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by tylerl 7y ago
Yep. It's because there isn't actually a legal definition of fair-use. The closest thing we have to a legal definition is the set of four factors typically used in deciding deciding whether the fair-use defense has merit.
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by tylerl 7y ago
Probably the most compelling feature of Blender being open source with a significant community is that it's the one 3d tool that Autodesk can't simply buy out.
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by tylerl 7y ago
Hold on. Google doesn't earn even a penny when you visit their site, find your answer on the search results page, and then leave. That user behavior COSTS Google money, it doesn't earn anything. If they were trying to monetize you
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by tylerl 7y ago
The bot doesn't need to crawl your site for it to be indexed; it crawls other sites that link to yours. You can specify your index preferences in Webmaster Tools. Don't know if there's a domain-wide off switch in there, but t
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by tylerl 7y ago
The meaning seems clear at least to me. Language revisions tend to focus on adding features or capabilities or expressiveness. Go is famously, aggressively, minimalist from an experiential point of view. What rsc is saying is that nothing i
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by tylerl 7y ago
Android phones do it automatically, assuming your carrier hasn't monkeyed with the phone app. I think Google keeps a spam probability score for callers' phone numbers based on how many people have marked a call as spam.
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by tylerl 7y ago
Whistleblowing by definition means reporting something that (someone thinks) is unsavory. You can argue whether a given set of whistleblowers are misguided, but otherwise you don't call them whistleblowers.
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by tylerl 7y ago
It's not that interesting though. I mean, it's not 100% worthless information, but it's not as valuable as people pretend. Especially if the legal environment continues in the direction it is going today, private data (especi
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by tylerl 7y ago
Security is always relative. There usually is a "don't use JWTs" alternative, but it's almost always shared secrets. Passwords, cookies, or some variation on that concept. In that light, even poor jwt hygiene is better
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by tylerl 7y ago
The premise of the article is a little weird. Like, nobody's suggesting you should abandon your blender or toaster or dishwasher. Why this? A microwave is exceptionally safe, and highly efficient at heat transfer. There really is no de
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by tylerl 7y ago
What you do with your own data is your decision, but if these details are enough for you to _recommend_ that other people not use it, then your advice needs to come with an "I ignore math in favor of uninformed prejudice" disclaim
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by tylerl 7y ago
My last job before Google was working as a security consultant to SMEs. My experience working intimately with some 400+ such companies was that of businesses with less than 40 programmers, around one in 10 companies had one developer who co
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by tylerl 7y ago
I said soul-consuming, I meant soul-crushing (there were a lot of distractions around at the time and I was having trouble remembering the idiom). Point being, crappy work is hard to staff, and some work is just always going to be crappy. N
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by tylerl 7y ago
Having worked at a few places that aren't Google as well as a few places that are Google, here's what I think the meaningful difference is that makes the Google offices more productive. 1: The people are smarter. It's sort of
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by tylerl 7y ago
Looking at individual company tax returns is the wrong solution to this problem. It's not just ineffective, it's dishonest. It's tempting to take a "tax the bastards" viewpoint and argue that the tax-avoiding comp
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by tylerl 7y ago
Apparently HR did an internal audit and found no evidence of retaliation. Which isn't surprising. It just means that for every decision made by a manager in this case, they had a reasonable business justification that wasn't simpl
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by tylerl 7y ago
This is sad. This twisted misapprehension of privacy is worse than useless, bit it's so ubiquitous that many people are coming up believing that this rubbish is what online privacy actually means. Privacy is not about preventing tracki
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by tylerl 7y ago
No, don't be silly; responsible companies don't pick and choose languages to exclude based on suspicions. No... responsible companies exclude ALL programming languages except those that they can responsibly support -- you don&#x
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by tylerl 7y ago
This is exactly why we don't allow our employees to use Node.js for company software development, even though in theory a fair chunk of the runtime is our own software that we maintain. But the npm ecosystem has a really awful signal-t
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by tylerl 7y ago
The fade thing is to rate limit attackers. By blocking specific cookies you're making yourself look like a certain kind of botnet, so obviously you're going to have a difficult time convincing the site that you're a legitimat
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by tylerl 7y ago
Here's your answer: There's no such thing, at least at scale, as sharing your information without also storing it. Not if you want the system to be reliable. So in order to make Google share your location with others, you have to
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by tylerl 7y ago
Employees don't have any more access to your information than anyone else.
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by tylerl 7y ago
I was originally going to argue with it being "just a matter of time" -- there is such a thing as good security practices. It's certainly not "just a matter of time" before Microsoft or Google see such compromises.
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by tylerl 7y ago
You'll see this effect from every search engine. They have no choice, there are a lot of sites with an infinite number of pages; so instead the number of pages they store per site depends on how important your site is, and they try to
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by tylerl 8y ago
What you see as bad faith is actually a direct reflection of the benefits these VPN providers are claiming to provide -- if not explicitly on their own site (publishing false claims in writing often leads to bad outcomes) then at least in t
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by tylerl 8y ago
I remember specifically the same video the author was talking about ( http://youtu.be/1PGm8LslEb4 ), and I also cringed when Destin read the ad copy for ExpressVPN. Commercial VPNs are the homeopathy of the Internet. They&#x2
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by tylerl 8y ago
Google's marketing department doesn't give a flying f*k whether you install another os on your chromebook. Use it however you like, with their blessing and even their assistance to the degree that they can help. Your "common
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by tylerl 8y ago
This is not a bug. Nor is it news. It's an intentional design decision from years ago. The alternative is requiring users to manually enter a "vault" passphrase every time they start chrome, to unlock both the password vault
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by tylerl 8y ago
They can both be right. "Tracking" has never been very well defined. It just means something like, "collecting data we don't think you should collect." If you want something more specific, lots of conflicting defini
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by tylerl 8y ago
Unions don't exist for the employees' benefit, they exist for the union's benefit. There's a big ol difference, and because of their protected status, unions get away with a lot of really horrifying behavior. I've w

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