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by fooandbarify 16y ago
Very interesting. I've held off on showing HN my recent projects for a different reason: I'm just not that proud of them. Lately my projects have all been very quick, niche money-makers that almost leave me with a bad taste in my mouth - I'
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Ask HN: Is anybody developing for the RIM Playbook?
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by fooandbarify 16y ago
I find it to be wrong that somebody leaked classified documents. I think it's more complicated than that. "Following orders" is not an acceptable defense, and for that reason I think leaking classified documents is not only sometimes just
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by fooandbarify 16y ago
No kidding - and I can't honestly believe that current employees and contractors would be prevented from reading the leaks for fear of "possessing" said information. Burying their head in the sand. It's asinine. EDIT: In case it wasn't clea
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by fooandbarify 16y ago
An interesting problem. Despite my objections to their actions (which I spelled out in a different thread) I'm not really upset with Amazon. I will probably not buy from them for a while, but I know that won't really affect their bottom lin
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by fooandbarify 16y ago
To a certain extent, I actually agree with your point. I think it is important for governments to be able to operate within varying degrees of secrecy, and I think that despite Assange's insistence to the contrary, some of the Wikileaks doc
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by fooandbarify 16y ago
As I noted in a different reply - I agree with you, but I think the wrapping paper is very important for a large segment of their audience. Believe it or not, I know many people who grew up with computers and yet don't know what a torrent i
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by fooandbarify 16y ago
Interesting point. I currently do some work for a different federal government which involves some security clearance. I may need US security clearance in the future, and the conflict is something I hadn't considered until now. However (and
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by fooandbarify 16y ago
Good call. I am not usually into the sort of activism that involves boycotts because I find them counter-productive, but I'd rather support my local bookstores anyways so I might as well be vocal about it.
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by fooandbarify 16y ago
I like this idea and will begin seeding their torrents post-haste. However, how do we make sure that the people who need to see the information find the torrents?
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Ask HN: What non-financial ways can I/we help Wikileaks?
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by fooandbarify 16y ago
Hmmm. I'm frustrated, because I think the author is making a very important point in a very, very poor way. Gender issues are important. They are important everywhere and they are especially important in industries like ours where the gende
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by fooandbarify 16y ago
I'm fairly new around here (lurked for a couple months, finally made an account last week) but one of the things that I really like about HN is the no frills approach. It would be extremely easy for a community of hackers to get carried awa
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by fooandbarify 16y ago
I agree with what others have said - if I were you, I would go for #2, and if that fails, #4. If you like your co-workers and the other non-codebase related aspects of the job, it is worth trying to make it work, but only if you can get the
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by fooandbarify 16y ago
I'm really interested in startup marketing for hackers and have been considering a similar writing project... I don't want to step on your toes at all but I'd love to bounce some ideas around. My e-mail is foobar at fooandbar.net :)