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This is why I'm building Squadron[1]. It has atomic releases, rollback, built-in tests, and all without needing to program in a DSL.

It's in private beta right now, but if you're curious, let me know and I'll hook you up.

[1]: http://www.gosquadron.com

If you're interested in getting into RF, I'd suggest getting a software-defined radio like bladeRF[1]. It allows you to make a lot of cool devices without being a hardware whiz.

The guys who run it are extremely knowledgeable about RF and there's some really cool stuff being done with it [2][3].

[1]: http://nuand.com/

[2]: http://bladerf.blogspot.com/

[3]: http://www.irrational.net/2014/03/02/digital-atv/

I don't understand how using HTTPS for the API has any bearing whatsoever on the WoT built via PGP.

You can still verify the keys with your client's cached copies, or using another PGP client.

Glad that they're taking security seriously. It's a sharp difference from how they used to do things[1]. However, I'd still like to see either an explicit bug bounty (there's one implied here) or a paid audit.

[1]: http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/03/here-come-en...

I think the culture of the office matters, too. If there's a culture, of, "Hey people are working here let's not be loud." and "She has her headphones in so let's not bother her." then it won't be too distracting or have too much noise.

Conversely, if an office with a closed office plan has a culture where closed doors are common and it's rude to knock, then collaboration will definitely be hindered.

We need to collaborate and to work in peace and quiet. This is probably why it oscillates between open and closed office plans. Neither solution is perfect. The best solution is probably default closed offices with a culture of having your door open and lots of collaborating spaces that are actually used.

I'd recommend Cryptography Engineering over Applied Cryptography for programmers today. It has a lot of actionable info and is quite up to date.

https://www.schneier.com/book-ce.html

What sort of title is "security futurologist"?

Why do you think there's no point in reading Shakespeare?

I like many people, read Shakespeare in high school and disliked it. Reading it again as an adult is a completely different experience, and one I highly recommend.

My favorite play is Titus Andronicus. How often do you have Anger, Rape, and Murder personified on stage, or forced cannibalism? The Quentin Tarantino of Shakespeare for sure.

You really think that taking an oath to be morally responsible for what you create and how you create it is being a robot?

What a ridiculous thing to say.

I've used pdb.set_trace() before when I had a series of complex breakpoints. I kept them in my git stash.

Perhaps I should add a pre-commit hook to grep for pdb.set_trace() and reject commits with that in them.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/10840525/2151949

I wonder, is it possible to learn how to have selective hearing?

I think I learned it by working in a loud dorm, then a loud house, and then a loud work environment. It's no issue for me to ignore other people now. It's actually a joke in my office where people struggle to get my attention while I'm focused.

Probably more like confirmation bias and cherry picking. Pretending you have data on this is laughable.

Write it in the second person about the reader, who is crowdfunding said book, a la "If on a winter's night a traveler".

Could you be more specific? What exactly annoys you about downtown Seattle?

Are you missing the point of a limit?

As t->inf, if we counted all of the 1's and all of the 2's and all of the 3's, etc. and there were no 3's, it's not random according to this definition or any definition I'm aware of.

Automatic timezone conversion and the ability to add and subtract dates without first dropping to your 64-bit into. Think DATE_SUB(date time, INTERVAL 1 HOUR) from MySQL for instance.

Brands like Stock Mfg. Co. are already doing this: https://www.stockmfg.co

Anyone remember his theory that removing raw socket access in Windows XP will stop the impending doom of spoofed packets and mass DDoS?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/25/steve_gibson_really_...

I met Jeremy at HOPE Number Six.

He was absolutely convinced that hacking was going to be the way that we protest in the future. He likened it to doing a sit-in of a restaurant, protesting outside of a business, or chaining yourself to a tree.

Everything he did was focused on this goal. Helping people learn to hack was going to be a required part of a functioning society. He led by example and some people followed.

I can't help but wonder if he is the first of his kind: a political prisoner of the Internet age.

I think this is the most interesting (and telling) one: https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=android%2C+iphone%2C...

I love Gladwell's writing (he writes some of the most entertaining non-fiction around), but it is wise to take some of his more outlandish claims with a grain or two of salt. He takes anecdotes to be almost evidence, especially in Outliers.

Who are you to decide what the world does and does not need?

This is a very complicated issue and it's not useful to speak in such sweeping generalizations.

Perhaps a more apt quote would be from Marcus Aurelius's Meditations:

"The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil."

Fractional reserve banking is a distinct concept from a central bank, although the two are used together. Parent is arguing that fractional reserve banking creates more inflation than the Fed does.

Basic computer science problems creep up often enough (about once a month) at my mostly normal job. We had to implement a prefix trie (specifically a modified radix trie with extra caching) to solve an interesting problem.

If you don't know about these data structures or algorithms, you won't even know where to look.

Basic computer science knowledge (and yes, B-Trees qualifies) cannot be learned in 20 seconds. Most of this knowledge is actually a prerequisite to being able to search Google properly.

That's not how I see it.

It's more like, if you can't truly convince yourself that your startup is worthwhile (or becoming the character via method acting), then your startup/character/acting method should be changed because other people won't believe it either.

This sort of trite criticism of the hoi polloi is easy and lazy.

People are better informed than ever, read more than ever, and are more satisfied with their lives than ever. You dismiss this monumental progress by calling it a drug.

I believe the tool you are looking for is a reverse dictionary. Several good ones already exist, but a tech-specific one would be helpful.

There is a client here to try out: http://projects.existentialize.com/dinet/client.html