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justncase80 | 8 years ago | on: Wikileaks releases documents it claims detail Russia mass surveillance apparatus

The preface to this article is annoying.

> And founder Julian Assange continues to face charges that his ‘radical transparency’ organization is a front for Kremlin agents...

The use of the word "charges" here indicates an unwarranted level of severity of these claims. He has not faced any legal charges and the only people making these accusations are those who suffered political fallout from their documents being revealed.

The fact is that there is no evidence whatsoever that wikileaks is associated with the Russian government at all and anyone claiming there is is speculating at best.

justncase80 | 9 years ago | on: Stick a fork in ’em: Windows Phones are done

Sucks. I had one for years, switched to Android (for the GearVR) and have been frustrated ever since.

Windows Phone is better in a lot of ways, too bad they couldn't make it stick. It just seems like to me they mostly had a marketing problem and they needed to incentivize the mobile carriers to actually try to sell them. I remember going into the Verizon store and watching the sales people actively steer people away from the phones and push them towards Android. I don't know why that was but it seemed like a huge problem to me.

justncase80 | 9 years ago | on: Electron 1.0 is here

^ This. Setup your .npmignore before publishing!

Also, before packaging your Electron app use something like gulp to exclude problematic files like .md and anything else unnecessary.

There are other common tools like browserify that can still be leveraged.

justncase80 | 9 years ago | on: Electron 1.0 is here

I think its beautiful and fast enough for nearly anything one would want to throw at it.

Also, unbelievably faster in terms of developer time.

justncase80 | 10 years ago | on: Ubuntu on Windows

This is great.

For the last couple of years, as a windows user, I have just been installing Git Scm, which includes something similar to this and have been using that for all script / command line needs.

If this was baked into Windows so much the better! I would love it if nobody ever wrote a single CMD or PS1 file ever again. Let's please all just converge on bash and put this debate behind us.

justncase80 | 10 years ago | on: FBI argues it can force Apple to turn over iPhone source code

Would giving them access to the source code even matter, other than morally speaking?

Meaning, just having the code won't let them crack a phone and it won't let them patch the OS so that its subsequently crackable would it?

When the FBI is worse than the terrorists they need to take a step back and think about the bigger picture a little bit.

justncase80 | 10 years ago | on: Should All Research Papers Be Free?

I was thinking a good startup company may be an open publication and peer review site. Something where users are non-anonymous and they are weighted by their accomplishments irl. Submissions and peer reviews would be open to anyone but weighted heavily by ranking, which is affected by irl achievements and cumulative quality contributions to the site. Like a combination of stack overflow and wikipedia maybe.

Money would be made by donation (ala wikipedia) and paper submission fees. Perhaps organizational level membership fees, such as universities, etc.

Just an idea I haven't had time to work on.

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