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"An academic at McGill University has a simple plan"

To answer your question, no, I would not pay $.05 for a song by a shitty mall punk from a band whose lyrics read like the bottom of the LiveJournal barrel. I fucking hate A Simple Plan.

They can sue http://livejournal.com/, hosting the most suicidal entries known to man.

"Justice Minister Chris Ellison says the laws ... will not hinder free speech"

Well I'm sorry, but I don't think you can take down a site that says "Life sucks, kill yourself" without violating free speech.

You might find the Developer's blog an interesting read. Also, Jamesday (our chief sysadmin) tells me that the 10 servers they ordered in January should be up and running by the end of the month.

• Bohnanza (Iraqi negotiations - you will lose)
• Settlers of Catan
• Puerto Rico
• Citadels
• Carcasonne
• Carcasonne: Hunters and Gatherers
• Condotierre

• Bohnanza (Iraqi negotiations - you will lose)
• Settlers of Catan
• Puerto Rico
• Citadels
• Carcasonne
• Carcasonne: Hunters and Gatherers
• Condotierre

For one, the article single-handedly convinced me to play through MGS2 in its entirety, looking at what I originally considered to be a hopelessly mangled story from a fresh perspective, and it instantly went from being one of my least favorite games to my second favorite game of all time (right behind the absolutely uparalleled ICO).

Second, the article introduced me to Tim Rogers, who has quickly become my favorite online writer. Rogers is definitely the love-him-or-hate-him type--your opinion will have a lot to do with your tastes in postmodern art, and even more to do with your tolerance for complete and unabashed pretentiousness. I liked him well enough before I found his (now-defunct) LiveJournal, but when I read this entry I gained a whole new level of respect for him and his writing. If you haven't read anything by Tim Rogers I suggest you check out the above two links, as well as live from seoul: tim rogers' 2003 insertcredit fukubukuro, in particular this one entry that, like all the other links in this post, ranks up there as one of my favorite articles of all time.

Worth noting--Tim Rogers's favorite online publisher, insertcredit.com, says the following about his methods: "If you're going for the Tim style, be sure to fabricate some element of your piece. It doesn't matter how small; the desire is merely to see how many emails you can get. Constant self-reference and inside joking is the way to play here. Drop as many names as possible. Make supplemental videos with lots of screaming and bizarre word pairings. Devise new names for all of your friends, and tell the world about it!"

Also the Insert Credit forums tend to be a nice balance of silliness and the sort of serious analysis you get in the articles.

Also check out the livejournal of one of the regular writers of the site, Eric-Jon Rossel-Waugh, where he frequently posts some of his better forum writings. The man is a fucking genius.

That's because your girl is six months old and amazingly cute. Wait until she turns into this.

Hate goths? - You will now!

Hate goths? - You will now!

Hate goths? - You will now!

Hate goths? - You will now!

Hate goths? - You will now!

Hate goths? - You will now!

Hate goths? - You will now!

Hate goths? - You will now!

Hate goths? - You will now!

Hate goths? - You will now!

Hate goths? - You will now!

...your Christianity...

No, "Christianity" is on my /. info page. That word has a wider swath of meaning that you think it does. ... your rampant right-wing Republicanism...

This is rich.

Do you mean this?

or maybe THIS?

Or perhaps you only read this one, and missed this one, this one, this one, this one, this one (pay attention to the first comment!), or, of course, THIS ONE.

I am not a right-wing "fundie." I'm hardly right-wing, even if I'm not a placard-toting left-wing moron. And while I am a Christian, and I certainly believe in certain "fundamentals", my understanding of the gospel is far, FAR different than those who argue entirely against sin instead of for salvation.

Just because you can read what I've said doesn't mean that you know me. Especially since you went looking angry.

Anyway.

If you're so adamantly in favour of teaching ID, but you're not doing so out of bias toward Christianity, then you should be campaigning just as vigorously to have Buddhist, Hindi, Muslim, Native American, Wiccan, etc. creation stories taught in a science class.

You're absolutely right. A science class that taught I.D. would have to do so from a culturally-neutral viewpoint. One religion saying that a man walked on water is a tall tale. Most religons saying that there was a great flood is a pattern worth futher investigation. (Which, btw, has been done on several occasions.)

I'll say it again, and use small words so that someone so embarassingly moronic is sure to understand.

Science is not and can not be hurt by teaching a false story and why that story is false.

Science is not and can not be hurt by teaching both sides of a "maybe".

The first ten Amendments are called the Bill of Rights, and to people who are not named "John Ashcroft" or "Alberto Gonzales," these rights are sacrosanct and uninfringeable.

1: Wrong. First off, to people like the Justices of the Supreme Court, they aren't "sacrosanct" or "uninfringeable". Felons may not posess arms, soldiers can invade a home as a temporary barricade, and free speach can be limited by innumerable instances, from NDAs to possible harm to government secrecty laws.

2: Public education teaching about religion is not and can not be unconstitutional. If we banned every "religion" from public schools, we would essentially be instituting atheism as a state relgion. What must be done, however, is to give equal weight to all relevant religions in a discussion. Information about ALL religions should be taught in history / social-studies classes, and when those topics are brought into other courses as wide a variety as possible should be references so as not to give a bias.

Hate goths? You will now!

Hate goths? You will now!

HG2G has got to be the best book on the planet. Here is my favorite dialog in the book.

A blog is a species of interactive electronic diary by means of which the unpublishable, untrammeled by editors or the rules of grammar, can communicate their thoughts via the web.

If the President of the ALA has such a low opinion of bloggers, perhaps his organization should stop giving so many major awards to them.

I think what he actually meant to say was something along the lines of:

"A blog is a species of interactive electronic diary by means of which the unpublishable -- except for ALA literary award winners such as Orson Scott Card or Neil Gaiman or Sherwood Smith or David Brin or Jane Yolen or Dianne Duane or, oh, bugger, you know, all those other ALA award-winning authors who also blog, not that I want to imply that ALA award-winning librarians who blog, like Kathleen de la Peña McCook, are bad either, and oh, yeah, I definitely don't want to seem to be criticizing PLABlog, the brand new blog of the Public Library Association, especially not when we put out a nifty little press release crowing about it, just last month, because that would look pretty stupid, now, wouldn't it -- er, um, what was I saying, again?"

http://www.livejournal.com/users/succubbus/This is the funniest thing I've read all year.

The problem is working out why it didn't do what it is capable of doing and did on one system. Did the grandparent really expect the database to survive OS, controller and/or drives all lying about what they have committed to disk? That's the sort of issue we appear to have.

It is something which is worth trying to protect against.

If you haven't seen it already, take a look at the results from LiveJournal's testing

India and China now own the Internet industry.

Some people would beg to differ.

Are there any Indian or Chinese companies with this kind of web presence? I doubt it.

Also, remember that outsourcing isn't happening to be traitorous, but to cut back on costs and increasing costs (although some people are finding it cost-inefficient after all). So, technically, the US economy is making money by outsourcing.

There is a cost to the job market, of course, but introducing robots on production lines got lots of people fired - while creating new supervisory posts. From what I hear on Slashdot, it sounds like many companies are hiring again. If that's happening, it might well be the best of both worlds - outsource the codemonkey jobs, while doing the important stuff in-house, paying programmers well for their time.

Of course, as an Indian, I have no particular problem with something which is creating jobs in my home country, as well as resulting in plenty of foreign inflows :).

Don't bother. Digital Fortress, the only Dan Brown book I've read, is the biggest heap of shit I've ever wasted my time on.

The DNA Lounge owner comments about the "groupware Hula" (advises/admonishes Nat Friedman on?) and by the ways clarifies about the Netscape-Collabra innards.

has some interesting thoughts on this.

"I don't get the impression the servers were "misconfigured" so much as they weren't optimized to squeeze every last bit of life out of them" - wrong. There seems to be quite a few misconceptions about why the servers are so slow and/or why there are so many database errors at the moment. First, the site is not slow because of... Lack of servers. Although this has been a problem in the past, and surely will be in the future, it's not the current issue...What is making the site slow is mainly configuration and software issues. -- The Wikipedia developer's blog

Wikipedia seems to have just barely enough machines to handle its load, and if one stops working or there's a little inefficiency the whole thing slows to a crawl. Wrong. Wikipedia is running quite nicely today, and 5 servers (out of about 40) are currently down.

In the future, please get your facts straight before making flagarantly wrong statements.

Jimbo Wales even personally drove off an admin from London who he disagreed with, usually he leaves it to his admins.

I'm assuming you're talking about Secretlondon?

I was disturbed to read about that, and it did make me rather more paranoid about the leadership of Wikipedia and possibility that their bias was infecting the place.

For now I will remain paranoid, but continue to edit. I haven't yet been convinced that the rightist flavour on Wikipedia is a consequence of its leadership and not simply its membership.

Though it looks like Wales behaved improperly here, it also might be that Secretlondon just had a bit of thin skin for dealing with firebreathing American rightists (not too hard to believe).

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So do I, here.

Most people don't recognize it as the FreeBSD daemon anyway and just think it's a cute tattoo...

EA is heavily in development of the most anticipated game this decade.

SimSlaves debut release will capture frustration, bad HR practices and overworked employees at their worst. You thought your pointy haired boss was bad, wait until you can see what an evil HR dept and Development sweatshoppe can do!

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This happened to me too, but only for a job interview at Google. That's as far as I made it: I never worked for them or signed any NDA.

My resume was submitted, and I made it as far as the first phone screen. It was one of the best interviews I have ever had in my life! Everything went 100% great, better than I had ever hoped for. I felt we had really clicked. Then, it turns out that I lost the interview, because the interviewer read my blog.

He didn't like me talking about my job search or my experiences with Google's hiring process. He especially didn't like the way I described the interview, perhaps because it would have given future interviewees tips on what to expect. He valued his ability to "surprise" people with trick logic questions, and my description of the involved thought processes might have tipped his hand. (I've since edited my blog to remove the spoilers, as per his implied request.)

Google and Microsoft share similar cultures, evidently. Both select for candidates who are good at discovering the "a-ha" moment that enables them to see through a tricky logic puzzle and solve it. I'm not good at logic puzzles or riddles in general, but in this case, I was able to relate the puzzle to a real-life problem I faced (when writing a simulator for a particular mechanism of a pinball machine).

Lesson learned. The culture at Google is one of paranoid security, as others have confirmed with me. When interviewing (or working) there, don't reveal anything about the process. Merely mentioning the fact that you are interviewing/working might raise eyebrows. When in doubt, don't.

The good news is that the interviewer liked me, and encouraged me to re-apply. Since I seemed to learn my lesson well, he told me he wouldn't put me on the blacklist, so I've another chance. I believe the cut-off period for previous failed applicants is a year and a day.

During the time, I found a job I'm happy with now, and I'll definitely stick with it. I won't be jumping ship, in case you're reading this posting there and wondering :) The free food at Google is tempting, though....

I responded to this in my journal.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/lafinjack/73715.h tml

In my hypothetical future, Microsoft becomes a leading manufacturer of locomotives and aircraft engines, and is a major player in the finance industry. (kind of like GE)

Fair WARNING:

This is absolutely disgusting and in _NO_ way at all is it worksafe!

I know someone out there is sick enough to find this amusing. Don't click it if you don't want to see gross and/or pornographic images. I found it through these live journal communities:

"tws_support" and "thats_so_gross"

there are many disturbing images to scroll through, but go down and find "Crusty Pizza" in all it's beauty and splendor:

Crusty Pizza

So next time you go to eat out a girl, think "MMM crusty pizza! yummy!" I think I'm going to be limp for the next 1,000 years. Ugh. Damn the internet. Why did I ever click that link!

http://www.livejournal.com/users/bramcohen/7932.ht ml

"I don't work for Valve Software any more, and haven't for a while."

why?

"I suggest reading The Mythical Man-Month, in particular pay attention to what it says about adding people to troubled projects."

The one they tell you about and the real one.

The one they tell you about and the real one.

Anyone who's a paid member of LJ can get a 2-week credit here.

http://www.livejournal.com/community/ohnotheydidnt /946946.html Link to the livejournal post where I saw this yesterday.

In those comment threads hundreds of girls are absolutely SWOONING. I really don't understand that gender. But it's a hopeful sign. Wonder if I have a sweater like that in my closet somewhere.

Anybody in the game industry (in the US anyway) can get Game Developer Magazine for free anyway, so that was never much of an incentive.

The local IGDA chapters can be great, but it's hit and miss depending on your local one.

To me, the thing that made me join a few months ago, was seeing that they're continuing to push the issue of quality of life in the game industry.

Last year they put out the Quality of Life Whitepaper, and now they're following it up with a summit at this year's GDC. All of which is much more relevant every since ea_spouse stirred the hornet's nest.

I for one, I'm very glad they're around and pushing the issue, and will gladly give them some support so they can continue doing so.

We're going to be buying a bunch of rack-mount UPS units on Monday so this doesn't happen again. In the past we've always trusted Internap's insanely redundant power and UPS systems, but now that this has happened to us twice, we realize the first time wasn't a total freak coincidence. C'est la vie.

That's funny, I see subdomains on LJ.

And you're making it seem like the fact that it's mostly female is a bad thing for an online community, eh? You'll fit in quite well at /., killer. I hope it keeps you warm at night, loser.

That's funny, I see subdomains on LJ.

And you're making it seem like the fact that it's mostly female is a bad thing for an online community, eh? You'll fit in quite well at /., killer. I hope it keeps you warm at night, loser.