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blog.vidiguard.com 9y ago

Why (and how) we use OpenBSD at VidiGuard

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www.businessinsider.com 13y ago

I Know The NSA Wiretapped Barack Obama In 2004 Because I Saw The Order

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www.techdirt.com 13y ago

NSA Boss Asks Congress For Blanket Immunity For Companies That Help NSA Spy

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www.phoronix.com 13y ago

VP9 Codec Now Enabled By Default In Chrome

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golang.org 13y ago

Go's Data Race Detector

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gizmodo.com 13y ago

Time Warner Cable Is Paying To Keep TV Shows Offline

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www.reuters.com 13y ago

More Americans see man who leaked NSA secrets as 'patriot' than traitor

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hosted.ap.org 13y ago

Voice-operated dashboard technology riskier than simply talking on a cellphone

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dave.cheney.net 13y ago

Writing table driven tests in Go

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blogs.wsj.com 13y ago

Microsoft’s Xbox One: Owning Your Video Games Is So 1994

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news.cnet.com 13y ago

Obama: No warrantless wiretaps if you elect me (2008)

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www.techdirt.com 13y ago

President Obama Comes Out Strongly Against Patent Trolls; Here Are The Details

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www.phoronix.com 13y ago

Intel "Haswell" Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux

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mailinator.blogspot.com 13y ago

Mailinator is for Humans

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medium.com 13y ago

“Why do women try to get ahead by pulling men down?”

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www.wired.com 13y ago

Study: Killing Used Games Could Be Profitable, or Suicide

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www.dotninja.co 13y ago

.ninja

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www.fastcocreate.com 13y ago

How Coca-Cola Used Vending Machines To Try And Unite India And Pakistan

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www.streamingsoon.com 13y ago

Netflix: Changes to the Public API Program

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blog.webmproject.org 13y ago

VP9 Codec Nears Completion

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www.entrepreneur.com 13y ago

Top U.S. Cities for Women Entrepreneurs

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arstechnica.com 13y ago

Authors, composers want 3.4% of every Belgian’s Internet bill

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www.eff.org 13y ago

Twitter, Sonic.net earn top stars in 2013 EFF privacy report, Verizon none

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www.boston.com 13y ago

Body of missing Brown student Sunil Tripathi found in waters off Providence

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www.cnbc.com 13y ago

Antibiotic-Resistant 'Superbugs' Creep Into Nation's Food Supply

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plus.google.com 13y ago

Fergulator - NES emulator, written in Go

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www.penny-arcade.com 13y ago

Why your games are made by childless, 31 year old white men

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www.wired.com 13y ago

Foursquare’s Latest Funding Raises Valuation Questions

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www.michelemmartin.com 13y ago

The "No Fire" Policy

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plus.google.com 13y ago

Is OOP dead?

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Meshify | Backend Engineer, Frontend Lead, Frontend Engineer | Austin, TX | Full-time | On-site (relocation possible)

Meshify is an IoT data capture, analytics, and analysis company headquartered in Austin, TX. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of HSB Group in Hartford, CT, part of Munich Re, one of the world’s largest reinsurers. We make heavy use of Go, PostgreSQL, Cassandra (Scylla), and NSQ. The frontend is JavaScript and Riot/React-ish.

Backend Engineer: https://hire.withgoogle.com/public/jobs/meshifycom/view/P_AA...

Frontend Lead: https://hire.withgoogle.com/public/jobs/meshifycom/view/P_AA...

Frontend Engineer: https://hire.withgoogle.com/public/jobs/meshifycom/view/P_AA...

Meshify | Backend Engineer and Frontend Lead | Austin, TX | Full-time | On-site (relocation possible)

Meshify is an IoT data capture, analytics, and analysis company headquartered in Austin, TX. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of HSB Group in Hartford, CT, part of Munich Re, one of the world’s largest reinsurers. We make heavy use of Go, PostgreSQL, Cassandra (Scylla), and NSQ. The frontend is JavaScript and React-ish.

Backend Engineer: https://hire.withgoogle.com/public/jobs/meshifycom/view/P_AA...

Frontend Lead: https://hire.withgoogle.com/public/jobs/meshifycom/view/P_AA...

Meshify | Backend Engineer and Frontend Lead | Austin, TX | Full-time | On-site (relocation possible)

Meshify is an IoT data capture, analytics, and analysis company headquartered in Austin, TX. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of HSB Group in Hartford, CT, part of Munich Re, one of the world’s largest reinsurers.

Backend Engineer: https://hire.withgoogle.com/public/jobs/meshifycom/view/P_AA...

Frontend Lead: https://hire.withgoogle.com/public/jobs/meshifycom/view/P_AA...

If you want something router-like, PC Engines apu1d and apu1d4 at $124 and $145 USD are good options, as is the older (but slower, i386-only) alix2d3 at $103.

There are also plenty of micro ATX or all-in-one fanless PCs with dual-NICs in a similar price range. Or dual-NIC Intel NUCs, as well (not fanless).

they got bitten by a mistake of not doing enough market research

Alternatively, they don't see it as a mistake at all (as you pointed out, a whopping 68 subscribers) and did the math and decided to go with it.

I'm old enough to remember the cold war. One of the big criticisms of Eastern block countries was that the courts were subservient to the government, that the government was not constrained by the law and that trials were secret.

Have we forgotten this already?

Given that our current President wasn't alive for half of it (exclusive of petering out, 1947-1961), that seems pretty likely.

Startup advice 13 years ago

Could you expand on #60? I find that meetups are a great way to meet enthusiasts in a particular area/field/technology. This is especially the case if you're one of the many people running a successful/growing business that is unlikely to ever make a "tech news" article or be a household (tech) name.

I'm not sure why you feel my post was disingenuous. There are many forms of self-protection that we need to ask our government permissions to obtain.

When I see stories like this, I'm always impressed at the wide availability of gas masks. Are we even allowed to own those in the States?*

*Yes, I know how sad of a question that is.

I've been here for 3 years. I don't think there's been a decline, but I think the usual value of discussion has been strongly overshadowed by the hate and vitriol that winds up in just about every discussion now. Worse, those are usually the top-rated comments. These days, I mostly avoid the comments entirely for that reason.

Higher percentage-wise yes, but not by its affect your paycheck. My property tax is half of what I paid in MA, and it's for a house double the size and half the price - in a suburb of Austin, with a shorter commute to downtown that I had to Boston. My paycheck hasn't suffered in any way to make that trade, either.

Beware that this can come back to bite you. If I look at someone's LinkedIn profile and see a slew of jobs listed in months, not years, their resume is going in the (metaphoric) trash. I need to get at least 2 years out of people, preferably 3 (on the low end).

I took the $300K 13 years ago

Some of us pride ourselves on not sinking to the lowest common denominator (i.e. breeding grounds for mediocrity).

Let me suggest an alternative that seldomly gets mentioned: the public library. It's free, it's quiet, the Internet is fast and not frequently used, the chairs are sometimes comfortable, and they love it when people hang around all day (these are all assumptions of a US base). Additionally, many newer libraries have big meeting rooms with whiteboards and other materials that are free for use. Capped drinks are usually allowed, and sometimes food (don't make a mess!)

It's by far my favorite "coffee shop." Your tax dollars at work.