gavinlynch

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by gavinlynch 14y ago
Yah, except for the part where he spends an extra 10 seconds explaining "here are 2 of hundreds of thousands, as an example". The headline would be the same: "X Company exposes N Number of user accounts in discovered security hole". So do y
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by gavinlynch 14y ago
>>> "This is along troll by him" The only person he's trolling, is himself.
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by gavinlynch 14y ago
Gotta say... for all the flack the US Government takes around here, this illustrates there are no perfect systems. That is ridiculous.
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by gavinlynch 14y ago
"I don't think regular people really realize the extent to which all Google products are merely vectors to build personal profiles of you to sell advertising." That, and, the apps are very useful to many. Let's not kid ourselves and pretend
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by gavinlynch 14y ago
I hate to be so flippant but: Petitions are one of the most useless forms of expression I've come across.
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by gavinlynch 14y ago
Yah, you learn very quickly how incredibly convenient something as simple as a labeled address can be. Thank god for modern assemblers!
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by gavinlynch 14y ago
minor observation regarding the website's example images and their lightbox: really strange placement for the close "X" in the bottom right corner, right?
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by gavinlynch 14y ago
I think all the points you make are obvious. If you rely on something that you have no control over, you're liable to get burned if you don't pay attention to API changes or if Facebook doesn't keep it's contracts from an architectural stan
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by gavinlynch 14y ago
Interesting point about the ambient noise. I'll have to try it again when I have something a little more tedious to do and see if it works for me.
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by gavinlynch 14y ago
Minority anti-social counter-point: For someone who enjoys a simple solitude while coding, this type of environment is anathema to everything that makes me productive. I admit that I struggle to find any appeal whatsoever in working in this
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by gavinlynch 14y ago
Sorry for the brevity, but the only thing I can think of is: A-fucking-men. This is a colossal waste of time and resources, and it's a completely distraction from other -real-, -actual- privacy concerns that every day citizens should have.
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by gavinlynch 14y ago
>>> "Yes, of course, on a basic level, there is no difference between cookies but I think it's reasonable to say that they can achieve different purposes, particularly in terms of the information that they can allow third partie
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by gavinlynch 14y ago
>> "You can't seriously argue that someone who is accused of rape should just be set free like that. Guilty or not he should stand trial." Thank you. And yet, in countless meandering pagraphics and who knows how many sentences and w
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by gavinlynch 14y ago
I love to hear a story of successful American immigration. Thanks for sharing!
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by gavinlynch 14y ago
Enjoyed this post. And my initial reaction to the headline before reading the article was: Duh, of course you can :) Autodidacts for life.
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by gavinlynch 14y ago
>> "Prisons are also used as punishment, but that's a side-effect. There are other ways of having a non-violent (or no longer violent) person repay his debt to society." Is this accurate? Depriving someone of normal civilian rights
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by gavinlynch 14y ago
I agree with the general sentiment, although it is worth pointing out that the idea of a unified "mobile webkit" is a fallacy: http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2009/10/there_is_no_...
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by gavinlynch 14y ago
I'm experiencing pretty much the exact same thing, with a few minor additions to your items: I also have iTerm2 in my list, some ADC files, and strangely some RSS xml files I have downloaded ages ago.
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by gavinlynch 14y ago
No, the intent was so that both sides were too busy fighting each other to the point that they could never take control of the country to establish and dictatorship :p. And with that perspective in mind, I can confidently assert that the co
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by gavinlynch 14y ago
"I think this is really one of the core reasons so many hackers disagree with this lawyer mindset. A hacker or an entrepreneur is someone who breaks rules to create something. Innovation and consensus are antonyms, not synonyms. Innovation
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by gavinlynch 14y ago
This i can agree with. Not that it's particularly clever, but I've been referring to most of these issues as Cowards Taxes. Because the politicians who need to cover budget potholes are too cowardly to ask the people to increase taxes to co
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by gavinlynch 14y ago
When I read statements like this, I am reminded why it's a good idea that we are a representative democracy, and not a direct one.
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by gavinlynch 14y ago
With all due respect to this great community and the intelligent posters here, I have to agree. It's a little dispiriting seeing objectivity fly out the window. But we all have blind spots, it's part of our human nature... Just wanted to ad
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by gavinlynch 14y ago
I think this is a dangerous thought and I'm sorry you feel that way.
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by gavinlynch 14y ago
You're right, it's a tragic situation where a bright young man extinguished his own flame. Emotions are so raw that no matter what he says right now, it will not be well received. Even if what he is saying is accurate. But frankly, I'm disa
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by gavinlynch 14y ago
Yah, even though that scene is growing smaller by the year, the 6502/2A03 ASM geeks are still crunching away... looking for extra space inside NES Rom's to cram some new, cool feature their favorite games would benefit from. Did a little in
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by gavinlynch 14y ago
Thanks for the entirely pedantic and useless correction. Assuredly you have heard "spam" used colloquially to refer to unwanted messages, and not just the narrow definition of "unsolicited bulk" email. Have a nice day.
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by gavinlynch 14y ago
You're kidding, right? "Dear Mark, I am writing because I have a great business opportunity for you... ... ... ... ... and that's why you should buy out my revenue-positive minimum viable product so we can pivot towards disrupting even grea
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by gavinlynch 14y ago
It's a very interested and unique way of looking at scrolling, that's for sure. And I'm with you, I like this type of experimentation. One thing I find tough to deal with is the default amount of characters "scrolled" for a given mouse whee
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by gavinlynch 14y ago
I'm sick of this "debate". We can talk about more gun laws, less gun laws, less video game violence, a psychological approach, a strong-family-as-a-deterrent... or anything else we can imagine. But those solutions will never stop these crim

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