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eralps commented on T-Mobile: Breach Exposed SSN/DOB of 40M+ People   krebsonsecurity.com/2021/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
gjsman-1000 · 5 years ago
Well, at least it doesn't compromise the cheaper resellers (like Boost or Mint Mobile or Metro). Ironic that the cheap resellers are safer than the supposedly premium network.
eralps · 5 years ago
Does the article mention this? Sorry I have been looking for this information and did not see it. Regardless I am a Mint Mobile user and I don’t think I gave my SSN to Mint. Hell I don’t even think they have my DOB.
eralps commented on Master’s degrees are the second biggest scam in higher education?   slate.com/business/2021/0... · Posted by u/rustoo
eralps · 5 years ago
I've yet to see a useful master's degree. Especially in the US and in STEM it seems like master's has just been a gate to the next thing.

I have a master's and one of the biggest reasons behind my education was the opportunity in the US after the master's. Sole benefit of it has been the OPT (~3 years work visa). I learned small things here and there during my education but as an SWE I don't use them at all and I forgot the rest of my classes. I wrote a thesis but it was nowhere near a PhD level research.

Additionally higher entry level areas such as ML and AI often require PhD so getting a master's is not getting your foot in the door.

eralps commented on Show HN: I made an interactive anti-procrastination video course   deprocrastination.co/cour... · Posted by u/vitabenes
deregulateMed · 5 years ago
Simple solution for me was to do a dopamine detox. This requires getting rid of things you enjoy, but that's somewhat the point. Instead of doing things you want, you are wasting time on things you don't.

After giving up video games, programming was fun. Reading nonfiction was insanely fun. So much so, it became a new addiction.

Maybe giving up things you enjoy is easier said than done.

eralps · 5 years ago
Interesting, considering gaming, do you completely give up gaming? Or reduce it to moderate levels?
eralps commented on Nonnative English speakers share their gripes about speaking English   npr.org/sections/goatsand... · Posted by u/andersonvom
brk · 5 years ago
There is such a thing as Indian English

If there is one phrase that, to me, defines Indian English, I think it would be "do the needful". For American English speakers, I think the first time you hear/see that, it is totally confusing and jarring in an odd way.

eralps · 5 years ago
I am a non-native English speaker. “Even I” would come to my mind first and then that.

For some reason it means “I also” in Indian English and it sounds weird to non Indian dialect.

Like “Even I don’t understand this” sounds obnoxious to me because in my mind it means “Even I, an almighty being, don’t understand this, who are you to think you can understand it” but it means “I also don’t understand” in Indian English.

According to google “Even” as adverb: used to emphasize something surprising or extreme. So I assume what I think at first is what native English speakers also think.

I hear this daily and I know what it meant to mean now, I had a friend who did not know this and thought her Indian colleague was talking down to her.

muznar commented on PrettyZoo: Pretty Nice Zookeeper GUI   github.com/vran-dev/Prett... · Posted by u/vran_dev
billfruit · 5 years ago
The small amout of time I spent with JavaFX was productive, I wish it was more popular. It was a viable alternative to QT for cross platform desktop GUI apps, but I do get a feeling that its future is uncertain with it getting unbundled from the Oracle JDK. I don't really get why AWT and Swing get to be first class citizens of "core" Java while JavaFX which is the best approach to build GUIs in Java cannot be.
muznar · 5 years ago
I feel exactly the same. I loved JavaFX and I sometimes dream of an alternative universe where software never went to browser and always stayed on the desktop. JavaFX might have been the king.
eralps commented on Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak   reuters.com/article/us-fa... · Posted by u/wdb
Someone · 5 years ago
I think Facebook (rightfully, IMO) would argue the existence of that data dump is no proof that data came from Facebook’s servers.

They can’t assume that, or trolls or unscrupulous competitors would start creating ‘Facebook’ data dumps left and right.

I do wonder what EU regulators will say about their viewpoint that they do not have to inform their users, though.

eralps · 5 years ago
While I get what you mean, data has the profile links too. Matching the data to real facebook profiles would be near? impossible if the source was not Facebook.
eralps commented on Reflections on IDEA vs VS Code   archive.vn/nNdT1... · Posted by u/regexrex
_underfl0w_ · 5 years ago
You could use grep with vim or nano for quick searches and viewing without even leaving your terminal. Why bother with a GUI at all for that use case?
eralps · 5 years ago
This idea assumes that one I am familiar with grep and vim or nano and two that I was using my terminal already. Which can be true or wrong. But, the discussion is not about whats the best way for searching for text in a file set. I am just talking about whats the use case in which I prefer VSCode over IntelliJ.
eralps commented on Reflections on IDEA vs VS Code   archive.vn/nNdT1... · Posted by u/regexrex
jvolkman · 5 years ago
They've had something like that for a year. https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2020/04/lightedit-mode/
eralps · 5 years ago
This is great but it has a lot of limitations. I will give it a try thanks.
eralps commented on Reflections on IDEA vs VS Code   archive.vn/nNdT1... · Posted by u/regexrex
brandonmenc · 5 years ago
I have been using JetBrains IDEs for about a decade, after having used emacs for nearly two decades. I have never felt that JetBrains was slow, but I hear that a lot here.

I'm curious what situations people are finding JetBrains' speed to be impacting usability.

eralps · 5 years ago
Sometimes I just want to read code with highlighting. I want to open the project and search for some text in all the files. I don't want to wait for IntelliJ to take 30 seconds to open.
eralps commented on Show HN: ustaxes.org – open-source tax filing webapp   github.com/thegrims/UsTax... · Posted by u/aidangrimshaw
eralps · 5 years ago
This is a cool project. As a user entering information in a pdf file with hundreds of input boxes stresses me. Hiding the document until after I enter all the information makes it easier to file tax.

But it would not be feasible to use this for most of the people. Tax is often vastly complex and it ignores all those parts. I don't have any capital gain, any properties or any uncommon income such as from rent but even for me this would not work because I get 1099-INT forms from bank (for 1.25$) and there is only W2 option under income.

I am also a nonresident so I need to use 1040NR another block there but I am not even talking about that.

u/eralps

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