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There are many forms of tyrants, but there are none so terrible as those stifling their own people in the name of freedom and safety.

Then sadly they probably know who you are already.

I agree with your statement (not with the virtue signaling part, but I will ignore it for now). To me, it reminds me like one of those "I gave $100 to a stranger" youtube videos. T…

Didn't facebook try "Is this your friend Bob?" (showing you a picture of some random people) as their forgot password captcha, in the past? Now that was evil!

I had an imaginary friend. It was a dog. My parents wouldn't get me a puppy, so I just imagined having one. It was a lot of work because I imagined having to take it for walks (so …

I was asked if I have taken polygraph tests, and if I am willing to take one. They didn't follow up with it, but they seemed serious about it. That was for a contractor position, n…

Some jobs require it. Not even super-secret top-hacker men-behind-the-curtain type of operations. If you wanna be a senior sys admin for bed bath and beyond, you 'll be probably ge…

Do not hire people who do this. Most of them will say "over 200m downloads of npm packages". Go and take a look. If you see things like 'is-not-foo, checks if a given string is not…

Cool! Did you have fun and learn a lot? Nice, thanks for sharing.

I am going to be downvoted, but this needs to be said. The problem with the indie developers is that many of them are driven by greed and only greed. But that is hidden behind a ve…

Well, the fact that one of the biggest phone OS supports QR codes natively in the camera, severely reduces the friction that comes from "what's that weird thing, oh it's called a Q…

Nobody has the resources for that. Some companies make OSes, and some companies send rockets to space. Those feats are also powered by thin wrappers over electron. /s People seem t…

iOS camera reads QR codes by default. Just point your phone with the default camera app ON. No special mode required. I have a qr code printed on my living room (made to look like …

> http://www.youtube.com/index.php I didn't know youtube's first version was written in php.

Problem with alphanumeric, is you have people from foreign countries who do not even have an english keyboard installed on their phone. Default is probably their native language an…

But what if you have a total of 3000 engineers. What will all of them do? Perhaps a handful of them can investigate and try new things?

But... will mozilla or the people behind haveibeenpwned know I am using a pwned password? Basically, by checking if you are under risk, do you leak info to 3rd parties that can be …

Because it comes off as snarky and provides little value I would guess. I would say that due to jQuery's explosion, framework writers went from geeky technical people to being look…

Javascript framework makers are the new rockstars. People want to be rockstars.

Considering that some astronauts turned youtubers, or netflix documentary actors, the famous once at least. Can you blame them?

Well, I am not doing heavy weight editing or making movies. Most of the time I need to remove audio, resize and re-compress for web, cut the first and last seconds, or splice toget…

From 2014. ( http://adamcadre.ac/14lyttle.html ) "Obama chuckled. “You mean the Chaos Emeralds?”"

For my use I have replaced all GUI video editors, with a bunch of ffmpeg scripts (no irony).

I am wondering why you are being downvoted. This outage could have been prevented with better deployment procedures too. For example my company (nowhere near the scale of Cloudflar…

I hope everyone in the story recovers. I have tried LSD a few times, and the thing that surprises me the most, is how bad his friends in the story are. First of all, the rule is, w…