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Smithsonian welcomes space shuttle Discovery(washingtonpost.com)
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Amazon SQS Vs. RabbitMQ(nsono.net)
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Google’s Computer Science Summer Institute (CSSI) 2012(google.com)
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Revamping Storage Performance(cacm.acm.org)
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by diwank 15y ago
Indeed. That'd be incredible if he can manage that. Plus, he'll gain a lot experience.
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by diwank 15y ago
A steady job is a very good idea (depending on who you ask). I just didn't want to make the assumption that he has a large enough skill set for a regular programming job.
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by diwank 15y ago
It's great to hear that you've gotten better and want to pursue programming. A vital piece of advice I'd like to share is to Live Curious. Never stop learning. Keep trying new things. Connect with as many people as you can. Learn to cook. G
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The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.(matt.might.net)
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by diwank 15y ago
I guess I did misunderstand you then. You're right. A rapist won't probably need this app. All I was trying to say is that leaving the rapist issue aside, this app is misusing unsuspecting people's privacy and personal info. Just because
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by diwank 15y ago
> They could simply wait outside close to where drunk girls would be likely to be. Hold on. What do you mean by that? This is clearly a horrible violation of people's integrity and privacy. It's not about "chicks" getting raped. Would
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by diwank 15y ago
Just a UI? Maybe. But every application has a specific action. See data is just well, data. What you do with it defines your application. Take something non-intrusive for a change, say the books a bookstore sells most. There's a wealth
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by diwank 15y ago
I agree. The way people evaluate the importance of other people's information is so damn skewed. It's a social problem and it has nothing to do with just privacy. > Does it really affect my life? What benefit do I gain from knowing t
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by diwank 15y ago
Indeed, it is a very important thing to include a mature explanation of privacy and it's importance in education. What I meant was that this is not going to fix this problem. We need to figure out ways to stop the misuse of user data.
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by diwank 15y ago
> If you don't like this app and don't like the people behind it, stop making sure that every person who might be interested in it hears about it so they can add it to their phone. It's not about free press for the devs as you make
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by diwank 15y ago
Maybe the responsibility and the legal loopholes of such a possibility are too high. But that does not absolve social networks and the like to acknowledge the fact that people have an associated intent with what they share online. It is t
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by diwank 15y ago
I think you're right about the patronizing tone. Most responses to this issue are plainly trying to raise the possible security implications of such misuse of publicly available user information. Other than that, I think the author makes a
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by diwank 15y ago
> in practice it's like getting angry with individual spammers. It's futile. Completely agree. In fact, I think the author makes that point later in the article too. What is worth highlighting is the fact that "Educate people about pr
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by diwank 15y ago
I think the author makes a very very important point. The entire issue needs to be viewed from the perspective that a user is not equal to his data. Every facebook user shares his/her information with varying intents and motivation. Peopl
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by diwank 15y ago
I must say Ruhoh API is very well thought out. Kudos for the great work! How about extending the Universal Blog API for storing user comments? That'd make it a complete out-of-the-box blogging solution (a user may opt for using a comments
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The Physics of Angry Birds Space(wired.com)
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Google CodeJam 2012 Registrations now open(code.google.com)
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"Understanding Comics"(37signals.com)
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by diwank 15y ago
Fell in love with Python the first time I saw it. Most of my projects are written in Python. It is simply elegant. I really like CoffeeScript as well. (Javascript is a real pain to handle sometimes!)
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There is no shame in failure(jacquesmattheij.com)
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Ideas Worthy of Space Travel(googleblog.blogspot.com)
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by diwank 15y ago
Completely agree. Even though I am quite new to coding, I was shocked to see how much more time I spend on debugging a piece of code than actually writing it. The ratio is closer to 3:1 and sometimes even higher. Writing tests has brought t
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Persona: Mozilla's BrowserID Service(identity.mozilla.com)
55 points by diwank 15y ago|15 comments
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20 Famous Software Disasters(devtopics.com)
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by diwank 15y ago
@revorad: Thanks for the links. I liked the Ladder of Abstraction. On a different note, this discussion is slightly off-topic. Can I shoot you an email some time? (If you don't mind.) Also, I'm really sleepy now (yawn!)
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by diwank 15y ago
> create good new learning material and curate good existing material Great advice there and I totally agree with you. In fact, we are looking into incorporating great Python tutorials in the public domain to supplement our content. A

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