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chapillon Ex-Google recruiter: I was fired because I resisted “illegal” diversity efforts

Mostly because Apple has legions of fanatics which are well established here. Apple gets criticism, you just don't get to see it unless you change your prefs to show flagged/dead posts.

It's ironic, because Apple fans were painted as carrying the sledge hammer of inconvenient truth, not acting like the grey drones who oppress all differences of opinion in the 1984 commercial.

chapillon Ex-Google recruiter: I was fired because I resisted “illegal” diversity efforts

Account created: 2011. You're suggesting someone was planning to smear Google on HN since 7 years ago?

chapillon Ex-Google recruiter: I was fired because I resisted “illegal” diversity efforts

I would assume a legal filing would call it what it is: illegal discrimination. I don't trust ARS to get these things right.

chapillon Ex-Google recruiter: I was fired because I resisted “illegal” diversity efforts

Plausible deniabilty. Google will claim the illegal activity was due to the management of the recruitment company and not direct orders. And ARS puts illegal in scare quotes. Shameful.

chapillon Ask HN: Does any US financial institution have modern and strong authentication?

BoA has safepass hardware cards for $20

https://www.bankofamerica.com/privacy/faq/safepass-faq.go

chapillon The Cute Robot That Follows You Around the City

Nice bot. I bet it would increase the amount of junk I have to bring rather than lighten the load I carry.

chapillon Agent on Demand – Job Offer Negotiation as a Service

None of that really applies to 10xmanagement specifically.

chapillon Supreme Court Ruling Means Immigrants Could Continue to Be Detained Indefinitely

For this to be a problem, you first have to commit a crime. Simple fix: don't commit crimes.

chapillon I got my iPhone’s battery replaced, and I’m angry Apple didn’t tell me to sooner

My Nexus 5 still runs for a week on battery. I believe Apple shipped low quality batteries as part of the planned obsolescence.

It's like committing two bugs. By themselves, they aren't a problem, but together, they open an NSA backdoor. If anyone is caught, they have plausible deniability.

Same here with Apple. They're so evil, they though ahead on how to avoid punishment for doing bad things. They'll skip off to the bank with bags of money while ignorant iPhone buyers just keep buying more iPhones instead of a quality device.

chapillon How much money do people need to be happy?

Trick question. People who waste their money never have enough money to be happy.

chapillon The Feds Can Now Probably Unlock Every iPhone Model

That happens all the time too, and I'm sure Apple is no exception. Want to score that big NSA storage contract? Pony up your HDD firmware... for "security assurances." Suddenly, NSA has exploits for all 7 major HDD manufacturers.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/nsa-hid-spying-software-in...

Hmm, how did Apple get cleared for DOD use?

http://www.zdnet.com/article/iphones-ipads-cleared-for-u-s-m...

What process would be required for that? Hmmmm.

chapillon Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself

Google doesn't use something like SonarQube I guess. That's full of metrics like "fixed x bugs, improved code quality y%, reduced SQALE technical debt to z."

I can't say I blame author for leaving Google. So called "senior" devs who crank out garbage and then foist maintenance on lower level devs aren't people I want to work with either. They're going to keep you down as mid-level janitor until you get the stats to back your story up. Static code analysis can paint that picture quite nicely for management. Sadly, that didn't seem like an option at Google.

If enough janitors leave, the whole place will stink soon. I think the author was wise to stand up for himself. Other Googlers who feel that way should join him.

chapillon The Feds Can Now Probably Unlock Every iPhone Model

No one at Apple would share source code? You never heard of iBoot.

chapillon U.S. intel: Russia compromised seven states prior to 2016 election

>"We have an extreme sense of urgency on insuring security of the 2018 elections, because you don't get a chance to do it over," said Alex Padilla, California's secretary of state, who said there was no evidence of a successful hack in California.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/california-vo...

How do they say this stuff with a straight face?

chapillon Wounds taking weeks to heal on skin disappear in a week inside the mouth (2013)

I've verified that antibiotic creme and bandage work better than bandage for myself. I understand ~10% have allergic reactions. Are you optimizing for a corner case?

chapillon Wounds taking weeks to heal on skin disappear in a week inside the mouth (2013)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratified_squamous_epithelium

Mouths heal faster because of the type of cells in there. Licking your wounds is a good way to get them infected. Use antibiotic creme and a bandage.

chapillon Nobody's just reading your code

>Include that information in a bug report, and better yet, open a PR offering to fix it.

In my experience, never happens on permissively licensed projects. "Contribute time and code to open source on company time? Are you mad? Fork it and keep that as our competitive advantage!" Nevermind how dumb this approach actually is, it's what management thinks. "GPL? Oh, we have to? Oh, well, I guess if we have to."

chapillon Apple to Start Putting Sensitive Encryption Keys in China

>the phone the FBI was trying to break into didn't have a secure element

That's unimportant. The important aspect is the update timing as well as the changes obviously happening in the security architecture of iOS. That they tangentially bricked phones with 3rd party repairs is just an indicator of spaghetti code.

chapillon Apple to Start Putting Sensitive Encryption Keys in China

Not surprised by this. Apple is part of the PRISM program after all.

I'm reminded of when the FBI demanded to crack the iPhone [1] Apple publicly refused, then released an update to the secure element/fingerprint reader [2] bricking phones, followed by a 'fix' [3] and then wow, FBI can crack the shooters iPhone [4]. Gotta hand it to them. They put on a great show. Fools most of the people all of the time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93Apple_encryption_d... [2] https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/feb/05/error-53-apple... [3] https://techcrunch.com/2016/02/18/apple-apologizes-and-updat... [4] http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/28/news/companies/fbi-apple-iph...

chapillon You're more likely to achieve the American dream if you live in Denmark

I wonder why they focus on Denmark when Hong Kong is top of the list.

https://www.heritage.org/index/ranking

chapillon The UK is gunning for more tax from tech giants. But it’s not easy UK

They are using "intellectual property" to avoid taxes. Easy. Revoke IP laws. Drop the Berne convention. Root of all evil right there.

chapillon Trump administration cracks down on H-1B visa abuse

What part of my reply seems like a personal attack to you? Pointing out his unbecoming opinion of immigrants who follow the rules, or asking why he felt he needed to come here to begin with?

chapillon What are we going to do with quantum computers?

Sensitive information won't fall out of NSA's Utah facility. They will also be among the first to get quantum code breakers. There is going to be a rapture of sorts. A lot of people will disappear.

chapillon 21 Years of Income as a Software Engineer in San Francisco

And hours. But not inflation. According to the westegg inflation calculator,

"What cost $210000 in 2000 would cost $304266.30 in 2017."

chapillon Goodbye to Eclipse – the end of an era as an Eclipse plugin developer

Never had that problem. idea changesets: index no deltas on file or all deltas, but can't index 1 delta. All or nothing. Facepalm.

chapillon Goodbye to Eclipse – the end of an era as an Eclipse plugin developer

Close the git perspective? Right-click project, team -> disconnect perhaps?

Honestly, I'm curious. It's never occurred to me that having it there, even if you don't use it, could be problematic. What is it touching that bothers you so much? It's not like it's going to jump in your folder and start committing stuff at random.

chapillon Goodbye to Eclipse – the end of an era as an Eclipse plugin developer

I don't see an aarch64 or arm linux distribution for VSCode.

https://code.visualstudio.com/Download

Java works now. VS Code doesn't. Neither does Atom. Or any other Electron app. ARM is a pretty popular arch these days. They might want to work on that.

chapillon Goodbye to Eclipse – the end of an era as an Eclipse plugin developer

I have aarch64 and 4GB of memory. Electron apps are not kind to either.

http://roryok.com/blog/2017/08/electron-memory-usage-compare...

Netbeans nightly and JDK9 is quite nice on this platform.

chapillon Goodbye to Eclipse – the end of an era as an Eclipse plugin developer

>I deleted core jars from the distribution. It freezes and crashes all the time. Wow, Eclipse sucks.

Thanks dude. I just sprayed coffee all over my keyboard. The laugh was worth it though.

chapillon Finding Pwned Passwords with 1Password

Thanks for that explanation. It seemed like a real abuse of Troy's good will. I still hope they plan to migrate to their own hosted database quickly and not overstay their welcome.