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J8K357R

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About J8K357R

Senior engineering leader. ex-AWS, built Payment Cryptography from scratch. Interested in distributed systems, security, fintech, and the intersection of correctness and scale.

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    And the chickens come home to roost. That’s what you get for your theatrics around Mythos!

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    Comment #48027279

    I love that!

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    So that's why Chrome kills my PC's memory?

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    A great example of a decision that likely received little to no thought from an early developer but that has long legs and will stick around forever.

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    I once had a person that was hired by my company and then started bragging about finding a way to add stored value to gift cards. Then come to find out they were under investigatio…

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    My personal experience, agentic coding produces brittle code. Often it works but it violates every opinionated fiber of coding style in me as a developer, even when tuned to my sty…

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    Did anyone think to ask Google what’s happening? This can be easily reproduced still and n Google Translate. Strongly suggest that some SDE years ago thought this was an unlikely c…

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    Poison Pill! Why on earth would the best failure mode be to cease operating? Just don’t accept the new plan being ingested and tell the person uploading that their plan was rejecte…

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    Comment #31607228

    I’m, not sure admitting to fraud, even if the ISP is probably long gone, is a great idea.

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    I wrote an open source scorn sequencing engine which is really at the center of an LMS and my co-worker wrote a really nice looking content editor. But we were working as governmen…