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wglb
69,333karma·9,653submissions·January 13, 2008
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At home, Simple country boy
wgl at ciexinc.com
twitter: @wgl8
w8lvn, 7019, 3519, 1819 and occasionally 7074.000
Formerly at kCura/Relativity, security. I do application penetration testing for hire these days. Happy to chat about application security, programming, and ham radio. My conversations about agriculture are not that interesting.
Security: https://ciexinc.com/ Of particular interest are the solarwinds articles at https://ciexinc.com/blog/solarwinds/index.html Old very fun projects: https://ciex-software.com
“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.
I am haunted by waters.”
Beware the anxiety industrial complex.
recent activity (9,653 total)
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Great story, particularly in regard to the balance required to make the whole thing work, and to push the oil companies to innovate. It also brings to mind the essay "There are no Mom and Pop Oil Com…
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In the Omnivore's Dilemma he story about Salatin's farm (Polyface Farms) makes me want to be a grass farmer when I grow up.
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So I am wondering how we got to the opinion of "because one of their fundamental tenets is that patterns cannot be represented in code". Seems quite odd.
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This is one of his that I often reread, as there is a lot in it. Thus, easy to miss that particular aspect of the last paragraph.
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Or, stretching it, perhaps he is going to stop being polite.
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What obstacles did you find in your production use? I am heavily down this path already.
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Interesting. I see bing fixed, at least partially, their very partial "Why is windows so expensive" embarrassment.
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What an excellent presentation. Benevolence not because it is good but because it works.
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Content beats presentation? Staying close to the customer rules? No meetings a big win? Worthy of contemplation.
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"Be yourself because everybody else is taken." Good for him that he does what he feels is right regardless whatever is the judgment of the pundits.
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Car companies to start require many orders of magnitude of investment greater than any YC startup. Sort of puts it into a different class.
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The blub argument is about not understanding that there are tools out there that do things that you can't currently imagine due to your immersion in your current toolset or a very narrow world view.
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The meaning of life?
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I think that nowadays it needs to be 200.
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Very good paper, with an occasional humorous informal tone. Pointers to very seriously thorough bibliographies. The paper doesn't say anything about the patents in the field, which used to be noted o…
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Well, there is retro and there is double retro. I log time on projects mainly, and set up appointments. And use the todo list. I sync it these days with linux. The speed of entry is a happy combinat…
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Perhaps it is ruining yours, but then a little discipline helps. I have multiple pda and cellphones and a hp200lx. Believe it or not, the hp200lx can enter a todo item quicker than any other method,…
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And another spectacular venture rise and fall: http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=35025
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You can tell by looking at the colums to the right--they show the load on each of the cores. What is particularly interesting is that Haskell uses only one CPU to beat Java which is using four.
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Isn't there a DLR used by the likes of F#?
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Thoughtful article, but is "the software tries to predict how I'll feel about movies based on my past ratings" this strictly true? Might it not be a broader predictor of what you might like in a chang…
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So for those erlang-knowledgable, I understand that erlang is thread-scalable more than most anything. Are there other areas that erlang is similarly more scalable?
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Well, isn't it the things wrong in the release (e.g. failures) that drive the next release, that is to say learning from them?
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Often done--a list of what is important in language choice, followed by the choice we wanted to make anyway: "Nethertheless, we choosed C++ as our language." C++ is slow, but in time to learn or write…
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This article, as several comments note, is kind of a non-story, but the referenced article that supposedly was the target of suppression is a good read: http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/t…
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I agree, but I did have an intense moment with Fortran II that effectively launched me into a compiler-writing career. And actually a second point was a zero-knowledge dislike of COBOL. This faded wh…
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Having a minor cluster for my project, I must admit that I am infatuated with the idea of building a cluster in a container and putting it somewhere, perhaps out on the prairie. The attractive thing …
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Good, but old news. This is a useful educational article, but I had a pediatrician in 1981 explain much the same facts to us about our just-born daughter. The lesson is not to go off and overstimulate…
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I routinely operate with 50 open, often as many as 100. Never had an X crash in the two years been with this setup.
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Curious that there is no wikipedia entry for her. Rather amazing stuff.