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by freyr 13y ago
They make information processing software, and the government is a client. So what? The company is quite open about, and has been since the start.
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by freyr 13y ago
It's great that they showed a demo tracking a disease outbreak, but that doesn't really mean anything. The company readily admits that their software has primarily been used in the defense and finance industries. They don't
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by freyr 13y ago
I think the link is that, in addition to creating software under the same name, they received early funding from the CIA, and their software serves the same general purpose of sifting through large amounts of disparate data from various sou
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by freyr 13y ago
> Somebody is paying that company a LOT of money for something. As they've made perfectly clear, their major clients are the department of defense and hedge funds. Of course they're getting paid a lot of money.
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by freyr 13y ago
From the article: > For one thing, under an Obama presidency, Americans will be able to leave behind the era of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and "wiretaps without warrants," he said. As I said, regardless of whether wiretaps are
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by freyr 13y ago
I agree it's a complex problem, but there's a middle ground between "doing nothing" and this. And maybe even the NSA's work is in our best interests (and maybe not), but it seems disingenuous and perhaps flat-out wr
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by freyr 13y ago
"My job this morning is to be so persuasive...that a light will shine through that window, a beam of light will come down upon you, you will experience an epiphany, and you will suddenly realize that you must go to the polls and vote
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by freyr 13y ago
Why wait? They'll start getting users (and feedback) now and once they get sync, they'll get another press release out of it. Apple didn't wait until they could do LTE right to release iPhone 4s.
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by freyr 13y ago
History repeats itself. It seems like in tech, where things move fast, history repeats itself quickly.
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by freyr 13y ago
Critics of Go (and other languages, I imagine, but I've noticed it a lot with Go) tend to ignore anybody who points out that their argument is invalid. This might be because their real argument is: "The language I'm familiar with does it th
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by freyr 13y ago
> maybe Gosling and Pike really do believe that generics and HOF are too difficult for the average programmer The reasons that Go doesn't have generics are well documented and discussed (continually) on golang-nuts. Basically, the desig
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by freyr 13y ago
I objected when a roommate wanted to rent out our living room on Airbnb. I realize that the probability is extremely low that we'd end up with a deranged lunatic in our house. But for me, that tiny possibility (and more so the irrational st
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by freyr 13y ago
I have a separate email address for this purpose. Anybody I know personally or trust gets my regular email address. Anybody who might sign me up for a newsletter gets my spam email address. I don't get any newsletter spam at my regular addr
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by freyr 13y ago
Further, consider this excerpt from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OAuth : A growing number of social networking services promote OAuth logins to the dominant social networks (Facebook, Twitter etc.) as the primary authentication method, ov
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by freyr 13y ago
> If you're going to intentionally avoid using the tools the way others do ... Facebook was sold to users as a way to connect and communicate with my friends and family. This is how I use it. I don't use it as a tool to pass my personal
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by freyr 13y ago
> it's private to you, in which case this service is very likely not going to provide you a great deal of value Why does this service's value depend on Facebook? I use Facebook to communicate with a few friends and family. I don't list
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by freyr 13y ago
The visual design of iOS has hardly changed since it was introduced. Individual apps have changed their appearance, but the OS itself has largely looked the same. Same goes for OS X iterations over the past 12 years. Minor variations on the
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by freyr 13y ago
Did Jobs actually expect the iPad to dominate the ebooks market? I think he was determined to create the best iPad he could, not the best ebook reader. So his goal was to optimize the ebook experience for the iPad (not optimize the iPad for
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by freyr 13y ago
The process may span 8 or 9 weeks, but you'd probably actively spend about 8 or 9 hours. That's a couple hours on the phone, and 5-6 hours on site. Presumably, you expect to hold the job for next few years of your life, at a minimum. If you
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by freyr 13y ago
Do you say 'mie·elf' too?
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by freyr 13y ago
If we knew ahead of time which tough problems have elegant solutions, it would save us so much time and effort. Alas, that's not the nature of research.
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by freyr 13y ago
"...where matter is defined as the company (relatively) promptly going from founding to $100 million in revenues." If I can found a company that provides financial security to myself and one or more employees, that matters... at least to me
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by freyr 13y ago
Or when you factor engineering students out of the Ivy school equation.
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by freyr 13y ago
Wrong. By that logic, you wouldn't have considered cell phones as disruptive because they initially cost around $9,000 (inflation adjusted). The same for PCs, and pretty much any disruptive technology. That's one of the central points in th
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by freyr 13y ago
Annnd... we're reddit.
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by freyr 14y ago
I'm unable to log in right now via Firefox but Chrome works fine. Could be related.
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by freyr 14y ago
> they've kind of abbonned JS in favor of Dart Haven't they announced that they have no plans to integrate the Dart VM with the Blink rendering engine?
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by freyr 14y ago
"...it is much better to show them the features through screenshots on the page." I actually appreciated that he gave a concise description of the product and its features up front, before I invested time in looking at screenshots. It mig
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by freyr 14y ago
Couldn't disagree more. The experience of receiving personal attention and guidance from a brilliant and skilled mentor is simply not replicated through a book or MOOC. Not to say books and MOOCs can't be excellent learning tools, but you'r
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by freyr 14y ago
These factors hold in any industry, though, so they're not sufficient to explain the preference for youth in the software industry.

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