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by krichman 13y ago
Yeah I think the guide is; get rid of the degree, consultancy, startup, or child (in decreasingly sociopathic order).
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by krichman 13y ago
Thank you for posting this. This article is incredibly refreshing, and I think people in the position to hire new employees should definitely read this. I wish more people had such integrity.
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by krichman 13y ago
We should absolutely be more worried about digital rights and freedoms, because freedoms with your car are already pretty well secured. You can loan it to a friend, you can sell it, you're allowed to take it apart and mess with it on your o
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by krichman 13y ago
1. Their intellectual property is not being stolen, it's impossible to "steal" a digital file. Their rights are being infringed. 2. The major thing retarding development of new inventions and industries are the wealthy luddites digging thei
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by krichman 13y ago
Yes, it's not reasonable to call him crazy since many things he's been predicting have come true. He's eccentric.
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by krichman 13y ago
It only does the popup after you try to activate them, yes? Why not allow the user to turn them on with a button and not use them until then? "Hey this app is a lot better with push notifications, tap this to turn them on. A dialog will app
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by krichman 13y ago
One man's "not delivering a large part of the app's value" is another's "not pestering me outside of the hour in the evening I want to use it". Anecdotally, there is not one single app that I have which I would like to give me push notifica
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by krichman 13y ago
Why don't we err in favor of the user instead of the developer? It's bad enough that they cannot get apps from anywhere but the App Store, give them a break.
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by krichman 13y ago
False analogy. The camera and microphone aren't readily available to non-running apps, whereas push notifications are. Push notifications can also interrupt other running applications. Allowing them globally is a far greater burden on users
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by krichman 13y ago
Who do you think wrote this law?
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by krichman 13y ago
It's completely ridiculous to ethically or legally equate trespass and theft on/with physical property with data copying and access. Whereas I can be expected to know you don't want me looking through your briefcase, given a link to somethi
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by krichman 13y ago
> the DA in question is an investor in the private jail to which he sends people. Where is the ethics committee on this one?
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by krichman 13y ago
I agree with the GP post. What they need is better value. If all they have is that they know about it and you don't, why are they being paid such a large rate? If that's all they do, they should be paid slightly more than a job posting rate
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by krichman 13y ago
We should remember that if we have personal dealings with him. This is about humane treatment, which must transcend what we think about him.
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by krichman 13y ago
It looks like you had been downvoted, so I upvoted your comments for being civil in the face of criticism and open to their suggestions.
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by krichman 13y ago
Let's install millimeter wave scanners in the ATMs as well. Maximum fraud prevention.
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by krichman 13y ago
Sounds like a lesser version of Stockholm syndrome :( I can't say I personally get it, but I respect you and your family for their empathy and compassion.
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by krichman 13y ago
In this case the term "source" is obviously a rhetoric device, and we can avoid a lot of pedantry by noting that the poster was totally transparent about his reasoning thus achieving the ends we want via means that aren't awful. PS having a
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by krichman 13y ago
It's not gray at all. You may record someone in public. You may record someone on private property iff you have permission or you are on public property. You may not use their image in an advertisement without a signed release. (IANAL also)
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by krichman 13y ago
> It's part of the reason why "law" isn't the answer to every societal problem. I sure wish more people like you had stronger control over the legislative process.
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by krichman 13y ago
What's worse are laws that are basically enacted in reaction to some specific situation but shouldn't be applied or necessary in the general case. Sometimes it seems like the majority of the legal code is archaic if not completely corrupt.
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by krichman 13y ago
This reaction isn't pretending technology doesn't exist. On the contrary, I believe they are very forward looking to oppose a seemingly innocuous thing that could become a tool of some imagined police state 50 or 100 years in the future. Le
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by krichman 13y ago
I'm assuming you've seen the $1 gesture recogniser; but on the slight chance that you have not, I think you'd be interested. You might be able to let users define their own gestures.
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by krichman 13y ago
What an interesting niche, neat implementation, and you screenshot the Discworld MUD so we know you're cool :) If you're willing to share, I'd love to know what your sales are like.
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by krichman 13y ago
you have changed my life
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by krichman 13y ago
And I would be absolutely thrilled if the main scripting language in vim was a Lisp.
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by krichman 13y ago
Good point. Everyone needs to be taught about plea bargaining, too, but maybe we need some way to prevent the DA from piling on ridiculous charges.
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by krichman 13y ago
I think the courts don't like it at all. ( http://www.activistpost.com/2013/02/jury-nullification-activ... ). Please do it but also please speak with an actual lawyer first.
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by krichman 13y ago
Yes I think you are right. But also, my thinking is that recently the US seems to want to trample down many "criminals" for basically downloading things that someone regrets them downloading. I worry about a future where DA's are overzealou
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by krichman 13y ago
School is meant to prepare them for adulthood and the odds that an American will go to prison are relatively high.

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