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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
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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.
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This article http://techgeist.net/2009/07/london-stock-exchange-moving-wi... does compare to cars, but not quite the way you are mentioning.…
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These things are often of such a scale and real-time response requirement that simple standard solutions just won't get it done.
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I agree that Gladwell is pseudo, but Taleb is quite on the money and to me is deeply thoughtful.
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Refreshingly blunt.
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But didn't his values from his earlier stint kind of set the culture?
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I had not seen this before. What a beautiful marvelous story.
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Well, equivalent in there is a direct transformation from one to the other, but in the sense of a programmer's approach, not really equivalent. Yes, REs are transformed to FSM, but the problem-solving…
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Mine as well. State machines early on. However, immediately went into computer programming but that stuck with me. If a person reads GoF carefully, they talk about it there. Also, UML has a whole st…
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My Dad took thousands of slides of family events through the years, all kodachrome. When the family was contemplating scanning them and putting them on CD or other media for backup, I said that the b…
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There seems to be some duplication further down in the list--rows fully identical are repeated.
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My first job was picking rocks out of the wheat field when I was 11 on our wheat farm. At 12, I was pretty much doing all the work for the dryland part of the farm. But being the family farm, that d…
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Ah, so perhaps a little http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iatrogenesis
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Some of these are pretty scary. In particular, the c++ analog literals http://www.xs4all.nl/~weegen/eelis/analogliterals.xhtml , multidimentional to boot.…
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My uncle worked for Walmart for many years in his 80s. He credits being on his feet for helping keep his diabetes at bay. Personally, I don't ever expect to "retire". I have a list of projects that …
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That actually sounds pretty scary. What sort of incoming fault trips (what sounds like) DC breakers?
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I visited Savvis hosting facility several years ago and they had redundant generators (each about ths size of my two car garage), redundant network connections (some high-level peerage), two separate …
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Interesting non-heavy story, but I don't really think this was "written" by a 13-year old. Such as "handy belt clip screwed on to the back" or the use of the word "plethora". Really?
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There is actually one point missing from his list. I would put it after #5 and that is "write provable programs". I suspect Paul does this anyway, but it is a good thing to mention. This is scary t…
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And the "culture" of software organizations, the procedures, the bureaucracy, the personnel feedback, is based on accumulated anecdotes, and not on anything remotely scientific or any other rigor.
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I disagree: LOC is useful, but in an inverse way than many large organizations claim. Smaller is better. As a long-time programmer, it was pretty clear to me what Charles was doing when others around …
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I could supply some as well to support your claim.
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I wonder. None of the 13-year-olds that I know or knew would be anywhere in the same zip code (or postal code) as the word "plethora".
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I do enjoy this story, even if it is oft repeated. I worked with a fellow once who very much reminded me of mel. He once built a telephone controller with an intel 4004 because the office he was work…
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Neilsen's article makes good points, as does the sans.org article reviewing it. But isn't any security solution a little invasive?
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But doesn't the checkbox suggestion take care of that situation?
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My favorite line there is "Cell phone masts ward off cancer clusters 99.985% of the time". I have a friend who specializes in RF safety and finds himself counter to public hysteria on this topic cons…
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But where does the journalist get the story from? Talking to the crowd? Stitching together bits from a multitude of sources? Putting an interpretation on it?
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So how long does it take to power up amazon instances in the case of a news item like this? Or do you have to have them standing by already allocated? If so, isn't it cheaper to build you own?
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As does Tony Hoare, apparently.