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Since this is a .net core project, I am a little puzzled as to why they didn't use the .net AES-GCM classes. It's part of .net core 3.1. There should be no reason to use AES-CBC mo…

"Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong." -- H. L. Mencken I am not saying that…

Absolutely true. However we also need people who do have solutions/ideas to these problems running for office even if they don’t know how to flip bits. It would be nice to see tech…

A small issue with number 5. How is an average technologist going to do any better with things like tax policy, immigration policy, energy or foreign policy than an account, lawyer…

Like all things in life it depends on the team and workflow. I have my PM’s make tickets because many times I am in the middle of a different feature or bug and don’t want to have …

I agree with this approach for software devs in any business. One of the cool things one of my employers (a manufacturing company) did was send me out for a day to a plant and have…

Have you tried looking into applications with training toilets for kids. The clean up on those things is horrible.

They already do. Many logistics companies have a "brokerage" area where try and get trucking companies (or truckers) to bid on loads going from x to y. I used to support software t…

Or even a turn based game, where click speed does not matter...

I used to work at a manufacturing company. I know the company tried renting some robots for putting items on a rack and getting them off said rack. On the surface it seemed like a …

After all this time the joke “Jon Skeet has already written a book about C# 5.0. It’s currently sealed up. In three years, Anders Hejlsberg is going to open the book to see if the …

One of the most frustrating things about dealing with situations like this is actually getting ahold of someone with enough experience to say where the issue is to begin with even …

While this a great service for the aircraft parts industry, I am not seeing why this couldn’t be done with a database and a properly secured REST API.

"After several years of trying to manage these issues with Kerberos, we decided to redesign the system from the ground up.." I am curious, is there anyone who went the opposite dir…

I understand this situation applies if the “developer resource” is a direct report. However in many instances the dev may have multiple projects going on at once and there is some …

The thing that I enjoyed being the solo developer most is that I got to make all of the software design choices. I set up the project the way I wanted to and code in way I felt wou…

I am moving in this direction after having taken a few coding challenges and not heard anything back from the company. If I am going to spend time on a coding challenge, I am expec…

There is a blog post from 2015 about an API for security and compliance motoring. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2015/04/2... I respect that fact that CrowdStri…

I am not personally looking for work but I was having a conversation with a friend and he was talking about a particular position he was having a hard time filling due to a lack of…

I can understand about being suspicious of the NSA after the whole Dual_EC_DRBG fiasco. However these designs are not unknown throughout the industry (ARX having gotten some heat l…

If your goal is to make money on something, then yes I agree with the author's points. However the whole goal of side projects is to have fun with new languages, frameworks etc.

Building on that even, the most fun I have had at "networking" was listening to other developers talk about some of the problems they are working to solve in their jobs/areas of in…

I recently moved into a full stack developer role. Not because I am a rock star ninja coder, but because I am the only developer employee in the entire company. The only difference…