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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
> Is this due to Assange? Or due to the war on whistleblowers? Given the resource constraints of WL, Assange must choose between publishing unredacted information and not publishing at all. Again, your argument is yet another conspiracy
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
I think this is newsworthy because wikileaks does not maintain the journalistic integrity we expect of them, they never retract their mistakes, nor do they apologize.
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
OK then. The AKP leak exposed nothing, but rather added to an incredibly stressful and precarious situation in Türkiye. It carelessly aided in doxing most women in Türkiye. It helped spread malware. It was a good opportunity to co-opt the p
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
To answer this honestly, I don't know. It would depend on the quality of the data he leaked, and which hostile foreign enemy he sided with against him. On one hand, I have daughters, and don't want misogynistic defenders of rape-
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
The first 1/2 of your argument: CIA. Let me be clear, I don't support Clinton, Trump, or anybody else, I feel you have to be an evil sociopath to even want to be a world leader. I think he is just playing sides. Trump doesn't
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
Assange is absolutely a criminal for breaking the terms of his bail. The sexual assault charges, however, are unproven, and he really deserves his day in court, whether he is guilty or innocent. I hadn't heard the anti-semite bit befor
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
There might be a much simpler reason for all of this. Being stuck in the embassy for years has severely taxed his emotional stability, encouraging narcissism, paranoia, and victimhood. At the very least, his journalism is sloppy, irresponsi
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
I read through about 1/2 of the AKP "leaks", it was a tremendous waste of time for anything but improving comprehension of Türkçe. At a point in time, I truly believed Assange's goals were justice and transparency, now I
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
I'm curious why should you expect them to have a two-word name written in latin letters? You are the most diverse country in the world, every language, nationality and tribe is represented there. At least in the states, legal regulati
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
Oh man, I really feel for her. Dealing with the various immigration agencies must have been a nightmare. I bet they ended up officially changing her name to "Firstname Firstname", which is what we tend to do in the states.. This b
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
I have a very, very generic name. I lived in a hacker warehouse a lifetime ago where there were 3 of us with the same exact name, so yeah, the address part alone isn't that important.I always make up a fake address, often a police stat
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
Sure, that's a reasonable corner case to be concerned with. But, what if you forgot what fake name you gave them? Or what if your name is John Smith and so are 50,000 others in their database? While designing or refactoring an app, ask
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
Immigrant officials at Ellis Island used to give people last names based on their father's first name, or the name of the city they come from. Also, Armenians didn't have last names until recently, so you'll meet lots of peop
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
One could change #40 to: You need your customers' names. I look at a name the same way I look at a username, more frequently than not it's a hassle you don't need to solve. In many applications a username, or even better, an
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
Here in Türkiye there's a lot of frightening nationalism, most of it centered around the first president, Atatürk. Some of it is valid and inspiring, a lot of it is very effective PR. I could care less about the nationalism, but Atatür
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Geometri, by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk(books.google.com.tr)
2 points by somenomadicguy 10y ago|1 comments
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
I used to date a woman whose hippy mother decided that last names were slavery, she's the person who turned me onto this list. The experience really opened my eyes into the anglo/usa-centric nature of most app development best pra
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Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names (2010)(kalzumeus.com)
37 points by somenomadicguy 10y ago|43 comments
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
I guess it's hard to be relevant and get attention when your business model is Yet Another Chat System. This sort of Bro- marketing, however, tends to linger in the back of my head as a telling sign of how usable the product will be, a
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
There was a time when this would have been leaked on Wikileaks and sensationalized for weeks. Snowden seems to be able to maintain his composure, grace, and professionalism while in exile in Russia, he's still an inspiration. Assange o
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
Around a decade ago I consulted for a company, funded by In-Q-Tel (because the CEO used to work there), whose entire product was essentially a blog to tell your life story before you died and leave it behind for your family. Clearly more CI
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
This article is somewhat confusing. Are they replacing the engines with new engines, or refurbishing the existing engines with new blades?
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Bikeshedding(en.wiktionary.org)
64 points by somenomadicguy 10y ago|31 comments
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
How can you be 100% sure it's the sugar? Perhaps it's a new set of chemicals and bacteria in the water supply of her new home? Perhaps it's the tea itself, the temperature of the drink, the cream, new molds or pollen in the a
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
I mean to imply more that every time we have a new paradigm shift in titles, job responsibilities get increased. For example, it's not enough to be a backend developer, now you must be a full stack developer, so that we can hire fewer
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
After they pay their taxes, I imagine they will post some billboards like this: Dear EU, Please use some of the €13 Billion in taxes to keep art in schools. Love, Apple.
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
Or we will remember 2016 as yet another year where our salaries remained stagnant while expectations and responsibilities were increased by 100%?
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
I've hit subscription model overload at this point. I've long-since stopped using most of the software and services in my life which are subscription based. I'm likely to just go back to an encrypted text file, and cutting &a
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A volcano caused global cooling in 1816(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by somenomadicguy 10y ago|0 comments
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
Sanitation work like Septic is far more important than any cute software start-up, that's for sure. I think my last honest job was cleaning out chicken-stalls on a farm when I was 12.

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