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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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I dunno, I kind of like the energy that he gives off, and stack-based languages are a nice complement to high-level languages such as lisp. I would certainly find myself using factor in very small foo…
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Very, very good advice. To make a parallel, quoting Issac Asimov "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ..…
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Who better to make a secure os than a cranky, nearly paranoid Canadian? I can't think of anyone. I will not use anything else for my internet-facing boxes.
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You have to spend significant time there, would be one way. A related but seemingly tangential question is when a young rancher is about to be married, he would do well to pick a rancher's daughter. …
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Any bets that he grew up on a farm? But the blogger's original point is that people with a different point of view make inventions outside their own itch. My contention is really the opposite.
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Sorry, they do. A farmer friend of my dad had a large dryland farm, and decided to hook two tractors together. He removed the front wheels from each, connected the back tractor to the hitch of the fr…
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And Linda Greenlaw is probably the best fisherman anywhere.
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Here is one kind of outdoor geek activity: http://mcsquaredholdings.com/Pictures.htm
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Having spent a few years in Ann Arbor, it is almost like it is not in Michigan. But then again, Michigan has more variety by many measures than most states.
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These people are having way too much fun.
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Highlight of the article for me: "This is what the web-threatened punditry often fails to recognize: Focus is a paradox—it has distraction built into it. The two are symbiotic; they’re the systole and…
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"But Microsoft sees an opening on its own proprietary search data: 42% of searches require refinement, and 25% of clicks are the back button". So does this happen with Google? Or to put it another wa…
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In the context of "argument bait", business skills are not part of the question.
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And this is what I had in mind when I suggesged "Argument bait". My own opinion is that they were both very good, with skill in different areas.
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Now there is some argument bait--who is the better programmer, Bill Gates or Gary Kildall.
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For a moment there I thought this was reddit-like Wolfram bashing.
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An old article, but full of lessons. What seems to be less often known about Kildall is that his thesis was about writing optimizing compilers, and he is was the author of PL/M, a language loosely bas…
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" ... solitude is the school of genius"? Also, television and silence are of different realms. To misappropriate GK "Silence--don't know how that works on radio". I no longer even have the radio on w…
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Just because we don't like it and it really gets under our skin, doesn't mean that it does not work. However, I do not suggest using it as a management technique. There is regular performance and adre…
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My advice: get and train an imagination, don't outsource the job. Read all the hard core stuff, read the fantasy stuff.
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Having grown up working on a wheat farm as a youngster, a significant fraction of my emotional energy was devoted to getting out of that. However, this is all relative. While we worked with our hands…
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It seems like adding features often reduces functionality or utility.
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A purpose-driven life indeed.
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I still go back and forth on this idea--not that I have ever implemented completely any of my programs in a literate style. It is hard to argue with the quality of results that Knuth obtains (a small …
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And the resistance to these ideas continues to this day, seemingly unabated. The consequences are all around us, in our mailboxes.
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I like the Franz story about NFS. The found it was easier to reimplement NFS from scratch rather than to figure out how to configure the commercial product. Bleeping NFS! Sometimes it is quicker to w…
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Perhaps this is right. If it were done in C++, then the project might be later, and thus would save by delaying many node purchases, or even entire projects. On the other hand, the author of the arti…
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"BTW: The correct unit of comparison would have been work/joule and not work/watt." Well, work in this context seems to imply scaled computations/second and since watts is a per-second unit, work/watt…