I *hate* properties in C#. I was so pissed off when I found that using C#'s strange little "properties" syntax over actual FUNCTIONS yielded a 30% improvement in performance. They couldn't get industry-standard, been-used-heavily-since-C functions working well enough, so they fudged getters and setters with a dumb syntax.
The owner of the company actually is a pretty nice guy. I had a chance to meet with him on a couple of different occassions. He was rather knowledgeable too.
It's refreshing to find that not every company is led by someone with their head in their ass.
I've had a few issues in getting used to using a VM as my primary desktop, but I've found it's a very elegant solution to portability and hardware upgrades. I don't need to worry about "upgrading" computers, synchronizing data between my desktop and laptop, and backing up my entire system state.
I use VMware Server on my Fedora Core 5 desktop and my Windows XP laptop with a USB 2.0 hard drive containing my VM image. I've found it's worked well for most things I do, including development, watching videos, working in Photoshop, etc. Backups are quite nice too: a quick tar cz foldername | split -b 1073741824 - foldername.date.tar.gz. away. VMware's products are quite mature; I have only had a few issues during the VMware Server beta that the development team resolved right away.
I really have no problem with having background and credit checks being required for employment. Personally, I can take a small amount of relief in the fact that the people I work with do not have a outstanding criminal background. (And the credit check is fine just because I happen to work for a financial corporation. Personal money troubles have, in the past, indicated a higher probability for crimes like embezzlement and such.)
Also, I do feel that recurring background checks are a good and necessary thing to protect not only the interests of the corporation, but also the employees within. If I was recently, but quietly, involved in some criminal activity and was convicted of it, I think my employer has a right to at least know what I was convicted of. If, per chance, it happened to be something to the tune of embezzlement, I think my employer may have a hard time justifying keeping me. If I was convicted of a violent crime, the company would be putting its employees at risk by continuing my employment. (Within reason... If sufficient rehabilitation had taken place, I do not see a reason to automatically terminate.)
Regardless, most of the information found is public record anyways. (Including, in some circumstances, your credit information.)
The best podcasting "hack" I've found...
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IMO, the best podcasting "hack" that I have found is using del.icio.us to find, create, and maintain simple podcasts. Just use the tag "system:filetype:mp3" to find only MP3s. (Hint, it also works for other filetypes.)
Looks a lot like the Kondo KHR-1
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This looks a lot like the Kondo KHR-1 mentioned a while ago here, but a bit more advanced.
Looks like some pretty nice enhancements, though, I do agree with a lot of other/.'ers in that I would like more information.
Um, if farkers are sophisticated [sic] enough to have figured out caustics in Photoshop, I think I may have to give an ounce of respect to 'em. Look at the reflection of the mouse and monitor shadows on the window shade on the back wall, as well as the wood cabinet. That is most likely caused by the fill flash being pointed at the glass desk. As for the wiring, the flash is also to blame for the strange shadows.
And by the way, I don't think I've ever heard of a "third grade crypto specialist." Maybe they're hiding out with the farkers who understand raytracing basics.
You've got to be kidding me. It's ROTn; brute force "attacking" your ciphertext would take a few minutes manually, much less using any intelligent method of cracking. (ie. statistical analysis...)
But hey, if you like the mirage of cryptography you've got going on, who cares?
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I *hate* properties in C#. I was so pissed off when I found that using C#'s strange little "properties" syntax over actual FUNCTIONS yielded a 30% improvement in performance. They couldn't get industry-standard, been-used-heavily-since-C functions working well enough, so they fudged getters and setters with a dumb syntax.
Exactly the reason correlation does imply causation. (See graph*)
* Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
The owner of the company actually is a pretty nice guy. I had a chance to meet with him on a couple of different occassions. He was rather knowledgeable too.
It's refreshing to find that not every company is led by someone with their head in their ass.
I've had a few issues in getting used to using a VM as my primary desktop, but I've found it's a very elegant solution to portability and hardware upgrades. I don't need to worry about "upgrading" computers, synchronizing data between my desktop and laptop, and backing up my entire system state.
I use VMware Server on my Fedora Core 5 desktop and my Windows XP laptop with a USB 2.0 hard drive containing my VM image. I've found it's worked well for most things I do, including development, watching videos, working in Photoshop, etc. Backups are quite nice too: a quick tar cz foldername | split -b 1073741824 - foldername.date.tar.gz. away. VMware's products are quite mature; I have only had a few issues during the VMware Server beta that the development team resolved right away.
I really have no problem with having background and credit checks being required for employment. Personally, I can take a small amount of relief in the fact that the people I work with do not have a outstanding criminal background. (And the credit check is fine just because I happen to work for a financial corporation. Personal money troubles have, in the past, indicated a higher probability for crimes like embezzlement and such.)
Also, I do feel that recurring background checks are a good and necessary thing to protect not only the interests of the corporation, but also the employees within. If I was recently, but quietly, involved in some criminal activity and was convicted of it, I think my employer has a right to at least know what I was convicted of. If, per chance, it happened to be something to the tune of embezzlement, I think my employer may have a hard time justifying keeping me. If I was convicted of a violent crime, the company would be putting its employees at risk by continuing my employment. (Within reason... If sufficient rehabilitation had taken place, I do not see a reason to automatically terminate.)
Regardless, most of the information found is public record anyways. (Including, in some circumstances, your credit information.)
IMO, the best podcasting "hack" that I have found is using del.icio.us to find, create, and maintain simple podcasts. Just use the tag "system:filetype:mp3" to find only MP3s. (Hint, it also works for other filetypes.)
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All recent MP3s: http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/system:filetype:mp3
All popular MP3s: http://del.icio.us/rss/popular/system:filetype:mp
An example of my own podcast: http://del.icio.us/rss/thzinc/voicemail+outgoing+
And an example of a video podcast
Just something I've found useful.
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This looks a lot like the Kondo KHR-1 mentioned a while ago here, but a bit more advanced. Looks like some pretty nice enhancements, though, I do agree with a lot of other /.'ers in that I would like more information.
Because Iowa is just an uninhabited land mass between Nebraska and Wisconsin.
Geez, if they really want to coax developers, they should target the sub-$2,000 developers, though, I'm no marketing genius...
Um, if farkers are sophisticated [sic] enough to have figured out caustics in Photoshop, I think I may have to give an ounce of respect to 'em. Look at the reflection of the mouse and monitor shadows on the window shade on the back wall, as well as the wood cabinet. That is most likely caused by the fill flash being pointed at the glass desk. As for the wiring, the flash is also to blame for the strange shadows.
And by the way, I don't think I've ever heard of a "third grade crypto specialist." Maybe they're hiding out with the farkers who understand raytracing basics.
Using the pronoun "he" is probably inacurrate, as the exact same text has been posted on numerous other articles. (See replies to parent thread.)
And I am not facist, nor am I an asshole, TYVM.
As well as the recent PalmOne article.
... they don't continue the leetspeak in their name. Pa1mOne? Psh.
You've got to be kidding me. It's ROTn; brute force "attacking" your ciphertext would take a few minutes manually, much less using any intelligent method of cracking. (ie. statistical analysis...)
But hey, if you like the mirage of cryptography you've got going on, who cares?