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That's like, way insightful, like, man. Pass the J?

Your name is very relevant to your post :).

And at least 4 or 5 people care enough about it to respond to me, so i think your anger is a bit unfounded.

I'm not telling you how to live your life. Please, feel free to take ridiculous risks. Give up all your worldly possessions and move to the SF bay area. Start boring web 2.0 apps. Do a startup or whatever. Go to burning man. I'll be over here enjoying my nice, stable life.

mtogoon Steve Jobs has died

He's right-- if you're about to die, there are no limitations. You can, for example, cook meth with one of your former students.

The problem is when you're not about to die. Then embarrassment and failure are real issues. You do have something to lose-- your life! Your friends, your house, your possessions, your family, so many things to lose.

If you're going to lose it all anyway, taking risks is not a big deal. If you're 20 something and have your whole life ahead of you, taking risks is a really big deal.

Rest in peace jobs, you will be missed.

mtogoon Xbox 360 Teams Up With Entertainment Leaders to Transform TV

Or http://thepiratebay.org/

mtogoon Pirate Party Germany now at 8% in nationwide polls

> I'm suprised that party which seeks to seriously impair (if not completely blow) the software industry gets so much applause here.

Yeah, you may want to explain exactly how. To me it seems like the pirate party's values are right in line with your average software developer's values.

Just because you don't agree with a political party's agenda does not mean news about that party isn't HN material.

mtogoon PHP needs to die. What will replace it?

Lua, really? Could you provide some examples?

mtogoon Comparing Hacker News & the Slashdot Effect

Subjective. I use Firefox because it's a more stable, modern, and featureful browser than Chromium in my opinion. That doesn't make one of us more "on the edge" than the other.

You're basically saying that since one community prefers strawberry ice cream to chocolate, they're more modern somehow.

mtogoon Bitbucket now rocks Git

In BB's defense, GH's issue system is horribly underpowered too.

mtogoon "How much does a website cost?" – a survey of web designers

I way overpay for my phone plan. I pay for it because i have to, not because the pricing is fair.

If you charge $400 to update your client's web site, you're just price gouging because they don't know any better. Pathetic.

mtogoon Bitbucket now rocks Git

Blog post by schacon trash talking bitbucket in 3... 2... 1...

mtogoon It’s official: Google+ will be connected to everything

http://fastmail.fm/

http://tuffmail.com/

mtogoon Google Drive: Is the Dropbox Party Over?

Erm, it's not vaporware. GApps has had this feature for years now, they're just rebranding it as google drive to compete with dropbox.

mtogoon "How much does a website cost?" – a survey of web designers

Whoa dude, $392.10 for you to just change content on a site? Set up a CMS and let the client change it themselves.

mtogoon Show HN: I built a tool I wanted to have, but didn’t exist

> My advice to anybody here who's currently building one of the four dozen photo tweeting services/Facebook cookie cleaners/thing-that-fixes-the-css-on-hackernews's that get submitted here every day: Stop.

Hi. I rather enjoy making little css-mess-withers and other things that may not be quite as profitable as this. We all have things we enjoy doing, and I'm going to keep doing the things i enjoy doing.

So thanks for the unsolicited advice, but I think I'll survive without it.

mtogoon Show HN: gpgsend.com - encrypted emails from your browser.

| What about SSL?

| SSL will not be helpful here, since no sensitive information is ever sent to this server. All encryption is done BEFORE it leaves your computer!

This made me cry.

And that's not even mentioning that I'm typing a possibly sensitive message into your app and just hoping that you're going to encrypt it with the right key and not read it yourself.

mtogoon Facebook is scaring me

Noted, thanks!

mtogoon Facebook is scaring me

They both install and run, but they use beforeRequest and edit the page content. This works in theory, but in practice there is no guarantee that the script will be loaded into the page before the tracker assets are. The ghostery/disconnect addons succeed in blocking trackers sometimes, but not all. Ghostery handles it a bit better than Disconnect does, as it will actually tell you which trackers it was able to block and which it wasn't.

The experimental webRequest API will solve that by providing a synchronous way for scripts to deny/allow connections before any requests are made, but webRequest won't be made available to non-experimental addons for a few months at the minimum.

More info: https://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/trunk/experimental...

mtogoon Facebook is scaring me

127.0.0.1 facebook.com

127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com

127.0.0.1 connect.facebook.com

127.0.0.1 fbcdn.com

mtogoon Facebook is scaring me

Just a note: Neither Ghostery or Disconnect work in Chrome, since Chrome doesn't have any kind of ability to block requests from being made. The experimental webRequest API should help with that, but it hasn't been released yet.

mtogoon Facebook is scaring me

It doesn't. Noscript blocks scripts and plugins from executing on the page and AdBlock blocks a specific list of ads.

Ghostery blocks a list of trackers such as google analytics, KISSmetrics, and facebook social plugins[1]. Ghostery generally won't affect the page at all except in invisible ways, but it will remove Like, Tweet, +1, etc buttons to prevent requests from being made to Facebook/etc.

You can also fine-grain set Ghostery to allow certain trackers, like Google+ buttons, while still blocking all the others.

[1] The tracker that this article is about.

P.S.: Watch out as Ghostery doesn't actually work on Chrome. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3034093

mtogoon Tornado 2.1 released

It all boils down to what you prefer. They're both relatively mature software packages that are being used by tons in production.

Whichever you choose, you may find that http://socket.io/ saves you some time by inventing various wheels you may have needed to reinvent (for use with tornado, see the tornadio project).

mtogoon South Korea NIS admits to "packet tapping" Gmail

He's not asking for a citation; grandparent said there was another discussion on the subject so parent (and I) wanted to read that discussion.

mtogoon Google Wallet Likely Launching Tomorrow

Google's entire business is collecting data. What would make you think they're not collecting this info?

mtogoon Ask HN: 1 minute Survey About Open Source Software in Your Products

It's good etiquette to post the results page with the poll so that it benefits the entire community, not just yourself.

mtogoon StackRocket: Build and share virtualized dev stacks, start coding in minutes

Current features:

  * Landing page

  * Sign up form

mtogoon Tech Jobs stays open for months, unemployment under 4%

Haha, funny.

Wait, that was a joke, right?

mtogoon How To Encrypt Your Gmail & Facebook Messages

Ah yes, AES implemented in javascript and dropped in a page via bookmarklet. What could possibly go wrong?

mtogoon Teach our kids to code

Yes. I recommended it to a few people squarely in it's target market and not a single one could understand HH, and not one even wanted to use it. The same people then learned various languages through different means and had no problems. To me that is pretty damning.

mtogoon Please don't use pie charts

That.. I had no idea that kind of chart existed. I think.. I think i need to sit down.