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Re:16-year-old British girl earns £48,000 helping Chinese pe... by throwawayReply on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @10:12AM (#12443511)
That's the geek fantasy: that a security vuln will take BigCorp to their knees and they'll finally accept how important it was.

But the reality is that companies are getting pwned over and over and nothing bad happens to them. Actually looking at cost-benefit it still makes sense to get to market quickly.

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Re:16-year-old British girl earns £48,000 helping Chinese pe... by ryandrake on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @12:21PM (#12444632)
Very true. I have to admit to having had similar fantasies when I was a younger software developer working for BigCorps who just didn't care about the things I cared about. "One day, the company will collapse in ruin because we ignore the 800+ compiler warnings in SoftwareProjA, and have memory leaks. KILOBYTES of memory leaks! Soon, I will walk among the rubble of this once-great company and tell all you managers 'I told you so!' SOON!"

Of course, as we all know, it never happens. BigCorp continues to churn out buggy, leaky, unoptimized code, and customers keep giving them money for it. I suppose you can handle this in a number of ways: 1. You can accept this and re-adjust what you consider to be "good enough to ship", 2. You can get jaded and dismiss all software customers as morons, or 3. You can start your own company that TAKES SERIOUSLY the proper use of namespaces, and see if that lets you outcompete the competition.

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Re:16-year-old British girl earns £48,000 helping Chinese pe... by XparXnoiAx on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @10:20AM (#12443586)
Time for some irresponsible disclosure: https://medium.com/@xParXnoiAx/irresponsible-disclosure-52d0...
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Re:16-year-old British girl earns £48,000 helping Chinese pe... by can09 on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @11:03AM (#12443964)
An interesting counter-point, but rather poorly written, and far too short. You need to flesh your ideas and accusations out properly, and your ending line makes for a lazy and frankly rather pathetic conclusion. You should invest a lot more time into editing and review.
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Re:16-year-old British girl earns £48,000 helping Chinese pe... by XparXnoiAx on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @11:21AM (#12444117)
Doesn't matter if it is long or short, as long as people understand it.
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Re:16-year-old British girl earns £48,000 helping Chinese pe... by eropple on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @01:22PM (#12445263)
It matters if you're actually formulating an argument. I understand what you are saying and am unmoved. Preaching to your choir is amateurish.
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Re:16-year-old British girl earns £48,000 helping Chinese pe... by XparXnoiAx on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @01:25PM (#12445294)
It matters if you're actually formulating an argument. I understand what you are saying

What is the argument? If you start thinking about it, I think you'll find it's actually quite hard to create a coherent counter-argument.

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Re:16-year-old British girl earns £48,000 helping Chinese pe... by hasenj on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @10:43AM (#12443780)
Very provocative!
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