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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.
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Portland is a wonderful city in a wonderful state. I spent several intern quarters there, and have friends from there. Two interesting tech startups that have connections to Reed College, which is no…
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Hopefully he is well. I used centos for a bit with my cluster, but now use http://www.caoslinux.org for use with Perceus. Not that I had problems with centos, but the integration of the latter two …
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There was a note on their web page at least as early as yesterday saying essentially the same thing as above.
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Makes lots of sense. So does it seem that Xanadu would solve what AP is trying to do?
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Do you think that Xanadu could reasonably solve this problem?
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Talk about a crowdsourcing smackdown.
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My question is why hire by language? Why not get good engineers and have them ramp up? I understand that for many projects this is not desired, particularly in a HR-rich environment, but if the proj…
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But isn't that possibly a result of their agreement with at&t?
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Sort of a self-downmod font, don't you think? What you said, but I think pompous and self-serving. And possibly wrong.
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Excellent counter. In Omnivore's Dilemma, he notes that there exists evidence that the old idea about nutrition being reduceable to just three basic components is likely to be wrong. If you don't know…
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I think you are right, but still there is a discipline that openbsd uses that others might find useful. Theo gave a talk about their engineering release process that sounded scalable.
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Now that is really an interesting question. I wonder if blinking with one eye would be disruptive to the sterovision that is going on. An interesting test would be to train oneself to blink one eye a…
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But OpenBSD does it on a six month basis. I am wondering if it is more the degree of organization and planning rather than the size of the project.
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This is a good article and it resonates with one of pg's essays in which he says that sometimes in building a project you worry about security later. I think it is also related to the early optimizat…
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While this is not exactly a tutorial, the http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?test=sp... shows threaded multicore programs in a good number of languages.…
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Curious if you have used lisp before, or if you have used java, or both. I hear some pretty good real-world stories about Clojure.
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Sounds like a cool thing, but may I suggest finding a better name? Not sure what Clojuratica brings to mind, but it doesn't make me think about Clojure or Mathematica or their combination. Some sort o…
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Er, you are off on this one. GML was invented by IBM. Tim was involved with SGML, wrote one of the first, if not the first, web crawler, and was a primary force and first listed author on the XML sp…
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Yes, I know a couple of these dudes. In 2000, we went to Vanuatu and stayed in a mansion, hardly as severe, but we did do some technological firsts. Shortly before that, there were people at kingman …
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If you do it from home and have a family (unlike a couple of startup roomates working towards ramen mode), you absolutely need a separate room with a door that means "i am at work" and everyone needs …
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Bring a ham radio station, that would be my plan.
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Some good hard core stuff here. Conrgats on the numbers.
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Anyone else get "video unavailable" on the video?
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The problem starts before the leaky abstraction. It is putting a bad or mal-fitting model over a problem to make it easier for non-experts to work with the tool. This is a commonly-made mistake and c…
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It wasn't until the end of the article that I realized that it was the Sutherland of graphics fame. His early work was profound, and ahead of what everyone else was doing. I remember reading the o…
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Well, they actually can't fly very well--they bumble (sorry) about when you see them in slow motion. The myth, if that is what it is, was supposedly derived from some aerodynamic analysis.
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Link should be http://www.isistwitterdowndown.com/ Reminds me of the old trick of typing (including quotes) 'bash: command: command not found' into bash.…
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There are actually more level 5's in operation. The certification process is about having the procedures in place, and so it is conceivable that you could get that without a delivery.