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Yeah, the truth is the methods companies use to find their bugs currently won't be able to give a definitive "no" anyway. The answers are really "yes, you have bugs" or "maybe you have bugs but we can't find any", which is true no matter how you coded. Static analysis would be another tool just like peer review or unit tests. I wonder if you could bring it up that way...

It doesn't analyse at runtime. It simulates certain runtime states but looks at the code at compile time. Since it analyses static code that is not changing, the term Static Analysis is used.

Admittedly, "I don't know" probably isn't the answer a company wants to hear from your commercial tool.

Tsk tsk...hackers and a coding challenge are the last things you should except to be devoid of loopholes and tricks. Always be extra careful making them, and don't bet more than you can afford, or you'll come out with a rep like Mike.

This is some amazing stuff.

Can I trust you? ;)

Hah, this is very interesting, but beyond the comical thought of bees eating M&M shells and excreting M&M honey, another example of pollution making things messy. I wonder if the health effects on this one are as severe as smoke stacks.

This is one area where there is big money in hacking...er..."hacking". I don't really think the jammers are very bleeding edge if they do exist.

The same article he linked to says that PayPal had trouble hiring women, so... you know, I'm not sure legality came into the equation.

Your licenses page (http://powderkeg.artillery.com/attribution.html) is down and otherwise, there's no reference to Bomberman here at all.

It's a well-executed game though. Haven't found any flaws, but I can't really say it's original. Good proof-of-concept for HTML5!

This is some good stuff. I'm definitely looking forward to seeing what can be done with it and perhaps the spam all over certain phpBB forums, etc, can be fixed. Of course, those are just the little fish.

It's for the shareholders to minimize legal liability.

Anyone can spout as much talk about relaxed, casual, kick ass, rockstar, ninja-like, and whatever the newest buzz word is to describe their workplace, but it just takes one bad incident (or sometimes one overly touchy person, not saying the victim here was though) to have to walk on the eggshells of avoiding lawsuits. In any case, my bet is that the sensitivity training won't even be taken very seriously, but I think the actual shake-up will definitely spark some change.

My concern is now that the people fired will probably be even more racist rather than less so because of said punishments, and look again for a safe outlet to spew their hate. They may have learned for their own sake to keep it out of the workplace, but don't think it just got "nipped in the bud". Someone else is going to have to deal with this on what will most likely be a worse level.

I bet nobody got fired for mistaking a pendant for a calculator. There were actual offenses in the post, and in large number.

Not to mention that they equate A-F as 10-16, when in fact it is 10-15, and the whole "ones column" goes from 0-15, not 1-16.

"Those with dyslexia and ADD or ADHD have begun to press for a less busy Internet, one where ads don’t distract them to the point of being unable to use a site, or where proper contrast is used, rather than the more artistic combinations of light text against an only slightly lighter background."

Aah, your gray font used to write this is hard to read and I haven't been characterized for any of these.

Also, HN seems to make it hard for people with these impairments to read downvoted comments :P, though they do that to everyone. There should be an option to re-darken a downvoted comment temporarily.

I've started seeing these on my Visa card as well, about 1 month ago. I wonder which one tipped the other off about it, or which case made this so sensitive to these large companies.

The numbers feel so very low, but that's a good reminder of how insulated a developer can get from their users.

I'm just saying as far as history has dictated, guys like MLK Jr. and Gandhi got a lot more support than those who tries to cut completely against the grain like Malcolm X in his earlier days.

As a minority, it is really, really hard to change or rectify the corruption of the majority by trying to fight them head-on. These sort of revolutions worked when the majority of the people overthrew a corrupt minority that had excessive power. However, thinking things over, I'm not sure if the author is even really out to solve the large racial issue in general with this post. I don't think that was his point, so maybe I'm offering suggestions to a goal that he never had in the first place. If this, like most tumblr posts, is just to get it out in writing so he can think clearly and draw attention by the public to the situation, then yes, it works.

The tone isn't helping his case.

I've been around these kind of complaints in person, and while I know that the injustices taking place are horrible and uncalled for, I also know that the complainer is also (not-so-subtly any more) racist as well. Perhaps he wasn't before he entered the school system or the workforce (not necessarily this job), but saying things like dumbwhite*, bringing up colonization like slavery as property is taking place in his neighbourhood (he's going through legal to get this solved, something slaves could never do), and repeatedly bringing up that his tormentors are white, male, rich, etc. just shows that he's brought his own racist viewpoints to the table.

This reminds me of the atmosphere in South Africa years after apartheid was rescinded. The atmosphere, not the gruesome crimes. Perhaps it can be justified, but it sure wasn't how MLK Jr. or Mandela (at least after he became president) attacked the problem and it's only good for outrage, not getting anything done.

White guilt isn't going to help solve racism, but I agree that the author deserves some justice.

At the bottom of this article, there are "Sign in With FB/Twitter" buttons.

"If successful, Iran will have accomplished something few other nations could: full control over its citizens' modern communications."

I feel like a lot of nations could do this, they just don't. After all, when the internet was invented it would be quite easy to do such a thing.

"...or men. Whatever."

Eh, the place would be amazing to relax in, but I feel like it would be too distracting to work. Notch might be different though.

Fair point. I was thinking the last 1000 years as opposed to 1000, 2000, etc. In that state the same could be said about the last century or even the last decade really.

Haha, I find it funny that they're called the RIAJ, as though they are in collusion with the RIAA.

I think she forgot Ada Byron when she said there were no important women in computers this millenium.

EDIT: No "keynoters, the language designers, the authors of seminal texts" in this millenium. And there was Grace Hopper too.

Double edit: Admittedly, anything in 1xxx is technically the "last millenium". My mistake.

Why does the article have in large letters "How hackers can access your credit card" with a video, when that has nothing to do with this attack?

This is definitely one of the reason to go to university, where they teach you these concepts very well. There's no reason you can't learn concepts sequentially though; I wouldn't advocate trying to learn a million languages at once, just that you are taught the theory of OOP, the theory of concurrency solutions like locks, the theory behind communication protocols, etc.

I think part of the reason salaries are so high is that employers have to compete with these costs. If the real estate price / cost of living went down, salaries would be down as well. There is quite a bit of data showing that Bay Area salaries are higher than anywhere else in this industry.

This graph seems to indicate that the Chinese anti-satellite test moved the number of objects from ~10700 to ~13900, or about 3200 objects released. Now that we are at about 16000 objects, 3200 is closer to 20% (in fact is is exactly 20%) than 10% of all objects.

I wonder if this will be developed into a standard, or whether Mozilla will have to be the only ones operating this service.