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vectorEQ··on I thought I was being ‘blacklisted’, so I demanded to see colleagues’ emails
i feel for this person. my mother got blacklisted in her teaching profession, this stress triggered in her dormant traumas from her childhood, and she's been on medication now for 20 years due to these people pushing her over the edge with such behaviours.

no matter how good you feel about yourself, give others a chance, even if they dont 'gel well with you'. don't feel 'threatened' by other people who are talented, feel graced by their wits and try to grow from them instead of kicking them down.

lack of respect and integrity at its worst, it's an epidemic in our society.

vectorEQ··on Robinhood Stored Passwords in Plaintext
good point. it would still be silly for 'industry standard methods' to log passwords, in plain text - even for debugging purposes. But it could be result of some bug or error which dumped a load of information ,or perhaps even crashdumps of processes. they contain memory ,which could contain passwords if for instance, the login handling service crashed. It would be useful if companies were a little more clear about how these things happen, it'd be a good learning point for readers with similar setups in their environments. since the issue was resolved, it could be 'responsible disclosure'.
vectorEQ··on Tech firms “can and must” put backdoors in encryption, AG Barr says
investigators used to look further when they hit a dead end. now it seems they just whine to congress.
vectorEQ··on Google Photos passes the 1B users mark
real ones? :D:D
vectorEQ··on The video game industry can't go on like this
once the race to the bottom ends someday we'll have companies making good games again. there's 1 or 2 big studios who still take time for stuff, but most large ones are pretty much hitting the bottom now and people are stopping to buy their games and content. once people are fed up enough and sales take a big enough dive they will wake up. - so in reality, gamers, it's in your hands to change the industry. not in the developers hands. they just make what sells. so buy what's good and they will focus on that.
vectorEQ··on Are we happier when we spend more time with others?
people looking for blanket solutions to happiness. there is no one size that fits all for that. find what makes you happy by listening to yourself.
vectorEQ··on No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers
i agree. i'm happy to have some CS students point me to some areas which are useful even if they are not interesting for hobbyists. There's also a lot of value in learning academic methods of investigation and research (if you are at a good university). A lot of self-taught learn a lot about computers or some programming languages, but a CS degree like any degree also teaches a lot of other valuable competences which can be hard to come by from own inspiration / initiative.

Another thing is that following and completing a degree is a practice in going from start to finnish in a multi-year project which the degree is, which is also very valuable in life in general. being able to see fruits in the distant future of your current work, and having that motivate and drive you.

A lot of people i meet who are self-taught will give up more easily due to this. not that they are quitters, but they tend to lean towards their interests, which is not always in their best interest :)

vectorEQ··on Unikernels: The Next Stage of Linux's Dominance [pdf]
all unikernels so far suck ALOT regarding security. wouldn't recommend any of them to run in any production environment unless you want to lose all of your data.

NCC group did a good article on unikernels and how crap they are if you want to know.

A better idea, like already suggested would be to create an OS which builds itself according to a target application and system, to host that application on said system specifically. that would reduce about as much code, but keep potential security mechanisms like aslr, stack protection , user / kernel separation etc. in tact. (now kernels / oses build to target system ,but not application! -> application would only use subset of kernel, and thus kernel can be built to target application, reducing kernel to whats needed).

don't try to be cheap for performance and skip security, we're not in the damned 80s anymore.

/endrant

vectorEQ··on Ask HN: What people skills do you wish you learned earlier in your career?
getting along with people and linking them or finding them interesting is different things.

getting along with people at work generally entails (for everyone) to laugh at jokes you don't find funny, and be ok with behaviours you wouldn't accept from 'friends'. That's life, learning to live with people daily. it's one of the most valuable things you can learn, to get along with people even if you don't like them or have no interest in them.

Just remember being nice and helpful doesn't mean you need to be someone's friend. you can be nice and helpful to everyone you meet and still dislike them or find them uninteresting. it's just making life easier / causing less friction daily.

vectorEQ··on Quiet Hacker News (2017)
lets post comments he won't read :d... like ,thanks :D
vectorEQ··on Ask HN: When Is Documentation Bad?
"its better to look at code" might be valid for tiny projects, but good luck making sense of million lines of code in thousands of files.... i'd rather have a document with proper chapters / sections. it will always be easier to read. The problem is not with documentation ,but with the fact people are too lazy / distracted to update it along side their code. (i.e for every code you write, have the documentation open and verify it's still matching... / alter it where needed)

documentation can also highlight easier program flow and other things which might not be clear from 1 code file or module. You could add such information in comments, but then you would need to be find that certain file with specific comments instead of just looking and ctrl+Fing in a document...

i feel many people are against documentation just because they don't like to write it for whatever reason (maybe they just don't know how to concisely describe their own code...)

if you look at companies who manage and own large code bases like HP and IBM, they have BIG documentation, and it's there for a good reason.... it's crucial to have.

not having documentation is like programming something without any technical / functional design. it will become a mess sooner or later.

vectorEQ··on A Peculiarly Dutch Summer Rite: Children Abandoned in the Night Woods
we just call that a mountain :')... it's hardly a hill :D
vectorEQ··on Almost Always Add Swap Space
what if an application contains a memory leak. it could hypothetically use up your infinite ram, and linux will then start randomly killing stuff to try and recover.... adding swap allows you to trigger on memory issues / overload without random shit getting killed. you could then kill the offending process yourself specifically being triggered by some memory usage monitor or w/e instead of running the risk of other critical processes being killed.
vectorEQ··on New Marine Corps weapon that just destroyed an Iranian drone revealed
but its totaly ok to fly drones over enemy territory if we are doing it.
vectorEQ··on Gorillas have developed humanlike social structure, controversial study suggests
humans feel already threatened by their own. putting them into 'minority' groups etc.... they would be threatened by another intelligent / linguistically advanced species and dominate / destroy them. perhaps they would serve as slaves... otherwis they would not survive. Look what happend when people explored the world and found other humans :S
vectorEQ··on The Loneliness Epidemic
A lot of people who feel lonely, are hardly ever alone. imagine how shitty and uninterested we really are to eachother and ourselves... if we can be together and feel alone at the same time. Stop neglecting yourself, and that will make you stop neglecting others.

My tips: Actively take time for yourself. to get to know yourself and become more aware of yourself. Even if you do not suffer from such symptoms yet, it will be one of the most valuable things you can do for yourself in whatever position or situation you find yourself.

vectorEQ··on U.S. tech giants collaborate with Chinese surveillance company
they developed a processor together, and now because how it's used they are evil. good stuff. what if some terrorist uses an iphone. is apple some kind of extremist linked company?
vectorEQ··on The Raspberry Pi 4 needs a fan
lava lamp / hw crypto module :'D match made in heaven
vectorEQ··on The Raspberry Pi 4 needs a fan
most components should do fine under these temperatures no? on PC usually VRM's are heat sensitive, but the CPU can take pretty crazy temperatures itself.

is the issue similar on PI? What component is at risk at these temperatures? 60-70 seems a little hot for a small device , but is it really TOO hot?

vectorEQ··on World's worst video card? the conclusion [video]
very interesting to watch. great result!
vectorEQ··on Spotifree – Free OS X App for Muting Spotify Ads
no. you are right.
vectorEQ··on How many kinds of USB-C to USB-C cables are there?
it's all usb cables. that what the usb people thought up and thats how u call em. on that note, a lot of usb cables seem broken :D
vectorEQ··on 'My son spent £3,160 in one game'
games. the dial-up scams of the twenty first century.
vectorEQ··on To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public
And then next thing ,people will want an API into this index because it gets updated frequently... tadaaaa GOOGLE SEARCH 2.0
vectorEQ··on Super Mario 64 has been decompiled
they did it by hand, creating code themselves from the mips output. in-sane!
vectorEQ··on Cockroaches becoming resistant to most chemical insecticides
cleaning also helps
vectorEQ··on If Sapiens were a blog post
from the title that would be the goal i think.
vectorEQ··on The Gravity of a Photon
there's a whole field of science who believes gravity is just electromagnetic effect... it's just particle physicists who struggle with such notions...
vectorEQ··on SUDO: Order bash to do things by shouting
sudo !!
vectorEQ··on Pirate our games, don't buy them from key resellers, say indies
i agree on your points. how option 2 would come about could imo only be a self inflicted would, like you said, give away too much, then complain later it hurt your margins, and even asking people to boycot a service due to your own misjudgements, that would be bad move from indie devs. (let's hope its not that :-))
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