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While using my Linked In account I pressed "People you may know" now all of the connections it suggested made sense, they were either;
1. Shared Connections (2nd & 3rd Connections).
2. Taken from my University or previous work placements.
However one of these suggestions was completely out of place, Linked in suggests I should connect with an Web Developer at Linked in, we have nothing connecting us, different country, no shared connections. Literally it's one out of place suggestion in a sea of understandable connections.
I know it's certainly possible, but what I want to know is why would you plant linked in staff in people's suggestions like that? It's a developer, do you think it was his own doing or Linked in as a company?
(edit: taken option 3 out as it has nothing to do with the conspiracy and was confusing people)
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
modified 27-Sep-13 11:53am.
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Simon Lee Shugar wrote: 3. Stolen from my gmail account in which I didn't give permission (Creepy seeing
an Ex show up).
Or it could be that (s)he  was looking for you/watched your profile and that's why you got suggestion. Much probable than LinkedIn and Google conspiring to steal your contact list.
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Ah the conspiracy isn't if they stole my contact list from gmail, I know they did! (You can tell because instead of "Connect" "Add to network" appears and shows the random email address from your address book.
They've got a class action law suit against them due to the stealing of contacts info on mobile phones, but anyway I think you're right that developer could well of looked at my profile and thus the suggestion.
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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He's living with the Ex...
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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Taken option 3 out, as it has nothing to do with the conspiracy :P
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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That's what they want you to think! 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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It must be a conspiracy, option 3 has disappeared. These guys are good... They even got Simon to say he took it out himself. (Or did he?)
It's a Linked In conspiracy, they are in cahoots with the likes of Richard Branson, Mitt Romney and Lord knows who else...
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Don't forget Our Lizard Masters, and the Men In Black.
They are in league with Virgin Galactic to deliver the richest people in the world to the Reeducation Center on Cruithne.
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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Seems you have "inside information", I suppose we might include the Illuminati, the Bilderberg Group, Skull and Bones, the Trilateral Commission and the Anunnaki.
Perhaps they are all staying at your secret volcano base. 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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The Trilateral Commission is just a front for the Milk Marketing board.
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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There is no more sinister bunch as they, I shudder to think of the evil they have committed in the name of dairy products. 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Yes.... I too dread typing in a new address in gmail. It will bounce into the Linkedin contacts. At one point, I deleted my entire address book but half of the contacts were already copied (euphemism for Stolen) and it keeps Linked in perpetually busy. Nowadays I do not even look at suggestions.
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ExcellentOrg wrote: I deleted my entire address book
I don't keep an address book. Done.
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Simon Lee Shugar wrote: we have nothing connecting us,
No shared skills or group memberships, either?
/ravi
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Afraid not, Ravi, it's interesting to say the least.
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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Working at a utility company, a request was made to generate an alert if a lighting strikes occurs within a prescribed distance of a facility. The lightning strike data is received every minute or so and is written in an ASCII format to a network directory.
The strike data contains a timestamp (number of seconds since January 1, 1970), a lat/long pair, parity and kAmps and number of strikes.
A separate list exists of lat/long pairs for facilities and the radius of interest by site.
First challenge: the strike files are on a UNIX server, so derive a method to read the list of files and then their contents
Second challenge: determine distance in miles from strike location to facility
I love my job... something new every day!
What then, have you been assigned that challenges your skill set?
Tim
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Someone knows exactly where lightning strikes?
vbmike
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It can be easily predicted.
Ask Roy Sullivan
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Although you will need to hold a seance.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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you have the Latitude and Longitude points of each strike
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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The problem is not finding out, it is reporting it to someone once you have been hit.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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We receive a satellite feed, but, yes, from the vibrations, they (whoever they are) can detect location, severity and number of strikes.
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Tim Carmichael wrote: Second challenge: determine distance in miles from strike location to facility
Clickety
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Tim Carmichael wrote: determine distance in miles from strike location to facility
Straight line (ie, through the earth), or great circle distance? (or even more accurately?)
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Great circle distance.
I have completed proof-of-concept on each individual piece (get a webpage from a Unix based server for the list of files), read the individual files, calculate distance from strike to site.
Now, it's putting all of the pieces together... and have it working before a presentation to management on Wednesday. The requestor has the presentation and was doing a proof-of-concept presentation. To be able to present a working system... of much greater value, to him and my department.
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Tim Carmichael wrote: What then, have you been assigned that challenges your skill set?
Writing apps in Objective C. 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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