What stops someone from designing a blue team technique that is just red team techniques applied to your own product prior to release? I suspect MS does exactly that, but red team productivity varies.
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And in any other planet, we call that a 'Pull Request.' My first real tech job was a community college that really bought into the whole ITIL framework. Important changes typically had to go through a Change Management Board, which met weekly. Meanwhile, key authentication systems involved passing passwords from PHP to perl to bash to vbscript in cleartext, in such a way that dollar signs and other string interpolation sigils would be processed, and therefore were banned. The person who wrote this kludge is now in charge of IT security for the college. And there was no version control to speak of anywhere, definitely no puppet or chef or ansible. It worked, but there were pretty much monthly fuckups along the lines of 'and then the utility truck backed into our power distribution cabinet' or 'the SAN vendor's technician mentioned this is the third time this week he's been on site with a client to deploy this emergency stability patch,' or 'the new guy upgraded the antivirus running on our databases, and we can't roll back because nobody has the old installer anymore' or my personal favorite: 'this position requires oncall duties 24/7/365.'
It also leads to situations where an empty nester has spare bedrooms but cannot afford to move into a smaller rental unit, effectively taking bedrooms off the market and making prices higher for everyone. Presumably AirBNB relieves some of this pressure, though I seem to recall some landlords running sting operations in order to evict long term tenants and reset the market rate.
Over the past 30 years of SF rent control, this dynamic has created a group of people for whom in-fill redevelopment would be disastrous: they'd lose their rent control, and definitely can't live here anymore. Much of SF is pretty low density, and housing supply would come from building up. Doesn't need to be a 60 tower millenium tower deal. But you'll need to tear up some buildings to make it happen, and the cheapest properties are the ones under rent control. So anyone campaigning on a 'build baby build' platform is more or less running a platform of evicting the poor and/or elderly.
At it's core, rent control is treating the symptom of high prices rather than the disease of tight supply.
Just use Inkscape and call it a day?
He's probably scared shitless that he has exactly one revenue stream worth talking about, and has no idea how to supplement it.
Reregistering that Zendesk account alone has to be worth something amusing =)
Or maybe he just learned Clojure people are pedantic and it's more time efficient to agree rather than argue with them.
Given that Jeopardy focuses a lot on literature, I'd also throw in gutenburg project books. And probably a newspaper archive going way back, like the NYT.
Where Roubini simply says we're all walking in the dark, Schiller is the rare critical eye who offers, in public, insight about where and how things are going wrong.