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by gyepi 13y ago
I have noticed that there are generally three kinds of software releases. 1. No code, just vaporware. 2. Some code, no to few tests, very little documentation. 3. Well written code, lots of tests, lots of documentation. The first is annoyin
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by gyepi 13y ago
It's hard to come up with good names for software projects. I agree, some are silly, but goatee seems pretty OK. I have an unreleased template system, also written in Go, named goatee. I choose it because I thought it was a nice riff o
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by gyepi 13y ago
I was introduced to the Dweck book some years ago and it made a big impact on me; I essentially had a fixed mindset and needed to "see" it in order to change it. Another really good book is Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's "Flo
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by gyepi 13y ago
I came up with a similar idea while planning a recent trip in South Africa. Couldn't find one. Great idea though.
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by gyepi 13y ago
This is a good question, but based on my experience, I have come to the conclusion that the mindset that characterizes the three groups really go beyond engineering or computing. It takes a certain amount of curiousity, interest, ability, l
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by gyepi 13y ago
Author here. Just came to submit a Show HN link only to find that I'm a day behind ;)
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by gyepi 13y ago
The historical context actually makes this story more interesting. Prior to the 18th century, sugar was available in Europe, but was quite expensive. Certainly too expensive to be used in coffee. However, by the early 18th century, the New
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by gyepi 13y ago
Ex bike repair professional here. It's definitely possible for your bike to need way less maintenance than a car and to provide very few headaches. In your case, I recommend that you buy very good tires. Most bikes have cheap tires, wh
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by gyepi 13y ago
It is a useful convention in C and C++ to group includes, but I don't see the benefit in Go. Since gofmt sorts imports, the grouping is soon undone. In any case, it is quite easy to distinguish the three kinds of imports if local impo
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by gyepi 13y ago
I was fired from a restaurant job (many years ago, in Alaska) becuase I "did not smile enough". At the time, it seemed ironic because I was actually quite efficient and smiling had not seemed to be a requirement for actually getti
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by gyepi 13y ago
I recently moved to South Africa from the US for 10 months and had to be very judicious about what to take with me. My model M keyboard made the list even though it weighs a ton and takes up much valuable space. I was willing to "downs
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by gyepi 13y ago
War story: I was once called in to scale an application that had been running on AWS for 6 or 7 months and was failing due to excessive traffic. Normally a good problem to have, but this turned into a difficult problem because the applicati
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by gyepi 13y ago
>>However in a "post-scarcity" environment >>> Scarcity of which commodity? Scarcity of materials and energy, mostly. >>> The western civilization is already at a point where food and clothes aren't ev
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by gyepi 13y ago
There is never ever going to be a period of time in the human history, there was none in the past, nor will there be in the future where we shall attain peaceful uniform equality among humans. The very concept is against our very internal
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by gyepi 13y ago
Yes, for some people, it's too much work. However, there are many for whom it would not be at all. I have always run my own servers both for personal and business use and I don't find it the least bit onerous. Honestly, I think it
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by gyepi 13y ago
Many years ago, I had cubicle next to phone order takers while writing software for the company. Prior to that I had worked from home for several years so it was a difficult adjustment for me. After repeatedly asking for an office and being
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by gyepi 13y ago
According to the articles I've seen, spying on the UN is prohibited by international law.
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by gyepi 13y ago
For those of you asking why some related item is excluded: All of the evidence found in this timeline can also be found in the Summary of Evidence we submitted to the court in Jewel v. National Security Agency (NSA) There is clearly more
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by gyepi 13y ago
Exactly! In fact, given the revelations of NSA employees spying on their "love interests" and that most of the breaches are self-reported, it really appears that the assurances of security are misleading.
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by gyepi 13y ago
Most of the incidents, officials said, were self-reported. Such admissions can arise, for example, when an employee takes a polygraph tests as part of a renewal of a security clearance. The fact that these are self reported implies that:
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Snowden suspected of bypassing electronic logs(hosted.ap.org)
28 points by gyepi 13y ago|10 comments
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by gyepi 13y ago
> This is encryption that accomplishes nearly nothing. I disagree. Encryption, done correctly, maintains the secrecy of the message. > Your email messages themselves may be encrypted but the addresses and other metadata -- who you con
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by gyepi 13y ago
On the surface, this seems like a tale of incompetence but the board seems to have taken it in stride, is considering joining a larger organization and wondered why they had not made the move sooner. In context, this is much less of a story
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by gyepi 13y ago
Hard to tell since the details have been kept secret, but the FOIA request is for any order or opinion of the court on whether any 702 minimization was done unreasonably or whether any any 702 authorities have been used to circumvent the &q
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by gyepi 13y ago
According to the document they've had to involve some senior people in deciding what to redact and there are only a few people in government with the expertise in the relevant issues. My guess is that the redaction involves at least
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by gyepi 13y ago
Petraeus' security failures are no indication of the general availability of privacy. He was appointed to the CIA directorship after a career in the Armed Forces, where one would not have expected him to gain such security skills. Also
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by gyepi 13y ago
I think we can be more definite than that. Based on "Common Sense" and "Rights of Man" it is pretty clear that Paine was oppossed to any kind of government that was more concerned with furthering its own power than the s
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by gyepi 13y ago
Good try, but these won't wash. It's hard to argue against it because the facts seem quite clear and straightforward. 1. If the origin of the investigation is revealed to be illegal, the entire investigation is thrown into questio
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by gyepi 13y ago
Most of the time, most people get some level of service and protection, depending on various demographic, economic or geographic factors. However, that changes if the police has probable cause to believe that you are or could be suspected o
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by gyepi 13y ago
The less you say, the better. You don't have to explain yourself. > I wish I had a polite answer to "where are you headed tonight?" "I prefer not to answer" or "I'd rather not say" are both quite p

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