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TooBrokeToBeg··on Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
Give it time. MS does what it has always done to competitors (even to MS internal products) that it acquires. Takes awhile sometimes and you younger kid will get to live through what others already have.
TooBrokeToBeg··on Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
An acquisition would mean the inevitable split of support between the MS toolchain and the OS toolchain, which would eventually be left to die. Today's MS is no different than yesterday's MS.
TooBrokeToBeg··on Politics is bad because we use an 18th century voting system
> Earmarks are orthogonal to corruption.

Only in theory. In practice, they are 1:1 - You initiate pork A here, I help you add pork B there. You own pork B company, I own pork A. We both win money, forget the constituents.

TooBrokeToBeg··on Politics is bad because we use an 18th century voting system
> “Special interests” is just code for “people whose opinions I don’t like.”

It's code for above-the-median-wealthy, enough to influence opinion outside of the populist opinion. Why you choose to go partisan over a systemic issue, is beyond me.

TooBrokeToBeg··on Google admits brainteasers were useless for hiring (2013)
> So what are you saying here? You only hire great programmers?

I'm not sure how you could have confused what was posted, to be interpreted that way.

TooBrokeToBeg··on Scrum disempowers developers
My initial thoughts...of course Scrum disempowers developers but that's not what the article is about. I see a hyperbolic title and a bunch of complaints about how "in the real world" things work differently (entrenched opposition will always sabotage progress).

What is a manager but someone who has control over the controlled? I'm surprised with so many ppl nodding their head at this list of complaints about bad software processes at bad companies, masquerading as analysis. If you think it takes more than 2 days to learn _how_ to be a Scrum master, you don't understand the role. It's not complicated, difficult, and time-consuming enough to require a singular employee...unless your process is already screwed up. Good luck finding whatever magic bullet you think will save you that isn't Scrum-based teams.

TooBrokeToBeg··on A security vulnerability in Git that can lead to arbitrary code execution
> But there's a lot of systems out there that download code, inspect a text, YAML, Dockerfile, or whatever kind of file, then sandbox it to run it.

I've never seen this. It smacks of terrible practice that would not last long in a daily CI system. Once you have a good version, locking on to that version is one thing. Just randomly downloading new code versions for a daily build is impractical.

TooBrokeToBeg··on Imgur launches video
I've found it perfectly serviceable. Especially when youtube is blocked by corporate policy.
TooBrokeToBeg··on A security vulnerability in Git that can lead to arbitrary code execution
NPM is still not secure. So dangerous, many companies run their own NPM repos with analyzed packages.
TooBrokeToBeg··on Flipping the Metabolic Switch: Applying the Health Benefits of Fasting
I've found that Fountain Soda (in addition to not containing huge amounts of tooth destroying acid) does not make me hungry and does seem to fill me. I've been a single meal a day guy for decades (as well as a soda fan). The switch to Soda Fountains (commercial) and their offensive costing, has kept me in good shape (no visible fat) when paired with continuous fasting.
TooBrokeToBeg··on In a Warming West, the Rio Grande Is Drying Up
Also the Nestle and other commercial water rights holders from the 1800s who siphon the southbound rivers dry, flowing toward Los Angeles. Good thing they just bottle that water and sell it back.
TooBrokeToBeg··on Has there been progress in philosophy?
Arguing about the progress in philosophy is sophistry. There's been plenty of progress that has affected lots of lives. It just doesn't happen to fit someone else's narratives or views.
TooBrokeToBeg··on Congress Approves First Big Dodd-Frank Rollback
> Regulations exist so that entrenched players can use the lethal force of government to block new challengers.

That's not how it appears to everyone. That's often how they are crafted, but this is not a problem with the concept.

TooBrokeToBeg··on Associations of egg consumption with cardiovascular disease
it's more complicated than that.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2644251/Un-scrambl...

Not all eggs are treated the same. I don't see how this study accounts for what kind of eggs or how they have been processed. It matters, a lot, if your eggs are bleached or how they have been stored.

TooBrokeToBeg··on Ask HN: Learning multiple languages vs. mastering one
I would suggest PHP, then Java, then Erlang. These are useful skills that will carry you forward for the next 20 years.
TooBrokeToBeg··on Ask HN: Learning multiple languages vs. mastering one
> That is an interesting response.

It's a terrible idea. Writing and running scripts from Scala is incompatible with certain actions. Specifically provisioning and kernel configuration. There are lots of tasks that Scala is a bad tool.

TooBrokeToBeg··on Show HN: HyperApp – 1k JavaScript framework for building web applications
> http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/ruby/rails/is-a-ghetto

> https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/02/will-t...

> https://jelastic.com/blog/functional-programming-is-a-ghetto...

The concept is that placing a focus on a specific technology is a path to decay (poverty, obsolescence, self-destruction, etc).

TooBrokeToBeg··on We May First Find Aliens on Eyeball Planets
First opportunity is always something to capitalize on.
TooBrokeToBeg··on Show HN: Whiteboardfree – Developer Jobs at Companies That Don't Whiteboard
> So this idea that they're part of "every engineer's" day-to-day work is, quite simply, disconnected from reality.

> Like these things known as "pen" and "paper", for example.

When you need to share this pen and paper, you use a whiteboard. I don't understand this hate for whiteboards, which are a cross-industry cross-profession standard (including medical) when collaborating.

One of the more interesting things I have noticed is that happy engineers have a little free time each day. They aren't under crushing pressure at all times. To this end, it's very common for whiteboards to accumulate drawings and doodles. This is often turned into "the elaboration game" where one doodle is built upon (by a little or a lot) every now and then. This is probably because coding is problem solving, but also because it's a creative endeavor. Engineers who are happy tend to work around other happy engineers and those engineers are all creative with free time.

TooBrokeToBeg··on How Baby Boomers Broke America
America seems fragile.
TooBrokeToBeg··on No, PGP is not broken, not even with the Efail vulnerabilities
> So your logic could be applied to GPG and argued that it is broken.

That's a pretty common claim and has been for a long time. It's not just verification of identity, but verification of integrity that the encryption is supposed to enforce. Instead, it throws a warning for one case and will not decrypt for another. The binary client is broken, as a security tool (insofar as it fails to provide the security it claims). If the integrity of the message is compromised, why show a version of the decrypted message at all? There's no guarantee that's correct and has led to this.

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