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> ...The company “robbed their users of the chance to evaluate their exposure” by not informing customers of the breach when it happened... StockX is valued at $1B and aside from their cataclysmic …

Well, he was invited for a on-site interview at Google rather than being a direct hire. But after this rejection, Apple directly hired him to work with the Xcode team. In both cases he bypassed the re…

Depending on how significant your patches are (No hello-world-123/typo/style fixes) putting 'Contributed to the Firefox Browser' on your CV/Cover letter and I find your email …

I agree, OpenBSD has excellent security oriented APIs for writing programs in C. However I wouldn't rely too heavily on it if I were trying to make my software as portable as possible. Some secur…

As a former candidate now turned software engineer and interviewer, I seriously like your story and it does reflect the sad state of the tech industry's hiring process. When I need to find candid…

This is reactionary. Security is about detecting and preventing disasters like this in the first place rather than always being last to react to breaches as they happen. If I were Capital One, I would…

It's kind of interesting to see this release and previous ones mention 'performance fixes' (V8 and Blink does all the work) that it brings, yet the job postings for desktop software eng…

Oh dear, these filters are now so sophisticated and realistic, that they are able to distort reality and can fool anybody. It is getting easier to fake anything these days, and I can only see this bei…

> What’s your idea? How do I know that I won't be cheated if my project doesn't get chosen but my idea gets stolen by someone else instead? I don't think I can trust ANY site to buil…

Well it would be a bad time for another significant service to unexpectedly go down at this time wouldn't it? Time to get out Dash Docs or UNIX man pages then.

> Or is it only _experienced_ coders that are in demand? Are employers just lamenting how the majority of applicants have barely any experience and little depth of knowledge? The tech industry proj…

Well, on my Macbook I still have Slack (Since work colleges still use it) and I use Discord, Trello, Keybase, VS Code, Dropbox for Mac, Ledger Live, Skype, InVision Studio, Framer and Nylas Mail. I ju…

> then take a look at https://zulipchat.com/ for something that sucks less, and is open source software. I really want to like Zulip Chat. It has everything all the alternatives ha…

This is well within GitHub's Account ToS in Section B 3.6. [0] so all GitHub users who are part of the US sanctioned countries list [1] are banned from having an account. Since Microsoft/Git…

I completely agree. I don't see why some developers need to solely depend on GitHub for private use when you can self-host GitLab/cgit with a cheap computer to host your projects. Open-sourc…

> Github was a free platform for everyone since many years ago, but it has decided to restrict Iranian accounts. First of all Github has never been 'a free platform' to begin with and sec…

When it comes to using only GTK+ for the cross-platform use-case, it already has the Cocoa and Win32 back-ends built in via the GDK, which that API is abstracted to GTK+ so that work is already done. …

If you are serious in supporting this project, a way to prevent that is by sponsoring the project via the authors Patreon or if he applies for GitHub sponsorship. This has worked for projects like the…

It appears that Tray.io is mostly situated for enterprises that wish to automate their API connectors using a GUI tool they created; allowing easy creation of APIs for businesses. But compared to the …

Exactly, I just read the title and it was very confusing for me to understand what the article was about. Sometimes when I see titles like this, it is better to just get to the point rather than confu…

Have you tried reddit.com/r/programming?

> The article appears to say that you must sign your requests with a symmetric key. To verify the request, the server needs the same key, right? So the server needs a copy of every single user'…

Meh. I would use sourcegraph.com/${GITHUB_REPO_URL} for navigating code. Much nicer than Github's and supports more languages.

> 1) Start your business BEFORE you quit your job I absolutely second this, but I would add a crucial section 1.5. 1.5) Also secure a seed-round to kick-start your company to test the for market fi…

They are still up in the UK.

So essentially: Mac app written with Cocoa/ObjC/Swift and the Windows app written with C# and WPF. A great example of native software. I'd prefer something like Fork over something like…

You are looking for this: https://github.com/ovr/StaticScript

Well some of the reasons for enforcing a code style happens when if I have hired a new dev who also knows the style guide as mentioned in the job description (For example the LLVM C++ style guidelines…