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curried_haskell commented on GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016 bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/mobee

asenna · 9 years ago

Can you really put something in "maintenance" mode without killing it?

Maintaining the app and not moving forward with new features and adding value (because of lack of resources), I would assume it would just die eventually.

curried_haskell · 9 years ago

I really hate this, because this is what bloats and kills products. It's never complete, it always needs more features, until it implodes.

It's the corpse model of product development.

curried_haskell commented on Uber ordered to stop self-driving vehicle service in San Francisco techcrunch.com/2016/12/14... · Posted by u/coloneltcb

Overtonwindow · 9 years ago

I really hope California isn't overreacting, possibly due to industry pressure from taxis etc. The state should be doing all it can to support, grow, and encourage this innovation.

curried_haskell · 9 years ago

Ah so that's what we're calling the wreckless endangerment of pedestrians these days... innovation!

curried_haskell commented on A Backdoor in Skype for Mac OS X trustwave.com/Resources/S... · Posted by u/finid

gr3yh47 · 9 years ago

Does any NSA surveillance vulnerability stand up to logical scrutiny?

No, because introducing security vulnerabilities to keep us secure is inherently illogical.

curried_haskell · 9 years ago

This is also the biggest fallacy in economic, and even political theory. The assumption of rational actors.

curried_haskell commented on A Backdoor in Skype for Mac OS X trustwave.com/Resources/S... · Posted by u/finid

tptacek · 9 years ago

So far you haven't said anything more than "NSA exists, therefore all software insecurities are reasonably attributable to them".

curried_haskell · 9 years ago

If you have reading comprehension problems, sure, that's what he said.

curried_haskell commented on A Backdoor in Skype for Mac OS X trustwave.com/Resources/S... · Posted by u/finid

danudey · 9 years ago

It seems to me to be a paranoid interpretation because if Microsoft wants to hand Skype-related user data over to the NSA, they'll do so on the server side and not the client side.

Secondly, this is a pretty stupid way of doing it. 'If you use this client identifier than anything goes' seems vastly more like a stupid coding mistake than it does a sneaky covert backdoor into accessing Skype from the local machine.

curried_haskell · 9 years ago

Intelligence agencies want as many possible vectors for attack as possible. Especially unknown ones that you are not prepared for them to exploit. Everyone is assuming they wouldn't bother with a client backdoor... That right there is enough reason for them to get a client backdoor!

curried_haskell commented on React-redux v5.0.0 github.com/reactjs/react-... · Posted by u/jbraithwaite

rejschaap · 9 years ago

Not sure why this is on the front-page. This is just a glue library between two other libraries and the update doesn't seem to be a real major update.

"Version 5.0 maintains API compatibility with v4.x but due to major internal changes and potential behavior differences across nearly all API surfaces, semver dictates a major version bump. Also, it's good marketing!"

Anyway, the marketing part worked. :)

curried_haskell · 9 years ago

Gotta keep the hype train rolling. All aboard!

curried_haskell commented on Tech worker resistance is crucial to preventing human rights abuses in the U.S blog.valerieaurora.org/20... · Posted by u/sp332

clarkmoody · 9 years ago

How about we work to make the government small and weak enough that it doesn't have the capability to commit large-scale human rights abuses?

curried_haskell · 9 years ago

The problem is we need _something_ like government to advocate for, and protect the safety and interests of the people. Something that has teeth. Because without it, we, and our land, and resources, will be raped.

curried_haskell commented on Everything You Know About Public-Key Encryption in PHP Is Wrong paragonie.com/blog/2016/1... · Posted by u/type0

mpweiher · 9 years ago

The only thing I know about public key encryption in PHP is that it sounds like a terrible idea. Am I wrong?

curried_haskell · 9 years ago

I'm disgusted that the words encryption and PHP were even used in the same sentence. I need to go shower.

curried_haskell commented on 'Clean your desk': My Amazon interview experience shivankaul.com/blog/2016/... · Posted by u/skaul

admax88q · 9 years ago

In University for me at least, a lot of those collaborative projects allowed the students to distribute their grade amongst participants.

In my experience at least the weaker contributors to the groups success, even those that just coasted, were still very honest when asked to assess their contribution and the contribution of others.

curried_haskell · 9 years ago

In my university we often had group projects and at the end of the project you scored your team members. If the entire team scored one member highly or poorly, their grade could be weighted higher or lower.

curried_haskell commented on Why I switched from Vim to Emacs matthaffner.wordpress.com... · Posted by u/wtbob

adictator · 9 years ago

Being a long time Vim user, and having dabbled in Emacs just a teeny weeny bit, I'm convinced that "Emacs is a wonderful operating system, lacking only a decent editor"!

curried_haskell · 9 years ago

That's why you can use vim in emacs. Since I've been using spacemacs, I don't miss vim anymore. Use the best editor together with the best operating system!

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