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by bazillion 13y ago
I agree, and I definitely agree with the privacy sentiments and government overreach fears that people have on hacker news. All I'm saying is that if there was a significantly flawed system, I didn't see it and I was pretty deep.
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by bazillion 13y ago
While I can't comment on the UBL part, I will say that the stratfor part made me pee a little in my pants. I don't mean this to come off as condescending, but stratfor is one of the biggest jokes by people who do real intelligenc
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by bazillion 13y ago
That's if you assume terrorism is all about executing a suicide car bomb. There are other aspects like the funding, the discussion about group goals, the acquiring of arms, the distribution of resources, etc. It could be feasible, but
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by bazillion 13y ago
I 100% agree.
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by bazillion 13y ago
With the CIA, FBI, and other organizations I've worked for, you'd probably be right. The NSA is the only meritocracy that I've encountered in government work, although I only have a total of 10 years of experience so I haven
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by bazillion 13y ago
That's an interesting thought. BAH employees spend on a lot of time on what they call "the beach" while they're waiting for a switch to a new job. A lot of that time is spent on reading/writing training materials.
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by bazillion 13y ago
Well, I'll have to disagree in full with the points the author is trying to make. "A recent Bloomberg piece points to a 2012 report on terrorism which found that most serious terrorists steer clear of the most obvious platforms—ma
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by bazillion 13y ago
This is actually the most accurate article I've read about the NSA over this last week -- this is as a former NSA programmer/linguist. The good majority of posts about the topic have been great for a few laughs between my former
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by bazillion 13y ago
The average pay of contractors is between 70k-100k. The only ones making more than that are typically program managers for large contracts or other administrative folk who work on winning contracts for their company. Contractors are typica
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by bazillion 13y ago
There are graphic designers. I went to one to get a logo made for an internal web app I made. It's just that most powerpoints are made by interns and younger military folk.
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by bazillion 13y ago
Would definitely like to use this -- could you please provide a license file?
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by bazillion 13y ago
Working with the FBI folks at the TSC (Terrorist Screening Center), being dumb and incompetent doesn't even begin to describe what I saw. The FBI is the most backwards agency technologically -- the leadership is mostly composed of people w
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by bazillion 13y ago
As I read more about software patents, and with what knowledge I've gained working with software, I remain opposed to the idea of software patents in general. My problem, though, is that I have no concept of what the arguments are that sup
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by bazillion 13y ago
VikingCoder, you're my e-hero. The article tried to throw out an idea for everyone to just think about and go "Hmm...interesting..." (as with most articles on hacker news). It amazes me that even with such a low character count, it was st
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by bazillion 13y ago
What you fail to realize is that the "terror watch list" you speak of doesn't hold people on it from just any hearsay. The articles said that the FBI did its due diligence and found no reason to continue an investigation on them. Think abo
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by bazillion 13y ago
Plenty Of Co-Flounder pocf.com
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by bazillion 14y ago
I wholeheartedly second this. Even though I quit a high paying job which I could work any hours I wanted to and had full autonomy, I've known owning my own business was something in the makeup of my person for a long time now. I think peo
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by bazillion 14y ago
Is there a contact email or website?
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I'd Like To Hire You, But You Have A Startup(reddit.com)
4 points by bazillion 14y ago|0 comments
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by bazillion 14y ago
And PHP serves an empty page faster than Go splits strings. I declare PHP the winner by default.
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by bazillion 14y ago
It's very important that everything medical before and during your career is documented. First off, a lot of the physical and mental stress down the road can exacerbate previous conditions and lead to more major problems. Secondly, everyt
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by bazillion 14y ago
It's a common thing when you're in the military to toss around disparaging comments about the person that recruited you. Personally, everything my recruiter had said was true: "When they ask you if you want to be a Nuc, say no." -- he coul
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by bazillion 14y ago
My first chief, who is a great inspiration in my life, was once a recruiter. I asked him how he felt about recruiting, and if he had to lie to get people to join. His response was this: "I never had to lie to anyone about joining the mili
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by bazillion 14y ago
Honestly, probably one of the best things you could do is join the military. If you are tech savvy, then chances are that you can score high enough on the ASVAB (entry test) in order to get into a really high speed career field. I joined
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JQuery-Like Asynchronous Function Chaining(github.com)
2 points by bazillion 14y ago|1 comments
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by bazillion 14y ago
I thought this was going to be about the first final fantasy games...