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It's monumentally stupid to think auth is easy. Yes there are standard cookbooks and checklists out there. The hubris to think that auth fails due to a crypto scheme choice is why …

Yet we are as of right now where even our OS will go behind our back and act like malware to collect data even when we explicitly say no. The native apps are also all trending to o…

Exactly. But for the savy it's easier to see from network tab in dev tools where your data is sent. No such luck with native apps. I don't almost never use wireshark to figure out …

During my time in conscription, one thing that stuck with me was 'Forbidden Order'. If a superior gives you an order that violates set rules or laws (e.g shoot civilians). You HAVE…

Left and wished I had done it earlier. Once I gave my notice, that's when they gave a counter offer but I had made up my mind. Cost the company upcoming tenders and my entire team …

I just recently understood the deep connection between bytes and hex, hex and decimal. Can someone ELI5 what would be the use case for having data represented in Base32H? I underst…

Feel like we've gone full-circle for the umpteenth time.

This is great. Clean. Simple. No nonsense. WebSockets is a cherry on top!

Don't mind me, just checking if people already are complaining "THIS SUCKS, IT DOESN'T HAVE X". Just don't switch to it if you are so dependent on X. I kind of like the restriction…

So I hear the cons for e-voting all the time. It's absolutely true no system is sound and secure. However consider this: most politicians aren't exactly tech-savy. There are way mo…

I liked the no bootstrap section. People lack the foresight of shooting themselves in the leg. Currently working on a project where the front-end guys ended up using !important for…

Recently needed multi-threading with Arduino. Going to give this a shot. I'm sure people more well-versed with non-POSIX may have gripes, but I'm just doing this for hobby purposes…

It's a cool project and I admire the attempt, however 1) It's been done before, it's not original 2) The cost is outrageous (I see you use more expensive materials, but it's not $1…

I just find Go a more pleasant experience. The source code is easily readable and understandable. I don't run into weird wrong version or dependency problems ever. Go get, go build…

Why did you choose executions over something mundane like blogs or comments? Reading last statements isn't exactly something I want to be distracted by. The data is interesting sur…

My background is web development. One of my biggest peeves when it came to Java was the fact I was heavily reliant on IDE for the longest time, that meant if my IDE couldn't make s…

My goal wasn't to bolster a "fruitful professional relationship". She probably wouldn't have been hired if that was not the case. She excels at her work and there are no HR problem…

That's not really what I was getting at. Most of the guys are just like you described. We usually can't even settle on a video game to play. However, even with the one thing in com…

HackerNews isn't really a place to wave a empathy stick at. This is a place where years of work on startups and concepts come to die. If you came to find yes men, this is sadly the…

But I'd rather stay up all night and clear Black Temple.

We recently got a new female analyst. We invite her for lunch and sometimes have small talk. Thing is, there's literally zero chemistry. We can't include here in our dumb Skype cha…

> It's better than it once was, but you're going to have to check every single feature of HTML5 you use to figure out which browsers implement it There's tools for that and i'm pre…

> Then you have the language creep (Typescript, Dart or anything to paliate JS deficiencies; LESS/SASS), the JS framework creep, the libraries decay, etc. That is totally a thing i…

His just complaining and electron eats memory (supposed 200MB on startup). Find it funny he brings Java as a better alternative to the table.

As a language both are insane in parts. Not just architecture but the muddle of tooling also.