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jsprogrammeron Young, talented and fed-up: scientists tell their stories

At the least you could provide video recordings of your activities.

>This changed the team dynamics in a fundamental, toxic way. It engendered bitterness from them not only toward the company but to me as well, which ultimately led to all of us leaving the company for greener pastures but with lots of bad feelings all around.

The dynamics weren't changed, you were all just able to finally see the reality of your situation: you were being taken advantage of and no one told you.

jsprogrammeron Palantir CEO Says Data-Mining Company Is Positioned to Go Public

Palantir has been deployed into banks for years.

jsprogrammeron Palantir CEO Says Data-Mining Company Is Positioned to Go Public

Funny, I saw no man coming here.

jsprogrammeron How Goldman Sachs Lays People Off

Wouldn't the world fall apart if GS bankers weren't working at 100% capacity around the clock?

jsprogrammeron How Goldman Sachs Lays People Off

A union is a group of people who unite for a particular purpose, often contract negotiation.

jsprogrammeron Samsung Sets Its Reputation on Fire with Bogus DMCA Takedown Notices

I'm so glad that we have a congress that makes laws specifically to protect small content creators (at the behest of the largest corporations and their lobbies).

jsprogrammeron Snapchat Seeks to Raise as Much as $4B in IPO

Have you seen their investor roll?

Do you think they are sitting around looking for a 500m exit?

jsprogrammeron Hotel CEO celebrates higher prices in NYC after anti-Airbnb law passes

Is AirBnB really in the same market as hotels? I don't think AirBnB manages any property, do they?

Maybe they compete with franchises that solely license a brand?

jsprogrammeron Electronic surveillance up 5x in DC area since 2011, almost all sealed cases

>Paywall free, informative content?

Funny; a literal opaque wall asking me to login or view offers came down over the content when I loaded it up (with no apparent way of dismissing it).

jsprogrammeron Tesla plunges in Consumer Reports' rankings

I think it means: "For every 100 issues we had to address each day 12 months ago, we only have to address 8 issues per day, today."

jsprogrammeron Exposing high-end poker cheating devices

The cash dropped from tourists is probably worth the annoyance.

jsprogrammeron A Study of WebRTC Security

So, you were still getting a data connection, just no audio?

jsprogrammeron A Study of WebRTC Security

If you were going across browser versions/platforms, it's possible that an appropriate audio codec couldn't be negotiated...perhaps some browsers use different codecs for different network conditions? It seems unlikely, but possible.

So, you had video, but no audio?

jsprogrammeron Nice People Really Do Have More Fun

There is little ambiguity. The space of happiness was divided into two mutually exclusive groups (subtractive & additive) with the listed qualities.

jsprogrammeron Nice People Really Do Have More Fun

You can argue that they are not providing constructive feedback, but the claim was:

>a person tries to add happiness to their life by taking it away from other people around them

jsprogrammeron Nice People Really Do Have More Fun

You may want to look at why you desire to be elevated above others.

To me, thinking about others is not criticism. Criticism requires communication with the other party whom is the object of your thought.

Criticism was opposed to compliments in the lists, as if not agreeing (and actively making it known) with someone was a "negative" thing to be avoided (with the seeming implication that compliments should be given, regardless).

jsprogrammeron Nice People Really Do Have More Fun

That's exactly what the post said. Maybe you can provide a different interpretation?

>In subtractive, a person tries to add happiness to their life by taking it away from other people around them - putting people down, criticizing, picking on people, name calling, etc.

jsprogrammeron A Study of WebRTC Security

You must follow the 52ish-step handshake protocol pretty much exactly to have any hope of reliably creating connections across OS/browser platforms.

I don't think I had seen any handshake failures in the final versions of the code in those projects.

Also, you need a TURN to work reliably over every possible NAT topology (though, a few years ago I think only about 5% of connections in the wild required TURN).

jsprogrammeron Nice People Really Do Have More Fun

You may have a very skewed perspective if you think that anyone who is giving criticism is trying to make themselves happy at others' expense.

jsprogrammeron A Study of WebRTC Security

https://github.com/blakelapierre/instantfile

https://github.com/blakelapierre/instantchat

Can't say whether the HEADs work or not. They currently aren't hosted live at the moment, either.

jsprogrammeron Mass Hacks of Private Email Aren’t Whistleblowing, They Are at Odds with It

I was referring to this:

>The danger here is that were the government to effectively coop wikileaks itself, which you think is anti-government, it would become a brutal and effective trojan horse.

The malignment is that "the government" would somehow use wikileaks to some negative ends [sneak into our minds?!].

>The entirety of his comment

You'll note that the original article doesn't even contain the word "trojan", and only mentions Wikileaks twice -- never in the context of it being co-opt'd by a government.

jsprogrammeron A Study of WebRTC Security

I've had a WebRTC app tested working under multiple OS's (Windows, Linux, Android) and browsers (Chrome, Firefox, IE, Chrome for Android).

It did take more than a month to get to that point though.

jsprogrammeron Mass Hacks of Private Email Aren’t Whistleblowing, They Are at Odds with It

Do you know of a person serving a felony sentence for violating such law?

jsprogrammeron Mass Hacks of Private Email Aren’t Whistleblowing, They Are at Odds with It

I assume the author didn't mean literal-figurative blind faith, as how would you even know to associate something with wikileaks?

The "blind faith" (I'm not suggesting it exists [nor that it doesn't], as the author does) is a result of previously publishing many things that appear to be true with no examples (at least that anyone here has revealed) of published falsehoods.

jsprogrammeron Mass Hacks of Private Email Aren’t Whistleblowing, They Are at Odds with It

Sounds like a seriously repressive state. If the law were used, it could be invalidated as it is in violation of a person's right to make records of their observations and, especially, their right to publish those records.

jsprogrammeron Mass Hacks of Private Email Aren’t Whistleblowing, They Are at Odds with It

Did you read my comment? It wasn't about the piece, but the comment I responded to.

jsprogrammeron Mass Hacks of Private Email Aren’t Whistleblowing, They Are at Odds with It

DNC is held to the standards its members enforce.

jsprogrammeron Mass Hacks of Private Email Aren’t Whistleblowing, They Are at Odds with It

The faith in WikiLeaks isn't blind. It will only take one false publication to destroy its credibility.

All that matters is whether the facts published are accurate. Maligning the source (particularly on speculation) is a pre-emptive ad hominem non-sequitor.

jsprogrammeron Mass Hacks of Private Email Aren’t Whistleblowing, They Are at Odds with It

The US has a prohibition on government snooping. There is no such prohibition on private intelligence gathering; in fact, the publication of such intelligence is specifically protected.