...you can be damn sure that agency is going to be a hundred times harsher about testing skills before agreeing to represent the talent than an interviewer would be.
You make it sound like that would be a bad thing. I think recruitment processes today in many ways filter out people on very shallow parameters. Like how they often filter out people who lack a formal education instead of actually checking what specific competence the person actually have.
Having someone that knows you better and are perhaps also more vocal promoting you seems like a good idea to me.
In most cases things work as expected. The things that causes most problems are when we are using redirect links (temporary redirects) that are only ment to be used once. Normally the user doesn't see them and the browsers aren't supposed to cache them. Which works fine until the filtering companies like to do double of everything.
These double requests also causes a lot of trouble for some people.
I'm working for a company running a web service for corporations and we have a very high level of logging and surveillance in order to provide a good service. However we get a lot of strange alerts from double requests from different ip numbers. It appears that some content filtering companies like to do the same (Bluecoat I'm looking at you) and they even do requests with cloned cookies (so they act in the same session as the user).
A lot of funky things happens if you assume that a user is only going to access certain (GET) links once but a filtering company is intercepting the request and sometimes manage to make the request faster than the user.
Frankly, it becomes meaningless if we enable it by default for all our users. Do Not Track is intended to express an individualâ(TM)s choice, or preference, to not be tracked. Itâ(TM)s important that the signal represents a choice made by the person behind the leopard and not the software maker, because ultimately itâ(TM)s not Firefox being tracked, itâ(TM)s the user.
I wonder what's behind that reasoning from Mozilla.
It's not like it would be very complicated to make a feature in the browser to pop up a question whether the user want to be tracked or not and save the answer.
Given the release rate of Firefox they should be able to have it out by Tuesday.
Can anyone who keeps more track on the stock market tell me if my suspicion that the stock buyers are slowly learning that a hyped (tech) IPO initially only benefits those already with stock?
The stock market really feels like a game and people are slowly learning the rules.
Also, I think part of the problem with facebook is that it is so well known. A large part of the US (and the world) has a facebook account so most people know what the deal is about. I think that many can accept that there is value in the company in itself and the service for the users. However I also think that many find it problematic to "monetize" on it. Since the company really only have one product, the site, thinks can get sour quick if the users start to leave.
From my understanding there are many countries in the world that requires a registered commercial organization (and all the required administration that follows) to perform certain kind of jobs.
Perhaps sad for the Ukrainian people that working internationally becomes more cumbersome but I can also understand that the state want to keep track of what business is conducted from the country.
I'm actually surprised that we don't see any vigilante developers actually developing something that in some way or another disable or display information about the serious state the infected machine is in.
Of course, I see the problems with doing so (hasn't there been an article about this topic earlier?), but still, there are a lot of infected machines that have been so for ages are not likely to vanish. Bandwidth and cpu cycles can definitely be spent on better things than spam.
Actually, even though it's not a technical limitation, a JAR file is REQUIRED (by the spec) to have a META-INF/MANIFEST.MF file. But you are quite right in that the.zip existed long before the.jars.
This is good "news". Rougly 3½ year and only halfways. That proves that RC5-64 is fairly "safe" to use, so I can sleep well and know that people would have some really hard problems deciphering my secure data.
If find the big support for MySQL somewhat surprising. When I'm running a RDBMS, I want stability, even if it happen to be a commercial or a open source one.
MySQL have for many years been been considered as a very unstable product and that it have been (still are probably) lacking a lot of really useful features.
In the open source world, I find two RDBMS especially good. PostgreSQL and Interbase. They are both fine products and probably near commercial grade RDBMS standard.
So even if MySQL is now considered stable. So what? We have other choices, which have been developed with great care for many years and have been added features from their stability, not the opposite.
So in my humble opinion, if you want to run anything (semi)serious, definately do not run MySQL, there are MUCH better options out there.
> And what is so great about these three groups is that they steal code from each other. What is in one will eventually turn up in the other.
I find this a little amusing. One thing that many non-Linux people complain about is that Linux is getting splitted into many distro's and like.
BSD have existed in many branches a long time, and few people argue that this isn't good for the *BSD's.
I don't agree with you on there. Yes, "information wants to be free" is a figure of speech.
My point was, because it seemed to unclear to some, that many finds it easy to demand something (everything?) to be free, except the things theyselves are making a living on.
I choose to use the term information because I found it somewhat useful. What is music? For me, ultimately, music is probably air pouring into my ears, and in someway (I'm not very skilled bio-chemistry) producing some kind of stimili that feels like "music". I might as well used the term input or music, but I found this behaviour among people more common than just this Napster-case.
This will truely be a never ending story. Yes, Information wants to be free, but people also want's to survive. It's easy to say that one want other works to be free, but when it comes to one's own work, they want gazillion's in payment.
Sometimes, it is better to not release any code than to do it. I mean, it's better to release something useful before letting the masses look at it.
I myself is coding a little thingie, but I won't release it public (GPL) until I feel that the code is somewhat usefull.
If they won't release the code so often now, is maybe because they want to make a good framework themselves, before seeking help to do the "real work".
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...you can be damn sure that agency is going to be a hundred times harsher about testing skills before agreeing to represent the talent than an interviewer would be.
You make it sound like that would be a bad thing. I think recruitment processes today in many ways filter out people on very shallow parameters. Like how they often filter out people who lack a formal education instead of actually checking what specific competence the person actually have.
Having someone that knows you better and are perhaps also more vocal promoting you seems like a good idea to me.
In most cases things work as expected. The things that causes most problems are when we are using redirect links (temporary redirects) that are only ment to be used once. Normally the user doesn't see them and the browsers aren't supposed to cache them. Which works fine until the filtering companies like to do double of everything.
Well we are running with SSL but the filtering company has their proxy inside the corporations and can thus intercept the SSL requests.
These double requests also causes a lot of trouble for some people.
I'm working for a company running a web service for corporations and we have a very high level of logging and surveillance in order to provide a good service. However we get a lot of strange alerts from double requests from different ip numbers. It appears that some content filtering companies like to do the same (Bluecoat I'm looking at you) and they even do requests with cloned cookies (so they act in the same session as the user).
A lot of funky things happens if you assume that a user is only going to access certain (GET) links once but a filtering company is intercepting the request and sometimes manage to make the request faster than the user.
I wonder what's behind that reasoning from Mozilla.
It's not like it would be very complicated to make a feature in the browser to pop up a question whether the user want to be tracked or not and save the answer.
Given the release rate of Firefox they should be able to have it out by Tuesday.
Can anyone who keeps more track on the stock market tell me if my suspicion that the stock buyers are slowly learning that a hyped (tech) IPO initially only benefits those already with stock?
The stock market really feels like a game and people are slowly learning the rules.
Also, I think part of the problem with facebook is that it is so well known. A large part of the US (and the world) has a facebook account so most people know what the deal is about. I think that many can accept that there is value in the company in itself and the service for the users. However I also think that many find it problematic to "monetize" on it. Since the company really only have one product, the site, thinks can get sour quick if the users start to leave.
Is this really such a big deal?
From my understanding there are many countries in the world that requires a registered commercial organization (and all the required administration that follows) to perform certain kind of jobs.
Perhaps sad for the Ukrainian people that working internationally becomes more cumbersome but I can also understand that the state want to keep track of what business is conducted from the country.
I'm actually surprised that we don't see any vigilante developers actually developing something that in some way or another disable or display information about the serious state the infected machine is in.
Of course, I see the problems with doing so (hasn't there been an article about this topic earlier?), but still, there are a lot of infected machines that have been so for ages are not likely to vanish. Bandwidth and cpu cycles can definitely be spent on better things than spam.
Actually, even though it's not a technical limitation, a JAR file is REQUIRED (by the spec) to have a META-INF/MANIFEST.MF file. But you are quite right in that the .zip existed long before the .jars.
This is good "news". Rougly 3½ year and only halfways. That proves that RC5-64 is fairly "safe" to use, so I can sleep well and know that people would have some really hard problems deciphering my secure data.
Distributed.net is good for everybodys privacy.
If find the big support for MySQL somewhat surprising. When I'm running a RDBMS, I want stability, even if it happen to be a commercial or a open source one.
MySQL have for many years been been considered as a very unstable product and that it have been (still are probably) lacking a lot of really useful features.
In the open source world, I find two RDBMS especially good. PostgreSQL and Interbase. They are both fine products and probably near commercial grade RDBMS standard.
So even if MySQL is now considered stable. So what? We have other choices, which have been developed with great care for many years and have been added features from their stability, not the opposite.
So in my humble opinion, if you want to run anything (semi)serious, definately do not run MySQL, there are MUCH better options out there.
> And what is so great about these three groups is that they steal code from each other. What is in one will eventually turn up in the other.
I find this a little amusing. One thing that many non-Linux people complain about is that Linux is getting splitted into many distro's and like.
BSD have existed in many branches a long time, and few people argue that this isn't good for the *BSD's.
I'm just wondering. Who, if not Alan Cox whould maintain the ac (Alan Cox) patch-series? 8-)
I don't agree with you on there. Yes, "information wants to be free" is a figure of speech.
My point was, because it seemed to unclear to some, that many finds it easy to demand something (everything?) to be free, except the things theyselves are making a living on.
I choose to use the term information because I found it somewhat useful. What is music? For me, ultimately, music is probably air pouring into my ears, and in someway (I'm not very skilled bio-chemistry) producing some kind of stimili that feels like "music". I might as well used the term input or music, but I found this behaviour among people more common than just this Napster-case.
This will truely be a never ending story. Yes, Information wants to be free, but people also want's to survive. It's easy to say that one want other works to be free, but when it comes to one's own work, they want gazillion's in payment.
It's indeed a strange world.
Sometimes, it is better to not release any code than to do it. I mean, it's better to release something useful before letting the masses look at it.
I myself is coding a little thingie, but I won't release it public (GPL) until I feel that the code is somewhat usefull.
If they won't release the code so often now, is maybe because they want to make a good framework themselves, before seeking help to do the "real work".
It requires BIG skills to use ddos.exe nowdays. I'm very impressed wether it's MafiaBoy or not 8-).