I as the architect/lead software engineer make basically all of the important decisions about the software. Debit yourself 1 monetary unit, and then say you could just as easily credit money. Eventually, their overjoyed, overflowing relief petered out, and with one last giggle Rachel said, “You saved my life, Blaine Anderson.”, He grinned and replied, “No. I'll do research to build a PC, or install a new OS, and tinker with it until it works to my satisfaction. I don't think they are unhappy. It seems like all of these sec rants boil down to seeing the system and being unwilling to work within it, vs. seeing the system, accepting it, and figuring out how best to navigate it, and what tools and personal skill sets I'll really have to maximize to succeed in it. “You’re strong, Blaine,” Kurt had said, looking into his eyes with a slightly puzzled expression. If you understand mechanics, yet can't do maintenance on your car, not even talking about fixing anything. All he could do was watch as she lost her footing, slipping on an outstretched stem and crunching it with the loudest snap he had ever heard in his life under her boots. > I get the impression that they're continuously discovering new and exciting ways that individual facets of individual pieces of software (and the processes around them) suck. That doesn't feel good to anyone, but when the company is making 35% margins it's really easy for them to ignore the cash bonfire. The unofficial grapevine worked pretty well for rooting out the good and bad mechanics, lawyers and florists. He had to get home. There's no pressure to do the job properly and plenty of incentive not to. For some people, the knowledge is its own reward. Almost everything anyone does in business, as far as I can tell, is dramatically optimized for speed at the expense of almost everything else. Also, I'm so sorry you had to touch EDI, if you did. “If I die before I get married I am going to haunt you forever.”. “Word of advice: when a man tells you he loves you more than the one he’s seeing, and swears to leave them to be with you, don’t believe them.”, Blaine laid a hand on her shoulder, squeezing firm and reassuring. What does it matter what I'm running as PID 1? But that's a topic for another post. “I’m burned out purser” Update. Sec people don't bother to learn the language 90% of the time. This excerpt from agile manifesto comes to mind as part of the problem that I’ve coming to disagree with (at least how I’ve seen it implemented in the past): > The best architectures, requirements, and designs It just wasn’t gentlemanly. I’m much stronger than I look,” she said with a proud tilt to her head, hands on her hips like she’d just won a passage-of-arms tournament with her screams alone. It reminded Blaine of lounging with the Warblers, the group of them sitting around the palace after training or policy meetings, trading lines and making their own ridiculous, nonsensical songs. Rachel’s magic, however, was far more useful than he’d realized. My worst: Developer machines were dumb (but secure) terminals for remote desktop connections to a jump box, where a VNC connection got us to a Linux desktop living on AWS GovCloud where actual development took place. I've heard from someone selling security products that some companies prefer to pay ransonware to a hacker, instead of investing in building up their defense and paying for security products. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.". If they had inferior hardware then the restricted software strategy would see them crushed under the booted heal of groups like Samsung. Maybe FP forces some degree of added conformity to the code. Tracking reputation has never been easier. I work for the government (in R&D) of all places (about as close as possible to the opposite of working for myself IMO) and I don't feel this at all. My legal-minded friends are astounded I do not take a day to work on my legal status to pay less taxes. I’m not sure if this is the point you were making, but trust, insight and ability to get things done is quite different when working internally in an org versus working with an outside-org, and it’s a big deal. Two days later I’m opening the bar. Sing!”. Without any real expectation to ever own a gun to expand on this knowledge. How does one even begin to solve a psychological problem at a large scale like this? You want companies to care? I worked at a retailer (not Target) that did something similar. Boss: You are advocating spending a lot of money on a configuration management solution, why? I did not suggest or imply 'everything' should be learnt. With the help of a discarded branch from the swamp floor, some muttered words under her breath, and an intricate movement of her hands, Blaine’s one little burlap sack became two large ones. The refusal to have a decent ID system has made identity theft laughably easy. That’s what friends do.”. Then something real happens, a leak of user data, or credit cards or internal memos... suddenly everyones job is security and no one knows what to do. I can't respond directly to kissorgy because of shadow ban I guess. It'll remain crap I imagine. “What animal makes that sort of noise,” he wondered aloud, and when he pushed his way through the tree line, he had his answer. Give me a scale. Its really a shame that there is little to no interest by the lxd team in supporting the oci container format. I find the distinction between "system containers" and "application containers" to be a bit arbitrary from a technical perspective. I'm afraid there's no solution to this. Making money, in a digital field, is an inherently risk-on undertaking. No, this will slow us down! I think I sounded too pessimistic in the grandparent post but you saw where I was coming from. Yeah, "not eating out" is just a government plot to steal their freedom. Her face fell, and she sighed as she continued walking their chosen path – a path that only she seemed to be able to discern. But for things such as an SSD drive? But I find code maintenance and readability has more to do with the person writing it than the tool they used IMHO.