angelbob

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by angelbob 15y ago
if the only evidence of any supposed crime that has occurred exists purely as bits on a digital storage device, it's hard to claim that crime was worthy of any sort of prosecution to begin with. What, really? How about when it's a photo
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by angelbob 15y ago
Yes, alas.
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by angelbob 15y ago
It looks like the abstract basically says that the older child does better with a larger spacing (more dedicated time with parents, possibly), while the younger is basically unaffected. That makes sense to me.
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by angelbob 15y ago
That might be an argument for premium job sites like TheLadders advertised as ($100k+ jobs). It seems like they've backed off on that branding, though. So maybe that doesn't work out well in practice?
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by angelbob 15y ago
Unfortunately that's very error-prone from the potential employer side. It's not a very strong signal that they're actually looking.
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by angelbob 15y ago
They're desperate, and they get paid a lot if everything goes well. They could carefully screen each person for exact suitability, throw out bad matches and bring in only a few good ones. Or they could throw huge numbers of resumes an
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by angelbob 15y ago
If they have to individually pass 10 15-page bills to get 150 pages of legislation passed, that's still progress.
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by angelbob 15y ago
It seems like it would. The security advisory made it seem like the way they were returning an error was inadequate - perhaps there was an insecurity with cookie stuff being sent back? But yeah, this seems like too big a hammer to fix that
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by angelbob 15y ago
This kind of thing is never explicitly said, but happens often.
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by angelbob 15y ago
It's a metaphorical term of art, but also a sentiment among companies. They do treat talent as property, surprisingly often. And there's often a fair bit of tit-for-tat and specific arrangements about poaching and when it's okay. Which
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by angelbob 15y ago
This is cute. I had to Google to get the Williams / Jim Kelly thing from Enter the Dragon. An awesome article. Inspirational in the same way as Steve Yegge's Wizard School bit ( http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/07/wizard-school.html )
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by angelbob 15y ago
I look at them. I just think they accomplish something useful. It sounds like you don't.
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by angelbob 15y ago
Well then, I hope he doesn't find peace but does good and not evil. We need people who like to fight. We just need them fighting the right people. Sounds like he's off to a decent start, if he can continue it.
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by angelbob 15y ago
Ah, so you're saying that failing to parse the number breaks the transaction. Fair enough, you'd rather (as a human being) have the second one. As a matter of building the system, I would still return the first one. Basically, the second i
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by angelbob 15y ago
Return the first one. You always care more about the original error than an explanation of why you failed in cleaning up after it.
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by angelbob 15y ago
A land rush seems like a better analogy, partly because it's going to take a lot of work to capitalize well on what we've got here. There could be a funding bubble (there certainly isn't any more in VC, but maybe for angels), but that's
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by angelbob 15y ago
Sure. But what's the relative busts-to-winners proportion here versus before or after the startup rush? Do you think the number of busts will be higher than, say, just post-dot-com-boom?
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by angelbob 15y ago
In this case, the salt is effectively part of the key. They know how you use the salt, sure. Just not the big arbitrary hex string that is the salt.
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by angelbob 15y ago
Unfortunately, if he submitted an exploit and didn't get banned, we'd see more criticizing Apple for favoritism in enforcing the rules. They deserve that criticism and it's true, but I can see where they would prioritize actually enforcin
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by angelbob 15y ago
Not indexably. But you can do a hideous many-tables-per-real-table thing where each field gets a tall thin table in PostGRES or MySQL, do a lot of joins to get your data, and index the fields in that . It's not as awful as it sounds, pe
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by angelbob 15y ago
If you were using MongoDB prior to 1.8 on a single server, it's your own fault if you lost data. To me, replication as a means to provide durability never seemed crazy. It just means that you have to understand what's going on. Well, exce
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by angelbob 15y ago
And yet he makes some good points. Pretty much all of this is verifiable. I don't agree with a lot of his conclusions, but mostly his data is correct.
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by angelbob 15y ago
His point isn't totally wrong, but it's, like, 95% wrong. The 1% are more educated than average, but not nearly enough to support this argument. Education gives you a better chance at a huge jump into higher income, but not enough to suppor
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by angelbob 15y ago
Anybody know which theaters this will be released in?
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by angelbob 15y ago
It was far from perfect. But do you remember just how awful it was to go fishing for jumpers in your computer's tower case after they popped off? And you had to keep lots of spare jumpers around because some memory addresses and IRQs requ
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by angelbob 15y ago
Well, do you have a resume? That's the big obvious box to check, and what I'm surprised not to see here. You can include personal and class projects on your resume, as well as links to your github account and, if you have one, a portfolio
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by angelbob 15y ago
The github account is nice, but it requires effort to explore, and you're trying for an entry-level position. You may need a better presentation of your skills. That probably means an online portfolio with tools, summaries and screenshots.
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by angelbob 15y ago
Plug-n-play? That's a standard? It is in the "ISA-compatible hardware that doesn't need jumpers" sense, yes. It has a silly-sounding name, but it's a very specific set of hardware standards. It was a huge, huge advance, speaking as someb
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by angelbob 15y ago
As with so many bits of Microsoft history - don't look at what is replacing Microsoft, look at what Microsoft replaced. Think about IBM with a full-on monopoly on both the hardware and software, and what that would have been like instead.
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by angelbob 15y ago
Microsoft builds stuff that's meant to last for an ungodly long time, and mostly they do it pretty decently. IE6 is still a standard because they built it to be a standard, and it has endured as a standard. This means it's hanging on,

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