DrScump

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by DrScump 9y ago
reputation is an extremely valuable commodity But how does pre-use endorsement have any actual value toward a positive reputation ? Did the definition of "reputation" change when I wasn't watching?
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by DrScump 9y ago
4c) Customer receives counterfeit product from commingled stock
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by DrScump 9y ago
(September 2017, since updated with, effectively, a retraction).
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by DrScump 9y ago
Link is a forwarding link to: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-05-02/china-s-t...
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by DrScump 9y ago
Do they have a mechanism for product/service customer feedback to actually get to decisionmakers? Daily, I see site issues, logic fails, missing features in apps and sites, but there is generally no mechanism for sharing my genius in
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by DrScump 9y ago
(autostart video)
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by DrScump 9y ago
COBOL doesn't destroy your brain, that I recall. In fact, if it bores you, it leaves a lot of brain capacity available for funner stuff, like MVS exploits via Resolve. To me, it's the cool-app-of-the-month-that-harvests-private-d
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by DrScump 9y ago
Heartbleed [0], it fact, was exploitable in the wild well before Neel Mehta of Google discovered and diagnosed it. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed
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by DrScump 9y ago
Heartbleed [0] is a perfect demonstration of such a real-world exploit risk. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed
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by DrScump 9y ago
Unless it's an exploit -able weakness that is discovered only because the source is open to be both read and tested against, like Heartbleed.
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by DrScump 9y ago
Original submission, 330+ comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6416161
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by DrScump 9y ago
Answer: "42."
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by DrScump 9y ago
That would be a huge exploit/privacy risk.
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by DrScump 9y ago
Unfortunately, it's not just about "glory". If you work in "obsolete" languages/environments, you likely will be perceived as less valuable to your next employer.
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by DrScump 9y ago
"Getting the correct behavior in the case of parallel components (note that this applies even to single-core systems, since dedicated hardware constructs can race with the CPU) is particularly tricky." Heck, even if you emulate th
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by DrScump 9y ago
I doubt that physical media or tape are used beyond initial load onto disk, often directly into a database, with a single IEBGENER step. Heck, that was the case 30 years ago.
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by DrScump 9y ago
Joe Lunchbucket doesn't care if it's hardware that failed or software Unfortunately, Joe and Jane Doordash in Procurement are the ones making the big choices, and it would be nice to have them informed in detail by somethi
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by DrScump 9y ago
the compilers of the day didn't optimize much I worked in the IBM mainframe segment to start my career, and we actually had an awesome Capex optimizing COBOL compiler. We also had a core dump formatting system (not sure if it
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by DrScump 9y ago
people were most worried about awful traffic immediately next to the highway Where better to put a big box store than away from residential property and landlocked by a freeway? The Sunnyvale Home Depot has no such traffic issues,
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by DrScump 9y ago
"...the corner of 85&ElCamino where the dead Emproium mall sat for 20 years because the landowner paid effectively no taxes on the property while borrowing on the appreciated value." Source? In fact, Home Depot had already lea
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by DrScump 9y ago
You could argue that Cupertino has a long, narrow "downtown": Stevens Creek Boulevard between the new Main Street complex and the Oaks. One limiting factor is that political downtown (City Hall and the library) is off on its o
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by DrScump 9y ago
His miniseries "The Story of the Jews" was fascinating.
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by DrScump 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16914632 80+ points
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by DrScump 9y ago
"ICE cannot assert its civil immigration enforcement authority..." But ICE also has criminal enforcement authority, where applicable.
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by DrScump 9y ago
He does his own narration in the film ("Alone in the Wilderness") as well.
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by DrScump 9y ago
"I strongly recommend GQIS." Was that a typo? Nice project, but I wonder why a Google map was chosen over Openstreetmaps.
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Collapse and Earthquake Swarm After North Korea's 3 September 2017 Nuclear Test(agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
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by DrScump 9y ago
I left the tech "workforce" (although I use a lot of technology on my own in my own business) a couple of downturns ago, after I got fed up with having several positions in a row offshored and eliminated. I started my own unrelate
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by DrScump 9y ago
SB 827 died when homeowners protested fiercely SB827 never got to any "homeowners". It was killed by the Democrat leadership in the legislature.
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by DrScump 9y ago
The Mazda 6 and Ford Fusion shared the Mazda G platform The Mazda 6 platform of the early-mid 1990s was shared with the Ford Probe; the MX6-LS was the same as the Probe GT underneath. (Ford didn't even have a 24V V-6 of its ow

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