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They’re coming for us.

Them — the politicians, bureaucrats, lawyers.

They coming for us — programmer, developers, designers, scientists, engineers. Us geeks.

They’re coming for us, for our freedoms, and for our privacy, and they’re calling this “mandatory data retention”. Or metadata. Or “national security”. But regardless of what they call it, it is in fact just an outright attack on our democratic rights and freedoms.

They’re coming for us. To maintain their power and influence. And stifle …

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...about rich people's problems.

Read why a rich guy who’s running a movie company into the ground wants you to feel really sorry for him and the industry he’s destroying.

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Australia cares, just not about Village Roadshow.

Village Roadshow ran ads in newspapers over the weekend consisting of an open letter from its CEOs expressing much butthurt over piracy and “copyright theft”.

I really wish the language surrounding allegedly “illegal” downloading would change. It doesn’t really make much sense to talk about digital copies being “theft”. And from a legal perspective, there is actually no such thing as “copyright theft” — only copyright infringement.

But then, hyperbolic rhetoric is one of the tools the movie industry like …

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How to install Python, setuptools, pip, virtualenvwrapper for PowerShell, and PySide on Windows.

For those times you wanna do some Python coding but all you got is a Windows machine.

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Things to install on a Windows machine to make it (sort of) suitable for development.

For those times when there isn’t a Linux box handy…and you must write code…

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How to debug and run Android apps on a Samsung Galaxy S3 device with Eclipse on Windows.

Using Eclipse on a Windows development machine, I’d managed to get USB debugging working on various Android devices with various versions of Android without too much drama. But I ran into some difficulties when I tried to debug an app on a Samsung Galaxy S3 (GT-I9300T with Android 4.3).

I think I’m beginning to detect a pattern emerging — the more recent the Android version, the more (unnecessary?) development hoops to jump through. (Because Security! Apparently.)

So …

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