drharris

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by drharris 13y ago
I thought this has become standard procedure for high-profile hacker types. It comes down to uneducated LEOs (all over the world) that think hacking/computing is the modern-day equivalent of sorcery or magic, and thus the person of int
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by drharris 13y ago
> by any stretch of the imagination You do realize they do stuff like this ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24557333 ), right? No stretch of the imagination? I'd also say fomenting a culture of fear is
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by drharris 13y ago
Clever, but try explaining that to these people. Most barely seem to have a high school diploma, much less understand encryption.
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by drharris 13y ago
Survey-based approval ratings are pretty much meaningless, as they don't necessarily lead to change. Many people who claim to disapprove of the President would not vote for any other option were they given a chance today. This is calle
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by drharris 13y ago
Not going to happen. Our bipolar government means that at any given time, at least 45% of the nation tacitly approves of the way things are going, just given the political party in power. Of those that disapprove, most don't care all t
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by drharris 13y ago
> patience dealing with command lines that just get in your way of getting shit done.
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by drharris 13y ago
It should probably be clarified that you're talking primarily about start-up costs, and primarily about web applications. I think amortized over the long run, MS services can save you money (definitely at the enterprise level, less s
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by drharris 13y ago
I don't think that really ends any discussion. Some FOSS is good, a lot of it is horrible. Some of it I would use in production, the vast majority I would not.
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by drharris 13y ago
I'd agree their billing leaves something to be desired, if that's what you're talking about. I think they're trying to centralize all their services into a single environment, but it is failing miserably. Xbox live and A
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by drharris 13y ago
I can't speak much to their OS/Office products. They allow me to do my work with minimal frustration, but it's not particularly enjoyable either (of course, neither is setting up a decent Linux distro). At home I prefer a Mac
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by drharris 13y ago
I'm an unapologetic .NET lover, and the comments on the subreddit largely hold true. In the end, culture is the biggest differentiator. MS has excellent tooling and support, but nobody knows about it. They have Bizspark, which is one o
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by drharris 13y ago
>there's no need to alarm the general public until concrete evidence is brought to light. Taken further, there's no need for anyone to be alarmed until concrete evidence is brought to light.
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by drharris 13y ago
Presumably because they're spending time on their actual technology rather than fiddling in Photoshop and keeping up with patching the latest Node.js vulnerabilities on a web-appified version?
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by drharris 13y ago
I'm related to 7 teachers, across 3 different states. They have much more education than I do (Masters degrees with lots of continuing graduate education hours), and make less than half the salary. It's not a myth. Keep in mind th
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by drharris 13y ago
A big part of education startup failure is conflict of interest among all the parties. For an individual teacher to adopt a new technology is not super difficult; you just have to solve a real pain point, or show that your tool can help the
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by drharris 13y ago
I really like this, and while I wouldn't code in just any font, this one seems to lend itself. Only nitpick would be breathing room around parentheses and "." in method calls. Right now it's a bit tight. Love this articl
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by drharris 13y ago
Very nice! I have a "scratchpad" project for fiddling around with things, but this might wind up a permanent tab on my browser. Less overhead than a VS project, for sure.
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by drharris 13y ago
... and now they're all gone. This metric does not matter, as you cannot compare people posting pictures meant to be semi-[permanent, public] with people (primarily of lots-of-free-time age) posting ephemera.
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by drharris 13y ago
Nah, that's an alias for the director.
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by drharris 13y ago
Haha, this was a thought of mine... Thanks to Mr. Snowden we've seen what their excellent photoshop work can accomplish.
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by drharris 13y ago
I kinda like the original solutions better. The card with picture on one side, lines of text on the other, and rolodex-holes at the bottom. I've seen about 50 different styles of this icon, and while it should probably be standardized
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by drharris 13y ago
Hey, it's probably not outside the realm of possibility on this site.
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by drharris 13y ago
Subscribe them all to EFF newsletter?
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by drharris 13y ago
I'm 30 and didn't really understand it, but I work with teenagers quite a bit. My generation was very excited about putting things online, permanently, a monument to our selves. Things like blogs, facebook, even twitter are pretty
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by drharris 13y ago
> The erasure had the effect of hiding Conservative speeches in a secretive corner of the internet like those that shelter the military, secret services, gangsters and paedophiles. Just need a Nazi reference to get the royal flush.
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by drharris 13y ago
I thought this was going to be one of those one-word websites that said "Nothing". There's nothing wrong with either OOP or FP, only something wrong when people misapply them.
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by drharris 13y ago
Personal examples hardly prove a point, but I'm a seasoned, nearly exclusive (11yr) .NET developer and I can probably code the pants off the average ruby/python developer off the street. As can many of my coworkers. See, we use th
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by drharris 13y ago
Unicode filenames allow you to do cool stuff: http://static.pg4.io/☹.html
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by drharris 13y ago
I would not call this a dark pattern. You browse backwards through your personal library hierarchy, what happens when you reach the top of your hierarchy? It takes you to the entire world of music. Your personal library is a subset of the w
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by drharris 13y ago
Seriously, it's a work of art in itself. Reuters tends to be a bit more formulaic and boring with titles, but I can't imagine a better one for this piece.

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