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Location: Baltimore, MD Remote: Yes/only Willing to relocate: Remote work only Technologies: Perl, C, C++, Java, PHP, Python, Coldfusion Email: work@rilita.com Payment accepted: Bi…

Reading through this article I am unclear on why anti-virus is now supposedly dead. It reads as though anti-virus is being shifted to the endpoints. That is, viruses are detected r…

What kind of security experts are they talking to... My personal list of most important things to do: 1. Run a version of Linux ( Windows is simply insecure ) 2. Use Firefox + NoSc…

Whether you like it or not, the description of being nice has a connotation of being clueless. Obviously the word can be applied to people who are not clueless, but it still has th…

I think the focus was on the fact that it is arbitrary. The person you are interviewing may not even know nor want to care what a Fibonacci sequence is. He is saying the goal is to…

I've seen a lot of writeups about interviewing here on hacker news. Things I liked in this particular one: - Admission that arbitrary coding challenges that are unrealistic to the …

I'll give you an example by posting in exactly the same way I always do. When I was in church I heard a sermon that stated that teachers are held to a high accountability level tha…

It's not useless because until you hit a certain karma value you cannot downvote. I encounter obnoxious people and attempt to respond reasonably to them; they downvote every single…

I have been reading Hacker News for some years now. More recently I joined and have been attempting to respond to posts with accurate information. If people object to what I have t…

A warning for people who value their time.

jQuery provides bind. That and related code is what I am referring to in that case, hence my insistence on the importance of closures. I have revised my comment to mention this as …

Have you looked at the implementations of classes in jQuery, Prototype, Mootools, Dojo, etc? I have. I've used thousands of lines of codes from these libraries and fixed numerous b…

There is a difference between the internal vibe of the company and statements by the current CEO. One has to say things that make the company money; the other is the true reality o…

Are you kidding here? In ES6 classes provide nothing more additional than the closures already in use via a bit of extra utility code. Doubters should click the link here provided …

tldr: - Books written for "beginners" target people who already know how to code - Author's book targets people before that - Most programmers are bad at teaching people how to cod…

tldr: ( my own, not the authors in the article itself ) - Read books - Learn libraries ( author seems to like node.js and recommends libraries associated with that ) - Do exercises…

Of note related to this are the following: * There is an email going around supposedly from an insider saying reddit intends to sue voat.co http://cityworldnews.com/reddit-plans-la…

The thing that we now call Firefox has gone through many revisions, going back nearly to the beginning of the internet. A lot of that code has been shared by many browsers. The cod…

Clicked on this article hoping for closure on Google issues that lasted for 5 wholes years. Thought to myself "Now that is something I can related to. Having issues with Google for…

Imagine that this article read as follows: "I used to have a great job working at Yelp. I was paid highly for it and accomplished a lot. I even got stock options. I've made it now …

As fweespeech says here also, criminals will encrypt regardless of what is going on. The people the FBI is "after" are going to encrpyt, so fighting to make public systems store da…

I agree completely that many aspects are covered by existing technology. The difficulty is in making it such that all of this can exist as a simple set of open source binaries regu…

There is a way to fix the problem that you are observing: 1. Create a "subweb". It is composed of the following 1A. A new specification for the publishing of information in complet…

Seems kind of doubtful they would be willing. The way his description reads it's like he is nervous that he created a gun. Why not keep it? He owned it... just lock it up? Plus tha…

My focus here is really on highly critical vulnerabilities that affect the public in a negative way by existing. I agree completely that reporting smaller bugs, or possibly large b…