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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.
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These days, I tend to use COND rather than IF. Ah, but the page implies use bunches of teeny classes. Was that what Alan Kay had in mind when he coined "Object Oriented Programming"?
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This is not surprising to me. Facebook just eats my time everytime I get on there. I now go there only about twice a week. I would rather spend my time on sites such as hn. From the point of view o…
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Hmmm. So are we saying that reddit is kind of halted at a certain stage of development, while HN is showing maturity?
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So now the programmer has THREE problems.
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I have a relative diagnosed with ADD or ADHD. I was quite skeptical of the diagnostic process because how can we measure an attention deficit when we don't really know what normal attention is? Can …
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Hoax, yes, but a very good story.
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Here is another example of Erik's contribution: http://xml.coverpages.org/archsite.html#primFTP
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A fine overview is over at zach's journal: http://xach.livejournal.com/221433.htm
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And earlier about SGML.
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Certainly his famous XML rant was informative and provocative. The thing that still rings in my mind is the argument that presentation and content are not really separable. Still chewing on that one…
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There are some interesting quotes there, but many of the intermediate conclusions are not well supported.
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Well the match.com business model is a bit difficult. If their service is successful, two people meet and eventually take their profile down and leave match behind. There is no retention, because a …
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First time I saw this happen was when my daughter signed up for doostang. All of us on her gmail address list got an invite, including some ex-boyfriends. She later sent an apology to the whole list…
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Right, not ethical.
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Isn't spam now back up to where it was before?
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We were in a different business and I thought that would be a distraction. And it just didn't seem right to me, but I am just a simple country boy.
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Maybe because it sounds like a business that is easy to get into. I first heard this sort of idea in the late 80's.
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And quoting Karl Denninger, founder of mcs.net.
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In other words, make it so that the conclusion can be tweeted.
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I don't think so. Who was it that said that one of the forces keeping an entrepreneur going was the embarrassment factor--having announced the plan, then being committed to prevent the shame of failur…
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The earlier example of grasping a wet wine glass. That would seem to be an example.
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Hmmm, so do fingerprints prevent hydroplaning?
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So it seems to me that friction is a pretty dicey thing to measure. It seems that friction is really a property of each of the two surfaces. For example, if we are measuring the friction between fin…
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Agreed for most of us--if you are on the technical staff at twitter, then such a breaking-loose scale might be what happens.
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So it seems that this depends on a persistent connection between the user's browser and the server. Isn't there a problem with scaling with regard to the number of open connections that the server mu…
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In the early days, I heard that with the Intuit product, they would go home with the early buyers of the product and write down every annoyance, small or large, that users had with the product. I can…
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I was on a team of three building a compiler for a microprocessor. I was writing the code generator which included register allocation and other hairy stuff. We had to produce pretty good code, as a…
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I have done this from time to time, but often the notes are totally unintelligible. However, I once solved a difficult code generation problem on a compiler project I was working on while sleeping. T…
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I remember job ads looking for mainframe programmers of many stripes to maintain vintage systems, as many cobol and assembly and jcl professionals had retired. There is still a lot of it out there.
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Is the small claims process different?