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What? Not a ounce of sympathy. What about the people they defraud and harassed on a daily basis to keep up the fraud?
Just to add. Looking at the current political state surrounding the Russian collusion investigation. It's not a stretch that Trump would not use this against his political enemies or "fake new media". And look at what his supporters have done with FBI agents that had an affair with private text messages. Trump isn't the first of his kind nor will s/he be the last.
Re:Docker is a dangerous gamble on Monday May 14, 2018 @05:50AM (#17064103)
Just curious, do you still have/use a Nokia cell phone?
agreed but the hack was a result of credentials being "admin/password"
Re:TDD did not live up to expectations on Thursday June 29, 2017 @01:54PM (#14665380)
Yeah I dislike that mantra, but I think it was a guideline for novice. I think the phrase should be updated to "make the test fallible".
Re:How Bullshitters Not Just Survive But Thrive (2016) on Monday January 23, 2017 @04:03PM (#13465997)
IMO, they don't care enough to spot this. As long as deliverables are met, there is no incentive for them to dig around the roots. But I think once the "ponzi scheme" is exposed by having good talent refusing work in that toxic environment. shit gets really real, fast.
Although I'm not a fan of it. If you are doing "clever" coding. I urge fellow coders to please write some test cases for your "boring" programmers. Helps the rest of us to be brought up to speed and maintain it.
Re:Apple leaks new MacBook Pro with touch strip on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @05:35PM (#12791848)
One leak feature from an article; not an official Apple press release. And you made that conclusion.

I'm not apple fan boy. But sure, Neat?

Re:On DRY and the cost of wrongful abstractions on Monday September 19, 2016 @08:14PM (#12535878)
I would add to NOT practice DRY in your test cases/code. More often than not this will get you in trouble.
Re:On DRY and the cost of wrongful abstractions on Monday September 19, 2016 @08:12PM (#12535869)
> Repeat yourself. It's good for you, and makes you code faster.

Maintainable goes out the window...

Re:Why Learning Angular 2 Was Excruciating on Monday September 19, 2016 @06:19PM (#12535245)
jQuery still exists. IMO, the ecosystem has just moved towards rich-client front end applications. There was no good tool/framework for that and people started fulfilling that need. Of course you could write like you said "unoptimized (or just plain horrible) code" which in an actual application is huge price to pay. I think it all boils down to being able to use the right tool for the job. I wouldn't advise using React or Angular to show static content e.g an splash page.
Re:Show HN: Web Design in 4 minutes on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @01:47PM (#12167429)
Very well done! kudos
Re:Yahoo sold to US telecoms giant Verizon on Monday July 25, 2016 @02:00PM (#12160372)
Yahoo Japan is a different company.
agreed. Jobs' negotiation skills are "legendary" in the valley.
Re:What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014) on Monday June 27, 2016 @02:04PM (#11988051)
"Custom" framework.. idiosyncratic code. Code that is probably not properly documented, not properly vetted, or maintained as technology evolves. It is not to say it can't be done (e.g. fb, google, ms), but the cost of doing so greatly outweighs the benefits. For example, security concerns of your "custom" framework and onboarding of new engineering into your team. And are you really in the business fo "custom" framework?
Re:Progress Towards 100% HTTPS, June 2016 on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @06:41PM (#11957608)
Correct me if I'm wrong. So you argument is "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes"(Who will guard the guards themselves)?
Re:Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B on Monday June 13, 2016 @06:27PM (#11898260)
IMO, Microsoft has the means and resources to sift thru linkedIn metadata to gain an hiring advantage over their competitors. In addition they could probably infer what other companies are doing thru their hiring and searches. There is no other platform like this with this scale another monopoly; human resources.
Re:Rails Has Turned into Java on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @05:12PM (#5253720)
What use case is there for "multiple Ruby versions" within the same app?