Pretty cool security awareness video (1)
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A fellow CISSP shared this link to a security awareness video his company produced. It is well done, though some of the characters might not be familiar to anyone that is not a Gen X’er or older. Restrictions for use should be nonexistent as well since they posted it on YouTube, but don’t quote me on that. Take a look. UPDATE: From the person who shared the video: This video is free to use. I ...
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Ben Jackson said:
This is pretty freaking awesome. Well done.
Cleaning Up After the New Deal (1)
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In the Wall Street Journal, Holman Jenkins contemplates the idea that Barack Obama may launch a second New Deal: His friends advise Barack Obama to launch a "New" New Deal. Maybe that's because the old New Deal is sinking fast. Mr. Obama's one deeply false note during the campaign was his harping on "deregulation" as if that were the source of current troubles. His real problem is the crack-up of the world FDR built. Fannie ...
The Hangar Management System (15)
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Back in 1998, at the Department of Informatics at the University of Umeå in Sweden, the professors had decided that instead of the final exam being solely a regurgitation of knowledge gleaned from text books and lectures, it would be a good idea for students to venture out into the real world to complete their bachelor's degrees. In teams of two, they would spend time with a local business, learn how Information Technology fit in ...
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Mike Mol said:
Yes, they'd benefit greatly from a system that did in-place replacements of a procedure, rather than having multiple manual lookups in separate binders. That's a decent WTF.But this article hints at my problem with DailyWTF: It really does take too much a shine to buzzwords. (And it reserves a mocking tone for non-Microsoft products and systems, but that's a different complaint. (They also mock ponytails. THAT's getting personal...))
CodeSOD: Stupid Coding Tricks: The T-SQL Madlebrot (43)
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The bar for entry into CodeSOD is pretty straight forward: professionally-developed code that elicits that certain What The— reaction. Though there have been a few exceptions over the years, generally speaking, student code, hobbyist code, and amateur code need not apply. That said, I'd like to try something a little different today. Today's example is not technically professionally-developed, it's a Stupid Coding Trick. "So I was bored at work one day," Graeme Job explains, "and ...
We Are Typists First, Programmers Second (112)
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Remember last week when I said coding was just writing? I was wrong. As one commenter noted, it's even simpler than that. [This] reminds me of a true "Dilbert moment" a few years ago, when my (obviously non-technical) boss commented that he never understood why it took months to develop software. "After all", he said, "it's just typing." Like broken clocks, even pointy-haired managers are right once a day. Coding is just typing. So if ...
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Davide Mirtillo aka D4rKr0W said:
Tutti a fare un corso di dattilografia, subito!
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felix said:
This always confused me, too. It just was wierd to see hunt and peckers at the keyboard. Just took his test - 90wpm, no mistakes. I know several people who kill that.
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jerobins said:
i am so thankful that i took typing in HS; only guy in the class at the time.
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Michael said:
towards the end: "Don't just type random gibberish as fast as you can on the screen, unless you're a Perl programmer."
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Casey said:
This. This is why I stopped reading Coding Horror.
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Olly Headey said:
I hit 80wpm on that first test... not bad but too many hits on the backspace key
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Devlin D said:
Im no typist by any stretch of the imagination, but after hours of coding at a time over a number of years how could anyone still be a "hunt and pecker"?
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John said:
Hmmm... 64 wpm with 5 mistakes (on my second attempt). Apparently I'm a bit rusty. (Took typing in high school.)
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mernisse said:
*snicker* "Yes, you should think about what you're doing, obviously. Don't just type random gibberish as fast as you can on the screen, unless you're a Perl programmer", also:Your speed was: 71wpm.You made 2 mistakes,
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Riyaz Mohammed Ibrahim said:
Great, ya i do agreen
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Derek Morrison said:
I just don't like this post. It's not like being a better typist automatically makes you a better developer. Plus, with the hand pain I have now, I need to type as little as possible.
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Daniel J. Pritchett said:
"What I'm trying to say is this: speed matters. When you're a fast, efficient typist, you spend less time between thinking that thought and expressing it in code. Which means, if you're me at least, that you might actually get some of your ideas committed to screen before you completely lose your train of thought. Again."
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Mark Trapp said:
72 WPM. I'm terrible.
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Tim said:
"Don't just type random gibberish as fast as you can on the screen, unless you're a Perl programmer" -- That's completely badass, I love it :)
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samgrover said:
I followed the link to the typing test and found my speed to be a horrible 37 wpm without mistakes.
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April Russo said:
Coder's quote of the week: 'Don't just type random gibberish as fast as you can on the screen, unless you're a Perl programmer.'
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Dedalus said:
Only 50 wpm (with a few bursts), but thank you, Mavis Beacon on a free floppy that came with a magazine some 15 years ago...
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Kishore Balakrishnan said:
typing programming
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Steve Kaiser said:
While I don't think touch-typing is for everyone, it's excruciating to watch someone hunt and peck, and KNOW their fingers are the bottleneck.
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adapar said:
"Don't just type random gibberish as fast as you can on the screen, unless you're a Perl programmer" Ha!
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el-such-n-such said:
busted again... the wood shed is a lonely place, time to brush up on my typing...
Listening On The Leonids (1)
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Every year on November 17 a meteor shower called Leonids hits the Earth. These small meteors cause ionized trails in the upper atmosphere. Radio signals are reflected on these trails. It is easy to hear these reflected signals from a distant transmitter with a radio receiver. In the video above you can hear radio signals popping up out of the noise. The receiver is tuned to 49.739 MHz, a distant TV transmitter stations frequency somewhere ...
No UAW Bailout (1)
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Jim Manzi has done some of the best analysis of the proposed bailout of GM, Ford and Chrysler--or, one should more properly say, bailout of the United Auto Workers, otherwise slated for extinction. Here, he addresses the theory that the Big Three are in the midst of a turnaround, and if we only keep them afloat a while longer, they'll be profitable again. This chart pretty much says it all: Bob Cunningham, meanwhile, does some ...
Hello, I went with the North Shore Radio Association to the WBZ (1)
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Hello, I went with the North Shore Radio Association to the WBZ facility in Hull, MA. This facility is for WBZ 1030 AM. The site transmits the broadcast to 38 states. It is a clear station which always runs on a directional antennae array. Most of the other clear stations have to shift patterns in the evening. WBZ only has to worry as the time of darkness changes over the year. Well, they have to ...
GUEST VIEW: Help solve Wareham's water purity problems (1)
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On Oct. 28, Article 15, the excavation, earth removal and filling bylaw, was introduced to the Wareham Town Meeting for the first time. This article was consistent with the goals and objectives of the Plymouth-Carver Aquifer Advisory Committee and the...
Could not allow the day to pass (1)
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without offering all military veterans a big and heart felt "Thank You!" Thank you for your service; and thank you for your sacrifice. America is what she is; and owes her greatness to all of you.To the families of those who made the Ultimate Sacrifice - I can offer no words that express the deep gratitude for your loved one's actions. Please know that we care and that we remember and that we pray.Today, I ...
What price popularity? (2)
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Other than the racial angle, the thing that has Barack Obama's supporters most excited is the prospect that, thanks to ascension, America will once more be liked and respected around the world. Those aroused by this prospect can be divided into two categories. The first are the folks who believe, with the naivety only a certain type of liberal can possess, that a gesture (the election of Obama) can transform, lastingly and without cost, the ...
Endless Honeymoon (2)
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Having run interference for Barack Obama throughout the campaign, the press is now preparing to do the same once he has been sworn in. A common theme, as the media anticipate Barack's ascendancy, is how tough he has it. Today's Associated Press account is typical: "Like Lincoln and FDR, Obama faces nation in crisis:" All presidents are tested. Few walk into the Oval Office when the nation is in the throes of multiple crises. Like ...
CodeSOD: If I've Said It Once, I've Said It Fifty Times (12)
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I can think of several ways to improve the code below from Jeff S., or at least to reduce its line count by two or three. function submitTrap3() { var n = 0; var f =0; var elementItem = ""; if (window.event.keyCode == 13) { for (n=0;n<document.forms[0].elements.length;n++) { elementItem = document.forms[0].elements[n].name; if ((document.forms[0].elements[n].value != "") && (elementItem == trim(document.forms[0].txtControlName.value))) { switch (elementItem) { case "header1:SearchBox" : { __doPostBack('header1:goSearch',''); break; } case "Text1": { window.event.returnValue=false; window.event.cancel ...
Ned Batchelder: The first servers (4)
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Doing some research into the theory of load testing and traffic loads, I read about the Poisson distribution, which led to Agner Krarup Erlang, which led to early phone switches. It's fascinating to realize that the work we do every day with web servers, which seems like a recent modern technology, was predated by guys like Erlang working with early phone switches over 100 years ago. Phone switches were the first servers: central machines connected ...
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According to the "White Coat Notes" blog on Boston.com the Massachusetts Medical Society has finally put a dollar figure on how much defensive medicine costs Massachusetts residents every year. The fear of being sued is driving Massachusetts physicians to order many tests, procedures, referrals to specialists and even hospitalizations for consumers that aren't needed and drive up health costs by more than $1.4 billion a year, according to a new study that is the first ...Shared by Ben Jackson (1)Contribute commentFAIL Blog: Pictures and Videos of Owned, Pwnd and Fail Moments (310) permalink
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Graham, G3ZOD, was looking at the 80 meter band using the on-line SDR receiver in the Netherlands (http://websdr.ewi...) This is what appeared on the screen. Looks like you can work some real DX on 80 these days. The big issue will, of course, be DXCC credit. And I imagine getting a QSL card might be a bit tricky.Shared by Ben Jackson (1)Contribute comment
