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Hacking in the way presented in the article is vandalism. A door being unlocked isn’t permission to enter. A lock with a flaw doesn’t mean it can be removed.

This has to be either activists or trolls and my bet is on trolls. Aiming to cause the most damage for lols.

The centaur / reverse-centaur is another interesting way to describe this split.

The title is relevant to the article. The first line walking back the statement was a bit cowardly but understandable given how easily angered it could make readers and that fact makes it funny and the reason I kept reading. The rest of the article backs up the title.

Also Aaron is on the Rails Core team and probably colleague of the author at Shopify. Sam is also a colleague of the author at Shopify. The target audience of this article is people deep in that same culture and definitely not you.

> GCC then compiles that together with a runtime that stands in for the rest of the console

A change of language in this new generation. I would call this an emulator that does translation ahead of time instead of the normal JIT. Ahead-of-time translation is now called recompilation, apparently.

Canada too, for something closer to you. Doors are rarely locked, even in big cities.

The dev in /dev/null is device, not developer. So you’re not a device but you can still be a developer.

GitHub is a social network already. You’re logging into one social network with another social network. And I’m complaining about that fact on a different social network. What has the world come to?

Cracked APKs are a thing that have a large market.

Convoluted encryption algorithms are something the games industry has been playing at forever and they haven’t made something uncrackable yet.

Orion browser on iOS supports this very seamlessly, both pip and background.

Hell no but the days of saas products are gone. Why pay for that when I can have agent build an equivalent in 10 minutes?

Not saying this counts specifically but I love seeing devs who hate Jira build something like Jira to solve managing a team of agents. It’s a beautifully ironic thing to watch.

The skill required to get an AI to cooperate is not the same one as the craft of coding. Typing what it says out yourself will never get you there.

It’s like calling yourself a mechanic because you brought your car to a shop and paid for a mechanic to do an oil change.

Ads can still be served to pirates, especially if they’re product placements baked into the assets shipped.