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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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Attitude is good, but it seems misdirected. For example, are you really sure that the 10,000 frequency list is going to be all that different day to day? While I like to hire people smarter than I am…
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Interesting. Living in Chicago, I certainly knew of them in the '80s. Didn't they do some mail order then?
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One thing missed here is http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/03/gms-problems-are-50-y... which is pretty convincing. A very good book on the auto industry is Halbestram's "The Reckoning".…
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I love the phrase "aggressively unknowledgeable". I have ordered much stuff from them; would love to visit them in person sometime.
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But they were a force in that market long before there was a web.
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cdc 3400 and ibm 1130 missing
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Presumably the center of startups and innovation, no?
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With patents, you are not allowed to infringe, knowingly or not.
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Disagree. Been a hard-core programmer for 43 years and an occasional manager. My friends think of me as being as social as anybody, as do I.
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Yes, Lisp has packages. A google search for "lisp packages" finds http://www.flownet.com/ron/packages.pdf which, despite the title, is useful even for those of us who do not consider ourselves idiot…
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Chicago area.
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With the one battery per server, you eliminate one moving part. Well not moving, but you leave out the step of going from dc power to ac power. With their setup, you take 220 vac (note the label on …
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"TJ Rodgers
Cypress Semiconductors Rodgers may be the best writer among Silicon Valley CEOs. The first essay of his that I read was so electrifying that I remember exactly where I was when I read it."…
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I am wondering if we end up with more than one c compiler. For the OS and base stuff, done with a compiler that is verifiable. For other more performance-demanding applications, something that compi…
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Any feeling why llvm gets the call over pcc? Certainly a lot of energy going into llvm.
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Most of the billion or so AFJ on the net today do not satisfy that. The only one that made me chuckle was the gmail autopilot. omg pandas.
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Er, if you are going to invoke Dijkstra, then you need to be aware of proving programs correct, and without at least a mathematical inclination, you are lost, no?
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Dude, it is like 34 and sleet here. Not going outside.
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"I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor. Rich is better" (originally said by Beatrice Kaufman) might apply here. I have programmed significant systems in assembler, Fortran, RPG, Cobol, C, C++, Smalltalk,…
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When I first read about Wasabi, I kind of wondered. But then in a previous lifetime, I was with a company that wrote its own compiler. A few years after that, the CEO said "thank god for that compil…
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Not necessarily, I think. If you have lots of memory, a second compile where stuff gets cached might be measurably faster.
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I remember a chapter or half a chapter in a compiler construction book or article that was effectively titled "Why spend time on compiler optimization", a delightfully ambiguous term. The point was …
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Same here. And he wants me to work all the time.