damnfinecoffee

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by damnfinecoffee 9y ago
Why does everything have to be so economically driven? Clean drinking water should be totally free for everyone, we kinda need it to live
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by damnfinecoffee 9y ago
There's nothing talented at all about buying rights to a drug and then raising the price of it. Monopolies hurt consumers, why would you think that's okay? Especially in a field like pharmaceuticals where peoples lives are literal
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by damnfinecoffee 9y ago
and yet none of the original devs get any credit or compensation for the ideas that were taken by apple which is kind of sad
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by damnfinecoffee 9y ago
America is not a democracy
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by damnfinecoffee 9y ago
Have you found any good places in the south bay? I have so far been unsuccessful and would love an option that doesn't require a trip into the city
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by damnfinecoffee 9y ago
Think about it this way: Let's say you invented some brand new technology that was revolutionary and extremely useful. You're just a single person, so you don't have the resources to bring it to mass markets right away, but y
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by damnfinecoffee 9y ago
meh, making what is essentially a complete clone of snapchat within Instagram hardly seems like "ethically out-competing them" in my opinion. They took the ideas directly from Snapchat and just stuck them in an app that already ha
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by damnfinecoffee 9y ago
Not true, f.lux released a version of their app in the App Store. Apple pulled their app and so they added another method to sideload it https://justgetflux.com/sideload/ using xcode. Apple then revoked their developme
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by damnfinecoffee 10y ago
I mean I suppose that's true but that's a terribly weak argument. You could say the same thing about Signal which is considered one of the most secure messaging applications on the market at the moment. It's pretty trivial to
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by damnfinecoffee 10y ago
As far as I know, security has always been one of Cisco's top priorities which is one of the reasons they have been so strong in the enterprise market. It's almost inevitable at some point that bugs like the one in the link here p
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by damnfinecoffee 10y ago
Actually if you read the paper, the architecture is designed in such a way that the key management server can be implemented as an on-premise box while all the rest of your data lives in Cisco's cloud. In that situation, Cisco has acce
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by damnfinecoffee 10y ago
As someone who has friends who have worked for Cisco Security I can say with a fair amount of confidence they're not "NSA loving techno-vampires" Here's a whitepaper on one of their newer products that is fully end-to-en
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by damnfinecoffee 10y ago
>On one hand, people have different skill levels even in a role. On the other, shouldn't the salary be tied to title? I think bonuses are a great way to account for this. Give everyone with the same title the same salary and then ta
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by damnfinecoffee 10y ago
That comment is literally a direct quote from the reuters article
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by damnfinecoffee 10y ago
Where are you living where entry level software engineer salaries are north of 200k? I'm in the bay area and base salaries for software engineering with a bachelor's degree range from 90-115k from what I've seen (generally wi
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by damnfinecoffee 10y ago
By "low level software engineers" do you mean low level in the sense of relatively low experience or low level in the sense of working on embedded systems etc?