p_rude's comments

p_rude | 6 years ago | on: Columbia Silences Its Marching Band

Performing at games is the main point of marching bands. Who wants to be in a band that can't perform?

p_rude | 6 years ago | on: 8chan served with search warrant [pdf]

Ironic racism is still racism and in my experience the "irony" usually just a flimsy facade for a person's true feelings

p_rude | 7 years ago | on: Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years

It is neither a standard practice nor a best practice to give your devs access to your production auth databases.

p_rude | 7 years ago | on: Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years

You are technically correct, it is a dumb mistake and sadly not that hard to imagine happening. It's also inexcusable, and I would expect even junior engineers to know better than to log credentials as part of request processing

p_rude | 7 years ago | on: Multiple gas explosions and fires in Massachusetts

All I can find is lockouts of National Grid workers and replacing them with scabs. They news is reporting that these are Columbia Gas lines.

p_rude | 8 years ago | on: Invisible unicorns: Big companies that started with little or no money

MathWorks