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Recently joined a company with legit soda machines(the fancy ones with exotic stuff like cream sodas), slim jims, ice cream, cookies, cakes and which buys lunch for the engineers e…

There's definitely competitors opening up and realizing the space is worth the investment. C# Maui for example, especially with Blazor, is extremely cross platform as well(includin…

It was pretty heavily used in enterprise on applications from around 2006-2012. I still have nightmares of it, as since it's enterprises the code bases got massive and GWT in my ex…

Apple is by far the most secure, which is why you rarely see kernel exploits and the market for IOS security researchers are in high demand. While the market for android researcher…

Just like with any government agency, you bid on something called "Small Business Set Asides" and get or say you are a minority woman. This will give you bonus points and contracts…

This is really the big reason. IOS blocks applications from running dynamic code. The kernel is immutable and replaced on every update, and safeguarding the JS engine is a huge ben…

There's a big difference between moderation on HN and sites like Reddit. Reddit completely shadowbans, filters, or bans anyone who doesn't post with the hivemind. This makes it so …

There's plenty of other companies that have the other side of the coin in values though that would admire people who stand up. It's very nice to be a good culture fit at a company.…

In regards to memory alignment, it's even worse. Most instructions work on unaligned data. But some instructions require 8 byte, 16 byte, 32 byte, 64 byte and I think there's even …

Government pension is actually very bad. You pay 4 % of your salary per year, and get 1 % * years worked * avg(3 top highest salaries). You get far more money if you put that 4 % i…

There's actually alot of research in this topic. You should look into "Genetic Programming" on scholar.google.com and you'll find some good presentations. For example https://schol…

This is one of the biggest issues people don't realize. A react dev doing fully frontend stuff is usually paid more than a security guy. Management views this as the developer maki…

Are you trying to run your own business? Me, my friends, and all of my coworkers have to live in the shadows because recruiters hunt us. Like, my buddy posted on Indeed and not has…

I was recently looking for positions and it seems like most of these companies are hiring you as a filler until they get someone just as good. So you're 100 % right. Without soundi…

If you're trying to enter the field I would highly suggest ARM. Mobile malware is the wild west and they really need analysts and hire a bunch of people with no experience out of c…

This is really good. But make sure that you read the NASM documentation(It's really good) https://www.nasm.us/xdoc/2.15.05/html/nasmdoc0.html . Specifically my main gripe with this…

Had this issue with a coworker who uses a decade old version of Linux and refuses to install anything other than base packages cus it's "Stable". Well I made an in house tool, and …

You want to use C anyhow as you want to make sure you have control over the code that is output. For example the following code you know what the assembly is going to be. strcmp(ch…