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Re:Ask HN: Since CitizenFour, have you changed the way you conduct you... on Sunday March 01, 2015 @08:22AM (#9126939)
I changed some stuff, but it was when the reports came, not because of the movie.

My changes:

- Don't use gmail for private email. Self hosted it instead.

- Switched to Firefox (from Chrome), changed my addons (https everywhere, privacy badger and mublock).

- Deleted my facebook account.

- Tried to get my friends to use a self-hosted irc server + mumble instead of skype - but that didn't last for long sadly.

- Changed from google to duckduckgo, but I'm constantly using the !g command anyway.

Sigh. I don't think any of this matters much anyway.

Re:25 years ago I hoped we would extend Emacs to do WYSIWG word proces... on Thursday November 21, 2013 @07:17AM (#6774269)
Me and my buddies recently switched from Skype to Mumble+IRC. Works great, I like this setup way better. The big downside is of course that it requires a server.
Re:Idiomatic Clojure with LightTable on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @04:00AM (#6760001)
I imagine this could be super powerful for Elixir as well (which has awesome meta programming capabilities).
Re:Google Security Team Member on NSA: "Fuck These Guys" on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @03:52AM (#6681652)
I think it's time to also highlight the fact that people enabled the NSA to do these things. A lot of them engineers. In some cases I'm sure the ones building the stuff didn't or couldn't see the end goal. But I guess there have been many who HAVE suspected or known about the use-cases of the products/software that they have been a part of making. This scares me, it is time that engineers take some moral responsibility. Maybe some course in ethical decision making wouldn't hurt to include in engineering colleges?

(Note: All fields should take moral responsibility, but engineers seem to be worse than a lot of others.)

Re:Notch puts 0x10c on ice on Monday August 19, 2013 @05:19AM (#6236296)
I have played it for around 2 months and still find new things to play, test and learn. The hex grid not only makes the game unique for a TCG, but also enables a lot of tough strategical decisions.

3 factions yes, a fourth on the way. 3 decks? No way! Decks evolve constantly and new ones pop up, some die out - seems very healthy for such a small, young game so far :)

Just my 2 cents and experience.

Re:Notch puts 0x10c on ice on Monday August 19, 2013 @04:50AM (#6236212)
I'd say it's definitely a full game. So many hours of fun and tinkering even with the relatively low scroll count so far. And it's just going to get better, still Beta.

I very much recommend trying out Scrolls if you're into deep strategy games.

Re: on Tuesday February 21, 2012 @03:01AM (#3615652)
I really like this. Very similar in philosophy to the the ERE movement (http://earlyretirementextreme.com)