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Despite some well-publicized departures, I'm still bullish on Mozilla. As javascript becomes more capable, Mozilla's open-web mission becomes more attainable. Public awareness of w…

7 years at any organization is a long time, and with so few rungs above him on the ladder, it is only reasonable that he'd move on to something else.

I think you're right that UX and good security are often at odds, but I wouldn't go so far as to say that they _must_. I view the current state of security in applications a a resu…

Have been using dokku on DigitalOcean since the 0.2.0, for personal projects. After bumping up against the poor quality of database plugins, I found "dokku-alt", which comes with p…

What is omitted from the article is the difference in the _size_ of the tech industry during the last 20 years. In 1995, the year the author romances, he emphasizes that doing anyt…

When I see videos like this, or read other experiences of LSD, I wonder if I'm not missing out on something. LSD, uniquely amongst mainstream recreational drugs, seems to have the …

It should be obvious that AT&T's "concerns" are simply a thinly-veiled threat to withhold high-speed access from the citizenry unless they get guarantees that they can manipulate s…

In addition to the egrigious complaints citizens could make, wouldn't telecoms and cellphone manufacturers have grounds to sue over this? It sounds like these boxes are actively di…

It is a tricky issue, but I can see a good argument for increasing the amount of traffic going through TOR, even if much of it was from users without proper OPSEC. As with all secu…

This sort of this is pretty exciting. Now that users are aware of NSA hijinks, and are familiar with the Privacy modes of their current browsers, I'd like to see Mozilla move towar…

When a petty law is frequently violated and overlooked, law enforcement officers can use it as a tool to confront a citizen who would be otherwise entirely innocent. Often other un…

I've been using Freckle: http://letsfreckle.com , which is promoted primarily as a time tracking tool, but has good invoicing built in as well.

Until there is open source and deterministic builds, this is just as functionally "secure" as Skype.

The brief, insipid blurb does very little to incentivize me to register to see the rest.

Ruby is the lingua franca of devops; it is an entirely sensible choice for that purpose.

This is where the article starts to show its bias. Of course ruby can do everything mentioned as well. Python has a leg up in scientific computing and stats. Ruby has a leg up in w…

Privacy will be the hot topic of this decade, if not century. Now, when violent crime is at a historical low, is not the time to give law enforcement new and invasive capabilities.…

If you are truly paying 100k for a 4 year (120 weeks) university education, then it works out to be $833 per week. My education at an in-state university cost far less than that. C…

There is a substantial difference between freely sharing knowledge to any inquiring mind, and sharing knowledge with only those people who have paid gobs of money, while receiving …

Coming from the webapp world: How do you work with a team of people committing to the same repository? How do you review code? How do you find solutions to problems when they're no…

These "bootcamps" delude students into believing they can be placed in a good job if they pay up. I've worked with graduates of these programs, and found them to be eager and optim…

Education, like most things in the US, is supported by debt. Tuition for a single semester at Georgia Tech, for an out of state student like myself, would run $14,861: http://www.b…

DNSCrypt is a cool utility, but somewhat of a mixed bag, since OpenDNS serves up responses for invalid DNS records, in an effort to send you to website-unavailable.com This hijacki…

If AT&T is successful, it is the beginning of the end of an equal internet, where the little guys have little chance to disrupt the establishment. If AT&T fails, it will dissuade o…

Relax; they credit it on the about page: http://earth.nullschool.net/about.html