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by sarahj 12y ago
I am actually just drafting up a list of stuff I may want to look into in 2015. Here are my pain points: Threat Modelling Tools - Even the best ones are glorified drawing tools. I am unaware of anything at the moment which can track data as
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by sarahj 12y ago
Actually it is with simplified models. Sexual differentiation in humans is split into many different pieces. There is chromosomal differentiation (at conception), hormonal differentiation (mostly through puberty), hormonal exposure in the
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by sarahj 12y ago
Sure. Although it is a vary leaky abstraction :) We used to consider depression as a psychological phenomena. That is, we used to think that we could make a person think their way out of it. Either though CBT or some other kind of psycholog
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by sarahj 12y ago
Yes, there are several studies showing no differences in various task-based studies. There is also at least 1 MRI study I am aware of that didn't find sex-atypical differences, but did find a difference between the subjects and the cis
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by sarahj 12y ago
Psychological. Many early theories tended along the line that gender dysphoria was an extension of sexual fetishistic behaviour. We know now this to be very wrong, but there are still many who advocate for this position.
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by sarahj 12y ago
> There are also plenty of studies showing the opposite, as well as studies showing trans people being, on average, somewhere in between the male and female averages (on the specific area of the brain observed - generally different in ea
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by sarahj 12y ago
I am not a fan of GLAAD definition. I think it does more harm than good. Gender Dysphoria, the condition associated with transgender individuals, is most likely neurological in nature - that is to say, there are plenty of studies correlatin
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by sarahj 12y ago
It really depends on what you mean by contributing and biology/astronomy software. Many places if you want to write software that is close to the action , performing the computations and correlations that discover new things...then you
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by sarahj 12y ago
Please tell me what part of the source code infringed copyright? The statement calls out instances of the running application infringing copyright. Nowhere does it say the source code was infringing copyright (and I am not sure how source c
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by sarahj 12y ago
I'll extend my hypothetical. Lets say there are two groups. One group builds a generic media client - under the guise of better delivery of free educational videos (MIT lectures etc.) The other group sets up "Movie Copyright Watc
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by sarahj 12y ago
There are definitely corporations where engineers who build the applications take responsibility for maintaining and running the applications - I happen to work for one.
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by sarahj 12y ago
> Attached as Exhibit A is a series of screenshots taken from within the applications of each Project that includes images of copyrighted works available through the Projects. The representative titles shown in Exhibit A consist of only
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by sarahj 12y ago
As someone who is on a regular rotation - being oncall sucks. But there are definite advantages. Having the team feel direct pain is a great motivator for building robust applications - if you know that that quick hack could lead to you get
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by sarahj 12y ago
I would argue that the gap between a centralized authority and a blockchain is a lot less that the gulf between a blockchain and a mesh network. Mesh networks are awesome, they have a life of their own and an be split apart and stitched bac
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by sarahj 12y ago
I'm sure many password managers, including LastPass, meet the security bar for the threat models of most people. However, * I don't trust any software that uploads data to a centralized service (encrypted or not) * Especially when
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by sarahj 12y ago
This essentially mimics my login flow to every site I only use occasionally (e.g. twitter) and therefore can never remember the password for: 1. Go to login 2. Forget password - click reset password 3. Go to email, find reset password email
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by sarahj 12y ago
sigh - this question comes up so often. No. 1. Candidates are not stupid neither are companies - trying to fill "quotas" is both wasteful and does not have a good ROI. 2. The assumption that the reason companies are not diverse
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by sarahj 12y ago
A few months ago I created: http://itsy-bitsy.org/ because I was frustrated with just how many dependencies static site generators needed - I was using Hakyll at the time and it had failed to build on my new netbook - so I
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2030: Privacy's Dead. What Happens Next?(youtube.com)
3 points by sarahj 12y ago|0 comments
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by sarahj 12y ago
Realize that one screwed up person with a gun and opportunity could action the first scenario. Pilots licenses are more of a matter of cost than ideology, and private planes aren’t subject to many of the security measures commercial airline
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by sarahj 12y ago
I am fairly unorganized. At the moment I have ~20 projects in various states of completion. My main project takes up most of my time, but I try to feed the others when I can. I also look for opportunities to combine them where possible e.g.
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Show HN: Itsy-bitsy static site generator(itsy-bitsy.org)
8 points by sarahj 12y ago|1 comments
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by sarahj 12y ago
urggh...is this still a thing? AOP is an idea that sounds wonderful as a concept - "Hey wouldn't you love not to be peppering your code with logic unrelated to the business logic in your code?" Great idea...however, every imp
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by sarahj 12y ago
> End-to-end Security Not, it should be noted, End-to-end Encryption :) It would seem, according to another comment in this thread, as if the bridges and platform have de-facto access to all traffic unless another layer of encryption is
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by sarahj 12y ago
If scenario 2 or 3 is a regular occurrence then 1 of 2 things is true - your team is too large for the code base (so people are crawling over each other), or the underlying code is too coupled together (so people are stepping on each others
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How to Prevent the next Heartbleed(dwheeler.com)
13 points by sarahj 12y ago|0 comments
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by sarahj 12y ago
I understand the point but this comes across as immature. OpenSSL has provided years of free software, supporting thousands of sites and applications. Of course it has its problems, and there is nothing wrong with adding more competition in
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by sarahj 12y ago
Most of the energy in this space has gone into http://tack.io/ which has been called "a non-controversial first step" - I believe it is making its way though standards talks at the moment although I have not looke
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by sarahj 12y ago
From my years behind the hiring line...this is what probably happened: While you did OK, you did not ace the 3-1 hour technical interviews, or they thought that you didn't make a strong enough impression in <insert important area fo
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by sarahj 12y ago
I was mixing a number of different criticisms of various technologies in my post...I never meant to confer that Telehash has a blockchain. I guess, I still don't understand the point of Telehash. Even having read through the documentat

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