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Chicago Police disrupt and tap anti-police-brutality activists' phones(privacysos.org)
9 points by yanowitz 12y ago|2 comments
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by yanowitz 12y ago
I feel like this advertorial for Candid Camera, appearing in the New York Times, is a meta-prank on the reader. Seems like the show relies on the kindness of strangers and that still exists, even in a smartphone world.
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Home Depot’s Malware Hints That Its Hackers Weren’t Target’s(businessweek.com)
3 points by yanowitz 12y ago|0 comments
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Liking work really matters(nytimes.com)
3 points by yanowitz 12y ago|0 comments
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by yanowitz 12y ago
Interesting article that buried the lede. The part about the criticism of the positivity ratio was particularly interesting because a co-author wrote the brilliant parody of post-modernism published in one of its seminal journals, Social Te
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by yanowitz 12y ago
I think the argument is that bot-nets can appear to be 1000s of legitimate users and you can use this to undermine competitors.
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by yanowitz 12y ago
This is also a solved problem (largely) around trans issues specifically. I suggest reading http://www.glaad.org/reference/transgender for more context. In particular, you should refer to Chelsea as she would want -- w
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by yanowitz 12y ago
It was also a fantastic way to learn the language. Going through all the design decisions, the underlying implementation, the trade offs helped me build a mental model that massively increased my productivity and intellectual happiness. I y
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by yanowitz 12y ago
When gravity fails, George Alec Effinger Part 1 of a trilogy. Absolutely fantastic. I hesitate to say more than "read it." If you don't like it after 30 pages, bail, it's not your cup of tea.
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by yanowitz 12y ago
This paper is a tour de force. Well worth the read. Two things I wonder about: 1. Is the extra overhead of the fast path worth incurring on every call for most use cases or should you only stall with a Postgres system? 2. What were the fals
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by yanowitz 12y ago
Very interesting read--the immediate topic and the intertwined mental health discussion. We generally approach science research as separate from the people making it (except for questions of reputation). There is a Scientific Method and if
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by yanowitz 12y ago
When interviewing people, I don't need to see previous work product. I need them to talk about what they've built, why it was satisfying and what was hard about it. I've found that in less than 10 minutes I can establish whet
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by yanowitz 12y ago
My favorite part was pointing out the government redacts metadata in FOIA releases, on privacy grounds . But our metadata has no protection.
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by yanowitz 12y ago
Great read, even for this grad school drop out. Being wrong (or failing to arrive at an answer) is, when my ego doesn't get in way, amazing. Until reading this article, I thought of it mainly as an opportunity to improve my knowledge b
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Dev Bootcamp on Kaplan Acquisition(devbootcamp.com)
1 points by yanowitz 12y ago|0 comments
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by yanowitz 12y ago
Protecting picket lines is a strategy that goes back to the Chartist movement in England. The whole point of a picket line is to shut down production. Many early labor wars involved management hiring private armies that beat up and even sho
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by yanowitz 12y ago
Losing those people is probably a support win.
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How to get girls into coding(nytimes.com)
6 points by yanowitz 12y ago|0 comments
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Is disease much of a problem in the US Navy?(straightdope.com)
1 points by yanowitz 12y ago|0 comments
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by yanowitz 12y ago
Except for this statement, beware of absolutism in statements of How To Do Software Development. The specifics of this debate are kind of uninteresting because of the (general) lack of nuance from various sides, albeit all informed by their
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by yanowitz 12y ago
It's sftp in my experience. And all keys have two year expiration, which is stressful because ssh keys don't have a real expiration do they just send you an email saying "give us new keys" and you have to hope the cutove
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Definitive Oral History of a TV Masterpiece(wired.com)
4 points by yanowitz 12y ago|0 comments
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by yanowitz 12y ago
YMMV, but I find this has more to do with the attitudes of the participants. Knowledge is not a zero-sum game, I hope to learn new things every day, and want the people I work with to help level me up. If someone wants to take the time to s
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by yanowitz 12y ago
There's a set of human interaction anti-patterns like this. (The article mentions another one -- excessive confidence and its inverse, ability to acknowledge ignorance and learn from others. I'd also add a variant to that--having
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by yanowitz 13y ago
If you're stuck with mongo in legacy infrastructure and it doesn't make sense to refactor/architect it away, I suggest tokumx. It's allowed us to kick the can on this problem for at least another year. Almost no lock con
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by yanowitz 13y ago
Does anyone here have experience with turtl? Pros/cons? Confidence in security model?
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REST Commander: Scalable Web Server Management and Monitoring(ebaytechblog.com)
24 points by yanowitz 13y ago|2 comments
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by yanowitz 13y ago
I'm very interested in seeing how they can scale their training when opening new cafes. It's some of the best coffee I've had in SF/NYC.
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by yanowitz 13y ago
This is a fun question. Can I look at the coin's two sides? If not...I assume you now have to start applying statistical tests (given that a fair coin will only do this once out of 1024 times, what are the chances I've got one of
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United Airlines bug sells tickets for pennies on the dollar(latimes.com)
2 points by yanowitz 13y ago|0 comments

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