alexandercrohde

Well, I can't speak to your career experience, but I can speak to mine. My experience has been (31, SF) that companies are fundamentally disorganized, frequently reinvent things (a behavior seen …

I get the sense that most engineers would almost never use, and never need to use, most things beyond advanced-beginner in this sheet. It may be fun to brag about knowing how to use "embedded DSL…

As long as you're not saying "typical" means justified.

I don't know why this isn't more upvoted. As an SF resident I can confirm that this happened over the holiday (Friday) (I heard a muni station agent mentioned the word hacked, all the gates …

Wow, what an empty article. An official unwilling to be identified asserts the default (not tampered with), and then implies malicious intent on Russia's behalf as if it were a side note. If we h…

Let me try to make this simple, because I think you want to, and can, understand what I'm saying. I'm saying this article quotes the NSA using language condemning what Russia allegedly did. …

Of course people can draw incorrect conclusions from true facts. But since neither you nor I know the exact truth, we'll never know for sure which party is the one drawing the incorrect conclusio…

I don't understand this critique. Though "influence election" sounds ominous, in this case it really refers to "influencing" voters by revealing true things, does it not? One …

I think it's high time we start taking these concerns seriously. If state actors can accomplish stuxnet, then hacking a voting system seems well within the realm of technical possibility. Fortuna…

I think we should modify the Geneva convention to make cutting internet access illegal. I think everybody should have the freedom to express their ideology, even if jailed. It has always been legal to…

I think that attitude is willfully naive. Nobody likes having to go to court, it often costs thousands of dollars in legal fees if you don't want to take a risk. The "Send them to court and …

Good thing this didn't exist in 1776, otherwise I'd be writing this from the British empire.

In case anybody assumes these two accusations are too wild to be true, here are sources: Sources: [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93King_suicide_lette... [2] https:&…

The thing that I think makes this letter great, and the reason I upvoted it on a tech site, that I haven't seen anybody else mention yet is this: it's a universal point. Movies aside, I thin…

Spot on. In fact, what this really says to me is that these apps and movies are in fact much-loved by people who feel like they aren't supposed to love a "kid's movie." I have nume…

What are you talking about? Those articles are generic studies about past elections , there's no theoretical way those studies could have found whether or not there was an issue in the 2016 elec…

I think this comment lowers the quality of the discussion. The comment asks us not take an exhaustively prepared article seriously without providing any evidence. It's as though the comment is tr…

I think this report is excellent. Even for those who don't believe the statistical evidence it provides is conclusive in this case, I think no reasonable person could disagree with the improvemen…

Sounds like an accidental oversight, but one I'll gladly accept for the preservation of free-distribution of information; a force that's essential to democracy. Much in the same way that a w…

I think a lot of people would discount this anecdote as absurd to be true, but I have found this too. I have a friend who did tech support for google and she was quantified on all sorts of naive track…

As an insider (resident), that's the "solution" if you only look at 1 variable in this huge equation. I think we should ask why people still want to live here when it costs so much. Yes…

I find this article fundamentally confused. The author spends a lot of time talking about what he invisions a senior engineer ought to be in his opinion (which involves all kinds of ownership). But se…

I think people are more interested in defending Tesla as a whole because of its environmental friendliness, overall safety ratings, and being a market underdog. Also, not wanting to use autopilot is d…

It's not a fooling statement, it's a savvy political statement by a company's PR department that cares about self-interest. You raise whether there is statistical significance about whi…

I think Obama knows history will look kindly on Snowden, and thus will look poorly on him. I think if Obama takes the 20 year view pardoning Snowden is his best chance at saving his legacy.

I sure hope the takeaway from these documents becomes "We need to question our own executive branch and be more hesitant before spending 1.7trillion on a war" rather than "Let's ge…

Mistaking people is an interesting one because it's totally not-deliberate. I'm a bearded-redhead who's been mistaken with another bearded-redhead at the place I work, but I try not to …

So I think what the article asks for (i.e. to bring some more objectivity into the "alchemy" of code preference) is a great ask. However I agree with you however that his examples feel cherr…