tyrants" notion, but because it is fundamental mi
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by seabird 9y ago
Zerodium is a company that tries to make things as straightforward and above-the-table as possible, but there are other publicly known companies that are willing to play ball (or roll in the mud, if you see it that way), even though they ke
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by seabird 9y ago
The size does matter. The amount posted for bug bounties is usually pitifully low compared to the magnitude of the bug. If you've got money on your mind, there's pretty much no reason to fill a bug bounty for a large vulnerabili
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by seabird 9y ago
It is indeed anecdotal, but gang violence is hugely influenced by the culture of the nation it's taking place in. Brash, unabashed outlaws have been romanticized in American culture since its very beginning, and firearms have always be
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by seabird 9y ago
He was prosecuted for raising the price of Daraprim, at least indirectly. This case is peanuts in the world of investment fraud, but Shkreli was an extremely soft target and a prosecutor looking to make a name for themselves saw the opportu
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by seabird 9y ago
I agree with you on every point. My guess is that the idea was to link to more complete information by having direct links to the "mass shootings" article, the Australian legislature, and the shootings involving AR-15 clones, but
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by seabird 9y ago
That's why this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AR-15_style_rifle page specifically lists all shootings involving AR-15 clones. There were no Colt rifles used in any recent shooting. Should every shooting using an A
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by seabird 9y ago
If you want the article summed up, read no further than this line; >But those users didn’t find much information about mass shootings or political efforts. In fact, the Colt AR-15 page made no mention of gun control at all, instead spend
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by seabird 9y ago
Having installed a medical records system for live-fire use by an optometry practice, I can say that it's exceedingly rare that you ever want to delete anything that is logged in a medical records environment. It's so rare that it
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by seabird 9y ago
Consider all the people who do want to go work for an ad company or a defense contractor. Ethical outlooks are relative, but your outlook bother people who are "unbound," even if their outlook bothers you. Go ahead and knock dow
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by seabird 9y ago
All of these noble ideas of ethics and social responsibility are great for everyone that feels bound by them themselves. Many of the rest can't be bothered. People who have to be taught that the missile they're building is going t
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by seabird 9y ago
I'm going to wager that very few (if any) illegal marketplaces trusted a codebase they didn't write entirely in-house, but that is just conjecture.
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by seabird 9y ago
Hilariously enough, the only people to reliably not completely biff cryptocurrency service implementation have been illegal market sites. If they didn't plan to run off with the money in the first place, sites like these managed to o
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by seabird 9y ago
I would argue that computer science is a bad example because blue collar programming, systems administration, etc. largely doesn't require a college education at all, for the reasons you mentioned. Short of research and study concernin

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