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New comment by 0xDEFC0DE in "We Prefer Coding Challenges"

0xDEFC0DE — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 15:40:32 +0000

Unlike the other code-slinging gods who walk amongst us in this thread, I prefer coding challenges because I'm pretty mid-level and average and I do actually need a job. And I hate whiteboarding. No one should do whiteboarding for code.

New comment by 0xDEFC0DE in "Why Enterprise Software Sucks"

0xDEFC0DE — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 14:37:06 +0000

Apple's iPhone also brought new UI/UX ideas and people that grow up with these phones/desktops now and judge everything by that standard vs. what was considered "working" way back when. Android and Microsoft helped too. This industry shifts fast, so it's really no surprise people come to hate the older stuff by looks alone.

New comment by 0xDEFC0DE in "Ex-World of Warcraft developer's thread about China and the gaming industry"

0xDEFC0DE — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 12:39:41 +0000

>I was removed from a company I founded (after Blizzard) for refusing to take a 2 million dollar kickback bribe to take an investment from China

Resisting that takes strength. $2m to take more money and keep quiet? I'd probably quit in shame or be fired eventually, but that's life-changing money.

I do wonder if we could take some amount of money from China and simply not give them what they ask for though when they start making demands, or giving them the run-around.

New comment by 0xDEFC0DE in "Collapse OS"

0xDEFC0DE — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 20:05:06 +0000

The only reason the supply chain is at risk is because we dispose of a lot of electronics simply because there's a new version.

When the product lifecycle changes from 1 year to 10+ years, you'll find that people will just keep their stuff around longer and the demand on the supply chain goes way down.

Plus, there will be a shitload of data centers with capacity that will no longer be necessary (because of reduced devices making requests, segregated internet, less connectivity) in apocalyptic scenarios. Those can probably be re-purposed.

We haven't had to get clever about computer conservation because there's been so much supply.

New comment by 0xDEFC0DE in "Under-Investigated Fields"

0xDEFC0DE — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 17:46:37 +0000

Anyone know if there's been research into terraforming via asteroid/comet impacts and trying to simulate that?

New comment by 0xDEFC0DE in "Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?"

0xDEFC0DE — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 20:59:18 +0000

Definitely not

New comment by 0xDEFC0DE in "Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?"

0xDEFC0DE — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 20:54:02 +0000

After 8 hours total interviewing at one company, I kinda feel like I was hired and fired in a single day

New comment by 0xDEFC0DE in "WeWork says will file to withdraw IPO"

0xDEFC0DE — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 17:51:59 +0000

I think those folks will still shoot for top companies, so if that’s you, most likely.

(psst, train your own, damnit)

New comment by 0xDEFC0DE in "A developer goes to a DevOps conference"

0xDEFC0DE — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 02:52:52 +0000

Sysadmin folks can transition into security, they don’t need to go away

New comment by 0xDEFC0DE in "Telegram quietly snuck its blockchain past regulators"

0xDEFC0DE — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 19:08:18 +0000

Locking down accounts you control on your infrastructure is vastly easier to scale than asset forfeiture. Scale and ease does matter here.

>I have never seen an argument against crypto currency that doesn't already apply to the current systems, we just pretend its not the same.

It's not the same: cryptocurrencies are generally more restrictive about reversing transactions (in that you can't), for instance. We can reverse some transactions in the current system.

Some call this a feature, but they're likely okay with every day people getting their shit stolen easily because they don't know anything about computer security.

New comment by 0xDEFC0DE in "Amazon launches Amazon Care, a virtual medical clinic for employees"

0xDEFC0DE — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 22:32:19 +0000

Nurse Practitioners can handle a good bit of every day things. If that's who shows up, the article is being disingenuous.

New comment by 0xDEFC0DE in "WeWork, Bankers Have Discussed Laying Off One-Third of Workforce"

0xDEFC0DE — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 17:40:34 +0000

Only if you bring an umbrella to work

New comment by 0xDEFC0DE in "Serverless: slower and more expensive"

0xDEFC0DE — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 15:03:49 +0000

I don't understand the prototyping angle.

Can't you just do something on your local machine?

There's stuff like dotnet new for .NET where I can just run that and have a skeleton project for a backend and I can start writing code immediately. I assume there's template creators for other languages as well.

New comment by 0xDEFC0DE in "The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think (2016)"

0xDEFC0DE — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 13:04:26 +0000

It's hilarious watching engineers give up on a mobile app and then go right back to fixing bugs in complicated code

New comment by 0xDEFC0DE in "Hacking the Brain"

0xDEFC0DE — Sun, 22 Sep 2019 19:25:51 +0000

It'll move away from the IQ 'brand' and move to job performance or some other easier-to-measure metric. I'm actually okay with this, I'd much rather they be honest that a particular enhancement is only good for particular things.

New comment by 0xDEFC0DE in "What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)"

0xDEFC0DE — Sat, 21 Sep 2019 00:20:16 +0000

If you know SQL and know the ORM, you can just do the complicated things in SQL.

If you know a problem is going to be complicated, you know to use SQL.

If you don't know if a problem is going to be complicated, you can default to SQL and decide to use the ORM later if it's a good fit once you've got more problem details.

New comment by 0xDEFC0DE in "The U.S. economy is growing and using less and less stuff to do so"

0xDEFC0DE — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 00:40:39 +0000

I think cryptocurrency takes the cake vs. any sane/non-bug thing that frameworks are probably doing. Maybe some AI workloads are in the ballpark?

New comment by 0xDEFC0DE in "Birds Are Vanishing from North America"

0xDEFC0DE — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 21:52:07 +0000

I think -- hope -- they meant trimming future growth via abstinence. Not killing people.

New comment by 0xDEFC0DE in "Coalfire Comments on Penetration Tests for Iowa Judicial Branch"

0xDEFC0DE — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 17:10:46 +0000

>Pentesters sometimes are leveraged as pawns in political games in organizations - seems similar with government.

How?

New comment by 0xDEFC0DE in "Coalfire Comments on Penetration Tests for Iowa Judicial Branch"

0xDEFC0DE — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 17:09:44 +0000

The scoping doc link in this thread pretty clearly indicates the address where this happened.

The fault seems to be with the person who authorized the physical portion in the contract not actually having the authority. And unfortunately that means Coalfire employees are caught in the crossfire.