KB
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Comment · 8 months ago
Have you considered integrating with worktrees via Magit to have multiple agents working across different changesets of a repo?
Comment · 4 years ago
Consumer Reports is my first stop whenever I look to purchase some non trivial item. I typically use the top five from their recommended list to quickly narrow down my initial result set. Then I'll cross reference with Wirecutter to see if they are in agreement (usually are). If I'm down to one or two choices at that point I'll try to find some unbiased reviews on YouTube. Not a perfect system, but I find it works pretty well compared to just going right to a Google search result.
Comment · 5 years ago
I actively use RescueTime but my Mac app and dashboard do not look anything like what I see in the linked Vimeo. Are these features generally available yet? How do I get on the latest if the Mac app says I'm already up to date?
Comment · 8 years ago
Really great achievement and welcome to Google. If you're based in Cambridge, we should try to grab lunch sometime. My ldap is kbolton.
Comment · 9 years ago
Having gone through a few acquisitions where MongoDB was used, I would never recommend using it from a legal/compliance perspective. You either have to pay for a very expensive commercial license OR adhere to their AGPL license (which is very difficult).
https://opensource.google.com/docs/using/agpl-policy/ https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/blob/master/GNU-AGPL-3.0.tx...
Comment · 14 years ago
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Comment · 15 years ago
Wow, their landing page is pretty slick. Check out their app thingy on the inside page.
Comment · 16 years ago
I would say it was more of a prevention/education type of course that all employees possessing some level of government clearance were required to take. Essentially different real-life scenarios were presented to demonstrate the extent foreign governments will go to gain classified information.
An easy example I remember being presented was a case where a foreign government may find out about a defense contractor conference and will send someone to nearby hotels to just sit around at the lounge bar and simply strike up conversations with those around. Needless to say, most people with a few drinks in them and a friendly person to talk to will be fairly candid with who they are, where they work, where they live, what they do, etc, etc, etc. All of this information would then be compiled into a folder on an individual and once enough data is collected it could potentially be used to blackmail or maybe even counterfeit someone's identity to steal government secrets.
To me, the main goal of the training was to demonstrate how easily another person or government could gather extensive personal information on an individual and potentially use it to gain access to government secrets. Teaches you to take extra care with the information you share publicly.
Comment · 16 years ago
Having worked for a Defense Contractor and been forced to go through social engineering training in the past, the idea of gathering information like this is very real and happens everyday. Hopefully this makes people think twice before exposing certain personal information online for all to see.