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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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Hiring by resume keyword is good only for recruiters, internal and external. Most jobs [citation required] are found through networking. My advice is to make that your plan B, if you feel you need on…
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Raising my hand. Been programming for 43 years, still going strong. Hopefully, I am done with C++, but who can tell.
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Ah, but what is a small businessman to do?
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And in really big technical organizations, it can be worse than that. It isn't just the boss man that you could tick off. And there would be the stigma of asking a question that your peers could jud…
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Good point, and I think it makes sense for any contract negotiation.
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Except for hillsdale college in Michigan which makes a point of taking zero government dollars for anything, including scholarships. Not huge, but truly private. http://www.hillsdale.edu/support/def…
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I agree. Not only does it make it easier to tell when one has actually reached the bottom of the page, it gives more room for proofs, and who knows what could happen if we run out of room!
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Yes, fascinating. Any clue to the number of nutrinos in existence? Or say the distribution of them, from the very old to the ones spitting out of the sun?
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There are a few hanging out on #lisp that have the machines (operational). If one does not care about lisp, then one would likely not care about lisp machines. And there is memory left in the communit…
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I disagree with the headline. The site, however gives me "Service Unavailable", which is either bad programming or bad communication.
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It only is letting me add one site.
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Well, you have three responses, three answers, that is, at least one of them wrong. Your question probably meant "If no one responds YES ..." Chicago area here
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Lotus Notes was a very imaginative product. I used it for a while at a couple of clients while I was consulting. One application was to build a moderately sophisticated document tracking workflow pr…
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Yes.
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Well, they clearly should have talked to pg. The first comment to the article by Aly-Khan Satchu is about as jargon-filled VC speak as I have seen.
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And another, although this site seems to be aimed at navigation of yer car through GPS, but might have some value for you. http://www.maps-gps-info.com/wrld-mps.html …
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Have you checked http://edc.usgs.gov/ ? Seems like they have quite a bit of varied data. But this is likely not very low resolution. Another source might be: http://serc.carleton.edu/research_educat…
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So I am wondering what is meant by a model by them--a row in a table listing constraints, a relation, a prolog rule?
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Mine as well. I think there are two people there. So just wondering--if this goes in reverse, is there a space for extremely local newspapers that cover just a tiny portion of a city or suburb? Impl…
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Trading Technologies has in the past been aggressive about defending patents on their trading software. On the other side of the aisle, many approaches are under trade secret protection. I think opera…
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I had previously missed the part at the end of the article where wolfram does suggest crowdsourcing as a way to tune, which is what google is all about, in some sense. I am also intrigued with "50,000…
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"exponential" might be an attention-grabbing stretch, but it is clear that we will discover new uses for this. I am wondering if anyone knows the relative size of the data behind wolfram alpha compare…
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6 with occasional 10 minute naps in the office chair.
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Doesn't it seem like the information you mention has become available in a fundamentally different way (quantity, speed) with the internet? In this data stream, it would seem that the interaction itse…
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I think this is the best way to think about it. Event-driven unstructured or lightly structured data.
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There is a range of timespans that Real Time applies to. In data acquisition, say a medical signal such as an electrocardiographic signal or an EEG signal, we are talking milliseconds. I wouldn't thi…
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It is refreshing to see a C project that is not totally obsessed with premature optimization. But nonetheless interesting to watch the improvements in the JIT engineering.
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I wonder if it bears any relationship with the view sonic thingey that is unavailable on amazon: http://www.amazon.com/ViewSonic-airpanel-V150-Smart-Display/... …
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Thanks.
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There seems to be some confusion between SQL, ACID(Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability), and a RDBMS. And it would have been nice, as StrawberryFrog notes to see these concepts compared to …