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strooper | 7 years ago | on: Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location and Web History

Living outside US jurisdiction, I strongly believe, my data will end up in the hands of the interested party, specially when/if I am targeted, no matter what setting I choose. I rather get some services running smoothly in my devices when I have these settings (i.e. historical data) enabled. So, I prefer keeping these enabled.

strooper | 7 years ago | on: The Allure of Small Towns for Big City Freelancers

The idea, "work from anywhere", helped me leave big, dirty, over crowded, complicated city for a small, clean, friendly one about four years ago. From my experience- the upsides are- relaxed lifestyle, friendly environment. The downsides are- very slow people all around makes you significantly slower, significantly less competitive work attitude and very few like minded people around.

strooper | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Best gaming laptop for machine learning/deep learning research?

Like most comments, my strong advice is to go for a light laptop with long battery life, and setup servers in AWS/DO/Linode as per your requirements. You will always be able to destroy the server instances to save significant amount of money. You will always be able to add/remove resources depending on your requirements. And you will never have to worry about power supply. Can you imagine how efficient it will be when you run time consuming tasks before flight and get those done on arrival? ;)

strooper | 7 years ago | on: UK’s Dixons Carphone admits huge data breach

Once the personal data is out, it is out, we can do nothing about it. It is not only credit card number that matters, our personal information matters the most. Unfortunately, we haven't seen any exemplary punishment for the responsible parties, nor have we seen any solid step taken in general to prevent data breach. It seems regular data breach is just to make us comfortable without a tail (reference to Aesop's fable: THE FOX WITHOUT A TAIL)

strooper | 7 years ago | on: Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends

Facebook will not be the same without the masterminds (Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg and others). Practically, the business there is all about finding monetary value of the user data.

Whether very few of us like that or not, we keep going back to using Facebook anyway, how (long) can we avoid the platform where our family and friends (and billions of other mindless users) are?

strooper | 7 years ago | on: Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Military Drone AI Work to Grow Exponentially

I don't see anything wrong for a company of a particular country helping their military. GE, Siemens, Mitsubishi and all tech giants of that era did that with pride during WWII. Then why can't Google, Facebook for USA?

Perhaps the illusion of globalization is making us perceive Google, Facebook and other international giants as global companies. Although, geniuses from around the world have significant contributions in the success of these technology companies, after all, they are loyal only to profit and the USA. When a war breaks loose, these data monsters are one of the best weapons against the opponents.

strooper | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Are there any reasonable alternatives to MacBook Pro for developer?

I switched from MBP 2010 to Windows 10 after using it for 6 +years only because of disappointing MBP updates with higher price tags. I was so confused that it took me several months to decide. I got a good bargain for HP Envy x360 15.6" (i5 7200 with 8GB DDR4 and 256SSD). And I never looked back.

WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) for windows 10 is definitely one of the major reasons I haven't looked back at the crappy new MBP lineup. Although I miss the long battery life of MBP, I get a lot more in exchange (tablet mode, excellent touch screen etc.)

strooper | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why did you choose to have children?

We didn't choose, we just didn't prevent.

However, the impact was much greater than we had imagined. The sense of responsibility increased my work efficiency (income) at least five fold, the affection bound us all together like nothing else ever did before, and brought out the parental qualities I never thought I had inside me.

...and after two years, the second one is on the way... :)

strooper | 8 years ago | on: How the Rohingya Escaped

While the media portraits Rohingya Crisis as religious conflict, it is actually ethnic crisis. UN describes it as ethnic cleansing. Although most of the Rohingya are muslim, Bamar (major ethnic Burmese) hate them calling them "Bengalis" (people from neighboring Bangladesh), despite Rohingyas living there for hundreds of years. The racism and prejudice flared the crisis soon after the military came to power decades ago.

strooper | 8 years ago | on: Disqus Security Alert: User Info Breach

From the philosophical point of view, we cannot avoid these security breaches in the digital world. We need to leap forward to analog or quantum computing to leak proof our information.

I wonder if there will be any information private by then.

strooper | 8 years ago | on: Red Hat is pretty good at being Red Hat

Redhat is technically doing the enterprises a big favor by adding support on top of tested open source technologies and making the applications enterprise ready. Redhat (IBM, and so on) is also doing open source community a big favor by making the open source technologies ready to compete with the closed source enterprise application providers, such as- Oracle, Microsoft and so on.

If it is about packaging open source for profit, then Redhat has a lot to learn from Google. There is nothing that comes close to Android OS and Google's strategy to make the use of the term "open source" practically vague.

strooper | 8 years ago | on: Harvard Withdraws Fellowship Invitation to Chelsea Manning

It's very confusing how a prestigious institute , like Harvard makes decisions. They first offer fellowship to Chelsea Manning but back off after threatened by CIA chief. They honor Aung San Suu kyi, the top leader of Myanmar, as the Humanitarian of the year 2016 when her country is literally going through ethnic cleansing by persecuting Rohingya minority. Really curious who makes these calls there...

strooper | 8 years ago | on: Redesigning Google News

Google News has been the first page of any news media for me for last several years. I have relied on the the summery of the news under the headlines to consider whether to go to the news details or skip to the next news. And this latest redesign removes that summery. I can't think of any reason to using it as the first source of news any longer, unless Google decides to revert to last design.

strooper | 9 years ago | on: Why the MacBook Pro Is Limited to 16GB of RAM

Just curious relevant to this topic- who needs RAM over 16 GB in a thin, mid-range laptop whose processor ends with the letter "U"?

An advice for the multimedia pros- please stop whining about the RAM limitation of MBP 2016 and get a real workstation. a Mac pro (and some iMac) of any generation available in the market shall deliver several multiple of power that any MBP can do.

strooper | 9 years ago | on: Everyone is quitting

I wonder how they are managing and keeping up with excellent products without right management behind the scene?
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