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by mbillie1 13y ago
I mean this in no trolling or sarcastic sense, but - I've never heard of an international arrest warrant for rape before Assange... maybe there hasn't been anything significantly publicized?
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by mbillie1 13y ago
It would be very interesting to see what would happen if this were to occur in a case where the defendant's phone records were relevant to the defense's case and the defense attorney asked for the NSA records to demonstrate innoce
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by mbillie1 13y ago
> That would certainly seem feasible if you interview for personality traits, interests and learning skills, more than actual/concrete knowledge and working skills. That's a good chunk of the way we (ThoughtWorks) interview, along with
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by mbillie1 13y ago
You could always compromise the drone via a hose or some such, without any physical confrontation with the owner.
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by mbillie1 13y ago
Hmm... if you knock down the drone, then it is no longer in public space though (assuming it lands in your property). I have no idea what laws there are around this sort of thing... but disabling without destroying the drone so it ends up o
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by mbillie1 13y ago
As pointed out in the comments on the article: Google monetizing my web behavior doesn't deprive me of money, and also makes my ad experience "more positive" (less painful). It may also make me more likely to buy the products being adverti
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by mbillie1 13y ago
As colechristensen said, IP is not adequate identification. Anyone with time to kill can proxy themselves into a US IP.
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by mbillie1 13y ago
I would much rather there be no 3D-gun-printing situation... but I'm not sure that I'm too concerned about militias, albeit only given the current state of 3D printers. There's a weird race between the capacity to manufacture anything at a
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by mbillie1 13y ago
Half-baked, untested production patches at that.
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by mbillie1 13y ago
While I'm not super excited about people printing 3D guns, it seems like it's probably still cheaper to buy an illegal gun than it is to buy a 3D printer with the material to print a functioning firearm (last I checked 3D printers were stil
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by mbillie1 14y ago
The only git-related tool I like is tig - it's an interactive git log, where you can scroll through commits and view diffs (and lots of other things) without having to copy+paste or use awk or whatnot. This tool (git-smart) seems like... I
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by mbillie1 14y ago
I don't agree with the Java hate (why not teach kids to use Java? it's rather condescending if you think they can't learn it), but I will say: having learned to program on my own, I found it both easy and rewarding (lots of immediate, rapi
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by mbillie1 14y ago
> See, getting value out of Google is something that's learned over time. This is very true. Especially early on, while learning basic concepts, I found it very difficult to Google things because I did not know the terms or concepts in
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by mbillie1 14y ago
I recall being a novice and learning Java, and trying to solve http://projecteuler.net/problem=5 - I had nested if statements like "if(x % 20 == 0) { if (x % 19 == 0) {..." and I was thrilled that it worked. I have since learned far bett
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by mbillie1 14y ago
I'm not sure how realistic it is (I know nothing whatsoever about WA), but there are lots of tech meetups happening all over the country. Weekly groups for various languages, frameworks, etc. That can be a really good place to meet people
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by mbillie1 14y ago
Abercrombie ads and Maxim are like South Park and Github merch? There are degrees of bad taste, you know...
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by mbillie1 14y ago
Very cool... I'm going to keep using this!
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by mbillie1 14y ago
I'm not saying that it happens without advertising :) but it happens, right? Also, I am not trying to be superior or critical - I'm not slamming Mac owners, I own Apple products. There is nothing wrong with not knowing the GHz on your CPU.
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by mbillie1 14y ago
> They're not going to buy a $1,300 machine to do those things when a $500 iPad does them just fine. I think that this depends almost entirely on how slick it looks and how well it is marketed. Plenty of moms have MBPs that they shelle
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by mbillie1 14y ago
Totally agreed - but as has been mentioned elsewhere here, the overwhelming majority of computer owners aren't techies/developers. I definitely wouldn't buy one of these, but if you're basically a web user and you don't want to shell out f
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by mbillie1 14y ago
Not many people in the tech industry buy Macs because they are expensive, but I'd venture that (like many other trendy products) there are a good number of people who have bought it for the status/trendiness/cost/whatever. Not that it matt
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by mbillie1 14y ago
Probably not that well at first, but if you throw the possibility of a laptop that competes with a Retina MBP into the mix, I'd imagine there would be some desire in the community to work on it at least. (edit: competes in terms of screen r
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by mbillie1 14y ago
"By luck and various cabal like connections" - wasn't the Topaz link on hackernews or lobsters like 2 days ago?
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by mbillie1 14y ago
And at least a few of these (grep -iv, sed -n, ls -tr) aren't even unusual. If you ask what -iv means in grep, I assume you have used grep < 10 times ever.
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by mbillie1 14y ago
That's a comic. He sells a shirt on his site's store that is filled with Unix tips, including "tar -xf # extract anything". I'm not sure this is a legitimate criticism.
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by mbillie1 14y ago
If you aren't sure what the "-<x>" flag does for a particular command, but you are a competent Unix user, you should be fine with the man page or 10 seconds of Google. If you aren't used to Unix, then I think it's dangerous to expe
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by mbillie1 14y ago
I would respectfully disagree here. I can't remember, and won't bother to look up, how to recursively use cp / mv / scp / rsync / whatever else... but I'd bet it's -r, or -R. I'm not positive how to tell a shell program "I REALLY MEAN IT!
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by mbillie1 14y ago
This makes me sad, as a Ruby dev. This does not represent all of us, although apparently it represents a lot of the higher-profile public-facing members of the "Ruby" (Rails) community. There are lots of us aren't like this. I guess we wi
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by mbillie1 14y ago
This to me is very unfortunate. I'm an experienced Ruby and RubyOnRails developer, and I think that this is totally unacceptable. This is why the Python community flourishes (and I learned to code with Python!), and the Ruby community, wh