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yaakov | 5 years ago | on: Stack Overflow reduces global workforce by approximately 15%

Yes, this is what happened. Though only a portion of the team related to Talent was furloughed, not the whole team. It is still an active product, but sales has taken a big hit related to the downturn of the overall hiring environment due to Covid19.

yaakov | 11 years ago | on: Runnable – jsfiddle for everything

Best not to advertise compatibility with everything unless you are sure that it really is compatible with everything. Otherwise it is too easy to mislead people (who will load the site, check for their favorite language, not see it and never come back)

yaakov | 12 years ago | on: Obama Can’t Confirm If Courts Ever Rejected Spying Requests

Obama:

> You have my telephone number connecting with your telephone number. There are no names. There is no content in that database...At no point is any content revealed because there’s no content that...the FBI — if, in fact, it now wants to get content; if, in fact, it wants to start tapping that phone

Snowden (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/17/edward-snowden-n...):

> If I target for example an email address, for example under FAA 702, and that email address sent something to you, Joe America, the analyst gets it. All of it. IPs, raw data, content, headers, attachments, everything.

Notice how Obama only talks about the phone metadata DB, and a process for getting data from companies about "non-US persons" (Google, etc) based on "essentially a warrant" (not the same thing as a warrant, though). Snowden's allegations are starting to become much wider than the original Verizon DB and PRISM systems. And I don't think that we are going to see Obama address them and deny them directly any time soon.

yaakov | 12 years ago | on: NSA chief drops hint about ISP Web, e-mail surveillance

> The head of the National Security Agency hinted yesterday that logs of Americans' e-mail and Web site visits may be secretly vacuumed up by the world's most powerful intelligence agency

Sounds like they have zeroed in on the audit trail of what Snowden was able to access and/or what he has already given to Greenwald or the Washington Post. Some pre-damage control going on here.

> disclosing details about such surveillance would cause "our country to lose some sort of protection."

The people who they would be surveilling really wouldn't have suspected this capability already?

yaakov | 12 years ago | on: Facebook copies Twitter yet again, launches hashtags

Why is this even news?

> the company hints that hashtags “are just the first step” in a series of features that will bring conversations about public events, people, and topics on the social network to “the forefront of people’s Facebook experience.

So in other words, FB is making it clear that they are going to continue to try to play catch-up to Twitter and G+?

yaakov | 12 years ago | on: The Destruction of the Web

"Destruction of the Web"? This is really going to destroy the web? Though it is an issue, I hardly think that this is going to destroy anything. May inconvenience some things, cause confusion about when to link (and when to unlink) in the short term until an equilibrium is reached and the next SEO change comes along. But I think that this title itself is Link Bait (something else that might be "destroying the web" by this lose definition of destruction).
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