Written by
Jonathan Lung on December 20th, 2012 12:00 pm EST
In yesterday’s New York Times, there was an article about people getting angry over changes to Instagram’s privacy policies under Facebook rule. Rebecca Lieb of the Altimeter Group was quoted as saying
There are always Facebook users who say ‘This is the last straw,’ [but] there’s not a lot of portability. Where would you go?”
Continue reading The Proprietary Ties that Bind: Part I — Instagram, not the last straw
Written by
Jonathan Lung on December 12th, 2012 12:00 pm EST
Test all the things? With apologies to Allie (who is awesome and I hope leaves the depressive spiral) http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.ca
Writing a slick iPhone app is exciting. Building a communication tool that changes how people communicate is stimulating. Hacking
into a bank’s security system to pull of a heist is the stuff of Hollywood. “Liberating” information from classified sources can lead one to be hailed a hero. Writing test cases for code is sexy. Wait… what?
Continue reading Testing is sexy
Written by
Jonathan Lung on December 4th, 2012 12:00 pm EST
Star light, star bright,
The first start I see tonight;
I wish I may, I wish I might…
Hey, that’s no star…
It’s a satellite!
Looking up into space as a kid was so much simpler. Camping in the woods is no escape.
Written by
Jonathan Lung on November 2nd, 2012 12:00 pm EDT
How do you suggest to a student that you think he/she should drop a course? Let’s ask the Internet!
“How to tell someone” … autocomplete suggestions “you love them” or “you have herpes”.
Nope. These questions might be related — just not to my question.
“How to tell someone you think” … “they have borderline personality disorder”.
Closer.
“how to tell someone you think they should drop” … “a class”. Bingo.
No relevant results. Why did you suggest that autocompletion?
Open letter to the Internet:
Dear Internet,
I thought you knew everything. When I was three, I used to think my parents knew everything, too. Now, I see that I am wrong again. How many times can one face disillusionment in life?
Sincerely,
Twice Burned
Edit: Internet’s response:
Subject: Re: How many times can one face disillusionment in life?
Dear user 7138620,
You can activate your Microsoft Office Home Edition product key up to three times.
Digitally yours,
The Internet
Written by
Jonathan Lung on September 7th, 2012 12:00 pm EDT
I’ve been following the current hearing about Mayor Ford and his alleged run-in with the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act (MCIA). Over lunch, I explained to Daniel Levy, one of Steve’s new students, the gist of what is happening. Daniel, hailing most recently from Winnipeg, rightly wondered if the Mayor’s oafishness is due to cherry-picked quotes from the media. Continue reading The War on Toronto
Written by
Jonathan Lung on August 30th, 2012 12:00 pm EDT
After a hard disk failure that finally rendered MacBook Air #2 unable to boot (or even formatted so as to boot), I’ve set up its replacement MacBook Air, MrRoboto, to be as “automatic” as possible. Things should “just work”. This particular blog post is about automatic tunnelling. If you don’t know what ssh or a local/remote tunnel is, this post is not for you. It’s also aimed at Mac users.
Continue reading MrRoboto: Part 1— Automatic tunnelling on a Mac
Written by
Jonathan Lung on August 22nd, 2012 12:00 pm EDT
Bad pun alert!
Q. Which airline do clumsy people go work for?
A. Two Lufthansa.
Written by
Jonathan Lung on July 21st, 2012 12:00 pm EDT
This is the fifth post in a series of blog posts of excerpts of my paper Ethical and Legal Considerations of reCAPTCHA to be presented at PST 2012. The paper’s primary purpose is to provoke thought and discussion. I’ve signed a document prohibiting me from publishing the final copy of the paper, but I am allowed to post the paper as originally submitted for consideration, so here it is… Continue reading Ethical and Legal Considerations of reCAPTCHA: Part V (Legal)
Written by
Jonathan Lung on July 13th, 2012 12:00 pm EDT
This is the fourth post in a series of blog posts of excerpts of my paper Ethical and Legal Considerations of reCAPTCHA to be presented at PST 2012. The paper’s primary purpose is to provoke thought and discussion. I’ve signed a document prohibiting me from publishing the final copy of the paper, but I am allowed to post the paper as originally submitted for consideration, so here it is… Continue reading Ethical and Legal Considerations of reCAPTCHA: Part III (Ethics 2)
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The Proprietary Ties that Bind: Part I — Instagram, not the last straw
In yesterday’s New York Times, there was an article about people getting angry over changes to Instagram’s privacy policies under Facebook rule. Rebecca Lieb of the Altimeter Group was quoted as saying
Continue reading The Proprietary Ties that Bind: Part I — Instagram, not the last straw