logicrime

My Chromebook can run Ubuntu in a Chrome tab for 10 hours. ~350 bucks.

A similar headline might read: "ISIS releases freedom of speech app" or perhaps "KKK releases geocaching app" or "LAPD releases Snitcharoo app" etc.

I wouldn't be against a Dept of Cyber Affairs, but the NSA absolutely needs to be stopped, at any cost.

This sure smells fishy...

If you're running an open source project and users are pouring into the cracks to say that they don't like something, it's an obvious sign of what they want. Open-source is supposed to be about the community, maybe you should try listening harder to them.

Users aren't just sheep that use your product, they're an integral part of the entire process, equal in value to the developers.

edit: Who woulda thought that HN devs didn't give a shit about users? As if we didn't know that already...

As ignorant/oblivious as HN users are, (see your post for reference) it needed to be mentioned.

Forth is as lispy as stack langs get. Though nowadays, Factor is the new Forth.

You guys know that PDFs can load web assets right? They can de-anonymize you just by opening them right?

Don't trust it if you don't trust the host.

I do gigs on Fiverr all the time, and if I'm honest it doesn't really make the money that would make the time spent worth it. If I didn't LOVE writing poetry, or tidying up Rails apps or any of the other crap I do there, I'd have quit a long time ago.

IMHO, a dev would better spend his time going from repo to repo on GitHub and cleaning up code. Like checkout random files and run Rubocop and fix it up and commit. Fast, simple tasks that get your name out there. Sooner or later you'll either become part of a larger project, or be noticed for your work and get recruited somewhere good.

Either way, e-lancing is risky altogether because of disinhibition in clients. It's apparently tempting to let someone deliver a quality product and not pay or rip them off or just be rude to them, and oftentimes a platform will have more concern with throughput than with quality so if one dev gets ripped off it's not big deal for them.

Like I said, build YOUR name and you'll go farther altogether. If you're doing it just for a few bucks, you're already doing it wrong anyways.

The original SICP used MIT/Scheme, a fantastic language. Racket is a continuation of the ideas of MIT/Scheme with more focus on technical computing and a heavy focus on langdev and PLT theory.

Not to make the language seem daunting, it's really quite easy to pick up, maybe if you find yourself with a few spare weekends you should give it a try!

It comes with a builtin IDE and profiler and everything else, so you just gotta dig in and learn.

Yeah you know I was thinking the same thing. How unfortunate it would be to partner up in business with someone who cares so little about the business that they would pursue my significant other without hesitation or consideration for my feelings, her feelings, or most important of all: the business itself!

I see too many people treating startups and exec positions like regular labor jobs, as if they are just entitled to be there because they know what's up. It's a real privilege to be a part of someone's idea to that level of intimacy, and what a shame to let something so petty as lust to destroy that intimacy and opportunity.

I'm assuming that a hundred million users aren't made vulnerable by sheer wizardry. In all of the cases that the original article listed, I'd bet my salary that there was oversight in terms of the critical components or the architecture. RCE should not be enough to make that kind of dent, there should be more security there.

This sure smells like misdirection!

I've no pity for devs that end up getting ruined because they didn't know what to do. It's like going too fast on a freeway you don't normally take, getting pulled over and trying to explain that you didn't know. You knew better. Ignorance is no excuse.

Ridicule is absolutely an effective response to companies who have put MILLIONS, literally MILLIONS of people in fiscal and possibly even physical danger. There's absolutely no room for error when it comes to safety for the users, and a tweet saying "Oh yeah, well uh we take opsec real real serious" doesn't cut it.

Of course they take security seriously, I mean obviously. But the point of the article that this article is responding too is that it doesn't matter if apologize after something that could've been prevented, it's too late.

Yeah, what harm could come of asking people interested in news aggregation to complete tasks they have little interest in and little reason to do so?

Surely the overall quality of HN won't suffer even more from people asking other hackers to write their C for them, what a great idea!

fucking /s

Common Lisp, ASM, Perl (which imo includes Perl 6)

That way I could still find a job in ten years from now.

Says the loser with a reddit account

What if the actual indian ocean timed out? That'd suck.

I've been reading HN for 4+ years now, and I think that practically every post in that thread is spot-on. HN has turned into the very thing that I thought the guidelines were designed to prevent. The internet doesn't need another reddit, it's bad enough as it is.

HN has become host to feminist shilling and corporate endorsements, on top of the already flawed content model that encourages disengagement to the point where people are just reposting headlines and treating HN as a comments section for the article itself.

Either way, there's something to be said for constructive criticism like this, and HN can potentially learn from this.

It won't. But it could.