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vandeaq··on Ask HN: What do you do if someone is already building what you wanted to build?
Build it better / different / more focused.
vandeaq··on How to test if a child is interested in programming?
Modding Minecraft might be a good place to start, assuming like so many kids that age he is into it.
vandeaq··on Ask HN: Should I accept an internship at Google or pursue my own startup?
Why can't you do both?
vandeaq··on Rand Paul Pledges to Immediately End NSA Mass Surveillance If Elected President
"The president created this vast dragnet by executive order." That's a remarkable simplification. Makes a good sound bite, but demonstrates, to me anyway, that he doesn't mean what he's saying.

Falsifying the origin of a problem you claim to intend to fix puts that claim in quite a bit of doubt.

vandeaq··on F.C.C. Is Expected to Propose Regulating the Internet as a Utility
The net becomes a utility (and ISPs utility providers), and every breach, exploit, or unprotected private data leak becomes a terrorist action at prosecutorial discretion.

Something to think about.

vandeaq··on Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak
I dual booted for years, and finally made the switch to Linux full time just over two years ago.

Configuring a fresh Linux install takes a bit of effort, but that effort is adding things I want to make it just the way I like, rather than removing unnecessary cruft to get it more or less how I like. That's a key difference for me.