protontorpedo

I'm pretty sure this comment was generated by a language model. If that's the case, congratulations.

Let me politely disagree with you. I conduct interviews regularly and often the candidate's perception about of own performance doesn't match reality. More often than not, they are worrying about aspects of their code that we don't really care about, or concerned about some mistake they made. It's better if both sides just commit to completing the interview, even if you have strong feelings it isn't going anywhere.

Thank you for a good laugh. I feel exactly like that, although I work a cushy tech job instead of fixing dishwashers, I know I don't have what it takes to make the history books. Hell, not even a history blog.

But you're right! All our truths were invented by someone else(s), down to the language we use to write these replies.

I don't understand. Even if you had a cryptographic challenge mechanism to be verified by specialized hardware in the client, if I control the client then I must be able to "poke around in the API" from it anyway. I think your best bet to prevent this is to to detect abnormal client behaviour and block it.

That's absolutely fair and I'm not trying to imply that cheap entertainment is all bad. It was more of a reaction to the parent comment, which seemeed to imply that the endeavour wasn't worth it.

With the enormous amount of time we all waste in cheap entertainment this days, I think the willingness to spend as much time digging and tweaking and hacking is to be celebrated.

I lived in Brazil, and my well-off friends bought their Macs smuggled from Paraguay. Still, at Paraguay prices a MacBook Pro used to cost about 10x the minimum wage.

Curiously, this last sentence matches almost exactly how a Portuguese speaker would write English phonetically.

Where I come from, companies don't waste real estate with monitor rooms for security guards. Instead the monitoring is outsourced, and the security guard has a fixed position and a set number of patrols they need to do.

As a counter argument, social engineering is hacking through a different interface. You're still exploiting vulnerabilities, but in a low-tech, process-based system. But I agree that we should use different terms.

The original question was about "how to break out of lethargy", and I think it might work for that. I think some people need "momentum" to get invested into what they want to do; the motivation doesn't come until they're deep into it. But yeah, like you said, it might not be enough in the long run.

I get your point. But my opinion is that you will benefit more from a method to get things done, than from just waiting for your mood to improve. I rather not take drugs if I don't have a health condition.