yaakov
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Currently: Staff Engineer & Community Advocate at Stack Overflow
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Comment · 6 years ago
Yes, this is what happened. Though only a portion of the team related to Talent was furloughed, not the whole team. It is still an active product, but sales has taken a big hit related to the downturn of the overall hiring environment due to Covid19.
Comment · 10 years ago
Well, StackOverflow devs are able to cheat and load up the site on their local machine if they want to
Comment · 12 years ago
Yes, it is always difficult to provide support to people trying to use languages that you do not support.
Comment · 12 years ago
Best not to advertise compatibility with everything unless you are sure that it really is compatible with everything. Otherwise it is too easy to mislead people (who will load the site, check for their favorite language, not see it and never come back)
Comment · 13 years ago
Comment · 13 years ago
Here is the text: http://pastebin.com/enQyYvsQ
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Comment · 13 years ago
Obama:
> You have my telephone number connecting with your telephone number. There are no names. There is no content in that database...At no point is any content revealed because there’s no content that...the FBI — if, in fact, it now wants to get content; if, in fact, it wants to start tapping that phone
Snowden (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/17/edward-snowden-n...):
> If I target for example an email address, for example under FAA 702, and that email address sent something to you, Joe America, the analyst gets it. All of it. IPs, raw data, content, headers, attachments, everything.
Notice how Obama only talks about the phone metadata DB, and a process for getting data from companies about "non-US persons" (Google, etc) based on "essentially a warrant" (not the same thing as a warrant, though). Snowden's allegations are starting to become much wider than the original Verizon DB and PRISM systems. And I don't think that we are going to see Obama address them and deny them directly any time soon.
Comment · 13 years ago
If you searched for "AOL" and "Steve Case" - they are on to you!
Comment · 13 years ago
> The head of the National Security Agency hinted yesterday that logs of Americans' e-mail and Web site visits may be secretly vacuumed up by the world's most powerful intelligence agency
Sounds like they have zeroed in on the audit trail of what Snowden was able to access and/or what he has already given to Greenwald or the Washington Post. Some pre-damage control going on here.
> disclosing details about such surveillance would cause "our country to lose some sort of protection."
The people who they would be surveilling really wouldn't have suspected this capability already?