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by griffordson 13y ago
The house Judiciary hearing last week was interesting. As is the bill working its way through the Senate. The US tech companies are feeling the effects of the loss of trust and it looks like they are putting pressure on congress to do somet
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by griffordson 13y ago
This was probably the FBI. And if the data center's switch couldn't mirror the customer port (I can't imagine any data center would use a switch that couldn't - but it is within the realm of possibility), the investigati
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by griffordson 13y ago
Deliberate misinformation has a pretty long history. Here's a good report about the CIA manipulating the US media from Carl Bernstein (yes, that Bernstein) circa 1977: http://carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php
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by griffordson 13y ago
When? Year 1 - 5 figures Year 2 - 6 figures Year 4 - 7 figures Why? We knew the industry and knew the problems before we started. We had someone nearby who was desperate for a solution and confirmed they were willing to pay the high rate we
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by griffordson 13y ago
I recommend aiming a little lower. Companies with 500 employees and HR departments already have a lot of structure and process around making purchases. There are lots of much smaller companies with lots of revenue and very large pain points
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by griffordson 13y ago
While this is an accomplishment, I'm much more impressed by difficult manned arrested landings like these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gGMI8d3vLs But it is just a matter of time before that type of landing is part
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by griffordson 13y ago
The 1950's intelligence community was no joke either. In fact, the CIA probably played a very large role in bringing an end to McCarthyism. See the following for an interesting tour through that slice of history: https://en.
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by griffordson 13y ago
Anyone you know from FB who is unemployed probably isn't eligible to work at the NSA. We aren't talking about WPA jobs after all. I understand your point, lots of people can't be choosy about where they work. But those aren&#
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by griffordson 13y ago
According to one of the students involved[1], the confrontation wasn't premeditated so they probably weren't really considering how it might look to outside observers. But there is value in making NSA employees feel bad about what
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by griffordson 13y ago
Unless of course you consider multiple daily SEO spams, "spam". Because GMail doesn't filter those at all. Even emails that are worded exactly the same but sent from a different source GMail address.
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Greenwald: Speaking on NSA stories, Snowden and journalism(guardian.co.uk)
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by griffordson 13y ago
A choice quote: Even Schmidt, 73, who headed one of the more infamous departments in the infamous Stasi, called himself appalled. The dark side to gathering such a broad, seemingly untargeted, amount of information is obvious, he said. “It
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by griffordson 13y ago
Yes, by why are they speculating about the crimes that Snowden and Greenwald may have committed rather than the crimes that members of the Establishment may have committed? They could just as well fill that time with wild speculation about
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by griffordson 13y ago
If an app that had no sustainable future as a native app becomes possible as a web app, don't users also benefit? The fact is that many people are willing to pay for a service they continue to get value from month after month. And the recur
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by griffordson 14y ago
What percentage of kids in those wealthy neighborhoods have their education subsidized by wealthy grandparents? Does a subsidized education (including private school, extracurricular activities, and private tutors) make it more likely that
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by griffordson 14y ago
Do a quick s/poor/some minority/ and reread your post.
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by griffordson 14y ago
My current development machine is running Linux with Xmonad (Vim keybinds). I run console Vim inside Tmux (vim keybinds). I run Vimium in Chrome. I have also remapped the caps lock key to CTRL in every OS I use (all of them) to avoid reachi
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by griffordson 14y ago
Vim literally saved my career. I have not found a mouse that I can use 8 hours a day (let alone 12+) that doesn't cause me severe hand and wrist pain after a few days. Using Vim, and Vim keyboard shortcuts in every program I can, is the onl
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by griffordson 14y ago
Because they prefer Ruby? I personally wouldn't choose PHP or Perl unless I had no other choice. Nothing wrong with other people choosing them, but they aren't for me. And given the choice between Python and Ruby, I'll choose Ruby unless th
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by griffordson 14y ago
I've paid over $50,000 a year for Google Maps. I assure you, their support sucks no matter how much you pay them. We pay a small fraction of that for AWS, and Amazon's support is infinitely better.
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by griffordson 14y ago
I agree. > As a nerd and a geek, the thing I find most offensive is the way other geeks and nerds react to The Big Bang Theory. It's almost embarrassing to be associated with people who behave like such spoiled children. I know what you
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by griffordson 14y ago
Do you know something that Netflix doesn't? They avoid EBS dependencies for a reason: http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/04/lessons-netflix-learned-... http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/10/post-mortem-of-october-2...
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by griffordson 14y ago
On Writing Well, by William Zinsser is a classic that you may find useful. http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Well-30th-Anniversary-Edition/...
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by griffordson 14y ago
I find that working too many hours outside of 9 to 5 quickly becomes lethal too. And working on side projects as a cofounder feels very much like cheating on a spouse for all the reasons you mentioned. One approach is to look for future nee
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by griffordson 14y ago
I've been a parent since I was 18 and I have 4 kids. I don't say that lightly. I've also been on pager duty before. But being the only person responsible for keeping a critical system running for years on end is an order of magnitude or two
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by griffordson 14y ago
I was in this situation from the summer of 2008 until about a month ago. I'm just now starting to feel the relief of having another technical person to bounce ideas off, and eventually, to be able to take time off without worrying that the
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by griffordson 14y ago
When you start your own company remember that feeling. Then when you start hiring developers and other technical people, look for people who are in the same boat you are in right now. I'll be 40 this year and cofounded a software company a
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by griffordson 15y ago
Become the boss. But you may find that your arguments aren't as persuasive as you thought they were once when you are the boss.
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by griffordson 15y ago
Can you name a single profitable company in the "B2B arena" with only free users?
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by griffordson 15y ago
And those are all in the same data center, right? How much downtime do you guys have a year?

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