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I could only find this PyCon 2012 talk ( https://pyvideo.org/pycon-us-2012/advanced-security-topics.h... ), but there was a session in 2010 that was perhaps more zeroed in on this topic. It was evident then that these pr
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I'm curious if they changed over time? I've observed this change in myself to a degree. There are things I'd not have let go in the past, but now I catch myself and evaluate the context. There is a fine balance between reduci
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That's me. I started with Radio UserLand ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_UserLand ), but later used the early version of Textpattern. I hadn't looked at Textpattern in a long-time, so I went searching, on
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>> your whole day is filled with management crap and you can't go and actually code any more. These are clearly the wrong people to be pushing into management. Good management (it does exist) includes people who have coded, but a
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Some people negotiate 4-day weeks with the same pay across all industries, but I'd say it's overall less common than the person you replied to. People like to talk about exotic work schedules and the like, but fewer actually make
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Lack of dogfooding is part of it, but I have to wonder how many product managers they've brought in to convert their player to a cloud music service? Changes like requiring you to sync all your devices with Apple Music are part of many
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There is no exact answer to this question, just a set of factors that contribute towards doing better than someone else. First, do you directly make money for a company, or directly reduce costs? The closer you are to core activities that g
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Does anyone know of Learjet military use? I came across usage as a decoy in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Sheffield_(D80) .
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>> My comparison is driving in the US is mostly stateless and context free. Understanding speeds, perhaps, but driving? There are many things that require context and state like the rightmost lane becoming an exit lane requiring actio
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In the case of the Stark there were failures, but the incident response was much more coherent than the Russian one. All arms of the Russian forces seem to suffer from similar problems of low morale, poor discipline, poor training, etc. It&
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Why would you use an old battleship when you have submarines (torpedoes and missiles), airpower, smaller surface ships with lots of missiles? (I think you may have confused this with the 1980s refit https://en.wikipedia.org/
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You want to avoid RFPs except where you can exploit them. For example, if you are able to get by with smaller customers for a while, you can use the RFP process to gain access to stakeholders and test out ideas. Procurement departments are
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I think this is good advice. I treat these interviews as an opportunity to keep a door to return to the company in different circumstances. When you look at folks working in FAANG (or other cohorts of big companies), there is quite a bit of
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Thanks for sharing this. I'm the type of person that likes to do 70 different things and didn't think to look for resources that might better support that way of living. I discovered way too late that I had anxiety. Almost everyon
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Is that a bad thing? It seems to leave the door open for a lot of explorations. It seems like it doesn't affect critical functionality that much.
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It's easy to find a large segment of enterprise customers where handholding password resets is the only option because of an enterprise policy which is getting misapplied. Further, these support requests are probably unlimited in suppo
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Frequently, support teams have lab environments. Hopefully, it'd be an account per engineer, but at least isolated from production. If software engineers access these for reviewing issues which made their ways to bugs, then potentially
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It gets more complicated than that. Imagine having to sign into the machine with a work (AAD) account. Potentially, your machine can be taken over and bound to AAD policies operated by IT at the same time it's connected to a personal a
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Microsoft's story isn't that different from the Google one. Microsoft had a Java language ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J%2B%2B ). Arguably, they had a better language designer in Anders Hjelsberg, as
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>> "Domain expertise" might be the main thing he's talking about This is clearly what he is talking about. When he is talking about his experience with the "Senior Design project course in Computer Science at my al
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Get your hormone levels tested by an endocrinologist. I interpreted weird, as "unusual". Most people will have hormone levels which are not contributing to weight issues they feel they have. An underlying condition that affects, s
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>> What are the current common libraries also doesn't really have a simple answer. Maybe this should be auto-generated based on Google or GitHub trends. I followed the Python and PSF community very closely for about 12 years thro
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Have you been to Japan? Everything involves more paper than Europe in 2000. It doesn't need to be optimized, but it should be possible to achieve things like static PDF or printout.
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This applies to every industry and consequential process unfortunately. Take something like GDPR deletion requests. Many mid-to-large organizations have automated flows setup to purge accounts after users make requests after very detailed p
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It's contextual. For me, WebForms fell down because it let the average web developer impose too many "costs" on internet-facing projects. A WinForms developer is a very specific kind of developer with a high focus on developm
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The usage, and resulting culture, of Python has changed a lot since 1999 when that was published. I think the language and ecosystem could have been improved without abandoning this principle with specific efforts, but I'm not sure tho
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It's not worth taking seriously for app development where you gain advantages from the native experience. This rules it out as a primary app development platform for the majority of developers. It's very strong for the many "
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If you want to make a quick shift from writing command line apps to writing GUI apps then you are the target for this. If you need to be writing high value mobile or desktop apps then this is a less of a compelling option as you note. There
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The "why not" list is long and applies to many niche technologies: * No understanding of formal methods. Even someone is working on a problem that TLA+ would be great at, they don't even know that formal methods exist. * Peop
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>> What's not yet clear to me, though, is why you'd choose to distribute these non-public applications through the appstore in the first place, rather than just make them available as direct downloads and have them "sid

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