throwit1979
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12 years ago
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on: Calorie burner: How much better is standing up than sitting?
On the topic of anecdotal RSI cures, I was symptom-free after starting a strength training program focusing on heavy compound lifts and olympic lifts. No rest periods or ergonomic quackery required.
throwit1979
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12 years ago
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on: Lavabit gets new crypto key, gives users 72 hours to recover e-mails
Well, it's certainly possible, but I'd like to point out one thing. IANAL, but I've been through enough to know that courts will often/always consider the aspect of compliance known as "good faith". It's almost certain that handing over the key and them immediately changing it would be seen by the presiding judge as compliance in bad faith, and would put him in a substantially worse position with regard to possible contempt. Given this, unless Levison is legally suicidal, I think it's a fair bet that any relaunch using a new key pair was done, at the very least, with the blessing of the feds and/or the judge. And I can only think of one reason the feds would give such a blessing.
throwit1979
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12 years ago
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on: Lavabit gets new crypto key, gives users 72 hours to recover e-mails
So then he suddenly, after all this time, woke up and decided, "hey, you know all those hosts I shut down and mothballed? I'm going to fire them up NOW, spend some time restoring backups, reconfiguring things where necessary, while facing possible contempt charges, for an arbitrary number of hours, with a new keypair, signed by a US certification authority, without ephemeral keys, and invite everyone who has been avoiding snooping by state entities to log in with their private credentials!" ?
He could have done this a while ago, but he didn't.
He could have relaunched fully, under a new entity, but he didn't.
He chose NOW, to relaunch for only 72 hours. Why?
throwit1979
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12 years ago
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on: Lavabit gets new crypto key, gives users 72 hours to recover e-mails
Occam's razor, for once, actually supports the conspiracy theory.
It's far more likely that Levison has been bullied into 72 hours of snooping to avoid contempt than that he's suddenly decided, months after shutting down, for no reason at all, to open up a window for users to grab their emails.
throwit1979
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12 years ago
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on: Airbnb refuses to hand over users' data
Um. What possible jurisdiction can New York State have over a California company with no offices in New York?
Probably best to tell this AG to go piss up a rope privately and dispense with useless press releases like this.
throwit1979
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12 years ago
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on: Gmail service disruption
Wild guess: google routes non-latency-critical US traffic like SMTP outside the US so the NSA's beam splitters can more easily claim intercepted domestic data as "international".
throwit1979
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12 years ago
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on: I'm Gen Y, and I Don't Feel Special or Entitled, Just Poor
Kaiser charges a $100 copay for ER visits. $50 does not sound too outlandish.
The bigger question is why GenY thinks a simple fever is cause for helping to overcrowd our emergency rooms even further. A thermometer costs $20 and will help determine if the fever is severe enough to require medical intervention.
throwit1979
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12 years ago
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on: Golang Object Oriented Design
34yo, -9.5 here, and I prefer 10pt fonts for code.
Do you not wear your glasses and/or contacts when working? I don't follow.
throwit1979
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12 years ago
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on: That Time I Made A Website
The idiomatic way to create webpages, in this day and age, is to try to separate content of a page from how the browser presents it.Which is why "modern" frameworks like bootstrap still encourage grid layouts using explicit width classes like span3?
Face it, we haven't gotten any better since Mosaic.
throwit1979
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12 years ago
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on: Does Steve Jobs know how to code?
But you're not harming a living human being. At worst, you're minimizing a memory, which is a fundamantally emotional position.
As to the risk of repeating history: Anyone positing the holocaust didn't happen is competing in a marketplace of ideas where the evidence is overwhelmingly to the contrary. Not to mention fierce competition from the European equivalent to K-12 education.
It seems to me akin to criminalizing street vendors selling hot dogs made of ( sterilized, to minimize health counterarguments ) toe jam and ear wax. Very very few people are going to become customers. Except it's much worse, because you are criminalizing ideas.
throwit1979
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12 years ago
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on: Does Steve Jobs know how to code?
Offtopic. That link is incredibly scary. On what basis does Europe justify making an incorrect opinion illegal? And why that opinion, specifically? Why not criminalize a belief in God, or alien visitation?
throwit1979
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12 years ago
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on: The CODE Keyboard
Aesthetics, right, ok.
Anecdotally: I've been programming for over 20 years. I am a fast and accurate typist, but I never learned to touch-type and as a consequence, I need to see my fingers relative to the keys occasionally. I cannot do this in the dark without backlit keys.
You should probably not assume that everyone who uses computers is a touch-typist.
throwit1979
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12 years ago
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on: The CODE Keyboard
So you can see the keys under low light levels. Not everyone touch-types.
throwit1979
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12 years ago
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on: The CODE Keyboard
or else you'll soon get pain from the low travel.Huh? I am wracking my brain trying to figure out how, biomechanically, a short keystroke can cause pain.
throwit1979
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12 years ago
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on: Why I'm saying goodbye to Dropbox and hello to SpiderOak Hive
Um, you should be regularly dismounting volumes every time you are done using them anyway. Your enemy can quite likely read out your passphrase from cryopreserved ram or its hibernated equivalent.
throwit1979
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12 years ago
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on: Shon Hopwood and Kopf’s terrible sentencing instincts
I suspect you may have cause and effect reversed. Government employment is not soul-destroying; rather, government self-selects applicants from the pool of people who enjoy legal theft and extortion and telling others how to live their lives. It's difficult to destroy a soul that doesn't exist.
throwit1979
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12 years ago
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on: At Apple, Tim Cook leads a quiet cultural revolution
As I do ~ 40% of my work from Terminal.app, I'm not sure how the introduction of the Mac obsoleted the CLI.
throwit1979
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12 years ago
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on: Intern’s death puts banking culture under microscope
That's not an answer to the question, though. I'm also genuinely curious. What do people "in finance" actually do on a day to day basis? My naive understanding is that the industry is highly automated already, so what activities are these 100 hour weeks spent doing?
throwit1979
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12 years ago
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on: Everybody does not need to learn to code.
Our library was also mostly useless. Maybe it's opportunity cost, then. We lived a ~5 hour drive away from anything resembling a city, so purchases of anything other than food were very infrequent. This allowed us to save up until the next trip to purchase a few C++ or Pascal( yeah I know )books from Bookman's and a cheap (student edition can be had when you're 10 years old without a student id) copy of turbo c++. That would last a year of learning. The next year, perhaps a VESA graphics book, etc.
throwit1979
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12 years ago
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on: Everybody does not need to learn to code.
Sorry, I don't intend to cast aspersions on your upbringing, but why does class availability matter at all to this discussion? Myself, and everyone in the small group of middle school kids at my school who were interested, learned programming from books. Our school was extraordinarily poor, so the whole notion of CS classes was laughable.
