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Reports of /r/btc users getting their Reddit accounts hacked

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vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

Banning things works relatively well for people because they fear having trouble with law and justice. Doesn't work that well for corporations whose law department is just like any other department. In this case you must assume that if it's technically possible then it's done.

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

In web dev there is the OWASP top 10, which is made of relatively old but still widespread vulnerabilities, right?

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

My last two laptops were an HP Pavilion and an Acer Swift. Linux Mint installs and works without a problem.

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

Why is 3:2 better than standard 16:9?

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

This really isn't understandable without the context of the article this one is a rebuttal of (http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievem...), and specifically this "method" that the author of the first article uses the be a good developer:

    1. Identify the experiences that advance a person as a developer.
    2. Select a particular experience to pursue.
    3. Pursue that experience to completion. (Achievement unlocked!)
    4. Reflect on that experience. Really soak it in.
    5. Return to Step 2, this time selecting a new experience.

The rebutal's point is that instead of cycling back to step 2 after step 5, you should continue above and beyond, becoming really expert in the field you decided to pursue.

What the rebutal misses, in my opinion, is that in order to go beyond step 5, you need to have chosen an ambitious subject in a first place. A symptom of wanting to cycle from 5 to 2 is that the experience you chose isn't that significant and you can explore most of it quite rapidly. I see it a lot in the web development world, where after having done one or two CRUD applications devs have seen it all, and start cycling through technologies, frameworks and methodologies to make it more spicy.

One solution to this is to move deeper into the backend of rich and complex software/websites, where solving problems related to distributed systems, algorithmic efficiency and architecture will provide (but also require in a first place) vast knowledge and experience; enough for one career at least. Other fields than webdev also work well for this, including embedded systems, security and digital imaging.

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

/r/iamverysmart

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

2.2 billion is a bullshit number, plain and simple.

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

Uh... I'm pretty sure SpaceX and Tesla marketing teams are kinda sad right now.

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

Is a business model built on people's ignorance of ad-blockers really reliable?

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

What do you mean fill out a form? There is a clause in the work contract?

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

The fundamental problem is trusting pieces of information people read on non-authoritative sources like random social network posts being liked or twitted. People are granting such trust, which is bad but not so much. More dangerously, however, we have authoritative sources such as reputed news venues granting more and more trust, or at least, giving credit, to such garbage sources.

I don't know if the government should get involved, but if it is to, then it should only be a educative and preventive job, to warn people that:

* Other than reputed news sources using their Twitter account to spread information, it is to be assumed than information from social networks is garbage

* When a reputed news source is referencing information from Twitter or other social networks, they're doing a bad job

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

Making your UI so that it doesn't break is the very definition of supporting it.

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

You're talking about implementation complexity. The only argument you can throw at the user is feature complexity. Handling spaces in filename isn't a complex feature at all, and users don't care that the simplistic implementation you're using makes it a problem.

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

"Conceal" is quite an ambitious term for something that literally makes noise out of your computer fan. `top` to check that Firefox is guilty and `about:performance` to close the guilty tab. There are so many shitty JS single-page sites out there that abuse clients' resources I don't even care whether it's crypto mining or just incompetence.

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

Doesn't know about Cloudflare but as a Microsoft Regional Director he's certainly pro Azure.

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

I just write that the library's function at hand is unreliable and can't be used this way.

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

I don't quite buy into the public utility thing. Any Google product has competitors. The reason people use Google products is because Google advertises its new products on its products people already use massively. I don't think people actually see it as a public utility and are unaware of the competition. When you're in use-case A and suddenly you have a link from the same service to subscribe to use-case B, there's some effort required if you want to study the alternatives, and people prefer the easy way. Google crawls its way from one oligopoly to another this way.

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

The first part of the article where the author explains how time-consuming it is to study algorithms can really be applied to any field of study. The fact that the author spends much time learning algorithm doesn't mean that he's "dumb" as he humbly presents himself, it just means that he's just getting started. It's like trying to pick up guitar and when you realize that it really is hard and takes time you decide after one month that you're not a talented guitar player.

Then there the second part where the author considers algorithmic knowledge as useless (or not so much useless at best) because the tools available to a programmer already implement any relevant algorithm.

There's some ironic parallel between this way of thinking and algorithmic proficiency, actually. Many algorithms work by leveraging data structures whose understanding of internal working isn't needed. For example, one way to efficiently merge N sorted list into one big sorted list is to use a priority queue. Do you need to know how a priority queue is implemented to find this solution? Not at all. You just need to know the interface it offers, and the complexity of each method. Finding the k-th smallest element in a list can be done using a heap. Do you need to know how a heap is implemented to find this solution? Not at all. You just need to know what a heap does.

Really, studying algorithms is like studying the C++ standard library, except that instead of knowing about classes and methods as your toolbox, you know data structures (and common patterns) as your toolbox. Of course any curious mind will then go deeper and actually read about how those things are implemented, building an even better understanding of the foundations, and solving even deeper problems with it.

While being an interesting parallel, this doesn't really answers the author's questioning about: what's the point? Which brings us to what the author forgot to address in his article: white board test. The title of article sets the scene with someone wanting to find a job in one of those big tech company hiring people who can pass the whiteboard tests, but then who somehow... forget about it and decides to abandon this endeavor? Well, fair enough, but to be perfectly honest, while Google & Cie engineers certainly aren't spinning up algorithms on a daily basis like mad computer scientists, the engineering level there is still quite high. So there's definitely some basis in wanting to pass the whiteboard interview, mostly working with intelligent people.

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

Gaining customers doesn't mean monetizing, and it's particularly relevant to point out that a channel is under monetized specifically when this channel has a lot of users.

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

Why stopping going to the sites? The point of blockers is specifically to make them harmless.