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Is that possible on a mobile device?

If I were in your place, I would start by scraping LinkedIn using Python or Golang and creating a large database, keeping relevant information and keywords for each user. Then I would come up with some sort of clever algorithm to sort the data into some kind of sparse graph with takes into account the distance between the nodes (i.e. how close each of the user is to one another) and then use a search algorithm to search for a specific user and or a number of closely related users.

Author of the article gives one TedX talk, then goes on to proclaim that he's an "expert" at public speaking and ranks himself in the "90" percentile for public speaking. What a joke!

How is this different than the already existing Wifi Mesh devices?

The professor, author of this article, misses the point that the whistleblower is an "intelligence officer". Intelligence officers very regularly write extensive yet concise reports to their leads or higher up management, so it's not surprising that s/he wrote the memo well.

The best kind of "screwing around" is screwing around in plain sight. Once, I had a fresh grad in my team and I had to get him up to speed. I noticed he was taking more than the usual time to do basic tasks, yet whenever I passed by his desk, he had three terminals open and had c++ code here and there and compilation errors on another window. Two months later, he would move to a different company. Turns out that he was just practicing his programming skills, and all of this time I assumed he was working on assigned tasks.

EDIT: spelling

[Boss Walks in] [Dave intensely staring at the desktop] Boss: empty deskopt...not suspicious at all.

That's what I thought too, because "good" is an adjective and adjectives describe nouns. On the other hand "well" is an adverb and fits perfectly well.

Amusing read

"For a fictional portrait to be actionable, it must be so accurate that a reader of the book would have no problem linking the two," said Mr. Friedman. Thus, he continued, libel lawyers have what is known as "the small penis rule". One way authors can protect themselves from libel suits is to say that a character has a small penis, Mr. Friedman said. "Now no male is going to come forward and say, 'That character with a very small penis, that's me!'"

Genius! I wonder if there are other similar rules out there that I am not aware of?

I use Vim/vi. The best decision I've made in programming.

I'm sure a3n didn't mean literally "the first two words." I think they meant it as a figure of speech.

I would recommend grabbing a Raspberry Pi and start tinkering with it. If you want to learn about low level electronics, start by learning PCB design and design your own custom board.