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Accidentally destroyed production database on first day of a job, and was told to leave, on top of this i was told by the CTO that they need to get legal involved, how screwed am i? • r/cscareerquestions

Today was my first day on the job as a Junior Software Developer and was my first non-internship position after university. Unfortunately i...

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Hasnain says:

Junior dev destroys production database by following onboarding document, gets fired on first day.

Sad because they should have been promoted for flagging just how bad the company's practices are. The blame lies solely on the senior people there for a bad process and no backups.

Posted on 2017-06-03T18:50:59+0000

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Researchers Use Ridesharing Cars to Sniff Out a Secret Spying Tool

University of Washington researchers put sensors in 15 ridesharing cars, and uncovered new evidence of how stingrays are being used and how to detect them.

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On the Myth of the 10X Engineer and the Reality of the Distinguished Engineer

One of the greatest myths perpetuated in the software industry, particularly by recruiters, over the last number of years has been the idea of the 10X engineer. The idea that

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Network Protocols – Programmer's Compendium

The network stack does several seemingly-impossible things. It does reliable transmission over our unreliable networks, usually without any detectable hiccups. It adapts smoothly to network congestion. It provides addressing to billions of active nodes. It routes packets around damaged network infra...

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Building a better web for everyone

We believe online ads should be better. The Better Ads Standards provide clear, public, data-driven guidance for how the industry can improve ads for consumers. Here's how we plan to support it.

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India, Once a Coal Goliath, Is Fast Turning Green

As the United States drops out of the Paris climate pact, New Delhi is canceling coal-fired power plants and investing heavily in renewable energy sources.

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"This is hopeful news for the world, said Mr. Tongia, because the only way for the world not to grow too warm is for “developing countries, especially India, to do more, to come in lower than budget, to do their unfair share.”

And, Mr. Tongia said, “the good news” is that India has decided that it is in its interest to do its “unfair share.”"

Posted on 2017-06-03T04:39:24+0000

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Pinboard Blog

If you’re a Delicious user, you will have to find another place to save your bookmarks. The site will stay online. but on June 15, I will put Delicious into read-only mode. You won't be able to save new bookmarks after that date, or use the API.

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Hasnain says:

Pinboard acquires del.icio.us for $35k. How the mighty have fallen (Yahoo bought it for $15-30M)

"Even Yahoo, for whom mismanagement is usually effortless, had to work hard to keep Delicious down. I bought it in part so it wouldn’t disappear from the web."

Posted on 2017-06-02T05:24:06+0000