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Maybe he didn't want it comming up when HR departments do background checks.. But another possibility is that the real person that corresponds to the leaked messages isnt such a perfect shill, but he can't complain as this PR imposter never claimed to be him.


I think a simpler point to make would be that no one should have special standing in the legal system except when issued a specific warrant. If one person can get this data without a warrant, then why would there be any kind of barrier against anyone else requesting this type of data for whichever individuals they feel like investigating/stalking/whatever? If there is a problem with that then someone has a responsibility to protect this data from EVERYONE who lacks a warrant.


so his name was misspelled intentionally so linkedin would not inform his lawyer and/or publicist of the article?


Any thoughts on leaving Actuarial work? I was thinking of going the other way.. a consistent education/testing seems like it fixes the eternal new wheels and pop experts problem of software as a career.


Actuary is a great cozy career (less exciting in both good and bad ways). I recommend it if you like it. The only downside is limited geographic range.

But for me, software is a calling.


Well the majority of good software jobs are going to be geographically limited as well, unless you have the skillset and experience to break into remote work.


Is there such a thing as developing software for the actuarial industry?


Yes. It's demanding, well-paid and hard to break into.


I work at a life insurance company in NYC. Feel free to ping me if you're interested


Yes. I had a talk about this in Hacker News a while back, when I was deciding on whether to go into software or become an actuary. You can do both.


“busted” for using code that works without introducing bugs to show you understood It... Whether, let alone how, they violated the license is not a subject of the article. Expecting code review to detect plaigarism is.. Writing code is editing an encyclopedia, not writing poetry.


If using code from Stack Overflow is plagiarism, then something something glass houses.

Expecting code review to detect obviously-wrong placeholder text, however, is pretty reasonable.


If we are supposed to be the last line of defense against poor English in products on the US market then that explains a lot.


> The US Marshals enforce (federal) court orders. He was subject to a court order mandating the payment of a debt.

That is itself absurd. As a private person you can really only ask courts to put liens on property (or garnishes on income) to get your money. You essentially must identify specific property you own due to their lack of payment as not paying you isn't a crime.

> It's not like he fell into arrears and they "just showed up". If it was a mortgage debt, or an eviction proceeding, typically it'd be the local sheriff.

No, they interfere to allow property to be taken by its rightful owner as decided by a court. If you don't struggle to stay in a house you are not arrested when evicted.


If you fail to comply with a court order, can't you be held in contempt?


I don't know what gives you that idea. Huawei is like a Ford of chinese phones. Just because they have a fiesta doesn't mean they don't also compete with rolls royce at their highest end.

I think the article is giberish because of the marketing feel good about ourselves nonsense: Picture a person who wears a kravat, not sure what a kravat is? See! Apple wont lose their shirt by being unable to compete with the 4 times larger Android marketplace and whatever circuses it spins off. Those markets will be dominated by players like Huawei and will inevitably be putting compatibility pressure on Apple's 20% over time.

Also, Rolls Royce is a little footnote in a more successful company with a larger demographic today which is itself not all that great. That Apple still will have fans is more likely to get them to jump in that shrinking hole of past prestige based pricing like they did for the 1990s.


Rolls Royce is now owned by BMW. If you're calling BMW "not all that great", I wonder what your standards are :)


Market share.


Meaningless. As proven by iOS.


Ah, the threat to iOS is a non-threat because they are immune to their market's Ford Fiesta like Rolls Royce, which was bought out by BMW for lack of marketshare, which is pushing Mini hard for to get back into a larger marketshare before they are out scaled. But all of that is a mistake because BMW is like iOs and iOs proves that dwindling marketshare in a maturing market is irrelevant, like it was for MacOS.

I must be immortal since everyone who is like me has successfully cheated death, and they are immortal because they are like me. :)


This has no external data so workers may avoid a cache fetch let alone having enough data for regular cache misses. Even a simple strlen call in each worker could begin to add the kind of issues that affect meaningful performance.

How a language handles misses/blocking/threading is more important than what it can do in a perfect cpu only world.


> Are those programmers using this operating system's tools for software installation? Hardly. And why?

Because this is a bizarre argument. I accidentally make dependencies on specific variants of libraries because I don't immediately need to support other variants and lack examples and/or time to worry about theoretical portability.

I don't use OS specific packaging because it was intentionally written to be non-portable. My learning it is an irrational commitment to keep using an OS at the neglect of all others and even if its distributor changes (or can no longer honor) the conditions of our deal.


Your dynamic website (often called a webapplication) is very probably OS-specific anyway. I've seen websited that can run only on Ubuntu. Most often you could as well settle with what OS provides to deploy it, especially that you won't need another instance on the same server. Even more so if it's not a hobbyst project, but a professional one.

> I don't use OS specific packaging because it was intentionally written to be non-portable.

Only if you use it mindlessly. It's not really different to build a package for Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, or Gentoo (been there, done all of these). All it takes is to properly separate downloading sources and building things, which is a good engineering on its own. And guess what you get in exchange? Easy dependency installation, both for development and for deployment.


I guess you've hurt feelings with sarcasm? But I agree. Virtualization is a bad joke with 8GB of RAM today, so I decided to assume 16GB max isn't enough lifetime for a new system and wont be consuming in the current market.


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