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Inspired by google-interview-university, I'd like to share my experience and show a roadmap to becoming a low-level programmer because I have found that these skills are not as common as they once were. Beginner resources.
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You aren't a programmer until you've written your own 80286 extended memory manager. Which I did, back in the day. 
Marc
Latest Article - Merkle Trees
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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And wire-wrapped an extended memory circuit and memory for an 8-bit micro.
I still have the single board I designed, built and programmed in my last year at University.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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Matthew Dennis wrote: And wire-wrapped an extended memory circuit and memory for an 8-bit micro.
Very cool!
Marc
Latest Article - Merkle Trees
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Nowadays, HTTP/2 protocol is supported by most browsers and it’s important to point out. Nowadays, HTTP/2 protocol is supported by most browsers and it’s important to point out.
modified 17-Apr-17 10:27am.
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Witty Blurb Copy Pasta Fail? (See thread right below)
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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It looks like I posted this incorrectly, fixed it afterwards, but that didn't update what got posted in Insider News.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Hiring decisions based on security certifications is not only flawed, but they lead your organization into a false sense of security. This will eventually cause more harm than good. Dan Tentler, founder of the attack simulation consultancy Phobos Group, believes that “ISC2 is making money hand over fist,” and that the organization is “diluting the market with people who have no idea what they’re doing.”
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I have to argue this. Obtaining an A+ certification or going to the local community college and receiving passing grades in Information Technology and working help desk for a year and then passing CEH makes you a security professional! After landing that first information security position and beginning their senior level career path, a CISSP certification warrants a 6-figure salary. Security professionals MUST have all those certifications to run a Qualys scan. 
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Fascinating, since CISSP has nothing to do with hacking, but the article is a vetch-fest by a hacker.
It also is basically impossible to pass the CISSP exam without at least a reasonable familiarity with security in general and IT security in particular.
Which is the point.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Sean Ewington wrote: diluting the market with people who have no idea what they’re doing.
Sounds like many other certificate programs.
Marc
Latest Article - Merkle Trees
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Google is facing an intensive investigation from the Department of Labor over alleged pay discrimination. In the past year, the Labor Department has sued two other Silicon Valley companies — Palantir and Oracle — for unequal pay practices.
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I'll have to Google if that's true.
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The Labor department needs to read the book by Esther Vilar, The Manipulated Man. Trust me, the non-males are getting equal pay.
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In other news, the Mafia shamefully admitted they were small-time amateurs compared to the Department of Labor. Baseball bats and brass knuckles are nothing compared to selectively-enforced pseudo-laws.
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Burger King made waves today after it released a TV ad that purposely triggered the Google Assistant. Before the ad was disabled, the Google Assistant would verbally read a list of ingredients from Wikipedia.
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Justice = the guy who recorded the "ok google" message can't use it in his own phone, any more (and probably wants to)!
I must say that such a block would make a huge difference to my lifestyle.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The Digital Millennium Copyright Act's so-called "safe harbor" defense to infringement is under fire from a paparazzi photo agency. A new court ruling says the defense may not always be available to websites that host content submitted by third parties. Etsy, Kickstarter, Pinterest, and Tumblr say site moderation hangs in the balance.
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More programmers are working from home than ever and, among the most experienced, some are even beginning to demand it. Stack Overflow found programmers who always work from home are about 11% more satisfied with their jobs than those who never do.
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Sean Ewington wrote: For programmers, the ultimate office perk is avoiding the office work entirely
FTFY 
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I don't know the rest, but I can't concentrate well at home.
Besides... for me home is my sacred place, and I want to have it completely separated from my work to avoid "contamination".
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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But were their employers 11% more satisfied?
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A few weeks ago at Figma, we experienced our first-ever spam attack. This proved the value of Figma’s rate limiter and finally put a stop to the longstanding joke that I had built it in vain. For those unfamiliar, a rate limiter caps how many requests a sender — this could be a user or an IP address — can issue in a specific window of time (e.g. 25 requests per minute)
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Microsoft this week retired the security bulletins that for decades have described each month's slate of vulnerabilities and accompanying patches for customers -- especially administrators responsible for companies' IT operations. Yesterday when Microsoft shipped cumulative security updates for Windows, Internet Explorer, Office and other products, it omitted the usual bulletins.
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With the launch of the Windows 10 Creators Update and Edge 40 (EdgeHTML 15), Microsoft has released a new battery usage test that, naturally, trashes the company's competition. Microsoft puts on a Microsoft crown.
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