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by apalmer 13y ago
Google may be continuing with the 'Don't Be Evil' motto but they sure ain't standing by a 'Don't Be Dicks' motto. What major software company announces a deprecation with 6 months of support. I have someth
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by apalmer 13y ago
This is not actually true, I am not aware of much info on CMS roll outs, but large CRM and ERP software projects at private enterprises fail all the time. This is very common, I think perhaps the hacker news crowd probably have more experie
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by apalmer 13y ago
Its not suspiciously skeptical, its just downright skeptical. But I do take your point, reading the article in detail along with the original article it references, seems like he might just be spouting off generalities about the US hacking
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by apalmer 13y ago
I mean i don't know if he is a very naive dude who came up with his own (bad) way of trying to work his way into the chinese good graces... or if he is a very slick operative and this whole thing is part of a propaganda operation as he
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by apalmer 13y ago
because its simpler to pay him instead of kidnapping him. he is a spy thats all there really is to it it seems
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by apalmer 13y ago
ummmm lets play devils advocate, how much would China pay Snowden for the design documents, specifications, etc for an advanced system for monitoring and extracting an entire nations online and phone habits? keep in mind china fairly recent
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by apalmer 13y ago
This is absolutely true, but it doesnt seem to be in line with the 'whistleblower' image that has been projected so far, and more in line with plain espionage. It appears to my jaded eye that Snowden copied everything possible whi
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by apalmer 13y ago
But it has been clear for a while that Snowden is not in it strictly for the heroism... the tone/slant and other circumstantial info to my mind seems to align him more with espionage than true whistleblowing.
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by apalmer 13y ago
This appears to be a marketing/advertisement piece so take it with a grain of salt.
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by apalmer 13y ago
In certain situations yes, in general no. Its just not that hard to do a 'serviceable' back-end behind a simple rest API. I mean how many hours is that really going to take you, especially when you consider in the case of parse users they a
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by apalmer 13y ago
Wait what? I think your going a bit far there. I mean for prototypes, proof of concepts, and maybe 2 man fly by night 'startups' trying to get initially backing to hire backend engineers, great idea. I can even see certain 'startups' may be
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by apalmer 13y ago
I don't really consider it fickleness when the casual game market is aimed at 'non hardcore gamers who want simple non challenging experiences that require no commitment and little depth' by definition.
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by apalmer 13y ago
I completely get you from a human level. From a business level google's job is to sell ads, it sell ads by providing valuable search results 'for free', and one part of the intrinsic quality of the search results is that they are 'good' in
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by apalmer 13y ago
uhh thats still definitely a 'benefit' if true...
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by apalmer 13y ago
Didn't know this was facilitated communication, still seems there is at least some limited verbal communication involved.
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by apalmer 13y ago
I dont necessarily agree with your moral standpoints however the statement "They are typically leaniently sentenced, pay for their mistake and move on.", this is not typically the case... there are plenty of people who receive light sentenc
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by apalmer 13y ago
you do not really have a true concept of what solitary confinement really means. You are viewing solitary confinement like alone time. Human nature is such that most human beings do not psychologically deal well with being deprived of all h
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by apalmer 13y ago
Would go further punishing the Police for this kinda thing would be bad precedent. The police chief did nothing wrong as far as i understand, he got all the right warrants, didn't use excessive force, didn't ignore protocol etc. The judicia
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by apalmer 13y ago
Can't cosign this one, I think its a grave underestimation of the import of a species being able to escape however briefly from their home planet. 100 years from now, linux will probably have gone the way of the doodoo bird, certainly by 50
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by apalmer 13y ago
Pretty bad analogy. In the realm of making 'pretty pictures that eerily realistic' the looks 'realistic' part is pretty significant... and usually it is Pixar itself that starts the promotional pieces of what new technology they have whenev
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by apalmer 13y ago
Are you for real? I am trying to figure if you are a troll or whether you are truly psychologically damaged by your time at google? Dude google is not going to change or issue an apology because a former employee rags on them on the interne
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by apalmer 13y ago
The benefit for the company is they don't have to pay. He is a legal representative of the company who has lead a winning strategy of vigourously defending against patent lawsuits instead of by default paying a licensing fee. Since some of
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by apalmer 13y ago
I am all for doing what makes you happy etc... i just found the comment hilarious. People on earth are getting killed, raped, enslaved, women are stripping to put clothes on their kids back, etc etc etc working for money is not the most sou
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by apalmer 13y ago
'Doing work for money, especially when you have passions and interests in something bigger, is the most soul-sucking and demoralizing thing you can do.' You have lived a very sheltered life.
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by apalmer 13y ago
I didnt really understand why so many 'outside' of the realm of big money power movers 'attached' themselves to FWD.us. Its completely counter to logic, the purpose as lobbying as it is today is when a small sized population with extreme fi
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by apalmer 13y ago
thanks for the clarification
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by apalmer 13y ago
These are african bees, what we in america refer to as 'killer' bees. These bees are highly agressive and are much more likely to swarm a perceived threat, and once swarming will not stop stinging the preceived threat for potentially hours.
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by apalmer 13y ago
I understand that 'killer' is a misnomer, in fact i debated the use of the term but in the end chose to use it precisely because a lot of the posters in this thread don't seem to be aware that (most?) common african bee variant is what we g
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by apalmer 13y ago
I like the ingenuity of it, seems pretty counter intuitive though. I mean keeping the elephants away by bring swarms of african killer bees into close proximity with humans... not sure if the trade off is worth it. There is a reason elephan
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by apalmer 13y ago
Ummmm, this seems like mental master-BEEP(watch your mouth shaft) Core redesign of GitHub's product from hosted source control repository to Open Source social construct. This seems like a completely different product from GitHubs core.

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