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Re:A Hacker's Guide to Risk [pdf] on Sunday August 09, 2015 @05:06PM (#10031591)
Cool, glad to see a focus on risk. It's quite important, often overlooked.

Spot on that the security industry (and IMHO many internal security departments) often focusing on technical vs. business risk. Who needs risk management when you have fancy sound bites and scary sounding technical jargon?

Pedantic nitpick: Death statistics slide asks 'what could a billion $ do for these causes?' The question is more... what would Takata / Honda have done with the time and resources from the outcome.

Cheers!

Re:Visual Studio Online Supports Cross-Platform Development on Saturday June 06, 2015 @10:44AM (#9670953)
What does 'not designed to be exploratory' mean? How many scripting and shell languages have the introspection that comes with PowerShell, from .NET reflection to simple abstractions like 'Get-Member'? How common is a prescribed and thus simple to discover naming convention such as verb-noun?

I would love to see it in other ecosystems, and the prediction that PS could go open source, along with the recent open sourcing of .NET core and CoreCLR gives me hope.

Cheers!