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by h0w412d 11y ago
"All generalizations are false, including this one." - Mark Twain
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by h0w412d 11y ago
Yep. Cory Doctorow has talked about this: how the universe "makes it easy" to secure communications because mathematically, it's really easy to encrypt (verify that a number is prime) and really difficult to decrypt through h
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by h0w412d 11y ago
I'd have to disagree. I think the interview process desperately needs an injection of pragmatism. If the actual job never requires Big-O analysis, then asking it during the interview is a waste of time. I've never had to do Big-O
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by h0w412d 11y ago
I have the same feeling toward them. They're chosen for the same reason new technologies are often chosen: because they're new. The people doing the choosing aren't concerned with effectiveness or improvement, only that they&
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by h0w412d 11y ago
Couldn't agree more. The "innovations" SV has brought to the interview process are more to satisfy the need to "disrupt" the traditional way of interviewing, with no thought to whether they're actually improvem
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by h0w412d 11y ago
Exactly. And this is why surveillance is so difficult to fight. The actions are far removed from the consequences, and the public just isn't very good at long-term planning. But we can't wait for the negative effects to show, beca
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by h0w412d 11y ago
I have to say, I hate take home tests. They move all the burden of time commitment onto the candidate. And even if the question says it should take 2-3 hours, there's a game theory situation where you have to assume others are spending
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by h0w412d 11y ago
BCrypt has a character limit of 72.
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by h0w412d 11y ago
This is a great idea. I wish I had known about it years ago!
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by h0w412d 13y ago
Rationally questioning your own views first? Obviously that's a rare quality in the population or we wouldn't be in the messes you outlined above.
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by h0w412d 13y ago
"virtually"...being kinda generous, aren't we?
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by h0w412d 13y ago
Well that escalated quickly.
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by h0w412d 13y ago
"Algorithms are for people who don't know how to buy RAM."
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by h0w412d 13y ago
Well, have you ever not thought that after a password leak?
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by h0w412d 13y ago
There was an experiment with this called Mincome in Canada. They found that the only two groups of people who worked less were new moms and teenagers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincome
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by h0w412d 13y ago
Yep. If the government represented the will of its people, we'd have sensible gun control and readily available contraception. The government hasn't represented us for a long time.
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by h0w412d 13y ago
How about we popularize encryption, and take the choice out of the hands of corporations and governments?
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by h0w412d 13y ago
That's exactly why the users can no longer trust the service or the government to do right by them. Client-side encryption is the only way to be sure your rights aren't being trampled.
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Getting the Tech Community to Adopt Encryption
3 points by h0w412d 13y ago|1 comments
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by h0w412d 13y ago
Nick Merrill tried to crowdfund an ISP way back that automatically encrypts all traffic, making surveillance impossible. Of course it ended underfunded.
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by h0w412d 13y ago
Not enough links.
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by h0w412d 13y ago
Just like how it only takes a few GPS coordinates to figure out who you are with a high degree of accuracy. Anonymizing data doesn't mean much in the big data world.
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by h0w412d 13y ago
They both work tirelessly, mostly for people who don't even know they exist. Money donated to them is money well spent.
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by h0w412d 13y ago
Is a website, is beautiful, is easy to use, has an API. You've hit on the first three, so when the API becomes public, I am so using this. Are you hosting this yourself? Do you expect $9/year members to adequate cover the costs? I'd totally
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by h0w412d 13y ago
Is there an API?
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by h0w412d 13y ago
So your title isn't dependent on your accomplishments or abilities, but only your schooling?
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by h0w412d 13y ago
Not to mention the annual 40,000 lives lost and even more injured due to car accidents, and the huge swaths of land that would be freed up when parking lots are no longer necessary. Not everything is about jobs.
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by h0w412d 14y ago
I don't think so. Any password that's listed anywhere (like as an example in a blog post or comic) should be considered worthless. How do you know hackers haven't incorporated that into their dictionary?
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by h0w412d 14y ago
A comment that survives the end of the universe? Shit what kind of computer are you using? And more importantly, don't ever let it fall into the hands of a spammer...
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by h0w412d 14y ago
Definitely this. The average car sits in the drive way 22 hours a day. It may not seem like it at first, but an all-taxi economy will be much cheaper for the riders (think about paying for 1 millionth the cost of maintaining 1 million cars

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