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Generally shared email accounts are problematic. Have you guys considered a mailing list or a delegated mailbox?

They used to have another interface for this which was way more powerful, and let you delete all your history for a service at once (ie. delete all of your YouTube search history). This seems like a downgrade designed to make you work harder to erase your history, since you have to do it item by item.

What languages do you already know?

Seems to be down... (I can't imagine the ACM is _that_ easy to take down..?)

Really shittily. >.<

We use Passpack -- terrible UX, some debatable security-vs-practicality tradeoffs, no password manager integration, no decent export, but does have a good amount of control and functionality.

Do you have a link to a job posting or an email address by any chance?

If it hasn't been very long, but still long enough for them to get some space and perspective, then I second scott_s' advice. They might feel the same way, and you might come back together stronger than you were before.

If it's been too long, I think it's still worth a shot, but you're more likely to have a cordial but somewhat distant relationship rather than a return to best-friendship.

I can't speak to El Capitan, but no Apple software has dropped anything in /usr/local that I've found in the last 3+ releases. I'm very confident El Capitan would continue that history.

A lot of other apps do put stuff there though (when I wish they'd keep it in their own bundle).

Even worse, a lot of other apps drop stuff into /usr/bin.

I'm curious about your French Foreign Legion comment; can you elaborate?

Google Translate almost holds it together...until the very end...

Original:

  In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

[a half dozen languages later...]

Result:

  God created heaven and earth in the beginning. And the earth was formless and empty, and darkness was on the face of the abyss, man. Answer the Spirit of God on the water surface.

I don't know about the Portuguese job market, but in Silicon Valley, I think it would make a difference. (At least at a first glance; you could probably explain it away to an individual -- but the problem would be getting to the point where you would have the opportunity to talk to them.)

If you're not highly adverse to math and physics, I would make the switch.

Surely we didn't take down a site from the _second_ page of HN... :P

Search suggestions?

Thanks.

JFYI, under operating systems, "Macintosh" should be "OS X". Macs are the hardware, OS X is the operating system that runs on the hardware. :)

Naming stuff. :P

Honestly, half the time when I go to name my app, my script, or even an entire damn company, I wind up spending more time thinking about the name than I did building the stupid thing. -___-

Some of the names are downright embarrassing three weeks later when I reflect on them.

I've always enjoyed this sort of Digg-style community site that's run by this weird, famous, early-stage VC firm...the name is escaping me at the moment though...

But seriously, if you like Nautilus, I think you'll probably like aeon.co. MIT's Technology Review occasionally puts out interesting stuff (but caveat emptor, I'm starting to develop some doubts over their journalistic skills).

If you're talking about a security product -- which TrueCrypt is -- the first metric you have to concern yourself with is: does it keep you secure? The user experience and the adoption and the performance and all that other fun stuff is irrelevant if the product doesn't do the one thing that every user unequivocally requires of it.

So yes, it's not just about the crypto...when the crypto works. But when the crypto is insecure, which is what tptacek is saying, then yes, it is ONLY about the crypto.

NB: I'm plenty qualified on UX and general technical matters, but on whether crypto is secure, I defer to the experts.

I spent all last night searching for an answer to this question. I couldn't find one.

As far as FDE goes, yes. But TrueCrypt was rather unique in that it provided (then) trusted cross-platform encrypted containers, not necessarily encrypted disks.

I spent several hours last night trying to find a trustworthy, free tool to encrypt some files that would make them accessible across all my OSes (I use Windows, Linux, _and_ OS X). After looking at Ciphershed and Veracrypt, I didn't find confidence in them, so the closest thing I could come up with was one-off style encryption -- eg. GPG. And I just don't see a good workflow wherein every time I want to access a 3 Mb file I have to unencrypt, untarball, access, retarball, reencrypt 100 GB of files. Or write a script that's going to sort through a couple hundred files to ensure they're all encrypted without tarballing.

So yeah, now I jump through hoops using one OS's encryption mechanism, and then kinda-sorta sharing the porn to the other OSes in a way that I hope is semi-secure and I try to make sure I clean up after myself.

Edit: In the time I wrote this, I see a huge discussion has blown up around TrueCrypt's containers/block encryption. If anyone has a tool that can encrypt a collection of files and make them transparently accessible to other apps in a cross-platform way, I'm all ears.

This is what I do.

My passwords live in the same container too.

Except for the whole TrueCrypt-abandonment-and-scary-mysterious-warning debacle.

There's a couple up-and-coming replacements though, which hopefully will be usable soon.

Emergency services do not (typically) use Google Maps. They use special navigation services that can plot optimal routes while ignoring certain traffic rules. For example, fire trucks can and will go the wrong way down a one-way street; something Google Maps will not account for.

I believe that a (relative) large number of HNers could pull 2M in comp annually. I believe very, very few could do so in a purely-technical, no-management role though...PG included.

I'd love to see Google PR put out a statement explaining that your definition of Corp Dev is what Google uses. :P

I've worked with Aline. She's fucking awesome.

0. Software is supposed to be designed to serve me; it's not my job to find workarounds for shitty design. This is a shitty design, and therefore people are criticizing it.

1. It's annoying because I already have all the birthdays I want on my iCloud calendar; it's creating a pile of duplicate events.

2. It's annoying in 3rd party apps when you hit a show/hide all calendars button, but you never want to see the Birthdays calendar.

3. Some 3rd party apps don't let you show/hide calendars in general, and this isn't a writable calendar, so it's doubly annoying. (Yes, this is shitty design too.)

As I was scrolling through the list, that was my thought too... "Hey, check out all these porn sites I didn't know about!"

Then I realized their master plan: they're protecting their business model by (1) making it harder for us to do our work since it's harder for us to find the software libraries/tools we need, and (2) by providing us with a list of porn sites they fill up the time we would've otherwise spent coding.

> it's trivial for even a mildly technical person to figure out how to get around it

Copy & paste?

Just because a past fork was shitty doesn't mean all future forks will be shitty. There were other issues aside from lock-in.