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aseboldon Next dream job can be in an HTTP header

How did you find quirky headers on other websites? Did you use a script?

aseboldon Important women in CS who aren't Grace Hopper (2018)

They wanted to seem like they cared about diversity with out actually doing anything to support diversity. Such as, finding at least one female staff member.

aseboldon Important women in CS who aren't Grace Hopper (2018)

Am a woman. Fucking thank you. So tired of hearing about the same people over and over again.

aseboldon Russian Police Raid Nginx Moscow Office

What are the implications of this? It’s a US based company, does Rambler Group really have control over all of nginx now?

aseboldon Ask HN: Why aren't more companies source code leaked?

1. Mammoth organizations like this have very robust monitoring and security measures in place. You could do it, but you’ll almost definitely get caught.

2. The tech eco system of these organizations is probably so vast and has so many layers of abstraction that one developer sharing the 1% of the code base they have access to wouldn’t be very valuable to any on the outside.

3. The exception to this would be code considered to be intellectual property. in this case I’m sure it does happen from time to time, but they aren’t dumping that on the internet for all to see. A competitor is paying the FB or Google employee to take that kind of risk so they can gain advantage in the market place. These are behind the scenes deals we will likely never hear about, unless they are successful and implemented sloppy enough that the org owning the IP recognizes it in their competitors product and sues.