Let your shitty employees go. Not so hard really. 2/mo salary, fine, cut your losses, and cut your dead weight.
Risks can be mitigated. Basic basic risk investment; you can try 6 employees for two months throughout a years, one of which should prove to be at least 6 times more productive than all the others. In two months at 6x productivity, that employee will already have produced a man-years worth the next guy's work.
I suggest companies take grads who think they're the shit, offer them two months trial at reduced pay and hope pray you can be disruptive and dynamic enough to keep them interested.
Thats the real killer. But I see you see that; "or someone who finds out your job isn't really what he wants to do for the next 5 years." Most people who start startups do it because they'd rather commit sepuko than deal with being forced to continue doing such useless unproductive work on your ass ugly product. Finding smart kids is not hard, keeping us busy is a lot harder to do. Most companies cannot deal with disruptive players.
Prevayler is useful as an object store, thats about it. As a database, it fails pretty miserably, but I dont think anyone had pretentions of it ever being a database.
There's a very easy way to see that prevayler is not a db: prevyalerworks by loading the entire db into memory. This is the exact purposeo f a db, to hold data which cannot fit into memory and still perform queries on it.
If you just want an easy way to store your objects, prevayler aint half bad. Its very useful for saving state.
whats to keep the programmer from backdooring some way to alte the modification date of the file? or even just to keep the accountant from changing the date of the system clock?
time-authenticity is one of the greatest problems remaining in the world.
Super Metroid was more intense for me than Doom, and I was pretty damned young when I got into the Doom. Super Metroid was either 93 or 94, hell, Quake was already on the radar, Duke Nukem must've already been out.
That game was just so.... nerve wracking. You never knew when you were going to walk into a room where you were going to/need/ full life. The music definately added to the effect. The whole game had the spook-out atmosphere down.
I had to stop playing for a month after getting to the ghost ship area. Just too much.
the main point is eventually we will have to trust ourselves as root; whether we're running SELinux or CAS (Code Access Security). security must be managed, not just locked away.
its my understanding that throat mounted bone induction systems more acurately portray what you would sound like and can register fainter signals; down to the level of letting you subvocalize. i do not believe subvocalization is possible with ear mount bone-induction mics.
aircraft pilots have been using bone-induction mic's since WWII; there's no other way to block out the background noise. this is interesting because it reads from the nervous system directly
are there any good bone-induction mics for cell phone / portable usage? i spent a while looking a couple years back and turned up two things, both of which were ear-mounted. i'd much rather a throat mounted system; i imagine its much better able to pick up sound.
the biggest problems with so called "visual" languages is that more often than not they are simply ways of expressing the same code in new ways. merely being visual does not make coding easier. we need new metaphors, new tools, not the same tools in new form to actually gain benefits.
this is highly analog to the advent of the motion picture & television. originally television was little more than radio plays with people. it wasnt until multiple camera's began to be used that people realized the new medium allowed for new ways of telling stories, new forms of entertaining.
the best technologies are without advantage if used exactly like what they replace.
i wake up every morning and just want to cry myself back to sleep because my BP6 is dead. that was one of the best machines i have ever owned. this dual channel athlon 2100+ is nothing compared to the godliness my blazing fast dual 650 mhz of celerons was. i still consider going home and stealing the OTHER bp6 back from my parents.
you got it all wrong you see; the tasks may be slower but the responsiveness is through the roof. dual cpu's is about one thing; responsiveness.
debian's package management system includes the ability to pin. that is, to attach various repositories/package trees of varying distributions with varying priorities. all my systems start stable and quickly recieve a good number of testing grade packages. because of dependancies, this means my system is usually ~50/50 stable/testing. i then usually add some non-system-metal stuff from unstable like KDE, gnome, & staroffice.
i also have a long list of external package repositories from apt-get.org. some of my systems also track ubuntu packages as well. i run ubuntu's Xorg package set on my laptop (better acceleration, maybe one day working Xorg Suspend-To-Ram on my ancient ATI mobility ). it works perfectly transparently, including xcompmgr & all.
the nice thing about debian is it lets you mix and match very easily while resolving all dependencies very nicely & very cleanly. also, you can set up your own repository very easily to take a sample collection of packages from kingdom-come and mirror it so it looks like a somewhat cohesive single repository. with apt-build coming along nicely, you can even cleanly and efficiently maintain your own patched versions of packages as they evolve, making it easier to recompile all your programs for Heimdal kerberos instead of MIT, for classic example.
who gives a rat about stable? just pin what you need. debian distro is really about empowering the user to whatever ends with the most direct simplicity. distros like ubuntu are there for those who just want a single clean complete desktop distro.
This is so back-asswards its almost funny. First off, and FYI, AD is LDAP+Kerberos. "It has nothing to do with LDAP in general"
MS domination of the desktop is because of services like Active Directory, not the other way around. Windows would be nowhere if evolution ended at shared folders. You yourself state "In order to have a well managed windows based network you need AD," which is exactly my point. To have a well managed network you need directory services. No directory services, no prayer, no desktop domination.
Which brings me back to my point; its a joke to think of people trying to promote Linux to buisness or consumers when there's no directory services and no docs for how design them should you be dumb enough to try building them yourself. There's docs for how to build them (as in,./configure, make, make install + some conf file help), but no good books for some of the most important subjects in the world: how to architect a solution with these tools. I've found nothing good which takes you from there "here's LDAP" stage to the building scalable enterpise ldap solutions stage.
the enterprise linux solution is really a complicated directory service, its just not powered by LDAP.
just look at the intersection between Active Directory and RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). they both provide many user and machine management directory services. sure, EL provides more system rollout stuff as well, but there is a directory service in there, even if its not called so.
i really hope redhat does something Good (v. evil) with their Netscape DS purchase. couple months ago we had a RHEL talk on campus, and they mentioned how excited they were about it. I still havent seen or heard anything.
I really think the absolute VOID of good practical LDAP books is why microsoft is winning.
If ldap had any documentation for how it would be used, there would be stunning amazing products to pound the living tar out of Active Directory. Unfortunately for free software and whatever author-should-be that never decided to get rich, no one has stepped up to the plate.
There is no more pressing need. Period. At all. Directory services are absolutely vital to absolutely everyone.
I've been pissed off over this for years. I got the whole LDAP+Kerberos+PAM+every service known to man thing working but could not for the life of me figure out how to build an ldap infrastructure to manage it. Albiet I was so tired of the whole project by the time I got there I didnt have much patience (and all too many other projects).
Basically RedHat and Novell exist based on making people pay for their proprietary directory services. I realize cutting them out could be concieved of as a bad thing, but I'm sure they can adapt. On the other hand, Microsoft will finally have gained a sincere challenger.
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Let your shitty employees go.
Not so hard really. 2/mo salary, fine, cut your losses, and cut your dead weight.
Risks can be mitigated. Basic basic risk investment; you can try 6 employees for two months throughout a years, one of which should prove to be at least 6 times more productive than all the others. In two months at 6x productivity, that employee will already have produced a man-years worth the next guy's work.
I suggest companies take grads who think they're the shit, offer them two months trial at reduced pay and hope pray you can be disruptive and dynamic enough to keep them interested.
Thats the real killer. But I see you see that; "or someone who finds out your job isn't really what he wants to do for the next 5 years." Most people who start startups do it because they'd rather commit sepuko than deal with being forced to continue doing such useless unproductive work on your ass ugly product. Finding smart kids is not hard, keeping us busy is a lot harder to do. Most companies cannot deal with disruptive players.
Myren
Graham has a great point, but ultimately one that is not sustainably; buisnesses cannot afford to let startups be the only disruptive players.
Prevayler is useful as an object store, thats about it. As a database, it fails pretty miserably, but I dont think anyone had pretentions of it ever being a database.
There's a very easy way to see that prevayler is not a db: prevyalerworks by loading the entire db into memory. This is the exact purposeo f a db, to hold data which cannot fit into memory and still perform queries on it.
If you just want an easy way to store your objects, prevayler aint half bad. Its very useful for saving state.
Myren
whats to keep the programmer from backdooring some way to alte the modification date of the file? or even just to keep the accountant from changing the date of the system clock?
time-authenticity is one of the greatest problems remaining in the world.
"Do we evolve the file system into a database (Reiser approach) or evolve a database into a file system (Microsoft WinFS approach)?"
The answer is strikingly similar for both cases; we read a press release 4-15 years ahead of time and begin waiting...
Still waiting.
In the meanwhile, FUSE is available for those wishing to play around with the existing FS.
Myren
i cried when i read aneutronic fusion is unworkable.
goes to show, no magic bullets.
in related news, NoMachine's NX just hit version 1.5 (release with link to download).
Badass X proxy for remote X. Desktop over 56k? Sure.
Rootless mode got a lot of attension in 1.5. Still some major problems, but much better. Before you used to have to run it in a window.
Myren
Super Metroid was more intense for me than Doom, and I was pretty damned young when I got into the Doom. Super Metroid was either 93 or 94, hell, Quake was already on the radar, Duke Nukem must've already been out.
/need/ full life. The music definately added to the effect. The whole game had the spook-out atmosphere down.
That game was just so.... nerve wracking. You never knew when you were going to walk into a room where you were going to
I had to stop playing for a month after getting to the ghost ship area. Just too much.
Myren
the main point is eventually we will have to trust ourselves as root; whether we're running SELinux or CAS (Code Access Security). security must be managed, not just locked away.
its my understanding that throat mounted bone induction systems more acurately portray what you would sound like and can register fainter signals; down to the level of letting you subvocalize. i do not believe subvocalization is possible with ear mount bone-induction mics.
might i recommend either
the Sony MDR-EX71SL or
the Sennheiser MX500
both very fine pieces of earmount sound-reproducing systems. they seem to do the job very well.
aircraft pilots have been using bone-induction mic's since WWII; there's no other way to block out the background noise. this is interesting because it reads from the nervous system directly
are there any good bone-induction mics for cell phone / portable usage? i spent a while looking a couple years back and turned up two things, both of which were ear-mounted. i'd much rather a throat mounted system; i imagine its much better able to pick up sound.
the multiplayer was the most boring thing in the world. there were three missions, kill a gang of people, kill someone, kill someone for his stuff.
that was it. and trading.
very silly.
i ran a dedicated server for a year before realizing it was actually genuinely stupid.
single player might've had some value, maybe.
but then i'd have to be running emacs.... oohhh. :(
;)
and lord knows i dont want emacs getting anywhere near my actual vi. i like lisp, but not for my text editor.
Myren
they forgot to mention the other fallout: the one between the developers and the people who like text to appear as they type.
java is slow - John Carmack, Command Keen programmer.
the biggest problems with so called "visual" languages is that more often than not they are simply ways of expressing the same code in new ways. merely being visual does not make coding easier. we need new metaphors, new tools, not the same tools in new form to actually gain benefits.
this is highly analog to the advent of the motion picture & television. originally television was little more than radio plays with people. it wasnt until multiple camera's began to be used that people realized the new medium allowed for new ways of telling stories, new forms of entertaining.
the best technologies are without advantage if used exactly like what they replace.
Myren
whats Kismet mean? you found this info while wardriving?
amazingly they're often required to provide better service to their competitors than they do provide to their own customers. its quite hilarious.
The FCC doesnt care what you are sending or if you interfere. Your rights are of no concern to big media.
Presenting, The Cartoon Guide to Federal Spectrum Policy.
The first time i read it, it seemed like fluff. But its actually quite educational.
Myren
i wake up every morning and just want to cry myself back to sleep because my BP6 is dead. that was one of the best machines i have ever owned. this dual channel athlon 2100+ is nothing compared to the godliness my blazing fast dual 650 mhz of celerons was. i still consider going home and stealing the OTHER bp6 back from my parents.
you got it all wrong you see;
the tasks may be slower but the responsiveness is through the roof. dual cpu's is about one thing; responsiveness.
dual cpu or better for life baby
myren
debian's package management system includes the ability to pin. that is, to attach various repositories/package trees of varying distributions with varying priorities. all my systems start stable and quickly recieve a good number of testing grade packages. because of dependancies, this means my system is usually ~50/50 stable/testing. i then usually add some non-system-metal stuff from unstable like KDE, gnome, & staroffice.
i also have a long list of external package repositories from apt-get.org. some of my systems also track ubuntu packages as well. i run ubuntu's Xorg package set on my laptop (better acceleration, maybe one day working Xorg Suspend-To-Ram on my ancient ATI mobility ). it works perfectly transparently, including xcompmgr & all.
the nice thing about debian is it lets you mix and match very easily while resolving all dependencies very nicely & very cleanly. also, you can set up your own repository very easily to take a sample collection of packages from kingdom-come and mirror it so it looks like a somewhat cohesive single repository. with apt-build coming along nicely, you can even cleanly and efficiently maintain your own patched versions of packages as they evolve, making it easier to recompile all your programs for Heimdal kerberos instead of MIT, for classic example.
who gives a rat about stable? just pin what you need. debian distro is really about empowering the user to whatever ends with the most direct simplicity. distros like ubuntu are there for those who just want a single clean complete desktop distro.
Myren
i find its usually easier to spot 60hz from across the room. as my eyes move, the 60hz becomes very apparent.
if i'm sitting square in front of a monitor sometimes it'll be 5 minutes before i realize its at 60hz.
This is so back-asswards its almost funny.
./configure, make, make install + some conf file help), but no good books for some of the most important subjects in the world: how to architect a solution with these tools. I've found nothing good which takes you from there "here's LDAP" stage to the building scalable enterpise ldap solutions stage.
First off, and FYI, AD is LDAP+Kerberos. "It has nothing to do with LDAP in general"
MS domination of the desktop is because of services like Active Directory, not the other way around. Windows would be nowhere if evolution ended at shared folders. You yourself state "In order to have a well managed windows based network you need AD," which is exactly my point. To have a well managed network you need directory services. No directory services, no prayer, no desktop domination.
Which brings me back to my point; its a joke to think of people trying to promote Linux to buisness or consumers when there's no directory services and no docs for how design them should you be dumb enough to try building them yourself. There's docs for how to build them (as in,
Myren
the enterprise linux solution is really a complicated directory service, its just not powered by LDAP.
just look at the intersection between Active Directory and RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). they both provide many user and machine management directory services. sure, EL provides more system rollout stuff as well, but there is a directory service in there, even if its not called so.
i really hope redhat does something Good (v. evil) with their Netscape DS purchase. couple months ago we had a RHEL talk on campus, and they mentioned how excited they were about it. I still havent seen or heard anything.
Myren
I really think the absolute VOID of good practical LDAP books is why microsoft is winning.
If ldap had any documentation for how it would be used, there would be stunning amazing products to pound the living tar out of Active Directory. Unfortunately for free software and whatever author-should-be that never decided to get rich, no one has stepped up to the plate.
There is no more pressing need. Period. At all. Directory services are absolutely vital to absolutely everyone.
I've been pissed off over this for years. I got the whole LDAP+Kerberos+PAM+every service known to man thing working but could not for the life of me figure out how to build an ldap infrastructure to manage it. Albiet I was so tired of the whole project by the time I got there I didnt have much patience (and all too many other projects).
Basically RedHat and Novell exist based on making people pay for their proprietary directory services. I realize cutting them out could be concieved of as a bad thing, but I'm sure they can adapt. On the other hand, Microsoft will finally have gained a sincere challenger.
Myren