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Really weak article with a sensationalist headline. Very reductionist to say Apple is "over", and the analogy to Microsoft as "unsexy" might be apt, but ironically Microsoft is hav…

Another fun one that's becoming more common with cloud hosted services: access to internal metadata services that issue credentials. Blocking file:// doesn't prevent access from > …

Yeah I'm with you. My argument was regarding the reasons behind why immigration policies might exist, and why I think it's ok for countries to say "sorry you can't just come in whe…

It seems like you just joined a conversation about work Visas, but you had already decided you wanted to talk about Syria today.

If you are going to boil things down very basically, all jobs are basically indentured servitude. That's why they call it "making a living".

Very thought-provoking question but you've now completely diverged from the original topic.

> Canada just accepted 25,000 Syrian refugees fleeing war and something much worse than communism. This is to my point, there is less scrutiny for immigrants in 'dire straits'. > T…

> Your ancestors came here for the same reason as him, and with far less scrutiny, same as mine, and were provided many benefits not recieved today, including land grants. There ha…

+1 from someone who has been on H1-B, I recognize it as a great opportunity and privilege. The option to return to my home country was never taken away from me, and at every step I…

Does anyone have any more information about the "52 hour online training program" that "the Macro" allowed them to skip? If that training program is any bit as useless as "online d…

This is great! Many times I've thought it would be cool to develop a programming logic harness for elevator logic, but I've never come close to starting. I think many developers ha…

Spent: $100 Won: 0$ Win/Loss: $-100 Balance $0 ROI: ~1,000,000%

opened a PR with a patch :)

These guys strap an iPhone to a car wheel, drive at ~ 30MPH and record stabilized video. Pretty neat. http://blog.evilwindowdog.com/post/88969373226/extreme-car-e... Was posted on …

Yep, you got it! Once again, I don't encrypt all my conversations because I'm making a tradeoff, but I would definitely prefer that they were all private. And again, having a disti…

Ah yes, that makes sense, thanks!

You misunderstood, completely. I never indicated that I don't have any FB/Twitter/Skype/... accounts. The idea of having a secure communication channel doesn't mean that ALL your c…

Can you explain how these two statements are mutually exclusive? These statements are mutually exclusive: End to end encrypted: Nobody, not even us, can read or listen into your co…

"There is no demo" -- just make an account quickly and try it out. I did this and it was easy. "Open-source, but no git repo" -- Open-source does not always entail git or Github. "…

Came here to say this, glad someone said it first. The sense of entitlement that sometimes comes with higher academic degrees is flat-out weird. Congratulations you have a PhD, kee…

Maybe you're just talking about the JSX component? React uses JSX (optionally, they say) but they serve different purposes.

"Ouh Github made a trivial change, to the front page!"

Maybe I am misunderstanding but it seems like this post is critiquing the investments of a specific set of VCs. Firstly, who cares? If VCs want to blow money on ideas that go nowhe…

Does anybody know what the recommended practice is?