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by bpchaps 10y ago
I've submitted maybe 75 FOIA requests without a journalist exemption of any kind in the past two years and haven't had to pay a cent. Submit some damn FOIA requests!
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by bpchaps 10y ago
You're reading into it too much. I don't actually think there's a hitsquad. It was just weird timing and "I wonder" thinking. :|
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Yep, I'm doing a ton of things right. It's really enjoyable and I highly recommend it. :) Just to name some.. -Working on the IT infrastructure and one of the 5 or so founders of a 160p LAN party. -Data analysis of Chicago parking
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Sure - I work mostly in finance with linux/devops/app support/programming experience. I becm senior linux admin position by the time I was 27 after some very interesting work at some HFT companies. Low latency tuning, monitor
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by bpchaps 10y ago
That's what happened to me. I got into a very good position in my career.. and then it crashed. I'm more skilled than I've ever been, but finding work that matches my (broad) skillset is almost impossible because I'm eit
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by bpchaps 10y ago
In an odd way, thank you. This is a very difficult subject to discuss and it's very useful to read confirmations of these thoughts. I had a conversation with a hired-gun researcher to find information on politicians to help others win
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Wow, uh. Want me to spoon feed you reasons? I'm kicking a bee's nest and finding information through ways that Chicago's mayor's office very clearly didn't think was possible. There is very interesting information i
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by bpchaps 10y ago
(unstructured dump) I have, and his assessment is that it's basically stress driving something similar to paranoia. Talking about it with friends and posting on places like HN helps, though. It's kind of a long story why I'm
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Mine does, yes. It's not really "get away from the internet", but more a recommendation for mindfulness, which includes getting away from stressors such as the internet.
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Because I'm very, very aggressively seeking Chicago mayor's phone's records through FOIA. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hgG79eIr8MbkjYrCvcTR...
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by bpchaps 10y ago
I do "government watchdog" work, have bipolar and have dealt with paranoia on a relatively unhealthy level before and to some extent, now. It's not fun. It's very hard to determine what's "real", who'
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by bpchaps 10y ago
There's a middle ground. I'm fine with tons of configuration, but at least make some sane defaults or prompts so that I don't have to read a giant wiki to do an initial setup. Everybody initially runs through it, so why not s
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by bpchaps 10y ago
UGH. So much nonsense. Here's a response, post law suit, for the Chicago's mayor's office's phone records. Additionally, the Illinois Attorney General's Office Public Access Counselor ("PAC") has establis
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Right, I get that, and I still agree. There are WAY too many features in these things that should definitely exist, but sane defaults would go a long way. Really, I'm tired of being told "read the documentation" and "You
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. I completely agree. I use photoshop maybe once every two months and have found that its interface is completely inaccessible if you don't use it full time. I understand that it's great
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Wish I could help out here.. I found my lawyer through a friend. Though, in Illinois, FOIA pays out a decent amount if you win a FOIA suit. Finding a lawyer to help out might not be that hard if similar laws exist where you live. If you can
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Start by whipping out clever FOIA requests to find information on it. Dig, dig, then dig more. Find a pro bono lawyer who can do a FOIA suit on your behalf. You'd be surprised by how much information you can get so long as you're
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by bpchaps 10y ago
I can't speak much for the power setup since I'm on the networking/infrastructure side, but it's pretty hefty and accounted for with tons of wiggle room. The switch alone is a decent chunk of the power. Back when we were
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Shameless plug. Can't speak too much for it just yet (working through sponsorships, etc), but some friends and I are setting up a 160p LAN in Chicago later this year. It's particularly neat since we're not the only ones to ha
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Mods - is this kind of downvoting really warranted for these series of comments? I don't really understand. Much more off-topic posts that've been removed from the main thread in the past. Why is this any different?
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by bpchaps 10y ago
I don't really think a sentence as flippant as that one can be considered "ordering"... and it if does, then I order you to stand up for your opinion with words, rather than downvotes. Really, I just think the guy's just
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by bpchaps 10y ago
I do all the time. I spend a significant portion of my time using Jupyter, which has syntax highlighting and other 'improvements'. I really dislike it. Then again, I'm within a shell in tmux all day, so...
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Yeah, but claiming that zero syntax highlighting automatically implies Notepad is pretty ridiculous. Does vi support it, though? I know vim does.
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by bpchaps 10y ago
He's making arguments against it, yes. But he's not saying it as a piece of fact. I can see why you think that, but it's still an opinion piece. For me, syntax highlighting is a crutch that I want to avoid. I find myself glan
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by bpchaps 10y ago
For some of us, syntax highlighting DOES make code more difficult to read. We're all different. I learned most of what I know on a Solaris 9 machine on a CRT with a model m back in 2008 with zero syntax highlighting, in vi and without
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Yes, and that's your opinion. Not mine. Not his. It's an opinion piece, but you and just about everyone in this thread is writing as if their opinion is a fact that trumps his opinion. Stop that :(. Edit: Why the downvotes? Are di
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Ever use vi/emacs/nano/etc? Pretty sure not everybody who doesn't like syntax highlighting only uses notepad ;).
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by bpchaps 10y ago
I learned to code without any sort of syntax highlighting or autocomplete features. Whenever I need to use an editor that has Features like syntax highlighting and autocompletion, my workflow actually slows down pretty substantially. The n
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Somebody should really fight the LA ticket system in bulk. It's what I'm doing in Chicago, and it's actually not as much money as you'd think it is. Don't get me wrong, it's still a lot and is about as predator
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Neat. I wonder if this has something to do with a looser level of neuroplasticity or similar. (IANANS and didn't RTFA)

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