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Definitely. I posted pertinent info recently that was also modded away and swore not to contribute anymore in disgust. Censorship is about the least "hacker" thing around. I still …

How to miss the point with smart minds: 1. Pigeonhole people (' developer', ' developer'...) 2. Demand people who have prior access to adequate funds for international transport an…

I was offered a job by Mega and flew to visit their primary development office which is actually located in Bangkok, Thailand. All those guys have walked free. When discussing thei…

I placed a fair comment here regarding the related US government's manipulation of SWIFT and credit card companies to block both Wikileaks and Iran recently (in addition to this ca…

Other recent examples of the US' undemocratic use of its (arguably largely undue) control of financial networks include the blocking of Wikileaks and the pressure on Europe to give…

Australian here. I spent some years working in Oz, left in late 2001, lived overseas (most of a decade in China - now very expensive - plus a year each in the UK and US) and just m…

Eww. I can't believe you used a non-word with such corporate origins! Down with McVerbiage. ('Loving' is an adjective or 'describing word'. 'Love' is a verb or 'doing word'. Theref…

Outright sale is nothing - at least there's a record! The real story is AMDOCS, an Israeli/American intelligence asset so brazen in its strategy as to be successful. AMDOCS approac…

The author's conclusion suggests that third party wallets are unnecessary because they purport to solve anonymization problems via this mixing protocol. This statement is based on …

Yeah yeah. Greatest thing since sliced bread. What if we go to http://yoursite/.git or http://yoursite/.svn ? Often we get free passwords and other information.

I am a (web programmer with some experience now viewing myself as a) secure programmer: 1. I will not store sensitive data in plain text, I will protect it in a suitable manner. (E…

Depends heavily on the project. I have worked for some 'big' (in terms of cost, number of people involved, number of companies involved) projects where the spec was basically a ser…

The notion that 'treating history as a science' originated with Jared Diamond is plain wrong, unless perhaps you wanted to build a case for it in a modern American pop-psychologica…

I overengineer everything as a matter of course. IMHO, always, places that support this wind up winning from the habit, places that don't support this wind up dying because of a la…

"My mind’s eye could just see The Buddha face-palming". Haha! Such a great turn of phrase! Honestly, everything in this article makes sense. I've also had these same experiences. N…

The important parts of this eventually come to experienced programmers. I would favour a version of this document that included those with justifications. The less important parts …

Up your rates. Politely explain that, regrettably, though you would like to continue to work together in future, you simply cannot afford to continue along the current trajectory a…

"Wikipedia represents a massive expenditure of energy recovered from not watching television" - hear, hear. Open distribution of file format documentation? Pfft, licensing issues..…

Best job ever. Change world, challenge self, cool co-workers. No management hassle. 100% remote.

Buddha's take: don't believe anything because it is written in your religious texts, handed down by your parents or teachers. Instead, after consideration, should something accord …

Real hackers use their powers for good.

Sat out Google's annual shareholders' meeting - "unspecified condition affecting his voice" - [some] Wall St. analysts "expressed concern about the lack of information."

This post is a perfect example of the quintessentially quippy, conceited, young male American perspective that dominates HN.

Dear Asus: if you are designing the bees-knees of routers, why can't you provide a simple, maximum power consumption figure? This is important to me, since power is solar. I downlo…