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by reeses 13y ago
A lot of Fry's are very much like a second-tier Best Buy with a longer/weirder impulse/checkout aisle. If it opened in the last ten years and doesn't have a motif that embarrasses you more than the fact that you're going to an electronics s
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by reeses 13y ago
*Well the bonehead hashcat program is limited to 15 character passwords, so it can't possibly crack mine.* One of the main themes of the article is that the sites are the weak point, not necessarily the users. The first boo-boo i
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by reeses 13y ago
Salting wouldn't have changed the outcome of the cracking attempts in the article. The primary focus was on how pre-computed hashes (rainbow tables, etc.) are no longer a tool used by most people attacking password lists because GPU-based
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by reeses 13y ago
Incremental improvements are improvements, but one runs the risk of reaching a local maximum. As we see a significant change in the landscape (say, networking, SMP, or GPGPU, which haven't been prevalent since companies wrote their own min
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by reeses 13y ago
In re hypertext, there is precedent in the widely published works of Vannevar Bush. Nelson spent a lot of time refining many ideas that were not really viable before the availability of computers. Given the timeframe (growing up under the
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by reeses 13y ago
That's just about right, though. The Unix model is a mess, the WOSA is a mess, personal computing hardware is a stack of hacks, programming environments are a poorly integrated mess, software 'engineering' is still back in the age of siege
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by reeses 13y ago
I compare Ted Nelson to Alan Kay in the continuum of visionaries. They both have and have had far-seeing, inspirational, empowering visions of applied computer technology. They are both, of course, incredibly quotable, even outside IT. Te
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by reeses 13y ago
I read the lead in the same way. I thought,"oh, haha, silly innumerate journalists, they must have meant tenths of nanometers, and they even got that wrong!" and I felt the superiority that comes from catching someone in a factual error. H
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by reeses 13y ago
I'd say a fear of the color blue or clowns is irrational. A fear of earthquakes, snakes, and huge hailstorms is rational (if extremely unlikely to occur). Not to, you know, encourage your imminent agoraphobia.
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by reeses 13y ago
Yeah, I have this thing stuck in my head that I can't track down now. It was something similar to HP's CoolTown but less 20th century (no explicit IR, etc.). I can't remember if it was a group at PARC, Lucent, etc. That's why I was inter
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by reeses 13y ago
We are perhaps defining power differently, which is why we will disagree. I see 'power' as 'the ability to realize my will' and I think you're extending it to 'power over other people,' which does imply that, at some point, it will conflict
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by reeses 13y ago
Doing it by port is easy if you know the MAC address (which, in this day of thunderbolt/usb/etc. Ethernet dongles can be a stretch, but you could block unknown MACs at the switch) because you can map sw01/Gi 3/02 to floor n, room x, port y.
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by reeses 13y ago
This is one of the lessons from Peopleware. It's not so much noise in the background but noise unrelated to the job duties. Being in a room of developers usually has less impact than having marketing, sales, etc. collocated as well.
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by reeses 13y ago
Interesting. How do they track it? Is it based on physical network drop or another method? Or is it just "Go into this room. If you can't find them, call out their name and admit you're a moron?"
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by reeses 13y ago
And don't buy the 35-hour workweek for a second. As a developer, especially a lead, the hours can be very similar to the USA.
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by reeses 13y ago
YES! Early morning brain fart? :-) Thanks for clarifying that.
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by reeses 13y ago
It depends on the E status you can get. If you get sponsored for an E3, forget about it. With an E1 (say, you are the world expert in your field), you can have a green card very quickly. E2 can take a year or two. The other course, depen
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by reeses 13y ago
We obviously need a test-driven government framework. :-)
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by reeses 13y ago
Do FBI contradict myself? Very well then FBI contradict myself, (FBI am large, FBI contain multitudes.)
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by reeses 13y ago
Agreed. The dumb ones will work out of 'the game' quickly enough and are quickly replaced. The bigger problem is not 'catching' them, but prosecuting them effectively. This requires prioritization of limited resources based on severity of
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by reeses 13y ago
Authority and power are not inherently evil, nor is the desire for authority or power. Would you like the authority and power to prevent women from being raped? Would you like the power to vote to implement laws equalizing 'rights', such a
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by reeses 13y ago
The thing I try to keep in mind is that 'the government' is the emergent behavior of millions of self-interested people of varying abilities, from people who just want a job for life to people who want to rule the world. There's a framewor
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by reeses 13y ago
Pre-SQLite, I used the Excel OLEDB provider for a simple data store. Basically, each sheet is a table, and once you have a connection, you can run SQL against the workbook. "SELECT * FROM [People]" works mostly as expected, and ranges can b
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by reeses 13y ago
Having had to manage the worst possible situation (multiple rounds of layoffs), it's a shitty situation for everyone. Obviously, it's the worst for the people who are being terminated. As a human, a good manager wants to assure them that s
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by reeses 13y ago
Very good point. This goes hand-in-hand with "cut deep so you cut once." You can't leave that sword hanging over the heads of individual contributors or they'll activate their network and start entertaining offers. Since the process of la
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by reeses 13y ago
Those perpetrators have a strong overlap with people in their last year of vesting who are both coasting at work and running some side business out of their office. Identifying them for further investigation will generally turn up more ethi
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by reeses 13y ago
RedWest was kind of like,"Not really Microsoft" to those of us on the main campus. You were closer to Nintendo than you were to us. :-) I remember taking the campus bus there not long after it opened and it was a much different world. It
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by reeses 13y ago
Parking an old, windowless, van just off the day care property may reinforce the need to increase the priority of picking up your offspring.
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by reeses 13y ago
My doggie daycare[1] 'closes' at 7pm, but charges $25 per dog per 15 minutes that I'm late. After 7:30pm, they board the dog at the standard "no notice" rate (which is something like another $50). There have been times when I ended up in S
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by reeses 13y ago
Or when to jump out the window. I'm thinking a Logan's Run type implant is a good idea.

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