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Here's a list of various config changes to improve Intellij performance. These were just cobbled together and I have a feeling the JVM settings are out of date, so any updates or suggestions or links to better pages would be welcome. https://github.com/jordanmews/intellij_performance_settings

I'm also a huge fan of JetBrains products and how they work together. It's at the point where I'm thinking of slogans for them, like 'At JetBrains, the E in IDE stands for experience'... or maybe 'ecosystem' (needs work). Several times I've realized I could use a tool for X, and found it's already a feature they've already created.

One more great thing to add to the pile:

- Teamcity, the only CI/CD software doing actual 'configuration as code' using kotlin. Others (that I know of: jenkins, github action, gitlab) use an arcane-DSL-backed yaml file and call that 'code'. I'm not sure why copy-pasting plaintext files that throw away most the benefits of using code and IDE's have taken the software world by storm. They've become the standard API, or even UI in some cases, and it's just slow/unabstractable/non-extensible. I'm glad JetBrains has not jumped on that bandwagon and continue to focus on making a streamlined end-to-end dev experience and cater to the coders within.

There are multiple ways to vastly increase Intellij performance. They also have 'Auto-share Settings' feature so you can keep a whole team in-sync with them through a repo.

tweaks like:

- they added their own custom property that speaks for itself: 'editor.zero.latency.typing=true'

- it runs on a JVM, so update the JVM settings. (Like most apps, they ship with defaults that assume you're running your IDE on something with the memory of today's phone)

- disable all unused plugins

This comment might seem like evangelizing but I find Intellij to be what an IDE should be in many ways. It would be nice if there was a feature to use more performant settings. But that's likely a rabbit-hole to auto-determine for all variety of customer env. Maybe something to make people aware of their options at least would be a middle-ground.

This clickbait headline is leaning on a study behind a paywall so we can't argue the actual points or data. Don't bother

Thanks for clarifying this and your info on Burp's capabilities above. What are some of the commercial options you just mentioned? I'm dealing with a large app not written with C but does have API endpoints over http. For a start on some black-box fuzzing, I'm thinking I could use Radamsa's client/server capabilities.

Big thanks for this reply. I was looking to cut through all the noise you mentioned. I'm finding all I was looking for in the Radamsa readme for starting and next steps. Use cases expressed in unix pipes > clear_as_day.txt. Fuzzing newb at this point but I'll be using your original and other linked presentations for context while working through basics.

Does anyone know of a list of categorized and recommended fuzzers for different purposes, or just more specifically for smart fuzzing web API's and how to get started with it? Search results for this kind of stuff are hard to parse cause they're either dated or the use cases are very specific one-offs.

I realize answering my questions with the given broadly-defined tools may be the required manual expertise they refer to in the presentation. But I'm just looking for a foothold somewhere at the least.

In either the day-to-day or 'team-building' events, does anyone have office cultures with a consciously positive attitude to 'shy' people?

I think the whole subtext and title of this article shows the ignorant extrovert's problem. The article is judging whether the extroverts should bestow their social acceptance on the introvert.

Just because you are the only one talking does not mean there's nothing more to be said. And just because you are talking does not mean there is anything to be said.

On the flipside, are there cultures that have disdain for unbridled extroversion and gossip? North America seems to revel in both those things but the biggest hits to company morale I've seen have always been from the 'outgoing' spreading their negativity through multiple separate conversations or steering meetings on downward spiral narratives.

I agree on the bigger question. I thought I was communicating the lack of random samples, but I appreciate you pointing out why just referencing the sample size is not good enough in a sense. Anyways, they practically required lack of randomness. Their sign-up took place at the same school and "requested that participants be traditional college students of heterosexual orientation". Then they obtained the older generation participants by getting the first group to hand over addresses of their older relatives, neighbors and employers. I don't think it could get much less random.

This is what passes as science in 'scientific american'?! There's not a single absolute number reported aside from the laughingly small sample size of 400 adults in a world of 7,000,000,000.

Your wondering why was just answered succinctly in the comment you posted your reply to:

> There were some ISPs which were selling people's data prior to this order (Verizon was one, IIRC, and a few others were actively injecting ads and JS into non-TLS traffic), and many more were considering it.

edit: spelling

I have to add there is zero reverse-engineering here. The main purpose of this article seems to be name-dropping for the 500M company while trying to generate some 'thoughtleader'-cred