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The title of the article is misleading. The issue here isn't about putting cameras on private property. As I understand it, the judge was saying that in a place that the police cou…

This is an area that it is worth paying someone who knows and has done it several times before. There are brokers who do this for a living, and are good at it. The commission they …

I have no idea about anything having to do with the Megaupload case, but private business influences the actions of government agencies all the time. It isn't as simple as a number…

There is a gap between IM/chat and email and documents, specifically in regard to remote team collaboration. That was one of the strengths of Google Wave, except that Wave had a le…

Different people communicate well in different ways. There's a tendency to think there's a right way to do these things. There isn't. You have to have a way for people to chat with…

There are times when a company needs a "rock star," and there are times when that's the last person you want to hire. It takes all kinds, and there is work that is enjoyable for al…

It is true that things are rarely as simple as we'd like to draw them. It is also true that the current system we have for political contributions breeds corruption, not just in on…

Thanks for taking the time to give that input. It's a valid point about how well we're communicating on the site. My blog post completely aside, I am still genuinely interested in …

What creative things have people done or can think of doing with a monitoring service, in addition to monitoring their main sites and servers? Here were my eight initial thoughts, …

Thanks! That's a very good question, and the honest answer is because we're geeks and design is much harder work for us than building functionality. I guess that's another argument…

As long as we have a sue-happy society, companies will use privacy policies to limit liability. That means they will continue to be documents with more text than most of us are lik…

I'd agree that a balancing proxy is more appropriate for HA. The post mentions that this is specifically not intended as a high availability solution. It's a fairly narrow use.

I don't think that "it was never designed to" and what you should do with a technology necessarily go together. A lot of innovation comes from doing things with technology that it …

I think the issues are the same as they always have been. No matter what your platform, you can't trust user input. Your OS has to be as secure as it is reasonable to make it. Obsc…

I laughed at both your initial response and IsaacSchlueter's comment. Valid points from both. It would have been a little odd for me to say "Nice use case for Python" considering t…

I think you've hit on the key point when talking about writing. You have to do what works for your style, and for the way your own brain works. Everybody else's statements about wh…

Great use case for Node.js.

Yes, thank you. Just after I posted my question here I realized that much of what I was wondering about was also answered in another post on the Cloudant blog: http://blog.cloudant…

How does this compare to the various existing Lucene based search options for CouchDB? The post says the new Cloudant Search "is a way that would not require you to set up a third-…

I've learned to pay people to do the things they know well and I don't, and use the time gained to have people pay me for the things I like doing and am good at. Use an accountant,…