I left programming to get into application security, and I love it. There is still some programming and a lot of reading code, but it's a million times more enjoyable than writing endless REST APIs for me.
Abusive can also be a result of continued and systematic unnecessary comments and critiques of irrelevant things. I agree that we should be tactful and careful with complaints and criticisms of others, it's very easy to say things without enough forethought and damage a relationship.
I agree with you 100%. I actually turned in my 2 weeks notice at the development shop I was at over this, yesterday was my last day. Systematic bullying of junior devs by the manager, a culture of "because I said so" from the top down (especially when the management was wrong and could have listened), and just general incompetence led me to get the hell out.
Developing software is almost always about building things for other people to use. It's inherently a social thing, and if you can't play nice with others, you will alienate and run off developers. Of course, there's a difference between getting your code critiqued in review and being treated like a child because you wanted to automate a build. I assume developers are smart enough to know the difference, though.
If western intelligence knows about this and wants to get it off the black market, why don't they just buy it themselves? Surely the criminals selling it don't care where the money comes from.
Exactly. This makes no sense. If we think there is a enough to be concerned about, we don't want a terrorist to get it. Just by the stuff. 3 middle man have been arrested for delivering samples. How about just hire some Russian mobster to meet with the next middle man and get it off the street. Seems like they are too focused on catching the current owner of it which seems stupid to me.
> But no one in the West knows exactly who has this nuclear explosive material, and where they may be
Probably because of this.
I'm also quite certain that the criminals do care very much where the money comes from. Most criminals I know understand this is the difference between a pay day and a prison sentence.
Make a standing offer: the US will give a 110% price match for these materials, no questions asked, or between the US and Russian security services we'll do our best to shoot you in the head. Choose.
Maybe it's just not true that there are 50+kg of weapons grade Uranium are out there, somewhere. Maybe it's all just a couple of grams that were specimens of production runs.
What if they, hypothetically, developed their code with a separate toolchain/IDE and didn't use xcode at all? Are they still bound by the terms of it, or is it the users compiling the app to put on their phones bound by it? I'm also pretty sure advocating people violate a license agreement isn't illegal, or did Apple get an exemption for the first amendment?
I realize f.lux was distributing a compiled binary instead of telling people to compile it from source, but I think Apple would have sent them a C&D just the same if it were just source.
It's also possible to have issues with the model but still participate. I've spent the last few years working on a .NET stack doing Android and iOS apps. I'd really prefer building on linux, but sometimes you make compromises because it's what the job requires.
