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alts··on Unpacking my knapsack: the privileges of a Hispanic male in tech
I met Danilo (briefly) at a Grubwithus dinner a while back in the SF. It's strange to type, but I never suspected he was Latino based on appearance. I'm in a similar boat, where I pass as white. There have been a number of times in my (so far) short career where it's been made evidently clear that if I didn't pass as white, things would be very different for me.

I appreciate this post though. It's from a perspective I don't hear too often, and I've been slow to contribute my own. So, thanks.

alts··on Dictionary app auto-posts piracy accusations on users’ Twitter accounts
But there are better ways of attacking fraudulent IAPs. Perhaps more effort, but certainly fewer false positives. http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Networ...
alts··on Lord of the Files: How GitHub Tamed Free Software (And More)
One github user already put the Utah state legal code on github. All commits are attributed to him, but it's fascinating watching the wording change commit by commit.

His README proposes a similar law patching idea.

https://github.com/divegeek/utahcode

alts··on Hiring Secret: Best Way to Vet a Candidate
It happened to me with a recruiter. They were calling people that were somehow connected to me to try to get my phone number. What I found most upsetting was how they treated the people that they called. The recruiter was very persistent, and pretty rude. It was enough to prompt my coworker and another friend to find all instances of their phone number online and try to get it removed (which is generally a good idea).
alts··on Elm: a functional reactive programming language that compiles to JavaScript
I really like this idea. I took a look at the Javascript output of the compiler, and noticed that effectively every statement of the program would result in a function nested within the function created by the last N statements. Since Javascript doesn't have tail call optimization, the browser will complain at some point when the stack overflows.

Contrived, I know, but it looks like in Firefox 8 that happens at around 39k.

alts··on You are the nth person alive on earth
To those concerned, a request with your provided info appears to only be sent to their servers once you arrive at the Results step (which itself is mostly just a recap of the previous step).
alts··on Stanford Open Classroom - Ruby on Rails Web Apps
When I took cs142, it was actually a web security class. It seems that the last few weeks of the class will still be devoted to security. The introduction to Rails was done solely to get students to implement safeguards against the attacks they had learned earlier in the course. The class appears to take the reverse route now, possibly due to student feedback.
alts··on Ask HN: What's your most-used function that you wrote yourself?
Haskell:

    (\>) x f = f x
Allows me to write in a more readable manner

    [1..10]
        \> map (*2)
        \> filter (<5)