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www.reddit.com 5y ago

Intel suffers data breach involving confidential company and CPU information

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www.onmsft.com 6y ago

Emails surface detailing Microsoft’s facial recognition pitch to DEA

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www.youtube.com 6y ago

Java 12 and 13 What's new and noteworthy? By Piotr Przybyl

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www.reddit.com 6y ago

Reddit: Flutter Team at Google. Ask Us Anything

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file.wikileaks.org 7y ago

WikiLeaks publishes security files in case Assange got arrested

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twitter.com 7y ago

NSA is giving out webcam covers with backdoors

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www.indiegogo.com 8y ago

Turris MOX: Modular and Open-Source Router

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www.youtube.com 8y ago

Jenkins X: Easy CI/CD for Kubernetes

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www.sciencedirect.com 8y ago

Wi-Fi is an important threat to human health

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fortune.com 8y ago

Since MeToo, the Number of Men Who Are Uncomfortable Mentoring Women Has Tripled

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github.com 8y ago

Brave Browser integrates IPFS

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www.maxcdn.com 8y ago

Throttle the FCC and Fight for Net Neutrality

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www.reddit.com 9y ago

Reddit admins caught editing DNC whistleblower Seth Rich's Reddit comments

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github.com 9y ago

Uphold – programmatically verify database backups

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twitter.com 9y ago

Google has infiltrated the Trump FTC transision team for Hilary

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: Vulkan spreads CPU load between cores, is it good for AMD?

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www.fbi.gov 9y ago

The FBI’s Approach to the Cyber Threat

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github.com 9y ago

Steam (and CS:GO) Ported to FreeBSD 11-CURRENT

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kanban.leanlabs.io 10y ago

Kanban – GitLab issues made awesome

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www.google.co.uk 10y ago

Copperhead, Guardian Project, FDroid Partner to Build Verifiably Secure Platform

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pacbsd.org 10y ago

ArchLinux-like BSD

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: How many UU/day do you need on your websites to make minimal profit?

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torbsd.github.io 10y ago

The Tor BSD Diversity Project (TDP)

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www.indiegogo.com 10y ago

Turris Omnia, router with openhardware and software, honeypot, NAS and many more

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ash HN: Is *BSD getting more attention recently?

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Just found Intel leaks and Gwent on github without any effort. Intel has a few repositories in different formats, plain copy of .svn directory or converted to git. TF2/Portal leak is there as well. All but 2 I found were made by throwaway accounts.

[dead] 5 years ago

Before covid kicked in on full scale I worked in a med-tech startup. We had a product that orchestrated full delivery of cancer drugs, some personalised research-type drugs produced only for a single patient, we supported 2 CRISPR researches on other drugs. First, clinics in US were closed, then transport companies (specialised drug-delivery planes with freezers), at this point we knew that cancer patients will be 3rd class patients and will eventually die without treatment, likely in pain. Patients weren't allowed in to clinics to prevent them getting covid, as they were high risk (as in health and financially, for the research).

Next week the company lost financial support, 100 devs and 70 testers were made redundant. Investors and board members handled redundancy particularly bad, burnt bridges with employees who were there for the mission. Pretty much all moved to fin-tech. No one I keep contact with is thinking about getting there back with our unique knowledge of the product and industry.

I think the name change does more harm than good because it trivializes the movement.

What do you mean? Name change of a default branch clearly fixes issues of racism in the software industry. Racism in IT = gone

This has somehow gotten worse in recent years

I used to contribute bugfixes to Gnome2 in months before Gnome 3 was released. I observed product plan for Gnome 3 and was joking Gnome 3 will be just a red button that farts.

So many functionalities removed, slower response time, regressions and defects everywhere, broken user experience worse than what Window 10 gave us later. I moved to XFCE and then to Plasma.

It's similar situation to removal of slave/master terminology from IT. Without context such accusations are pointless. "I don't like the word you use so you are not allowed to use it." We're seeing the same thing. Apple doesn't like you using the word that's also name of a drug, so you're gone. No context needed.

Instead Ikea use veneers and crumbling particle materials so you can't fix it at all. Many people say you essentially can't move Ikea furniture between houses because you can't dismantle it and if you tried to it'd simply fall apart.

Not only say that. It has happened to me. I bought 3 doors wardrobe with 2 mirror doors. 2 years later I was moving to a different accommodation, wardrobe fall apart when we were holding it above stairs. Only mirror doors were reusable. The rest filled full container for garbage.

I'm all for buy-for-life, so I bought only oak-made furniture since then. I still visit IKEA quite often, but just for plants and clearance section where you can find sheepskin, natural carpets and IoT lights for 1/3 of price. They also have really good hot chocolate and cakes :D

It's not like your passing those variables to functions right there

Yes it did. Case blocks had several lines.

So what if they're different types?

It makes it hard to read and destroys expectation of what possible cases there are. It makes it hard to test as a lot of test preparation/mocking is necessary.

Except the recursive function bit. Why bother if its always false...

Yea, that the point! Because there was no test for it

FUCK, you might think it's funny, but I literally work with one senior developer (10+ years experience in pure Java). He write code like that, during review insists this is OK because he's been writing such code for over a decade! I inherited this project after he moved to another country and is not legally to work remotely for company in the UK. He has permissions to override jenkins+sonarqube, so he merges code without test coverage. His code has literally 0 tests. Only today I was rewriting code like:

   if(i == 1) {}
   else if(b == true){}
   else if(s == "string") {}
   else if(response.status() == Status.OK){}
   else if(hereIsARecursiveMethodAlwaysReturningFalse()){}
   ... 3 more
notice each `if` block has different variable of different type!