Note that I am French so this question is because over here he has always been seen as a conman

It would not occur to me that my examples may lead somewhere at all. I was actually glad they do not, to spontaneously break incorrect configurations.

And then something changed. Ego trips. Questions immediately downvoted. An extremely, psychotic Meta site.

I get it that plenty of questions are low quality. But for fuck's sake - why not just having a second look at high rep questions, which are more likely to be well rounded ? This is how you lose your more enthusiastic members.

Within SO some groups were great and others (Go, I am looking at you) were elitist cliques.

And then there are the niche sites: cooking, LaTeX, ... Welcoming, happy questions and relevant answers. These are the ones I will miss a lot.

This is the whole "should the man be separated from the artist"? I think not but the other perspective holds water as well.

On a recent flight I had to tell a guy in a seat nearby to stop yelling. He was obnoxious so I asked his neighbor to switch seats for a moment so that I can participate in that call as well. He stopped.

I always wish wifi was down.

I had very high spendings so it would have been easy to smuggle something. I never did that because it is simply stealing.

I now have a company card at my name. The company bears the cost and it has an extended reimbursement time. I have to reimburse it so it is in my interest to file expense claims quickly. But I could use it for anything.

Security in depth is made of (ideally independent) layers. Obscuring things is one such layer.

I do not know how what the legal context is in your country, but you may need to have a device that uses public roads licensed to do so. In case of any legal issues (accidents, mostly) not only you would not be covered by your insurance, but your situation may worsen for having operated it. Something to keep in mind.

Having a separate backed and frontend allows for separation of duties: the client is responsible for the user-facing content and the backend deals exclusively with data flows. This allows to have several independent clients, machine to machine connections etc.

Whatever arrives to the server is untrusted, and the API (or other interfaces) only verify raw data (a JSON for instance) and there are excellent (backend) frameworks for that.

Mixing the visual content with the data is possible (Django does that for instance) but from a security perspective less efficient (again - separation of duties). It also requires to possible double the work to have an independent API.

In other words, if you separate the two you do not care about security on the front at all, and the one who builds the back can focus on their expertise.

Two different worlds and often two different kinds of developpers

His time was a nice success for the newspaper and a sad addition to the average stupidity of the world.

Then I went to visit with my kids in 2019. Oh man, what a change. The city felt really, really different. Even the guy who was giving us a tour had some nostalgia in his voice.

I won't be back soon.

If so this was an action coordinated between the US and Italy, and he was not Italian either.