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by neilk 13y ago
This is what most hackers want: - residence in the USA; - working for a small salary to cover expenses, - but with strong guarantees of equity (ownership or something like it) US immigration law is designed to stop all of this. Because for
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by neilk 13y ago
No, it's better for Archive.org. The Wikimedia Foundation mostly deals with Creative Commons licensed content.
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by neilk 13y ago
The author is Philip Greenspun. His outlook on life is really dark. He made some money in the 90's and since then seems to have spent a lot of time thinking about the problems of the rich. I once saw a talk he gave at Google, the upsho
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by neilk 13y ago
If you only look at the business-customer transaction, it's the same. But otherwise it's totally different. If a bad driver can't get insurance, they are taken out of the pool of people who are driving. Everyone wins. There a
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by neilk 13y ago
I'm not an expert, but I found a lot just by Googling for "repair putty -sugru" or "epoxy putty -sugru". There's even a Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoxy_putty However, t
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by neilk 13y ago
Indeed. I think a possible scenario is that governments will legalize Bitcoin as long as you tie your address to your government-issued ID, and you're not on a blacklist. Basically you'll have a Bitcoin license. This gives them an
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by neilk 13y ago
There is actually nothing here other than a Facebook login and a static list of videos, right? I mean, I got a Justin Bieber video.
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by neilk 13y ago
It's a Canadian company (Bitcoiniacs), but the ATMs are made by an American company (Robocoin). So the Bitcoiniac ATMs seem like they will be limited to Canada for the time being, as far as I know. (I spoke a bit with them at the openi
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by neilk 13y ago
This is silly - they'd have to subtract the PR value that Justin Bieber or Katy Perry gets from Twitter, for free or nearly free.
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by neilk 13y ago
I inadvertently posted a shortened URL at Pro Publica - this is the direct link. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE9A703020131108
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Snowden persuaded other NSA workers to give up passwords(propub.ca)
1 points by neilk 13y ago|2 comments
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by neilk 13y ago
It wasn't the IA's fault. At the time, the IA was already working on an API to submit URLs and to rapidly cache items, so we just needed early access. The GSoC student didn't follow up with the process of getting it adopted.
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by neilk 13y ago
Excellent. Alexis rocks.
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by neilk 13y ago
The rapid purge is probably inspired by the requirements for a large, popular wiki. The Fastly team comes from Wikia. When the entire page is static, but changes must be communicated everywhere instantly, rapid purging is the answer.
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by neilk 13y ago
How can you do a fair test across so many different providers? Presumably you did not host the exact same content with every single service. Also, I'd be interested in seeing the results for Fastly.
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by neilk 13y ago
I mentored a Google Summer of Code project to do just that - every citation on Wikipedia would be forwarded to Archive.org for permanent storage, and the citation link would be modified to offer the cached version as an alternative. https:
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by neilk 13y ago
The same story was making the rounds yesterday from Quora. http://www.quora.com/Programming-Interviews/Whats-the-hardes...
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Co-location 101: Moving your servers to a data-center(invisiblevoid.quora.com)
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by neilk 13y ago
> I would very much like to know what it was that gave Orwell that degree of insight. Orwell said it himself, in Why I Write: he believed he has a "power of facing unpleasant facts". By all accounts that sometimes made him diff
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by neilk 13y ago
It matters not that you were right, but why you were right. If someone says they knew about the NSA taps because they were in cahoots with aliens, obviously they don't get credit. I don't know what your politics are in general, so
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Autonym, a font for the names of all the world's languages(blog.wikimedia.org)
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by neilk 13y ago
Please do this. I've dreamed of something like this for a long time.
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by neilk 13y ago
If you mean as a consumer OS, I consider it and then I remember what a miserable experience it has been the last three times I've done that. In my experience, there is no Linux distro that has the staff, organization, or funding to foc
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by neilk 13y ago
I hear you - of course it is different, but what legal principle can we call upon to make this count in the court? (I'm not a lawyer, so the following analogy may be way off.) Look at it this way. In the USA, people have a right to i
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by neilk 13y ago
Yeah, I read the "Opposition" too, looking for what Ars was talking about - I assume that is the section that prompted their headline. http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Oppos
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by neilk 13y ago
This is the perfect time to do this. These days they're training people with 6 week Rails courses and those people are getting jobs. Not senior jobs, but jobs. If you are focused on getting remunerative work, you can do it. Just keep i
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by neilk 13y ago
In my experience almost any level of assholery is tolerated if the person is a good performer, or has made themselves indispensable. "Cultural fit", when it isn't an excuse for various kinds of discrimination, seems to be mor
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by neilk 13y ago
Maybe this is a tangent, but isn't it strange that programmers accept that a competent person could, and should , be fired, if their personality doesn't gel with whoever happened to join the company earlier than they did? If we w
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by neilk 13y ago
Thanks. About the license - you are correct. I was under the impression this font was already distributed via Google Fonts, but I was wrong. It's a very nice font, and just costs $67.00. But it could also be swapped for a font with a l
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by neilk 13y ago
Did a sketch of an idea here: https://github.com/neilk/tarsnap-logo/blob/master/tarsnap.pn... I wanted to get away from castles and locks and such. You can check out the README if you want to know what m

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