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by wolfgke 8y ago
> This seems really suboptimal and the OP's comments on power imbalances seem on target. There is an easy solution: Tell all your friends that they should avoid companies that have such a policy in their terms of service and create
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> For Free Software hackers, the giants turning away from open standards, and towards DRM and abuse of the CFAA, is chilling. Every DRM needs two sides: A company implementing it and a mass of customers willing to tolerate it. The seriou
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> These companies only work for making money and are not around to help people. This has nothing to do with tech companies.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> If a developer doesn't check for a null value, are you really going to head to the documentation to find out why? Yes. I often write code in a way such that no null is checked. But if I do so, I always document it properly and my
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> 100% agree. It's all about the money. Is it really worth to invest so much money into "marketing" and "lobbying" the skill shortage instead of simply increasing the salaries to make the job more attractive? Jus
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Can you read this article? Use Tor Browser.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> All tech companies in Finland are like "We can't find enough competent coders!" and newspapers are publishing that as is. To me, if a tech company claims in a newspaper that it cannot find competent coders, to me it says
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> That's because every one of those "observations" applies to most everyone. It's the same reason why astrological horoscopes apply to everyone. Example from psycholoy: > https://en.wikipedia.org/w&
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Once or twice is an accident. "Repeatedly" demonstrates an unwillingness to change. This assumes that you make the same mistake multiple times. There are so many unwritten social rules (which actually hardly anybody can con
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Far too often, "lack of social skills" is used as an excuse for being a jerk, and refusing to think about what their words and their actions. I disagree. If you have a very bad model of how something is perceived by others, y
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> That's correct. The logical and emotional parts of your brain literally inhibit one another. I don't know whether this is true or not. But I am sure that when I do mathematics, I have very strong emotions. These are of a very
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> I once had to untangle a hairball of stuff made by someone with enough titles that his last name tended to fall off the line or be clipped. In my experience, the problem rather is that in science, the intention of the code is to be abl
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Could you provide some examples of times when being arrogant improved the quality of the product you delivered? Being arrogant and being perceived by other people as arrogant are two completely unrelated pairs of shoes. I personally wo
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by wolfgke 8y ago
Or perhaps: let the PTG sue any company that sued any other company/indifidual for patent violations (rightfully or not; enforcing patents is always evil).
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> I think that all patents aren't created equal. We'd have less issues if software patents were only valid for like 5 years. And we'd have even less issues if software patents were only valid for 0 years (i.e. not exist).
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by wolfgke 8y ago
A large problem in archiving is actually the copyright law. Sites like sci-hub or Library Genesis do a great job in archiving scientific papers and books, but are illegal. Also archive.org is sometimes on the brink of legal/illegal, e.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
No, it is a ternary search problem. EDIT: According to > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Balance_puzzle&ol... if you know that one coin is different from the others, with 3 weighings, you can even det
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Thinking about a change in country in a year or two and Germany comes up a lot. How is the cycling infrastructure? I understand it's not great compared to NL or DK In my very culture-biased observation as a native German (who also
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> While I'm not certain I could state what problem iPhone (or smartphones in general) solves, it's definitely proven market fit. Being a market fit does not mean that it solves a problem. To me, this is only one important reaso
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> The reality is is that Blockchain is no longer new. Compare it to iPhone - they both roughly came out at the same time, yet we're still having the same conversations - "What problem does Blockchain solve" - while the iPh
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> In order to design a really secure system, wouldn't you first have to know what "secure" is? Indeed. For this one loves to build mathematical models, formulate security properties, make proofs, think deeply about the lim
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> The big dilemma right now is there’s little funding available that can compete with the salaries of big companies. Rents have shot up so high that it’s not easy to take 6 months of to build something so you don’t have to explain. Failu
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> When you become enveloped by the status you attain in forums, meet sketchy “friends” online, and start getting easy money, then the path of least resistance becomes the one in this article. I rather believe that most such people (inclu
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> I can think of some fields where these kids would be well suited - like employing them to make the XBox Live/PS/Steam gaming networks more secure In my opinion/experience, finding loopholes/security bugs in an exist
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by wolfgke 8y ago
First: I respect your view on this topic. > Of course, they do! Reverse engineering is the skill of being able to see how things are put together without having the whole picture. I disagree and have done quite some reverse engineering o
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> and be productive members of society. I personally doubt whether one wants to be a productive member of a society that put one into jail.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> But yeah, consulting means billing hours, so you have to work on stuff that's less interesting to earn money for your company, especially when you're new. I know some people (myself included) who would work as consultant but
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> used to work at a company that did pentests (although I never did any myself). This was never the case. brandonjm wrote above (emphasis by me): "You could essentially be paid by companies to hack their own product entirely lega
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Reverse Engineering is a much broader field than simply in the context of software engineering. I will not disagree. But I am explicitly talking about reverse engineering as in the original article (i.e. mostly software and to a lesser
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> I find this profoundly unlikely. I know lots of examples where this is the case (I am talking about Germany, where the situation might be a little different, but I do not believe that the difference is too large). I know some really

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