Having almost passed the 90-day mark at my first Silicon Valley job, my experience has been that it's a highly overrated (and overpriced) place to start a new tech company. Compared to where I'm from (and currently still reside), Austin, I haven't really been wowed with the talent over there vs over here. The big difference I've seen is that the people over in Silicon Valley just seem more big-headed about what they do.
The only drawback that I would find as a code-geek is weak typing
Which Facebook is addressing with their language Hack, which is heavily based on the PHP language. As a bonus, you also get a language that's built from the ground-up to be fully functional with their HHVM technology.
It's an exciting time for PHP.
I'd imagine if a large enough pool of bitcoins were for sure confirmed missing (not sure if that can even be tracked), the block difficulty would probably be lowered and miners would be awarded new bitcoins at a higher rate for solving more blocks, thus fixing the shortage problem.
Personally, I believe that the benefits you list can be achieved with relaxation
Are you fucking kidding me? Tell that to my friend who's currently undergoing chemotherapy to combat stage IV cancer, which is likely to kill her within the year. It's a little hard to just relax without outside help knowing that she's about to leave a family behind at the age of 30...
I fail to see how this changes anything, other than you now have an additional network behind your router. The border gateway into your house from your ISP is already potentially "compromised" by them, in that they have the final say of how your public IP gets used. Setting the ISP's router into bridged mode and giving your own router full control of your public IP is really what you want. I'm finding, however, that this seems to be a dying trend (Time Warner's Roadrunner service still allows it, but they're hiding the page to set your router into bridged mode such that you have to know the direct URL to the router's page to control this...I imagine they'll probably just do away with this feature entirely in the future). As far as I know, services like AT&T's U-verse and Google Fiber don't even allow setting your router into bridged mode at all (somebody please correct me if I'm wrong).
Radio Shack is worthless. Every time I go in there looking for something, they never have it. The last thing I went in for that that I surely thought they would have (but didn't) was a 1+ amp micro-USB power adapter for a Raspberry Pi. They're more interested in selling shitty phones to idiots than stocking things that are actually useful.
This isn't necessarily true. I worked at a place where the CEO came across some archived mailing-list posts that contained sensitive company information (apparently the previous sysadmin didn't have much regard for keeping sensitive company information secret when he had questions). An email or two asking them nicely to remove the content and it was gone. Granted, if it had been propagated to many other archive sites, this could have been a major pain in the ass.
Typically in the coastal plains (where a river would meet with saltwater), a river will widen up and it's current slows to a crawl (due to the lack of a "downhill" presence).
giving the user an easy way to see that error message would be really good!
Although not quite as accessible as having the error/exception thrown right into your face, you do realize that a lot of these types of errors do get logged to the system logger? (example: Event Viewer for Windows, syslog for Linux, etc). I'd imagine looking through this would be a tad easier than watching tcpdump output in real-time while you try to reproduce the problem in question (to use your example).
It's quite understandable. Since a badly built commercial or home device can destroy the USB port on a computer or even feed back enough energy to destroy other components...
Yup...this happened to me. I bought a shoddily made media card reader that completely fried and destroyed my internal USB chipset, rendering all of the on-board USB ports useless....live & learn.
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Who's given enough shit about them to discover and publish them?
Having almost passed the 90-day mark at my first Silicon Valley job, my experience has been that it's a highly overrated (and overpriced) place to start a new tech company. Compared to where I'm from (and currently still reside), Austin, I haven't really been wowed with the talent over there vs over here. The big difference I've seen is that the people over in Silicon Valley just seem more big-headed about what they do.
*Cough Austin cough cough*
Looks awesome guys. Keep up the great work!
Judging by the fact that most of Facebook is based on PHP, it sounds to me like it's pretty robust... It's also object oriented.
And functional
The only drawback that I would find as a code-geek is weak typing
Which Facebook is addressing with their language Hack, which is heavily based on the PHP language. As a bonus, you also get a language that's built from the ground-up to be fully functional with their HHVM technology. It's an exciting time for PHP.
- Don't allow children into public schools that are not up to date on their vaccination schedules.
If parents don't want to vaccinate their kids, fine; they can put them in private schools or homeschool them themselves.
Perhaps I should have been more clear: where's the Raspberry Pi distribution that's actually useable for anything (aka, not slower than dog shit).
She's built like a steakhouse, but handles like a bistro!
Android is free and open
So where's the Raspberry Pi distribution (that actually works) if it's so free and open?
I'd imagine if a large enough pool of bitcoins were for sure confirmed missing (not sure if that can even be tracked), the block difficulty would probably be lowered and miners would be awarded new bitcoins at a higher rate for solving more blocks, thus fixing the shortage problem.
Personally, I believe that the benefits you list can be achieved with relaxation
Are you fucking kidding me? Tell that to my friend who's currently undergoing chemotherapy to combat stage IV cancer, which is likely to kill her within the year. It's a little hard to just relax without outside help knowing that she's about to leave a family behind at the age of 30...
I fail to see how this changes anything, other than you now have an additional network behind your router. The border gateway into your house from your ISP is already potentially "compromised" by them, in that they have the final say of how your public IP gets used. Setting the ISP's router into bridged mode and giving your own router full control of your public IP is really what you want. I'm finding, however, that this seems to be a dying trend (Time Warner's Roadrunner service still allows it, but they're hiding the page to set your router into bridged mode such that you have to know the direct URL to the router's page to control this...I imagine they'll probably just do away with this feature entirely in the future). As far as I know, services like AT&T's U-verse and Google Fiber don't even allow setting your router into bridged mode at all (somebody please correct me if I'm wrong).
Radio Shack is worthless. Every time I go in there looking for something, they never have it. The last thing I went in for that that I surely thought they would have (but didn't) was a 1+ amp micro-USB power adapter for a Raspberry Pi. They're more interested in selling shitty phones to idiots than stocking things that are actually useful.
"Man the automotive dealer associations don't like Tesla.
They have a name: NADA. Hate them, they are evil.
Without Billy G, I don't think they're capable of that anymore.
Promises aren't worth shit unless you're willing to put them in writing.
Usenet and mailing list archives are forever
This isn't necessarily true. I worked at a place where the CEO came across some archived mailing-list posts that contained sensitive company information (apparently the previous sysadmin didn't have much regard for keeping sensitive company information secret when he had questions). An email or two asking them nicely to remove the content and it was gone. Granted, if it had been propagated to many other archive sites, this could have been a major pain in the ass.
If 91 voted against it, and assuming they're all Democrats (I don't know what the actual breakdown is)..
Ask and ye shall receive: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/roll629.xml
Why not just use the river to turn a turbine?
Typically in the coastal plains (where a river would meet with saltwater), a river will widen up and it's current slows to a crawl (due to the lack of a "downhill" presence).
Every dealer is gunning for Tesla
This association of dealers even has a name: the National Automotives Dealer Association (NADA); they are a cartel.
giving the user an easy way to see that error message would be really good!
Although not quite as accessible as having the error/exception thrown right into your face, you do realize that a lot of these types of errors do get logged to the system logger? (example: Event Viewer for Windows, syslog for Linux, etc). I'd imagine looking through this would be a tad easier than watching tcpdump output in real-time while you try to reproduce the problem in question (to use your example).
Shit..I too probably have fallen victim yet again to parody.
I care about solving a problem, as it is a challenge. That's it.
Writing code such that it does what you need it to and is easy to maintain can be a fun problem to solve...at least for me.
Doesn't Best Buy price-match their competitors (including Amazon)?
It's quite understandable. Since a badly built commercial or home device can destroy the USB port on a computer or even feed back enough energy to destroy other components...
Yup...this happened to me. I bought a shoddily made media card reader that completely fried and destroyed my internal USB chipset, rendering all of the on-board USB ports useless....live & learn.