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by grappler 13y ago
I'd be interested in an explanation on exactly what your problem with Glenn Greenwald is, and why exactly you think he is deceptive. Over the last couple years, since I discovered him, I've found him to be among the most persuasiv
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by grappler 13y ago
Event: A bunch of schoolchildren are brutally murdered by a guy with a gun. Conversation in the media: Maybe citizens shouldn't have guns. At least not guns that can easily fire lots of rounds in a short period of time. Massive well-fu
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by grappler 13y ago
I'm curious why I haven't seen any talk about porn. Wait, seriously. Come back for a second. Porn. We all know a significant fraction of internet traffic is porn. Most men probably watch it. Perhaps also a large fraction of women.
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by grappler 13y ago
That would certainly fit with the classification of encryption methods by the government as “munitions”. p.s. web graphics?
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by grappler 13y ago
If you are passionate about the right to bear arms, because you view it as a vital protection against a tyrannical government, I'm curious how you feel about surveillance/collection of all your phone calls, movements, and internet
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by grappler 13y ago
Why would you hope not? I would rather people talked less in this situation. It means they've adjusted their behavior in accordance with their new, more accurate, understanding of the world.
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by grappler 13y ago
One story here is about what a “hacker” is. What the word represents, what people who identify with it value, and what role those people play in private industry, in government, and in the military/security/intelligence world. Her
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by grappler 13y ago
There are two axis that seem to matter, by my way of thinking, whether this business is conducted via carrier pigeons or fiber optic cables. 1. What is the process. What requests come from the government. What government entities make those
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by grappler 13y ago
Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper, in the WaPo story: “information collected under this program is among the most important and valuable foreign intelligence information we collect. In the intelligence world, this is an imp
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by grappler 13y ago
Feinstein's constituency is Silicon Valley. And while we know all about the Google/Facebook/Apple/Y-Combinator silicon valley, there's also that other Silicon Valley. http://vimeo.com/15992737
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by grappler 13y ago
So much for Tony Robbins and the “internet treasure”? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEojTYYyGA0
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by grappler 13y ago
I'm thinking now of how nice a time the person replacing me at that last job is going to have. They'll try the documented way to start services and run tests, and those things will work on the first try. You're welcome, whoever you are :)
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by grappler 13y ago
Better, but only slightly. At the extreme other end from pairing, I worked very independently. I had a nice system worked out for how I like to organize repositories, data, logs, installations etc. That takes some setup work but it pays off
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by grappler 13y ago
No, I don't mean to imply that it was as simple as that. This was a place where programmers pair all the time. If you're working by yourself, and you don't have things like quick editor navigation down, nobody cares. If you're pairing with
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by grappler 13y ago
That reminds me of a stupid thing I said once. At a sprint retrospective, I said something to the effect of “I realize that I could stand to get faster at coding and using the editor shortcuts”. I was fired the next day. Reason given: codin
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by grappler 14y ago
My money is on the facebook widgets embedded in other sites this guy visits. Like buttons, login buttons, perhaps a comment widget or three. Many users may not realize that you don't need to actually click these widgets in order to be recor
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by grappler 14y ago
Who is Michael O. Church? He seems to have lots of top comments on this site. Is it mostly because if the interesting (and voluminous) stuff he writes about office politics? Or is there more of a story here? I haven't found much.
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by grappler 14y ago
As long as the court of public opinion is in session here, who is this guy? What other good/bad stuff has he done, outside this case?
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by grappler 15y ago
I wonder if this use of address book information explains the sudden spike in Path's growth since their recent relaunch?
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by grappler 15y ago
A few years ago, at a “Facebook developer garage” event, I personally asked Dave Morin (Path Founder and CEO) a very similar question to the one in today's news. At the time, he was in charge of the Facebook developer platform, having not y
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by grappler 15y ago
I especially connected with the bit about "fear of missing out", and with her earlier post (linked in the article) on that subject. When I started playing with computers in elementary and middle school, it helped me put aside some of the tr
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by grappler 15y ago
These quotes sound quite a bit like my dating life. Especially since I spend so much time working...