shxdow

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by shxdow 4y ago
In order to be fair, threat models should be taken into account. People seem to be conflating nation state operations using advanced capabilities worth at least hundreds of thousands of dollars to compromise high value targets/infrastr
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by shxdow 4y ago
In Italy Software/Computer Engineer (Ingegnere informatico) is indeed protected, people usually refer to themselves as software developer or programmer unless they hold an engineering degree. The story is somewhat different when it com
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by shxdow 4y ago
Unless memory is failing me, WhatsApp had ~55 employees (engineers ?) when they were acquired, also I doubt that Facebook is now pumping tens of thousands of engineers on a product that kept itself up with more or less 50 people. Moreover,
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by shxdow 4y ago
The question I have in regards to your suggestion is, how scalable is it ? Can/could it be applied to a FAANG-sized company ? I'm not rejecting any of your points, its just that every time someone critiques the current hiring prac
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by shxdow 4y ago
I personally wouldn't draw all these conclusions from the email footer alone and I'd refrain from speculation as well. It's a footer at the end of the day, but that's me I guess.
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by shxdow 4y ago
Very interesting work indeed. I second the sentiment, knowledge of the main goal would add context about the reverse engineering process
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by shxdow 4y ago
I don't know, the name "hc based hacker" doesn't help
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by shxdow 5y ago
One reason why you would want to know how Git internally works is to make a better use of it. The interface it exposes is relatively low level and as such suffers when uses don't understand how the software internally operates. If anyt
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by shxdow 5y ago
I still don't get how OP (and every person that agrees with him) seems to conveniently avoid tackling all the logistics of their proposed solution.
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by shxdow 5y ago
I think you are referring to Professional Orders ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_order ) and, depending on where you live, there may actually be one. In my country, computer engineers have a professional ord
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by shxdow 8y ago
"If you're doing real, creative, problem solving work, then daily physical contact with your colleagues is essential. The bandwidth of knowledge transfer is vastly in excess of anything that can be done remotely, and quickly bounc
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by shxdow 8y ago
Fair point. As far as non fiction goes, I know how to achieve whatever my goal maybe (learning most of the time). Which translates to taking notes, testing code, proving theorems myself etc... But whenever I pick up a fiction book I'm
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Ask HN: How do you enjoy fiction books?
2 points by shxdow 8y ago|4 comments
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Changes to Google's service model in Europe(blog.google)
3 points by shxdow 8y ago|0 comments