> "Couples who elope are 12.5x more likely to end up divorced than couples who get married at a wedding with 200+ people.
Doesn't seem at odds to me.
People who act impulsively for their own immediate gratification are more likely to get divorced than those who plan stuff intricately and have the combined social pressure of all their friends and relatives acting on them. Well, knock me down with a feather.
Consistency is easy when there is a single non-distributed database. That's not always possible and even if when it is possible its not always desirable because it is an inherent bottleneck. I agree many many companies pretend that they're facebook and end up with NoSQL for stupid reasons (hey, if my website ends up with a 100,000,000 active users then a single db won't cut it...) but there are situations where availability is more important than consistency. Funnily enough, one of them is banking.
> How could these not be important for banking is beyond me.
It's not that they're not important, its just that they are not the *most* important thing. Banks care about making money for themselves more than they care about anything else:
In a situation with dozen's or hundreds of competitors it is, but without government enforcement cartels develop naturally and quickly (unless one company thinks it can bankrupt the others and become a monopoly). It's far more likely Nicaragua and Panama will come to an agreement.
well, sure, it just won't make anything. I mean you *could* load the machine with fucking coca cola if you wanted, but its not going to give you a part.
To actually make something you need a photosensitive resin with very precise material properties. Back in the day that stuff cost $300/litre.. i'm sure its come down a bit, but the i'll bet ya good stuff still aint cheap
> But never give control of the printing press to politicians.
The current system gives a ton of control to politicians. Modern states are pretty much never constrained from doing what they want to do for lack of money. When's the last time you heard them say: no we can't go to war, it will cost too much ? As well as allowing them to spend money however they want, the current system allows them to *not* do the stuff whenever they don't really want to (eg when it would only benefit a group with no political power such as single parents or the disabled) by claiming its too expensive.
If the government invented the money instead of the bankers that would eliminate the need for taxation which would get rid of the main excuse for the government to keep tabs on everybody and everything. The IRS would disappear completely for instance. I strongly recommend http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Gr... . I did a couple of years of economics at university but this was a real eye-opener.
The US jails a larger proportion of its population than sizeable nation ever. In that respect it's the least free country in the course of human history due to its extraordinarily non-lenient justice system.
Anyone can sue for anything but having a strong case is another thing. People's religious beliefs can include any random nonsense and no business could operate if it had to pander to whatever people can think of. You make the responsibilities clear at the start then if they take the job they are agreeing to do the work. If a muslim got a a job in a pork processing plant then claimed his religious beliefs prevented him from handling pigs, well.. get another job.
> A good bit of the code is actually somewhat amateurish
Citation needed. Or, to put it less politely, are you out of your fucking mind ? Stuxnet is the most advanced piece of malware ever discovered, and it worked. I don't believe you have access to the original source code so, can you justify this comment in any way ?
> NodeJS is an attempt to get cheaper backend programmers because everyone has extra front end developers lying around for projects. The problem is that most front end developers I know don't know shit about big data or working on real problems. Their biggest fear is if a button is pretty and the popup works in IE8 and the latest jQuery UI.
No, it really isn't and nobody with any experience of it believes that. It's for when performance requirements are such that you want to control your own threading rather than letting the operating system do it for you. It's more like programming in assembly than in a high level language and as such requires a much higher level of knowledge on behalf of the server side programmers than something relatively straightforward like java let alone python or php.
Just for the record, I was a c++ programmer for 15 years an EJB (curse its fucking name) programmer for 6 years, and have been doing a lot of front end javascript stuff for 6 years plus some node.js for the last 2 years. I just delivered the server end of a project which deals with more data than youtube ( http://www.manything.com/ ). Get off your fucking high horse about front end web development. Big data is a fucking walk in the park compared to delivering a decent user experience on web platforms.
I'm not here to praise node.js: many environments have pitfalls, but node.js greases the sides, put stakes at the bottom and threw down a bunch of venomous snakes just to be on the safe side. Plus, you're working in a language where [1, 2] + [3,4] === '1,23,4'
However, having said all that, it has its place, its just not where you think it is.
it's the monetary system stupid..
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Computers replacing human's is fantastic, it frees us up to do what we want to do.
Well, it would if it wasn't for the fact that the monetary system is designed in such a way that unless we all work like dogs the economy goes to shit and we end up with a vast uneducated, depressed and criminal underclass.
There is a way out of this, but it involves stepping off the money-is-debt forced march that humanity is on at the moment [http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Grip-Death-Destructive-Economics/dp/1897766408], otherwise the 1% we will end up having to exterminate the 99% [http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm]
you're one of those gui browser wimps. real men use lynx.. silly Ping, she should never have told Marc to write that thing, think of all the man millenia squandered since the web went pointy-clicky-pickie.
I tried node on my 5 year old, but she started screaming "I want my threads back you cruel bastard, this async crap is giving me a headache" (we're working on her anger management issues) but now the social workers are involved and if I don't get her continuation passing style soon (the 70s called) I'm going to find myself in deep water.
putting aside my slashvert suspicions of the post, (hard to see how you could have chose AWS at all and be so clueless )
I've done this kind of thing a lot. Here's my approach
1. Fire up an EBS backed AMI from an existing stock version of your favorite OS ( ubuntu 12.04 for me just cos i use it on desktop and can't be bothered with differences) 2. customize it with your own shit 3. include in the/etc/rc.local a script to customize things further.. and because you don't want to faff about changing the AMI every time you change shit, have the startup script pull the latest stuff you need straight out of your source code repository and then run further initialisation stuff 4. make an image from that instance (easily done from AWS control panel) 5. learn how to use boto (python AWS api) to fire up instances, attach storeage, shutdown instances etc. Using the command line tools is fine for the simplest stuff but as soon as stuff gets a little harder you really want to use a programming language, so unless you're extremely fond of java python is best fit for this) The boto documentation is kinda shit, so every time you need to do something just google for an example doing something similiar.. the official api documentation is last resort reference only.
Your speech patterns sound too much like a young native. Although I can believe that 40 years residency would leave you flawlessly bilingual, I don't believe you would *want* to sound like an angry 20 something.
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> "Couples who elope are 12.5x more likely to end up divorced than couples who get married at a wedding with 200+ people.
Doesn't seem at odds to me.
People who act impulsively for their own immediate gratification are more likely to get divorced than those who plan stuff intricately and have the combined social pressure of all their friends and relatives acting on them. Well, knock me down with a feather.
Selective use of data can convince you of anything if you desperately want to be convinced of that (which is why climate change is still a debate)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
So, for example
UK firearm deaths (per 100,000 of population): 0.25
US: 10.30
ie, you're 40 times more likely to get killed by a gun in the US than in UK, but sure.. believe what you like.
No, its not ironic. One misplaced hyphen does not invalidate his point.
Consistency is easy when there is a single non-distributed database. That's not always possible and even if when it is possible its not always desirable because it is an inherent bottleneck. I agree many many companies pretend that they're facebook and end up with NoSQL for stupid reasons (hey, if my website ends up with a 100,000,000 active users then a single db won't cut it...) but there are situations where availability is more important than consistency. Funnily enough, one of them is banking.
> How could these not be important for banking is beyond me.
It's not that they're not important, its just that they are not the *most* important thing. Banks care about making money for themselves more than they care about anything else:
http://highscalability.com/blo...
Banking transactions are generally not ACID. I'm sure the multi-trillion dollar banking industry are all complete idiots compared to the AC on /.
http://highscalability.com/blo...
> That is the nature of competition.
In a situation with dozen's or hundreds of competitors it is, but without government enforcement cartels develop naturally and quickly (unless one company thinks it can bankrupt the others and become a monopoly). It's far more likely Nicaragua and Panama will come to an agreement.
> uses a laser to harden liquid plastic
ie http://www.3dsystems.com/quick... the tech that i was writing software for 20 years ago..
> you can load in any material you want.
well, sure, it just won't make anything. I mean you *could* load the machine with fucking coca cola if you wanted, but its not going to give you a part.
To actually make something you need a photosensitive resin with very precise material properties. Back in the day that stuff cost $300/litre .. i'm sure its come down a bit, but the i'll bet ya good stuff still aint cheap
> By assuming that the process of memory is non-lossy
What a fucking strange way to start. Memories are recursive, really old memor s you don't directly remember, you remember remembering.
Yeah, he has a AlthoughYouShouldHaveAlreadyRealizedThatExceptionFactory
> But never give control of the printing press to politicians.
The current system gives a ton of control to politicians. Modern states are pretty much never constrained from doing what they want to do for lack of money. When's the last time you heard them say: no we can't go to war, it will cost too much ? As well as allowing them to spend money however they want, the current system allows them to *not* do the stuff whenever they don't really want to (eg when it would only benefit a group with no political power such as single parents or the disabled) by claiming its too expensive.
If the government invented the money instead of the bankers that would eliminate the need for taxation which would get rid of the main excuse for the government to keep tabs on everybody and everything. The IRS would disappear completely for instance. I strongly recommend http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Gr... . I did a couple of years of economics at university but this was a real eye-opener.
> this lenient justice system
Now there's a statement. If the US justice system is lenient, can you point me at one that is not ?
The US incarcaration rate is 750/100000, in western europe its 100/100000. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...
The US jails a larger proportion of its population than sizeable nation ever. In that respect it's the least free country in the course of human history due to its extraordinarily non-lenient justice system.
Anyone can sue for anything but having a strong case is another thing. People's religious beliefs can include any random nonsense and no business could operate if it had to pander to whatever people can think of. You make the responsibilities clear at the start then if they take the job they are agreeing to do the work. If a muslim got a a job in a pork processing plant then claimed his religious beliefs prevented him from handling pigs, well.. get another job.
Most of what you say I agree with but:
> A good bit of the code is actually somewhat amateurish
Citation needed. Or, to put it less politely, are you out of your fucking mind ? Stuxnet is the most advanced piece of malware ever discovered, and it worked. I don't believe you have access to the original source code so, can you justify this comment in any way ?
So, you believe the NSA hardly ever fucks up. Fascinating, and who told you this exactly ?
So, just before I rightly get modded into oblivion, I made a simple plugin for all my fellow beta-haters:
http://rareformnewmedia.com/-s...
Bullshit, or at least, preposterous exaggeration.
Also, "syntactica" is not a word.
Just encountered this fucking beta monstrosity. I agree with the boycott, but for people who actually want a usable slashdot under beta:
http://rareformnewmedia.com/-s...
> NodeJS is an attempt to get cheaper backend programmers because everyone has extra front end developers lying around for projects. The problem is that most front end developers I know don't know shit about big data or working on real problems. Their biggest fear is if a button is pretty and the popup works in IE8 and the latest jQuery UI.
No, it really isn't and nobody with any experience of it believes that. It's for when performance requirements are such that you want to control your own threading rather than letting the operating system do it for you. It's more like programming in assembly than in a high level language and as such requires a much higher level of knowledge on behalf of the server side programmers than something relatively straightforward like java let alone python or php.
Just for the record, I was a c++ programmer for 15 years an EJB (curse its fucking name) programmer for 6 years, and have been doing a lot of front end javascript stuff for 6 years plus some node.js for the last 2 years. I just delivered the server end of a project which deals with more data than youtube ( http://www.manything.com/ ). Get off your fucking high horse about front end web development. Big data is a fucking walk in the park compared to delivering a decent user experience on web platforms.
I'm not here to praise node.js: many environments have pitfalls, but node.js greases the sides, put stakes at the bottom and threw down a bunch of venomous snakes just to be on the safe side. Plus, you're working in a language where
[1, 2] + [3,4] === '1,23,4'
However, having said all that, it has its place, its just not where you think it is.
Computers replacing human's is fantastic, it frees us up to do what we want to do.
Well, it would if it wasn't for the fact that the monetary system is designed in such a way that unless we all work like dogs the economy goes to shit and we end up with a vast uneducated, depressed and criminal underclass.
There is a way out of this, but it involves stepping off the money-is-debt forced march that humanity is on at the moment [http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Grip-Death-Destructive-Economics/dp/1897766408], otherwise the 1% we will end up having to exterminate the 99% [http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm]
you're one of those gui browser wimps. real men use lynx.. silly Ping, she should never have told Marc to write that thing, think of all the man millenia squandered since the web went pointy-clicky-pickie.
I tried node on my 5 year old, but she started screaming "I want my threads back you cruel bastard, this async crap is giving me a headache" (we're working on her anger management issues) but now the social workers are involved and if I don't get her continuation passing style soon (the 70s called) I'm going to find myself in deep water.
putting aside my slashvert suspicions of the post, (hard to see how you could have chose AWS at all and be so clueless )
I've done this kind of thing a lot. Here's my approach
1. Fire up an EBS backed AMI from an existing stock version of your favorite OS ( ubuntu 12.04 for me just cos i use it on desktop and can't be bothered with differences) /etc/rc.local a script to customize things further.. and because you don't want to faff about changing the AMI every time you change shit, have the startup script pull the latest stuff you need straight out of your source code repository and then run further initialisation stuff .. the official api documentation is last resort reference only.
2. customize it with your own shit
3. include in the
4. make an image from that instance (easily done from AWS control panel)
5. learn how to use boto (python AWS api) to fire up instances, attach storeage, shutdown instances etc. Using the command line tools is fine for the simplest stuff but as soon as stuff gets a little harder you really want to use a programming language, so unless you're extremely fond of java python is best fit for this)
The boto documentation is kinda shit, so every time you need to do something just google for an example doing something similiar
Sorry, I just don't buy it.
Your speech patterns sound too much like a young native. Although I can believe that 40 years residency would leave you flawlessly bilingual, I don't believe you would *want* to sound like an angry 20 something.
This is pretty good:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Oww4Ap3YZA
but it doesnt explain why US tv, particuarly news, is so much more paranoid than in europe