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A lot of doors are hidden from view by trees or fences. And then you have side and back doors. And the advantage to not make any noise or carrying around expensive tools (simple lock pick tools can be very cheap), make it not completely unreasonable.

Still, banning tools is not the greatest idea.

Hey, at least I didn't call it scotch!

What form are you seeing this Stigma, because in all my jobs I have never felt this at all? And two of those jobs I have vacations organized before I joined, and at one place I was there for one week before leaving for 3 weeks. Never felt any stigma at all?

I suggest that most Android phones don't run Android apps without significant problems, since most Android phones are cheap devices with bad screens, low memory and slow processors. And most developers instead have the latest and greatest.

Most Android phones are not Samsung 4 or HTC one.

Why do people say this is irrelevant? Clearly the small population needs to be taken into consideration, but it is still an interesting point, and could be a sign of things to come or not. Since we all like to be prepared, I think it is something of interest to us here.

I would put a Lagavulin as smokier than a Laphroig, but they are both fantastic whiskeys, and I need to do a lot more testing.

Would rather see a rss feed that could be used in an app, with details of the shark locations. But I guess you would have the problem of some yahoo tracking down the shark and killing it, although it is a protected species.

I would suggest the affection felt towards a teacher, and towards a carer you see all the time, is very different.

I don't think he was being sarcastic, and the key has to go somewhere on the keyboard. You can't just put it anywhere else. And it wasn't a problem before, when it popped up a menu you could dismiss easily.

And I never hit it on my macbook, so I guess it isn't a probably for everybody.

> Asimov predicted that moon colonies would be common by now, for example. The overoptimism may have been due to the rate of technological growth leading up to 1964.

I think it is more likely a sad indication of how we have moved away from spending money on space exploration, and instead spending it elsewhere. We certainly could have moon bases if we had continued spending and researching into space.

My guess is that if looks more stylish, and tried to convey a sense of what the theme is about.

It is a balance between looking good, and showing useful content.

> is it because we forget that simplicity is better?

Oh yes, all the time. I am busy trying to automate everything in the office, because it is what I know. Whenever someone comes to me with a problem, I think about how it will integrated into our systems, adding tables to the database, adding a page so people can track how it is done. When someone else has already solved it using a simple trick.

Good to see people coming out in support of this horrible editing, and I hope the trouble makers see that it is taking the discussion away from what is important.

Why attack someone like pg over this? Is the attempt to shame him into being more women hacker friendly? Isn't he already going out of his way to support women?

When I was a kid we could only afford a cheap computer (VZ-300, Australia computer), with a z80, while all my mates had c64s. So they were busy swapping games with each other, I had to program my own, first in basic, from magazines (thanks APC), and then in z80 assembly. I still love developing today, things may have been different if we were not poor.

Finding someone else makes it much harder to start working. Stealing assets is the tried and true method of getting something to show off, and get going quite quickly.

There are enough issues with writing your own games, you have just made it that much harder.

Of course there are also lots of free assets out there for use, but designers are more hesitant than developers to give stuff out for free.

> They're not movie stars and what they are doing is somewhat trivial yet they've trumped themselves up a new level with their sleezy tactics.

What they are doing is not trivial at all. They managed to raise $15 million for a very simple idea, that is pretty hard to do.

> I look at this from the other side as well. I've worked with brilliant people with ivy league CS degrees who wrote much messier and less maintainable code than me, an autodidact designer/js dev with 1.5 years of experience.

Be careful, everybody writes worse code than you, because you wrote the code. And these is a difference in writing nice simple code, and rewriting the same function to work on a bunch of different machines that does the core of the application, and you have until the end of the week until it goes live.

> Yes, using the same code everywhere is cool, but if it takes longer to load, is less responsive, and has a worse experience, you have saved yourself time, but made something worse.

You see, this isn't an issue with the latest, incredibly fast phones. And all phones are getting faster, so this becomes less and less important.

> No doubt true in general, but how about land mines?

Not when you throw them at someone.

This is the problem when agencies are allowed to govern themselves, with no proper over site.

> Perhaps most egregious is the case of Magdy Mahmoud Mostafa el-Nashar, a former acquaintance of the perpetrators of the 2005 London transit-system bombings....The FBI had, in other words, created its own unnecessary delay, then used the story to claim it needed more power.

Rather than accept responsibility, they turned this embarrassing case into a win by spinning the story to show they did not have enough access.

This was a sign that they didn't know how to measure what you were doing, or possibly didn't even understand what you were doing.

The best job I had, the manage was a technical guy, every week we would have a meeting to discuss what needed to be done, what we were going to do. And as long as the projects got done, he didn't care if he saw you at all the rest of the week. He could measure your progress by looking at the project, or by talking to you.

One of the frustrating aspects of working for a big American company was that they had this policy of moving department heads around, so they all got experience in working and understand all the aspects of the company. No doubt this was great for the managers, but the idea that the head of IT could just as easily work as the head of marketing is ridiculous.

I think you are missing the point, he did not say he went to the blue team. He said he doesn't want to work for the side that supports drone strikes, etc..., not that he has switched camps.

What makes a bad client, and why did they cost so much? I can understand a bad client who constantly harangues you, asking for tiny changes, tying up support lines, but that shouldn't cost so much?

> I just saw...about two years ago.

Well, that is not just seeing, and it probably was not bricked in the traditional sense. It may have been a pain to try to recover, but it was probably possible.

I agree with you, but I guess it is interesting seeing how someone who hasn't done talks before would approach the issue. I certainly imagine that if he does another writeup after doing lots of talks it would be very different.

Enlightened programmer is the first stage, then you move onto all the others, then you realise you are all of these at the same time.

> A U.S. source close to the negotiations said that whatever intelligence the spying had delivered for the American government was unlikely to outweigh the commercial cost of the revelations.

This to me is the most interesting quote. Although vague, you just have to wonder how much of this spy data goes to companies? Anyone can understand that the US has an interest in maintaining the importance of their own corporations around the world.

> "Paid vacation days" is easy to demonize, but 1) we don't want to take away people's livelihood before making sure there is a problem

Sure, but this is what happens in any other job, you don't get paid when under investifation.

Did not pick this up as being smug, did pick it up as some guys stepping into a complicated field, and messing it up royally.

I remember finally finding the docs for all these different formats, and I wrote a program that would analyse all the files in a folder, and tell you what format they were, and what files were in them.

I was so happy when I got that working.