'Overall execution' being faster is a misnomer. The change to bytecode only improves startup time, but what counts is runtime speed. Many of the modern interpreted languages: php, perl, python, ruby, etc, have a just in time compiler that will internally bytecodeify your raw source before execution. Assuming a straight non-optimizing JIT, The actual executing part, running the application will have the same speed running raw source or bytecode.
In the case of an optimizing JIT, then you gain some speed in runtime. But many implementations of said modern scripting languages lack the optimizing part.
Based on this, all you can say is that your allergie is real.
No, that's not all. Based on my experience I can say with very high certainty that when I smell peanuts, it triggers my allergy. Based on my own 'case study', my consistent observation over the past 15 years or so (which is how long I've been allergic to peanuts), is that peanut scent makes me sick, period.
I'm not sure why you want to argue that peanut scent isn't a trigger, and that you have to have had physical contact, or have some specific method of airborne particulate population.
The odd thing is that when I was itty bitty, I used to eat pbj, and eat peanut butter right out of a jar, etc. One day I had a peanut butter sandwich and thew up. Ever since then I was allergic.
Can anybody provide any real evidence that nut allergies are triggered by the "smell" of nuts? I don't think so.... I'm betting this woman is probably just a hypochondriac...
I don't have a study to cite, but I have a peanut allergy. Back in high school, in one of my classes a person behind me decided to eat some peanut m&m's during class. Prior to knowing what she was eating, I promptly felt nauseous. Anecdotally I can definitely say that allergies can be triggered by smell.
I've had many cases where just smelling the wrong thing (certain candles (even non-burning ones), perfume, body wash, shampoo, etc) will trigger an asthma attack. I can say that smell-allergies are very real.
It depends on the people, obviously. But I run a small IT company, and I literally do work 8-10 hours straight most days. Most days I'll read slashdot in the morning when I wake up, and when I get home from the office. And that's the extent of my slack time.
Other days, when pending items aren't very pressing I'll take some breaks every hour or so and talk about the weekend, extra-curricular activities and etc with other members of the company. I usually try and keep those types of breaks down to 5-10 minutes, as to not distract myself too much, and not keep my employees from doing their work either.
During summer break in high school, I would go on 12 hour coding binges for weeks at a time. My only breaks would be walking around and stretching every so often, breakfast, lunch, dinner, shower, and sleep.
It just depends how dedicated to the task you are. If you have a regular 9-5, and you are salaried with no benefits for extra hours, why not take advantage of it the best you can? As long as management is okay with the slacking, then it's the fault of the company. I have had some regular 9-5ers. I'm a terrible worker when it comes to working for someone else's company as a salary employee. It's fun for the first 6 months, and then I just have no motivation to put in the same effort that I would if it was my own company. I would routinely play mame games, read slashdot, email, and generally just slack off most of the day. Put in about 2 hours of work, and go home. *And*, I got rewarded for my excellent work, much more so than my harder working coworkers. And here's why:
I was working at a company maintaining legacy finance software. Most of the stuff was "1) check bug reports and feature requests for stuff assigned to you, 2) pick the one you want to work on, 3) write some code, 4) wash, rinse, and repeat". The activities involved were way below my skill level and I just got bored. What I would like to have done, was spend time reworking some bug prone areas, making good libraries so people would quit copy and pasting entire source files for new projects, and generally going around and improving the system. I was seriously discouraged from doing that, and yelled at, at one point. So, if I could get the same work done, working 10 hours a week, that my coworkers got done working 40 hours a week, why bother putting in the extra effort?
If you work at a company that rewards hard work, people won't slack off nearly as much. If you encourage your employees to create, innovate, and challenge themselves, and reward them for doing so, you will have a very productive company.
the software creator/owner gets to choose the terms under which the software may be used
This is not the case. Nor should it be. The software creator/owner gets to choose how the software is redistributed.
As a software developer, I have no legal right to prevent you from using my code for evil purposes for instance. But I can define limitations for redistribution, which is what apple did. Apple can't legally prevent people from installing osx on a dell, but they have all the legal rights to prevent someone from selling osx in a fashion that they don't agree to.
In terms of use... I have the right to not sell you the software, if I believe that you will use it for evil. But if you buy it, you can do whatever the hell you want with it for your own use. As soon as distribution is involved, the license/eula applies.
It's also a mess to maintain, since it's written in Perl.
Nice troll!
"I hate X because I can't use it properly". "I hate X because other people can't use it properly".
It's a pretty common misconception that a *language* makes things hard to maintain. I've seen horrible C code, I've seen excellent C code. I've seen horrible PHP code, and I've seen excellent PHP code. And of course I've seen some amazing Perl. It's a matter of development experience combined with time and effort of the authors, that makes a project is easy to maintain or not... not the language.
If your bugzilla guy is a Python expert, then maybe his skills are lacking in Perl... which is why it's hard to maintain... just a thought.
I've used so many groupware projects that claim to have excellent task tracking. They all wind up being projects that have a bazillion modules and none of them are much good.
We stumbled upon OpenGoo. It's a modern web app (very ajaxy), very very fast. It uses Ext, so it's nicely cross browser and is very similar to a desktop app. It has a great ui for very quickly creating tasks and milestones. That's my biggest complaint about many task managers and groupware projects, is that it just takes too damn long to create and manage tasks.
It also has a contact manager and calendaring, a document manager, time tracking, and reporting. And it does everything quite well. It has due dates and priorities, a messgaeboard for just about every item. You can drag and drop tasks between milestones (projects), you can also tag items. There are configurable workspaces (ie: entirely separate groupings for personal tasks, company tasks, and client tasks). It has a role based permission system, and it's generally just pretty damn awesome.
opengoo.org
Disclaimer: I don't work on, or currently contribute to opengoo, I'm just a happy user.
There are still plenty of providers that charge by the MB. But maybe those are just US providers. For web hosting and dedicated/colocated servers, many plans will say 1500GB per month allowance and then something ridiculous like $3/GB overage fees.
95th percentile billing is generally standard for good colocation. And probably should be the standard for all bandwidth billing (if it's not unmetered/unlimited)
Maybe we'll have MHz requirements for websites at some point.
Might as well.
I have a 3ghz dual core cpu with an geforce 7900 gpu. In windows, full screen flash tv show clips on hulu are choppy and laggy. Never mind in linux... wtf.
Don't know, I never got a ticket except when I was breaking the law.
I have. More than once.
2am on a Friday night. So of course cops are roaming looking for drunks. Which they should be. I'm coasting the speed limit on my way home and get pulled over by a cop driving in the opposite direction.
I get a ticket for supposedly doing 65 in a 40. Yeah right. I show up to court and the cop didn't show, so it was dismissed, thankfully.
I also got one of those red light tickets in the mail, with a picture showing clearly that my car was not in the intersection. That was an easy one to fight.
If you exist for long enough, you'll get a ticket for something you didn't do.
I was in a car with a coworker. We were driving to NH through VT to a customer site. We're minding our own business when a cop shows up with his lights on behind us. Ticket for 65 in a 35.... huh... what? It's been highway ever since we pulled through the last town 5 miles ago.
4 months later the ticket is dismissed with a code that designates the cop was out of his jurisdiction. Obviously the cop thought we were easy pray for being out of state.
You do it your way, I'll do it mine. I don't mind paying for a ticket if I really have to. It's only a couple hundred dollars.
So then you wouldn't mind donating a couple hundred dollars my way?
Most tickets are a tax. Plain and simple. Even the tickets that aren't a tax (like legitimate fines for building code violations, parking in front of a hydrant, etc) are unwelcome charges. I hate wasting money as much as the next person. Paying a ticket is a waste of money (you are giving an entity money, without getting any benefit), no matter what the context, even if you deserved it.
I agree. Weekly? WEEKLY?!!! What is this... 1980? Hell even in 1980 people with critical data on their apple2 spreadsheet kept more than one copy of their data on a daily basis.
I'm not sure why, but one of our customers had a backup daemon running with just incrementals being done. There was one full backup done two years ago and an incremental every night. Well.. they had a computer fry one weekend. It was a crappy windows backup program with only a point and click interface. No way in hell am I going to sit there for days and click restore on 600+ individual backups. I wrote a pretty cool little windows script using autoit3. It was a real pita to write though since every button clicked had to have a "wait-for-next-window" sequence. After five days of the restore script running, they were back in business.
Since then I've gone through every customer's system and made sure they have full backups done weekly and incrementals done daily. And we also do routine backup testing.
A good quote: "A backup is not a backup, until you try and restore from it"
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We've been developing with Ext for some time now. We came across GXT and it looked interesting. We looked into it some more, and it looked like a bunch of sillyness. Why would you write your web app in Java, using a custom compiler, that outputs Javascript?
Why use an interface to an interface, if the interface doesn't make it any simpler or easier to code. That's the whole point of an interface isn't it? To abstract complexity so the developer has to do less work?
What if you find a bug in the Javascript generation? Now you have do do roundabout hacks to override the generated code with your own custom code to fix the bugs. In Ext, I can just edit the Ext libs and fix bugs that I find on the fly.
I would totally not recommend brother at all, based on the failure rates I've seen. With the 5000 series workgroup printers, for a load of about 1000 pages a month, they don't last more than 6 months to a year. Different models, purchased at different times from different stores, all have the same failure mode. The gears that drive the brother paper trays go out of alignment and grind themselves up. We had a client go through a half dozen brother printers before we said, "you know, you should switch to HP". No problems since. The printer doesn't even have a proper gearbox, the gears are all plastic and are just floating in space, each gear being held by the next one.
When I started looking at oss backup solutions I first started using duplicity. It was nice and simple, did full+incremental and encryption. It didn't have built in multi-server support and direct file access.
I then started looking at Bacula. Bacula looked ridiculously complicated for what I needed (backup of maybe 5 workstations and 5 servers). Bacula has a half dozen different modules that can be split across multiple servers to make a clustered backup solution. I fought with it for about a week, got nowhere, and gave up.
I then found Backuppc. A single daemon, with a single web interface, with a super-easy installation. It literally took 10 minutes to set it all up, and I had every computer I wanted being backed up.
It also supports pooling to the hard drive and you can then stream off to tape. Despite backing up 10 computers, my pool is about 20gigs. Backuppc will find duplicate files across the entire backup pool and store them as one. So even if you have 2000 windows pc's, but users store about 100 megs on each, your pool size would be only 200 gigs. Plus the size of one windows/program backup.
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'Overall execution' being faster is a misnomer. The change to bytecode only improves startup time, but what counts is runtime speed. Many of the modern interpreted languages: php, perl, python, ruby, etc, have a just in time compiler that will internally bytecodeify your raw source before execution. Assuming a straight non-optimizing JIT, The actual executing part, running the application will have the same speed running raw source or bytecode.
In the case of an optimizing JIT, then you gain some speed in runtime. But many implementations of said modern scripting languages lack the optimizing part.
Based on this, all you can say is that your allergie is real.
No, that's not all. Based on my experience I can say with very high certainty that when I smell peanuts, it triggers my allergy. Based on my own 'case study', my consistent observation over the past 15 years or so (which is how long I've been allergic to peanuts), is that peanut scent makes me sick, period.
I'm not sure why you want to argue that peanut scent isn't a trigger, and that you have to have had physical contact, or have some specific method of airborne particulate population.
The odd thing is that when I was itty bitty, I used to eat pbj, and eat peanut butter right out of a jar, etc. One day I had a peanut butter sandwich and thew up. Ever since then I was allergic.
Can anybody provide any real evidence that nut allergies are triggered by the "smell" of nuts? I don't think so.... I'm betting this woman is probably just a hypochondriac...
I don't have a study to cite, but I have a peanut allergy. Back in high school, in one of my classes a person behind me decided to eat some peanut m&m's during class. Prior to knowing what she was eating, I promptly felt nauseous. Anecdotally I can definitely say that allergies can be triggered by smell.
I've had many cases where just smelling the wrong thing (certain candles (even non-burning ones), perfume, body wash, shampoo, etc) will trigger an asthma attack. I can say that smell-allergies are very real.
It depends on the people, obviously. But I run a small IT company, and I literally do work 8-10 hours straight most days. Most days I'll read slashdot in the morning when I wake up, and when I get home from the office. And that's the extent of my slack time.
Other days, when pending items aren't very pressing I'll take some breaks every hour or so and talk about the weekend, extra-curricular activities and etc with other members of the company. I usually try and keep those types of breaks down to 5-10 minutes, as to not distract myself too much, and not keep my employees from doing their work either.
During summer break in high school, I would go on 12 hour coding binges for weeks at a time. My only breaks would be walking around and stretching every so often, breakfast, lunch, dinner, shower, and sleep.
It just depends how dedicated to the task you are. If you have a regular 9-5, and you are salaried with no benefits for extra hours, why not take advantage of it the best you can? As long as management is okay with the slacking, then it's the fault of the company. I have had some regular 9-5ers. I'm a terrible worker when it comes to working for someone else's company as a salary employee. It's fun for the first 6 months, and then I just have no motivation to put in the same effort that I would if it was my own company. I would routinely play mame games, read slashdot, email, and generally just slack off most of the day. Put in about 2 hours of work, and go home. *And*, I got rewarded for my excellent work, much more so than my harder working coworkers. And here's why:
I was working at a company maintaining legacy finance software. Most of the stuff was "1) check bug reports and feature requests for stuff assigned to you, 2) pick the one you want to work on, 3) write some code, 4) wash, rinse, and repeat". The activities involved were way below my skill level and I just got bored. What I would like to have done, was spend time reworking some bug prone areas, making good libraries so people would quit copy and pasting entire source files for new projects, and generally going around and improving the system. I was seriously discouraged from doing that, and yelled at, at one point. So, if I could get the same work done, working 10 hours a week, that my coworkers got done working 40 hours a week, why bother putting in the extra effort?
If you work at a company that rewards hard work, people won't slack off nearly as much. If you encourage your employees to create, innovate, and challenge themselves, and reward them for doing so, you will have a very productive company.
It all boils down to incentives.
Heh...
And note to self... pay more attention to preview... as I misquoted the reply in question.
As someone who has known people involved in 9/11, I would note that you should use a different phrase than 'minor inconvenience'.
It's in the eula sure, but there are no laws that actually enforce those provisions.
the software creator/owner gets to choose the terms under which the software may be used
This is not the case. Nor should it be. The software creator/owner gets to choose how the software is redistributed.
As a software developer, I have no legal right to prevent you from using my code for evil purposes for instance. But I can define limitations for redistribution, which is what apple did. Apple can't legally prevent people from installing osx on a dell, but they have all the legal rights to prevent someone from selling osx in a fashion that they don't agree to.
In terms of use... I have the right to not sell you the software, if I believe that you will use it for evil. But if you buy it, you can do whatever the hell you want with it for your own use. As soon as distribution is involved, the license/eula applies.
I simply said that Bugzilla has been written since a long time, it's pretty old and over-bloated, and hard to maintain.
Heh... no, you didn't say that. You said:
It's also a mess to maintain, since it's written in Perl.
You can still download the open source version for free. That's what we use.
I second opengoo... see my post down below: http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1481124&cid=30467642
I think it's one of the coolest, slickest web apps for task tracking.
It's also a mess to maintain, since it's written in Perl.
Nice troll!
"I hate X because I can't use it properly". "I hate X because other people can't use it properly".
It's a pretty common misconception that a *language* makes things hard to maintain. I've seen horrible C code, I've seen excellent C code. I've seen horrible PHP code, and I've seen excellent PHP code. And of course I've seen some amazing Perl. It's a matter of development experience combined with time and effort of the authors, that makes a project is easy to maintain or not... not the language.
If your bugzilla guy is a Python expert, then maybe his skills are lacking in Perl... which is why it's hard to maintain... just a thought.
I've used so many groupware projects that claim to have excellent task tracking. They all wind up being projects that have a bazillion modules and none of them are much good.
We stumbled upon OpenGoo. It's a modern web app (very ajaxy), very very fast. It uses Ext, so it's nicely cross browser and is very similar to a desktop app. It has a great ui for very quickly creating tasks and milestones. That's my biggest complaint about many task managers and groupware projects, is that it just takes too damn long to create and manage tasks.
It also has a contact manager and calendaring, a document manager, time tracking, and reporting. And it does everything quite well. It has due dates and priorities, a messgaeboard for just about every item. You can drag and drop tasks between milestones (projects), you can also tag items. There are configurable workspaces (ie: entirely separate groupings for personal tasks, company tasks, and client tasks). It has a role based permission system, and it's generally just pretty damn awesome.
opengoo.org
Disclaimer: I don't work on, or currently contribute to opengoo, I'm just a happy user.
There are still plenty of providers that charge by the MB. But maybe those are just US providers. For web hosting and dedicated/colocated servers, many plans will say 1500GB per month allowance and then something ridiculous like $3/GB overage fees.
95th percentile billing is generally standard for good colocation. And probably should be the standard for all bandwidth billing (if it's not unmetered/unlimited)
Maybe we'll have MHz requirements for websites at some point.
Might as well.
I have a 3ghz dual core cpu with an geforce 7900 gpu. In windows, full screen flash tv show clips on hulu are choppy and laggy. Never mind in linux... wtf.
I had a tire that was patched by a plug, completely explode when traveling at 65mph.
I've seen tires explode on semi's barreling down the highway too.
Anything can happen.
Don't know, I never got a ticket except when I was breaking the law.
I have. More than once.
2am on a Friday night. So of course cops are roaming looking for drunks. Which they should be. I'm coasting the speed limit on my way home and get pulled over by a cop driving in the opposite direction.
I get a ticket for supposedly doing 65 in a 40. Yeah right. I show up to court and the cop didn't show, so it was dismissed, thankfully.
I also got one of those red light tickets in the mail, with a picture showing clearly that my car was not in the intersection. That was an easy one to fight.
If you exist for long enough, you'll get a ticket for something you didn't do.
I was in a car with a coworker. We were driving to NH through VT to a customer site. We're minding our own business when a cop shows up with his lights on behind us. Ticket for 65 in a 35.... huh... what? It's been highway ever since we pulled through the last town 5 miles ago.
4 months later the ticket is dismissed with a code that designates the cop was out of his jurisdiction. Obviously the cop thought we were easy pray for being out of state.
You do it your way, I'll do it mine. I don't mind paying for a ticket if I really have to. It's only a couple hundred dollars.
So then you wouldn't mind donating a couple hundred dollars my way?
Most tickets are a tax. Plain and simple. Even the tickets that aren't a tax (like legitimate fines for building code violations, parking in front of a hydrant, etc) are unwelcome charges. I hate wasting money as much as the next person. Paying a ticket is a waste of money (you are giving an entity money, without getting any benefit), no matter what the context, even if you deserved it.
>Q2/3 had no dedicated servers.
Stop spreading FUD. Quake2 and Quake3 sure did have dedicated servers. Not the same day they were released, but soon after.
I ran Quake2 and Quake3 dedicated servers for years, when I was in the hosting business.
"incremental..."weekly binary difference"
Uh, those would do nothing in this case,
I agree. Weekly? WEEKLY?!!! What is this... 1980? Hell even in 1980 people with critical data on their apple2 spreadsheet kept more than one copy of their data on a daily basis.
I'm not sure why, but one of our customers had a backup daemon running with just incrementals being done. There was one full backup done two years ago and an incremental every night. Well.. they had a computer fry one weekend. It was a crappy windows backup program with only a point and click interface. No way in hell am I going to sit there for days and click restore on 600+ individual backups. I wrote a pretty cool little windows script using autoit3. It was a real pita to write though since every button clicked had to have a "wait-for-next-window" sequence. After five days of the restore script running, they were back in business.
Since then I've gone through every customer's system and made sure they have full backups done weekly and incrementals done daily. And we also do routine backup testing.
A good quote:
"A backup is not a backup, until you try and restore from it"
We've been developing with Ext for some time now. We came across GXT and it looked interesting. We looked into it some more, and it looked like a bunch of sillyness. Why would you write your web app in Java, using a custom compiler, that outputs Javascript?
Why use an interface to an interface, if the interface doesn't make it any simpler or easier to code. That's the whole point of an interface isn't it? To abstract complexity so the developer has to do less work?
What if you find a bug in the Javascript generation? Now you have do do roundabout hacks to override the generated code with your own custom code to fix the bugs. In Ext, I can just edit the Ext libs and fix bugs that I find on the fly.
...and Brother are good in my eyes...
I would totally not recommend brother at all, based on the failure rates I've seen. With the 5000 series workgroup printers, for a load of about 1000 pages a month, they don't last more than 6 months to a year. Different models, purchased at different times from different stores, all have the same failure mode. The gears that drive the brother paper trays go out of alignment and grind themselves up. We had a client go through a half dozen brother printers before we said, "you know, you should switch to HP". No problems since. The printer doesn't even have a proper gearbox, the gears are all plastic and are just floating in space, each gear being held by the next one.
Precisely. Where else can you buy 25 foot ethernet cables for $20+ plus tax? Or s-video cables for $50?
Too bad I needed an svideo cable quickly, I really did pay 50 bucks for a svideo to rca converter plus svideo cable.
Those converters come free with $15 video cards. I think the converter itself was $30 plus tax at the rat shaft.
I agree. If Opera had equivalents of Tab Mix Plus, Firebug, Liveheaders, Flashblock, and Adblock... I would switch.
I prefer backuppc.
When I started looking at oss backup solutions I first started using duplicity. It was nice and simple, did full+incremental and encryption. It didn't have built in multi-server support and direct file access.
I then started looking at Bacula. Bacula looked ridiculously complicated for what I needed (backup of maybe 5 workstations and 5 servers). Bacula has a half dozen different modules that can be split across multiple servers to make a clustered backup solution. I fought with it for about a week, got nowhere, and gave up.
I then found Backuppc. A single daemon, with a single web interface, with a super-easy installation. It literally took 10 minutes to set it all up, and I had every computer I wanted being backed up.
It also supports pooling to the hard drive and you can then stream off to tape. Despite backing up 10 computers, my pool is about 20gigs. Backuppc will find duplicate files across the entire backup pool and store them as one. So even if you have 2000 windows pc's, but users store about 100 megs on each, your pool size would be only 200 gigs. Plus the size of one windows/program backup.