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I got an FTP account, mounted it locally with curlftpfs, and use SVN on the mounted filesystem. Quite trivial, really.

> Running a site for others to download movies doesn't bother me.

> being a snake to go defraud a company to steal the hard work of others so your own illicit company can turn a profit off said labor by others irks me.

I'm sorry, I really don't understand this. What part of the second statement doesn't apply to the first?

Diane Greene left Google over two years ago.

> cost savings compared to life imprisonment

Minor nitpick: it's actually more expensive to execute someone than to imprison them for life, mostly because of the increased legal costs.

That's interesting, do you have a source for that? A quick Google search turns up aircraft, machinery, and agricultural products (and doesn't mention garbage), but I'd be curious to learn more.

> 2.3. Don’t name your variables for their types

What's the best way to handle a situation where you use two different types for the same data? e.g.

  var usersMap map[string]*User
  var usersList []*User

The third variant of the problem (where one prisoner is allowed to make one change, which can guarantee that every prisoner survives) is the one I heard first; I like that problem because it seems even more counter-intuitive, but also makes it easier to understand why it works.

I love the concept of "a system where people have value independent of their productivity."

I worry that the increasing focus on a meritocracy (especially in tech) ignores the fact that it devalues anyone who for whatever reason -- lack of education, lack of natural ability, or just lack of motivation -- doesn't contribute enough to be considered important. It's probably an improvement on the system we had before, where you were valued for being part of the right community or the right family, but I hope this isn't the end goal, and that we can eventually get to a state where we consider everyone inherently valuable.