ephemeralgomi

I half-disagree with you: the NSA's actions, IMHO, certainly do amount to a violation of the right to privacy. However, calling the ability to run the javascript development console on a page a 'right' is a stretch, I agree.

Please feel free to read the actual article and quote it and find fault with its conclusions. As it is now you're seizing on individual words, not ideas. If this were a Turing test you wouldn't be doing so well.

Yup, that is a completely legitimate argument to raise.

The poster did not "connect this to the NSA". She/he argues that blindly acquiescing to removal of rights in the name of security is a bad idea, using the NSA phone tapping deal as a point of comparison.

The poster did not "tie this bit of javascript to the NSA". She/he argues that blindly acquiescing to removal of rights in the name of security is a bad idea, using the NSA phone tapping deal as a point of comparison.

Sounds more like he forgot to wrap multiple mutually dependent queries in a transaction. It doesn't require advanced technology to make a mistake.

You appear to have a different definition of definition than I do.

You're doing fine, this guy is just bikeshedding. Thanks for the tool, it certainly helped me.

Yeah, if there's no path to a solution, the text should say "Your computer is correctly following the undesired behavior described in HT6147" in a soothing green color.

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There is a big difference between "We stopped being evil at some point" and "we stopped being successful enough to pull off the evil shit that we really, really wanted to do". The DRM[0] that Microsoft were trying to bundle with the Xbox One just scant months ago is the same Microsoft I remember - and they thought that they could pull it off because they were the market leader last console generation. If Microsoft gets any headway with any other of their products, I know exactly what they're going to use it for, whether good-hearted programmers working there support it or not.

For me, it's really not a matter of hatred, I've gotten over it. It's just straightforward ROI. I'd need a really compelling reason to consider Microsoft technology, to offset the expected amount of integration pain, license cajoling, oh-but-it-really-only-works-if-you're-using-a-full-MS-stack bait and switchery that I've experienced in the past. There's more than enough fantastic tech out there to keep me busy that doesn't have that baggage attached. Sorry, guys.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_one#Initial_used_games_and...

I would absolutely have pegged this as satire, but it looks like a Eugene Ross did indeed place second in a web design competition in Sarasota.

http://www.sarasotacountyschools.net/schools/sarasotahigh/in...

Ctrl-F Eugene Ross

I think the_watcher's top-level comment is pretty spot-on here - it's a feature that happens to be great for both parties.

Read the article more carefully. He's saying that Google benefits from incognito mode, since it causes your normal cookie store (which contains cookies valuable to google) to persist longer than if you just habitually wiped your history.

The title should probably be something different.

They didn't "translate" it. The piece you're referring to is satire.

previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7160544

It's contained in the first graf. They were arrested. That's what the news is.

The rest of the article is background explaining who Hunter Moore is, to clarify why his arrest is newsworthy.

via reductio ad absurdum, do you also think it's alright to reappropriate swaths of CSS, HTML, and images from other people's web designs?

You weren't around for DeCSS, I guess?

Loading the standard library takes time. With a smaller (underimplemented) standard library, you can get to the user's code much more quickly.

I think kmfrk is implying his place of employment doesn't use git.

Probably most of their logging _is_ meaningful, but deciding how to professionally phrase each and every log message will eventually get you to decision fatigue.

The point that he was making with this was that over-logging is a good thing - this probably wasn't something the initial author thought was going to be terribly informative, hence the random string. And yet it ended up diagnosing a real world problem.

In a perfect world, by all means properly write out your messages - but if you're stalling on a log message because you're not sure how to phrase it, you may get concrete benefit from just dropping a FUUUCCKKKKKasdjkfnff and moving on.