Isn't the point of this that the generated numbers are mathematically verified to be unpredictable by the person requesting them? Given that we've seen tons of predictable "random" numbers used in processes leading to all kinds of vulnerabilities, the ability of a 3rd party to mathematically verify they are actually unpredictable seems very valuable.

While I'm sympathetic that these have malicious uses, AirTags are also extremely useful for non-stalking purposes. I use mine to track luggage and expensive sports equipment in case of theft or loss among other things. What percentage of use is malicious? I bet it's very low. People can use cell phones for stalking and harassment too, but we've learned to live with it because they are useful devices.

I lived through a wild fire that burned several thousand homes in my community and the amount of disinformation that was posted on Facebook was insane. I was following posts on a local community group and people went wild spreading unfounded rumors and complete nonsense, so I totally understand why this decision was made. Including semi-dangerous stuff like "the fire station just burned down" (it didn't) and "they are evacuating the hospital" (they didn't). I have no idea what the motivation is to spread disinformation during disasters, but it's a serious problem.

Pull requests are also massively useful for a corporate environment. They allow you to easily integrate code changes from teams (or contractors) that don't have write access to the origin repo.

git is massively faster. Checkouts that take 2 hours with SVN take 10 minutes with git.

As someone who uses git in a traditional corporate environment... I would never go back to SVN. Yes, there is a learning curve, but it's so worth it. Even if you don't use any of git's features, the speed increase alone is worth the change.

Have you coded PHP lately?

FYI: the FDIC doesn't insure most fiat currency exchange accounts either.

It can definitely be more concise than that. See functional programs that don't even have the (for in) construct.

I can't imagine trying to make comprehensible diff view between versions of a visual programming language.

Fiat is rolling out there electric 500 to California, supposedly with a lease price of $199 a month. The lease price includes 15 days of gas car rental per year included. Sounds like a pretty awesome deal to me.

Hipsters didn't kill non-networked code. Amazon did. No manager is going to shell out for a big iron Sun box these days when your "scientific, financial, engineering" analysis code can run on a couple dozen ec2 nodes for a quarter of the price.

I'm a software engineer. I only use my laptop (13" MacBook Pro, usually hooked up to a full size monitor and keyboard) for actual programming or other "work" stuff. I use my tablet for pretty much everything else, browsing, shopping, email, games. Heck, I even recently downsized from an iPad2 to a Nexus 7. I even use the nexus 7 for email while I'm at work and the MacBook is right in front of me.

I think the primary goal should be too identify what problems the customer is having, not what solution they want. Observer the client and figure out their problems. It's the development companies job to figure out the best solution. When I say 'problems' I don't mean things like "I don't like that I have to use 2 screens to do y". I mean thing like "our shipping process takes too long and losses too many packages".

So what if it's written down? No one in close proximity to my computer is trying to hack me. I'm not scared of my family or co-workers getting my credentials. I'm afraid of a remote attacker compromising the server where the credentials are stored.