Viewing profile — lbatx

This sort of implies the street criminals become cyber criminals, which seems to not be a matching skill set. Call me skeptical of the study I admittedly haven't read.

Ah, thanks. As in Expired (date). Where date is every day from the day it expires until forever. Not Expired on date, but currently expired. Makes sense now.

Hmm, in that case, it's not really Google's fault. They are following the law (maybe not in every single case, but if the protections in the US are more loose, then they can/will d…

So then do you believe that Google acts differently in other countries, and only (allegedly) conducts this abuse in the US? Note: genuinely curious as to your viewpoint. Not sure w…

Clicked on your link just to get on the list (or move up, I suppose). ;-)

There seems to be a weird bug on the Google Patents site. I've noticed that the expiration date of a patent is always the day I visit the site, even for patents I know expired a wh…

And how do people decide they like the trade itself? Fine line there. How are people to know about the trades if all they hear is "go to college"?

Agreed. I don't see how you can leave out (among other things) databases, Big O notation, networking, and call it a computer science primer. Good for what it is, but misnamed.

You make an interesting (unsupported) assertion here. You, who find talking to an IRQ controller, real-time clock, etc. interesting, find Scheme boring, therefore others (who may n…

Taking your comment to its logical conclusion, then, no one should become an electrician. Too dangerous. Low (relative to a degree) pay. Well, who then is going to fulfill this nec…

I've always thought of "order of magnitude" as adding a zero, so anything less than 10 is a different order of magnitude. Gets weird thinking about 9 being both one number less and…

I don't think so. This guy is the second (or third or whatever) person to sue AT&T over a SIM swap. The first case is already moving to trial: https://www.coindesk.com/att-fails-to…

I don't have the stats in front of me, but my recollection is something like (using the same base number for Phone Screen but our rates): Applications: 5000 candidates; ~20% pass r…

That could be an even more efficient version of our test. As long as it screens for what you're looking for, I would definitely agree that shorter is better. It feels like it tests…

Hate it all you want. In this case, it's true. There are no hidden factors in my description. There was no token and it was a public API. I'm sorry you've been burned, but that doe…

At a previous company, we too would administer a technical test. Our pass rate was close to what was described in the article (40% for ours vs 25%). However, our test was incredibl…

> There are just as many counterfactuals to this strategy as there are examples. The scooter market is an especially bad - there is so much capital from so many companies - if you …

I get that they are different. It was an analogy. Either way, I don't think there's enough momentum to stop it this time either. BTW, your argument about being able to inspect loca…

Apparently you don't visit any sites using Angular?

We fought a similar battle with Javascript-enabled sites (remember when sites worked without Javascript?) and lost...

Which parts do I choose? How do I assemble them? How do I make sure they all fit together? Plus as another commenter pointed out, I can buy an off-the-shelf combustion engine. So b…

EVs are not that much less complex: interior is the same (hundreds of parts), suspension, AC, heat, wiper blades, brakes, etc. The engine is certainly different but I don't think t…

Worldwide?

Doubtful. I put that in since absolute statements are always dangerous. I'd say at any given time, there's an excess of 20-50%. There's virtually no chance they were lacking capaci…

I guess you're not familiar with how cloud services work. There's (generally) plenty of excess capacity.