Not engineer.

At least here in Germany, engineer is a protected profession. Other than that: All of the above.

Just like my $variables I can be anything I want. Deal with it! 🫳🎤

Well, here’s the important part:

I have never done data forensic

So yeah, I didn’t know that at the time. Anyway: Which tools are you talking about in particular?

A friend asked me to atempt data recovery on some photos which ‘vanished’ off an USB stick.

Plugged it in, checked for potential hidden trash folders, then called it a day. Firstly I havenever done data forensic and secondly: No backup? No mercy.

No backup? No mercy!

Jerboa? The link is malformed for me as well

Basically all illegal drugs started as legal drugs aka medicine (Opium, Morphine, Heroin, etc). The distinction is a relatively recent development. Even today a drug store is a reputable business. A drug den not so much.

As a php dev who actually writes clean code while cleaning up after other people because Getting things done is more important: Don’t give people the tools to write shitty code.

Sure, could be/was a lot worse than today. Still, PHP gives one way too much rope to hang themselves with.

My team is currently exploring rust as an alternative because we have to do a lot of api calls and data crunching real fast. So rust?

As a PHP Dev: Please avoid PHP unless you have to use it.

AFAIK it won’t and should you still get a bottleneck you can limit the maximum resources a service may use.

Well, they do provide the AppStore and the whole underlying infrastructure. So a fee in and off itself is not unreasonable.

However, since the AppStore is the only channel for selling/downloading apps it reeks of monopoly (which Apple is rightly being investigated for).

You Americans and your HOAs… 😜

Well, if there is one thing I expect I will not be able to convince my parents of: This.

It is not about the code line by line, but the functionality that OP created for their employer. And yes it is not clear-cut in the sense that in Oracle vs. Google it was AFAIK decided that the idea of the toString Method does not fall under copyright. However, a software that fills a specific need for a company and is then re-implemented/released by an employee? You can bet your ass you are in for at least a lengthy battle in court.

Doesn’t matter if you write it in code or chisel it on a stone tablet. It is still the companies intellectual property.

Think of it this way: You film a movie which for whatever reason doesn’t get published. This doesn’t give you the permission to write a book containing the same story, just in writing. The story is still owned by the film studio. The same reason applies to published material: You are not allowed to write a Star Wars story without approval from Disney, the copyright holder. Fan fiction exists in a gray zone for exact this reason.

Not a lawyer but from my understanding of intellectual property: You wrote it on company time, so it is the companies code. Publishing it without explicit approval would be copyright infringement.

No! Not The Woz!

Looks fascinating! But since we are talking about Australia: How does it kill you?