scient

> The only way a bad actor can manipulate the ledger is if they own enough nodes to gain a majority, which is virtually impossible.

Im not buying that. If there is a way, someone will do it. This actually seems like a huge vulnerability to me. Especially when we are talking about specialized blockchains where the participation isnt every internet connected person in the world. How do you prevent that from happening?

They also (most likely) include many other, even network packet level checks in addition to primary and secondary authentication. Its not as simple as it looks to the honest end user.

There are also measures that can be taken when using SMS based MFA, via services that check if the SMS is forwarded to a burner phone, or do a SIM check with the phone. In addition the SMS based MFA services should be leveraging fraud score and number deactivation checks for the target numbers to catch the most obvious fraud scenarios.

Not sure a lot of the companies providing these services actually do that though. And all-in-all, non-SMS based MFA is going to be better anyway.

But if you think the stuff you work on is cool, why can't you express that feeling by telling it to someone else? Because you lack the confidence in your work, which is the exact problem.

The interviewer should not change here, you should change to be able to convey your work and why you think its cool etc. Thats exactly what the interviewer is looking for.

I don't see this as being humble, I see this as a lack of confidence in their skills and abilities and achievements. These same people, for the same reasons, are adverse to avoid making decisions and second guess their work, which causes delays and communication problems.

Instead of trying to make this into an excuse of being humble, it should be acknowledged as a lack of a certain important trait.

All I see here is excuses. A good software engineer has to be able to communicate freely and be confident and decisive in what they say. Asking a question like this expresses all of these things, and being an experienced interviewer also allows you to notice when its a little forced (when a person is very introverted), or when they are making stuff up (thats why you ask more specific follow up questions) etc.

I see more people having the skills but not being able to tell the story or communicate in a meaningful way. Seems to be a huge deal with software engineers, the communication piece is just disregarded in most cases. Thats when you end up with engineers who are locked away in their own rooms and not put in contact with any external stakeholders.

You are right, its an investment, because you are investing in commodity. With its limitations and the insistence of being fully de-centralized (which is in reality is not, due to the consolidation of mining power and nodes etc) and its upper ceiling of quantity, it will never be an actual daily used currency. All the hacks and heists of millions in coins in conjunction with people who have no business in building exchange sites and such doing so, will not help this cause along at all. There is a reason banking and other finance markets are regulated and backed. People just tend to focus too much on the negatives around those entities.

Something else on the same technology is a different story though.

Yeah this is pure ignorance. There is a time and place for advanced profiling/debugging tools, and there are times where using simple logging to debug things quickly is perfectly fine. You applying debuggers as a hammer to all the problems and all the people is the thing thats weird imho.

So who do you think actually will use this site and for what? For pirated content there are tons of free torrent sites. For legit content Google Drive, Dropbox and many others offer very generous free to use packages. Why would I ever use a file sharing site like this instead?

Oh you and your jokes...

Ah, the "I'm no developer, but this is easy" person. Glad to have your valuable input here :)

By using FB, you consent to them using the information about you that others and you yourself provide. Dont like it? Dont use FB.

Maybe your 40+ folk are not that qualified then? Or maybe the demand for their specific skillsets is not as high as you assume it to be? The attitude itself is pretty telling already. Market sets the demand, not your hopes, wishes and wet dreams.

Either way blaming on their employment issues on legal immigrants is just another form of the immigrant xenophobia thats up for display more and more under the Trump administration.

I agree on the intent for the H1-B visa, no issues there. That does not mean that immigrants should be barred or Americans always chosen over the immigrant. The selection should happen based on their competency - if I'm a better candidate than any US candidate, I should get the job. Picking an immigrants over an American candidate because the immigrant is cheaper is the problem - although even here its not as black and white as you would want to.

Now as far as H4 vida holders, you are completely wrong and misunderstanding the issue. Sure, there are tons of MBA holders who cant find jobs. Does that mean she should not even be allowed to compete for any of the available jobs, even she might be more qualified for it? Or she might not be, who knows, this is why you have a free market, the employer can decide.

And the tech giants have equal salary levels associated with the peoples titles and experience. The whole thing about paying immigrants less is just utter bs. I'm in a senior position in my company, I see all the candidates coming through for engineering and the amount of available great engineering talent is very very low - and this is not a unique issue to the US. There is a reason why the tech giants are throwing stacks of money at these people. Its also the reason why I was brought in on a H1-B visa.

All in all I agree with fixing the issue of salary dumping via H1-B outsourcing, but barring actual talented immigrants, while following the rules of the visa process, seems beyond dumb. You WANT to bring in talented people, it raises the overall talent level of the whole pool as a whole, and having dumb restrictions making their lives more difficult (such as H4 work permit rules) makes little sense. As opposed to not having the talent brought in lowering the overall level of the whole pool because of arbitrary rules.

I get paid as you, I pay taxes just like you, I contribute to the society and economics just like you. Yet you seem to be determined that me being here is a bad thing. Ridiculous.

Please stop talking about things you have no clue about. I have been in the US for 3+ years now on a H1B visa and during all this time my wife, who has an MBA, is not allowed to work here - which is absolute garbage. The change was the right one in the right direction, but not enough.

You also greatly overestimate the amount of competent people in the US. Most companies, like FB and Google and Uber, and not hiring from abroad because its cheaper. They are doing it because there are not enough competent people in the US to fill the jobs.

The companies abusing H1Bs are a different story, and those should be handled.

Except they did not leak it to Buzzfeed, it was not compiled by any of the intelligence agencies, multiple media companies were in possession of the report and the report was not confidential in any way either. While there at least yet is no concrete proof about the claims, the intelligence agencies took it seriously enough to look into it and brief the current and upcoming presidents.

So tell me again how they lost credibility by reporting the story as it is.

This is why the Austin Thumbs Up! initiative matters and companies like ID.me with their identity proofing/vetting capabilities can solve the issue.

Multiplayer games sadly are much more time consuming, and the older you get, the harder it is to find a regular schedule and buddies to play with. Been there, done that. I even play WoW these days mostly solo - I love the game, but can't facilitate raiding into my schedule.

The article is titled to kind of make it sound like its a bad thing, when its not. The discrepancy in different IDs and how different states issue them and whats accepted is ridiculous.

Don't bring that "everyone is a winner" talk here, it a breeding ground for people with no competitive drive.

You tend to ignore the fact that foreign policy is not dictated by one person alone. Yes the secretary has a lot of say, but not ALL the say in these matters. The decision to have those countries as strategic allies is a country-level decision. The sale of weapons etc. is a result of that decision.

This guy gets it.

Except the numbers are going up, not down, the revenue is going up, not down, the stock is going up, not down. Keep on living in your delusions.

I think you have no idea how to real world works. Most of the arguments against Facebook sadly seem to be wildly out of touch with reality. Amazing that these essentially conspiracy theories are cultivated by otherwise pretty smart people - software engineers.

Except all of this stuff is most like covered in your contract and you would be sued your ass off if you would ever abuse the access you have, right?

Yet they have a lot of bright people working there and every year a ton of new-grads fight for the chance for an internship there. Plus the company is doing really well and treating their employees really well. A top 5 best places to work at according to Glassdoor. It really must be so miserable there...

Oh no, more starts on Github than MariaDB? Must be popular then! /s

In all seriousness the OP nailed the issue. The company is not successful because of the "issues" with the product. There is a very direct correlation there, stop trying to make it look like the failure of the company did not have anything to do with the product and that the product is perfect/popular/whatever.

Not to offend you or anything, but have you considered that the problem of your potential (better) employment is you. I see a lot of people claiming that the H1B program is bad and that there are tons of developers available in the US etc. But my experience is the polar opposite.

And to make things clear - I am actually a H1B holder, working as a CTO for a US based company, been here for 3 years now. When looking for people for our engineering team, we get lots of resumes but very few actually promising ones. Out of the promising ones, almost none are actual people with tangible experience that could be hired as a senior person. If there is someone who could be senior, they ask for like 200k and up a year - and this is just to be a senior engineer, not even in a managerial position or anything (P.S and this is the NOVA area, not the bay area).

So yeah, I would say good people are always in high demand, and the lack of good engineers right now is troubling. Then again most of the H1B visas get abused by companies who hire second rate talent from abroad so...

As some of the commenters before have mentioned - its a lottery when the # of applications exceeds the quota. And it has nothing to do with country of origin.

Have you ever considered that the issue could be you, not HR/recruiters? Not trying to insult here in any way. People at times are super oblivious to small stuff that causes huge issues.