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I had a relative named Null, who worked in tech in the 80s, 90s, and 00s. Apparently it caused him so many issues that he finally gave up and changed his name to the name of the town where our family came from.

I think he was a Java guy too. I’m sure that just made it worse.

Unfortunately if you built this, half of the world would publicly condemn you as a terrible horrible person.

Almost all of the really high quality open source projects got that way because companies paid devs good money to work on them.

So you think the US government should appoint someone to make our food healthier?

Or containers. The Swift project is pretty good about keeping their Docker images up to date.

They have also been working on a completely open source version of the Foundation library for use on Linux and other platforms. (IIRC the URLSession type is part of Foundation, as are many core building blocks that you need for making a real application.)

You have free will to do what you want to do.

You do not have the ability to stop being you, the person who wants the things that you want. Even if you want to change yourself - and maybe succeed! - that desire for change is still part of being you. If you didn’t want it, you would have been someone else.

It goes back even further than that.

There seemed to be a surge in 2011 too, when it became apparent that the Obama administration was going to let the big banks off the hook for the financial crisis.

Thanks, this was actually quite helpful. I’m just starting out, and had been wondering if I should get one.

This is so ridiculously overstated.

I can think of at least 3-4 very highly respected faculty at top institutions who are short guys. Several more whose voice would never make it in a TV or radio career.

And that’s just in CS systems and security.

Yeah. I used to think it was all nepotism / corruption, but (at least in STEM fields) there’s a bit more to it. My phd advisor is one of the most intense, hardcore people I’ve ever met. If he says someone is a good researcher, that counts for A LOT with anyone who knows his standards. There is no amount of stuff on a resume that could outweigh the word of someone like that.

Sounds like a Mr Bean skit

I think of AI like a very eager and bright 20 yr old intern who’s really into whatever tech I’m trying to learn.

Good knowledge of facts, willing to give anything a try, but not much wisdom.

I’m not sure that 1) is such a win for MLS here.

If I lose my phone, I want to get all my security footage back by entering my passphrase etc on my new phone.

In other words, I want the “encrypted cloud storage” security model from [1], not the encrypted messaging security model from Signal etc.

[1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/989

“Last Christmas” is definitely the worst. By far.

I have a PhD in CS, with peer reviewed publications on using cryptography, and all I learned in my studies is that it’s practically impossible to build a secure voting machine.

I even took a class from a professor who regularly testified to congress on the topic.

Paper ballots all the way.

They have done this since forever, even under the previous ownership. The “flavor” of the political content was different then, but it’s always been annoying. One of the worst features of the site.

This depends entirely on the neighbors

Lots of techies out in Bend though

Many years ago, I was a grad TA at a school that is now top 10 in the US. Based on that experience, I think everyone paying full freight at these schools is buying their grades. It was de facto impossible to fail any student for cheating, or to punish them in any real way.

Too bad too, since the half of undergrads who weren’t cheaters were the nicest, brightest, salt-of-the-earth people.

I think the uncomfortable question for many here is, why should the SWE at Google get paid any more than the SWE at the NY Times?

The world is not just stuff!

The problem with this perspective is that iOS is where the money is. Almost ALL the money.

So if western B2C companies have to pick just one platform to start with, it will almost always be iOS. This lets them then port that initial app to Android once they are established with western audiences, so they can also serve the (much larger, much less profitable) rest of the world.

Yeah we definitely wouldn’t want them chasing fads. Like, say, crypto currencies for example.

https://www.wired.com/story/signal-mobilecoin-cryptocurrency...

Especially when we import millions of low-skill / no-skill people every year to compete with the poor people who were born here.

Works great for the upper classes - keeps the price down for those fancy Michelin dinners.

And yet they had no problem springing into action to have him arrested on a weekend. Funny how that works.

Probably more that lots of kids will try super hard to be good at sports. Being good at school carries a certain level of stigma and lots of kids who could be “smart” choose to slack instead.

US Air buying American Airlines just to become American Airlines, is one of my (least) favorites

Clearly it's the E[l|r]on problem now

Then why do you care? If nobody is going to fork it anyway, what’s the benefit of being open source from the beginning?