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by __jal 9y ago
Companies don't wear superhero costumes. Companies also don't have fun or awareness. This is because companies are a collection of contracts, not living things. Some person dressed in the costume. They may have been "represen
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by __jal 9y ago
I don't know that it is worse for devs than other workers. Have any of you seen the incredibly demeaning chanting/cheering fake-excitement bullshit that service workers have to put up with[1]? And that's for shit pay, little
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by __jal 9y ago
Multiple times a week. And yes, Chrome and the Chrome-devilspawn (Slack) are frequently to blame, but are not the only bad actors. I use iStat Menus for that stuff. Working without various monitors seems to me a lot like doing without speed
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by __jal 9y ago
I dunno. I didn't invent a term for it, but my beliefs map relatively well to the author's. And I've always considered myself a nihilist - it just seems (to me) basically irrefutable. There is exactly one escape. I'm hav
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by __jal 9y ago
> are free to harangue you all they want Any exec hauled on the carpet is going to want a drink afterwards. That's not the concern.
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by __jal 9y ago
I realize you're not the poster I was responding to, but one has to pick one. Either this is a nullop statement, or it is an encouraging, commendable thing to say. I agree with you, BTW.
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by __jal 9y ago
FB will be fully integrated as part of the surveillance state soon enough. > that Zuckerburg explicitly takes personal responsibility for everything that happens on his platform Sorry, but bullshit. He may say that, but I'll believe
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by __jal 9y ago
Heh. I didn't even try because my machines blackhole their address space. A decision that looks better every day.
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by __jal 9y ago
> but refuses to appear before the US Congress and sends the company counsel instead. This strikes me as especially interesting. I mean, I'd personally theoretically have my reservations about this congress over and above the averag
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by __jal 9y ago
Google around - 'iphone mobile device management'. There's a service that's free for a couple devices[1]. Apple also makes a (terrible) app called Configurator. There are a bunch of others, but most of them are designed
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by __jal 9y ago
Only whitelisted sites run JS in my browser. If by 'boring', you mean vastly less annoying, yes, it is terribly boring. I'd likely never look at the bulk of commercial websites if I had to render them the way owners intended
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by __jal 9y ago
For iPhones, enterprise management will allow you to set things like /etc/hosts. I do this with my phone. I don't know what Androids do.
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by __jal 9y ago
I'm sure they're shocked - shocked! by what some low-level, ah, CEO was saying to potential customers.
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by __jal 9y ago
Assumed by whom? I'm guessing irrational people.
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by __jal 9y ago
Very similar experience. I only ever end up in one when visiting relatives. I'd be surly if I worked there too, and totally understand it. Still makes for a miserable place to go. And on a purely visceral level, what gets me is that th
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by __jal 9y ago
If not SSL, then they'd go away at the point some other technical change dropped. Or do you suggest "we" continue using broken protocols forever in order to preserve them? Do you still support telnet to accommodate people wh
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by __jal 9y ago
If you want secure browser access to some resource (for values of 'secure' where it matters more than your bank account but less than situations in which you wouldn't trust _any_ browser), you really need to remove certs from
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by __jal 9y ago
The way to understand this sort of thing is to try to think like someone in their shoes. First, you're innocent. What would you do over time to try to survive the accusations and suspicion? Next, you're implicated in past bad acts
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by __jal 9y ago
Can't point to a study or anything, but the behavior of real estate agents in the wild would seem to contradict you.
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by __jal 9y ago
Depends. A corporation can be owned by another in turn owned by another. And a US corp can be owned by, say, an Isle of Man corp. You can find an address for that corp and send them nastygrams; whether they respond is a different question.
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by __jal 9y ago
I did read it. For me, it doesn't matter for two reasons. Professionally, I have a policy to comply with. And personally, I don't use other peoples' machines for personal storage, period. So why would I want my (even well pro
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by __jal 9y ago
I love 1Password and have used it for years. But be aware that they are moving to cloud storage for password data. At this point, you're not forced in to it (and they've made no concrete announcement yet), but that's pretty c
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by __jal 9y ago
It was addressed, indirectly, at the end - "You are on a known-hostile network". In my case, one of my links is Comcast, a known-hostile network. I agree it should have been much more prominent, because this is exactly why I use o
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by __jal 9y ago
I dropped Prime when Azon started their clever strategy of leaving my purchases on the street. (I live alone in an urban, somewhat sketchy area with a mail slot in my door.) It is just way too much of a hassle to buy something, only to have
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by __jal 9y ago
iTerm2 with the new renderer is awesome. Even without it on a slow old mac, you can tune it to behave normally. One thing I found in the past was that particular fonts would slow it down a lot - never bothered to hunt down what was going on
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by __jal 9y ago
I see it as somewhere in-between. It is one more thing on a long list of things that is easy to forget when setting up a new machine. I do stuff related to this for a living and miss things sometimes[1]. It is not unreasonable for someone
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by __jal 9y ago
Exactly so. Having read the "Damore memo" and knowing it is not even a good rehash of bad arguments, and having seen this silly attempt at a gotcha-flip of actual grievances, (not to mention some apparently sincere whining about o
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by __jal 9y ago
Yep. Visiting relatives frequently involves me watching them flip channels until I can't take it anymore and go read. Having never owned a TV myself, I'm actually considering buying one now. The fact that shows are actually gettin
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by __jal 9y ago
Unless I'm missing something, you're proposing criminal penalties for tort liabilities. Yes, if my crappy software costs you money by knocking your site offline by accident, I should make you whole. I think it has to be something
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by __jal 9y ago
> but you all need to get active and fix your ISP problem and create a free market. I, for one, think this is excellent advice and eagerly await the United Stated dedicating itself to becoming a free market someday.

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