jdunck

It's worth noting that since the collateralized housing debt scandal of the Global Financial Crisis, approximately nothing changed in regulation, and credit card and auto debt securitization has taken off in its place. Investors still want to put their money somewhere.

Who is the Lehman Brothers of the new securitized debt? That meltdown is coming.

And what if the battery weight is nearer axle centerline than an ICE?

If Google (or any other crawler) wanted to play nice with paywalls, they could issue a public key for their bot, and put a signature in their User Agent string that the domain could then verify.

Those signatures could obviously leak, but on a per-domain basis. Perhaps the domains could have a secure way of bumping the valid key generation if they had a leak.

As a general rule, I don't use public wifi and council people to use VPN if they must. No flash, disable java in the browser, prefer chrome to safari, AdBlock and NoScript if you don't need JS.

Could you provide a citation for "automatically jailed for not handing over your encryption keys" - I have not heard that before.

Pre-commit hook should address your concern?

I agree with the premise of judging based on both action and context, power and relationship. I agree that hackers aren't the nerd-revenge underdogs (if we ever really were). I agree that we have power to do good, and we mostly piss it away trying to impress each other.

But I disagree that RIAA and MPAA are totally losing - they still have direct lines to power through the government and its regulative and, ultimately, judicial and military power.

There are more than 2 sides. There is not "the man" vs. "the underdog". It's less chess and more hungry hippos. Yes, we should build something better (for the market, for the world, for the commons) than TPB. But the regulative status quo disallows those things. TPB is a mushroom colony. What you want is a tilled field.

The government does not serve RIAA well, but it also salts the earth where we might grow internet-aware markets. TPB is a compromise solution, and better than nothing.

What we build is not in a vacuum.

Let's get started cultivating the field, plowing under the existing regulation which is defunct and self-serving, erecting new fences where boundaries represent newly-reasonable compromises, advantages, and common sense.

Thanks for showing your confirmation bias. Keep asking questions you don't want to think about.

Because software is eating the world.

Because entrepreneurship creates jobs.

Because software is the new means of production.

Because people different than you have problems which are different than yours.

Because dog-fooding is a great way to make something people want.

Lots more reasons, but chew on those.

I think there's some amount of aptitude, but mostly it's just applying effort over time. Keep going.

I mentor Ingrid through Hackbright, and she's great to work with.

In general I find it really inspiring to be involved with an organization that introduces so many smart and motivated women to the field of software.

Think back to the first time you tried coding, how that happened, how you felt about it, who encouraged you or discouraged you, etc. Unfortunately it happens less for non-white, lower-class, or non-male people. Yes, there is still curiousity, determination, and hard work to succeed in the field, but it starts with that moment where you first believed you might master this skill.

What can you do to make that moment more likely to happen for more people?

That commit was made in response to this incident. No commit process was previously documented.

If we're just plugging useful packages, I'd suggest these as useful and broadly applicable:

    * django-debug-toolbar
    * django-secure
    * django-celery
    * django_compressor