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bholzer··on Ask HN: Google Doc email virus?
It redirects to a couple different PHP pages as well, so there could have been more malicious code there
bholzer··on Reinventing the Git Interface (2014)
What VCS do you use?
bholzer··on Police ask for whole city's Google searches, and a judge says yes
Do the ends really justify the means in this case? I don't think so, personally
bholzer··on Introducing Netflix Stethoscope
This is focused toward companies to ensure employee security. It's no secret that jailbroken phones are less secure, and if an employer is giving phones to employees for work use, it's perfectly reasonable for them to enforce a rule that phones are not jailbroken or out of date.
bholzer··on How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists
But it won't buy the magical ability for a built PC to run macOS. I don't care about the applications, I care about the underlying OS
bholzer··on Donald Trump Is Elected President
That is the best piece of mental gymnastics yet.

“If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks,” Mr. Trump said, as the crowd began to boo. He quickly added: “Although the Second Amendment people — maybe there is, I don’t know.”

How is that not an allusion to assassination? He is talking about a situation in which Hillary has won and appointed a judge. How else do people suspect "second amendment people" are going to stop her at that point?

bholzer··on Donald Trump Is Elected President
How about when he said to go after the families of terrorists? You know, when he advocated committing a war crime?

http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/02/politics/donald-trump-terroris...

How about when he made fun of a disabled person?

How about all of the other hateful and demeaning stuff he said to various women?

bholzer··on Is an Engineer an Artist?
Is art not a craft?
bholzer··on Reactotron – CLI and OS X app for inspecting React Native and JS apps
What did you use for the CLI UI? It looks really nice.
bholzer··on Stop the inner struggle over whether your thoughts and feelings are “right”
Babies of humans and other species have been shown to have a sense of morality that is not learned.

https://campuspress.yale.edu/karenwynn/files/2015/10/WynnInn...

bholzer··on Why we won't be selling Genuino or Arduino any more
Last Christmas, a friend of mine did an musical project that he wanted to spice up with a light show.

Another friend and I created a lighting controller that did realtime signal processing and MIDI-controlled lighting, which relied heavily on Arduino.

bholzer··on Visual Programming Is Unbelievable (2015)
Blueprints are by far the best experience I have had with visual programming
bholzer··on Progressive Web App: A New Experience for Mobile
Pretty cool stuff. I'll be really interested when it works for iOS as well.
bholzer··on Google’s look, evolved
I have my browser set to open google with every new tab.
bholzer··on Google Says It’s Not the Driverless Car’s Fault. It’s Other Drivers’
I agree, I was hesitant to even use that link, I believe the Wall Street Journal is generally considered more reputable:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/robotic-surgery-brings-higher-co...

And another from a relatively reputable healthcare company/journal:

http://www.healthline.com/health-news/is-da-vinci-robotic-su...

bholzer··on Linux Foundation offering free Chromebook when you register for training course
Has anyone taken any of these courses? Are they worth the money spent?
bholzer··on Google Says It’s Not the Driverless Car’s Fault. It’s Other Drivers’
Surgical robots do not perform as well as traditional instruments.

I've talked to a few hospital executives and all have said that in most cases, these robots only cost them money and decrease the quality of the surgical procedures.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2526934/Surge...

bholzer··on Google Says It’s Not the Driverless Car’s Fault. It’s Other Drivers’
I think the point being made is that being the master of your own destiny is one of the most valued ideas to most of us. Letting a computer decide whether I live or die is certainly a future I don't want
bholzer··on FAA says monetized videos shot from drones are subject to commercial regulations
Remember the video where the GoPro falls off a skydiver's helmet and lands in a pig pen? Is the falling considered flying, in this case?
bholzer··on A Software Engineer’s Adventures in Learning Mathematics
Same here. Linear Algebra is what got me from "math is boring, and I only learned things to pass a test" to "math is really cool, and can actually solve these problems in real life"
bholzer··on The rise of fake engine noise
Not quite. It's people who take these imports, and then add awful, flashy mods to them
bholzer··on Peter Thiel becomes marijuana's first big investor
First state to legalize, in fact
bholzer··on Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?
It is possible that the site was hacked to serve malware.
bholzer··on Update on Sony Investigation
> the movie is total crap

That's quite the statement to make despite not watching it

bholzer··on Update on Sony Investigation
Didn't mean to be snarky, I just keep seeing all of the "North Korea is behind in technology" talk with not a whole lot of evidence to support it. Thinking that any nation doesn't have the technological capability to perform some complex hack is a little misguided, in my opinion. The average citizen may not be up to snuff technologically, but these are governments we're talking about.
bholzer··on Update on Sony Investigation
How do people keep getting this so wrong? North Korea recruits and trains hackers.

http://www.vocativ.com/world/north-korea/unit-121-the-north-...

bholzer··on EFF in Court to Argue NSA Collection from Internet Backbone Is Unconstitutional
> seizure: the action of capturing someone or something using force

They first have to capture the data before copying. Fits the definition, in my opinion

bholzer··on Poll: Do you use marijuana
My point is, who are you to decide what is "lousy and destructive behavior" for everyone? Marijuana is clearly not for you.

For some however, it is a very real solution to problems like anxiety, insomnia, depression, low appetite, etc. Marijuana often has fewer side-effects than medications prescribed for those same ailments, making it a better option for many. That is how some people justify consuming the drug, and I think it's pretty narrow-minded to assume anyone who makes such a justification is an addict.

bholzer··on Poll: Do you use marijuana
I have absolutely noticed it helping me understand concepts in 3D programming. I would say it helps me understand mathematical concepts in general.
bholzer··on Poll: Do you use marijuana
"You are the weakest"

Because someone doesn't adhere to your standards, they are weak? That's a pretty poor outlook. Besides, there are perfectly safe ways to consume marijuana that aren't destructive, as with just about any other substance.

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