Author Archives: David K.

Search warrant overrides 1M users’ choice not to share DNA with cops | Ars Technica

Posted on November 10, 2019 by David K.

Police in Orlando, Florida, obtained a warrant this summer to search DNA site GEDmatch and review data on all of its users—about a million people, The New York Times reports. Privacy advocates are now concerned that police will continue to … Continue reading →

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Christian comedian John Crist admits to ‘destructive and sinful’ behavior after multiple women come forward

Posted on November 8, 2019 by David K.

Popular Christian comedian John Crist, who just landed a Netflix special, admitted to “destructive and sinful” behavior and canceled his upcoming tour after multiple accusations of unwanted sexting, harassment and manipulation. Source: Christian comedian John Crist admits to ‘destructive and sinful’ behavior after … Continue reading →

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So Goes Mobile, So Goes the Desktop

Posted on November 7, 2019 by David K.

After many years of decreasing usability, and increasing-user hostility, the same annoyances making the mobile web suck have wormed their way into the desktop experience. You know what? I’m just closing tabs like this these days. I don’t even care … Continue reading →

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DHH “not yet feeling the awesome” of WSL

Posted on October 30, 2019 by David K.

This has been one of my all-time favorite Twitter threads. David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Rails, is trying to “live” in Windows, and set it up to do Rails work. He’s blogging the “experience,” and it’s not going very smoothly. … Continue reading →

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Opinion: 50 years ago, I helped invent the internet. How did it go so wrong?

Posted on October 29, 2019 by David K.

When my scientist colleagues and I invented the internet 50 years ago, we did not anticipate that its dark side would emerge with such ferocity — or that we would feel an urgent need to fix it. Source: Opinion: 50 … Continue reading →

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H-1B Visas, Facebook, and Cummins

Posted on October 22, 2019 by David K.

I ran across an article about Facebook’s use of H-1B visas in my news crawl. This part really caught my eye: Since 2017, as part of his promise to “hire American,” the Trump administration has been denying record numbers of … Continue reading →

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Top Marginal Tax Rates

Posted on October 19, 2019 by David K.

Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, could be taxed NINETY-NINE POINT NINE PERCENT of his net worth, and STILL be worth a BILLION dollars. Let that sink in. $10M is pretty wealthy. $100M is pretty crazy. “Just” $1B is ludicrous. He … Continue reading →

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I Was the First “YouTube”

Posted on October 19, 2019 by David K.

Back in the early 2000’s, I was getting pretty deep into Linux. I also had a job which allowed me to have the castoff computers no one needed any more, after upgrades. Linux has always run just fine on older … Continue reading →

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IMHO: The Mythical Fullstack Engineer – Stack Overflow Blog

Posted on October 17, 2019 by David K.

It’s my experience that the above MVFE is pretty uncommon. The profile describes a person with skills requiring thousands of hours to master, but who doesn’t take part in the holistic decision making process. By nature, the value of a … Continue reading →

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Warren on our Corporatocracy

Posted on October 17, 2019 by David K.

I’ve been talking about corporate charters for a long time now, and people either don’t understand what I’m talking about, or think I’m crazy. We give people a charter to create a company, which grants them special, legal protections to … Continue reading →

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