If someone can read this and finds it to be an interesting question, please repost it so that it could be answered to:
I'm curious about naming conventions in different languages and cultures, so I naturally want to be accommodating, but how do I handle the UX problem of collecting all the metadata about names in order for the program to correctly reason about them? I can imagine that while users probably want their name to be rendered correctly, they would have little patience with complicated forms to do what would be just a simple text field when dealing with any local office where they know how to interpret it. Not to mention when you have to deal with different scripts being understandable by different people, and when adaption is needed, whether you want a cognate, a standard transliteration or an ad-hoc transliteration as a stand-in.
And then on the receiving end, you might be using an application in English because it hasn't been translated into your language, but do you want to see the names of your countrymen in your native script, or do you want to see it rendered with Latin characters? And what if you don't understand the script?
I'm probably wasting my time unless a lot of people have enabled showing dead posts, as the moment I voiced criticism of the silicon valley establishment I got hid by a shadow ban.
So I suppose I have nothing to lose from voicing the same again: Let it henceforth be known that researchers need not bother with the bounty program and just do a full disclosure of any eBay vulnerabilities. This so-called "responsible disclosure" does very little to protect the public and only lets companies fly under the radar with their reckless behaviour.
> Ebay was very responsive and fixed the issue about 10-12 hours after I reported it.
10 to 12 hours is responsive? All it takes is a minute to pull the load balancer and nobody would be able to exploit the vulnerability, but that forces them to lose face in front of their customers (but that's exactly what they deserve). The only truly responsible way to deal with vulnerabilities is to notify, give them no more time than it takes them to take the site off-line, and then do full disclosure.
That would have been a reasonable argument if they were found to have been using something like DES-based crypt(3) to hash their passwords. But they didn't, they were just plain text.
> I wish there was a guide for "proper" SO questions; my impression is, the only ones are super-detailed questions about some super-particular APIs.
And those questions can in most cases be answered by the docs anyway. The times I've used SO is when the problem can't be answered by the docs, my own experience or that of the team, but then I've received either no answer or a series of non-answers (that should have been comments instead, but a lot of people can't comment).
I also see quite a bit of overt reputation farming there. Like vague questions that receive an improbably precise answer that immediately gets selected. Like "how do u process payments?" (the orthography is usually bad) immediately followed by very specific instructions from a very specific payment processor not mentioned in the question, probably taken straight from its documentation. And I rarely see "closed as too broad" on those, probably because of the quick turn-around.
I wonder why the once ubiquitous observation decks of the early jet age disappeared. I'm not terribly interesting in plane spotting, but I can't think of anything more pleasant to rest my eyes on while waiting for a flight than these fascinating pieces of machinery and all the ground activity that their operation entails while waiting for a flight. And it would be even more valuable to the autists who go to the airport just to watch planes.
I used to run John Norstad's Disinfectant in Classic Mode years ago. Of course it did nothing but, but it did get me on the network, and that's all that mattered.
Skype for Business almost completely drains my MBP battery in one session. I'm certain it has dedicated hardware for this, it should be able to do videoconferencing without breaking a sweat, it certainly never happens with FaceTime. And it can never keep conversations in sync, and for some reason it keeps nagging me the rest of the day that the call could not be completed despite having completed long ago.
Who makes this stuff, unpaid interns? In fact I'd expect better software even from unpaid interns.
What kind of capitalisation convention is that? It's not German, or all the nouns would have been capitalised. Prepositions and conjunctions, with verbs and pronouns some of the time?
> I honestly think the finance industry could be half the size it is with no real harm to the rest of the economy.
With technology it should have shrunk by a couple of orders of magnitude. You don't need a room full of old men in green visors cranking away at adding machines to get anything done anymore. Instead technology has only made it bigger.