If your coworker is actually really smart and experienced, maybe he has a good reason to do things his way and you're just not seeing it? Maybe he could explain that reason behind his naming convention and avoiding certain features and it would make more sense? I had a couple of interesting talks on similar topics with older programmers in our team (I'm a newbie) where they actually convinced me on most points why their style and policy to avoid certiain "fancy" language features and practices was more error-prone and readable after a while of working on the project.
Apart from getting rid of obsolete code, you also get rid of an additional target architecture that could potentially reveal certain bugs and implicit assumptions in the platform-independent part of the kernel that do not fire up on other architectures. That said, I have virtually no experience with the kernel and I have no idea whether this argument makes any bit of sense with the code in question.
Also, although RSS is awesome, it's a really crappy medium for listening to music
I have no idea what you are talking about. If you liked an artist's performance, you can google their site where you can find out where to buy their music (or donate) and subscribe to all the latest news (RSS, email). This is all I was saying. The radio played your song and gave your name, this is all that is needed to the listener to reach you. You can ask the radio station to provide a direct link to your site, but this is as far as common sense goes in terms of shoving your name into listeners' throats.
she never plans one in your area because she had no idea that people in Podunk, Vermont are dying to see her perform live
Valid argument. However, there is absolutely no need for forcing radio station to do this. People will write you mails asking if you will be performing in their town. You can create a form for people interested in your performance on your site asking them to provide their location. You can gather information from your official forum if you set one. If you are too much of a stalker, you can track visitors' IPs on your site and see places where you are popular the most. Heck, there are lots of ways of collecting this data, and none of them involves stalking people who don't care about you and your music and just happened to listen to the radio when your song was playing.
How do I reach them? Do they know I'm performing nearby next month? How can I tell them I have a new album coming out?
They can look you up if they like your performance on the radio. If they like it, they can look you up and probably subscribe to your RSS feed with all your new updates. If they are not doing so, they don't like you and your songs. Duh.
They don't expect people to give insightful answers while sitting on a couch and holding a gamepad which was used to shoot people's heads off probably just an hour ago, do they? This, and probably just a dash of the good ol' American ignorance.
I want to say that your post was very enlightening to me (I'm a self-learner). Until now I did not know about the pitch accent in Japanese and thought that it was impossible to distinguish words written the same way in Kana if they were taken out of context. Getting the right word from the context doesn't seem to be this hard from the first glance, actually, since most words with the same writing have very different meanings and can be distinguished by analysing n-gram frequencies or using other similar techniques.
Yes, and IMO this is pretty much the reason for such high penalties. Every now and then when someone gets actually caught it makes a sensation in the news.
Allowances were replaced with cash payments which do not keep pace with now unregulated prices.
Having a capitalist society, even a corrupted one, does not necesserily mean that pensions and other social payments are not adapted to the cost of living. I don't have exact data, but once in a year or two they give pensions a little nudge to keep up with the prices. You don't want the potential voters die from famine or illnesses. They give a significant (20%? 30%?) increase before major elections. Generally speaking, among the pensioners I know (a rather modest amount, though) more and more of them approve of Putin's reign openly, partially because of biased news and shows, partially because of fear to lose the little privileges they now have. I don't know about other ex-soviet countries, though, but imagine something like this happens in most of them.
Does the government still guarantee to give everyone work?
I am not familiar with the law, but there are so-called employment/occupation centres (centry zanyatosti) which offer simple work I wrote about earlier, usually as low-grade social or municipal workers, i.e. government-regulated jobs. I have never heard of a case that people cannot find any job at all. To get a well-paying job without a good employment history or connections may be tough, but something that will get you money for rent and bread seems to be offered everywhere.
And yet sometimes shortages do occur in a capitalist society.
Nothing is ideal and corruption will alway exist to some degree in any human society, however, the difference between USSR and Russia for the lower/middle class is huge. Just googling "USSR queues" seems to give a good impression of the desperation people were in.
So, for example, all pension rights and right to employment were preserved, with availability guaranteeing affordability?
My anecdotal evidence suggests that pensioners have always had tough time. Right now the minimum pension is 290 usd. This is a small sum, but it is enough to pay the rent, water and electricity, simple food and occasional expenses like new clothing or replacing a broken TV set. Medicare is free and medicine (though usually simple and not the most efficient) are also free. This is miserable, but bearable existence. This is pretty much the same that was before, though more monetised. I have no understaning of the right to work, but the unemployment rate right now is roughly 6%, this is almost two times less than the EU. The unemplyment money is almost nonexistent, but some simple vacations like a caretaker or a social worker are always open and the government is making sure you can get at least _some_ employment. If you are sick and cannot work, you get disability tuition, but it is as small as the pension. Again, this is miserable, but not different from the soviet times.
Can people really hear about what's going on in Russia without a "curtain of secrecy"?
I was referring to non-governmental affairs. The governement is as secretive as it was before, but it cannot hide important events happening around the country thanks to the modern communication technologies. It can and it does paint it black and white as it finds more fitting in the news, but you do get to hear or read about stuff like strikes, crashes and arrest if you want to. If you don't, you have the option to watch one of the national channels and be brainwashed the same way as you were before. I agree that improvements in the freedom of speech are partially due to technology and not the collapse.
that was thanks to a combination of tech advances and cheap labour.
Are you informed about the problem with the centralized goods distribution in USSR? Technology was there, (at least some) people had the money, but the stores were empty since not enough electronics (not only electronics, but books and some food as well) were assigned to the region. This resulted in the notorious day-long queues and people desperately trying to get a job in the said chain just to share the distributed goods to their relatives. This is something that should never happen in a capitalist society.
As an addition to the post, I'll note that I described the situation in cities. The situation with villages and farms may be different (from my alien point of view it didn't change much after the collapse), but by the end of 80s the urban population was the majority (~75%).
You have no idea what you are talking about. The only two kinds of people I know that were in a more profitable condition back then were members of the government machine (an incredible amount of people, to be fair) and some scientists that received more funding for their expensive research (this is the reason in my understanding why many of them, especially the older ones, support the Communist party nowadays). I certainly am not saying that every other person got better after the collapse, but everyone I know in several cities spread around the ex-USSR did (except for Grozny which was reportedly a very prosperous and beautiful city several decades ago, but it seems to be an exception and not directly related to the collapse). Since the collaps people got an ability to move around the globe, people can now hear about all disasters happening in their country without the curtain of secrecy, people can go in a store and buy books, electronics and meat for affordable prices and there is no shortage in their supply. Not saying all this is the merit of the current government, but it indeed appears to be the result of destroying the old system.
The main problem is that direct translations of terminology at Kickstarter, such as 'bounty' and 'support,' are interpreted to mean collecting money without giving anything back, and this kind of operation requires a permit which can be only given to associations, not to private persons.
Does this mean people in Finland cannot also accept donations for projects they are working on since this is technically the same "giving money for nothing in return" issue?
> it is a data center, not, you know, a single server The "server" is certainly a typo, as you should have guessed. Certain people like me have coherence problems expressing their thoughts and cannot live without an edit button.
> "Latin America" designation was chosen because its more significant The whole issue is debatable, my personal opinion is that the main reason Google wants to have servers in South America is to improve the latency for people living there and take some load off international cables. Both of these goals cannot be achieved from Mexico or other Latin American countries not physically located in South America.
The headline sounds as if Google was interested in the national language of the country rather than the geographical location, IT infrastracture, maintenance cost and other country (but not language!) dependent factors. One would think that Guyana or Suriname were also out of question because of this. Why not call it the first South American server instead since it is located, you know, in South America?
With every news flash about yet another cyber attack on their nuclear facilities I wonder why they are plugged to the Internet in the first place. They are few, they are located nearby, and their research is of the highest priority for Iran. Is it so costy for them to create a single-purpose government-maintained isolated local network that would solve all their problems?
One of the two hackers' names the author "uncovers" is Vasily Ivanovich Petrov which is basically one of many possible variations of John Doe in Russian. While there is a possibility for someone to be named this way (in fact, Wikipedia has an article on one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Ivanovich_Petrov), it seems highly doubtful that is the person's real name.
Provided Google has a worldwide VPN, which it almost certainly does, the data packets could originate from its Kenyan or Indian branch, go through VPN to Google CA, leave their private network there and come back to Kenya.
In Russian "hamster" is an internet slang word for a "mindless, unwary and predictable consumer of popular novelty items", a "lemming". Definitely not the kind of name people would trust (as long they know what it means)!
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If your coworker is actually really smart and experienced, maybe he has a good reason to do things his way and you're just not seeing it? Maybe he could explain that reason behind his naming convention and avoiding certain features and it would make more sense? I had a couple of interesting talks on similar topics with older programmers in our team (I'm a newbie) where they actually convinced me on most points why their style and policy to avoid certiain "fancy" language features and practices was more error-prone and readable after a while of working on the project.
Let us now hope that no ponzi scheme was involved and they've got enough funds to make and ship normal consoles as well by the schedule.
Apart from getting rid of obsolete code, you also get rid of an additional target architecture that could potentially reveal certain bugs and implicit assumptions in the platform-independent part of the kernel that do not fire up on other architectures. That said, I have virtually no experience with the kernel and I have no idea whether this argument makes any bit of sense with the code in question.
More recently, she's been peeling away the onion that is the Anonymous movement
spent three years studying the community that builds the Debian GNU/Linux open source operating system
Yet she still does not understand the difference?
Also, although RSS is awesome, it's a really crappy medium for listening to music
I have no idea what you are talking about. If you liked an artist's performance, you can google their site where you can find out where to buy their music (or donate) and subscribe to all the latest news (RSS, email). This is all I was saying. The radio played your song and gave your name, this is all that is needed to the listener to reach you. You can ask the radio station to provide a direct link to your site, but this is as far as common sense goes in terms of shoving your name into listeners' throats.
she never plans one in your area because she had no idea that people in Podunk, Vermont are dying to see her perform live
Valid argument. However, there is absolutely no need for forcing radio station to do this. People will write you mails asking if you will be performing in their town. You can create a form for people interested in your performance on your site asking them to provide their location. You can gather information from your official forum if you set one. If you are too much of a stalker, you can track visitors' IPs on your site and see places where you are popular the most. Heck, there are lots of ways of collecting this data, and none of them involves stalking people who don't care about you and your music and just happened to listen to the radio when your song was playing.
How do I reach them? Do they know I'm performing nearby next month? How can I tell them I have a new album coming out?
They can look you up if they like your performance on the radio. If they like it, they can look you up and probably subscribe to your RSS feed with all your new updates. If they are not doing so, they don't like you and your songs. Duh.
Perhaps their popularity and content quality are the main reason of their crisis, not the business model?
They don't expect people to give insightful answers while sitting on a couch and holding a gamepad which was used to shoot people's heads off probably just an hour ago, do they? This, and probably just a dash of the good ol' American ignorance.
I want to say that your post was very enlightening to me (I'm a self-learner). Until now I did not know about the pitch accent in Japanese and thought that it was impossible to distinguish words written the same way in Kana if they were taken out of context. Getting the right word from the context doesn't seem to be this hard from the first glance, actually, since most words with the same writing have very different meanings and can be distinguished by analysing n-gram frequencies or using other similar techniques.
Deducing whether the code is safe or not based on the authors' nationality or background is just ridiculous.
Yes, and IMO this is pretty much the reason for such high penalties. Every now and then when someone gets actually caught it makes a sensation in the news.
The question is, how much can the hardware optimize the decoded RISC microcode? Or the optimization does not matter much at this point?
Allowances were replaced with cash payments which do not keep pace with now unregulated prices.
Having a capitalist society, even a corrupted one, does not necesserily mean that pensions and other social payments are not adapted to the cost of living. I don't have exact data, but once in a year or two they give pensions a little nudge to keep up with the prices. You don't want the potential voters die from famine or illnesses. They give a significant (20%? 30%?) increase before major elections. Generally speaking, among the pensioners I know (a rather modest amount, though) more and more of them approve of Putin's reign openly, partially because of biased news and shows, partially because of fear to lose the little privileges they now have. I don't know about other ex-soviet countries, though, but imagine something like this happens in most of them.
Does the government still guarantee to give everyone work?
I am not familiar with the law, but there are so-called employment/occupation centres (centry zanyatosti) which offer simple work I wrote about earlier, usually as low-grade social or municipal workers, i.e. government-regulated jobs. I have never heard of a case that people cannot find any job at all. To get a well-paying job without a good employment history or connections may be tough, but something that will get you money for rent and bread seems to be offered everywhere.
And yet sometimes shortages do occur in a capitalist society.
Nothing is ideal and corruption will alway exist to some degree in any human society, however, the difference between USSR and Russia for the lower/middle class is huge. Just googling "USSR queues" seems to give a good impression of the desperation people were in.
So, for example, all pension rights and right to employment were preserved, with availability guaranteeing affordability?
My anecdotal evidence suggests that pensioners have always had tough time. Right now the minimum pension is 290 usd. This is a small sum, but it is enough to pay the rent, water and electricity, simple food and occasional expenses like new clothing or replacing a broken TV set. Medicare is free and medicine (though usually simple and not the most efficient) are also free. This is miserable, but bearable existence. This is pretty much the same that was before, though more monetised.
I have no understaning of the right to work, but the unemployment rate right now is roughly 6%, this is almost two times less than the EU. The unemplyment money is almost nonexistent, but some simple vacations like a caretaker or a social worker are always open and the government is making sure you can get at least _some_ employment. If you are sick and cannot work, you get disability tuition, but it is as small as the pension. Again, this is miserable, but not different from the soviet times.
Can people really hear about what's going on in Russia without a "curtain of secrecy"?
I was referring to non-governmental affairs. The governement is as secretive as it was before, but it cannot hide important events happening around the country thanks to the modern communication technologies. It can and it does paint it black and white as it finds more fitting in the news, but you do get to hear or read about stuff like strikes, crashes and arrest if you want to. If you don't, you have the option to watch one of the national channels and be brainwashed the same way as you were before. I agree that improvements in the freedom of speech are partially due to technology and not the collapse.
that was thanks to a combination of tech advances and cheap labour.
Are you informed about the problem with the centralized goods distribution in USSR? Technology was there, (at least some) people had the money, but the stores were empty since not enough electronics (not only electronics, but books and some food as well) were assigned to the region. This resulted in the notorious day-long queues and people desperately trying to get a job in the said chain just to share the distributed goods to their relatives. This is something that should never happen in a capitalist society.
As an addition to the post, I'll note that I described the situation in cities. The situation with villages and farms may be different (from my alien point of view it didn't change much after the collapse), but by the end of 80s the urban population was the majority (~75%).
You have no idea what you are talking about. The only two kinds of people I know that were in a more profitable condition back then were members of the government machine (an incredible amount of people, to be fair) and some scientists that received more funding for their expensive research (this is the reason in my understanding why many of them, especially the older ones, support the Communist party nowadays). I certainly am not saying that every other person got better after the collapse, but everyone I know in several cities spread around the ex-USSR did (except for Grozny which was reportedly a very prosperous and beautiful city several decades ago, but it seems to be an exception and not directly related to the collapse). Since the collaps people got an ability to move around the globe, people can now hear about all disasters happening in their country without the curtain of secrecy, people can go in a store and buy books, electronics and meat for affordable prices and there is no shortage in their supply. Not saying all this is the merit of the current government, but it indeed appears to be the result of destroying the old system.
The main problem is that direct translations of terminology at Kickstarter, such as 'bounty' and 'support,' are interpreted to mean collecting money without giving anything back, and this kind of operation requires a permit which can be only given to associations, not to private persons.
Does this mean people in Finland cannot also accept donations for projects they are working on since this is technically the same "giving money for nothing in return" issue?
> it is a data center, not, you know, a single server
The "server" is certainly a typo, as you should have guessed. Certain people like me have coherence problems expressing their thoughts and cannot live without an edit button.
> "Latin America" designation was chosen because its more significant
The whole issue is debatable, my personal opinion is that the main reason Google wants to have servers in South America is to improve the latency for people living there and take some load off international cables. Both of these goals cannot be achieved from Mexico or other Latin American countries not physically located in South America.
The headline sounds as if Google was interested in the national language of the country rather than the geographical location, IT infrastracture, maintenance cost and other country (but not language!) dependent factors. One would think that Guyana or Suriname were also out of question because of this. Why not call it the first South American server instead since it is located, you know, in South America?
With every news flash about yet another cyber attack on their nuclear facilities I wonder why they are plugged to the Internet in the first place. They are few, they are located nearby, and their research is of the highest priority for Iran. Is it so costy for them to create a single-purpose government-maintained isolated local network that would solve all their problems?
Naturally, all blame should go to piracy and insufficient copy protection.
One of the two hackers' names the author "uncovers" is Vasily Ivanovich Petrov which is basically one of many possible variations of John Doe in Russian. While there is a possibility for someone to be named this way (in fact, Wikipedia has an article on one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Ivanovich_Petrov), it seems highly doubtful that is the person's real name.
Provided Google has a worldwide VPN, which it almost certainly does, the data packets could originate from its Kenyan or Indian branch, go through VPN to Google CA, leave their private network there and come back to Kenya.
In Russian "hamster" is an internet slang word for a "mindless, unwary and predictable consumer of popular novelty items", a "lemming". Definitely not the kind of name people would trust (as long they know what it means)!