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onlydeadheroeson Cargo Cult Software Engineering (2000)

That is a funny question (in the good sense). I would argue the VCs are cargo culting themselves, but of course another could argue that once the VC money has moved into the pockets of the programmers, then the important part of the process is done.

I just doesn't necessarily create any useful software.

onlydeadheroeson Silicon Valley is shutting down speech loopholes. Latest target: live content

It will be easier to see who were the useful idiots when the usefulness runs out.

onlydeadheroeson Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain

How did it get dead?

onlydeadheroeson Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)

There is funny business going on at manjaro, but by god do they deliver! I run 5 linux computers at home for various ends and I got tired of putting a new Ubuntu on them every now and then. At the time I looked at manjaro, other rolling distros couldn't even survive an update from the latest installation media to current (sidux). Arch is/was a hobby in itself and the opposite of what I was seeking, but it is an excellent foundation. Manjaro has kept these 5 machines for over 5 years through every possible update and it never broke them. Kernel switching is a joy. Driver installing switching is a joy. This is a very tall order.

That said I do hope endeavouros or others can fill Manjaro's immense boots.

onlydeadheroeson Google's Sundar Pichai says future of office is employee 'on-sites'

pure noise? because you are always right, of course.

onlydeadheroeson 92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people

Funny how much a single question can be feared.

onlydeadheroeson 92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people

What was the state of r/The_Donald at the time?

onlydeadheroeson Exploring Bayesian Optimization

Good job making all these accounts to congratulate yourself!

onlydeadheroeson What You'll Need to Know in 2020 That You Don't Know Now (2000)

  Even today the english wikipedia has articles that are full of lies, like for example the Gamergate article.

onlydeadheroeson Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe

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onlydeadheroeson What I wish I knew about React

jQuery, when people stop fucking around and start making sites that work again.

onlydeadheroeson Doctors turn to social media to develop Covid-19 treatments in real time

And that is not the only place knowledge gets locked behind:

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/chinas-devas...

onlydeadheroeson Assange Hearing Day 2

So shooting the messenger is now a defensible position in polite company?

onlydeadheroeson Javascript Object Signing and Encryption is a Bad Standard (2017)

He is saying dynamic languages crash and burn in this context. Specifying "dynamic" does strongly suggest non-dynamic languages do not crash and burn in this context.

onlydeadheroeson Javascript Object Signing and Encryption is a Bad Standard (2017)

Of course, because security issues and language pitfalls have no bearing on cryptographic implementations.

onlydeadheroeson Javascript Object Signing and Encryption is a Bad Standard (2017)

Indeed it is much better to implement it in a language such as C or C++ that has historically had almost no security issues and has very few pitfalls.

onlydeadheroeson Python dicts are now ordered

That does not matter, nothing is above criticism.

onlydeadheroeson How knitters got knotted in a purity spiral

Teenager with Asperger’s placed under house arrest, fined over £500 for asking police officer’s gender

https://caldronpool.com/teenager-with-aspergers-placed-under...

onlydeadheroeson Deanonymizing Tor Circuits

We have our skills, and the ability to implement anything that we can imagine (with the necessary detail). They can't take that away.

onlydeadheroeson Deanonymizing Tor Circuits

People like that have no place in software or any form of engineering.

onlydeadheroeson Deanonymizing Tor Circuits

I consider Tor to be completely compromised. Consider this:

1) Political entryism by ideologues. These people stand against merit, and these are the same people who every few weeks post a lead-balloon of a thread against it in this very forum and others.

2) Recent purge of non-aligned team members on trumped up bullshit that only offends the now-dominant political ideas

3) Large, long redesign with obvious flaws

4) Unwillingness to address the reported flaws

We are not talking about ICQ here, we are talking about Tor. If the Tor team is not concerned about this, then what are they concerned about? What else are they even doing? Why is it that in this age of total surveillance, when even Torvalds had to face the wall while they purged his team, nobody in power is bothered by Tor? Ain't that the fucking shit?

onlydeadheroeson Google Fires Four Workers, Including Staffer Tied to Protest

The problem is that the "something" that is "wrong" is wrongthing.

onlydeadheroeson Are We Wayland Yet?

X has been going away for longer that the careers of most people on this site.

onlydeadheroeson Stallman Still Heading the GNU Project

I guess we can soon expect them to relicense it all to free the world from the viral nature of the GPL.

onlydeadheroeson ORMs Are Backwards

Quick reminder that advisory locks may need to be released by the same connection that acquired them...

onlydeadheroeson The race is on to develop new strategies for storing nuclear waste

> Not sure whether it can be argued if it is really a better alternative.

I suppose that when you watch your children die from climate change, then you will know.

onlydeadheroeson Hillbillies Need No Elegy

Did you ever study Latin?

onlydeadheroeson Show HN: A Firefox extension to leave comments on any URL

Not all moderation is Orwellian but there is moderation happening right now that is Orwellian.

onlydeadheroeson Abuses show Assange case was never about law

Thank you but I will comment as I see fit.

onlydeadheroeson Huawei’s Ace in the Hole: Undersea Cables

Yes, the humans.