Hacker News: njbooher

New comment by njbooher in "How to find exploits in video games"

njbooher — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 18:51:56 +0000

As someone who does security testing for video game service backends, I benefit significantly from all the reverse engineering and tools the hobbyists and cheaters build, and always enjoy reading more stuff.

New comment by njbooher in "Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public"

njbooher — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 14:10:09 +0000

I found this comment funny. Have an upvote.

But finding a critical security issue on Cloudflare in 2020 while doing testing for one of your customers, and then learning what the bounty for breaking that large of a chunk of the internet was, was still disappointing.

It's nice to see that it's gone up since then. But your company isn't the literary Robin Hood.

New comment by njbooher in "CA law means stores can't say you're buying a game if you're merely licensing it"

njbooher — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 18:18:02 +0000

I don't think there'd be consumer confusion if they sold it as an 80 year lease for $60. Maybe backlash.

New comment by njbooher in "In the US opioid-maker Purdue is bankrupt. Its global counterparts make millions"

njbooher — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:58:20 +0000

Why would we as a society make the most effective class of painkillers illegal as a response to the bad actions of one company?

(Pre-edit: Why would we make a highly effective class of severe painkillers illegal because of one bad actor?)

New comment by njbooher in "A Message from Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger to Employees"

njbooher — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 03:24:31 +0000

It'd be nice if they could give me a compelling reason to upgrade my computer more than once or twice a decade, other than 'Our new AI computers have keyboards that go to 11'.

New comment by njbooher in "Room inspections at Resorts World confuse, annoy DEF CON attendees"

njbooher — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 21:43:42 +0000

BSides, BlackHat, and DEFCON happen yearly on the same week in August in Las Vegas, and many people attend more than one.

I would be happy if the location or date of all 3 changed. The peak temperature outside was around 110° all week this year.

New comment by njbooher in "How to hire low experience, high potential people"

njbooher — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 00:59:35 +0000

This whole thing read like a sociopath selecting for people they can exploit.

New comment by njbooher in "ArXiv receives $10M for upgrades"

njbooher — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 23:36:55 +0000

Most people don't live in California.

New comment by njbooher in "An airline said her bag was lost, her tracker said otherwise. She flew to get it"

njbooher — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 15:19:49 +0000

I started using one most of the time this year, but I couldn't remember if bottle refill stations are prevalent on the strip.

New comment by njbooher in "An airline said her bag was lost, her tracker said otherwise. She flew to get it"

njbooher — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 15:04:02 +0000

I'm waiting for my plane to takeoff for Vegas now (weather delay). There's a 32 pack of water in my free checked bag for this reason.

New comment by njbooher in "Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers after earlier cuts"

njbooher — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 19:52:05 +0000

Employees typically depend on their salaries to pay for necessary living expenses. If they lose their job, they need to get another one, or they'll eventually go broke.

Any CEO making $10M/yr would only need to work for a year before they could retire and live comfortably the rest of their life without ever touching the principal.

Layoffs affect these groups differently.

New comment by njbooher in "After Callous Layoffs, Workers Are Done with the Full-Time Work"

njbooher — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 14:48:21 +0000

Software security has already been turned into gig work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_bounty_program

Some people make a living off it. Most don't.

New comment by njbooher in "The strategic use of titles to avoid overtime payments"

njbooher — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 00:35:59 +0000

https://catalog.iastate.edu/collegeofengineering/softwareeng...

New comment by njbooher in "In the past, I've had students call my problem sets “emotionally trying”"

njbooher — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 19:53:42 +0000

I agree. I was envisioning that after we shipped the people who don't like teaching off to national labs that the universities would just focus on teaching and could pay those people better.

New comment by njbooher in "In the past, I've had students call my problem sets “emotionally trying”"

njbooher — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 15:35:16 +0000

Those are term faculty. They typically aren't paid well.

New comment by njbooher in "In the past, I've had students call my problem sets “emotionally trying”"

njbooher — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 13:05:45 +0000

But are being paid by tuition revenue, from people who expect them to teach.

The US needs more national labs for people who want to do research but don't want to teach.

New comment by njbooher in "In the past, I've had students call my problem sets “emotionally trying”"

njbooher — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 12:52:03 +0000

Plenty of new faculty are more interested in research than teaching too.

New comment by njbooher in "Consider working on genomics"

njbooher — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 21:58:28 +0000

I don't work in this space anymore, but just want to say kseq (and the rest of klib) is such an awesome time saver. Thank you.

New comment by njbooher in "Ask HN: Why do some people not communicate clearly?"

njbooher — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 17:18:08 +0000

The way people communicate verbally often reflects the way they think, which differs between people. Writing forces people to structure their thoughts more.

Also, efficient communication requires knowing what your audience already knows.

New comment by njbooher in "How to identify and misidentify a brown recluse spider (2005)"

njbooher — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 23:22:32 +0000

https://bugguide.net/