ProLinks #22

About users, media, facebook, reputation age and more.

IT

Flight Levels: The Organizational Improvement Levels - The Flight Level model poses one main question: Which organization levels offer which leverage for improvement?

Bitcoin is Hurting the Search for Aliens!

#deletefacebook - Facebook is using us. It is actively giving away our information. It is creating an echo chamber in the name of connection.

When coding style survives compilation: de-anonymizing programmers from executable binaries - As a programmer you have a unique style, and stylometry techniques can be used to fingerprint your style and determine with high probability whether or not a piece of code was written by you.

You vs your users - Remember: As a PM your only job is to create a delightful experience for your users. Everything else is secondary.

Hacking Engineers and Engineering Media - There are many ways to “hack” software engineers by influencing media sources and fellow community members.

How to read your code like a sentence

How coders are creating software that's impossible to hack | Kathleen Fisher

Society

Say goodbye to the information age: it’s all about reputation now - There is an underappreciated paradox of knowledge that plays a pivotal role in our advanced hyper-connected liberal democracies: the greater the amount of information that circulates, the more we rely on so-called reputational devices to evaluate it.

Science

A Misconception About Science

Miscellaneous

Young Slovaks Buck a Trend, Protesting to Save Their Democracy - She was born free. Hers was a world bonded to the West and the values of democratic societies.

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ProLinks #65 - North Korea, Cryptocurrencies, Propaganda and more

Tech The Incredible Rise of North Korea’s Hacking Army He was right. As the newspapers soon reported, more than sixteen million dollars was withdrawn from roughly seventeen hundred 7-Eleven A.T.M.s across Japan that morning, using data stolen from South Africa’s Standard Bank. The newspapers surmised that 7-Elevens had been targeted because they were the only convenience stores in Japan whose cash terminals all accepted foreign cards. Soon after the raids, the withdrawal limit for many A.T.M.s in the country was reduced to fifty thousand yen Why Cryptocurrency Is A Giant Fraud ❧ Current Affairs Schweikert is partly right: “selling it as a revolution” is a hugely important part of why cryptocurrency is succeeding. But as is generally the case when someone is trying to sell you something, the whole thing should seem extremely fishy. In fact, much of the cryptocurrency pitch is worse than fishy. It’s downright fraudulent, promising people benefits that they will not get and trying

ProLinks Biometrics #51 - Clearview AI and the backlash

This edition brings good and bad news about controversial company Clearview AI. You can also find out about best practices working with biometrics or huge fines for Facebook and Google. Enjoy! Biometrics Identifying anybody thanks to social media This New York Time expose of a not that well known company shows how companies and governments can utilize public information to identify anybody using facial recognition. The companies from which the Clearview AI scrapped the data are fighting back though . Without some serious changes in possibilities to scrape web we are screwed anyway, as researchers have build their own version of Clearview in about two weeks . Source: https://kirenaga.com Best practices for storing biometrics Jeffrey N. Rosenthal and David J. Oberly of Blank Rome LLP. have provided short summary of issues you may face if you want to be in business of storing and working with biometrics , make sure to check it out. BIPA in action Illinois Biometric

ProLinks #11

First ProLinks edition in 2018 brings a lot of links for IT professionals including solid Ruby criticism. Also interesting links about society, science and more inside. IT Managing Engineers with Ron Lichty The Problem Solver - Good developers are good problem solvers. They turn each task into a series of problems they have to solve. Energy Efficiency: A New Concern for Application Software Developers - The prevalence and ubiquity of mobile computing platforms, such as smartphones, tablets, smart watches, and smart glasses, have changed the way people use and interact with software. Clever ideas that failed - The cleverness of an idea is proportionate to its odds of failure. SSH Security and You - /bin/false is *not* security - I thought to myself, "Fine, no shell for me. I wonder if port forwarding works?" The 100x Engineer - If we want to be 100x engineers — engineers who have 100x the impact of ye’ old 1x engineer—how do we accomplish tha

ProLinks Biometrics #49 - How biometrics is making spying hard

In this edition the highlight for me is an article from Yahoo news about the trouble spy agencies are in because of biometrics and surveillance (I love irony). Other than that, you can read about reducing friction or using biometrics to track police (again, I love irony). Enjoy! Biometrics How biometrics has changed spying Biometrics at borders control, using it to issue documents or checking at hotels is making work of spies using fake identities hard to impossible, depending on a state. For example, Singapore will alert security forces if somebody is taking too long to check into a hotel . Read the linked article to find out much more. Source: privateinternetaccess.com Reducing friction Nowadays is all about the user experience and friction or the lack of it. User do not like to make unnecessary actions to accomplish something . Reducing friction is mostly great, but there are also downsides, as overusing social networks. Making sure that policemen are working Pol

Are there types of programmers?

As a response to my previous post about why there is so many programming languages I got very interesting answer about types of programmers. Than I have read linked article about Mort, Elvis, Einstein, and You and subsequently post The Two Types of Programmers which lead me to The Fourteen Types of Programmers . As you have probably realized, there are many different opinions on this topic. So what is the reality? Let me add to the pile of opinions. It always comes down to this - How do we set the criteria on which we want to categorize. Based on these criteria we can form clusters. These clusters of programmers are than our categories. You could probably do this with clustering algorithm if you can form reasonable dataset. So basically the question how many types of programmers are there cannot be answered without specifying your criteria. And from this misunderstanding of how the question works comes discussions about how many categories there is. There

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