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by __jal 11y ago
I was going with Pacman, now middle-aged, eating square dots for fiber.
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by __jal 11y ago
Like anything, it depends. If you don't like being a cog in a large machine, look to smaller shops. I hate working in large firms precisely because I'm bad at shutting up and being a cog. And you know what? In big shops, painting
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by __jal 11y ago
Their PKI infrastructure was compromised a few years back, too. Obviously a very different corner of the security landscape, but it doesn't seem like they've gotten any more careful. Avoid.
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by __jal 11y ago
If you can find someone who "support[s] all public sector unions 100% of the time", have a great time. I'm sure there's someone out there, but I've never met them.
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by __jal 11y ago
Another poster already alluded to the point, but I'd like to make it explicit: if you believe Chicago is exceptional in this, you are wrong. The NYPD is almost as bad (as far as we know, the NYPD doesn't have an off-the-books tort
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by __jal 11y ago
For folks only looking for a cautionary tale, who don't worry about larger security trends and only want to keep their own machine safe, that's a fine takeaway. For people who do care about network security, it is a very interesti
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by __jal 11y ago
That is a narrative that (correct or not) explains U.S. car standards. But I'm pretty sure that, last time I was there, government and politicians exist in Europe. What's the explanation for regulation that (apparently, at least f
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by __jal 11y ago
I found myself nodding along the whole article. First, let me say that I am happy where I ended up. I'm successful, enjoy my work, and when I compare my personal income with our family income when I was growing up, it is an absurd mult
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by __jal 11y ago
This is a really interesting hack. I love things that exploit the oddities of the landscape to do artsy/funky things; far more interesting than finding yet another way to trick someone into installing a password stealer.
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by __jal 11y ago
Bruce Sterling has a phrase for this: "design fiction". Design fiction tends to be some combination of portfolio piece/job application, argument about the direction of whatever is being designed (here, desktop-ish UI/UX)
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by __jal 11y ago
Depends on what you're doing and what you're interested in. If you care about computer science , and/or want/need to deeply grok the math behind fundamental algorithms, Knuth is great. It is unlikely to help you become
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by __jal 11y ago
It does depend. This may be leftover behavior from my contract days, but I've always had at least one key per entity with which I interact[1]. The reasoning is that it is far easier for me (or the entity, but that's a bit differen
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by __jal 11y ago
General greatness aside, I have to say that's the best quality awk code I've seen. Too many people treat writing awk like picking up after your dog - something to get done quickly, when you have to. Which leads to write-only line
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by __jal 11y ago
Some of it is historic - Mysql has gotten much better in recent years at supporting the parts of being an RDBMS that matters the most when money is riding on it. So honestly, at this point I do think some of it is impressions from the past
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by __jal 11y ago
> Ericsson is a practicing entity and they probably have a salaried legal staff I didn't say anything about NPEs. Ericsson may have a stable of in-house patent litigators; it is one enterprise where that probably makes economic sen
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by __jal 11y ago
Schadenfreude may amuse, but what we have here is not even a casino. It is a massive negative-sum (to the non-lawyer participants) game where winning usually turns on procedural points having nothing relevant to do with the actual conflict.
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by __jal 11y ago
Unless Santa has diversified rather far afield, I'm pretty sure his enterprise does not meet the definition of a Covered Entity[1]. [1] https://privacyruleandresearch.nih.gov/pr_06.asp
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by __jal 11y ago
We actually (almost) have that. It is called gcc. A long time ago, when encountering "undefined" behavior, it would try to launch Nethack[1]. (It is valid behaviour, according to the spec.) Seriously, ask around. There was a multi
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by __jal 11y ago
To be fair, I don't think I could have an email dialogue with Sam Harris without oozing contempt and becoming uncivil. Civility is overrated. It is also the usually first complaint at hand to dismiss people, rather than their arguments
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by __jal 11y ago
Typo on the Pebble ad. "...models are 20% just…"
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by __jal 11y ago
(Not the original commenter, and I can only speak from my perspective, having started working in Bay Area tech in the pre-Netscape 90s.) I don't know that it has become more corrupt than it was ca. 1998-99, but I would say that the sle
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by __jal 11y ago
Nothing really to contribute or ask, other than to say that I really enjoyed the writeup. Although I have nothing coming up that would use the code, the new library sounds really neat. Kudos!
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by __jal 11y ago
Maybe. A very short answer is that there are many differences between capital and labor. (It is even right there on the tin - we don't call our system "laborism", and a few actual words related to that meaning are popularly d
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by __jal 11y ago
Or allocate more towards pushing lobbying, technical and business efforts on self-driving cars harder. I don't have anywhere near the expertise to guess at how long the legislative meat-grinder for self-driving cars will take to hammer
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by __jal 11y ago
I don't know that it is universal, but placing self-protection first is normal in all the training I've had, or have heard about. It is the same principle as the patter you hear on planes about putting oxygen masks on yourself fir
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by __jal 11y ago
Agreed about EV, but claiming that the CA system "has a few warts" is similar to claiming Katrina "flooded over a few houses". I consider the CA model as it exists for browsers fundamentally broken even in a world where
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by __jal 11y ago
I'm glad we both agree that analytics for a vanity domain is not a big deal. It also was a bounding example for my argument, not my argument.
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by __jal 11y ago
If you make decisions with money riding on the answers, it costs a lot more than CPU and DB. Perhaps systems administration is somehow very cheap for you, but I'm willing to bet it is still not "nothing" - even if the cost is
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by __jal 11y ago
If this was a botnot, any one ISP is only seeing a tiny fraction of the load. Even if it were from a single source, it also isn't that hard to find an ISP that doesn't care. (They cost slightly more, but if you're a bad actor
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by __jal 11y ago
And guess what? At least in NYC, there are rules about where and for how long those food vendors set up. (Not that all of them follow the rules, of course, but not having your permit is rather costly, I understand.) "Let the market dec

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