Daycrawler

Hasn't gold stopped backing US currency since like almost one century?

Software isn't like architecture or carpentry.

First, software engineering and programming are fields with way more skill diversity, which is a nice way of saying that there are a lot of relatively incompetent people in the industry. The assumption that people with experience are more skilled isn't generally true. I've seen people hired for the role of CTO in small startups who were explicitly chosen for their age because it somehow meant that they got more experience, except that they weren't as good as the graduate.

Second, software isn't as critical as other fields because users don't care (or are trained not to care). Your iPhone calculator not working isn't the same as your room's window not closing. Most companies don't really search talent. They just want to hire cheap "talented enough".

In the specific case of Facebook, Amazon, etc, the hiring process is focused on algorithmic and stuff like that a recent grade is simply more likely to get since it's still fresh.

Copyright holders lose customers because of piracy, but that's not stealing.

If I sell some object and my logistics is that I sell 3 per months, then I manufacture 3 objects per months and wait for customers to buy them. If someone steals one, then I've only 2 remaining objects. I've the choice between telling the 3rd expected customer that I'm out, or to manufacture one extra, which in any case result in a direct loss of money. I'm a victim of theft.

If I'm a film producer and my logistics is that I sell N viewings per month, and someone pirates the movie, then this doesn't interfere with my ability to sell the N viewings to my expected customers. So this isn't theft. Of course, I would like the pirate to be my customer so that I can step up to N+1 viewing per month, but if I want to enforce that I need to turn to who made the copy available to the pirate, which is counterfeit.

They just read the newspaper before smartphone. Strangers don't magically socialize. At worst they stay there doing nothing.

This requires physical access. You can plant surveillance gear all over the place if you have physical access.

Firefox 57 was release a couple weeks ago and breaks most extension by dropping the legacy add-on system.

They still haven't found the location bar or noticed that it has auto completion.

I can really understand why such great minds could have imposter syndrome. They put so much thoughts and work into their findings, and stumble upon so many obstacles, struggling for months or years to make it work, to finally reach a result that makes so much sense and eventually seems simple to them. In the end, they just think anyone with the same dedication, work and curiosity could have done it, and that they actually took quite some time to figure it out, and that the theory is actually imperfect and could be better, and the only reason they did it is because of some random hindsight anybody could have had...

What they forget is that their journey has only been possible by a combination of intuition, skills, dedication and raw intelligence that together form a genius other people just don't have. But they do have a point in the fact that people probably underestimate the amount of work and struggle necessary to reach their results. Imposter syndrome is when you think you put too time and work to realize how logic a series of deductions is, while most of those are actually clever and their accumulations put you light-years ahead of those wouldn't didn't make them, for whom it's just magic.

This is called a key escrow, which is known for not working, mainly because the assumptions ("once a court order is granted") can't be implemented technically.

Unless you want to scale. I'm all for the rule of least power, but as soon as the app is exposed to multiple users I would ask and be sure about the expected number of simultaneous users before going with SQlite instead of going with a Client/Server RDBMS. Still, the bound is pretty high if you keep your transactions short.

No need to be asked. The browser sends the Accept-Language header depending on the language set in the browser's settings, which defaults to the OS language for the browser installed by default (other browsers will ask at installation).

In other words this header is the most reliable piece of information to know what language the user wants. Somehow big tech decided IP geolocation is more reliable.

Most of those examples seem "good" because they prevent nasty behavior. This is conformance to the lowest usage, just like the FBI tries to argue against encryption because bad guys are using it too.

So is client-side validation. Anything qualifies as "Valid Security Layer" as long as it prevents your grand-ma from attacking your system. The layer that protects against the most motivated attacker is the one usually known as "security".

If Jobs was in charge this wouldn't have happened

For the layman the "system" in this context is the calculator, which can't, indeed, handle it.

It's not about the applications. It's about the components of the application. Reddit, Wikipedia, Facebook, HN, all use a mixture of RDBMS and NoSQL.