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staycoolboy
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Comment #24132508
It appears to be the former because no one addressed my point that people have different viewpoints. In my original post I stated that people would only eyeroll a reference to dive…
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Comment #24126995
I never dismissed anything. You literally dismissed ME. sigh
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Comment #24126843
You literally just restated my point, like the other peer posts. Their reaction depends how they feel about the term. EDIT: ...aaaaand you downvoted me. Typical.
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Comment #24126839
You literally just restated my point. Thank you.
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Comment #24125886
> inviting a tidal wave of eye rolls. That depends entirely on how the reader feels about diversity. EDIT: I made a claim that the reader's reaction depends on what the reader is t…
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Comment #24125728
Obviously. That's why I said "I have to draw the line somewhere". I trust my browser and OS more than extensions. Your security posture is probably different than mine.
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Comment #24124394
Good point, I edited my post. Thanks.
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Comment #24123018
Yes, it is. And the high salaries at netflix are for top performers, not someone who did a full stack, once. Like you said, 99% of software developers are NOT the top 1%. ;-) EDIT:…
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Comment #24121781
Welcome to the club!
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Comment #24121750
I recently deleted all of my extension off all three browsers (Chrome, Firefox, and Safari). The ad blocking on Firefox is almost as good as Ublock Origin. I found privacy badger t…
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Comment #24115319
Bug bounties are very different than auditing. In an audit, there is a contract in place with specific analysis objectives based on agreed-upon criteria. I find it unlikely anyone …
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Comment #24113578
That's an easy one: Python. The function declaration can force significant naming, but only for the caller.
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Comment #24112966
> they just pay for more auditing and public research. Who is Intel paying to audit their chips?
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Comment #24112941
Oh wow, I didn't know that. Sneaky.
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Comment #24111973
GCC warns of assignment in conditional, even without -Wall or -pendantic. I don't know when it started doing that, but it seems like a sore thumb today, different in 2003 maybe?
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Comment #24111503
This below my mind when I started using clang-format. There are only two options in all of clang-formats 100+ customization variables: move the star next to the type, or don't touc…
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Comment #24075186
"Mr. Potato head, MR POTATO HEAD! Back doors are NOT secrets!" : : : : I'll take my downvotes, it was worth it.
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Comment #24065250
I think the days of being stranded on islands are over. But what about oceans and being lost at sea? Would the film "Cast Away" make sense with today's satellite and object detecti…
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Comment #24063071
What is the status of snapchat? Does it still exist? Does anyone use it? How do they split time between TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and the other half-dozen platforms?
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Comment #24063060
How can there be room for so many social media apps? One option is that all of them carve up the social media demographic in such a way that they have enough users to be profitable…
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Comment #24062907
I followed it for three pages, then recognized the next 3-5 pages, and then literally started to laugh at the explosion of exotic names and terms as I crossed page 30. I had no ide…
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Comment #24054268
throughput vs latency. If I want to download a 1GB file, I do a TLS handshake once, and then send huge TCP packets. I can get almost 50MB/s from my AWS S3 bucket on my 1GB fiber, s…
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Comment #24040503
> How do you choose which narrative to privilege? Do you REALLY find it that hard to figure out? I can't tell if you're being sincere, or just being a troll who is trying to shrug …