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100% this

very interesting and innovative. great work.

"Shackleton's Boat Journey" by F. A. Worsley is a first hand account of the journey, written by the Captain of the Endurance. No fluff in this book, it gets directly to the action.…

>There comes a point where the money just isn't a motivating factor anymore clearly you've never been poor.

amen. thank you. unfortunately similar challenges exist in industry enterprise environments. small companies can be immune from it.

>the sheer incompetence of HR please expound. i am in a similar predicament and feel like a lone voice in the wild when trying to express this to my peers. i can't tell if they don…

he shipped the manuals to russia through a third party to obscure his identity because he knew it was illegal. the reaction to the crime may have lacked proportionality but there a…

I wonder if this was due to engineers releasing it on their own or if management had their back.

Yes, and validation as well. If backups are not tested by actually retrieving data on a regular basis, you might get a nasty surprise. The Legato NetWorker bug which resulted in 64…

wow that looks like a lot of fun! nice work on the project and securing funding, congrats!

i didn't dismiss or justify anything. my comment was a simple observation of fact. calm down you two.

sometimes powerful people in positions of authority are evil. it is heartbreaking.

due to the seemingly incomplete ending of the book of job, many people suspect the original ending was too extreme and was omitted later. how extreme and in what direction has been…

how does apple protect againat hash collisions?

no, you said it was "unlikely" all this aside, how about some sympathy for innocents caught up in this unconstitutional dragnet? does the 4th amendment even exist anymore once the …

yes, until you run into a judge & prosecutor who are golf buddies.

and how's that working out for these unfortunate folks?

>I’m not scared of corrupt dumb people regardless if they have a federal badge. i envy you

lol

it may be hard work but it's necessary.

they should stop phoning home if the device is end of life.

tell that to grandma who just wants to store her family photos. imagine if this mindset was extended to automobiles.

they said the same thing about tylenol in 1982.