silverdemon

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by silverdemon 4y ago
Alternatively, you could have cautiously DCA-ed your lump sum in 12 monthly pieces, and then the 1929 crash happens the day after the 12th and final piece was invested. DCA cannot save us from a crash, though it can reduce the fear of a cra
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by silverdemon 6y ago
This 100%. I recall many a fun night at $BIGCORP burning the midnight oil, receiving the warning emails that my "unauthorised software" had been reported to my manager, and that it had been quarantined away for my own safety and c
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by silverdemon 6y ago
Slang was OK as a language. The SecDB/Slang ecosystem was years ahead of its time and all credit to its inventors and maintainers, but a monorepo full of decades of critical code from thousands of developers still gives me palpitations
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by silverdemon 6y ago
Those annoyed me immensely. I can feel my heart rate go up 10 BPM just thinking about it. I guess it was meant to make scripts more readable to minimally-techy people, but actually just made it harder to parse.
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by silverdemon 6y ago
They're collectable and valuable because of the association with famous players in the classic rock era, and the rarity of examples. A perfect copy of the Mona Lisa would be worth a few $, not a few milion $, even if it were indistingu
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by silverdemon 7y ago
In the big-name Wall Street banks 1/3 of employees are VP or higher. Senior Developer in the "outside world" typically means Associate in the banks, and VP is the next rung up from Associate, so VP really is just one hop from
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by silverdemon 7y ago
Straight to the point; nothing but the good stuff! These days I am happy just that something is presented as text and not a pointless, time-sapping video. Given the paucity of free time, I would much rather spend it reading books like those
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by silverdemon 7y ago
2019 malware likely won't run on Windows 95. The kind of malware you'd stumble across in your normal online activity will mostly target Windows 10 and back to XP, and will be written to that environment and its APIs. Given the nee
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by silverdemon 7y ago
Goes nicely with 18497 "Wash and reset wigs" provided that the wigs are made of ginger hair.
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by silverdemon 7y ago
Way back in the 90s, when everything was still in sepia, I thought all the Geocities and Angelfire personal websites would be doing this exact thing. Hanging around as a time capsule in perpetuity, accessible by future generations as easily
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by silverdemon 7y ago
At first I thought this was some reference to the well-known Z specification language ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_notation ). Come on guys, pick a name that a) doesn't clash with a language that has been arou
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by silverdemon 7y ago
I keep mine in clear view on the shelf in the hope that its collected wisdom will radiate outward and suffuse into my code. Not happened yet, but perhaps it has a useful psychological effect as a shrine to algorithms; whenever I am tempted
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by silverdemon 7y ago
This article suggests that its not "more welcoming to immigrants than any other place in the world by far" if a single private IM can get a guy banned for life. Still a great place to visit, but I'll take a burner phone next
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by silverdemon 7y ago
10 years is a long time in any business, and Java has been around more than 20. It is pervasive in enterpriseland; if nobody wrote a single line of greenfield Java code it will be around for decades. The COBOL of the modern era!