u_wot_m8 (u/u_wot_m8)

u_wot_m8 commented on CIA malware and hacking tools wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/... · Posted by u/randomname2

digler999 · 9 years ago

It's effective at taking a life. However I disagree that the fallout was "relatively low", compared to even a badly staged suicide, or "gang violence", "road rage", or a "botched robbery". IIRC a democratic organization employee was recently slain in DC from a "botched robbery" or something and nobody blinked an eye except in the more fringe communities. To me, that's how you snuff someone out, or OD them on insulin and have an official coroner report say "natural causes". I think a fiery single car crash at top speed is a pretty high profile event, almost up there with polonium poisoning.

u_wot_m8 · 9 years ago

seth rich, killed execution style, nothing stolen, reported a robbery. Assange implied he was the source of the DNC leaks

u_wot_m8 commented on CIA malware and hacking tools wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/... · Posted by u/randomname2

u_wot_m8 · 9 years ago

>"As of October 2014 the CIA was also looking at infecting the vehicle control systems used by modern cars and trucks. The purpose of such control is not specified, but it would permit the CIA to engage in nearly undetectable assassinations."

Reminds me of the reporter who was supposedly working on a massive investigation and then died in a flaming car crash while skipping town. Forgot his name

u_wot_m8 commented on I spent three months working full time to get a job kolesky.com/datums/job-se... · Posted by u/whalesalad

u_wot_m8 · 9 years ago

From what I've seen the best hiring process seems to be Automattic's. They do a short interview over chat then give them a project if they pass the interview where they pay them $25/hr and then evaluate at the end. Minimal time wasted for both parties.

u_wot_m8 commented on Amazon guts affiliate program, cuts fees for electronics in half affiliate-program.amazon.... · Posted by u/Domenic_S

rev_bird · 9 years ago

Yeah I'd request maybe a citation or two

u_wot_m8 · 9 years ago

1. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-new-york-times-warrants-ca...

2. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3897406/New-York-Tim...

u_wot_m8 commented on Amazon guts affiliate program, cuts fees for electronics in half affiliate-program.amazon.... · Posted by u/Domenic_S

Baeocystin · 9 years ago

Considering the New York Times just vacated half their office space so they could lease it out, maybe not.

u_wot_m8 · 9 years ago

and saw a 94% loss in profit in the last year. But it doesn't really matter since they are just a propaganda rag for Carlos Slim anyway.

u_wot_m8 commented on How Peter Thiel’s Palantir helped expand the NSA’s global spy network theintercept.com/2017/02/... · Posted by u/swalsh

angry-hacker · 9 years ago

What about ex president Obama who actually used the tech? So much outrage for Thiel, but where were the protests when Obama wiretapped the world?

Ps. I think Thiel is a hypocrite if he really thinks himself as libertarian. Also, despite having money and power I think he has big balls to go against SV where he made himself. I also don't understand how did he became so powerful, every time he talks.. He has charisma of an old rag.

u_wot_m8 · 9 years ago

> I also don't understand how did he became so powerful, every time he talks.. He has charisma of an old rag.

Because he's a legitimate genius who has helped create and invested in great businesses.

u_wot_m8 commented on Do Developers Need College Degrees? stackoverflow.blog/code-f... · Posted by u/technologyvault

notadoc · 9 years ago

No.

Some people are self taught and self motivated, and they are often more capable than someone whose primary exposure to development (or technology beyond consumer use) was through a CS program. That is not to suggest that CS degrees are unnecessary, but once you understand the entirety of someones experience and knowledge you will often find their degree or lack thereof is entirely irrelevant.

Of course there are some employers who won't even acknowledge someones resume exists without a degree, which I have always found silly.

u_wot_m8 · 9 years ago

>Of course there are some employers who won't even acknowledge someones resume exists without a degree, which I have always found silly.

It really is stupid, I would hire a software engineer who dropped out of high school over a PhD if he's better. Never understood why people care about degrees, the whole point of college is to learn, not get a piece of paper. Only excuse I can think of is that it's a sorting mechanism for lazy businesses to filter applications.

u_wot_m8 commented on Do Developers Need College Degrees? stackoverflow.blog/code-f... · Posted by u/technologyvault

alaskamiller · 9 years ago

What could be true with the last generation may not necessarily hold true for the next generation.

Many are working towards abstracting schooling out of a being a developer, great.

That also means we're moving towards making being a developer a blue collar job rather than a white collar job. We're also making private businesses now the trainers of labor.

The time to be a dropout rockstar developer was in the 2000s but we're moving towards 2020 now.

The real question is meant for the generation of 13 yo now in the next 5 years. They can study software development on their own but in 10 years time, will they be better spending half of that with expensive college education or nah.

Everyone in this thread are giving out answers based on their own experience surviving the past 20 years as if what happened the last 20 years in the tech industry is where we're at right now or will be going forward the next 20.

I wrote this on hardware and software made by and improved by organizations of highly educated and highly specialized people. It's incredulous to think the future is only going to be built by Lucky Palmers and 16 yo hacker geniuses.

u_wot_m8 · 9 years ago

> That also means we're moving towards making being a developer a blue collar job rather than a white collar job

This will never happen, the majority of the population doesn't have the dedication and/or intelligence to be employable as software developers. I've given numerous people resources to learn how to code and none have stuck with it.