silverdemon

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 crash to the point where we actually make an investment rather than sit on the sidelines.

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 convenience. Given that $BIGCORP was a tech firm my manager would be intensely delighted that they would receive regular midnight notifications that I was doing my job. Whatever that damn thing cost it would have been cheaper to let the malware do its thing.

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.

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.

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 indistinguishable to the viewer.

Many guitarists fetishize the 59 Les Paul because of the sound. The trick is that '59 Les Paul might not sound any different objectively, but the musician knows they are playing an iconic and rare instrument. This can make the musician play better than usual. Guitarists often attribute this to the "mojo" in the guitar; the trick is the mojo is in the player's belief.

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 Senior Developer.

Just how they do things there.

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 listed here than listen to someone mumble and umm-ahh to deliver in 10 minutes what I can read in 1 minute.

On his list of books itself, perhaps I am a bad judge of character but I assume someone who reads a diverse range of books will have the mindset to take on board a diverse range of factors in their technical work. Perhaps the vast scope of the C++ language reflects this!

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 need to minimise size and detectable features.

Naturally I would not rely on this for my own online safety. A motivated adversary with a specific target in mind would no doubt learn that a vintage Windows 95 install was present, or maybe just throw everything at it.

Goes nicely with 18497 "Wash and reset wigs" provided that the wigs are made of ginger hair.

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 as the current. It turns out eternity is approximately 10 years by this measure. Maybe Github will fare better.

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 around since the 1970s, and b) can realistically be found in a web search.

The language itself looks decent enough, but what's the compelling reason for using this rather than one of the many other languages? I'm sure there must be one, scratching a personal itch aside, but at least tell us about the rationale.

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 by a quick, cheap hack I see the books and am steered back to the righteous path.

Actually I usually just do the cheap hack anyway but it is reassuring to know that it is there.

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 time. Maybe a Huawei device :)

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!