Russia unexpectedly poor at cyberwar, say European military heads

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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Not the ones learning from me, i assure you. My employer keeps me for my classical "jack-out-of-the-box"-thinking style, i like to rub into students heads. Softly but thoroughly.

That is why i could keep my main job even though i went through a lot of personal construction sites, so to say.

And btw: The "old" Mercedes style was really aesthetic in my eyes. Understatement i really like as a value.

Nowadays all cars look the same, no matter which company "manu"factured it. Like nicely round-sucked candy because of C_w aerodynamics they "optimize" the hell out of.

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Curious... what kind of development do you do?

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I do teach. I do abstruse stuff in my "free-time" i get payed for anyways: Stelzer engine, control units, software interfaces, encryption, CAN-bus, e.g. . I'm a tinkerer. I doesn't have to make sense. I use a lot of input from students and mainly support their projects with tiny little pieces they are possibly missing when developing projects. But mostly do only, what i actually can like.

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That's interesting. Why devote hours and hours to something if you don't love it?

When I was starting out as a professional, the ticket to fame and wealth was the web application. I mean this in the original, 1998 sense, with lots of postbacks used to crudely simulate a desktop computer program.

I thought that was flimsy bullshit, so I didn't really learn web development until 2012 or so. In the interim I spent more hours than I care to count on shit like TRS-80 retroputing and writing my own compiler and OS.

It was pointless, but I loved every minute of it.

You have a better excuse than that- maybe someone will learn something.

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It isn't an excuse. Actually it took me a long time... at least a decade to actually find the position i fit well enough into, to not bore out or just hate it because i can . :)

It's fate, i like to tell myself.