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> "Because when it breaks, it is broken in a stable way." Hubris. How can you declare something "stable" if you don't perpetually run tests to verify it is indeed "stable"? And to state the obvious: cer
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> "Do not use goto, setjmp or longjmp." Error handling in C without those primitives will almost always result in horrible code. They should've made an exception here: "goto error;" should've been allowed an
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> "The tried and true approach to starting on your own is to land your first customer by being the cheapest" That's definitely worth trying. But please remember, that is exactly what in an insurmountable amount of people i
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Why do they call it "stable" then?
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> "had a couple of jobs at uni as an iOS dev" That's a great start, but what kind of jobs are we talking about here? I'm asking because you might want to invest into building more experience before breaking off on you
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> "Problem is, as a student I am trying to go freelance and start getting clients by doing small projects." Is this more-or-less your first job straight out of school?
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Cash free societies?
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> "ELI5 please. why should I care about this." Sounds like exactly the tool for your kind! ;)
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The true solution though, would be for people to wake up and realize that in most cases, those so-called "ivy-league" colleges set you up for nothing you couldn't have gotten elsewhere. That you're NOT in-fact better off
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New Pricing for G Suite Basic and Business Editions
(gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com)
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Lesson learned: avoid ccTLDs. Reduce future risk by opting in for .com/.net/.org instead. Imagine the thousands of people using X@Y.eu as a personal email address. Those domains will be made available for purchase soon thereafter:
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8y ago
> https://hacker-tools.github.io/lectures/ Literally none of these have anything to do with proper information security/hacking/penetration testing. Will you please consider to stop abusing the term "
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> "The idea would be to give people a leg to stand on so they can take risks, not hide in their confort zone..." 560€ per month, in Finland, is not enough take people out of their "comfort zone". Check out the rental
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> "If losing $25k is life changing, you should pay some money to reduce the risk." What about the risk of your insurance company going bankrupt? Or the risk of your insurance company fighting tooth and nail to avoid paying you?
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> "Yes. You can go into settings and remove it easily though." Hopefully, will be the next mechanism to be phased out via legislation.
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> "Let me rephrase that. Is x86/x64 (or ARM, for that matter) architecture ideal to compile WASM into? Or could a different architecture be designed that would result in better performance?" I'm sure you could compile
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> "I wonder if wasm is feasible to target in hardware. I mean, there were hardware Java bytecode implementations, and that's a lot higher level, so it's definitely possible - but is it worthwhile? Are there any idiosyncras
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> "can you elaborate on why that is?" Might as-well suggest we use a single letter, instead of 26.
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> "When the strike passes the edge of the circle, it's no longer a zero, it's a Danish or Norwegian "Ö" (Ø). It's been a part of their alphabet for centuries." You can't please all the people, all
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> "Life gets in the way of scheduled work (on-call)." Scheduling 24h work days will inevitably cause "life to get in the way of work". On-calls commonly take a week or two at a time. Stop de-legitimizing work-life sep
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> "A guide to being on-call... we all have lives which might get in the way of on-call time" How dare those engineers live a life. They're on-call goddammit.
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> "Useful commentary from /u/hash_define on /r/ReverseEngineering:" I would say that a lot of the GH/IDA differences probably come down to UI and usability. Most of the tooling in the RE world today is