Am I the only "founder" / "entrepreneur" that doesn't really appreciate these special labels? They're generally something I only hear from the VC tech startup crowd, and usually in the context of breathless veneration.…
I can kind of see the cost point - though most would argue that the lifetime earnings of someone with a college degree far outweigh a $100K investment. Do those studies on lifetime earnings really isolate for other…
No, most people are taught not to pursue their own individual goals during the first two decades of institutionalized education.
The problem here is that good UX isn't borne of qualitative analysis -- you have to build something worth analyzing to begin with. Once you do start analyzing, what do you do with the results? You can try to make small…
we don't apologize for working hard. we're a startup trying to make it in a competitive business. Past a certain amount of time, you're spinning your wheels, doing bad work you'll have to clean up later, and pushing…
The majority of recent graduates just spent 4 years in college instead of gaining relevant experience, so, yes. The economy is tough, they don't stack up to the competition, and adding more schooling wouldn't improve…
We also know that the gap in income between those with a higher education and those without is increasing significantly. There's an unaccounted for correlation between the accessibility of higher education and general…
I don't see any economic forces that would trigger a burst. In fact, I see most entry-level jobs demanding more education now than ever before. A college degree, if required, has always been a -soft- requirement for…
The point I'm making, though, is that every instance of someone running a dictionary attack against one of my servers was a script kiddie running a tool against a range of IP addresses. Changing the port ssh runs on to…
In general, BSD assembler tends to be pretty stack heavy for cultural/engineering reasons. I don't think it ultimately matters all that much if you're fiddling around on your personal machine. I'm not sure I follow?
It's depressing that your post hasn't received more attention. Your control systems should be on a private control network, not exposed to the wide internet. OpenVPN is capable of providing a much, much smaller attack…
Using a non-standard port for ssh eliminates the need for this altogether. This is almost a no-brainer, and it's the first thing I do when standing up a server. No, it doesn't. Running a port scan and finding your…
What possible benefit justifies writing the code to be little-endian only? Why on earth would anyone do that? It's not a trade-off if there's no upside.
If you're dominated by function calls, you're already wrong. Function calls are way expensive, because you're resetting like 4 registers and screwing over the instruction cache. Give me a non-contrived example where…
I wish I could win at the lottery and start something on my own.. ... maybe if you stopped wasting time and money on domain squatting
Unless you are eating 1,000 tic-tacs a minute, in which case they really start to add up. We're talking about the potential to slow down every single function by inserting unnecessary register save/restores. The…
You're awesome (and the update looks great).
If my goal is to get to my house, and I am standing 10 meters from it in the diagonal, I must traverse ground both in the x and y directions. If the goal is long term recollection, a combination of memorization and…
The main point I'm trying to make is that one _can_ memorize something and not understand what it means. And one can understand something without having memorized it verbatim. If you accept this, then it follows that…
I know this was a joke, but adding condoms would be fantastic. I find it mildly embarrassing and equally annoying to buy condoms, and yet I definitely do not want to run out.
Having memorized X lines from anything is a 'cool' feat to some people, but it's an entirely orthogonal endeavor from understanding what the text means. I hold that there's an understanding to be found in Shakespeare in…
I too, hate shopping. I selected my daily man-uniform years ago, and know exactly what I like to wear -- I haven't changed my basic outfit in almost 5 years. Yes, I am that manly. If manpacks added different colors of…
As addicted to programming as I am, I can't sustain the same levels of intelligent programming as I can the consumption of media, be it playing a game or reading a book. When programming, I can stay on-task for 12…
It's pretty difficult to commit that much text to memory without reading it inside and out. Comprehending it also makes it considerably easier to remember it. Seems like you just want to be contrary here, but have never…
Strange. I don't get anything out of memorizing data and just find it to be an extremely difficult chore. It's not "data", it's Shakespeare. Memorizing and reciting Shakespeare is quite a bit different than doing the…
Am I the only "founder" / "entrepreneur" that doesn't really appreciate these special labels? They're generally something I only hear from the VC tech startup crowd, and usually in the context of breathless veneration.…
I can kind of see the cost point - though most would argue that the lifetime earnings of someone with a college degree far outweigh a $100K investment. Do those studies on lifetime earnings really isolate for other…
No, most people are taught not to pursue their own individual goals during the first two decades of institutionalized education.
The problem here is that good UX isn't borne of qualitative analysis -- you have to build something worth analyzing to begin with. Once you do start analyzing, what do you do with the results? You can try to make small…
we don't apologize for working hard. we're a startup trying to make it in a competitive business. Past a certain amount of time, you're spinning your wheels, doing bad work you'll have to clean up later, and pushing…
The majority of recent graduates just spent 4 years in college instead of gaining relevant experience, so, yes. The economy is tough, they don't stack up to the competition, and adding more schooling wouldn't improve…
We also know that the gap in income between those with a higher education and those without is increasing significantly. There's an unaccounted for correlation between the accessibility of higher education and general…
I don't see any economic forces that would trigger a burst. In fact, I see most entry-level jobs demanding more education now than ever before. A college degree, if required, has always been a -soft- requirement for…
The point I'm making, though, is that every instance of someone running a dictionary attack against one of my servers was a script kiddie running a tool against a range of IP addresses. Changing the port ssh runs on to…
In general, BSD assembler tends to be pretty stack heavy for cultural/engineering reasons. I don't think it ultimately matters all that much if you're fiddling around on your personal machine. I'm not sure I follow?
It's depressing that your post hasn't received more attention. Your control systems should be on a private control network, not exposed to the wide internet. OpenVPN is capable of providing a much, much smaller attack…
Using a non-standard port for ssh eliminates the need for this altogether. This is almost a no-brainer, and it's the first thing I do when standing up a server. No, it doesn't. Running a port scan and finding your…
What possible benefit justifies writing the code to be little-endian only? Why on earth would anyone do that? It's not a trade-off if there's no upside.
If you're dominated by function calls, you're already wrong. Function calls are way expensive, because you're resetting like 4 registers and screwing over the instruction cache. Give me a non-contrived example where…
I wish I could win at the lottery and start something on my own.. ... maybe if you stopped wasting time and money on domain squatting
Unless you are eating 1,000 tic-tacs a minute, in which case they really start to add up. We're talking about the potential to slow down every single function by inserting unnecessary register save/restores. The…
You're awesome (and the update looks great).
If my goal is to get to my house, and I am standing 10 meters from it in the diagonal, I must traverse ground both in the x and y directions. If the goal is long term recollection, a combination of memorization and…
The main point I'm trying to make is that one _can_ memorize something and not understand what it means. And one can understand something without having memorized it verbatim. If you accept this, then it follows that…
I know this was a joke, but adding condoms would be fantastic. I find it mildly embarrassing and equally annoying to buy condoms, and yet I definitely do not want to run out.
Having memorized X lines from anything is a 'cool' feat to some people, but it's an entirely orthogonal endeavor from understanding what the text means. I hold that there's an understanding to be found in Shakespeare in…
I too, hate shopping. I selected my daily man-uniform years ago, and know exactly what I like to wear -- I haven't changed my basic outfit in almost 5 years. Yes, I am that manly. If manpacks added different colors of…
As addicted to programming as I am, I can't sustain the same levels of intelligent programming as I can the consumption of media, be it playing a game or reading a book. When programming, I can stay on-task for 12…
It's pretty difficult to commit that much text to memory without reading it inside and out. Comprehending it also makes it considerably easier to remember it. Seems like you just want to be contrary here, but have never…
Strange. I don't get anything out of memorizing data and just find it to be an extremely difficult chore. It's not "data", it's Shakespeare. Memorizing and reciting Shakespeare is quite a bit different than doing the…