dbtablesorrows

the fact that the bug tracker exists is proving GP's point.

You're more [security minded](https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/03/the_security_...) than me

Indeed there are. But you iterate on local and care about CI once everything is working in local. It's not every tuesday I get CI errors because a package was missing. It's rare unless you're in those 1000-little-microservice shops.

Ah I think I never had to do connect to a public open hotspot because by the time I grew up 4G and then 5G internet were commonplace.

I do usually worry - because DNS spoofing is still possible and we are one step (eg: a compromised certificate) away from being pwned. But yeah one shouldn't have to worry.

Who would connect to unknown person's hotspot?

But it seems pretty trivial for some bad actor at local ISP.

Can't blame gitlab for team not having a local dev setup.

yeah, forgot his name.

OK, fuck it, show me the demo (without staging it). show me the result.

I realize many are disappointed (especially by technical churn, star-based-development JS projects on github without technical rigour). I don't trust any claim on the open web if I don't know the technical background of the person making it.

However I think - Nadh, ronacher, the redis bro - these are people who can be trusted. I find Nadh's article (OP) quite balanced.

> And when reading AI code or AI prose, this part of my brain short circuits a little. Because there is no cohesive human mind behind the text.

This is most succinct description of my brain's slop detection algorithm.

> It hadn't been altered -- it was a sendmail.cf I had written. And I was fairly certain I hadn't enabled the "FAIL_MAIL_OVER_500_MILES" option.

This is gold.

I think the closest such thing we have is "suggestions" on github and gitlab.

> These supposed electrical "engineers" have an IEEE "paper" to their name

"publication" is encouraged or in some cases "mandated" in certain institutions for course points. It's a lecherous system to game certain metrics which leads to pretend-play and not an ounce of productive work.

> there's not much you can do to help them or to find them.

In CS, If you want to find talented Indian folk, you can hang out in IRCs, hobbyist forums etc.. I have few friends who were Linux enthusiasts, compiler experts etc... who used to. Genuine interest is a pretty good initial filter.

I think you'll get downvoted to oblivion because outsiders often don't realize the ridiculousness of the whole thing.

I will try to give some context.

To give an example, the CSE undergrad from an average Indian college would've done 500 - 1000 leetcode "problems" for practice. But have little to no idea on how to survive in a UNIX shell, or to troubleshoot an actual problem. Hell, half of them haven't written more than 1000 lines of code for single purpose.

People early in their career (which is most SWEs including yours truly) follow whatever "influencers" on youtube (the local term being bhaiyya-didis), who give them rough "roadmaps" to "crack DSA" or "get high paying remote job". The result is that average CS guy spends most of his time navigating this rat race than studying computer science stuff that matters for the job.

I see similar kind of competition getting created at senior levels too, in the terms of people grinding theory and blog posts on "system design" interviews. I am not old^H^H^H senior enough to comment on it, though.

But it was not all bleak. IIRC, We were producing quite few good OSS contributions through GSoC, LFX etc... until few years ago (not considering my own among good ones). There were talented 1% or so (I known a few very talented people in personally). Nowadays these "hustler" variety people have started "How to crack GSoC" roadmaps [sic] too, and the spamming quoted above see may be related to this. This sort of insane rat race is not good for talented people. It's not good for companies either. Recruitment is basically lottery at higher levels too; I have seen people use AI to shamelessly lie on their resumes and get hired etc... Some of these problems may be present in west but India's scale makes some of these problems difficult.

This guy adults.

What's with this therapy industrial complex?

Men need purpose not some consoling words.

Not if they can use an obfuscator?

You are probably missing a $ before COLUMNS and export before setting DELTA_FEATURES

Azure SDK.

I think a fair concern is lack of SDKs for cloud based services you will need to / will be forced to use.

Turns out this gives some unprintable characters.

I can imagine using man to generate random but realistic text in a test.

MANROFFSEQ= MANPAGER=cat man sprintf

If you want to customize the scraping, there's scrapy python framework. You would always need to download the html though.

IIRC, other browsers (the chinese UC browser and Nokia's OVI browser) had compression too. But opera was most popular (and perhaps most mature as well).

Hi Jeff, Big fan.

No.

I believe most tech focused companies do it and it's called design docs / RFCs.

How does leave policy work in your companies? Where I work you can use that leaves quota for something else (i.e taking a vacation). So its gonna "cost money" the same way.

> Stuff as much knowledge in your head as possible, share bare minimum, use non-standard tech stack, write no documentation, ground as much project on yourself

This will work only if your manager has 62 IQ.