In order to determine what constitutes a relevant and useful result, search engines use complex algorithms
Hmm... this brings a whole new (and rather sinister) perspective to Tony Hoare's famous quote that
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
That wouldn't be worse; that would mean they're actually putting their development resources to a productive use that (presumably) people actually want!
> She claimed to hate America. When asked, “…you don’t actually hate America, right?” she responded, “I mean yeah I do its literally the worst thing to happen on the planet.”
Yup. In a lot of software companies, the developers who actually build the products consider the sales department "the enemy" for precisely this reason.
Winner isn't a martyr, but neither is she the despicable villain portrayed in the DOJ's official statement on its easy win.
I dunno. Sounds to me like she deliberately took a job with the government with the express intent of exfiltrating classified information because she hates her country. The fact that the thing she happened to have the opportunity to grab, when that opportunity came up, turned out to be relatively innocuous, doesn't make it any less despicable.
Trademark disputes in the alcohol industries are often times absurd enough to make the comments section question whether everyone involved was simply drunk.
As I've said before in response to similar articles, it's hardly news that alcohol makes people behave like idiots.
Put them into familiar context, using units of measurement that are actually common in the USA in place of ones that aren't and appear to have been chosen purely for sensationalistic purposes to make this look a lot bigger and scarier than it actually is?
That same section of the Special Publication also says that, "Verifiers SHOULD NOT impose other composition rules (e.g., requiring mixtures of different character types or prohibiting consecutively repeated characters) for memorized secrets" because, as a NIST study noted, it tends to reduce overall security hygiene.
This seems absurd on it’s face. Consider the blue-prints for an automobile, or the recipe for coca-cola, or the design of an acoustic speaker, or pretty much anything else that is very difficult to achieve but easy to duplicate.
All of those things can be taken apart and studied (even Coca-Cola; it's trivial if you have access to a mass spectrometer) to find out what they're made of. Software... not so much. Even with good decompiling tools, analysis of software binaries is more often than not a massive, painful ordeal, particularly if the publisher employed obfuscation techniques to attempt to thwart decompilation and analysis. This is something that you simply can't do to literature, automobiles, or beverages.
WRT the question "when is a person fully baked?", the answer is kind of surprising if you haven't looked into the research on the subject. Of course, it depends on which researchers you listen to, and also on how exactly you define "fully baked," but if the question is "at what point does a person stop being a blank slate and exhibit well-defined, defining personality traits that they will carry with them for the rest of their lives," there's reason to believe the answer could be as early as age 8.
And yes, obviously people continue to change after that point, but the style of change is more "growth" than "metamorphosis." Barring the effect of unpredictable, extremely impactful (and usually traumatic) events, as a general rule, preteen children are recognizably the seed of the fully-formed adult they will grow into.
Gotta agree here. I totally understand the whole "this was taken out of context" argument. It's a thing that happens all too often. But still, having seen the stuff Sarah Jeong wrote, frankly it's difficult to imagine any context that makes her come out looking good. Context or no context, she did tweet those things.
"As a professor, I very frequently see students spinning their tires trying to solve problems that were already solved in 1985," Bennett Foddy, who teaches at New York University’s Game Center and is the developer of games like QWOP and Getting Over It, told me in an email. "And just as you would if you were teaching painting or music (or math), what you do as a teacher is you send them to the library to study the old classics, to see what they did right and wrong. That’s the only way we can make progress in the sciences, the humanities, or in the creative arts."
This is exactly right, and it reaches well beyond games; it's a massive problem throughout the software industry. Because we have a copyright regime that incentivizes closed-source software distribution, we end up with essentially the only medium in all of the creative arts or engineering disciplines where the development techniques of a masterpiece cannot be studied because they can't be known.
Instead of Foddy's university libraries, imagine a world in which the only literature students who could study and learn from the techniques of Hemingway's work were those who went to Hemingway University or went on to get a job at HemingCorp, which would have his work available but lacked access to Mark Twain, Jules Verne and Victor Hugo. This sounds absurd, but it's exactly the state of software development today, and a big part of the reason why we have so many quality problems in computer programs.
Contrast this with actual literature, where the ability to read and analyze the words that went into a book is inherent in the medium. I'll always remember something I heard bestselling author Brandon Sanderson say after someone compared his work favorably to that of Robert Jordan: "the only reason you're saying that is because I had an unfair advantage. I was able to start out my writing having read and learned from the work of Robert Jordan, and he wasn't."
OK, hang on a sec. Isn't threatening to sue someone if they don't do what you want already a criminal act, known as blackmail? Or does that only count if you're threatening to accuse them of a crime, rather than a civil suit? (Which would still be the case if what we're talking about is police brutality...) Why is it any different when the person being blackmailed is a cop?
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The commas, are not, necessary, here.
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Hmm... this brings a whole new (and rather sinister) perspective to Tony Hoare's famous quote that
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There's really not much to add to that...
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I dunno. Sounds to me like she deliberately took a job with the government with the express intent of exfiltrating classified information because she hates her country. The fact that the thing she happened to have the opportunity to grab, when that opportunity came up, turned out to be relatively innocuous, doesn't make it any less despicable.
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As I've said before in response to similar articles, it's hardly news that alcohol makes people behave like idiots.
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Re: Re: from the sensationalism dept.
Put them into familiar context, using units of measurement that are actually common in the USA in place of ones that aren't and appear to have been chosen purely for sensationalistic purposes to make this look a lot bigger and scarier than it actually is?
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from the sensationalism dept.
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This is a very important principle to remember when designing such systems: "Security at the expense of usability comes at the expense of security."
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All of those things can be taken apart and studied (even Coca-Cola; it's trivial if you have access to a mass spectrometer) to find out what they're made of. Software... not so much. Even with good decompiling tools, analysis of software binaries is more often than not a massive, painful ordeal, particularly if the publisher employed obfuscation techniques to attempt to thwart decompilation and analysis. This is something that you simply can't do to literature, automobiles, or beverages.
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WRT the question "when is a person fully baked?", the answer is kind of surprising if you haven't looked into the research on the subject. Of course, it depends on which researchers you listen to, and also on how exactly you define "fully baked," but if the question is "at what point does a person stop being a blank slate and exhibit well-defined, defining personality traits that they will carry with them for the rest of their lives," there's reason to believe the answer could be as early as age 8.
And yes, obviously people continue to change after that point, but the style of change is more "growth" than "metamorphosis." Barring the effect of unpredictable, extremely impactful (and usually traumatic) events, as a general rule, preteen children are recognizably the seed of the fully-formed adult they will grow into.
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Re: No.
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from the the-more-things-change dept.
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This is exactly right, and it reaches well beyond games; it's a massive problem throughout the software industry. Because we have a copyright regime that incentivizes closed-source software distribution, we end up with essentially the only medium in all of the creative arts or engineering disciplines where the development techniques of a masterpiece cannot be studied because they can't be known.
Instead of Foddy's university libraries, imagine a world in which the only literature students who could study and learn from the techniques of Hemingway's work were those who went to Hemingway University or went on to get a job at HemingCorp, which would have his work available but lacked access to Mark Twain, Jules Verne and Victor Hugo. This sounds absurd, but it's exactly the state of software development today, and a big part of the reason why we have so many quality problems in computer programs.
Contrast this with actual literature, where the ability to read and analyze the words that went into a book is inherent in the medium. I'll always remember something I heard bestselling author Brandon Sanderson say after someone compared his work favorably to that of Robert Jordan: "the only reason you're saying that is because I had an unfair advantage. I was able to start out my writing having read and learned from the work of Robert Jordan, and he wasn't."
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Maybe they should have tried throwing jet fuel instead of rocks...
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OK, hang on a sec. Isn't threatening to sue someone if they don't do what you want already a criminal act, known as blackmail? Or does that only count if you're threatening to accuse them of a crime, rather than a civil suit? (Which would still be the case if what we're talking about is police brutality...) Why is it any different when the person being blackmailed is a cop?
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Then that's an actual problem that needs to be dealt with. But that's a distinct issue from the one being discussed here.
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Then they offer Tim Cushing an anchor job?
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