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spent last year in Afghanistan, visiting and talking with U.S. troops and their Afghan partners. My duties with the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force took me into every significant area where our soldiers engage the enemy. Over the course of 12 months, I covered more than 9,000 miles and talked, traveled and patrolled with troops in Kandahar, Kunar, Ghazni, Khost, Paktika, Kunduz, Balkh, Nangarhar and other provinces.
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Suffering-oriented programming - thoughts from the red planet - thoughts from the red planet
Someone asked me an interesting question the other day: "How did you justify taking such a huge risk on building Storm while working on a startup?" (Storm is a realtime computation system). I can see how from an outsider's perspective investing in such a massive project seems extremely risky for a startup. From my perspective, though, building Storm wasn't risky at all. It was challenging, but not risky.
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Cricket Wireless has the music industry feeling chirpy - latimes.com
Reporting from San Diego— For the embattled music industry, hope lies inside a small corner store in the City Heights section of San Diego.
In a neighborhood chock-full of Mexican, Vietnamese and Somalian restaurants, Larry Woelfel, a 40-year-old unemployed lab technician, waited with two dozen customers to buy cellphones and service from a San Diego company called Cricket Wireless. -
Hacker posts Symantec source code after ransom demand fails - latimes.com
A hacker has released stolen source code from Symantec Corp., one of the largest computer security firms, after a phony set of ransom negotiations failed, according to the company.
The source code is part of a Symantec product called pcAnywhere, which allows users to log into and control home or work computers from remote locations. Access to the code could in theory give hackers insight into how to seize computers that use the software. -
Erik McClure: "Programmer" is an Overgeneralization
Earlier today, I came across a post during a google-fu session that claimed that no one should use the C++ standard library function make_heap, because almost nobody uses it correctly. I immediately started mentally ranting about how utterly ridiculous this claim is, because anyone whose gone to a basic algorithm class would know how to properly use make_heap. Then I started thinking about all the programmers who don't know what a heap is, and furthermore probably don't even need to know.
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Stack Overflow running short on space « Nick Craver
Stack Overflow handles a lot of traffic. Quantcast ranks us (at the time of this writing) as the 274th largest website in the US, and that’s rising. That means everything that traffic relates to grows as well. With growth, there are 2 areas of concern I like to split problems into: technical and non-technical.
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