belluchan

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by belluchan 13y ago
I think the conversation went fine.
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by belluchan 13y ago
Nice, that's cool, too bad I don't trust browser extensions to not steal my personal banking information or whatever else I go to online and I can't be bothered to audit every single extension I use. Third party audits are po
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by belluchan 13y ago
> Can't read the article, behind a paywall. Like the WSJ and the NYT, just open an incognito window and do a google search for the title. In order to have their content indexed by Google they have to allow that to work. With the NYT
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by belluchan 13y ago
Very nice, but it does looks like a hard pivot.
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by belluchan 13y ago
Pretty sure Sun was doing Ask Toolbars with Java installs [1]. And Ask Toolbars are not malware, they're not even adware. They don't compromise your computer. The shady thing it does is change your default search engine to an Ask.
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by belluchan 13y ago
You're getting downvoted, but I agree that we shouldn't be praising this kind of behavior out of context. The guy was unquestionably brave, had good intentions, but probably terrible judgement.
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by belluchan 13y ago
I'm not trying to do anything malicious but intentions are irrelevant when it comes to truth. It's either right or wrong. If someone really had a good reason for believing in God I'd like to know about it. I am also intereste
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by belluchan 13y ago
The explanation given there is sound when it is applied the veracity of historical written records that don't attempt to support the supernatural. It's just about measuring what the more reliable evidence is. Did so and so say suc
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by belluchan 13y ago
Why don't you provide a short summary. My opinion right now is that if the book claims that things we can physically verify ourselves about the world are wrong because of a handful of dead people it doesn't sound like a very good
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by belluchan 13y ago
When it comes to claims that attempt to discount an insurmountable mountain of physical evidence you yourself can verify, there is no such thing as reliable eyewitness accounts, especially not from people who died eons ago. It's obviou
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by belluchan 13y ago
That's not right. Try to the phrase the X with very specific verifiable empirical evidence. It's a bit ridiculous to make a claim of truth for an entire volume of information. Scientists, for example, don't do this. There are
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by belluchan 13y ago
I have found out in life that women can also be dependable, fun to hang out with, and not "complicate things." Using "bro" is offensive because it excludes others by their gender. It's an awful exclusionary term and
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by belluchan 13y ago
Indeed, man is short for manual. It has nothing to do with men, or beards or bros crushing code. The term "bro" when it comes to programming really needs to go away.
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by belluchan 13y ago
In this case that's not me using faith, that's using a heuristic. A heuristic is a decent substitute for empirical research, but it is not foolproof. We use heuristics to save time. If we had to do empirical research for everythin
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by belluchan 13y ago
These are all witness accounts from superstitious people who died long ago. Nothing listed is verifiable. This is not good evidence. Witness accounts from dead people should not be enough to discount the mountains of empirical evidence that
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by belluchan 13y ago
DI isn't scary sounding, it's just unnecessary most of the time I've seen it, especially in public facing APIs that third party developers use. Most classes don't have so many varied amounts of diverse dependencies where
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by belluchan 13y ago
I can't reply to you directly. Why is your faith not blind or unreasoning? Can you give me just one specific example of empirical evidence for God's existence? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I'm guessing
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by belluchan 13y ago
So what evidence did you eventually find to turn to God if it's not a feelings/faith based thing?
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by belluchan 13y ago
How do you "experiment" with atheism? Just saying to yourself "I'm now an atheist" and seeing how that feels? It doesn't sound like you ever had solid rational and empirical reasons for choosing atheism, and in
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by belluchan 13y ago
All the cnet author needed was to add a gif or a super short video showing the effect. They did not need to have some long video with voice over with stock footage of people typing for half the video.
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by belluchan 13y ago
It's a content site, so probably from pageviews with ads. I doubt Quora is going to stick around, and if it does it will be in there with about.com, ehow and the like. A scummy low quality crowd sourced content farm.
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by belluchan 13y ago
I pasted a gist of the backdoor script the hacker downloaded onto that server: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/8527149 Original URL is http://pdd-nos.info/.tmp/back.conn.txt
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by belluchan 13y ago
First commit right here: https://github.com/scala/scala/commit/e566ca34a3fd246a4535c4...
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by belluchan 13y ago
Datadog, leftronic or Rackspace monitoring for hosted solutions.
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by belluchan 13y ago
With 535 of them not including staff, they really shouldn't. And clearance isn't enough, you also have to have a need to know. We just need a system of oversight that works well.
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by belluchan 13y ago
And software developers, don't forget to implement the 4 byte characters too please. Utter nightmare dealing with MySQL. I believe 4 byte characters still even break github comments.
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by belluchan 13y ago
> Are there any actual programmers or former programmers occupying high-ranking decision-making positions at these tech companies?! Why would it matter if the leaders had ever programmed before?
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by belluchan 13y ago
None of these articles about this say the source of this information was Snowden. It also doesn't seem to be his M.O. to leak about non-privacy invading bits. Like nothing here really pushes any buttons for me other than it was leaked.
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by belluchan 13y ago
I did not go see a doctor.
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by belluchan 13y ago
I live in the east bay and I pretty much just got over the worst cold I've ever had in my life. I haven't had a fever in years and I was stuck in bed for nearly two weeks. It's been 4 weeks now and I still am coughing but it&

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