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by souprock 8y ago
Woah. More and more, I'm glad I never took Google up on their interest in me. They absolutely have the money for real private offices, even in their expensive location.
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by souprock 8y ago
Absolutely, but not usually in a place like the Bay Area. It is easy and normal all over the USA. When a 3-bedroom house can be had for $150,000 or less, you can get by on a single unimpressive income. It looks like that income could be jus
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by souprock 8y ago
Yes, LOL, my family of 13 is always off the charts. Another problem is that lots of people don't live in cities. Covering only the big cities is an easy way out, but completely useless for many people. Since the non-city areas are nume
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by souprock 8y ago
I can confirm this. At work I helped create a PowerPC interpreter running on x86-64 that was faster than anything else I could find. In many cases, it was faster than actual PowerPC hardware. Our first two attempts at a JIT couldn't be
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by souprock 8y ago
I thought it was the other way, all being effectively restrict, with the hazard removed by the borrow checker. In any case, I want to be able to have both behaviors.
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by souprock 8y ago
This is the second emulator I'm seen in rust, the other being an ARM emulator done as a personal project by somebody who was an intern here. I do emulators, but in C. (BTW, hiring) For an expert performance-sensitive C programmer who p
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by souprock 8y ago
I've done it, really surprising a candidate. He was a developer for Xenia, an emulator for the Xbox360. Right away, I reported several bugs. I found a problem in the executable loader, a problem with the division instruction, and a pro
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by souprock 8y ago
I seem to be in that 5%. I wrote the /bin/ps program used by Linux. You might have heard of it. I maintained procps for about a decade. I also did a few Linux kernel changes. That all stopped around 2006 due to having 5 kids and w
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by souprock 8y ago
This sentence is telling: "Sure, he lives in a great 3,000 sq.ft house that only costs $500/month." You've discounted the value of that house. You forgot that the house might be on more than an acre of land, with a strea
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by souprock 8y ago
Eh, go for it? My place began with a few people out of the local university and an angel investor. There was organic growth and an actual profit. The exit was a company of about 40 people being sold ($36.4 million in 2019 dollars) to a larg
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by souprock 8y ago
Yep. An optimist: I could make a start-up and become a billionaire, or at least get $million/year at a FAANG. A pessimist: I'd probably be sharing a studio apartment and eating dry dog food, or maybe even homeless like so many of
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by souprock 8y ago
The landlords without rent control are enjoying this, as are the homeowners moving out. That 45% feels a lot smaller once you realize that your money doesn't go very far. It's also not all your 45%. You have more competitors for t
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by souprock 8y ago
Ignoring the actual numbers because of cost of living, an EE with coding experience would be doing far better here on Florida's eastern coast. That "studio apartments" bit is horrifying. My coworkers and I seem to do lots bet
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by souprock 8y ago
It's only a sacrifice if you'd actually want to do things that would raise concern. On the other hand, it is a huge benefit if you'd rather not be surrounded by people with those kinds of concerns. It's nice to know that
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by souprock 8y ago
Aside from the year, that is so similar to my first SE job: East coast but not big city: 1999 $48k, 2000 $52k I suppose inflation has been mild. Showing up in the height of the Y2K/web frenzy sure helped. I got myself a nice embedded R
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by souprock 8y ago
Milk is required for the consumption of cookies, cake, chocolate, peach cobbler, apple crisp, English muffins with jam, pancakes, and breakfast cereal. My family uses about 13 gallons per week, one per person.
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by souprock 8y ago
Hormones are active in trace amounts. That is all it takes. Never ever eat soy, unless maybe you are menopausal. Your mention of "dudes drinking jugs of cow breast milk" brings to mind a fond memory I have of my son bringing milk
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by souprock 8y ago
There are some extra things, like a fuel charge. It comes to about $0.08 or $0.09 adding those things in, plus about $8 per month just to be connected.
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by souprock 8y ago
It's a felony to receive unregistered chemical apparatus, such as an Erlenmeyer or Florence flask. https://www.dps.texas.gov/RSD/Precursor/Laws/index.htm
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by souprock 8y ago
It's $0.05 here in Florida. Cost of living is no joke. It's only a penny for the big industrial users.
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by souprock 8y ago
That is great experience, particularly "a whole bunch of assembly languages for exotic processors". Here, a job listing for you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19284153 Within 10 years here I had encountered
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by souprock 8y ago
Having three citizenships would normally disqualify him from a security clearance. He probably got rid of all but one.
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by souprock 8y ago
Ghidra appears to use version control, with a need to merge changes. Merges could get ugly. I think Binary Ninja's enterprise version might involve clients connecting to a server that maintains the database. It would be more like Googl
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by souprock 8y ago
Certainly the x86 decompiler improved! It hadn't existed. We also got graph view, a Python interface, a native Linux port using Qt, and 64-bit binaries. IDA comes with amazing technical support. I've emailed complaints, then gotte
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by souprock 8y ago
IDA developers get paid. My company alone probably gives them more than two million dollars per year. If we switch, it will be to Ghidra or to Binary Ninja.
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by souprock 8y ago
Well there are these, at my workplace: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19055183 That includes malware analysis, vulnerability research, and emulator development.
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by souprock 8y ago
If you specifically start GHIDRA in a debug mode, then yes there is a backdoor, but you asked for that.
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by souprock 8y ago
I believe the included decompiler predates the one that goes with IDA Pro, so that could be a motivation. IDA Pro itself is really really old, having once been a 16-bit DOS shareware program, which explains why IDA Pro doesn't use the
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by souprock 8y ago
It really is a job for a GUI, but even IDA lets you type commands. You can use Python, or a built-in language that is in the C family, or anything custom that you have attached to the plug-in interface. I would be surprised if one of these
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by souprock 8y ago
Binary Ninja has most of a decompiler and is expected to get the rest soon. Binary Ninja offers multiple views of the code, each with an API that gives you the same access that the GUI has. The different views vary in how much they are like

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