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I'd say yes, considering that most of the content is random dialogue among other posters. Also the lax policy on acceptable content makes HN look as clickbait as reddit most of the time.

Yup, they've successfully transitioned into business roles and run the company.

Only downside I see is that you end up with many repeat dependencies, which takes up more space than the alternative. Still pretty great for a personal Linux machine more easily maintained by the user, but not so great for other machines with more limited resources.

Got any insights to offer into the NCC hiring process or what type of work/freedom you have in security research and pentesting?

Entitled is not the same as earned. She might have been entitled to her inheritance, but she likely didn't earn it.

Readability most likely. Type checking tends to also reduce basic bugs from mismatched inputs as well.

Why do this in the cloud? Wouldn't it make more sense to make standalone software that does the fuzzing?

Wow, I thought Ruby was supposed to be an elegant and simple language for developers but now I realize why it's dying off. It looks like it's trying to cater to newbies and not real developers with all the syntax changes and odd paradigms. I'll stick with Python.