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User flagging of illegal content on FB, craiglist etc is broken. Why? Peoples search histories can be used against them in court. But if no user search for and flags criminal activity on craigslist, CL will let it stand.

This stow storm is evolving faster than I can post jokes. Just this morning it was 6-8 snowflakes. Now I'm losing count.

IDEA: A Q&A website like StackOverflow, but for when you have more of a comment than a question.

So abuse of Facebook API key by Cambrdige Analytica cost Facebook 7% market cap. I wonder if they think they can afford to not police their API keys usage. I predict the API surface area will be decimated like LinkedIn did with theirs.

Forecast is 5 inches of snow, but with confidence intervals, I think between 0 and 9007199254740991 inches. I'm expecting schools to take the average of those as the expected value.

Is LaCroix analytical or continental? From the name I'd guess continental. https://x.com/spindlypete/status/975427857307463680

Well, obviously the weariness can't be because these are horribly designed jobs that treat humans as glorified answering machines. It must be because they're actively trying to be weary and didn't decide to be happy repeating the same mini-conversation all day long. https://x.com/WIRED/status/975718814540328961

So Cambridge Analytica was a shell company, a way to dodge election and immigration laws to let the Trmp campaign hire foreign data scientists. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-analytica-non-american-employees-political Funny given that nominally their policies goals are anti-immigrant/anti-trade/etc.

After a certain level of difficulty, it is easier to use kinkos that to use the office printer, to photograph documents than to use the photocopier.

It bother me that this manual virus has a bug. You'd have to send it to everyone then delete all your files.

https://np.reddit.com/r/hacking/comments/83nwdu/manual_virustxt/ https://x.com/mistersql/status/974672970852503552/photo/1

I've been quiet about gun control because of the vicious harassment you get from conservatives at the office. I'm reading the streams of bile that the teens are getting for standing up-maybe we all should too-rather than live as cowards in the face of petty authoritarians at work

So Montgomery County is also willing to act as murder-on-call without authentication. They didn't want to ask the caller to call back on a traceable line. The cops should not be allowed to let anonymous callers call in a hit.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/more-than-40-officers-swarm-maryland-neighborhood-in-likely-swatting-hoax/2018/03/15/3ae1721a-288b-11e8-bc72-077aa4dab9ef_story.html?utm_term=.cfb506078053

IDEA: StackOverflow, but all the answers are funny jokes.

KATA: Convert any date to eve-[eve]-[...]-[next holiday name]

Website needed: There isn't a website that combines Ballotpedia and ActBlue that gives a small donor a list of progressive challengers than could use a small donation. I want to fund the long shots, i.e. run a progressive in every district which the DNC/DLCC can't rationally do.

Come on universe, #PA18 is pure joy to watch so far, don't screw it up.

https://x.com/hashtag/PA18?src=hash

When would raise-as-control-flow save chars?

def cant_break(time):
i = 0
try:
while True:
print(i)
i +=1
if i>10:
raise Exception()
except:
return i

def cant_else(t):
try:
if t<=12:
return "am"
raise Exception()
except:
return "pm"

And all the people on twitter, with one voice, made the same Dad joke:

https://x.com/search?q=rexit&src=typd

#rexit

At least 1/2 of all developers, when their employers aren't preventing it, use ergonomic mice, keyboards, etc.

ref: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/ https://x.com/mistersql/status/973575353204649984/photo/1

This one line of code will make your application scale. https://x.com/clarabellum/status/973295352249049089

Same for me, except it is called "put away backpack, scrum, rstudio, lunch, executive time, reddit" https://x.com/mistersql/status/973271339376181248/photo/1

PSA: Most 401k are scams that will leave your money in cash for year without you knowing about it. I presume they have an incentive to do this so that they will earn the interest and not the account holder.

This building is also a text adventure. This is your first mission. https://x.com/mistersql/status/972577970970865665/photo/1

Font?

A: What can I use for filtering a text file from the command line?
B: awk
A: Yeah, if you don’t know I don’t want you to feel embarrassed.

"Welcome to ABC corp!"
<You keyboard is covered in honey>
Lol, no one would be that cruel. Actually you don't have a license for the IDE and source control is 2 versions behind. You must decompile the binaries on Prod. https://x.com/corsoa/status/972103326769844224

Jira bug:
System is actually killing users
Priority: Low
Status: Waiting for Change Control Board
Work Arounds: Have you tried turning the patient off and on? https://x.com/mistersql/status/971750187382247424

This VA IT system went live w/o end user testing (i.e. seeing if doctors & nurses could successfully use it) & now it is killing people. And logon takes 10 minutes(!)

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/08/veterans-military-health-system-trump-386232

I just bought The Art of R Programming

Someone has asked Alexa "What's the weather" one too many times and it is getting on her nerves. Cut her some slack.

QUESTION. <sarcasm>XML emotions are passé, XML is passé</sarcasm>

{"message" : "What is the right way to do that in json?",
"mood" : "sarcasm"}

Trump has assumed the identity of David Dennison, a 1950s congressman. Dennison is dead & wasn't using his identity anyhow.

IDEA: Airbnb, but instead of just breaking hotel laws, we break all the laws. I'm standing by my phone for the venture capitalists now.

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/03/what-airbnb-did-to-new-york-city/552749/

Python puts on opera glasses:

lambda _: '|=' https://x.com/mistersql/status/971411099290689536/photo/1

What's falling tomorrow?

Sometimes it helps to bring a gift bottle of Vodka as a gift for coworkers who are reluctant to do anything for you.

So I poured a whole liter into the office printer.