Сегодня была ремоут-пати по поводу Рождества, и СЕО закончил колл словами: "<счастливого рождества, хорошо вам отдохнуть, готовимся ебашить в след. году>. Let's end this year with a bang, and start the year with a blast!"

Спасибо, не надо))

Re: Ask HN: What's your "it's not stupid if it works" ...

Not my idea or implementation.

Our startup built a plugin for Microsoft Outlook. It was successful, and customers wanted the same thing but for Outlook Express. Unfortunately, OE had no plugin architecture. But Windows has Windows hooks and DLL injection. So we were able to build a macro-like system that clicked here and dragged there and did what we needed it to. The only problem was that you could see all the actions happening on the screen. It worked perfectly, but the flickering looked awful.

At lunch, someone joked that we just had to convince OE users not to look at the screen while our product did its thing. We all laughed, then paused. We looked around at each other and said "no, that can't work."

That afternoon someone coded up a routine to screenshot the entire desktop, display the screenshot full-screen, do our GUI manipulations, wait for the event loop to drain so that we knew OE had updated, and then kill the full-screen overlay. Since the overlay was a screenshot of the screen, it shouldn't have been noticable.

It totally worked. The flickering was gone. We shipped the OE version with the overlay hiding the GUI updates. Users loved the product.

sowbug, 3 hours ago

Мысль, которая на самом деле довольно пугающая - у врачей распределение прямоты рук и интеллекта скорее всего примерно такое же, как и у программистов

Re: Jobs you're applying to might not be real

This is the appropriate place to share the following anecdote, which happened to a friend of mine (disclaimer - in the context of this comment and how I wrote it I assume you will immediately notice the red flags, but I assure you these are only obvious in hindsight)

My friend applied for, and got hired as, an external tester. The idea is: you get a web page and a task (e.g. order item xyz), you perform the task and you fill out a usability report, for example explaining which things you found obvious or where you ran into issues. The gig went fine for a week or two with dozens of assignments per day for all kinds of things. Then one of the tasks included opening a bank account at Bank X. This went fine without an issue, and my friend had to use personal data to open that account. She didn’t think any of it - at this point the trust level was high and after all she was supposed to test from an end users perspective, so it kind of made sense to her.

Way later she was asked to apply for a loan, and she did. Of course she did not provide any personal details, but the data the company provided to her - but given how much time had passed she didn’t realize that these data were from the bank account she had opened in her own name. The money arrived, the attackers took it and vanished.

As far as I can tell the scam was set up in a very sophisticated way, faking not only the job but the whole company, with the clear idea that only luring in one innocent person would be enough. And they succeeded.

The worst thing besides the financial damage is the shame that comes with it, the „I can’t believe this happened to me“ moment - which is why I share this here: scams can happen to anybody, including your friends who „should know better“, including you.

pflenker, 12 hours ago

Battery savers у некоторых вендоров Андроида это гемор, но у Самсунга это особый жанр пиздеца

Обратите внимание на вариацию как это говно работает между версиями (2 это значит что есть 2 разные независимые опции, которые влияют на эту хуйню)

БОЛЬШЕ ОПТИМИЗАЦИЙ БОГУ ОПТИМИЗАЦИЙ

Младший брат кинул видео (в вайбере ессно) как рассказывает щедрівку и посевает кидая прямо в камеру)
И монобанку))
Ебаный киберпанк)

Тем временем changelog MIUI 14
// боюсь представить что эта хуйня значит на самом деле

Ммм, компартия теперь палит твой экран

(в том числе калькулятор)

Кричу, линка снизу не рабочая)))