We call those "hundreds." We have scrum at 11pm to make sure everyone stays late. I will have been in the industry for 30 years as of December, and everywhere I've worked has ended-up like this. I haven't had a full week off since 1993. I've changed jobs several times to get away from this, but the new jobs always end-up like this. Nearly everywhere we've tried to hire more developers, but there's never enough. When you get so far behind, it's harder to hire people since they don't want to work that many hours which makes the problem worse. The startup I work for now has plenty of money in the bank, but we can't even get qualified people to submit resumes. The money is great since there's such a shortage, but I'd rather have my life back.
Why would you continue to work in such a job? I've been in the tech industry for nearly 30 years, mostly with startups, and am currently working for a small (but growing) startup. We're hiring tech staff as fast as we can, but can't fill positions fast enough. Yet we still have work-life balance, even working as much as a 60 hour week is rare, everyone is encouraged to use vacation, I've got 3 weeks off in 2 weeks. If you haven't taken a full week off since 1993, that's your own preference, you can't blame it on a job.
Why would it be good for the common man? Seriously, why? Right now I can get a cheap home loan. A cheap car loan. As long as inflation remains relatively low, it's in the interest of the common man for the interest rate to stay right as close to zero as possible.
Indirectly, low interest rates helps provide jobs, which is also good for the common man.
You might be able to get a cheap home loan, but that doesn't necessarily mean that you can get a cheap home. Lower interest means people can afford more house for the same payment, so home prices rise since people can bid more for houses.
Why do you automatically assume that "satellite" means latency? Only GEO has the latency problem. They could be using a LEO satellite constellation, in exchange for allowing the use of fixed antennas. Even Iridium is going that way, as they replace their whole constellation over the next few years with stuff that can do high-speed digital. (Iridium-classic is basically analog-voice-only.)
Because on my last trip on United, latency varied between 800ms at the lowest, up to 2100ms. Though bandwidth was pretty consistent at around 3mbit - 6mbit. Upstream bandwidth was a consistent.01mbit.
Of the several wifi hotspots I've used, you have to browse through a webpage, which includes 'terms and conditions', which tend to include a prohibition on using the free wifi for piracy.
Regardless, If I start a money laundering business, look the other way when people bring me stolen money, and then when the police come to bust me from profiting from stolen money, point to the contract and say "Well all of my customers promised not to launder stolen money so clearly it's not my fault that I earned all of this money from their stolen goods".
Of course it isn't Wifi that is causing the problem, but there are problems here. Taking up the court's time and spending money on the lawsuit is obviously not going to solve the real problem, but it's also obvious that the parents (at least) believe the problem is real.
Or imagine that the parents' intense believe that the problem is real is making the child manifest symptoms when otherwise he would not have any problem at all.
Show me where a licensed professional made a "EMHS syndrome" diagnosis.
From TFA:
The physician who diagnosed G, Dr. Jeanne Hubbuch, said in a letter to the school last year that EHS was the only possibility that explains the symptoms.
How can he be sensitive to Wifi, but not to the rest of the ubiquitous RF emissions that surround us all? Cellular signals, commercial radio+TV, microwave ovens, radar, etc.
I'm skeptical that even at SF's inflated real estate prices that floating servers on a boat is cheaper than a ground-based datacenter. Marine structures are expensive to build and maintain and they have to pass regular USCG inspections. For cooling they could rent a warehouse near the bay and pump the water in.
In a recent test, Nautilus says the water being returned to the bay was was just 4 degrees warmer than the intake temperature. Their design goal is to minimize the temperature differential to avoid any environmental impact. Having said that, the proof-of-concept test was with 5 racks of gear, rather than an 8 megawatt data center. They believe the design works, but it hasn't yet been tested at scale.
Without knowing the volume of water, "4 degrees" is meaningless. That's like saying "We run our servers at 60 volts instead of 120 volts, so they use half of the electricity.
Once you factor in things like government subsidies, solar make economic sense for almost everybody, no matter how small your budget. A 20 year pay off is still a 20 year pay off, period.
You have an interesting view of economics.
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My electric bill 2 years ago in August was $700, this year it was $500.
As do you if you think your electric bill 2 years ago demonstrates anything.
My electric bill 2 years ago in August was $70, this year it was $50 and I didn't even replace an air conditioner, so clearly you could have gotten the same payback by doing nothing.
If you don't like the working conditions then form your own business and work for yourself. It's that simple.
It's nice how complex problems have such simple answers. "If you don't like how much you pay in rent, then buy a house". "If you don't like your low pay, then get a job making more money". "If you can't hold down a job because your car keeps breaking down, then buy a new car".
There is already a the PVWatts calculator at on NREL's website. You input your location, the type and placement of the solar panels and it tells you how much power to expect based on local weather measurements. Since these are the people gathering the data, I can't imagine google's project does anything than access this same database.
http://pvwatts.nrel.gov/
The NREL site just looks at location and weather to estimate solar availability -- The Google site attempts to calculate usable roof area and take into account shading from nearby trees and other structures.
Annual insolation, even after considering weather, counts as a well-documented stat across the entire US. Why would they limit this to just a few key cities?.
I think it's because they do additional processing to take into account shadows and roof slopes to better estimate the viability of solar on a building. It pretty accurately shows the that north half of my roof is in shadow, and it captures the shadow from the large building to my south that hits part of my roof.
A 10 year prison sentence is a $500K tax on society for the cost of incarceration then hundreds of thousands of dollars more in public assistance after the infringer gets out of jail and can't find a job to support himself.
The oval shape of this thing wastes so much volume that could have been used for storage, shelves, cupboards etc. And the gull wing door is just begging to be ripped off its hinges or even risk tipping the house over in strong wind.
I'm sure it wouldn't look so showy if the "world's first ecocapsule" (which is totally not a caravan without wheels) had a more conventional shape but it would have been a lot more practical, and doubtless cheaper to build too.
I was wondering the same thing... Make it rectangular and give it more living/storage space. The oval shape is likely more energy effecient, so just add a bit more insulation to the rectangular one.
Surprise! When I attach a remote control device to your cars control systems, I can manipulate your car! From the article, they modified the in-car rig.... this isn't terribly surreptitious and questionable to call it a hack. They used the device to expected things in expected ways. That's what it's designed to do.
From the specs, the device in question has a gsm modem built in and is designed to accept command via that interface (SMS or TCP/IP) and a cpu that looks a lot like what's in a Raspberry PI / beagleboard. For the "hack" to work, you have to know the devices cellular address (yes Virginia, a GSM modem means it has a phone number/sim card or equivalent associated).
Wouldn't the hacker be expected to know the phone number of the GSM device he plugged into your car? It's not like someone is going around and plugging these devices in cars, just waiting for some hacker to stumble across the phone number. Someone that wants to target your car will plug it into your car, and they'll know the phone number of the device.
Doesn't work that way in the UK. "Named drivers" do not get told of anything, only the person taking out the insurance policy does.
"Named driver" is different than "additional insured", at least in the USA. Being additional insured means that you *are* notified about changes in the policy. I'd be very surprised if the UK doesn't have a similar concept even if it's called something different.
And even if Uber requires proof of commercial insurance from a driver in order to begin to drive for them, I can call up my insurance agent, get any insurance changes I need made and pay the premium over the phone, get paperwork sent to me to prove it, then call that agent up again a few days later and cancel the policy and get a refund sans the days that have already passed that I was covered for.
What a huge loophole, I'm surprised insurers and businesses they cover haven't found a way to prevent that.
Oh wait, they have. If Uber required that drivers obtain commercial insurance (individual policies are probably much more expensive than you think), they'd also require that Uber be listed as a Additional Insured on the policy, so they'll be notified if you cancel the policy.
She might have a point that there's no need for customers to do static code analysis or reverse engineering to look for vulnerabilities *if* the black hat hackers weren't able to do so with impunity since they have no moral qualms about violating license agreements.
I can believe that she's tired of vetting customer reported security bugs, especially when they are dupes of known bugs that Oracle is working on, but a bug is a bug and if they don't want to expose their bug tracker to customers to let them see what's being worked on, then they'll have to deal with duplicate reports. It's part of being a major software vendor.
In my state, we've been forced to buy auto liability insurance since, well...forever.
But *only* if you own a car and want to drive it on public roads. For health insurance, you are required to ether give money to corporations or pay a large tax just for breathing. That's a big difference.
Technically the tax isn't for everyday breathing, the tax is meant keep you breathing, and as a society we've chosen to keep people breathing even if they can't pay for it.
Find a way to opt out of guaranteed emergency healthcare, then you can opt out of paying for it. But it's unfair to say "I don't need no stinking health insurance!" knowing full well that if you are in a serious accident or contract an expensive disease that no one is going to let you die because you can't pay for it.
Maybe my 11 gallon gas tank just isn't big enough for significant savings,
Why such a huge petrol tank? The one in my car (well, the wife's car ; I try to avoid driving when at all possible, which is almost always) is about 5 gallons (a bit over 50 litres ; I'm not sure what the conversion factor is for our gallons and I know it's different for American gallons).
So is your tank 5 gallons (19 liters) or 50 liters? In any case, it's pretty hard to find a common production car in the USA with a tank much smaller than 11 gallons, even the two passenger Smart FourTwo has an 8.7 gallon tank, though it's not exactly a gas miser since other 4 passenger subcompacts get similar milage.
Such a huge fuel tank suggests that you've not made any substantial attempts at fuel economy previously. (My tank will carry me around 400 miles depending on speed. By which point I'm LONG over due for a coffee and piss stop.)
Your car gets 80 miles per gallon (400 miles per 5 gallon)? Or 8 miles per liter (400 miles per 50 liter)?
That makes more sense, I couldn't figure out how they were cooling 88 Xeon cores encased in epoxy inside a briefcase. Even the Atom's must pose cooling challenge, but not quite as much as Xeon's.
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We call those "hundreds." We have scrum at 11pm to make sure everyone stays late. I will have been in the industry for 30 years as of December, and everywhere I've worked has ended-up like this. I haven't had a full week off since 1993. I've changed jobs several times to get away from this, but the new jobs always end-up like this. Nearly everywhere we've tried to hire more developers, but there's never enough. When you get so far behind, it's harder to hire people since they don't want to work that many hours which makes the problem worse. The startup I work for now has plenty of money in the bank, but we can't even get qualified people to submit resumes. The money is great since there's such a shortage, but I'd rather have my life back.
Why would you continue to work in such a job? I've been in the tech industry for nearly 30 years, mostly with startups, and am currently working for a small (but growing) startup. We're hiring tech staff as fast as we can, but can't fill positions fast enough. Yet we still have work-life balance, even working as much as a 60 hour week is rare, everyone is encouraged to use vacation, I've got 3 weeks off in 2 weeks. If you haven't taken a full week off since 1993, that's your own preference, you can't blame it on a job.
Why would it be good for the common man? Seriously, why? Right now I can get a cheap home loan. A cheap car loan. As long as inflation remains relatively low, it's in the interest of the common man for the interest rate to stay right as close to zero as possible.
Indirectly, low interest rates helps provide jobs, which is also good for the common man.
You might be able to get a cheap home loan, but that doesn't necessarily mean that you can get a cheap home. Lower interest means people can afford more house for the same payment, so home prices rise since people can bid more for houses.
One would think that latency is much less of an issue when you are 9 km closer to the satellite, with nothing obstructing the Fresnel zone.
When the satellite is somewhere between 750km (for LEO) to 40,000km (for Geosynchronous), 9km doesn't make much difference.
Why do you automatically assume that "satellite" means latency? Only GEO has the latency problem. They could be using a LEO satellite constellation, in exchange for allowing the use of fixed antennas. Even Iridium is going that way, as they replace their whole constellation over the next few years with stuff that can do high-speed digital. (Iridium-classic is basically analog-voice-only.)
Because on my last trip on United, latency varied between 800ms at the lowest, up to 2100ms. Though bandwidth was pretty consistent at around 3mbit - 6mbit. Upstream bandwidth was a consistent .01mbit.
Makes interactive SSH sessions nearly impossible.
Of the several wifi hotspots I've used, you have to browse through a webpage, which includes 'terms and conditions', which tend to include a prohibition on using the free wifi for piracy.
Regardless, If I start a money laundering business, look the other way when people bring me stolen money, and then when the police come to bust me from profiting from stolen money, point to the contract and say "Well all of my customers promised not to launder stolen money so clearly it's not my fault that I earned all of this money from their stolen goods".
So when I browse Pirate Torrent sites at an AT&T hotspot, then AT&T can get sued for profiting from piracy?
Of course it isn't Wifi that is causing the problem, but there are problems here. Taking up the court's time and spending money on the lawsuit is obviously not going to solve the real problem, but it's also obvious that the parents (at least) believe the problem is real.
Or imagine that the parents' intense believe that the problem is real is making the child manifest symptoms when otherwise he would not have any problem at all.
Show me where a licensed professional made a "EMHS syndrome" diagnosis.
From TFA:
The physician who diagnosed G, Dr. Jeanne Hubbuch, said in a letter to the school last year that EHS was the only possibility that explains the symptoms.
How can he be sensitive to Wifi, but not to the rest of the ubiquitous RF emissions that surround us all? Cellular signals, commercial radio+TV, microwave ovens, radar, etc.
Sounds like he needs to move to The Town Without Wifi
I'm skeptical that even at SF's inflated real estate prices that floating servers on a boat is cheaper than a ground-based datacenter. Marine structures are expensive to build and maintain and they have to pass regular USCG inspections. For cooling they could rent a warehouse near the bay and pump the water in.
In a recent test, Nautilus says the water being returned to the bay was was just 4 degrees warmer than the intake temperature. Their design goal is to minimize the temperature differential to avoid any environmental impact. Having said that, the proof-of-concept test was with 5 racks of gear, rather than an 8 megawatt data center. They believe the design works, but it hasn't yet been tested at scale.
Without knowing the volume of water, "4 degrees" is meaningless. That's like saying "We run our servers at 60 volts instead of 120 volts, so they use half of the electricity.
Once you factor in things like government subsidies, solar make economic sense for almost everybody, no matter how small your budget. A 20 year pay off is still a 20 year pay off, period.
You have an interesting view of economics.
My electric bill 2 years ago in August was $700, this year it was $500.
As do you if you think your electric bill 2 years ago demonstrates anything.
My electric bill 2 years ago in August was $70, this year it was $50 and I didn't even replace an air conditioner, so clearly you could have gotten the same payback by doing nothing.
If you don't like the working conditions then form your own business and work for yourself. It's that simple.
It's nice how complex problems have such simple answers. "If you don't like how much you pay in rent, then buy a house". "If you don't like your low pay, then get a job making more money". "If you can't hold down a job because your car keeps breaking down, then buy a new car".
The answer is easy, implementation, not so much.
There is already a the PVWatts calculator at on NREL's website. You input your location, the type and placement of the solar panels and it tells you how much power to expect based on local weather measurements. Since these are the people gathering the data, I can't imagine google's project does anything than access this same database.
http://pvwatts.nrel.gov/
The NREL site just looks at location and weather to estimate solar availability -- The Google site attempts to calculate usable roof area and take into account shading from nearby trees and other structures.
Annual insolation, even after considering weather, counts as a well-documented stat across the entire US. Why would they limit this to just a few key cities? .
I think it's because they do additional processing to take into account shadows and roof slopes to better estimate the viability of solar on a building. It pretty accurately shows the that north half of my roof is in shadow, and it captures the shadow from the large building to my south that hits part of my roof.
A 10 year prison sentence is a $500K tax on society for the cost of incarceration then hundreds of thousands of dollars more in public assistance after the infringer gets out of jail and can't find a job to support himself.
The oval shape of this thing wastes so much volume that could have been used for storage, shelves, cupboards etc. And the gull wing door is just begging to be ripped off its hinges or even risk tipping the house over in strong wind.
I'm sure it wouldn't look so showy if the "world's first ecocapsule" (which is totally not a caravan without wheels) had a more conventional shape but it would have been a lot more practical, and doubtless cheaper to build too.
I was wondering the same thing... Make it rectangular and give it more living/storage space. The oval shape is likely more energy effecient, so just add a bit more insulation to the rectangular one.
The website says "Ecocapsule comfortably houses two adults", but that's not a two person bed, even if you're sleeping with your SO.
If you're a 2 person research team who is not interested in cuddling while you sleep, you'll have to sleep in shifts
Surprise! When I attach a remote control device to your cars control systems, I can manipulate your car! From the article, they modified the in-car rig.... this isn't terribly surreptitious and questionable to call it a hack. They used the device to expected things in expected ways. That's what it's designed to do.
From the specs, the device in question has a gsm modem built in and is designed to accept command via that interface (SMS or TCP/IP) and a cpu that looks a lot like what's in a Raspberry PI / beagleboard. For the "hack" to work, you have to know the devices cellular address (yes Virginia, a GSM modem means it has a phone number/sim card or equivalent associated).
Wouldn't the hacker be expected to know the phone number of the GSM device he plugged into your car? It's not like someone is going around and plugging these devices in cars, just waiting for some hacker to stumble across the phone number. Someone that wants to target your car will plug it into your car, and they'll know the phone number of the device.
Doesn't work that way in the UK. "Named drivers" do not get told of anything, only the person taking out the insurance policy does.
"Named driver" is different than "additional insured", at least in the USA. Being additional insured means that you *are* notified about changes in the policy. I'd be very surprised if the UK doesn't have a similar concept even if it's called something different.
And even if Uber requires proof of commercial insurance from a driver in order to begin to drive for them, I can call up my insurance agent, get any insurance changes I need made and pay the premium over the phone, get paperwork sent to me to prove it, then call that agent up again a few days later and cancel the policy and get a refund sans the days that have already passed that I was covered for.
What a huge loophole, I'm surprised insurers and businesses they cover haven't found a way to prevent that.
Oh wait, they have. If Uber required that drivers obtain commercial insurance (individual policies are probably much more expensive than you think), they'd also require that Uber be listed as a Additional Insured on the policy, so they'll be notified if you cancel the policy.
She might have a point that there's no need for customers to do static code analysis or reverse engineering to look for vulnerabilities *if* the black hat hackers weren't able to do so with impunity since they have no moral qualms about violating license agreements.
I can believe that she's tired of vetting customer reported security bugs, especially when they are dupes of known bugs that Oracle is working on, but a bug is a bug and if they don't want to expose their bug tracker to customers to let them see what's being worked on, then they'll have to deal with duplicate reports. It's part of being a major software vendor.
In my state, we've been forced to buy auto liability insurance since, well...forever.
But *only* if you own a car and want to drive it on public roads. For health insurance, you are required to ether give money to corporations or pay a large tax just for breathing. That's a big difference.
Technically the tax isn't for everyday breathing, the tax is meant keep you breathing, and as a society we've chosen to keep people breathing even if they can't pay for it.
Find a way to opt out of guaranteed emergency healthcare, then you can opt out of paying for it. But it's unfair to say "I don't need no stinking health insurance!" knowing full well that if you are in a serious accident or contract an expensive disease that no one is going to let you die because you can't pay for it.
Why such a huge petrol tank? The one in my car (well, the wife's car ; I try to avoid driving when at all possible, which is almost always) is about 5 gallons (a bit over 50 litres ; I'm not sure what the conversion factor is for our gallons and I know it's different for American gallons).
50 liters is 13.2 US Gallons.
So is your tank 5 gallons (19 liters) or 50 liters? In any case, it's pretty hard to find a common production car in the USA with a tank much smaller than 11 gallons, even the two passenger Smart FourTwo has an 8.7 gallon tank, though it's not exactly a gas miser since other 4 passenger subcompacts get similar milage.
Such a huge fuel tank suggests that you've not made any substantial attempts at fuel economy previously. (My tank will carry me around 400 miles depending on speed. By which point I'm LONG over due for a coffee and piss stop.)
Your car gets 80 miles per gallon (400 miles per 5 gallon)? Or 8 miles per liter (400 miles per 50 liter)?
Correction. The article got it wrong too. [E3845]
That makes more sense, I couldn't figure out how they were cooling 88 Xeon cores encased in epoxy inside a briefcase. Even the Atom's must pose cooling challenge, but not quite as much as Xeon's.