Kocrachon

I understand NDAs are a thing, but I still don't think I'm too comfortable with the idea of letting a bunch of third-party people look at a bunch of my internal information. And I understand this is targeting startups a lot more than large established companies. But to me that's even more concerning because as a startup you're really trying to move fast and hoping someone doesn't beat you to the punch, and you're handing a bunch of people you don't know how much of your secret internal information, and hope that they don't go talking to other people about it.

Can someone explain to me why python uses try/except so often? I see that promoted as a solution instead of;

if 'bar' in input['foo'].keys(): val = input['foo']['bar']

Generally, exceptions cause code to run slower and I feel like in any other language is considered bad practices.

I never understood why Python promotes EAFP vs LBYL. Both performance and accuracy wise, checking before doing is safer and faster performance.

Eh, I think it varies. All of the FAANG are such a huge gap of eachother.

About 6 years ago, Netflix and Google offered me far and away the most. Facebook Was Closer to them but still lower. Apple and Amazon were on par with the lower end of the spectrum.

I recently moved to Austin and started interviewing again, so far, AWS offered better wages than Apple and Oracle, especially for the area (was comparable to Seattle wage even), and Netflix and Google basically demanded I move (Netflix to Cali, Google to NYC). And Facebook I don't know because I refuse to work there.

So I think mileage may vary. AWS seems to pay a "Flat Rate" across the board, so if you live somewhere other than NYC, Seattle, or SF, your pay will likely be better than the adjusted wages other companies factor in for smaller cities.

Although I ended up taking an offer for Salesforce because they blew everyone else away pay wise.

This is the big reason I still use Go for a few of my projects. I would prefer to use Rust but the lack or an SDK has me waiting.

Because a bunch of people don't understand how the market work.

like all these people who think they're buying GME stock is going to save GameStop, cuz they somehow think that GameStop get some of the money from their stock purchases... So yeah I really don't know what the heck is going on in people's minds right now.

Not to sound like a jerk but why do you think this would be some "OMG" response from AWS? This is not some sort of "hacking", this is a tool that is being used to detect whether you misconfigured API access to be overly permissive. The tools job is to find them and them "abuse" them. Its not like AWS is not aware of user misconfigurations. The issue is AWS does not provide tools to detect these very well. Tools like CloudAware also exist because of things AWS don't provide. Not like AWS isn't aware of the ability to make such tools, considering these are just crawling and attempting to use a series of already existing AWS calls.

The tool is great as a free tool and very helpful, but its also not like AWS doesn't already have the people smart enough to make something just as good, if not better. It just obviously not AWS's priority. They can just leave the blame on the user for not properly managing IAM permissions.

Not sure how I feel about my medical information being handled by PHP...

How is this any different from PlayStation, Nintendo, and Xbox services? Not only do they get a cut of all of that revenue from those services and DLC, but the companies have to even pay for the right to make software for these devices. so are we going to start attacking Nintendo now? At some point I think a manufacturer should be allowed to manage this kind of stuff.

Paypal has its own issues. Such as disputes, its easier to dispute with my bank than to dispute with Paypal.

My Twitch account was accessed and the person made a whole bunch of purchases on my account. Twitch customer service basically doesn't exist, so I went to paypal. Paypals system throttled me when I tried to report each action.

With my bank, I can call a number, say "These are all fake" they instantly cancel and refund my money, and I can file chargeback / fraud paper work.

Paypal has a long ways to go customer service and customer experience wise still.

Yeah this article is only covering a specific attack vector, to claim that public Wifi is nearly risk free because of HTTPS is a very dangerous statement to make. The risk of public wifi was far from just having your traffic spied on.

What's the big deal if it's ring, or me with a bunch of chinese-made POE cameras and blue iris as a local server? shouldn't people have the right to set up surveillance on their own house for protection and deterrence?

saying people are paranoid for having cameras is ridiculous, people also have security systems. It's a deterrent and doesn't necessarily mean high crime. if you live in Major City like I have my whole life, it's just a fact of life that you're going to want stuff like this.

Huge difference... Chinese company wouldn't fire them, it would give all of that data to a whole bunch of people in the government.