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wilburlo

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About wilburlo

Former Perl programmer who went ruby, with DBA/backend skills thrown in. I like PHP because it simple; too much typing though.

I want Ruby to run like javascript! V8

Recent public activity

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    Comment #9735582

    A big minus -1 to sourceforge's rep!

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    Comment #9680151

    Humans are messy. AI will probably dominate the everything where the process is well known and BORING. Even if better mechanisms (security, processing, protocols) take place, there…

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    Comment #9677663

    I've spent 2 years as a founder at my start-up and it seams like a drop in the bucket. I was just able to turn around twice and all of a sudden, I'm 50% though my vesting period. B…

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    Comment #9661124

    Dividing up equity is an ugly issue, because sometimes it's more about availability of talent, contract clauses, time (4 years is not a lot of time). Best to get it right the first…

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    Comment #9279367

    It's hard maintaining great security because, security and speed are usually in direct opposition. In terms of hardware/OS: Turn off everything incoming except for HTTPS, SSH, and …

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    Comment #8095334

    Worth just reviewing: http://www.dol.gov/whd/fmla/ Item #4: a serious health condition that makes the employee unable to perform the essential functions of his or her job; It's als…

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    Obama’s Immigration Sop to Silicon Valley

    Engineers need to spend more time on understanding how their political support affects their pay check.

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    Comment #3020392

    This is really hard to do. The problem is the scalability is that personal project's just don't get to being say.. 500gigabytes big. And they don't have some 1000 programs asking q…