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because he changed the repo permissions to allow the UnrealEngine organisation write access, and github automatically watches repos for you when you're granted write access.

exactly, but one wrong doesn't excuse another. just because I didn't have my firewall configured correctly doesn't mean software that I use should a) have insecure defaults and b) not make a song and dance about them on the page designed to get you up and running with it.

antirez added that section after I mentioned that it was lacking on the comments section of this article, see http://www.antirez.com/news/96#comment-2351969000

Just been hacked through this method and cannot believe how redis can ship with such ridiculously insecure defaults, and that they don't even MENTION the security concerns from the quickstart guide, which is what the majority of people would use to get redis installed and set up.

http://redis.io/topics/quickstart

Unbelievable.

"If anyone feels this strongly about a certain group (like Elia), they will find "devil's advocate" (for a lack of better expression) reasons to disagree with them simply because they don't like them, or otherwise try to diminish the person in various forms to deter them from contributing."

why on earth do you feel that you're an authority on how people _will_ behave? don't judge everyone else by your awfully low standards of professionalism, almost everyone i've ever worked with has been capable of working with people with which they have disagreements, without their differences of opinions causing issues.

grow up.

There are two reasons someone would make the non-utilitarian answer to the questions:

- They wouldn't feel that they could bring them self to cause someone's death (but they could still be utilitarian in principle)

- They feel that it's not the right ethical choice

A well known consequence of consuming alcohol is "dutch courage", becoming bolder and more risk-taking. I suspect the differences seen are actually just the utilitarian-in-principle folk being a bit braver.

Rather than asking:

"people must choose whether they would flip a switch to divert a runaway trolley, killing one person but sparing five others"

They could've asked what they think the correct thing for someone else to do would be.

Ah, I completely misunderstood the original commenter and in my mind conflated "outright aggression since prior to WW2" stuff with the black money, I was probably confused because the money laundering is kinda what the graphic alludes to.

Empire is of no relevance to British citizens today, or for a long time, whereas this is.

Also, I've never read anything about this mexican/bangladeshi/indian/russian/saudi black money that you're talking about—link?

This would be more of a story if the ruling went the other way. Someone threatens to kill people at work and loses his job, no shit. Imagine working with that person after you've had quite a specific and calculated death threat from that individual, completely impossible.

Some situations are just unfortunate, but that doesn't mean they're unjust.

and what is wrong with that?

don't see how this is any different from the educational backbone infrastructure in the UK like JANET.

JANET has been around since (and before) I was at school 15 years ago, and has kept with the pace, more info at https://www.jisc.ac.uk/janet

You got burnt out, no need to turn it into a sob story or a bitter industry rant. You couldn't manage your time effectively.

By all means if you're unhappy change your lifestyle -- and pronto -- if you can eek out an existence in a more fulfilling way then get to it, but don't try telling everyone they work in a "stupid, backwards, fledgling industry" because you didn't like your job.

Just another "woe betide me"-disaffected-techie rant.

I don't think it's unprofessional and I wouldn't want to work with anyone who did, so if that's the effect it has for some people, then it's self-fulfilling!

My immediate gut-feeling after reading it was the same (though perhaps less strong). Through the author's journey, the article seems to suggest there's either guilt or blame, and no possibility of an in-between feeling of "it was out of my control." Still, a very interesting read.

You cannot cry propaganda without providing some evidence as to what is misleading or factually incorrect, because otherwise anyone can say anything is propaganda.

if that's the case, it's the job of the 'informed' guys to write similarly illuminating counter-arguments, because I've not found any yet.

Any output like this, unless maliciously fallacious, is contributing in some way to the general understanding of the software concerned and benchmarking best-practices, even through its mistakes.

It's the job of the reader to judge their sources wisely, and interrogate what they read, rather than the job of the author to conduct their explorations in private.

Understandably, it can be frustrating for people involved in the projects but that's just the nature of the beast. They can do things to help their cause by championing good examples of benchmarking, even those which don't look upon them favourably.

The former :)

I don't care how involved he is in the case, I read his writing and I found it to be illuminating -- far more so than anything else I'd read on the subject.

You can happily take the opposing view simply because he is involved and is probably biased, but that will make your viewpoint almost entirely baseless.

That FOSS Patents piece is the best commentary I've seen on the subject, thanks for bringing to my attention.

This is my deep learning enlightenment moment. 22/05/15

Yeah, I should've added the caveat that I'm not so good at that ;). Maybe this article is targeted at already outgoing types.

Can't say that this has been my experience. I moved to the other end of the country 2.5 years ago and still haven't really formed a social group. I started off heading out and doing stuff on my own, but it gets pretty depressing pretty quickly, and definitely isn't as fun as doing the same things with others. I now don't really do public things on my own at all.

Yet more programmer/tech industry denigration propped up by completely unproven assertions.

Firstly most of this is based on the idea that as a programmer you are only either great or shit, and that this is somehow a problem of the industry rather than just being something entirely human and normal in ANY WALK OF LIFE (the best and the rest).

Secondly, there's this awful assertion that this purported industry problem has resulted in a less diverse industry. (What does that even mean, other ethnicities & women can't handle pressure as well as white men?)

  But imagine how frustrating it must be to be a woman with a decade of experience
  and have someone assume that she doesn't know what she is talking about.

I care not for provenance!

This is probably a fine place to mention that the best mayonnaise you can get in Britain is Sainbury's own French Mayonnaise. Incredible.

(~ A mayonnaise aficionado)

Telling someone your currently salary doesn't affect your ability to say "no, thanks." I consider it a complete irrelevance, unless you're deciding what you should be paid based on what price people offer you jobs at -- but don't do that.

This doesn't surprise me. Our app relies on the Yubikey devices for 2-factor auth and since the iPad 4 Apple have deliberately blocked non-Apple devices working with the Camera Connection Kit, meaning that our customers cannot use our product with anything after the iPad 3.

This obviously meant we had to drop support for Apple products and even for a small product like ours this has lost Apple hundreds of device sales from customers of ours purchasing other devices because of this.

While Apple won't give a crap about those few sales, at some stage, their provincialism will come back to bite them.

You could've also rewritten that dog-ugly Ruby code in Ruby, but an interesting look into Haskell none-the-less.

I'm curious what you mean by this!