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I work for the Federal government. If you think the federal IT situation is bad you have way underestimated the horror of the situation.
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Sander Rossel wrote: I have my (I assume unique) social service number that I need to enter anyway!
Don't ramp up your hopes too much: my wife did have two separate social id's for a couple of years. She only noticed much later when she started to earn money in earnest, and then was asked to pay taxes not once, but twice!
There's pretty much nothing authorities can't mess up...
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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This is my new crusade : the fight against password policies. Passphrases are ten times better, and I won't include that famous xkcd to illustrate it (everybody knows the horsestabblebatteries something even without looking by now).
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yeah using passphrase everywhere now!
annoyed to put some numbers and uppercase in the middle of it though...
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Obligatory[^] Dilberts[^] (AKA[^] relevant[^] search[^] results).[^]
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Good laughs! 
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Sadly, the last one is beaten by reality, except that the passwords only need to be changed every three months rather than every month. That still means I need to change passwords every third time I even use that stupid system! 
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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My bank has a password policy that is tightgoogol, but for just that one password, I don't mind. Other people must take their policies, soak them in petrol, light them, and shove them up their arses.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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I'll just reply with Fred Cohen's view on this: http://all.net/Analyst/2011-04.pdf
Change your passwords how often?
(For those that don't know, it was he that first coined the term "computer virus" way back in 1985...)
yours using LastPass for the wrong reasons
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I use Keeper to manage my passwords. It works for both the web and mobile phones.
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Whenever I try to change my password it always comes up the same. Why? I don't want my password to be ***************
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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After having a site or three lose my encrypted password, everybody gets their own random password now, preferably with special symbols in it (if the site can handle them without crashing). My biggest gripe isn't the rules, it's that most sites don't tell you their rules until you violate them. Makes it difficult to know how to check the appropriate settings for the random generator.. and I've crashed a number of sites because they didn't bother to tell me not to use special symbols (I think MSDN was one  ).
I settled on using keepass to keep my passwords. Separate database for work and home. Runs on phones, Win/Lin/Mac, Win even without needing an install. I back the database file up to the cloud and keep copies on various devices I might need access from. Much better than letting an instance of some browser, on some single machine, that someone else has the admin password for, keep my passwords.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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Jumping Sumo[^] it is pretty neat though!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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The real game - can you keep it out of the jaws of the dog or cat. It should be high entertainment while it lasts.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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With 4 cats and a dog, the odds aren't good!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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SIL got a drone for his kid, dammed cat lept 4ft into the air just to shred it. The thing flies somewhat slower now as the duct tape weighs more than the styro foam.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Too funny. Of our 4 cats 2 are juveniles so they would love something like that.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Most cats are at least smart enough to stay away from larger RC helicopters. I would not want to see any animal being hurt or killed by the main rotor blades.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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CDP1802 wrote: from larger RC helicopters
A smallish styro foam drone on the other hand was fair game. The cat still thinks it is great fun to help the drone land and he is not beyond jumping the thing while it is sitting on the ground. He does object to getting whacked by the little rotors but not enough to deter the little bastard.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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If it were not so fragile, it would be perfect for keeping the cat busy. And who are you to tell a lion what it is supposed to hunt?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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Oh it's a dammed sight less fragile and yeah it keeps both the cat and the boy entertained for ages (I bought them a couple of spare battery packs).
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Try to land a model helicopter when some dog already stands by to fetch it.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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Someone on CP recently pointed out a book on The Pragmatic Bookshelf[^]. I didn't know them and apart from that one book this person pointed out to me I'm not sure if they have a lot I'm interested in.
I did find a rather 'odd' category they have though, the Seven in seven[^] category. Basically you're going to learn seven things (languages, databases, etc.) in seven weeks. There's only five books in that category (that's still 35 weeks of reading), but I'm wondering if it will really get you on another level. Sure, you can't learn a language in a week and be productive with it, but you can learn some of the things that make a certain language unique and compare that language feature to the features in the language you're currently working with. May be pretty interesting.
Any thoughts? Perhaps someone even read one of those books?
My blog[ ^]
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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Sander Rossel wrote: Sure, you can't learn a language in a week and be productive with it
I'd disagree, I think.
You can learn a language like C# or VB in an afternoon, if you have a good background. C++ would be a day or two, maybe a week.
What you can't do is learn the framework that it depends on - that's going to take ages to be productive in.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That's why I added the "and be productive with it" part 
I already knew some JavaScript when I started my new job two months ago. I'm still struggling with the libraries (jQuery, jQuery UI, Knockout, soon starting AngularJS). I get stuff done, but it takes me twice as long as it would in C# or VB (WinForms). But perhaps that's also due to the nature of JavaScript, always having to look up the types of variables, where they are declared, etc. 
And try learning Haskell in an afternoon or even a week, that's a language they cover
My blog[ ^]
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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