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ghrifter

146 karma · joined February 12, 2015

Full Stack Web Dev - 6 years of experience.

skills: C# C++ C Python Javascript SQL HTML(5) CSS(3) Graphics Design Photoshop

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ghrifter··on You Want 20% for Handing Me a Muffin? The Awkward Etiquette of iPad Tipping
> relic of slavery

... what?

Tipping was something that the patricians/bourgie upper class did to help uplift the waiters/service staff in Europe. It caught on in the USA in the late 1800s and fell out of favor from that upper class in Europe by then.

Largely, USA coopted a "noble gesture" from wealthy Europeans and it has persisted ever since for like a century.

Anyways, I hate tipping as well.

ghrifter··on What happened when Boston Public Schools tried for equity with an algorithm
What did you do as an enlisted guy?
ghrifter··on Potent malware that hid for six years spread through routers
Wasnt this attack triggered by scattering payloaded USBs around the facility, and someone plugged it in? lol
ghrifter··on Ask HN: What has HN given you?
Thanks for the free private repos. Thats what sold me on moving from GitHub to Gitlab.

Also, I dont like GitHub's political posturing nonsense, so thats a major reason too.

ghrifter··on Learning to program is getting harder
This is a good example. Im in my mid twenties and just discovered yesterday that (at least on Windows 10) that a user and a computer have _entirely_ different permissions.

I always thought it was account based! At least thats what my coworker and IT guy explained it to me as.

ghrifter··on Show HN: Card Proxy Generator – Generate printable game cards from JSON
Basic programming tasks amaze HN nowadays
ghrifter··on Intel Responds to Security Research Findings
Source please?
ghrifter··on Effective Engineer – Notes
Wow yet another Github Markdown README about how to be good at X or a list of things of X
ghrifter··on Ask HN: What do you look forward to doing in 2018?
In my final semester at Uni I applied for jobs, and for half my second semester I worked a flexible 15 to 30 hours a week and still finished with all As.
ghrifter··on How I learned to program
1990s internet style of blog posts or give me death
ghrifter··on Remove my password from lists so hackers won't be able to hack me
> I'm going to let this one slide

Thanks for your benevolence.

ghrifter··on Max Howell, author of Homebrew, on being rejected for a job at Google
Basically you stated that there are entrepreneurs and then also people who just wanna put bread on the table, just like any other discipline.

There are two types of hair dressers: ones that open their own shop (startup), and others that join existing shops (corporate)

ghrifter··on F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules
You realize Kim Jong Un wants nukes so he doesnt get the same treatment as Saddam and Ghadaffi right?

Its just a self deterrent.

ghrifter··on F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules
USA is a democratic republic...

Also, USA is the world empire AKA superpower.

ghrifter··on F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules
Title II is a loooot more than being classified as a "utility"

Theres a lot of reports and other tasks that the ISP would have to do, but was put of 2 to 3 years since 2015.

ghrifter··on Berlin police find radioactive iodine on playing cards
I wonder if the cards found were inspired by the novel
ghrifter··on Radio Attack Lets Hackers Steal Cars with Just $20 Worth of Gear
I like manual windows but also automatic windows in cars.

I still can't really fathom starting a car if I dont turn the key manually... I guess its like you say, silly until you use it

ghrifter··on Why I don't support Net Neutrality
\> Automated TL;DR to save global hacking time

wew. yes our precious "hacking" time for making web apps

ghrifter··on Join the Battle for Net Neutrality
How?
ghrifter··on An Open Letter to the FCC
The FCC has effectively ignored the rules and stalled their way to victory.

Nawh, they are following the power delegation given to them by congress. They dont have to do fuck all for public comments, other then recieve them, document them, and say "we got feedback but fuck yall we going forward"

ghrifter··on An Open Letter to the FCC
Ok, so you lose your job due to your commission expiring, or you get replaced by a new administration.

but you cant be a lobbyist

so what do you work for? other goverment jobs, or back to the private sector.

what if we had a google exec become some internet government position, then went back to google? would there be this public outcry?

ghrifter··on An Open Letter to the FCC
Most commissioners for all sorts of branches/govmt arms come from the private sector...But-but Verizon!!!

ugh. No one ever bothers to bring up this document either, which isnt going away... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_Open_Internet_Order_2010

ghrifter··on An Open Letter to the FCC
Most commissioners for all sorts of branches/govmt arms come from the private sector...

However, being from Verizon is noticeable.

ghrifter··on FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose the sites customers see
page 29 - https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-17-60A1_Rc...

85. Need for the No Paid Prioritization Rule. The Commission concluded in the Title II Order that “fast lanes” or “paid prioritization” practices “harm consumers, competition, and innovation, as well as create disincentives to promote broadband deployment.”189 The Commission adopted this ex ante flat ban on individual negotiations to address an apparently nonexistent problem. The ban on paid prioritization did not exist prior to the Title II Order and even then the record evidence confirmed that no such rule was needed since several large Internet service providers made it clear that that they did not engage in paid prioritization190 and had no plans to do so.191 We seek comment on the continued need for such a rule and our authority to retain it.

ex ante: based on forecasts rather than actual results.

ghrifter··on FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose the sites customers see
Its taking away title 2, not enforcing draconian content policing like PIPA and SOPA
ghrifter··on China's Race to Find Aliens First
To exterminate us so that we dont have a chance to challenge them could be a motivation.
ghrifter··on Nineteen people a week overdose in Richmond, dozens are dying, hundreds revived
what the fuck are you on about? wrong thread?
ghrifter··on Anvil: full stack web apps built only with Python
Do you have a list of like full fledged apps that users/companies have made?
ghrifter··on ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More
Amazon currently streams Thursday Night Football
ghrifter··on Submarine aircraft carrier
Poes Law. I hope this is a joke.
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