Gokenstein

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by Gokenstein 8y ago
Bad faith moderation is why this site is a ghost town. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/146144481666247... How's that for upping the level of discourse?
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by Gokenstein 8y ago
we had that. It was called livejournal. And everyone stopped using it.
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by Gokenstein 8y ago
Funny, I thought the lesson here is that if you take away the barriers to the entry, all regulation, most of the financial burden, and provide nearly complete anonymity for disseminating news and information then foreign state actors will a
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by Gokenstein 8y ago
In Chicago I saw first hand how it turned the Mayor into everyone's favorite punching bag: Housing prices go up. Developers move in and scoop up desirable properties, remodel the kitchen, paint it grey, and sell to a young tech worker
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by Gokenstein 8y ago
If you're the best engineer for a company who's bottom line is not direct sales of engineered products you are a middle tier or bottom tier engineer on the open market. You're the best engineer willing to work in a black box,
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by Gokenstein 8y ago
And... now you understand how China feels about American tariffs?
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by Gokenstein 8y ago
Oh, we've had very different experiences relating to project management! I've never had a PM that was a former developer, and in my world senior developers usually act as solution architects without the title, mostly removed from
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by Gokenstein 8y ago
I thought I emphasized the point pretty well: Get involved in the process if you're managing a team of developers and don't just look at metrics. They can be misleading if there is no way for developers to communicate UP to manage
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by Gokenstein 8y ago
"Don't be afraid to filter people out, it happens that some beginners take a toll on the time of the team, because they develop errors / don't test code." I would put a huge caveat here: Make sure you're deeply
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by Gokenstein 8y ago
When US intelligence goals directly oppose US business goals then the enemy has already won.
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by Gokenstein 8y ago
Perhaps US police have shoved too many of these cases under the rug and now they need a scape goat because it is becoming too obvious that US companies cannot bribe, influence, or demand justice from their own government when the opposition
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by Gokenstein 8y ago
If a spy leaves his disguise in my trash can and I take it to the police the spy exposed themselves. Taking steps to intimidate a citizen because your spy screwed up is an act of war, but not by the citizen.
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by Gokenstein 8y ago
There is one hitch and it’s a doozy. This invasive targeting may be neutralized by market forces when it comes to buying dish soap but it’s proven frighteningly effective in swaying voters even before the internet. Politicians conduct expen
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by Gokenstein 8y ago
Bonesaw is, indeed, reeeaaaaaddyyyy
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by Gokenstein 8y ago
Title is misleading: Article is about how Facebook facilitates authoritarian governments in silencing dissidents: even poor or ill equipped ones. The title leads you to believe Facebook has or had any interest what-so-ever in stopping the s
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by Gokenstein 8y ago
If it’s legal to drink alcohol and poison yourself it’s no different than pouring arsenic in the water supply and poisoning everyone right?
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by Gokenstein 8y ago
Speaking of platforms: In the Bernstein timeline someone went to Stockholm and convinced Notch that a cross between Steam and Kiva kicks off the next cultural revolution and all we need is a little “mancala money”
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by Gokenstein 8y ago
Probably buying it above market price and therein lies the problem
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by Gokenstein 8y ago
It’s shorthand for a whole range of economic factors, housing costs, school quality, local politics, etc. Most big US cities have had waves of immigration that concentrate themselves in various neighborhoods ands it takes too long to list o
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by Gokenstein 8y ago
It is oddly silent on what government institutions MUST do within 48 hours...
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by Gokenstein 8y ago
In the US the general public, engineers who discover and are tasked with preventing these attacks, and to a large extent the companies that are attacked are faced with a perverse set of incentives at the moment. Notifying federal authoritie
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by Gokenstein 8y ago
Ugh, this is all stressing me out. I have an interview with a tech company in NY that interfaces with the fashion industry and I've worked from home for the past 3 years. My wardrobe consists of 3 pairs of jeans, 2 dad sweaters, 15 tsh
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by Gokenstein 8y ago
Incentive for a company to say "No" when the FBI offers to "fix" the problem quietly either by going up the chain of command internally to get answers and stop a blown attack on a US owned and operated business or use co
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by Gokenstein 8y ago
Seems like all US conflicts are now an excuse to race to the bottom with whoever our "enemy" is. We imported torture from the middle east and now state run news and corporations from China.
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by Gokenstein 8y ago
Just like gravity, its not the influx of cash that causes fear, its the sudden stop at the end.
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by Gokenstein 8y ago
Plausible deniability. Wouldn't surprise me if China is getting the blame for a LOT of US hacking.
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by Gokenstein 8y ago
Apparently my brother's college roommate is a UX designer who worked on Google+ and he told my brother that he was directly inspired by the way I used AIM at the time. I had different screen names for different groups of friends and I
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by Gokenstein 8y ago
What's more likely is someone on the inside of one of these companies was privy to the discovery, but not the follow up. I've been in such a situation myself where I was in the room during what LOOKED like a DDOS by Akamai 10 minu
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by Gokenstein 8y ago
It takes 980 MBAs to reach the level of schmoozing required to secure the contract.