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Saw this on the excellent PHPDeveloper.org:

Company Warner Bros. Records Location Burbank, CA Title PHP Developer Summary Warner Brothers Records is looking for a freelance PHP developer skilled in Drupal themeing and programming. To be considered you must be able to work at our office, provide your own computer and be very comfortable developing using SVN. You’ll be in New Media, a very relaxed work environment, with cool and quirky people. We prize Mac users but welcome all. This is a great chance to work with bands like Arctic Monkeys, White Stripes, Damien Rice, Muse and more. To apply please send an e-mail with the following to nmtech@warnerbrosrecords.com:

• PHP Developer and your full name in the Subject line.
• 3 Links to actual code you have written and or sites worked on what you worked on.
• Tell us a little about yourself and send a link to your blog you have one.

Lemme get this straight: I have to work at your office, but provide my own computer??? This reads like a really slimy way of getting people to work cheap in exchange for maybe doing a web site for some half-wit modern “rock” band. I’ll keep my iMac at home and make more money doing contracting work, but thanks all the same, WB.

• A Multi-layered Approach to Web Application Defense (2006-09-06)

  • Slides from Sept. 6, 2006 presentation (857KB PDF)
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• Web App Security - The New Battlefront (2006-03-22)

  • Slides from March 22, 2006 presentation (727KB PDF)
    Link now fixed
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    Requires h.264/AVC codec (Quicktime 7 works nicely).

• Real-World Web App Security (2005-09-07)

  • Slides from Sept 7, 2005 seminar (573KB PDF)
  • Video of presentation (414MB MP4 - very high quality)
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  • Video of presentation (260MB RealMedia)
  Wow, I really wish I had more time to talk. Sorry it was so rushed.

Damn this looks awesome:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LlazPgxKrA

More: http://bleeding-tree.blogspot.com/2007/02/hobo-with-shotgun.html

I was really, really interested in this article from New York Magazine about how different forms of “praise” children receive can dramatically effect how well they are able to perform in school.

Scholars from Reed College and Stanford reviewed over 150 praise studies. Their meta-analysis determined that praised students become risk-averse and lack perceived autonomy. The scholars found consistent correlations between a liberal use of praise and students’ “shorter task persistence, more eye-checking with the teacher, and inflected speech such that answers have the intonation of questions.”

Dweck’s research on overpraised kids strongly suggests that image maintenance becomes their primary concern—they are more competitive and more interested in tearing others down. A raft of very alarming studies illustrate this.

In one, students are given two puzzle tests. Between the first and the second, they are offered a choice between learning a new puzzle strategy for the second test or finding out how they did compared with other students on the first test: They have only enough time to do one or the other. Students praised for intelligence choose to find out their class rank, rather than use the time to prepare.

In another, students get a do-it-yourself report card and are told these forms will be mailed to students at another school—they’ll never meet these students and don’t know their names. Of the kids praised for their intelligence, 40 percent lie, inflating their scores. Of the kids praised for effort, few lie.

When students transition into junior high, some who’d done well in elementary school inevitably struggle in the larger and more demanding environment. Those who equated their earlier success with their innate ability surmise they’ve been dumb all along. Their grades never recover because the likely key to their recovery—increasing effort—they view as just further proof of their failure. In interviews many confess they would “seriously consider cheating.”

This is scarily consistent with my own experience as a kid who was constantly told I was smart and special throughout elementary school. Throughout this period, I basically got by without having to work very hard. This changed in junior high, and my grades took a nosedive. To this day I have serious trouble doing things that don’t give me some kind of “reward” quickly, and this is very frustrating to me.

The Quake II action figures were fucking cool, and my fav was the Strogg Tank.

I miss 1997.