mkal_tsr

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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
Journalism. Are you sure you understand what that word means and/or implies?
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
I don't think it comes down to "quality journalism" it's all about money. That's what online "journalism" is ... ad revenue from clickbait titles. I have yet to see anything of high quality investigative
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
I want to support Ze but not Buzzfeed, this is causing conflicting emotions for me :-(
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
Just a reminder, you're on HN, so expect some downvotes and angry people when you point out the inherent non-value of many VC-backed startups, similarly experienced when advocating for privacy (I'm looking at you free-to-use start
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
The best teachers I've had throughout school (preschool to uni) were the ones that were A) passionate about students learning and B) didn't let the curriculum get in the way. Looking back, the inverted-teaching model was what wor
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
Fair enough. Related: Do you agree or disagree that the "good for them! btw, our product..." is not an issue on HN?
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
The worst is when there is a 'Show HN' or article about a product/service and then someone else comes in from HN with their similar product/service trying to sound all cheerful and how they're not worried and so on.
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
Actually, I much prefer his responses. For once, it's a founder saying what he wants and how he feels, not someone boasting about a feature or service despite their misgivings about it.
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
You sound like a shill for startups.
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
Someone saw the movie 'Her', hehe
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
I mean, I understand their argument against it, but I think this is one of those cases where the pros definitely out-weigh the cons, this is great.
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
Now you can contact Github with this announcement and voice your concerns. Now they have more incentive to change it (if people actively voice their issues to Github).
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
> One of the points of the gov't in the case is that the EFF is arguing that the filtering is a two step process : collect all data, then filter it. But the EFF doesn't know that's actually how things are happening, and it
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
> If you really understand the core argument, what is so hard about giving a short summary? Because this was never about me wanting or offering to give a summary, just an anecdote that the author of the article had also written something
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
> This wasn't a recommendation to a specific friend with a track record, but thousands of random people. Really? None of my Facebook friends are random people to me. Nor did I have thousands of people on my Facebook account. Plea
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
No questions, just a congrats :-)
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
Have a good day :-)
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
Well, this discussion is just not going to go anywhere since you're ignoring the context of it. It was me linking to my friends in my sign-off post on social network accounts and I was informing friends that if they wanted a summ
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
> I'm pretty sure the core argument doesn't take several pages to simply express. It doesn't, but to support it with evidence and examples, it does. That is what makes an argument/position robust and harder to disc
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
Well, I've tried to make the argument several times, but I usually only hit several aspects of privacy. One of the reasons why I do recommend that paper is it (in my mind) sufficiently breaks down and refutes the 'nothing to hide
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
I linked my friends to his paper "I’ve Got Nothing To Hide’ and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy" [1] when I was closing down my Facebook and other social network sites; it does a great job of explaining multiple aspects of priv
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
For most people it might be, but I'm a solo bootstrapper, so time == $^$ for me :-/ I'd really like to see a trial until release subscription option, I think that would afford a lot more people time to test and play with what
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
There are lots of good tools / plugins for VS, and its extensive debugging capabilities are awesome, plus it's my most used IDE for side projects and when I was working on pre-boot firmware. With MSFT adding in more support for t
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
> Now the complaint is we don't get Visual Studio support with indie pricing. Seriously folks? My comment from that thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7811180 So now instead of $3k out of pocket for VS sup
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
I'm basically sitting here twiddling my thumbs and once VS support is included in indie (aka not ridiculously expensive) I will immediately buy a subscription. Until then, my (limited) money goes elsewhere.
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
It's a shame their Indie plan doesn't include Visual Studio support, without that there is way less value as a developer imo (and at $1k/yr still steep for their business plan).
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
Not disagreeing with anything you said :-) My underlying thinking in what I said is due to massive generalizations that are so common today. When people say, "the tech industry is sexist" I understand that what they're sayin
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
I think it's systemic of not having a plan in place to appropriately deal with a creative job. And my point which was missed was that making broad generalizations about an entire industry with zero personal experience is irrational. I
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
> I'm not a programmer and > Your industry needs a huge cultural overhaul aka, "I don't have your perspective but let me tell you why you're all wrong"
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
Things that keep up the first world at night :-P Maybe because everyone deserves a baseline non-zero level of respect by virtue of being a person?

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