herghost

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by herghost 10y ago
There's a concept of an 'ambivert' too, which sits in the middle. The popular understanding of introversion and extraversion has necessarily simplified the whole set up to 'loud, socialising people', and 'quiet
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by herghost 10y ago
You're right insofar as they are unhelpful and artificial structures when people hide behind them or use them as an excuse for doing (or not doing) something. Particularly when they know they shouldn't be. Having the "I cou
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by herghost 10y ago
I think to an extent, yes they should. Amazon does interesting things with tech and logistics. This is their latest foray and is interesting to this audience/niche. I understand your concern, but if this was just mindless advertising
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by herghost 10y ago
That's a good point - maybe this is just the de-cloaking of what already goes on based on a really specific example. Will we generally accept it though, when it's laid out so plainly?
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by herghost 10y ago
It's interesting because they clearly believe they have workable actuarial data to support this, so in many ways good on them for using the data that's available. On the other hand, based on the examples given, it seems this is go
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by herghost 10y ago
It's not the failure of the security industry, it's the success of market forces over the security industry. Normal folk want to consume new gadgets because that's the culture we have. So it's a race to put new gadgets
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by herghost 10y ago
Exactly this. I have a current specialism within a fairly specialised field, but this leaves me plenty of bandwidth to move within the field in the short term. My background is loosely related but has given me a set of core skills which I c
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by herghost 10y ago
One of the best things about the Amiga version was the music/soundtrack. It was such high quality, and always seemed to match perfectly what was happening in the game - from the jangly violins and upbeat folky "exploration"
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by herghost 10y ago
I always wanted to get into EU3, but it seemed massively obtuse for a beginner and since I was running it on a Mac through Steam, the tutorials didn't work properly so I couldn't figure anything out. And then I read how much of a
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by herghost 10y ago
I do find myself confused by Assange's motivation when taken in context of his circumstances. If he has and holds evidence of something so damaging that a tweet of the supposed hash of the file is enough to be a threat to a person in p
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by herghost 10y ago
is there a similar set of penalties for a company, say Google, saying that they won't buy with the express intention of this reducing the value so that they can in fact buy? I was reading recently about the St Jude Medical incident whe
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by herghost 10y ago
We're in the age where everyone brings their own facts to the table - even when the facts are the same, they take the facts and state that they support their position even as the other guy is claiming the opposite. It doesn't even
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by herghost 10y ago
This is the reason I stopped using Paypal. The want to position themselves as a financial services provider equivalent to traditional banks, except that they reserve the right arbitrarily - and without recourse - remove their services. As a
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by herghost 10y ago
Why not financial services? There's a handful of small players testing the banking regulations now (like Mondo) to get authorised as basically "iPhone banks" - modern, mobile, without the legacy and technical debt. With Apple
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by herghost 11y ago
William Hill | Java; Web; Full Stack | Leeds, UK; London, UK | Full-Time | Onsite William Hill are hiring: * Java Developers [0][1] * Graduate Java Developer [2] * Senior Developers [3][4] * Full Stack Developers [5] * Web Developers [6][7]
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by herghost 11y ago
One potential problem is that instead of assessing problem objectively, since the payout is based on "most popular" answer, people will choose which answer they expect to be most popular, rather than the one they necessarily belie
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by herghost 11y ago
I used to be exactly like that. As a consequence I never really picked up any in-depth knowledge through school because hitting the basics was usually enough to "get the grade" and there was precious little "reward" (of
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by herghost 11y ago
yeah - the bottom left of the 'a' and the top left of the 'g' look to bulge a bit for me. I can't decide if it's a bit of an optical illusion though.
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by herghost 11y ago
Nice, but full screen mode won't accept input on OS X 10.10.3 using Safari 8.0.5. I can input in the browser and it shows fine. If I full screen it the text remains but it ignores input.
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by herghost 12y ago
"Who Moved My Cheese" by Spencer Johnson. It's only a short tale, but it changed my approach to more or less everything. I am eternally grateful to my good friend who showed it to me in about 2000/2001 ish.
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by herghost 12y ago
This feels like more of a solution looking for a problem, to me. Why? Because even if I increase the entropy of my passwords/passphrases for systems I have to use every single day, the vast majority of them are still going to need me
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by herghost 12y ago
I completely agree that it's a sales vs. HR thing, and that the onus is on the candidate to make themselves appear as the best product on the market. But something about "expert" really grates on me. I think it's that it
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by herghost 12y ago
I interviewed a self-declared "biometrics expert" once. When I see "expert" on a CV I have learned to become cynical. I asked him about his expertise and he spoke in platitudes about it - at a sort of BBC News kind of le
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by herghost 12y ago
I've had very similar experience hiring for information security roles. The volume of "good" CVs that landed on my desk was consistently high, but when we spoke to the candidates on their first telephone interview it became i
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Anatomy of a VBA Malware Dropper(medium.com)
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by herghost 12y ago
possibly related to the source/inspiration that OP referenced in the link? http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/171612
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by herghost 12y ago
I wouldn't sweat it. Anyone offended at this needs to recalibrate their outrage-o-meter.
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by herghost 12y ago
"I changed it to male" - OMG YOU THINK WOMEN CAN'T CODE "I changed it to female" - OMG YOU THINK WOMEN ARE BAD AT CODING
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by herghost 12y ago
Completely agree with the whole assessment. I once requested to do the SANS course (on my company's dollar), and they declined based on cost, but offered me the CEH as an alternative. Since it was still on their dollar I sat the cours
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by herghost 12y ago
This strikes me as the "right" response from aggrieved taxi drivers - instead of trying to quash competition via legislation, innovate in the space and use your key strengths (i.e., The Knowledge) to make your product more competi

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