I am a software engineer Twitter and live in San Francisco. This is my story.
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February 15, 2010
The crazy perversities of civil asset forfeiture. - By Radley Balko - Slate Magazine
These private attorneys, unaccountable to the public, are making decisions about which cases to go after that directly affect their own personal wealth. Steven Kessler, a New York attorney and author of a treatise on state forfeiture laws, says he’s never heard of anything like it. “This is scandalous,” Kessler told me in a phone interview. “It’s blatantly unconstitutional.”
Surprised? Not really.
January 28, 2010
January 21, 2010
When you're heroes come crashing down to earth
| "F.B.I. Charges Arms Sellers With Foreign Bribes - Including Smith and Wesson VP of Sales" - http: | //www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/business/21sting.html |
| Mark Percival: | It just takes away from allure of the industry. Here I would have expected the Smith and Wesson guy to simply pass them along to his vast underground arms dealing network. Nicholas Cage lied to me! |
| Andy: | Yeah, I mean, drugs, tankers of oil,prostitutes, no problem. But today's thug lacks the wherewithal to smuggle guns. |
| Mark Percival: | It's sad really - our arms dealers today consist of a middle management sales douchebag living in the suburbs, driving a mid-priced car, who is more concerned about his 401k than doubling up on a couple african prostitutes and doing blow in a low-rent African nation. |
| Andy: | Like a lot of other industries, ambition and ingenuity are things of the past. |
January 20, 2010
Stop using unsafe keyed hashes, use HMAC
Fuck, I did this once
January 18, 2010
Vowel Sounds Influence Consumers’ Perception of Prices - NYTimes.com
Fascinating article on pricing and vowel sounds. “2.22, gosh that sounds expensive”
January 17, 2010
Are you insane?! You’re throwing away your entire VHS collection? That’s a perfectly good copy of Executive Decision in there.
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A conversation I have every month or so
Me: (tries to visit a local restaurant’s website via iPhone)
Restaurant website: I require Flash. Fuck...