systematical

Some of these tech companies are so large and pervasive that they are integral parts of society. The policies they enact with that power can have a chilling effect. Now, whether we should or shouldn't do something about that is another matter. The Government has certainly shown a willingness to regulate industries that got to big for their britches before.

I'm trying to think of an instance where a government (authoritarian or not) hasn't used technology to advance its agenda, or more to the point of the article, for espionage. I can't think of one.

I have an underpowered chromebook for testing performance. Some sites actually crash on it. Much of the web is frustrating on it.

Yes both appear to be a disaster. Vuejs is a bit better imo but i'm generally holding out for the next thing.

Couldn't agree more. I am going to throw marketing under the bus for web application bloat. They make us install script after script for tracking you. They are the worst.

How is such a thin article upvoted? That was basically a verbose tweet.

Yeah there are a ton of ideas I came up with that I never acted on like faking being a resident of a cities with GOV TLDs who have business directories on that domain. There was enough of these directories providing do-follow links that it may have been worth the effort. Seemed borderline illegal so I decided not to.

Actually, there was an article on HN recently about how easy it is to procure GOV domains by pretending to be a city. The balls of that one blew me away.

Blackhat SEO is no different than hacking. It's just exploiting systems.

If it makes you feel better, none of it is sustainable. Google eventually shit on all those sites. Money is always good while it lasts.

As always, hate the game, not the player.

I'm glad we are all in agreement about the smell coming from that statement.

Yes and sometimes you don't even need to break into the sites. When I was doing some "blackhat seo" about ten years ago I discovered a high PR forum in the same niche that allowed anchor links in the username field. This meant that I could I put something like <a href="mysite.com">keyword</a> as the username and it would just appears as "mykeyword" on the forum index page.

Just one of the many ways I've learned to game Google. Social engineering also works well for link building and plenty of other grayhat methods. While I had considered the possibility of outright breaking into systems to place links, I never believed it worth the risk. Not surprised others have started doing it (or started getting caught doing it).

I've caught it on occasion through the local PBS affiliate channel and feel its high quality like the News Hour. I just never think to check it. Is that available on YouTube?

I just find it interesting that the audience of this site, can't fathom engineers being replaced by AI. Not even in the next 50 years? That would put me in my 80s.

My Dad will be in his 80s in 15 years. If we look at the landscape of computers when he was my age, 30s, the big thing was still mainframe computers. The internet barely existed. Smartphones? Nope. What was the big programming language in 1990? Was it Pascal, BASIC or C++? Java wouldn't even come out for another 5 years. 15 years before that he was still loading punch cards into machines.

I guess we will just see. I won't be the surprised one though.

I watch PBS NewsHour everyday on YouTube. It's great!

When most engineers automate repetitive work flow, they seek praise and then find other useful things to do. I think automating, then being lazy, is an exception rather than rule for most.

With that said, I do believe AI will replace most developers in our lifetime. Particular ones like me, that create run of the mill relational systems for SMBs. I didn't need to go to school or get a fancy CS degree to do what I do. Nothing cutting edge. AI will cut deep into development like everything else eventually.

A lot of what we do is converting business rules into code, storing that data, returning it, and performing some useful operation with it. The remainder is making the systems easy for humans to develop on (be it DevOps or clean design). That whole last part doesn't matter to AI, in fact it's really a waste of time when you remove human engineers. Even still, AI can figure out SOLID principals, cyclomatic complexity, style guidelines, and general human readability if it needed to, but why?

Php developers use back door

I was digging this blog until...

"The most straightforward way to address this is to build a team knowledge base. Not only does that minimize the number of repetitive questions bounced around the office, it allows new team members to basically onboard themselves."

# Insert nuclino advert #

Right....That's a culture thing, more than it is a software solution. You can only use a software solution to aid the culture, not the other way around.

In my experience, This culture needs to come from the top-down.

I sold my house 1.5 years ago (after owning for 5) expecting a market crash, still hasn't happened. A market crash was actually pretty far down on the list of reasons why for me, but it somewhat factored in. Whoops. Still got a nice return on it.

So a whole lot of nothing. They pulled a list and loaded an email campaign. I wonder who is actually paying up here. Nice to learn about some tools that I was not familiar with though.

We picked the wrong guy in 92.

A giant sucking sound

Recruiters wouldn't be so annoying if they actually took the time to see if I were a fit for the position. Why are you wasting my time about a C# .Net position when that is not listed anywhere on my LinkedIn?

Another thing I've noticed recently is recruiters telling me they have some "great positions" for me, but not giving me ANY information. They try to aggressively set up a call. When I press them for details first, they begrudgingly tell me. When I let them know that none of those jobs is a fit they drop all communication. How brutally unprofessional!

Real-life example:

# Communication starts

Recruiter: Hi again! I hope this message finds you well! Your background is an ideal fit for this role! I would love to tell you more about us! Are you open to finding out more about the role?

Me: Sure, what can you tell me about this opportunity?

Recruiter: Hi! I can tell you everything over the phone if thats ok with you? I am not suppose to share details over the internet :( I am free today at 2pm EST if that would work for you? if so, do you mind sending your resume and best phone number?

Me: Do you have a brief job description you can provide?

Recruiter: This is all im allowed to share online: "big data web scraping and analytics tech company that helps brands such as Nike, Rolex and Sperry Shoes with online price monitoring, online brand protection and online price enforcement! The company was founded in 2004, they are incredibly stable, and profitable." i can share everything else over the phone if youre still interested

Me: where are they located, at least roughly?

Recruiter: it is 100% remote. they have a HQ on west coast and East coast.

Me: technologies required?

Recruiter: Backend development. primarily node

Me: okay, i don't have much experience with node

Recruiter: ok, they require 2 years or so. not that much?

Me: Unfortunately not

# Communication ends.

What a horrible industry. I'll never go through a recruiter again if I can avoid it. Just garbage. Not even a "okay i'll try and find a better fit for you." They deserve to be treated the way they are.

Having not steered clear of psychedelics like yourself, I do not want any ol' joe walking around on psychedelics. I fear if more prevalent more articles like this will be out there: https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/california-mma-fighte...

With that said, charging people with felonies for possession is ridiculous. Fine the individual and confiscate for relatively small amounts of psychedelics.

The biggest value I've seen from VPNs is when certain networks block SSH. This happens to me all the time when staying in hotels. For my work I need SSH.

I've also had edge-cases where I need to obscure my country of origin. For instance, I couldn't stream Game of Thrones via Hulu/HBO Go this Summer while in Mexico. For some reason, Mexico is blocked. My VPN solved that.

For security? It's unlikely to help unless I am on an unsecured wireless network or something like that. Good read nonetheless.

Is that why he's doing so well in the polls. Zucker you PR master.

Do publishers aid in marketing?

I don't doubt the benefits of a good diet, I've seen it myself, but having been depressed enough to where I couldn't even eat, there was no way munching on some whole grains or kale was going to bring me out of it. Only a more put-together person can start thinking about improving their diet. Which I eventually did, but that was long after I escaped the worst of my depression.

I'll try harder...wait, you know what I mean. The first step is to stop being a workaholic, be more like the CEO.

I've spent a lot of time in hostels. It's not so bad. Difference is, that was by choice.

How did you know I am suffering from insomnia lately?

I like the website. It's simple and loads fast.