divegeek

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by divegeek 11mo ago
Much of the US/UK legal system is based on common-law rules that are several hundred years old. In some cases those old laws have been codified, in some cases not, but either way there's no need to drop them just because they&#x2
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by divegeek 11mo ago
It's unfriendly to developers and power users, but very friendly to the other 99.999% of users. I used to work for Google, on Android security, and it's an ongoing philosophical debate: How much risk do you expose typical users to
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by divegeek 9y ago
>> Note that you are trusting this app with your private key. On Android, the Kryptonite code uses the AndroidKeyStore to store the private key, which means that the app does not have access to it. At a minimum (on old devices), An
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by divegeek 12y ago
(Googler here) It's a platform feature, so it's open source, but there's always a delay between the announcement and the time the code hits the public repositories. It'll be there before too much longer.
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by divegeek 12y ago
I find it useful to keep in mind the notion that all knowledge is gained by a process of guesswork and criticism. When you listen to my voice or read my words, you must guess at what I mean to convey, because my words by themselves, even i
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by divegeek 12y ago
(Googler here) You're not wrong, but I think you overstate the case. I wouldn't say employees are encouraged to publicly trash the company's products. Not at all. But the company does respect employees' right to spea
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by divegeek 12y ago
> here we have a handful of _startups_ that confess there's isn't enough work to keep everyone in the nimble team up on toes for even forty hours a week I don't think they said anything of the sort. There's no claim
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by divegeek 12y ago
I like a $20 bill more than a $10 bill. Is that an emotional reaction? No, it's an objective value judgement based on the fact that the former is more useful (roughly twice as useful) as the latter. The word "like" merely
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by divegeek 12y ago
Apple makes all of its devices and therefore controls them. Google can't dictate to Samsung, HTC, LG, etc. Google has updated the in-support Nexus devices. The Galaxy Nexus is something of a question mark, but the number of active Ga
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by divegeek 12y ago
Correct. At present the only solution for pre-4.4 devices is to avoid using WebView to display untrusted content. If you're an app developer using WebView you should make sure it's only displaying trusted content which means eit
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by divegeek 12y ago
Google could invest the resources to create patches. What Google can't do is get those patches delivered to end-user devices. Given the fact that if Google provided patches they'd never reach users anyway, why should Google both
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by divegeek 12y ago
The problem isn't the change. History has shown time and again that we can deal with that. The problem is the rate of change. The industrial revolution took generations to really complete, and even so it was kind of rough in places.
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by divegeek 12y ago
I've read that Google's position on liability is that it should be on the maker of the autonomous car, which makes perfect sense to me. Traffic accidents (including with pedestrians) rarely involve criminal culpability anyway, ex
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by divegeek 12y ago
The Android security lead has posted a statement on this issue, explaining what is and is not being done, and why: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+AdrianLudwig/posts/1md7ruEwBLF
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by divegeek 12y ago
Chromoting is more common now. Same idea, though. (I'm a Googler)
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by divegeek 12y ago
Think about it. You're tired of your job and interested in making a change. It's, say, August. You know that if you wait until the end of January you'll get your annual cash bonus, say, $30K. Also, between August and the
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by divegeek 12y ago
Sorry, you're badly confused about a lot of things, but it's not worth the effort to me to educate you. I'll just let you have the last word.
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by divegeek 12y ago
Inflation doesn't decrease your purchasing power unless you're living on a fixed, non inflation-adjusted income, or from a limited pool of wealth which you keep in cash. If you're doing productive work, you can expect your wa
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by divegeek 12y ago
No need to take his word for it. If you look at the Austrian school theories you'll see that those things aren't accounted for. Another crucial element that isn't considered is velocity of money, and the concomitant effects
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by divegeek 12y ago
No noise from neighbors? No neighbors at all!
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by divegeek 12y ago
I doubt it. We're very flexible omnivores, and have acquired the capability to create supplements for whatever specific nutrients we lack. The impact would be to the variety and tastiness of the food we have available, but I doubt it
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by divegeek 12y ago
I interviewed in late 2010 and was hired in early 2011. I had a great experience. Other than the long delay between interview and offer, of course. It may be relevant that I didn't interview in MTV.
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by divegeek 12y ago
None that Google can update.
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by divegeek 12y ago
The purpose of Google Fiber isn't to make Google the world's ISP, it's partly to demonstrate the feasibility of fiber to the home (in a big, public way) and partly to create demand (by being big and public). Yes, it's mo
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by divegeek 12y ago
Actually, with Google, advertisers don't target anyone, really. They have a few knobs to tweak, but mostly it's Google that does the targeting, based on much smarter (but not yet smart enough) algorithms.
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by divegeek 12y ago
Oh, yeah. I'd pay good money for that. It'd be fascinating from a historical perspective, as well as interesting and useful for the content itself.
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by divegeek 12y ago
One issue is that in most companies in the US most employees get annual salary increases, 5-6% is a common baseline for people who are doing their jobs well in a company that is successful. Sometimes people get much more. This means that so
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by divegeek 12y ago
I must be lucky because in 25+ years I have worked for only one manager like that, during my (brief, and regretted) foray into sales. Every other manager I've had has been interested in building things and enabling his employees to do
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by divegeek 12y ago
Huh? I certainly expect my car insurance to pay out. I expect them to pay the minimum they can, which for collision insurance means "not quite enough to actually replace my car", but I expect them to fully cover any liability I mi
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by divegeek 12y ago
Not necessarily. For example militiaries routinely recruit (hire) first, and then later figure out where to put the hiree. The same is less common but does happen in industry as well with entry-level college graduate positions, and in som

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