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by dsuth 13y ago
OTOH, if I've been summoned to fix something for you, and I introduce myself to you, you damn well better respond in a polite manner, not just hand me the offending object and glare at me silently. Manners go a long way. Honestly thoug
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by dsuth 13y ago
Thanks! This was my first thought. One day I'll have the courage to re-watch that movie; it takes on a slightly different tone when you have a son and daughter about that age...
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by dsuth 13y ago
Erm, when was the last time you were in Australia? Cycling is huge here, especially in Brisbane. The local council has spent a great deal of money putting in bike lanes and paths all over the place, and they're very well used. Every wo
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by dsuth 13y ago
Exactly. A lot of the fallout from this seems to be revolving around the idea of getting a service in 'not the USA'. Never mind the fact that: a) The US has been shown to actively compromise targets in their ally's jurisd
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by dsuth 13y ago
"I tend to be more or less trusting of the government, but that's just me." Wow that's kind of creepy. Mainly because I responded to a comment worded exactly the same way on another site recently, in regards to the NSA s
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by dsuth 13y ago
And what do we have now? Most people use iMessages or similar, which have arbitrary lengths, and allow much more descriptive and sensible messages. But not on twitter, where it's seen as some kind of hipster badge to be able to reword
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by dsuth 13y ago
No she was actually kicked to the curb, when she was physically escorted from the building by security. That right there is unacceptable behaviour. No one gives a shit about your precious bureaucracy and petty little power plays. Accommodat
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by dsuth 13y ago
Its nice that you're feeling PC, but do you really want to contend that there's no link between skin colour and crime in the US? I thought that was a fairly massive social issue over there, well-deserving of a wikipedia page.
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by dsuth 13y ago
It's not a question of whether it's easier for programmers to do BD stuff, or BMAs to learn technical details; it's a question of whether you want to waste your highly trained and expensive programmer's time dealing with
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by dsuth 13y ago
I do certification of high risk industrial installations for a living, and this story reminded me of one I heard about the Japanese Fukushima disaster. One of the guys who does certification over there did some digging and found out that th
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by dsuth 13y ago
It's confusing that the only externality considered in the article or in the HN comments so far is "effect on fisheries". Coastal regions are (typically) teaming with life of all kinds. I can live without people getting fresh
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by dsuth 13y ago
That's interesting. I'm fairly sure I played on Hard, although this was years ago so my memory may be rusty. Some parts of the game were definitely 'hard', but seemed artificially so. Like the last boss eschewing all of
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by dsuth 13y ago
Both. Some are stupidly easy, eg. God of War "Load Game. Face Plant Controller. Finish Game. Get Star!". In defiance of this trend, games like Dark Souls are coming out, which are wickedly hard, but extremely well-designed (for th
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by dsuth 13y ago
That statement was in regards to their widespread international network intrusions into potentially critical networks, not authorised access to American companies.
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by dsuth 13y ago
Yeah, that's incredibly cool. Make a meaningful statement whilst throwing their own rhetoric back at them. The more I hear/read from this guy, the more I like him!
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by dsuth 13y ago
"No sir. Not wittingly." WTF is that! Synonymous with "No sir. Mostly." These weasel words are ridiculous, and the fact that they stand up in a congressional hearing, is mind-boggling.
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by dsuth 13y ago
The timing of this article, especially given the tone of NYTimes' coverage of the PRISM event, is highly suspect. /tinfoil
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by dsuth 13y ago
Respond to my email! :p
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by dsuth 13y ago
And of course, war has no impact on politics and tightly interwoven economies...
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by dsuth 13y ago
The key question is: "Who do you trust more?". And of course, that's the wrong question anyway. You shouldn't trust anyone with access to your data, which is why strong cryptographic techniques are especially important f
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by dsuth 13y ago
The fact that he parroted this opinion without reading further to ascertain the truth, is the entire problem that this article highlights. Once tarred with that brush, it's very difficult to remove the stain.
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by dsuth 13y ago
Not to mention, it's incredibly difficult and time consuming to create a realistic fake of a photo, so this fails the basic common sense test - child pornographers would simply not waste the time creating fakes which were indistinguishable
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by dsuth 13y ago
Hah, as I was reading your post I was thinking "they should hire this guy to fix it up". Triaging projects is definitely a valuable skill, and like any time/mission critical skill, likely to be highly paid if you can market as such.
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by dsuth 13y ago
Hah! I completely forgot about my high school programming stuff! I'm with you, the reward was remembering all the cool shit I did (started programming at 4 on a C64), and the hopes that the info might be useful to people starting out. I def
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by dsuth 13y ago
Another possibility would be to not screen them, provide them with a high level of free care as a reward for their service, and just make the system work efficiently. Whether the government is footing the bill, or an individual is, should m
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by dsuth 13y ago
I agree with your second point, that's the same feeling I got out of the article: "Look! A new market to exploit with your trivial webapps!". There are a lot of problems with this statement, first being that it's not an ideal target for cap
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by dsuth 13y ago
Re-whatnow? Return them to the place where they were almost destroyed? This kind if item should be viewed as a part of humanity's common history and carefully protected, not sent back into a barely stable area where they would act as a prim
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by dsuth 13y ago
Perhaps the reasons he gave are genuine - he didn't want to get stuck in the 'maintainter' role a la Linus Torvalds. He created a practical implementation of his white paper, with resounding success, and that is the end of his interest in i
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by dsuth 13y ago
That's a bad experience, but it could easily go the other way, eg. a technical person taking advantage of a non-technical founder. The key is trust, regardless of the personalities involved. Trust, but validate as the saying goes.
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by dsuth 13y ago
Well, you don't vote for the guy with the better hair, do you? How do you distinguish between options at the voting booths, if not by their policies? I'm sorry, but that blows my mind.

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