cmars

I develop with Eclipse and MDD at my day job, Go in my side projects. I'll definitely evaluate Extend for the day job enterprisey stuff, but in Go, I don't miss the class hierarchy at all; I find it very refreshing.

They've lost my trust. Switching to ff mobile.

Ok... but I won't log into these kind of FB-connected sites before seeing a demo of what it does and what it will do w/ my FB account & contacts. Needs a video or a sandbox or something.

[f] Sign in with Facebook

closes tab

I left G+ a week ago, deleting my G+ account and profile. I'll be shopping for a gmail alternative as well.

After trying G+ out for a bit, I decided that I just didn't need it. A lot of my less technical friends & family use FB. I don't care much for it, but I've come to regard it as an inherently privacy-free unsafe/insecure zone and treat it accordingly. I stay logged out of it when I'm not using it and keep it out of my usual online activities.

G+ blurred the line too much between regular browsing, search, gmail, my RSS reader, and all these "circles" of FB/Twitter-like social interaction. It just felt like it would be too easy to make a mistake and say the wrong thing in the wrong context, or find that I was sharing in a way I didn't want to. And that's assuming the service works as intended without flaws, without FB-style policy changes.

I've come to realize that fragmented, disconnected identities on separate websites is a feature. Yes, the dots can be connected by someone with significant resources. But why should I make these connections easy to make, or searchable? Doesn't do anything for me.

Can someone send me an invite please? I'd like to try this...

casey.marshall@gmail.com

This is a good idea. Like an OS-independent RedHat, focusing on the apps.

I would rather see Mozilla focus on the individual end user experience than cater to what some IT dept wants.

Every BigCo I've worked at, IE was the official supported browser. Firefox was the defacto used browser by employees who probably didn't need a corporate IT managed desktop to get their work done.

Privacy is not fleeting. I put harmless public information in FB, even though its private. If I have to fill a field I don't want to, I enter fake data. Like my birthday? 1/1/1970. Fake some of your profile info, joke schools and jobs. I don't rely on fb knowing these things, so why not take a piss in the data pool?

I'll switch to scala or any other language if it will abstract away SQL cursors with minimal overhead.

already possible with droidwall.

its not written in Java for one.

Nice, a liability lightning rod.

Its a nice story but not everyone is going to be a self-sufficient blogger. He's an outlier.

I remember reading that Kevin Mitnick wasn't even allowed payphone access for fears he could start World War III.

I always thought this was rather silly overreacting. Now US policy makes it possible for a hacker to start a war.

on a per-site basis? coming from google & aggregators, who would bother to sign up?

similar reason I don't contribute on SO... I don't have anything to prove, I might have wanted to share some help, but I don't need to waste my time jumping through their hoops and silly badge games to contribute.

if a seemingly random stream of bits travels across the internet, from a seemingly random collection of bits on a cluster of virtual machines... does it make a sound?

I've definitely seen and believe in the benefits of an extended family raising a child. I think you're on to something here.

work at home dad here. I get most of my work done at home when kid is at school, I'm pretty laid back and don't even need an office, just sprawl out on a couch with laptop & I'm good. I mix it up and go to a coffee shop if wife is home, or send the kid outside to play if I need to focus.

its a really great situation for me. I love picking up my son from school, helping him with homework as I wrap up.

you'll need some kind of child care for an 18mo though. at least something part-time like 'mother's day out' programs. on those days when school is out and my wife has to work, it can be a strain on both of us.

I love it, and don't miss the stressful commute or the office at all. its amazing how relaxed i am, and mentally 'here' for my family now. being able to work from home is probably the biggest reason I'm sticking with my bigco employer until they get tired of me :) if/when they do, I'll move if I can't get another remote gig.

what's sad is, this device could easily support an external device. user did not realize they purchased an artistic statement of design simplicity instead of a flexible computing device.

Because NOYDB (or anyone else's, for that matter), that's why. Because my data and my devices should be used for my interests, and only with my consent if for someone else's.