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He was an addict and got sober, but otherwise yeah the image is fitting.

Nowadays every webpage downloads 2 megabytes of framework JS and css preprocessors and analytics trackers and then pegs the CPU for a few milliseconds to display a paragraph of tex…

I think most web developers have been very wary of Google and Chrome since 2010 or so.

Maybe you shouldn't frame your compensation in terms of a "COLA adjustment" although I'm quite sure your employer would prefer that meek mindset.

We already have troops stationed in 146 countries around the world, the thought of adding killer AI drone capabilities to the mix isn't exactly comforting. Then of course, if gets …

I don't know why every massive corporation is trying to rebrand as "the friendly AI conglomerate!" but I'm not buying it for Microsoft or anyone else.

You're pretending like 90% of people don't interface with the network by just using google. The few people who don't do that just search social networks instead. I'm old enough to …

Most of these articles have the same narrative, summarized as: We have seen how dangerous and important technology is with elections, now it's more important than ever we educate e…

So ssh private keys are stored in plain base64 encoding in the windows registry? How is that even possible?

I love how the default way to get an actual human to respond to a real problem at google is now: 1. Be famous 2. Make a stink on social media I feel like I'm back in high school.

So because there is no advertising revenue it makes sense to disable comments for advertising? huh?

Why can't users comment on ads? I can see obvious reasons why corporate partners buying the ads would want to disable comments, but is it actually good for the site? HN is one of t…

After reading one of the Krebs security posts about the various credit agencies I decided to look into the NCTUE agency I hadn't heard of, and decided to get a free copy of my repo…

The problem is not everyone on the world stage is a rational game theory nerd that links to papers like we want them to be. Also 60 years of treating every other country as a box i…

I may be late to the game but this is the first time I've looked at something and thought "yeah well The Terminator is about to happen"

Consumers are wising up to this and just turning the tables on companies, exploiting them for the first reduced month or whatever the unit of service is and then jumping ship immed…

Do you have other examples? I haven't heard much about him.

Oh no they just threatened to "end my career" if I ever talked about the interview or the company two days after I walked out. There are a lot of dirtbags in tech.

You can call it "catfishing" like you just captured a criminal mastermind, but people of color generally don't have the reference game down and are forced into doing stuff like thi…

I've worked on a lot of cross browser bugs since IE5, never seen one created by any header or created by omitting http headers. Honestly your comment is just nonsense.

I once applied for a job that I thought was doing security engineering type stuff, and that's what the posting certainly described, but in the interview it quickly became a bait an…

Thanks I guess my new hosts file is working after all

We don't live in the world of the 1970s anymore, anything that might slow down or impede corporate profits can be rejected out of hand as feasible solution. It's just not even wort…

Every theater chain already has passes, and has for a couple years now. None of them are halfway as good of a deal as moviepass is.