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Re:How Smart People Sabotage Their Success by ratsimihah on Thursday November 15, 2018 @01:35PM (#18461915)
I spent most of the day trying to get access to the new Instagram API when all I wanted to do was getting some data for my ML model.
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Re:How Smart People Sabotage Their Success by badpun on Thursday November 15, 2018 @03:27PM (#18462953)
I've found that probably over 50% of my work as a developer in bank was about dealing with security:

- Getting credentials to some external system with which we need to integrate

- Learning how their authentication scheme (Kerberos etc.) works

- Finding workarounds to not having admin rights on my laptop

- Finding workarounds to bank's firewall (a lot of package repos were blacklisted)

- (the biggest one) Having to deploy the app into dozens of separate unix accounts, because, according to security "no one account should have access to all this data"

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