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cluenerf | 5 years ago | on: Just turning your phone on qualifies as searching it, court rules

If my choice is between not being able to enter the US and having US authorities go through my personal devices, I will choose non-entry. That part doesn't worry me so much.

What does worry me is that at the border I have no rights. The usual protections enjoyed by people inside the US don't apply to me. My privacy and dignity at the behest of the whims of whichever border guard I might encounter, and I have zero legal recourse if my rights are violated.

cluenerf | 8 years ago | on: Content isn't king

The 2001-era paper by the same name and a different author (Andrew Odlyzko -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Odlyzko) is a compelling read: http://firstmonday.org/article/view/833/742

cluenerf | 10 years ago | on: Understanding the Node.js Event Loop

> Node utilizes as much of what's already available from the operating system's kernel as possible.

And yet we've seen a proliferation of fibre/coroutine/green thread libraries for Node which all reinvent the concept of threading poorly.

cluenerf | 11 years ago | on: Bidding farewell to Google Code

Wow dude, not only is using someone's quote on your website without consent pretty unclassy, using their employer to add legitimacy and make it seem like they're speaking on behalf of the company is just not ok at all.