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No worries though. I won't be bothering you guys with my upvotes and comments any longer. You regulars can down vote everything I ever posted if you like. It's clear n00bs aren't welcome here. I won't be coming back to your site.

Of those who graduated... of those who found a job at all.

>$59,950 for tuition, room, board and fees combined

If a summer job could pay for that, then why would I need a college degree to make $47K annually? Harry Lewis is le trollin.

Last I heard, Trapster was forced to remove DUI checkpoints to stay on the app store. That was after attempts to rule it illegal in court failed. Same result. Crowdsourced DUI checkpoint apps are effectively gone if the stores don't have them. If only a few sideloaders have them, then there's no crowd to source.

This would work in a similar manner, but would expose the cops' fake cell towers. I fully expect this to suffer a similar fate.

That is not to say I don't like the project. I commented just so I could find it again in the future :)

There's your answer, isn't it? They don't want to stop these programs. They benefit from the economic espionage. Actions speak louder than words.

Does he really think anyone expects to get professionally retouched photos out of a phone?

As for licensing, I mainly wonder if the girl receives a cut of the income or if she's simply exploited either way.

http://gigaom.com/2014/07/16/un-human-rights-report-blows-ap...

http://www.vox.com/2014/7/17/5910299/5-ways-obama-may-have-v...

I don't have to come to this website for that matter. The reason I do is because of the focus on technology news. If that is going to change, then I will leave and go elsewhere. I already find myself checking datatau before hn these days, because the content is so much more focused/relevant/better.

>Also, your categorization of "global warming warriors" seems a bit senseless, as if there are not regular folks on HN who happen to also be interested in climate change.

Then they can go to a climate change news site. Is it too much to ask that the submissions to a tech news site be on topic? Given my down votes, I guess it is. So long, and thanks for all the fish.

Why is it global warming warriors decide to invade every tech board? Isn't there a global warming board somewhere they can argue on?

If they're doing it, why not instead work on building a mesh. There are enough wireless hotspots in my metro area to link up the whole city if only these things talked to each other instead of to the centralized wired network.

http://highscalability.com/numbers-everyone-should-know

If you just had to say "avoid nested loops" there would be no problem. Programming a solution that works at scale requires math and understanding where you will have bottlenecks before you write a single line of code.

>understanding the domain problem is better inoculation

How does one understand a problem without understanding boolean algebra?

Example. You have good/bad credit, car/motorcycle, new/used, drivers license yes/no. Which combinations allow testDrive()? Now add condition 'ok' to credit, moped and 18 wheeler to vehicles, and commercial to driver's license, because the boss forgot about those. Now how many combinations? Who is allowed to do what? How do you arrange the code so you don't spend time evaluating methods when driver's license of 'no' can short circuit the entire operation? (oh, except for moped, in certain states)

That's entirely boolean logic. If a person is not good at that, they suck at programming AND understanding domain problems.

If you don't use mathematical reasoning, then you'll produce O(n^3) when you could have produced O(n). Any hack can throw together a script that will hobble along with 4 rows of data. Throw a million rows at the same script and it might terminate properly in a few years. Or maybe it just runs out of memory half way through.

Another problem is winding inefficient boolean branching. If you don't understand boolean algebra, you either over specify cases which makes code cluttered and disorganized, or you under specify and some cases are not considered at all... The result in either case is always buggy code that crashes. It becomes like a virus. Other lesser programmers are afraid to fix it, because it's so complicated. Instead, they just tweak the mess to accomplish their own goals, adding more bad boolean logic along the way. It infects everything it touches.

Finally, certain fields of programming, like machine learning, are almost entirely math and statistics. So, yeah, you don't need math to (poorly) do programming (in certain fields).

There's also the fact that Google only started challenging the FISA court post-Snowden. To my knowledge, they're not even challenging the unconstitutional spying, just the gag order preventing Google from telling you how frequently Google turns over your data to the feds.

This isn't just some theoretical, might be spying on "those people" sort of thing either. If you're reading this website, you probably are/have been a target:

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/document/2014/03/20/hunt-...

Since Google openly acknowledges that Google never really deletes anything from gmail and other services (disk is cheap), they're providing information about you that even you have long forgotten.

And finally, if you say "I have nothing to hide, I have nothing to fear" then you have completely missed the point of how this stuff works. Remember they target you, everyone who contacts you, and everyone who contacts that extended group.

With that information, they find out who you love, and which ones of those people have pressure points. "Viraptor, it has come to our attention that your father is evading taxes. You wouldn't want anything bad to happen to your father, would you? We would like you to do some work for us in your role as sysadmin. Then we can forget about that incident..."

I think the author of 3s screwed up by going iOS first. There are millions of hungry Android devs out there. If you release a game that's iOS only, and it turns out to be really popular, and it has fairly simple game logic... there will be an Android clone in under 24 hours.

It's a cautionary tale. Release on iOS first at your own risk.

The ROI of a college degree earned 30 years ago is high. Recent college graduates aren't faring so well. Those who do have jobs are frequently underemployed, living with their parents, and buried under school loans.

I have never once seen apache generate a self signed cert and default to http off for all connections. But sure, you didn't say that. I was simply drawing a parallel argument to what you were saying about PSTNs.

So let me make one more logical fallacy since the article clearly isn't providing enough info to prove either of our arguments.

Appeal to authority: Who should I trust dude? You, random internet poster, or Phil Zimmermann? I'm going with the guy who invented PGP and has a reputation and track record on encryption. Through his actions, he has built lots of trust/cred. You have not. If he has started a company, is delivering this as a product, and marketing that aspect as a feature, he clearly believes that it offers some benefit over a fully unencrypted line.

I'm willing to give that man the benefit of the doubt. You on the other hand could be working for the NSA and trying to derail interest in his product for all I know. Oops, that was two logical fallacies.