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I don't see how a data structure involves money and corruption.

Literally just a usecase for a blockchain, reinvented..

They've even put Jetbrains' IDE at the bottom of the "Staircase of intelligence" in their little infographic... I'm not sure if developers familiar with those tools can take this company seriously (especially given what they've done previously.)

I wonder what their look on say, IntelliJ, is.

I don't think it has much to do with Facebook. The way it works (from their website) is that the target has to be sent a link to click on, which opens a page that places a cookie on their browser and immediately forwards them to a generic article. Presumably they'll then be targeted by major ad networks based on this cookie.

Also be careful with opening many of these images, as they open in Google Drive. Which will display all images viewed on this blog the next time you open it.

I don't understand why you have your privacy policy as it is right now, at all.

Privacy is important to us. We want to do it right. (...) At no time is your DNA data shared - or sold - to any external party, period. (...) If a genome is uploaded, but the user does not continue and generate a report, the uploaded genome is automatically deleted immediately. As soon as a report has been generated (no more than 10 minutes) the uploaded genome is deleted.

Wow! A company that isn't out to steal your data! Great!

When using Meports you are uploading your genome to our central website for analysis. (...) By uploading your genome you grant us a temporary, limited, revocable, royalty-free, world-wide license to process and use your genome for the purpose of providing you with the service.

"Vision: We believe in using data and software in order to maximize everybody's quality of life. "

(Actually - you even have a different company "vision" on gene.meports.com. Which one is it?)

So what does this mean then? Are you using the word "analysis" to trick people into thinking you don't store data derived from the genome on your servers, but you're not storing the literal file someone is uploading? While, at the same time, reassuring clients you'll never store or sell their data?

Well, I hope the designer accounted for multiple colors failing to displayer properly. The pink and red are impossible to discern for me. My bank uses colored QR style codes and they're impossible to use with (very common) blue light filters active in the evening hours.

As an unmarried Young Adult (in the Netherlands) myself I can give my 2 cents about why I wouldn't get married; I've simply taken to heart the advice nearly every senior developer would give me; Don't EVER get married.

You're leaving out many things about coffee. Specifically, caffeine, which energy drinks are often loaded with. Caffeine on its own can cause anxiety (See "Caffeine-induced anxiety disorder") and is linked to depression. Let alone workers consuming caffeine during work time with headaches(or other withdrawal symptoms) on their days off who still haven't figured it out the stuff is just plain not good for you.

> And the problem seems to have been fixed. When I search for chrome download on Bing, the top result is https://www.google.com/chrome.

Which could be faked, as seen in the referenced tweet: https://twitter.com/GabrielLandau/status/1055300918101598208 Yes, they show the word "Ad", alongside the domain name "google.com" - except the user doesn't end up on "google.com".

They've updated it to Major Outage and posted on twitter, albeit 17 minutes after the fact.

That's interesting. It's down for everyone at my company also. I've even tried connecting from different countries over VPN but to no avail..

Edit: If you go to the homepage without previous cookies, it works. However if you try to log in you'll see errors only.

TLDR from the document "The keylogger generates a small transparent window which is always under the mouse pointer requesting focus. Hence, local listeners are capable of capturing the entire user input (keystrokes and mouse clicks). In the following, this keylogger window closes while the captured user input is imitated.".

On first sight, this looks quite silly..

Well, eleet would be $31337.-

However in Google's case their top bounty is $3133.70

> I have a nagging suspicion that Google hoovered up my browsing history, bookmarks, passwords, etc. in the guise of "sync".

It does save some state even when you erase all your history. You can log into GMail, then go to your history and click to erase all history, after which the history settings page will scroll down (to hide the fact you're still logged into this sync thing?), and then when you go to GMail you're logged in again, effectively making Google bypass you clearing your cookies.

..wat. Either rethrow it, deal with it, or rethrow it as unchecked. As a Java developer, you can make the choice. I really don't have any issues with libraries telling me something can go wrong. I'd rather know something can go wrong before putting my code in production than while it runs.

This. I can see the Netherlands on 2+% of GDP on the chart as well. The Netherlands indeed grants tax cuts if you do R&D (The law is called "WBSO"), however it totally depends on how you word what you're doing towards the tax authorities. Installing Kubernetes & building Jenkins pipelines? Sorry, that's obviously NOT R&D. Oh wait -- someone hired a company to word it slightly differently. Now you're getting an X million tax cut.

Source: Worked at a company that got a 10M+ tax cut for moving to Microservices & rewriting a fucking frontend in React.

Almost real, it's just missing loud audio feedback loops.

It's not, but this is a thing people have said since the early days of Java which is still going around the internet. I personally use Java every day and have yet to hear someone complain about the speed of our backends.

The Techempower benchmarks are a great "real world" example IMO: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r16&hw=...

Same with Amsterdam, which is <1M people. The building I work in in Amsterdam has literally more startups in it than the article describes.

> Slack doesn't have an on-prem option.

Yes it does, the thing is you have to talk to them to get it and it costs about 10 times as much as on-prem HipChat.

The company I previously worked for switched to RocketChat for this reason (Slack asked ~100K vs HipChat ~10K). RocketChat is free but you'll have to manage it yourself.

When you have to put "assassination market" in quotes because you know that's not what it is. By pure coincidence the journalist finds a "new market" where a whole _single person_ is betting on whether DJT will survive 2018. Truely groundbreaking, shocking.

Besides being absolutely nothing new; The realer versions of this have existed on the deep web for over 5 years where people could bet with BTC (assmkedzgorodn7o).

Wanted to see more so I installed it. Just throws a "ENOENT no such file or directory, scandir '...\node_modules\hacker-job-trends\assets\rowContents'"

Nice graphs though. Source of that is https://github.com/kroitor/asciichart

Wow, this is actually a thing! I thought it was just me.

As someone who used to drink a LOT of cola-cola during their teens, caffeine really fucked me up good. I only noticed I was dependant (addicted) on caffeine after a friend pointed out I only felt good again on certain days after coming back from a client where there was no cola available. I took a little bottle with me to the client and felt "normal" that day. Didn't even know it had caffeine. Had fairly bad anxiety and panic attacks at the time.

I then quit caffeine cold turkey. Couldn't even sit upright when I woke up after 2 days of not taking any.

I've now tried it on and off and noticed my anxiety / panic attacks happened out of nowhere, somewhat related to consuming caffeine. I think it happens a couple hours, sometimes a day after consumptions. Really took a couple years link it to caffeine. I've been to doctors, hospitals, psychiatrists, physical therapists, blah blah blah. It was just fucking caffeine.

If you read this and think consuming coffee or cola all day is fine see what happens when you stop taking it for just a couple days. Yeah I get it, you just use it to "boost" your energy during the day right, you're definitely not addicted, right? Yeah, headaches in the weekend are normal - everyone has them..

> This really annoys me, but what can one do? At least it's fixed now.

Install your own repository manager? This is the standard in every company I've worked for so far, at least in the Java world. Artifactory supports NPM, so set it up as a proxy.

Everytime my build fails I effectively donated money to Amazon.

> Also, if you continue to RTFA,

I RTFpresentations even. Naming Hashing and then switching to Magic is just confusing for everyone involved. Again; it completely ruins effective communication.

> for anyone else in a non-technical role, why does it really matter?

They're getting security training on the topic of hashing. How does it not matter?? Employees will have to adjust their communication to toddler level anytime they need to talk about security to others.

> Concepts such as rainbow tables can then be explained without having to refer to the actual name; we can just demonstrate that you can create a lookup and call it a “magic list”.

Names are there for a reason. "magic list" instead of "rainbow table", seriously? You're teaching a concept and then giving it a slightly different name just to make it sound more edgy. People won't be able to find anything about "magic lists" when they want to read more about rainbow tables. Let alone the completely mad communication you'll get with people in the company.

> We implemented magic sodium suffix in our application this week, attackers won't be able to use magic lists when our magic data leaks.

>> What?

> You know, irreversible magic?

>> ...

Can confirm; working in the Netherlands right now for a large organization which basically got granted 10M tax deduction for innovation which boils down to implementing React in our frontends, doing microservices in Kubernetes, and building CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins....

As a small company you can apply for this same innovation thing and get 17K tax deduction, and you have to put 500 hours into it. It's rediculous.

It's called "WBSO (Wet Bevordering Speur- en Ontwikkelingswerk)". Hoi Jan.

I guess the comment was unfounded. Can't seem to find anything about it with the information available now, they appear to only have used a self signed cert which users ignored.