ehartsuyker's comments

I think the ecosystem isn't a zero sum game (not profits, but generally the advancement of software). Apple doing well helps other people do well.

Do you really think that if Apple completely stopped existing right now that it wouldn't have a massive negative impact on consumers and other businesses?

Agreed (on all that).

There'd probably be a whole mess of 0-days that would come out of it which would impact a lot of people as Apple might not be able to patch fast enough. Though I meant the horribleness of tanking an American company just because.

> "no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause"

As a non-legal expert, the way this feels to me is that asking for a backdoor is like preemptively issuing a warrant for everyone on the grounds that they might commit a crime in the future that you'd want to investigate. Thus backdooring iOS is tantamount to issuing an unlimited warrant for everyone, which is exactly what the Fourth Amendment is trying to prevent.

Except that would be absolutely horrible for everyone, so maybe we should hope that doesn't happen.

> The FBI’s brief dismisses all of this as a marketing ploy, and then blasts Apple as a literal threat to American democracy, writing: “Apple’s rhetoric is not only false, but also corrosive of the very institutions that are best able to safeguard our liberty and our rights: the courts, the Fourth Amendment, longstanding precedent and venerable laws, and the democratically elected branches of government.”

Ironically, Apple giving users encryption doesn't weaken the Fourth Amendment; it makes it stronger because it provides the ability for citizens to be "secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures" in a way that the courts recently have been unable to.

I know, right? I actually got excited for a second thinking he'd name drop that.

Except they're two different articles posted by two different people. This seems like an amusing coincidence.

Thanks.

There's nothing there because setting up SecureDrop is a pain in the ass. These (among others) are errors I hit while trying to get it running:

https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/1244

https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/1247

https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/1251

https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/1252

I was hired as a Data Engineer for my skills in Scala, AWS, and other data technologies. I ended up falling into Backend Engineer (also Scala) as our core services needed significant support. From there, I drifted into Operations as our infra and deployment processes were negatively impacting QOS and the time from code-to-prod.

In my spare time I:

  - made a shitty personal website[0] for kicks

  - maintain an npm package[1]

  - contribute to SecureDrop[2]

  - run the not-yet-live BerlinLeaks[3]

[0] - https://heartsucker.com

[1] - https://github.com/ehartsuyker/node-deb

[2] - https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop

[3] - https://berlinleaks.com

I do this in my bash scripts, if anyone wants to see how.

https://github.com/ehartsuyker/node-deb/blob/ede596b2c8a07f1...

In the former, typing '2012.01.01' implicitly creates a date object (probably), and '1m1d' implicitly creates some sort of duration object (probably) and uses an operator to combine them.

The Java was isn't really that different. Just more verbose, but again, I don't mind trading a few key strokes for clarity.

How is "1m" more obvious that "plusMonths(1)"? I mean really, the latter is basically and English phrase. I know it's cool to shit all over OOP and Java these days, but if Haskell/Clojure/Whatever had a function (plusMonths dt 1) or something that, you wouldn't call it a pile of FP.

The Java is clean because it's perfectly understandable. I don't have to think about "+ 1m" meaning month, minute, or milli-. Verbose, yes, but the meaning is 100% unambiguous which I think makes it a better API.

> overloading strings

I'm pretty sure writing "+ 1m" is more of an overloading of a string than ".plusMinutes(1)".

> I mean, just try it in Java.

For ages JodaTime actually nailed it, and the Java 8 date API was based off this.

> Not an add on type as in R or Python or Java.

Again, let's talk about the modern version of the language and not act like prior screw ups are the end all for a language.

Also

> 2012.01.01 + 1m1d

How is that more clean than:

> new DateTime(2012, 1, 1).plusMonths(1).plusDays(1)

> ISIS also subsidizes the cost of bread for the public, experts say.

Honestly did not expect that. The world is more complex that portrayed.

I don't want an open marketplace. I want somewhere I can conveniently find most things I need from my laptop for a reasonable price.

If Amazon came alone with insane, draconian policies and made it a very closed market, I'd be ok with that as a consumer so long as I can find what I need.

> one two-hundredth, or 0.005% of the company

I'll take the former, please.

Or you could use Slick[0] for free.

[0]: http://slick.typesafe.com/

Can I shamelessly plug[0] and say maybe do all this and stick it in a Debian package if you're running Debian, or like most of the cloud world, Ubuntu.

[0] https://github.com/ehartsuyker/node-deb