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wglb
69,332karma·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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Er, "We are all in this together?"
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I wonder if in retrospect the big buildup to its release spelled doom for its ultimate acceptance. We do often see policemen using them in the parks in downtown Chicago. But as is pointed out in comme…
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I am less a fan of "top N _whatevers_ done by _whomever_" lists--seems like an outline looking for content. But he does link to the "egoless programming". I remember when that kind of chatter came out…
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See, but it is not a one size fits all kind of thing. If you have an iphone or ipod or a mac, you also have freebsd. If you have other cellphones, you have another os. And his thinking is influenced …
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Down one demerit for techchrunch (or maybe not, they seem to make a valid point about embargos), but we might call this the 17 hour test--if you are working 17 hours and don't want to or forget to go …
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Didn't the ranger do that?
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I think the headline just simply got truncated--"a few hours before the Americans Took Off".
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The firm in Chicago he was going to was Teza Technologies LLC, founded by a former Citadel trader. That firm suspended Sergey after his arrest.
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Great headline, and I cannot enumerate the number of times that I have done this, both under managerial pressure and totally of my own volition.
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There are serious jobs in Chicago in the financial sector.
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And doesn't the third translate to "3. You can't get out of the game"?
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This is what Don Lancaster at http://www.tinaja.com/h2gas01.asp has been saying for a long time. One quote "Please also note that because of the staggering loss of exergy, use of
electrolysis for b…
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It seems that the major safety lessons are learned only after a crash.
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Being intelligent as a part of one's identity is not a good idea. I know this from my own experience--I skipped second grade, and was never comfortable in school. This praise business to me is a subs…
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One item left out is floor space. This is a serious consideration, maybe more serious than electricity. Real estate for your server racks has a cost associated with it, and it is not so easy to buy/…
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But do managers know how to measure performance? Really? In an enterprise situation, for example, do "customers" really know if they love the software, or the presentation that sold them the idea, or …
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Pipes/abstractions don't leak?
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Well, a pretty serious "geek" did amphetamines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s
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When I was in high school, I had a blind friend who used something similar to do some rather amazing things. He would follow me on his bicycle (!), tracking by the sound the bike made. Solo, he coul…
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Yes, you are correct. In my high-performance version, I used an extension of the language provided by g++ which allowed turning off of exceptions, which sadly cost time even if you don't use them.
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Keeping in mind that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics was programmed in PL/1 and assembler, and may have generated more ideas than Linux or Unix.…
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This is a great story. Ham Radio is a place for prime hackers. I love the resourcefulness of the guy in the article.
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Ah, but why does it have to be close to the metal?
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As someone who has done some seriously low-latency projects on C++, there are really many levels that you can do this at. You can turn off exceptions, do constructors very sparingly, handle your own …
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Maybe better would be llvm.
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I think it would be more interesting to do it in D.
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I use Linux (major parts of the workhorses) open BSD (routers) Mac (for video conferences and development support). There is a freebsd there for good measure.
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Actually, this is not entirely true. If you use a program called PAX, which is like unix tar, you can get two files with the same case-independent name with different capitalization. This is necessa…