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by deong 11y ago
Yes, this is why this kind of thing probably only really works for individuals. There's too much public interest in a university or a large corporation, and so the act of covering your tracks is itself noteworthy.
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by deong 11y ago
I recommend "So You've Been Publicly Shamed" by Jon Ronson. He had the opportunity to work fairly closely with one of these companies as they did some work for one of the people you likely remember making the social media cru
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by deong 11y ago
Right. They probably executed the original contract well enough, but you can't game Google to prevent future news stories from appearing. That's the nature of the game. These companies just flood the internet with innocuous data
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by deong 11y ago
The DX was also super expensive though -- like $450 if I remember correctly.
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by deong 11y ago
> I spend about one minute per day maintaining my machine by executing "pacman -Syu" to upgrade all installed packages before I log out. For anyone else thinking of trying arch, this bit is actually important. The one sure way
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by deong 11y ago
I think the flaw in the analogy is that we as a society have had the chance to openly debate things like attorney-client privilege. We understand that we have a legal system in which guilty people may enjoy protection, and we understand the
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by deong 11y ago
I don't believe it is quite that simple. Suppose you're a gay man living in Yemen. I do not accept any definition of "right" or morality that would compel me to disclose that information.
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by deong 11y ago
That would be true in a country in which the public believed their governments to be functioning bodies directed at improving their country. I'd challenge you to find a lot of people who feel that way. When you believe the game is alre
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by deong 11y ago
There wouldn't be some sort of black-ops, Bruce Willis style operation. You'd simply be someone being arrested by some FBI agents for violating federal law, and they could do that at noon on a Tuesday smiling to TV cameras if they
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by deong 11y ago
Without knowing much of how npm works, I'm going to assume you have ways of protecting yourself there too. If nothing else, good old "cp -r" can effectively let you pin to a version. The point is that people use package manag
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by deong 11y ago
Without knowing anything more than what was written in the article, I think the clear intent is that he's supposed to fit the techbro stereotype exactly. I think this article crosses the line into propaganda to ensure that one way or a
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by deong 11y ago
What's that, you say? I can't "unpublish" my own code? Fine then, here you go. $ echo "function leftpad(str, len, ch) { return ""; }" > leftpad.js $ git commit -a -m "fuck you"
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by deong 11y ago
"Zero" isn't a cost of anything -- there's no free lunch. NPM, like any package manager, pretty much blindly accepts user input. I, as a module maintainer, could happily change every single function in my modules to
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by deong 11y ago
> This was a failure on npm's side by including a functionality that allows users to trivially remove packages from a package management system that is used by hundreds of other packages, something that most major package management
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by deong 11y ago
You'd think, "if your salary goes from $250k to $20k, start living like you make $20k" wouldn't really need to be communicated out like some sort of secret.
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by deong 11y ago
I think the current view that iOS takes of file management takes it out of the realm of "good productivity device", full stop. The hardware is there. The software isn't particularly close yet, in my opinion.
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by deong 11y ago
That's not a reasonable requirement. You simply can't write rules that apply to every aspect of day to day life that may be relevant for situations you may have not even anticipated might happen. You can try, and that's typic
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by deong 11y ago
I might be more excited about voting for her if I thought she could commiserate with the pain of sendmail.cf files.
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by deong 11y ago
People really need to stop trying to form syllogisms that, completely devoid of context, are supposed to lead to some sort of useful conclusion. The world is full of grays, and not everyone's jobs, actions, abilities, and powers are eq
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by deong 11y ago
There are a lot of situations in life that end up having come down to "do you want to be right or do you want solve the problem?" If you're a security professional who doesn't spend a fair amount of your energy making yo
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by deong 11y ago
At least as big an issue I think is that for Kindle books, the analogy is roughly "Amazon = the Internet". If there was a single vendor who knew my payment information and transparently and simply just made it all work, I'd b
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by deong 11y ago
The main issue with this type of payment model isn't the money; it's the mechanics of it. If something behind the scenes automatically took my $0.50, kept track of the fact that I was entitled to read it on any device and browser
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by deong 11y ago
That's an argument against a certain type of advertising. The link explicitly rejects the distinction between ads that monitor and track you and ads than are entirely passive.
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by deong 11y ago
To which I'd say, "And?" The fact that you say something controversial doesn't change the relationship between an author and a publisher from "I'll publish your book if I think it's good and will sell&quot
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by deong 11y ago
Iceland just started requiring PINs earlier this year.
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by deong 11y ago
I do the same. And I rip the DRM off my Kindle books. I'm not putting them on a torrent site, but I'll send one to my girlfriend if I think she'd like it, because well, that's how you treat books. If Amazon cares enough
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by deong 11y ago
You're right, I haven't heard of actual quotas either. I just got a bit loose with using the parent commenter's terminology. I agree on the subtle and implicit bias issue as well. I wasn't trying to be exhaustive, but th
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by deong 11y ago
Common sense would tell you it does happen. It only takes one guy who'd rather hire a man than a woman and one qualified woman applying for that job. I don't think it's a meaningfully large part of the explanation for the ske
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by deong 11y ago
Yes. I moved to Iceland from Tennessee, a state with no state income tax. However, I needed a permanent address where I was sure I'd get mail, because I hadn't yet found a long-term rental in Iceland, so I did my Federal tax retur
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by deong 11y ago
Yeah, I was a bit leery as well, but my situation isn't that complicated, so I saved the money and did it myself. Will update from prison later if it comes to that. :)

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