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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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You are absolutely right--sorry, and sorry to Mr Seibel.
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This article and the blog zerohedge is sensationalist and often wrong. To me this is hacker news as what the high-frequency traders is pretty serious technology.
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Bet that won't last long.
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Awesome building, but with $12.5 mil for keeping the lights on, $300,000 is too much. Interesting how technology improvements (new letter sorting technology) has made a building of that size essential…
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Well, this is the first time I saw it, so I don't mind.
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Good writeup of a true deadline pursuit with a distributed team, one of whom is offline.
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And the url is http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD12xx/EW...
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In one or more of his stories, a proprietor of a small business was lauded by the community for killing a would-be burgler and putting his head on a spike outside the restaurant. (e.g., Time Enough F…
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This paper by ewd gives his overview of the industry and some of the reasons that "reality" seems out of step with good approaches.
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Really anywhere and not just php mailing list. Well, I would like to think that is the case but sadly it is not.
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Although with some colleges, the advertisements imply strongly that you will get a job with their degree. Don't know in this particular case.
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Perhaps you mean the straw that broke the camel's back?
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Generally, mention anything Dijkstra and you get the quick smackdown. And this has been going on since he was publishing. There was a big brouhaha when he was publishing that what he was proposing i…
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As the son of a dryland wheat farmer, I have been concerned about the amount of fertilizer and pesticides put into the soil. The author has a very good basic point. Farmers and the agribusiness indus…
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I have now become accustomed to using COND which I would find a way to emulate if I had to program in another language. I find too many errors in simple if statements. Plus, the switch seems to be …
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I think a math museum is a great idea, but Mr Whitney seems to be represented as being just a little OCD.
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Somehow Smalltalk did not make his list. Nor forth. It would be a more interesting debate if there were some hard evidence of the relative efficiency, measured in total development/maintenance/opportu…
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So here is a challenge, TC, rewrite the press release for "Akamai and Delve" in a way that you find acceptable.
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When I hear the word "leverage", i release the safety on my browning.
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Ah, but consider the apple. The purpose of an apple is to get eaten so that the seeds get geographically distributed. The apple is ready to fall--else it won't taste good--so you are not killing it.…
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I think this makes good points about how we should be working with html these days, except those few of us who do static tables by hand. One thing I am concerned about in the concept of doing all the …
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This is fun, particularly "your id is kind of a douchebag".
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Excellent article. Interesting how these things progress by getting complex, then a simplifying design is found that makes the architecture simpler, or at least with fewer "moving parts".
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And in the wsj: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124908121794098073.html
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Tina http://thinksimplenow.com/about is both passionate and keen.
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So I am left with the question "how can they not know how botnets work", which was oft repeated in the article. Also left dangling was how a million kernels is going to help this problem.
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RPG III, Fortran, Cobol, assembler, VB, VBA, ASP. And no, I am not kidding or making this up.
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This is a little petulant, but the plot over why kill GV is interesting. Since skype is on the iphone, and GV is on other phones with AT&T, it is curious why GV was rejected.
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I do both. Except for the case mod.