Someone just forwarded this to me. It's absolutely a true story and it changed the course of my career as well as starting Netflix OSS. I'm forever grateful to Yuri and Ruslan Meshenberg for their support.
Has anyone found a similar vulnerability with the BlueJeans local server? I tried sending a few test URLs and they don't seem to do anything so I'm not sure what the protocol is. If BlueJeans can't cause a webpage to launch it's app like Zoom does then I'm less concerned.
I'm old enough to remember programming for the original Macintosh which used handles and relocatable memory. It was a nightmare. Constantly locking, unlocking handles was a chore and error prone. I also remember early Windows APIs that had opaque handle-based memory allocations. Sometimes in life it's useful to check your history books and understand why some things were consigned to history.
Constantly locking and unlocking handles was the problem. The whole point of having handles was so they could be moved around, and locking them defeated the purpose. People just created their own problems by dereferencing a handle and then wondering why their pointer became invalid and then locking stuff willy-nilly to prevent it.
And sometimes, the reasons themselves are historical and the technique can get a resurgence.
Specifically, this can easily be used to create a narrative for many functional idioms. The cost of memory and compute has been a large part of the ride in many modern tricks.
I've been working remotely for more than 4 years and never accept cost of living pay. Of course, I don't make Silicon Valley salary but I'm paid a reasonable rate based on my experience not where I live.
I'm about 2 years in on 100% remote. When I moved from one state to another did my employer care that my phone/Internet, my car insurance, my health insurance and cost of food was higher? Did they care that if I hire some guy to work on my house his rate is twice what it was where I used to be? No, and I didn't think they should care. I get paid what they think I'm worth. How and where I spend the money isn't their problem. So I agree, I don't make SV wages, but I sure can't complain - especially when I get to live where I want to live. It is hard to put a price on that.
I've always felt the problem was the moderators have too much control. A bad or dictatorial moderator can ruin an SO board. Hanlon seems to imply moderator changes but doesn't say anything specifically. So, I'm dubious until this is directly addressed.
If only life were that logical. Under the rules as they are today, there are many scenarios where illiquid options/stock have a taxable event. People's finances have been ruined by this. I had a friend lose a house when he sold his company for stock.
