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Juniper··on Benefits of basing your startup in Scotland
Well Galway is generally regarded as a good place to live, if you don't mind lashings of rain.
Juniper··on "Computer Science" is Not Science and "Software Engineering" is Not Engineering
Reminds me of the statement by I think H. Abelson though it might have been Sussman (from their SICP video lecture 1)that goes something like :

Computer Science is not a science and it's not about computers. Computer science is only about computers in the same way that physics is about particle accelerators.

That was the gist of it anyway

Juniper··on Ask HN: Is this bad security? "Enter the second and fifth password characters"
Maybe they also hash every character separately?
Juniper··on Could someone advise a new name for my Pinterest app?
NipIt
Juniper··on The Latest On Intelligence
That's an incredible statistic. If the cause is cultural then it's a wonder there isn't a plethora of books advising on how to raise children the Ashkenazi way. Are there any such books?
Juniper··on Why I switched from Dropbox to Windows Live Mesh
As suggested recently by 'How To Geek' I have installed Boxcryptor in my dropbox folder.

Boxcryptor was obviously inspired by Dropbox's limitations and as far as I can see solves them perfectly with encryption of every file at the client end.

Dropbox simply stores and syncs these encrypted files.

The linked article says : 'Ultimately, I’ve come to the conclusion that scale matters in the cloud. Microsoft, Google, and Amazon have the experience and the engineering depth to get operational and security issues right.'

Until a little while ago I wonder if the author would have objected to Sony being added to that list?