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by nikster 13y ago
Client side monitoring makes way more sense in this case, I'd have to agree. I suppose people need to learn not to use facebook for private messages. Or Skype. Or any US based corporation. There's plenty of end user solutions that
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by nikster 13y ago
It's hard to see any difference between Democrats and Republicans at this point. The entire system needs to be thrown out. I remember Ralph Nader was once asked why he is running for president when his candidacy might take away crucial
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by nikster 13y ago
Elon Musk is the last big industrialist alive, after Jobs passing. If his endeavors succeed he'll be remembered alongside Edison, Franklin, Ford, Jobs etc. It's admirable. I just don't think it has anything to do with Ayn Rand and her philo
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by nikster 13y ago
I was working in coffee shops for 2 years and thats what I did. As for getting stuff done, if you find a coffee shop where people are working / studying, its great. I have worked remotely from SE Asia for the past 8 years; Id go to visit cl
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by nikster 13y ago
BYOI
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by nikster 13y ago
THANK YOU A netiquette for coffee shops, I wholeheartedly agree. I work at coffee shops a lot; I keep sitting there when I can see there are plenty of empty tables - that means my sitting there is a net positive for the Cafe: I might consum
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by nikster 13y ago
Writing code when you know you dont have a solution is a complete waste of time. You end up with bad code you have to throw away. Or worse, you dont throw it away and end up with huge tail end costs of user errors, QA time, futile attempts
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by nikster 13y ago
One of the most effective things you can do is become a virtual smoker. Smokers get an urge and step out for a cigarette every hour - or every time they get stuck. I don't smoke (never have) but I am trying to emulate that; the most effecti
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by nikster 13y ago
Tigers. Do I need to say more?
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by nikster 13y ago
Totally agree on the casual thing. I don't even think it takes a full 7 minutes. It can be done in much less. I don't agree on "true strength", whatever that may be. I don't care to be any stronger than I am, frankly. I can pull myself up a
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by nikster 13y ago
I'll admit that my quick and dirty work out doesn't give me huge body builder style muscles. I am merely athletic, not huge. If I wanted to be huge, I guess I'd have to put in the work, lots of literature on the science of body building.
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by nikster 13y ago
Nope, it works. Look at cats. Cats sleep up to 17 hours a day. They lie around seemingly doing nothing most of their waking hours. But if you watch a cat work out - wow!! it works out. It's going all out for a few minutes. Talking about a h
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by nikster 13y ago
I have never been to India but I live in Thailand. India sounds like a hot steaming mess, but then many of these countries are. Thailand is extremely corrupt and ruled by a few oligarch families; democracy is bought outright. But what they
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by nikster 13y ago
I was amazed at how much you can do. I need to start collecting BTC.
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by nikster 13y ago
Honestly this is the first Forbes article I ve read in months that had actual, real content in it. Reporters in the ground and not just trolls making polarizing statements to generate web traffic. I thought it was pretty good. By Forbes usu
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by nikster 13y ago
Low level hacking is alive and well; not just with Arduino and Raspberry Pi but also with the jailbreak community - I was fascinated at the speed with which a bunch of kids built an entire iOS tool chain from scratch, with no documentation
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by nikster 13y ago
Yes, been there done that. Especially - I think - in coding, there are people who put in negative performance by messing up the things theyre assigned to do so others have to come in later and clean up their bugs. Terrible decision to let
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by nikster 13y ago
I forgot to say - the violence we commit on others affects us just as much as them, the perpetrator is as much a victim as the victim. I recently read the story of the most efficient sniper in the US military, a man who killed well over 200
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by nikster 13y ago
I think the actual violence committed for whatever reason - invading countries, blowing up weddings and children with remote drone strikes, keeping prisoners without legal framework in gitmo - these things are several orders of magnitude wo
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by nikster 13y ago
Agreed. Any other police job, people wouldn't support to that extent. This was different, and appropriate. America may have its share of problems but the American peoples ability to help each other in times of crisis is remarkable.
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by nikster 14y ago
Advertising Facebook as the perfect tool for the completely unconscious is a most unfortunate choice. I have only seen the airplane ad and while I was watching it I was wondering if they are being ironic. The hero of the ad so to speak is t
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by nikster 14y ago
Kind of shocking but that's not even the biggest problem. The first problem is the money they spend on buying laws, aka bribes, aka "lobbying" as the USA likes to call it. Corruption in its finest form. That's why they get perpetual patents
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by nikster 14y ago
The US patent and IP system is completely perverted. The reason to have copyrights and patents is to fairly compensate the innovators (that part works really well). But there's an expiry on both patents and copyright - that's explicitly the
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by nikster 14y ago
As Android is going mainstream I can't imagine hackers accounting for more than a very small group. However, its probably a small group that spends a disproportionate amount of money - akin to gamers in the PC market. Casuals are the small
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by nikster 14y ago
Who cares. I don't think the story is all that unlikely. And to quote my late grandfather: There are no true or false stories, only good ones and bad ones.
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by nikster 14y ago
Not something like, the answer is TOR. Thats exactly what it is for. Anonymity.
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by nikster 14y ago
I dont agree with that. There is a confusion about programming though, an idea that it is a purely technical discipline, like laying bricks when in reality its a design discipline, like designing a building. If you wanted to build a house y
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by nikster 14y ago
Yeah as long as your interests align with those who purchase politics in the US you can call that good. Its like a "good" dictator. You have no say and no power but you can still applaud from the sidelines. In reality, there is no good corr
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by nikster 14y ago
I have considered raising my children in the US - I had the chance to do so, and I was comparing it with Europe and Asia. Settled on Asia because not only are there no incentives to raise Children in the USA, there are actually huge disince
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by nikster 14y ago
Well if you want to live anywhere you can actually find a job youll live in a densely populated area in the US. Sure there's a lot of land in the US and I actually believe it will benefit the country in the long term - but at the moment, no

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