Are Skydrive documents somewhat public or are people just sharing them by mistake? I don't use it nor am I that familiar with it.

You can create a long complicated link to share with other people, even people without Skydrive/OneDrive/Dropbox/Google Drive accounts. But sometimes people publish these links somewhere where a search engine's crawler sees it and follow it.

I remember spotting someone's URL to a Google Doc on their screen which their camera caught in their YouTube video. I manually typed it into my browser's URL bar and voila, I could read that document. Nothing juicy though.

I've got a great story about this, ad absurd, from a HIPAA-covered entity.

IT turned on One Drive backups for their desktop image, without communicating to users.

A week later, there's a flurry of a few tens of thousand angrygrams about users storing sensitive documents in the cloud.

... by which they meant (in user terms) "having files on your Desktop."

Dear god, no. No more messing with URLs.

> Are Skydrive documents somewhat public or are people just sharing them by mistake? I don't use it nor am I that familiar with it.

Almost all of this would be by mistake, no different than misconfiguring an S3 bucket.

Any recommendations for books/tutorials/videos or other starting points? I don't know any assembly but wanted to learn 6502 assembly because of how ubiquitous it was in lots of older systems (2600, NES, Apple II, and of course C64 among others). That SMB 3 speed run [1] really blew my mind and made me want to learn more.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24456247

Just a beginner too, but I do have one suggestion. Steven Skiena has a series of lectures on YouTube [1] for a course he taught called Programming Challenges. I only just started watching the videos so I don't know how useful they are in the long run but the course itself is all about how to get better at competitive programming. He also has a book called "Programming Challenges" which goes hand in hand with the course material.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL07B3F10B48592010

You might like this: http://thrilling-tales.webomator.com/derange-o-lab/pulp-o-mi...

A while back I was reading an article about how to get a job at an upcoming Volvo plant in SC and it mentioned a "mechatronics technician" degree program.

http://www.wltx.com/story/money/2015/05/12/technical-college...