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by __jal 10y ago
Sure, go ahead, if that works for you. But: - It is risky for the employee. Just how risky depends on a ton of factors like the company they're leaving, the company they're joining, what skills they have/who they are, perceiv
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by __jal 10y ago
Interesting way to look at it. A different way is that Britain (through the mealy mouths of the Boris and Nigel show) is massively conflicted; the ever-popular (Wo)man on the Street is confused and angry from a decade of being bled by &quot
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by __jal 10y ago
Not my experience at all. Aside from some expected path issues (builds too stupid to actually look rather than assuming a disk layout, etc) and some BSD <-> Linux issues (builds that assume all the world runs linux), I've had ver
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by __jal 10y ago
Yep. Neither does cash. And when you pay cash, you're not also feeding marketing databases, unless you choose to. Nor are you required to ask permission of the issuer in order to buy something. I really like cash.
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by __jal 10y ago
One thing I'll say for Ethereal - the problems they have read like the flavor text from a Vernor Vinge novel.
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by __jal 10y ago
Back in the web 1.0 days, a friend started a company named Xigo (sp? Think it was with an X) to do sort of similar stuff. There was a full domain specific language for automation. They suffered the fate of many otherwise good ideas in the ~
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by __jal 10y ago
I used to solve this "security" feature by patching the Safari binary to ignore the attribute. Became too much of a hassle to chase that, but I seriously resent site developers who think they know better than I how I "should&
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by __jal 10y ago
> What's wrong with Thiel destroying things out of spite? We appear to have isolated our point of disagreement. I'm afraid I can only say, if you can't answer this for yourself, I can't answer it for you.
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by __jal 10y ago
> but I don't see the harm of "maintenance" It is right in front of your nose. Whatever your views of Gawker, Thiel destroyed a news company out of spite. That seems like maybe a little bit of a problem. > It's n
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by __jal 10y ago
Not to pile on (the other response is dead on), but you also seem to be assuming that libsodium is magic crypto dust, offering strong security anywhere you sprinkle it. It isn't. To be sure, libsodium is shiny and nifty and wonderful,
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by __jal 10y ago
Agreed. There are very few people about whom I feel this way, but if Cruz supports something that sounds good to me, I'm hanging on to my wallet until I figure out the scam. (Not that this law necessarily sounds good to me.)
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by __jal 10y ago
You can almost smell the "growth hacker" desperation.
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by __jal 10y ago
You just made searching the internet for an ISBN or employing the Dewey Decimal System illegal. Congrats! I think you instead meant to imply some sort of intent test. That gets very difficult very quickly. Figuring out how to write the RIAA
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by __jal 10y ago
AFAIK, the RIAA was complaining about a .SE domain to the .org registrars.
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by __jal 10y ago
> Why should a service, that is advert free and wholly paid for by the UK licence payers, be free to people elsewhere? Why should libraries, wholly paid for by local citizens, not demand citizen-units' papers to ensure they are loca
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by __jal 10y ago
Seriously. My favorites were the complainers sagely tutting about Docker's "single points of failure", and in the same breath complaining about Docker causing pain for the complainers' infrastructure. Physician, heal thy
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by __jal 10y ago
Yeah, I've been smelling NIH for quite a while. And it generally seems that, when they say "composable modular tools", one should read "includes dependencies on the rest of our stack". This isn't intended as ha
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by __jal 10y ago
1) In what way is it "doing harm" to the patent system? Usually, when people are vague about a harm, it is either because there is none, or it is some sort of vague "causing people to not respect [thing]" or some such. I
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by __jal 10y ago
This is a big thing that, oddly, a lot of folks in my cohort (~40s) are unwilling to admit. You don't have to like unions to admit they benefited workers. In fact, the money spent on the destruction of unions points to it - why bother
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by __jal 10y ago
No fears; I don't find it the least bit belittling when people assert factually incorrect things. I don't know what you mean by "direct persons personal data". If it is supposed to mean that correlations don't revea
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by __jal 10y ago
My favorite part is what looks like flush-head sheet metal screws holding the heat sink on. No wondering where you left the Torx drivers with this one.
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by __jal 10y ago
Thanks for sharing your opinion. Can you explain why a non-story is important enough for you to take time away from presumably important things in order to poo-poo it?
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by __jal 10y ago
You are making a mighty fine distinction, one that sometimes makes no difference. You are also assuming that "access to attention" is perfectly firewalled from data, which it isn't. I know one person who is playing with what
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by __jal 10y ago
Ditto. Until I can set the endpoint this thing talks to[1], It ain't living on my LAN.[2] [1] This, of course, implies an open source server I can host as well. [2] Maybe it is just me, but I choose to leave my phone at home fairly oft
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by __jal 10y ago
> but the case of renting a newly released movie does to seem different Why? Genuine question. DRM doesn't save new movies from piracy - new releases still hit the public torrent sites extremely quickly (sometimes before release). A
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by __jal 10y ago
Don't confuse free markets with capitalism. One of those does imply the other, but not transitively. Capitalism doesn't need free markets, and many capitalists prefer not having them.
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by __jal 10y ago
Are you confusing "normal" with "desirable"? The update treadmill is normal, in the classic sense of the word.
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by __jal 10y ago
There are a ton of reasons not to develop in the open, no matter what your structure. - You're experimenting - You don't want comments from the peanut gallery while things are in progress - It is not for external use, specific t
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by __jal 10y ago
I agree that a world in which absolutely everything ever recorded is available, and there is no risk of access ever going away, is superior to one in which I store my own bits, pay for my own disks, etc. Let me know when we get there.
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by __jal 10y ago
I've done my own analytics since before there were hosted services. Still use an old-school, proprietary tool called Sawmill[1]. One very nice aspect (out of many) about it is that it handles hundreds of other log formats out of the bo

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