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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
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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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Well, I would say that Knuth doesn't put comments, he puts chapters. His code is quite a pleasure to read. I don't yet seem to be at that level of evolution yet.
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Very excellent communication to employees, and precise, as well: "Your job is just as secure as it was a month ago."
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I'm sorry, but whenever I hear Cuil, i cannot get the cuil theory http://cuiltheory.wikidot.com/what-is-cuil-theory out of my head. Additionally, when i hear the word 'leverage', I release the safet…
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There is a lot of value in the comments on this article, but I am afraid that the idea that you can usefully hire someone based on the answer to one question is a bit oversimplified. In any project t…
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However, I find myself voting up some articles that I wouldn't recommend, but the comments have lots of value.
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These would be richly funny if they were not so entirely true.
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True, and I had one very large company back off after the equivalent of a staredown. My lawyer, when first seeing the contract, left me a one-word voicemail: "Egregious".
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Ah, but in higher-level languages comments are bugs.
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I enjoy rereading this. I am forever getting into trouble (since high school, at least) telling people that i think "it is a moral imperative to do what you love". And if you don't know what this me…
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I have used this technique in the past and call it Diversionary Therapy.
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This is an excellent article. I am not familiar in detail with DeMarco's work, but it is very refreshing to hear a pundit/consultant/authority say "I am uncomfortable with what I said before" after ha…
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Yep, that's me. I have a tv and watch it about four times a year. We host a superbowl party, and usually there are three other events that we end up catching, such as an election or inauguration. An…
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Well, not quite so--they did decide to offer him stock conditional upon him joining. While I don't agree with not coughing up a cash bonus, he is making a point about their culture, and that is alway…
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This reminds me of the wonderful article http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200303/rauch (Caring for your Introvert) and the whole discussion of "what is normal, exactly?".…
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So if i were nuts enough to try this experiment, which language would you recommend? Ok to reply via email off list as well.
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I'm a little more familiar with SNOBOL, but ICON is imperative and procedural and a bit complicated, and it looks tempting as a target for this little thought experiment that we have, writing a compil…
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Well, not sure how to write a compiler that generates machine code without fully understanding the semantics and evolution. I have done two of them and did not do rigorous mathematical semantic model…
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I like the ten year rule. I have a similar rule for cars--it takes about one year for a driver to completely master the peculiarities of a new car--its handling, judging exactly where the tires are r…
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So long as it is presented to your web browser, you can also read it with a spider (wget, etc). However, your question suggests that what you do with the data might fall under some sort of copyright …
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I very much agree with the article, but would genuinely like to hear any counterexamples.
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Now that is a cool hack.
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I am tempted to say "real men don't use databases", but that is a little dramatic. Databases in the sense of RDBMS/SQL databases. It seems that HN doesn't, Google doesn't, Yahoo doesn't, ITA does (f…
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I have done by-owner transactions twice--it was lots of fun. The lawyer time in each case was not more than two or at most three hours. If it is more than that, there is something unexpected.
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Customer service. I have had the same real estate agent since 1997 and have done four transactions with her during that time. All have been in the same local area, which she knows extremely well. T…
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This is funny, in a painful-yes-that-is-true kind of way. I am glad to be out of the C++ business.
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A fine, honest article. The best part was "learning to read", and that happened recently in the author's cronology. One of my friends tells me that "if you can read, you can cook" to which I retort …
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Very nicely written article. Aside from the alpha discussion, an additional useful point is the concept of too-intelligent interfaces. This is related to two other observations. One is that for high…
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This article is rather full of malunderstandings and misinformation. One particular example, in the manner that Goldman has been "banned" comes from the zero hedge blog itself: http://zerohedge.blog…
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But correct me if I am wrong--doesn't the Y Combinator model depend on some very seasoned VC guys, namely pg? Waterloo certainly has serious technical talent, but one thing sticks in my mind is PG's …
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Or, he gave his eyetooth to see again.