And here I am, trying to apply for a Senior position there [1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12752642
Sounds like they need you :-)
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Re: Weebly hacked, 43M credentials stolen
#22Look, this was 100% Russia. 17 government departments have certified this was Russia. This has Russian fingerprints all over it. Edit: man, this got unpopular. Curious if people dislike the sarcasm, or the sentiment of regular unfounded claims Russia is responsible-- at a gov't level, for major "hacking" transgressions.
I appreciate the sneaky attempt at political dialog after the past few days of in your face flame wars.
I am not trying to start a flame war, just curious why the 2 jokes about Russian hackers being the origin of breaches are being heavily downvoted. I would assume people think they aren't clever or funny, but hopefully not because they disagree that Russia seems to be the catch-all scapegoat right now.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
I appreciate the sneaky attempt at political dialog after the past few days of in your face flame wars.
I am not trying to start a flame war, just curious why the 2 jokes about Russian hackers being the origin of breaches are being heavily downvoted. I would assume people think they aren't clever or funny, but hopefully not because they disagree that Russia seems to be the catch-all scapegoat right now.
Likely because they don't add substantively to the topic conversation and are distracting given discussions going on in other threads.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
I appreciate the sneaky attempt at political dialog after the past few days of in your face flame wars.
I am not trying to start a flame war, just curious why the 2 jokes about Russian hackers being the origin of breaches are being heavily downvoted. I would assume people think they aren't clever or funny, but hopefully not because they disagree that Russia seems to be the catch-all scapegoat right now.
Simple really, joke that is not adding anything to the discussion is not appreciated here.
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#25Obviously, this is a very disappointing situation for us -- we've always taken security very seriously since day 1, it's something that's been core to who we are from the beginning. That said, how you respond in this situation can be just as important, and so we are making sure to be incredibly proactive in addressing the situation & transparent in how we communicate the details with our customers. Our top and immedi…
Can't blame you for being hacked, but how can security be "core to who we are" if it took 6 months to discover a breach?
They did not discover the breach, it was reported to them.
Re: Weebly hacked, 43M credentials stolen
#26Obviously, this is a very disappointing situation for us -- we've always taken security very seriously since day 1, it's something that's been core to who we are from the beginning. That said, how you respond in this situation can be just as important, and so we are making sure to be incredibly proactive in addressing the situation & transparent in how we communicate the details with our customers. Our top and immedi…
Just tried updating my password for my weebly account. It appears this functionality is broken. It keeps telling me that "Your current password must be correct". I logged in and out with the same password a couple times to confirm I'm not crazy.
Re: Weebly hacked, 43M credentials stolen
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
I appreciate the sneaky attempt at political dialog after the past few days of in your face flame wars.
I am not trying to start a flame war, just curious why the 2 jokes about Russian hackers being the origin of breaches are being heavily downvoted. I would assume people think they aren't clever or funny, but hopefully not because they disagree that Russia seems to be the catch-all scapegoat right now.
It doesn't matter if people think they're clever or funny, a core tenet of HN is that you downvote cute jokes so that they don't eat all the real discussion like they do on Reddit.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
That job listing is just so sad. Who starts a senior android role's requirements with "git workflows"?
Organizations that heavily rely on git? It might seem trivial to you, but the last thing I want in a CI/CD pipeline is senior engineers that don't understand the underlying technology. Believe me, I've interviewed lots of people for senior positions that just haven't had to properly learn revision control. It's not a given.
How long would you estimate it takes someone to "properly learn version control"? When I work with very junior developers they pick up git quite well in a week or two at most. Beyond that almost every team I work with uses their own special homegrown git workflow anyway.
I don't mean to put you down for you requirements but git is really really easy to learn. It would be a shame to miss out on a talented developer for something an otherwise well qualified developer could learn in a weekend.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I appreciate the sneaky attempt at political dialog after the past few days of in your face flame wars.
I am not trying to start a flame war, just curious why the 2 jokes about Russian hackers being the origin of breaches are being heavily downvoted. I would assume people think they aren't clever or funny, but hopefully not because they disagree that Russia seems to be the catch-all scapegoat right now.
Dang I was being sarcastic myself, sorry.
Re: Weebly hacked, 43M credentials stolen
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Organizations that heavily rely on git? It might seem trivial to you, but the last thing I want in a CI/CD pipeline is senior engineers that don't understand the underlying technology. Believe me, I've interviewed lots of people for senior positions that just haven't had to properly learn revision control. It's not a given.
How long would you estimate it takes someone to "properly learn version control"? When I work with very junior developers they pick up git quite well in a week or two at most. Beyond that almost every team I work with uses their own special homegrown git workflow anyway. I don't mean to put you down for you requirements but git is really really easy to learn. It would be a shame to miss out on a talented developer fo…
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Learning is not the same as memorising a few commands.