lesterbuck

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by lesterbuck 13y ago
I really like the concept for your company, and I wish you the best. That said, I have to admit I read your explanation of the name of your company three times before I understood that you are changing the L in URL into an X. In my head, I
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
Recently, the I Love Marketing podcast had an hour discussion with former-Shark Kevin Harrington: http://ilovemarketing.com/episode-118-the-one-with-kevin-har... Harrington details why he left the show, mainly because all t
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Fair use? US stamp featuring photo of monument nets sculptor $650,000 (dpreview.com)
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
Yes, same problem. Google suggests it is an Adobe After Effects file. Linux "file" reports it as card.aek: Netpbm PPM "rawbits" image data, size = 512 x 512 Not sure how to view Netpbm (portable bit map).
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How hospitals make decisions(johndcook.com)
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
You would be recognized inside the NSA, a large technical population. In addition, as with the CIA and other clandestine US government organizations, they appeal to patriotism and helping the national interest. That appeal seems to be fray
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
Oddly enough, I find the "tuned out" nature of most checkout people to be an opportunity. At least for the past fifteen years, I play a game with checkout people. My goal is to get them to smile. I make some comment about somet
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
Putting people with mental problems in prison is shameful and a serious problem. But certainly you aren't claiming that black and brown people have more mental problems than white people?
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
Have you ever worked on a Mandatory Access Control computer system of any kind? They are extremely inconvenient, and thus rare to find outside classified environments. The engineering effort to write and maintain a functional set of SELin
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
>He was a sysadmin. He had access. Most of the audits and controls protect against normal users; someone with root access is going to be able to bypass a lot of them. And he had the technical chops to cover his tracks when he couldn&#x27
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
Consider software. No matter what new tools and amazing techniques to reduce and control complexity, everyone is still operating at or beyond the limits of the human mind to manage that complexity. That pretty much defines the state of the
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
I guess showing them a live data source for the stock price in the presentation would just make their heads explode. I thought that was a reasonably out-of-the-box Office feature?
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
This sounds like the definition of the next place for software to eat an industry. I guess the number of domain experts is too small, or the knowledge changes too quickly to build into some extremely profitable process management software?
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
English already has gender neutral pronouns, though they are so rare or new that I only ran across one a few months ago. The words are: zhe, zher, zhim. I'm still waiting to actually hear one of these come out of someone's mouth
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
You are welcome to measure anything you want. I am only reporting the statistics of marriage. First marriages fail about 50% of the time, while second marriages fail in the 70% range. Therefore, people are, on average, worse at their sec
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
>The way you get better at X is to do it. For pretty much >all X. A bit off topic, but one of the few X where this does not hold is marriage. Statistically, first marriages are more likely to succeed than any subsequent marriage.
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
I came away from that paper with notes to track down exactly the same information. Alas, there does not seem to be a definitive answer. Googling a unique phrase from the relevant text, this seems to be the main discussion: http:/&#x
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
A recent version of programming languages survey class available to anyone is the Coursera class on Programming Langauges from Dan Grossman: https://www.coursera.org/course/proglang It will be taught again in the fall.
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The Internet: Looking Forward, by Vint Cerf [pdf](cisco.com)
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
>Acting shady hurts your brand. The Ladders has a long history of actually being shady, viz. "Liars at the Ladders" http://www.asktheheadhunter.com/newsletter/oe20090120.htm
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Going Places with Location Services on Android(github.com)
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
It takes about ten years to get used to how old you are.
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
>Zappos is great, but I wonder what would happen if I called them for help with my iPhone... ;) You might be surprised, but the expected result of calling Zappos for help with your iPhone is that they would give it their best shot to be
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
A while ago, I listened to a Mixergy interview with the founder of HelpScout. They have a content marketing strategy, and produce a lot of quality free content on customer service issues. https://www.helpscout.net/resources
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
The second and third issues are serious. I read the first issue, being indecisive, as a cry for help from client to professional. After the first scope change on the first day, I'd do my professional duty and inquire if they might wa
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
IANAL and I don't have any business to sue, but my mind wanders about "creative" approaches to patent trolls. 1. I live in Houston, which is a reasonable drive from the eastern district of Texas. If I got sued, I'd prob
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The Truly Staggering Cost Of Inventing New Drugs(forbes.com)
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Managing SSH Keys for Automated Access - Current Recommended Practice(datatracker.ietf.org)
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The pedagogical foundations of massive open online courses(firstmonday.org)
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
I'm sure there are all sorts of reasons why not, but the above list of inefficiencies makes me start wondering about applying some code to one or more of the steps. How about starting to automate the 19 searches, and sell the service to th

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