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  • February 17, 2018 at 5:25 am

    #1980164

    Should save a lot of time and efforts for hackers.

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  • February 17, 2018 at 6:56 am

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    jonathan.crawford - Friday, February 16, 2018 5:36 PM

    Sean Lange - Friday, February 16, 2018 1:19 PM

    He was actually not out of line in the least. In fact, his response was probably nicer than mine would have been. The best part of the whole thing is the OP finally came back and said "I guess I could have read the documentation". 😀

    so with your comment in mind, he says

    I would assume by now you run into Dijkstra and the PV semaphores in your first computer science classes

    I just graduated with a BS in Computer Science and I'm pretty sure he's not talking about signaling the battleship with my flags, but I have no frickin' clue what he is referring to? (granted, I didn't graduate from some ivy league school, but still). Is this something I should bother looking into, or is this just Joe being Joe? I've also never converted anything to or from hexadecimal, couldn't code in assembly if my life depended on it, and am not interested in building my own computers, so maybe it's just my perspective.

    Dijkstra is supposedly the first person who (among other much more incredible things) came up with (IIRC, in 1956 and published 3 years later) the "shortest path" graph algorithms (with weighted and non weighted "edges") that are the basis of modern tools that map the shortest edge path from point A to point B, geographic in nature or not.  The first optimization of Dijkstra's  weighted edge algorithm frequently solves the problem faster but doesn't necessarily pick the path with the fewest nodes.

    He also came up with PV Semaphores which, at their most basic level, are blind in/out token counters that do things like count resources without knowing the type of resource, which is probably why Sergiy says "Should save a lot of time and efforts for hackers".  They're also supposed to help prevent race conditions.

    Personally, I hate the term "semaphore" for such counters.

    A lot of Dijkstra's stuff seems pretty obvious nowadays (which is a bit of a tribute to how simple he made things) but it certainly wasn't back then.  It was all considered rather revolutionary at the time.

    What's that got to do with Hexadecimal conversions?  Absolutely nothing.  It's just Joe's way of knocking his ring in a passive-aggressive manner.

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  • February 19, 2018 at 6:16 am

    #1980257

    Well, get ready for a bunch of new vulns in computers this year...
    Someone leaked a list of upcoming vulns from the CVE lists...
    I find the 5th one down rather intriguing, I have to wonder of SQL Server does something similar, which would explain so many of the "why's my database so big?" questions...

  • February 19, 2018 at 7:05 am

    #1980264

    jonathan.crawford - Friday, February 16, 2018 5:36 PM

    Sean Lange - Friday, February 16, 2018 1:19 PM

    He was actually not out of line in the least. In fact, his response was probably nicer than mine would have been. The best part of the whole thing is the OP finally came back and said "I guess I could have read the documentation". 😀

    so with your comment in mind, he says

    I would assume by now you run into Dijkstra and the PV semaphores in your first computer science classes

    I just graduated with a BS in Computer Science and I'm pretty sure he's not talking about signaling the battleship with my flags, but I have no frickin' clue what he is referring to? (granted, I didn't graduate from some ivy league school, but still). Is this something I should bother looking into, or is this just Joe being Joe? I've also never converted anything to or from hexadecimal, couldn't code in assembly if my life depended on it, and am not interested in building my own computers, so maybe it's just my perspective.

    LOL I certainly didn't say his entire comment was on point. He so often refers to things from the 50s and 60s that he looks like "Grandpa Cobol". He is incredibly smart but it seems that his very profession has passed him by. The "basics" he clings on to so adamantly are often not taught much anymore and unless you are writing compilers there isn't a lot of need for it. So yes, Joe being Joe. But at least wasn't overly rude for once.

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  • February 19, 2018 at 7:08 am

    #1980266

    jasona.work - Monday, February 19, 2018 6:16 AM

    Well, get ready for a bunch of new vulns in computers this year...
    Someone leaked a list of upcoming vulns from the CVE lists...
    I find the 5th one down rather intriguing, I have to wonder of SQL Server does something similar, which would explain so many of the "why's my database so big?" questions...

    Do you have a link to the source? I could really do with that Cheap Viagra; my spam emails haven't been selling me any recently. 🙁

    :laugh:

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  • February 19, 2018 at 8:44 am

    #1980283

    jasona.work - Monday, February 19, 2018 6:16 AM

    Well, get ready for a bunch of new vulns in computers this year...
    Someone leaked a list of upcoming vulns from the CVE lists...
    I find the 5th one down rather intriguing, I have to wonder of SQL Server does something similar, which would explain so many of the "why's my database so big?" questions...

    I just love the second to last statement. Most people don't realize that.

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  • February 19, 2018 at 8:45 am

    #1980284

    Thom A - Monday, February 19, 2018 7:08 AM

    Do you have a link to the source? I could really do with that Cheap Viagra; my spam emails haven't been selling me any recently. 🙁

    :laugh:

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  • February 19, 2018 at 2:14 pm

    #1980348

    jasona.work - Monday, February 19, 2018 6:16 AM

    Well, get ready for a bunch of new vulns in computers this year...
    Someone leaked a list of upcoming vulns from the CVE lists...
    I find the 5th one down rather intriguing, I have to wonder of SQL Server does something similar, which would explain so many of the "why's my database so big?" questions...

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  • February 19, 2018 at 3:01 pm

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    Ray K - Monday, February 19, 2018 2:14 PM

    Re: #8:

    I assumed he was going for Air Bud

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  • February 20, 2018 at 1:00 am

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    Ray K - Monday, February 19, 2018 2:14 PM

    jasona.work - Monday, February 19, 2018 6:16 AM

    Well, get ready for a bunch of new vulns in computers this year...
    Someone leaked a list of upcoming vulns from the CVE lists...
    I find the 5th one down rather intriguing, I have to wonder of SQL Server does something similar, which would explain so many of the "why's my database so big?" questions...

    Re: #8:

    That's nothing, Bolton Wanderers have been signing donkeys for years.

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  • February 20, 2018 at 2:00 pm

    #1980545

    jasona.work - Monday, February 19, 2018 6:16 AM

    Well, get ready for a bunch of new vulns in computers this year...
    Someone leaked a list of upcoming vulns from the CVE lists...
    I find the 5th one down rather intriguing, I have to wonder of SQL Server does something similar, which would explain so many of the "why's my database so big?" questions...

    That's priceless.  I think my favorites are 6, 7, 17 and 20.

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  • February 22, 2018 at 1:28 pm

    #1980849

    Finding the complement of a set by changing an equal to a not equals in a very simple query appears to be beyond some people.

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  • February 22, 2018 at 3:05 pm

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    drew.allen - Thursday, February 22, 2018 1:28 PM

    Finding the complement of a set by changing an equal to a not equals in a very simple query appears to be beyond some people.

    Drew

    Some people just don't understand...

  • February 23, 2018 at 8:10 am

    #1980935

    Seems like he/she started to get it and work through it.

  • February 27, 2018 at 6:07 am

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    drew.allen - Thursday, February 22, 2018 1:28 PM

    Finding the complement of a set by changing an equal to a not equals in a very simple query appears to be beyond some people.

    Drew

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