February 2010
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I want privacy because I break the law
To the police and future employers: I don’t really do illegal things. I’m actually a pretty top notch guy. Some of the stories in the article may be embellished/fabricated. I do have to say that, right? Bruce Schneier is one of the greatest minds of our time. Schneier on Security, is a collection of some of his best essays from 2002 to 2008 and has really shaped my thinking towards...
Feb 1st
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January 2010
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(1.0+2.0)+((3.0+(4.0-5.0))/(6.0-((7.0/8.0)-9.0)))
(NOTE: This post is extremely old. I know this is horrible, horrible code, but I leave it up there for the kids.) The challenge: calculate all numbers between 1900 and 2100 with exactly one operator between the sequential numbers 123456789 with as many brackets as desired. The reward: points Being a data guy I know a fair bit about Excel, MySQL, star schema data marts, statistics, and split...
Jan 13th
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The Elements - A Perfect Coffee Table Book for...
Most of the time when I get books for Christmas from my nontechnically inclined friends and family I don’t end up reading them because they are either: An uninteresting variety of This is how the future is going to look, or, A book I already own (e.g. Alan Greenspan’s “new” book). So while I was holding my unopened present that my girlfriends parents handed me this...
Jan 3rd
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