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Reminds me (coughs) of a similar app made by a certain (coughs) startup that refused an acquisition from (coughs) Twitter called (cough) (cough) Frontback [0] (cough) . Sorry (coughs) I&#…

> I have a moral and ethical obligation to prevent my source from being used for evil," Vargo wrote on the now-empty Chef Sugar GitHub repository. This defeats the purpose of 'open-source…

Well in terms of the tech industry, there is a on going trend that many unprofitable tech companies are rushing their IPOs everywhere on the stock market and this is perhaps due to many possible actio…

Interesting to see such a fueled reaction against the tech industry by those wanting to regulate it. If that's going to happen, then I guess this may be signalling the beginning of the end of a l…

I have seen this question before on HN and I think my previous response seems to be relevant to this and should help the OP. This ultimately depends on your situation. I would have said Flutter since …

> As a disclaimer, I will add that this is a really stupid mistake and shows my lack of experience managing auto-scaling deployments. There is a reason why these DevOps certifications exist in the …

Well, MoviePass also had a laughable security breach from what I recall from the past month [0]. A password-less and unencrypted database exposed on the net with user credentials in the millions all c…

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End of an era.

This is what a dual license GPLv3/LGPL or some Creative-Commons license already solves. You can license the source under one of those licenses and also have a 'commercial license' that …

Richard Stallman - 30 years ahead of time for free-software, privacy and licenses. Yann LeCun and Geoffrey Hinton - 20 to 30 years ahead of their time for research on AI, neural networks, convolutiona…

> ProjectPSX dosn't use any external dependency and uses rather simplistic C# code. Very impressive. This makes it more interesting to see how the drawing code and the controls were implemente…

> For really good companies asking if they test code seems insulting :P Well that's the general expectation anyway for 'tech companies' to be testing and adopting best practices thes…

For a new grad, I recon you checkout the LLVM introduction and its pointers by Adrian Sampson for a primer and then look at the LLVM tutorials [0] about building a toy language. This will give you a f…

> Invert the binary tree it's the tricky one. This is too easy for everyone in this thread. Try this: Mathematically prove that the time complexity of the DFS algorithm is O(V+E).

I expect such a 'senior software engineer' to be extremely competent with some of the best practices in the industry and to have a very strong portfolio of experience that is worthy of the r…

An excerpt from the Apple Developer Terms: > ...In the absence of a separate written agreement to the contrary, Apple will be free to use any information, suggestions or recommendations you provide…

I absolutely agree. This is a very professional example of handling a serious security incident. CircleCI immediately took action and notified all affected accounts afterwards and as with this post, t…

The Chromium source has a library in the blink engine that is abbreviated as WTF::* which in this context is the Web Template Framework, which facilitate with custom data-structures to support the bli…

After this happened, I have now witnessed that the IQ of many 'impostor programmers' had instantly dropped to an all time low. man pages it is then.

It's really funny to see that yesterday, I was branded as a 'privacy nut' after the release of Android 10 as I was concerned about the privacy issues that are in Android. Then the Go mo…

The OP needs to place (2017) in the title. > I still love coding, but I hate this industry This essentially can be summarised by only doing software development as a hobby rather than as a professi…

To save you from the OP and the article clickbait: The installation only works on Pixel devices.

> This means a proxy, governed by the Google Privacy Policy, is now capturing everyone's module usage by default. No surprise there, was even called a 'privacy nut' on the neighborin…

Indeed. £10k for the price for 1 Bitcoin is the new normal.

> With Android 10, you’re in control of your privacy. With privacy being the latest buzzword in the tech industry and all this news about privacy blunders I keep seeing, For Google to market someth…

> As someone who worked for one of those companies for 5 years this is completely wrong. Well this is 2019, not 2014. The requirements for any typical software engineering grad to apply straight in…

Depends on your specific intention, as in why? Research? - Absolutely, But pick the top universities for your subject matter (Computer Science in this case). There are even some universities that give…

> Launch of largest ever government public information campaign to get public and business owners ready for Brexit. While I accept the result here, this is basically the end of the UK tech industry…