No, I didnt think of that as I deal with Linux CLI for about 10% of my job and I usually dont deal with reading input from files. It has been a long, long time since I have used that file pipe. I used to deal with it in Windows, and I got tired of using it when it didnt work properly with various commands (like set), so Ive always used alternatives, and that habit sticks with me in Linux as well.
Really, I dont get the big complaint about using cat to handle it, though, several people here seem to be advocating reinventing the wheel, and in bash script to boot.
If the Skein bash function was written to take in text input and spit out a hash, using cat would allow using a filename as the source of the text you want SKEIN'd. If you tried doing "Skein [args] FILE", you would just get the hash of the filename.
How do you propose the SKEIN function determine whether the second argument is a filename, or the text to be hashed? Should he add that funciton as a further switch, and also implement the function of reading the contents of a file (which would presumably use "cat")?
Yes, but tax breaks buy votes. When you've only got four years in office before the next election, you've got to prioritize. Four years isn't enough time to actually fix anything that's broken, but it's enough time to campaign.
Oh, I see. Four years isnt enough to do anything (which, Im sure, is a relief for Obama to hear), so we need to give Obama 4 more years. Obama 2012-- because the first four were just for practice!
Also, if tax breaks dont do anything, any thoughts / commentary on the Regan years? I would be sincerely to hear your explanation for what happened after Reagan implemented his tax cuts.
There was a parable in the Bible that's kind of like this, about a guy who was about to be fired as manager of an estate so he went out and forgave everybody's debts. Cost the master of the estate a lot of money, but the guy was getting fired anyway and he ended up with a lot of friends who would keep him from ending up on the street.
My memory's not perfect, but Im pretty sure thats not how that went. I may be wrong, of course, so would be interested to see where you got that from.
Does anyone actually have "shipped" numbers for the original JooJoo? The only numbers I could find indicated "70" preorders. Color me impressed, Im sure their second try will be equally impressive.
Im not sure if youre aware of this, but:
* China still has a very large, very thriving "piracy" sector. Im sure I could source fakes of just about whatever you want
* Its kind of a stretch to call Obama a "nutso religion-monger"
* Denying people the right to vote might just maybe conflict with some of the primary reasons people came over here to begin with, or with the founding principles of this country
* Theres an 80-90% chance you are a troll, and that you arent aware of it, but that nevertheless you remain a troll.
I have been in a situation in an office with a 500kbit internet connection that happened to be business-grade fiber. This was about 6 years ago, and was my first introduction to this concept: Gaming worked wonderfully, because not much data is being sent, and our latency was around 20-30ms, about 8x better than anyone else. But running multiple remote desktop connections or streaming music was far, far, far worse than it was at home.
In practice, there can be a gigantic difference between bandwidth and latency, and it isnt just a theoretical one.
As to the point of your post, I imagine lowering latency is a lot harder than increasing bandwidth. Its one thing to get a 96-port gigabit switch; but making it have a full 192Gbit capacity (that is, for the switch to be non-blocking) makes it a whole lot more expensive.
Ditto with the routers-- it is one thing to have a router that has a gbe nic; being able to handle a large number of NAT mappings or processing ACLs on a large number of simultaneous request is another thing entirely (especially when bittorrent is in such great usage).
And in honesty, I HAVE been noticing over the years gaming latencies steadily dropping. 10 years ago, average latency in, say, RavenShield or Battlefield 1942 was around 200ms; a very few would have sub-100ms latencies. Years later in Tremulous (2008 or so), I was noticing that latencies were about 100ms-150 on average; 250 was considered "poor". These days, Ive been noticing common latencies all under 100ms-- In a recent game (6 months ago), basically noone had a latency above 70ms, except for one poor sap up at 200ms. And when I run speedtests on my clients periodically, Im getting results (both from speedtest.net and pinging google public dns) that show latencies to be about 30-40ms on average, across my customer base.
The aim of the penal system should not be to make examples of people, it should be to enable people to return to being functional useful members of society.
The purpose of the justice system is presumably to enact some form of justice, NOT to enact vengeance or to do job retraining or therapy.
While we're using inflationary language, someone should just go ahead and call them Nazi Germany and get it over with. I mean, clearly censoring the internet is the same as being Hitler, right?
The problem with widespread internet take-up is that more and more idiots are finding their way onto the internet. With the decline of Myspace and Geocities the internet needed a new idiot-sink.
Honestly, I think we have a bigger problem with the number of people with superiority complexes on the internet, who assume that because someone doesnt understand technology or isnt a great typist, they must be utterly worthless as a person.
Its always fun dealing with (new) friends who constantly apologize for not knowing tech, because they assume that as a tech guy I will obviously look down on them for it. Thanks everyone for establishing that stereotype.
I rather like being able to say things that won't be held aginst me in a court of law.. Or more likely a job app.
I rather like knowing that I wont get a job where the sorts of things I say here (which I filter internally before I post them) would have been held against me.
If theres a job that would discriminate or penalize me because of my religious or political views, honestly, no thanks.
Yes... but is it legal to buy the CD and then download the MP3 version of the same thing from someone else who doesn't have a right to upload that MP3 to you?
I think the courts have ruled "no" on that, but im not 100% sure.
Latency and bandwidth are two entirely different and unrelated things. VPN is not affected by whether or not the network is gigabit-- a Minivan can be "gigabit" speeds if you load it with enough LTO5 tapes, but the latency will be terrible, and I dont think you could run a VPN over "minivan".
Roguelike was a joke I think, and probably shouldnt have been added to the submission.
Not being either a programmer or a database admin, I still think I grasped the point-- that there is a new language out for database queries which prevent you from making invalid database queries because of wrong types (string vs binary).
I dont think it was awful as submissions go, but I suppose they could have clarified what a database is, what type-safe is, and what a query is.
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Yes, because as we all know the best way to deal with insensitivity is to commit slander against that person.
And of course one shouldnt feel any guilt for absolutely wrecking someone's life with such accusations; after all, they made you feel bad!
It didnt eat my less than symbol, I just didnt think of using a file input pipe.
No, I didnt think of that as I deal with Linux CLI for about 10% of my job and I usually dont deal with reading input from files. It has been a long, long time since I have used that file pipe. I used to deal with it in Windows, and I got tired of using it when it didnt work properly with various commands (like set), so Ive always used alternatives, and that habit sticks with me in Linux as well.
Really, I dont get the big complaint about using cat to handle it, though, several people here seem to be advocating reinventing the wheel, and in bash script to boot.
Would that involve adding more bash code to his already long script that he probably doesnt ever want to have to re-work on?
Also, as others have pointed out, you could use unix file pipes to handle reading the file; adding more arguments to it really would be retarded.
Yes, because Gmail has always been super simple and uncluttered. Oh wait.
Wasnt just talking about their homepage, which falls under the present-tense clause of my statement.
So thats why the most popular sites on the internet-- Google, Craigslist, Wikipedia-- are or have been moving towards clean, simpler designs?
Most of the criticisms I hear and voice are more aimed at "I think Obama has poor policy decisions". Any issues with that?
How the heck do you measure saved jobs? Someone want to explain that for me?
I DO recall promises that the unemployment rate wouldnt hit certain milestones, and THOSE promises were reneged on.
If the Skein bash function was written to take in text input and spit out a hash, using cat would allow using a filename as the source of the text you want SKEIN'd. If you tried doing "Skein [args] FILE", you would just get the hash of the filename.
How do you propose the SKEIN function determine whether the second argument is a filename, or the text to be hashed? Should he add that funciton as a further switch, and also implement the function of reading the contents of a file (which would presumably use "cat")?
Yes. You could probably run several thousand rounds of Skein on an input each second, and thats being conservative.
Yes, but tax breaks buy votes. When you've only got four years in office before the next election, you've got to prioritize. Four years isn't enough time to actually fix anything that's broken, but it's enough time to campaign.
Oh, I see. Four years isnt enough to do anything (which, Im sure, is a relief for Obama to hear), so we need to give Obama 4 more years. Obama 2012-- because the first four were just for practice!
Also, if tax breaks dont do anything, any thoughts / commentary on the Regan years? I would be sincerely to hear your explanation for what happened after Reagan implemented his tax cuts.
There was a parable in the Bible that's kind of like this, about a guy who was about to be fired as manager of an estate so he went out and forgave everybody's debts. Cost the master of the estate a lot of money, but the guy was getting fired anyway and he ended up with a lot of friends who would keep him from ending up on the street.
My memory's not perfect, but Im pretty sure thats not how that went. I may be wrong, of course, so would be interested to see where you got that from.
Does anyone actually have "shipped" numbers for the original JooJoo? The only numbers I could find indicated "70" preorders. Color me impressed, Im sure their second try will be equally impressive.
Im not sure if youre aware of this, but:
* China still has a very large, very thriving "piracy" sector. Im sure I could source fakes of just about whatever you want
* Its kind of a stretch to call Obama a "nutso religion-monger"
* Denying people the right to vote might just maybe conflict with some of the primary reasons people came over here to begin with, or with the founding principles of this country
* Theres an 80-90% chance you are a troll, and that you arent aware of it, but that nevertheless you remain a troll.
For the record-- what is the market share of each vendor of honest-to-goodness tablets?
Now narrow it down to tablets produced in the last 3 years, what percentage are iPads, versus Motorola Xooms? Might that have something to do with it?
I have been in a situation in an office with a 500kbit internet connection that happened to be business-grade fiber. This was about 6 years ago, and was my first introduction to this concept:
Gaming worked wonderfully, because not much data is being sent, and our latency was around 20-30ms, about 8x better than anyone else.
But running multiple remote desktop connections or streaming music was far, far, far worse than it was at home.
In practice, there can be a gigantic difference between bandwidth and latency, and it isnt just a theoretical one.
As to the point of your post, I imagine lowering latency is a lot harder than increasing bandwidth. Its one thing to get a 96-port gigabit switch; but making it have a full 192Gbit capacity (that is, for the switch to be non-blocking) makes it a whole lot more expensive.
Ditto with the routers-- it is one thing to have a router that has a gbe nic; being able to handle a large number of NAT mappings or processing ACLs on a large number of simultaneous request is another thing entirely (especially when bittorrent is in such great usage).
And in honesty, I HAVE been noticing over the years gaming latencies steadily dropping. 10 years ago, average latency in, say, RavenShield or Battlefield 1942 was around 200ms; a very few would have sub-100ms latencies. Years later in Tremulous (2008 or so), I was noticing that latencies were about 100ms-150 on average; 250 was considered "poor". These days, Ive been noticing common latencies all under 100ms-- In a recent game (6 months ago), basically noone had a latency above 70ms, except for one poor sap up at 200ms. And when I run speedtests on my clients periodically, Im getting results (both from speedtest.net and pinging google public dns) that show latencies to be about 30-40ms on average, across my customer base.
The aim of the penal system should not be to make examples of people, it should be to enable people to return to being functional useful members of society.
The purpose of the justice system is presumably to enact some form of justice, NOT to enact vengeance or to do job retraining or therapy.
The "right way" is to install conduits, which are never obsolete.
Mark the equipment as being full cisco retail value, eat the cost somewhere else-- possibly in support contract or whatever.
While we're using inflationary language, someone should just go ahead and call them Nazi Germany and get it over with. I mean, clearly censoring the internet is the same as being Hitler, right?
The problem with widespread internet take-up is that more and more idiots are finding their way onto the internet. With the decline of Myspace and Geocities the internet needed a new idiot-sink.
Honestly, I think we have a bigger problem with the number of people with superiority complexes on the internet, who assume that because someone doesnt understand technology or isnt a great typist, they must be utterly worthless as a person.
Its always fun dealing with (new) friends who constantly apologize for not knowing tech, because they assume that as a tech guy I will obviously look down on them for it. Thanks everyone for establishing that stereotype.
I rather like being able to say things that won't be held aginst me in a court of law.. Or more likely a job app.
I rather like knowing that I wont get a job where the sorts of things I say here (which I filter internally before I post them) would have been held against me.
If theres a job that would discriminate or penalize me because of my religious or political views, honestly, no thanks.
Yes... but is it legal to buy the CD and then download the MP3 version of the same thing from someone else who doesn't have a right to upload that MP3 to you?
I think the courts have ruled "no" on that, but im not 100% sure.
Latency and bandwidth are two entirely different and unrelated things. VPN is not affected by whether or not the network is gigabit-- a Minivan can be "gigabit" speeds if you load it with enough LTO5 tapes, but the latency will be terrible, and I dont think you could run a VPN over "minivan".
Roguelike was a joke I think, and probably shouldnt have been added to the submission.
Not being either a programmer or a database admin, I still think I grasped the point-- that there is a new language out for database queries which prevent you from making invalid database queries because of wrong types (string vs binary).
I dont think it was awful as submissions go, but I suppose they could have clarified what a database is, what type-safe is, and what a query is.
Kinetic military action.