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odinduty··on Launching the Electronic Frontier Alliance
The EFF is a liberal lobby. I'm very concerned they are being regarded as the gatekeepers of our freedom, be it online or offline.
odinduty··on Can you fundraise in Silicon Valley while pregnant?
The question is not whether you can fundraise, the question is whether you are physically and mentally fit during and after the birth to run a company with the level of stress, anxiety, etc. it will mean and the huge amount of time you will have to dedicate to it.
odinduty··on The mobile games industry is kept afloat by less than 1% of users
>Release ad-supported games (everyone hates ads!).

Do people hate ad-supported games more than they hate games that nag you to spend money on them constantly?

odinduty··on The mobile games industry is kept afloat by less than 1% of users
I doubt anybody is relying on children for revenue...
odinduty··on Microsoft chatbot is taught to swear on Twitter
Because it's pretending to be a human, and humans follow music or the telly.
odinduty··on Obama Has Gotten 3,000+ Tweets about Encryption. Let’s Double That
Do you honestly think he's going to read any of them? I can't imagine him scrolling through his notifications feed, but hey, who knows what he does when he's sitting on the toilet :P
odinduty··on Alert: NPM modules hijacked
Name squatting in those package managers is a real problem. I found this on pypi and it was a very unpleasant surprise. https://sourceforge.net/p/pypi/support-requests/571/
odinduty··on An administrator accidentally deleted the production database
I updated the hash and the salt in the same query. They weren't salted against the user id or anything like that, just a second column for the salt, which is... common practice.
odinduty··on An administrator accidentally deleted the production database
I have a story about that based on real facts(TM): I once had to reset my own password on a production database and I decided to hash it by hand and UPDATE my row in the users table.

A few hours later we had got a few calls from angry customers who couldn't log in. I had effectively forgotten the WHERE clause so all users had the same password: mine.

Extra points for not having read the "xxx rows updated" line that the mysql console outputs after each query...

odinduty··on An administrator accidentally deleted the production database
Well, who hasn't done a DELETE without a WHERE clause? ;P
odinduty··on iPhone SE
Isn't "show your face to unlock your phone" part of the standard Android core, and not Samsung's creation?
odinduty··on Brussels Rocked by Terrorist Attacks
Why would we bomb Syria? Isn't the al-Assad government working against ISIS and related organisations?
odinduty··on Brussels Rocked by Terrorist Attacks
I guess it's hard to feel in any other way when recent migration policies have translated into a sharp decline of our own security in our own developed countries.
odinduty··on Punch Club has been pirated over 1M times
The tables in the "Top pirated countries on PC, Portuguese Localization Launch Day" section would make much more sense if they were about the % of pirates instead of raw numbers...
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