Slartibreakfast

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by Slartibreakfast 12y ago
Jack, you're way too intelligent to pretend that you don't understand what I'm talking about here.
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by Slartibreakfast 12y ago
It's simply common sense - if you're going to hire someone, you should pay them the same amount, within reason, as any other qualified person on your team. "There's increased risk - real and/or perceived - involved
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by Slartibreakfast 12y ago
I think that's the same thing people say when they pay African Americans less money too.
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by Slartibreakfast 12y ago
Yep, about half of ex-cons end up back in the joint. And this is all the more reason, if you're going to hire someone with a criminal record, to try and treat them with the same respect you'd treat any other employee. For the very
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by Slartibreakfast 12y ago
I've only recently discovered the horror that is AT&T U-Verse. Some buildings in Chicago have a contract with them so there's no escaping it. I can't imagine how bad it would be if a whole state only had one provider like
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by Slartibreakfast 12y ago
Nothing like taking advantage of someone who has nothing to lose, I mean - what could possibly go wrong.
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by Slartibreakfast 12y ago
I'm embarrassed to admit I didn't know about half.com. That is pretty cool.
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by Slartibreakfast 12y ago
I know how I'd spend the first $100: http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/introduction-algorithms I don't know about the other $1.9K.
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by Slartibreakfast 12y ago
Mark Russinovich was hired by Microsoft for any number of reasons, not the least among them being the fact that he was easily one of the top Windows hackers out there. I can still remember marveling over the books he used to write about Win
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by Slartibreakfast 12y ago
You're probably already aware of it, but Martin Thompson of LMAX has done a lot of great work on HFT systems and his blog "Mechanical Sympathy" is excellent: http://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com/ Although
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by Slartibreakfast 12y ago
The next thing you know, we'll have a Secret Court. Oh, wait.
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by Slartibreakfast 12y ago
The whole notion of absolute immunity for government agents, whether it's the mailman or a prosecutor is completely nuts - it seems ridiculous to me that our legal system includes government agents who are allowed to operate outside of
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by Slartibreakfast 12y ago
Probably. The whole patent system is broken and it is just infuriating to observe the farce. I have simply lost count of all the examples of patents which should never have been granted being used in litigation.
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by Slartibreakfast 12y ago
I'm so sick of software patents. The solution seems pretty simple - the approval process for software patents should consist of running the idea past three people off of the street. If they say "Well, duh..." in response to b
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by Slartibreakfast 12y ago
I don't know, sounds like he got off pretty lightly considering he threatened an FBI agent's children. I would expect the jail time would be a lot higher, but I guess I don't know what guides the court's decisions in the
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by Slartibreakfast 12y ago
I think user drawkbox says it best in his post: "Nothing amazing will happen with words if you couldn't change it with actions in possibly years of work." This is it. Plain and simple.
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by Slartibreakfast 12y ago
The easiest way to avoid making mistakes in an exit interview is not to participate in one. You're not obligated to do an exit interview, and nobody takes it personally if you don't.
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by Slartibreakfast 12y ago
The irony of it was that they already had a whale on the hook. The person whose identity that they had stolen was someone with an incredible net worth. They actually had direct access to his bank account and funded the account on our side w
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by Slartibreakfast 12y ago
I like digital currency, and at the same time I am somewhat concerned about the idea of moving away from paper currency and over to an electronic system. My main concern is that once we can't buy something with coins or paper currency,
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by Slartibreakfast 12y ago
It's been a while since I've done an integration with fraud prevention systems, but the credit bureaus do offer functionality like this - for instance, they can give you a red flag back if an address has been used by a number of d
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by Slartibreakfast 12y ago
It's good to see a business sharing stories of having been scammed - a lot of times start-ups are so involved in the process of growing the business and making sales that they forget to remember to train their sales team to have good o
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by Slartibreakfast 12y ago
I thought Chicago was hilarious - it's the only place I've lived where two people can walk in opposite directions and both still have the wind blowing directly in their faces.
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by Slartibreakfast 12y ago
Millenia of History? Hell, that ain't nothin' - we got us a Millenium Falcon!
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by Slartibreakfast 12y ago
This. If there's one thing I can't stand about Houston, it's the mold. You could probably make a living selling bleach door to door in this town.
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by Slartibreakfast 12y ago
Houston's a tough and gritty place, but it's not without its charms. For instance, a lot of people don't know that Houston is the home of the largest medical center in the world - including M.D. Anderson, which is routinely r
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by Slartibreakfast 12y ago
Shhh, you're going to ruin everything. And right when I've got a bunch of investors on the hook with my idea for a healthcare portal run by a former surgeon general.
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by Slartibreakfast 12y ago
It's important to remember that many of the security folks at these companies are actually pretty good. This is more of a C-Suite problem than a security team problem - security people can't get much done if senior management does