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hawleyalon Burn the Programmer

MLIA

hawleyalon Why Do We Still Commute?

Can confirm

hawleyalon College Kids Doing What Twitter Won't

Post less bot-like shit?

hawleyalon College Kids Doing What Twitter Won't

Boom!

hawleyalon Why Medical Advice Seems to Change So Frequently

I mean, medicine is not science, it is an applied science. Applying biology, chemistry, and physics to the attempted betterment of health. Akin to the difference between physics and engineering.

hawleyalon Fast Trader Pulled a Fast One on Some Customers

> This implies that Citadel is buying the stock before selling it to you.

Large firms do this business as usual. They maintain inventory and sell it to their customers directly, while still reporting the trade to the market audit trail. This is usually done by the private brokerage side of the firm executing all trades through the public investment side, and the investment side just executes the trade against the house inventory instead of a third party buyer/seller in the market.

hawleyalon Anti-patterns and Malpractices in Modern Software Development (2015)

Agreed. Survival requires it. Still feels like a shame to knowingly spend a lot of your time making garbage for money. MLIA

hawleyalon Why I'm not a big fan of Scrum

It's a project management methodology, not a software development methodology. Some of these gripes seem not to be accusations of the method but actually the application by whatever organization.

hawleyalon Universal.css

Blah blah blah doesn't like JavaScript

hawleyalon There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast

There are other points of view?

hawleyalon FBI Told Cops to Recreate Evidence from Secret Cell-Phone Trackers

It is illegal.

hawleyalon Global Citizenship a Growing Sentiment Among Citizens of Emerging Economies

Smaller regional entities doesn't work if there exist larger global entities. Government or corporation, doesn't matter. City hall can't fight USA or Walmart.

hawleyalon Global Citizenship a Growing Sentiment Among Citizens of Emerging Economies

The article is not about cultural identity. It is about membership in a country/nation/state versus not.

hawleyalon The End of Prison Visitation

Pretty simple, in my opinion. Not everyone in jail or prison is as yet convicted. Prison sentences do not explicitly include this kind of restriction.

You can't just arbitrarily decide how to treat prisoners. Moreover after the fact of their sentencing. Let alone people who are in prison who are not convicted or sentenced.

hawleyalon Twitter Bars Intelligence Agencies from Using Analytics Service

Mirror

http://www.wsj.com/article_email/twitter-bars-intelligence-a...

hawleyalon Nestlé Wants to Sell You Both Sugary Snacks and Diabetes Pills

There are many other explanations.

hawleyalon No one should have to use proprietary software to talk to their government

Most code is compiled. Their code is compiled, minified, not licensed, and not attributed.

hawleyalon How I defeated an anti-tamper APK with some Python and a homemade Smali emulator

Flamebait

hawleyalon How I defeated an anti-tamper APK with some Python and a homemade Smali emulator

Writing obfuscators.

hawleyalon How I defeated an anti-tamper APK with some Python and a homemade Smali emulator

Some people find them charming, and like a little chuckle with their articles.

hawleyalon Intelligence Committee Leaders Release Discussion Draft of Encryption Bill

Dianne Feinstein doesn't understand the law.

hawleyalon The 1% hide their money offshore, then use it to corrupt our democracy

Duh

hawleyalon Recreating Daft Punk's Da Funk with Overtone and Leipzig

So much of the notation is not codified, and is part of the artistry of the musician. Even if all those Italian/French words are included (martele, staccato, largo, et al.), and crescendos and ritards and are marked, one cannot play the tune from sight with the desired emotion without first hearing it or playing it over and over.

hawleyalon My Biggest Regret as a Programmer

Such hate. By far not as bad as you portray. Have you attempted the 8th level of hell that is PHP?

hawleyalon Follow the money: Apple vs. the FBI

That already happened.

hawleyalon We Hire the Best, Just Like Everyone Else

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pro...

Some people are not just hitting keys.

hawleyalon The Seven Habits of Highly Depolarizing People

After you secede based on one set of disagreements, inevitably your new sovereignty would start another set of disagreements and you would have to secede again.

hawleyalon German government to use Trojan spyware to monitor citizens

Get back in the designated free-speech zone.

hawleyalon What to do when your self-driving car decides to drive you to the police

> Why fear the police?

Are you being sarcastic?

hawleyalon How to get hired at a startup when you don't know anyone

I'll just put on my fame helmet, squeeze down into a fame cannon and fire off into fame land where fame grows on fame trees.