cmiles74

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by cmiles74 8y ago
I was surprised to discover the article didn't mention any engineers that had worked on the design or implementation being sued for damages. Nor did the article mention any engineers who refused to construct or otherwise work on the ta
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by cmiles74 8y ago
I use notmuch-mode[0] to read my email and I get a lot of email. It's easy to sort and quick to search. In this case, other tools communicate with the mail server. I use Calfw[1] to keep an eye on my calendar, I believe this mode uses
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In some situations. The examples in this article, I think, make it clear that for a lot of "broken code" these errors are caught. It's too bad that there are edge cases, but that is Java all over, in my opinion.
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I think it's important to remember that the top 1% can only claim credit for funding over 40% of the total federal taxes because they have managed to suppress the growth of wages for the bottom 99%. Since they have captured so much of
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by cmiles74 8y ago
Try looking outside the US for the crime rates and civil instability. There were riots in the Haitian capital a couple of weeks ago as their government tried to raise the cost of fuel.[0] While we talk about the "global economy" a
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For certain and specific definitions of "broken code".
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I agree that generics should probably be a strong consideration right from the beginning. I disagree that this would mean that it would necessarily be done correctly or that it's impossible to add it later. That was the case with .Net
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by cmiles74 8y ago
In my opinion, the "maybe a terrorist" angle 100% doesn't matter. If you are a citizen then you have the right to a fair trial, due process, etc. If it was such a slam dunk, why not arrest and prosecute under existing laws? T
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I wonder if an "administrative complaint" is somehow different from the TSA grievance process. The number of grievances appears to be rising and is far more than 200, in the first three quarters of 2017 they had 6,700 grievances f
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by cmiles74 8y ago
In my opinion, this is a hard problem and not one that we can expect Arch Linux to take on or solve. We're talking about how we establish that a software package (source code, build script, binaries, etc.) can be deemed trustworthy suc
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Maybe you could make the case for some cutting edge development or test box, but then again, I'd rather be testing on something that's as close to identical to the production environment as possible. I used Arch on my laptop (prim
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From the article: "This is yet another incident that showcases that Linux users should not explicitly trust user-controlled repositories." LOL. Why should this only apply to Linux users? We should all be wary of downloading random
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You are totally right, I honestly agree with you. It's an important question, it's worth asking and we should all be asking it. I think there's a lot more grey in software development, grey people may not have as much of in o
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I think I understand what you're saying and I agree that no software developer should willingly write code that will be used to break or circumvent the law. I believe that if I was put in such a position that I would walk rather than i
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In addition, I think it's much easier to go back into the field and examine a bridge to ensure that something important was constructed to the specifications that you required. This is not the case with most of the software people writ
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Yes, I don't think this is the way it actually played out. As you mention, why would such a "rogue engineer" take such a risk for someone else? And why would that person risk sharing their culpability with a "rogue engin
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I wholly object to this line of reasoning. I don't see how this wouldn't blow-back on software developers and make them an easier scapegoat. Take these car manufacturers gaming the emissions test, for example. I find it very easy
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by cmiles74 8y ago
I have to disagree. For sure, there is a lot stuff that is centralized at the federal level, but there is still a great deal of data managed at the county municipal level and there is a wide variety in how this data is managed (or not manag
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by cmiles74 8y ago
I think this is a really important point. Every browser vendor has spent huge amounts of dollars to increase the performance of Javascript. I don't know if there's another language that has enjoyed this level of investment... Mayb
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There are a lot of things to dislike about Luckey's politics, but I certainly would prefer the US federal government spend money on a project like this then that big, stupid wall. No matter what you think of this project: it's not
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It is clear in the article that the police were not accompanied by any medical personnel. The police were the only people sent to the scene. I would argue that you should not be calling the police unless you are literally in fear for your l
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by cmiles74 8y ago
It's been a while and there have been many leadership changes at Microsoft. I'd speculate that there's little relationship between the Microsoft of 1998 and that of 2018. Aside from them both being large corporations. That sa
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It really sounds like when this change was put into place, there were two people in the car: one monitoring the road in the driver position and a second monitoring the vehicle and systems in the passenger seat (with the screen). Once they d
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by cmiles74 8y ago
Nobody is forcing Trump to use Twitter. They are saying that if he uses Twitter, he must leave his tweets open to all the public and not a subset. President Trump could always choose to close his account if he finds this requirement to be t
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In this age of portable devices and the battle to get decent battery life out of your machine, Electron apps strike me as counterproductive. There's more to it then just memory usage, I think.
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The comparison to paintings in an art gallery struck me as the most compelling argument for viewing film in a theater, rather than a digital copy in a nice viewing room. That is the medium the art was made in, therefore there's an intr
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I don't think anyone is demonizing the idea of sharing ideas with colleagues. It's the content, in my opinion, that has grabbed people's attention.
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The whole video strikes me as tone deaf and out-of-touch. The earnestness of it all gives it a creepy tone that makes it all seem unreal. I have a hard time believing this isn't some elaborate joke. Putting that to the side, they had m
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On the contrary, the earnestness of the presentation implies that they believe it _is_ the ethical thing to do. That is a part of what struck me as creepy about the whole thing.
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At heart, I disagree that that Google's "values as an organization" differ from "sell more ads, make more money." For sure, there may be individuals with loftier goals and some of them may even have positions high u

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