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Unlike the other code-slinging gods who walk amongst us in this thread, I prefer coding challenges because I'm pretty mid-level and average and I do actually need a job. And I hate…

Apple's iPhone also brought new UI/UX ideas and people that grow up with these phones/desktops now and judge everything by that standard vs. what was considered "working" way back …

>I was removed from a company I founded (after Blizzard) for refusing to take a 2 million dollar kickback bribe to take an investment from China Resisting that takes strength. $2m …

The only reason the supply chain is at risk is because we dispose of a lot of electronics simply because there's a new version. When the product lifecycle changes from 1 year to 10…

Anyone know if there's been research into terraforming via asteroid/comet impacts and trying to simulate that?

Definitely not

After 8 hours total interviewing at one company, I kinda feel like I was hired and fired in a single day

I think those folks will still shoot for top companies, so if that’s you, most likely. (psst, train your own, damnit)

Sysadmin folks can transition into security, they don’t need to go away

Locking down accounts you control on your infrastructure is vastly easier to scale than asset forfeiture. Scale and ease does matter here. >I have never seen an argument against cr…

Nurse Practitioners can handle a good bit of every day things. If that's who shows up, the article is being disingenuous.

Only if you bring an umbrella to work

I don't understand the prototyping angle. Can't you just do something on your local machine? There's stuff like dotnet new for .NET where I can just run that and have a skeleton pr…

It's hilarious watching engineers give up on a mobile app and then go right back to fixing bugs in complicated code

It'll move away from the IQ 'brand' and move to job performance or some other easier-to-measure metric. I'm actually okay with this, I'd much rather they be honest that a particula…

If you know SQL and know the ORM, you can just do the complicated things in SQL. If you know a problem is going to be complicated, you know to use SQL. If you don't know if a probl…

I think cryptocurrency takes the cake vs. any sane/non-bug thing that frameworks are probably doing. Maybe some AI workloads are in the ballpark?

I think -- hope -- they meant trimming future growth via abstinence. Not killing people.

>Pentesters sometimes are leveraged as pawns in political games in organizations - seems similar with government. How?

The scoping doc link in this thread pretty clearly indicates the address where this happened. The fault seems to be with the person who authorized the physical portion in the contr…

>I cannot imagine anything worse that one could ever say to a cop. From the physical pentests I've heard about (never done it myself), they tend to get cordial with LE if they get …

Defense Digital Services has a project working on defense of this kind of stuff If you're into that sort of thing, you should go check them out as they're hiring a lot of folks

We would need a similar-in-principle industry for engineers if they are legally and professionally responsible for code. It would likely be smaller and cheaper since most of us are…