Why would it matter if "credentials" were accurate, if the information provided by said person(s) was accurate and worthwhile?
It is fallacious to assume that wikipedia's administrators and its general userbase have the ability to determine if information pertaining to a highly-specialized or complex subject is accurate or not.
Since that is impossible, the next best thing is to rely on experts on these subjects to make those determinations. Experts typically have strong motivation to be honest because they have academic reputations which they don't want to ruin.
Yes it isn't perfect. Nothing is. It's the best available option. If you want to sit on your hands until a perfect solution comes around... well... they will go numb and eventually begin to rot. Then the infection will spread, you will die, and I won't have to explain obvious things like this to you on slashdot anymore.
No, you stop this. Who the hell are you to redefine kilo to mean 2^10? It has ALWAYS meant 10^3--since long before there existed a word which meant 2^10. Now we have a word which means 1024 (kibi) and we still have a word that means 1000 (kilo), so we can stop all this ambiguous bullshit and just use precise, clear terminology.
So PLEASE, stop trying to redefine kilo to mean 1024!
It isn't a problem. For Linux. With minor modifications.
If you put/tmp,/var, and swap on a different disk or RAM disk, then you mount it with the "noatime" attribute (to stop disk writes on every file read), you can have a Linux machine boot from flash just fine. I imagine Apple can make similar modifications to their OS.
I've been running several servers off of flash drives for about six months, and they are all working beautifully.
Windows, on the other hand, would blow a flash drive quickly due to all the registry bullshit, and due to its inflexible design.
Solid-state computers are going to be Unix-based for at least the next 10 years. Microsoft is always late to the game where new technology is concerned.
A bet on what? Your supposition that ANY NUMBER of people with a passion and skill for equestrian work could find lucrative careers? I make no argument against the idea that there are some number of jobs for horse-lovers. You seem to think there is an infinite number. That's moronic.
That's so laughable that no empirical evidence is required. There are far more brilliant people with a passion for space travel than any conceivable economic theory could support.
Additionally, there are far more athletically-talented children who wish to be NBA or NFL stars than the rest of the US would be willing to fund.
No, your childish and stupid ideas on economics are not supported by reality. This is concretely evidenced by the fact that the world is not made up entirely of athletes, musicians, astronauts, professional gamers, and bikini inspectors.
Stop spreading your stupidity. Do what is best for the economy and for the children who look up to you: Advise them to consider practical career outlooks when choosing educational paths.
where in pay wise i've faired much better. long story short for what you have to do to get what your paid its not worth it. not to mention the unpaid overtime... bringing papers home to correct, lesson plans. etc.
Dear god--it's good you didn't go into teaching. Your students wouldn't respect you, because your writing skills are far below those of the average high school student. How could kids learn from you if they can't see past the flood of errors in what you write?
Honestly, I think we go about teaching incorrectly. The federal government should hire, say, the 500 best teachers in the country to spend two years writing text books and curricula wiki-style. They should open those texts to public criticism for a year or so. Then we should make the courses, texts, and tests available to every citizen for free over the internet.
Later, expand the program to include basic training for common careers. Hire economists to produce and publish salary expectations for 20-year periods.
We could turn the USA into the greatest service-based economy in the world with only a few billion invested. In doing so, we wouldn't have to choose between hiring far-below-average teachers or paying huge taxes to fund public education. We would have an informed marketplace of skills, and would have the full benefits of "The Market" driving our school system.
Everyone wins, except for the unqualified people (like the parent poster) who think they would be good at teaching.
Taxpayers just won't pay what is required to have qualified people teaching our students at the current 30:1 student:teacher ratio. We need to take advantage of economy of scale, and put information technology to work to bring the best teachers to every student!
You are lucky all your servers use DHCP, you have no static routing on any of your devices, and nobody has ever hardcoded an IP address anywhere. Extremely lucky.
And "agree with me or you are insane" does not an argument make. If every machine on your network has an Internet address, and you use your firewall to stop all incoming flows, you have the EXACT SAME security NAT would bring you without the added hassle, complexity, and limitations of NAT.
Keep it simple without compromising in security. Or do you see some real difference in the security? Perhaps you could speculate as to how some attack would work against a properly firewalled network and not against a NAT network?
Any "professional" who spouts off opinion without reasoning to back it up (other than declaring others "insane") isn't very professional. I'm looking at you, Tony Hoyle.
Anything? About the only thing we can be sure of about absolute statements is that they are absolutely wrong.
You just can't make money doing things which have no economic value. Even if you love them, you're brilliant, and you're motivated. An economy can't run on astronauts and professional athletes.
Obviously, your dream was not to be an economist.
My cousin would probably have a much better career right now if she had GOOD career advice instead of foolish advice like yours.
You may get away with it for a while, but wait until your company merges with another company that uses the same private IP addresses. You'll change your mind quickly.
Globally-unique addresses should be used on anything that interacts with the internet. Anything else is a cheap hack that will bite you in the ass eventually.
I realize that some are forced to NAT because IP4 sucks. But to choose NAT for "security" reasons when real addresses are an option is, well, ignorant.
In the course of my CSEng. degree, I attended several lectures on principles software engineering. These were taught by an industry man, not an academic. His thesis is that complexity should be avoided like the plague because they could not be reliably analyzed. Even if complexity provided certain levels of performance improvement, it should be avoided.
Recursion is the antithesis of this philosophy. I haven't used it since my sophomore year CIS courses. I think I'm a decent software engineer, but writing recursive functions is foggy in my memory.
Additionally, for most apps today, fixing data structures or database use will make performance improvements that totally dwarf O(1) performance improvements gained from recursifying your loops. Data management, not CPU time, is what costs these days!
I think I could do it after stopping and thinking for quite a while (hm... first decide on the exit conditions, then for a simple case, then generalize...) but I know I could have answered such a question better while I was still in school. And I'm a lot more valuable and skilled as a software engineer today that I was when I was 19 years old.
That is why I think your question selects AGAINST talent.
So, because I would stumble in writing a recursive function, you still don't think I would make it past your technical interview?
You specifically didn't advise my cousin. You are just one of many people spreading the TERRIBLE career advice "do what you love." It's wrong. It's a meme I would like to kill. So stop spreading it.
The rest of your post (about the mirror) is incoherent. I would respond, but I don't even know what it means.
A smart college kid would choose a career based on what they love to do, rather than on money,
You fail at reality!!
Seriously. Stay away from kids and never give advice again.
Good advice would be "among professions which have good career outlooks, select the one you like the most."
Your idiot advice is why my cousin (who loves horses) now has a B.S. in Equestrian Studies and makes MINIMUM FUCKING WAGE cleaning horse shit. It is because of out-of-touch twits like you that her poverty forced her to move back in with her parents in her mid-thirties for doing what she loved. Piss off.
You have got to be kidding me. A recursive function? That's what you look for in a candidate?
I would probably laugh at you and leave the interview. There are almost ZERO good uses of recursion. People who use it are usually trying to make a simple problem overly complex. A company that looks for a sharpened sense of idiocy is a terrible place to work.
TB is killing people all over Africa, and Google wants to see it swapped around our schools, too?!? I knew those liberal, heathen, California commies would be the downfall of this great nation!
Stupid things from Turkey? How about having an anti-science culture that actually demonizes Darwin? That crap isn't government policy, but it's hard to imagine such ignorant ideas becoming widespread if the government provided adequate public education.
I give you my personal guarantee that the pleasure you would derive from DONATING $100k to relieve poverty and injustice in the world would FAR surpass the pleasure you get from looking at a piece of cloth in a glass case.*
* I realize this collector expects his purchase to maintain value, so it isn't exactly the same; but if he is looking to invest rationally, he would be putting his money into something other than stage props.
There is a big difference between an executive branch overstepping its legal authority and denying citizens freedom (as we have seen in the US), and having citizens' freedom denied by constitutional law as we see in western europe.
The former violation of freedom can usually be corrected via the judicial system, while the latter is much much MUCH harder to reverse.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm not following... why do I care what strangers on the internet think of my cousin?
How old are you?
Subtle, yet hilarious. I applaud you, sir.
Since that is impossible, the next best thing is to rely on experts on these subjects to make those determinations. Experts typically have strong motivation to be honest because they have academic reputations which they don't want to ruin.
Yes it isn't perfect. Nothing is. It's the best available option. If you want to sit on your hands until a perfect solution comes around... well... they will go numb and eventually begin to rot. Then the infection will spread, you will die, and I won't have to explain obvious things like this to you on slashdot anymore.
So PLEASE, stop trying to redefine kilo to mean 1024!
It isn't a problem. For Linux. With minor modifications.
/tmp, /var, and swap on a different disk or RAM disk, then you mount it with the "noatime" attribute (to stop disk writes on every file read), you can have a Linux machine boot from flash just fine. I imagine Apple can make similar modifications to their OS.
If you put
I've been running several servers off of flash drives for about six months, and they are all working beautifully.
Windows, on the other hand, would blow a flash drive quickly due to all the registry bullshit, and due to its inflexible design.
Solid-state computers are going to be Unix-based for at least the next 10 years. Microsoft is always late to the game where new technology is concerned.
There are a lot of things that kill cancer cells. It's finding the things that kill exclusively cancer cells that's the hard part.
A bet on what? Your supposition that ANY NUMBER of people with a passion and skill for equestrian work could find lucrative careers? I make no argument against the idea that there are some number of jobs for horse-lovers. You seem to think there is an infinite number. That's moronic.
That's so laughable that no empirical evidence is required. There are far more brilliant people with a passion for space travel than any conceivable economic theory could support.
Additionally, there are far more athletically-talented children who wish to be NBA or NFL stars than the rest of the US would be willing to fund.
No, your childish and stupid ideas on economics are not supported by reality. This is concretely evidenced by the fact that the world is not made up entirely of athletes, musicians, astronauts, professional gamers, and bikini inspectors.
Stop spreading your stupidity. Do what is best for the economy and for the children who look up to you: Advise them to consider practical career outlooks when choosing educational paths.
Dear god--it's good you didn't go into teaching. Your students wouldn't respect you, because your writing skills are far below those of the average high school student. How could kids learn from you if they can't see past the flood of errors in what you write?
Honestly, I think we go about teaching incorrectly. The federal government should hire, say, the 500 best teachers in the country to spend two years writing text books and curricula wiki-style. They should open those texts to public criticism for a year or so. Then we should make the courses, texts, and tests available to every citizen for free over the internet.
Later, expand the program to include basic training for common careers. Hire economists to produce and publish salary expectations for 20-year periods.
We could turn the USA into the greatest service-based economy in the world with only a few billion invested. In doing so, we wouldn't have to choose between hiring far-below-average teachers or paying huge taxes to fund public education. We would have an informed marketplace of skills, and would have the full benefits of "The Market" driving our school system.
Everyone wins, except for the unqualified people (like the parent poster) who think they would be good at teaching.
Taxpayers just won't pay what is required to have qualified people teaching our students at the current 30:1 student:teacher ratio. We need to take advantage of economy of scale, and put information technology to work to bring the best teachers to every student!
You are lucky all your servers use DHCP, you have no static routing on any of your devices, and nobody has ever hardcoded an IP address anywhere. Extremely lucky.
And "agree with me or you are insane" does not an argument make. If every machine on your network has an Internet address, and you use your firewall to stop all incoming flows, you have the EXACT SAME security NAT would bring you without the added hassle, complexity, and limitations of NAT.
Keep it simple without compromising in security. Or do you see some real difference in the security? Perhaps you could speculate as to how some attack would work against a properly firewalled network and not against a NAT network?
Any "professional" who spouts off opinion without reasoning to back it up (other than declaring others "insane") isn't very professional. I'm looking at you, Tony Hoyle.
Anything? About the only thing we can be sure of about absolute statements is that they are absolutely wrong.
You just can't make money doing things which have no economic value. Even if you love them, you're brilliant, and you're motivated. An economy can't run on astronauts and professional athletes.
Obviously, your dream was not to be an economist.
My cousin would probably have a much better career right now if she had GOOD career advice instead of foolish advice like yours.
No, NAT is NOT fine!
You may get away with it for a while, but wait until your company merges with another company that uses the same private IP addresses. You'll change your mind quickly.
Globally-unique addresses should be used on anything that interacts with the internet. Anything else is a cheap hack that will bite you in the ass eventually.
I realize that some are forced to NAT because IP4 sucks. But to choose NAT for "security" reasons when real addresses are an option is, well, ignorant.
If you don't want someone to be able to initiate connections to you, you use a firewall. NAT is the wrong tool for the job.
So you are still under the misconception that it is possible to make money in anything, so long as you don't "suck" and you love it.
That must be why we are all astronauts. How does the view of the earth look from your ship, LibertineR?
In the course of my CSEng. degree, I attended several lectures on principles software engineering. These were taught by an industry man, not an academic. His thesis is that complexity should be avoided like the plague because they could not be reliably analyzed. Even if complexity provided certain levels of performance improvement, it should be avoided.
Recursion is the antithesis of this philosophy. I haven't used it since my sophomore year CIS courses. I think I'm a decent software engineer, but writing recursive functions is foggy in my memory.
Additionally, for most apps today, fixing data structures or database use will make performance improvements that totally dwarf O(1) performance improvements gained from recursifying your loops. Data management, not CPU time, is what costs these days!
I think I could do it after stopping and thinking for quite a while (hm... first decide on the exit conditions, then for a simple case, then generalize...) but I know I could have answered such a question better while I was still in school. And I'm a lot more valuable and skilled as a software engineer today that I was when I was 19 years old.
That is why I think your question selects AGAINST talent.
So, because I would stumble in writing a recursive function, you still don't think I would make it past your technical interview?
You specifically didn't advise my cousin. You are just one of many people spreading the TERRIBLE career advice "do what you love." It's wrong. It's a meme I would like to kill. So stop spreading it.
The rest of your post (about the mirror) is incoherent. I would respond, but I don't even know what it means.
You fail at reality!!
Seriously. Stay away from kids and never give advice again.
Good advice would be "among professions which have good career outlooks, select the one you like the most."
Your idiot advice is why my cousin (who loves horses) now has a B.S. in Equestrian Studies and makes MINIMUM FUCKING WAGE cleaning horse shit. It is because of out-of-touch twits like you that her poverty forced her to move back in with her parents in her mid-thirties for doing what she loved. Piss off.
You have got to be kidding me. A recursive function? That's what you look for in a candidate?
I would probably laugh at you and leave the interview. There are almost ZERO good uses of recursion. People who use it are usually trying to make a simple problem overly complex. A company that looks for a sharpened sense of idiocy is a terrible place to work.
TB is killing people all over Africa, and Google wants to see it swapped around our schools, too?!? I knew those liberal, heathen, California commies would be the downfall of this great nation!
It's anthropomorphizm run amuck!
Stupid things from Turkey? How about having an anti-science culture that actually demonizes Darwin? That crap isn't government policy, but it's hard to imagine such ignorant ideas becoming widespread if the government provided adequate public education.
Dear Collectors of the World,
I give you my personal guarantee that the pleasure you would derive from DONATING $100k to relieve poverty and injustice in the world would FAR surpass the pleasure you get from looking at a piece of cloth in a glass case.*
* I realize this collector expects his purchase to maintain value, so it isn't exactly the same; but if he is looking to invest rationally, he would be putting his money into something other than stage props.
Using bold in a sig is bad form.
There is a big difference between an executive branch overstepping its legal authority and denying citizens freedom (as we have seen in the US), and having citizens' freedom denied by constitutional law as we see in western europe.
The former violation of freedom can usually be corrected via the judicial system, while the latter is much much MUCH harder to reverse.
Press freedom is not the same as citizen freedom. You are confusing the two.
Also, you don't seem to know what "jingoism" means.
And finally, I typically ignore cowards. You only get a response because you managed to hook some positive moderations.