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I see no reason to think Ginsberg originated the phrase "best minds of a generation," but it doesn't appear cliche enough of a phrase to even have an etymology I could look up.
Yeah we shouldn't credit anyone for popularizing anything unless they were the absolute first to fathom the idea.
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Some might consider your post to be off-topic or worse a "well, actually" interjection, I found it fascinating to learn the source of the "best minds of my generation" framing. Thanks.
I see no reason to think Ginsberg originated the phrase "best minds of a generation," but it doesn't appear cliche enough of a phrase to even have an etymology I could look up.
How could you be sure you didn’t just help heist someone’s bitcoin that this Russian snatched with some malware?
> Luckily, he still had the original laptop and knew exactly when the encryption took place.
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"If you've got" may not be formal "correct" English, but everyone understands it and it's used quite commonly in daily speech (and writing). I would wager that "if you've got" may actually be preferable to "if you have," in order to engage the reader at a more comfortable, personal level.
FWIW "you've got" seems very US American to me (native en-gb).
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"If you've got" may not be formal "correct" English, but everyone understands it and it's used quite commonly in daily speech (and writing). I would wager that "if you've got" may actually be preferable to "if you have," in order to engage the reader at a more comfortable, personal level.
Not only that, but in speech, the 've is often dropped entirely, like "Hey if you got a few more minutes can I ask another question?" I wouldn't write this, but I would absolutely say it, and it doesn't carry the rough affect of something like ain't.
The author is a very talented applied cryptographer with a very impressive resume (he is looking for new projects). The following CV line stands out however: Google: Software Engineer, Ads Review. June 2014– March 2016. Angular / Java developer on the internal tool used by contractors to review Google ads for policy violations. How did that saying about "brightest minds working on ads" go? I am not blaming the author…
> How did that saying about "brightest minds working on ads" go? The sentiment is a bit older than ads. It goes: " I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who poverty and tatters a…
"I’m currently looking for work in a staff or senior staff engineering or data scientist role. If you’ve got interesting technical analysis or optimization problems, please reach out to me and let’s talk." That is probably the best CV I've ever read by accident. You should broaden your job hunt criteria to technical content marketing - seriously! Very rare to possess the skill to tell a story in an entertaining, appr…
Hahaha, thanks!
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"If you've got" may not be formal "correct" English, but everyone understands it and it's used quite commonly in daily speech (and writing). I would wager that "if you've got" may actually be preferable to "if you have," in order to engage the reader at a more comfortable, personal level.
FWIW "you've got" seems very US American to me (native en-gb).
> Recovering the key was usually instantaneous, but to help people feel like they’d gotten their money’s worth, we’d put on a little animated show like a Hollywood hacking scene with lots of random characters that gradually revealed the right password. and later ... > I’m currently looking for work in a staff or senior staff engineering or data scientist role. If you’ve got interesting technical analysis or optimizat…
Also even if you're not interested in the author, it has useful information about cryptography, cryptanalysis, and optimization.
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Not only that, but in speech, the 've is often dropped entirely, like "Hey if you got a few more minutes can I ask another question?" I wouldn't write this, but I would absolutely say it, and it doesn't carry the rough affect of something like ain't.
I'd say "if y'all got".