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Comment · 11 years ago
A URL shortener link to a thinly-veiled affiliate marketing page?
Comment · 11 years ago
I see. Thanks for your side of the story. You are a very interesting person! I'm going to read more of your site later.
Comment · 11 years ago
Hey Homakov, I'm a big fan of yours. :)

No, money wasn't being stolen, but the validation error meant that clients' money was being spent and not being tracked. The company had to eat the costs.

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Comment · 11 years ago
Nice, hadn't seen this one. Thanks!
Comment · 11 years ago
I'd love to see a VICE-style documentary which interviews him and really dives into his story.
Comment · 11 years ago
Have you looked at C++14? It's a completely new beast.
Comment · 11 years ago
As much as I dislike using overly broad labels:

Liberals tend to favor equality of outcome while conservatives tend to favor equality of opportunity.

These kinds of diversity reports usually show that "white people are overrepresented" and "hispanic and black people are underrepresented". They usually do not mention that asians are GROSSLY overrepresented. It doesn't fit the agenda because, despite being the most successful ethnic group in the US in terms of income, they are not considered "powerful".

Comment · 11 years ago
>They said I have to use a VM. They also mentioned I can't bring my own hardware.

>Suggestions welcome.

Keep looking for a new job. I guarantee this is the tip of the nightmare iceberg you're about to hit.

I hope I am wrong, but I've seen this enough times before to know that I'm probably not.

Comment · 11 years ago
No, it was a posting looking for "RUBY ON RAILS DRAGON SLAYERS" if I recall correctly.
Comment · 11 years ago
Actually, I am reminded of an error that happened which was similar to this. After I left a past company, an engineer flubbed a validation which allowed a subtle bug to go undetected for 10 days which cost the company $500,000.

$50,000/day is an expensive lesson!

Comment · 11 years ago
Any openings for a "zen master"?

The most ridiculous one I've seen was "dragon slayer".

Comment · 11 years ago
I ported a project to Rust and then ported it to C++14 (which is awesome!), but I only did that because Rust was in a state of massive flux at the time and I got tired of the project breaking every two days due to changes to the compiler/syntax/stdlib. I plan to reevaluate Rust once it's settled down a bit.
Comment · 11 years ago
It's not trivia. If someone doesn't know the difference, they're going to allow bad data into our database. Large webapps with poor model validations are security and maintenance nightmare.

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