Please put your money where your mouth is and try this simple exercise: without quitting yuor current job, try to find another gig, doing something completely different. If you succeed, you're my hero. I genuinely want you to succeed. I didn't. I've been a software engineer for 5ish years and was a network engineer at a rather big European ISP for 5 years before that. Yet I'm now apparently not qualified for networking positions because I haven't worked in the field recently. You know, exchanging prefixes is entirely different now than then. The hiring companies most probably wouldn't have stumbled upon this, but your average HR drone does.
I'm not saying I don't agree with you, but just that it's harder done than said.
IIRC, Windows favors processes with a hWnd over those without one. I guess this is roughly the same thing, but the other way around.
It's one of those tricks needed to survive on the desktop. Distros these days have become so GUI-driven that the vast majority of users never manually edit a config file, most programmers use IDEs and we all know tcpdump & nmap are for hackers:)
And I suppose most CPU-intensive software comes in a daemon flavor. I wonder how typing in a terminal is affected.
And sexual harassment was the easiest selling excuse;) Actually I do dream about retiring in a similar fashion, preferably when I'm 85. Or even better, have a deadline say "man, 85, shot dead by jealous husband".
True, but the state (any state) doesn't give a damn whether some company is blocked due to lack of access to its own IT resources. However, more people depend on state institutions than on private institutions. And in a case like "The People vs X", The People can always invoke that. While I totally take your point about the mayor being a publicity whore, I can only wonder who longed more for the spotlight, between him and Childs.
"How the fuck is this news?". Really. Slashdot readers are vastly outnumbered by the dumbasses out there, who luckily we don't keep track of. Why should this one be any different? Seems he's a slow news day's go-to story.
They're pretty naive. For instance, they call ANY USB dongle, be it memory stick, Bluetooth dongle, HASP key, HSDPA/3G modem, a "key" (clé). They're also pretty much in the same shelf in their retail stores (FNAC/Darty). I've been living in France since January so I've had enough time to observe them. Their lack of interest for all things IT is troubling. Sure, they do have an elite, but the overall apetite for technology is surprisingly low. Must be the wine, I guess:)
Mind you, I met a couple of Swedish software development managers who weren't even 25. Needless to say, they were complete morons at either management or software engineering.
One sad, sad trend in Europe is thinking that if you go to college (after which you get your obligatory master's degree or even a doctorate) you'll be guaranteed to fit a manager role. I've had kids coming to interviews for software development positions, with no previous experienge, saying they expected to become managers in 6 months. Why? Because, they said, they went to the right university.
It's not even funny. Most rich kids, who can afford turning 28-30 and still be in school, become managers only because they're unfit at anything else, since they totally lack the real world experience.
I'm Romanian. I used to have a Croatian girlfriend who told me the same about her country. I now live in France. Guess what, it's the same.
You use threads when your app is CPU-bound and async I/O (it's actually sync, it's just multiplexed, but the name stuck) when it's I/O bound.
Using threaded/synchronous models works better when you have a small number of connections, because the OS scheduler can cope with them. Going to 10k connections over the same model is downright stupid. Your software would spend more time switching contexts than performing useful I/O.
Hybrid models, with per-thread I/O loops, are a good approach. IIRC, Mina does the same thing, moving connection objects from one thread to another when their state changes, while doing async I/O in each thread. I'm not entirely sure on this, I'm not a Java guy, but I remember reading this in a paper at some point.
It's addictive, you know...
Fucking helicopter moron parents. Their kids wouldn't be so bored today, had they tried showing them what fun & games are. You don't fight boredom with psychiatrists and police, but with proper, age-suited activities.
Apparently they're not happy enough with what they know about you, they won't stop until your Facebook/Buzz/Yahoo/whatever profile is a 1:1 mapping of you. It all sucks badly when you think of how, a few years ago, having such a profile was kind of embarassing in the context of, say, a job interview, while now it's almost mandatory - "What, you're not on Facebook? How do you LIVE?"
I'm not a conspiracy theorist, I always laugh at tinfoil hats, but all this looks like soon we won't be able to do anything without registering to a data mining website first.
The other day I was reading an article which led me to the European Commission's website, only to find that part of the information that was supposed to be there was actually on Facebook:
http://europa.eu/epso/apply/today/tra_en.htm
Yeah, I know, it's just a link, but I think it's really lame that the Comission provides more information about an open position on some employee's Facebook page instead of its own. Hell, let's stop funding their infrastructure, they might as well move everything on Facebook. Or Second Life!
Bleh.
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Please put your money where your mouth is and try this simple exercise: without quitting yuor current job, try to find another gig, doing something completely different. If you succeed, you're my hero. I genuinely want you to succeed. I didn't. I've been a software engineer for 5ish years and was a network engineer at a rather big European ISP for 5 years before that. Yet I'm now apparently not qualified for networking positions because I haven't worked in the field recently. You know, exchanging prefixes is entirely different now than then. The hiring companies most probably wouldn't have stumbled upon this, but your average HR drone does.
I'm not saying I don't agree with you, but just that it's harder done than said.
I meant roughly speaking. I am aware of the details :)
Haven't touched Linux in a long while, I'm a BSD guy, but even we have (or used to have) KSEgs ;)
IIRC, Windows favors processes with a hWnd over those without one. I guess this is roughly the same thing, but the other way around.
It's one of those tricks needed to survive on the desktop. Distros these days have become so GUI-driven that the vast majority of users never manually edit a config file, most programmers use IDEs and we all know tcpdump & nmap are for hackers :)
And I suppose most CPU-intensive software comes in a daemon flavor. I wonder how typing in a terminal is affected.
Security theater is not security.
Yeah, it's more like theatre these days.
The Flat Earth Society (http://theflatearthsociety.org/)
Seriously.
A place for the narcissistic AND arrogant, "You don't deserve more than 140 characters from me", types I guess...
If they decide to do Minesweeper #2.
40 comments and not a single NO CARRIER jokNOCARRIER
Then what do you recommend for people who like to play video games on a handheld device or on a television?
How about growing up? There's plenty of fun out there to have without these devices. Especially if you're an adult.
the authors should listen to Franz Schubert's Symphony Number 9.
Is he usually a good shooter?
Sorry, I meant your husband.
I obviously meant headline!
And sexual harassment was the easiest selling excuse ;) Actually I do dream about retiring in a similar fashion, preferably when I'm 85. Or even better, have a deadline say "man, 85, shot dead by jealous husband".
True, but the state (any state) doesn't give a damn whether some company is blocked due to lack of access to its own IT resources. However, more people depend on state institutions than on private institutions. And in a case like "The People vs X", The People can always invoke that. While I totally take your point about the mayor being a publicity whore, I can only wonder who longed more for the spotlight, between him and Childs.
"How the fuck is this news?". Really. Slashdot readers are vastly outnumbered by the dumbasses out there, who luckily we don't keep track of. Why should this one be any different? Seems he's a slow news day's go-to story.
They're pretty naive. For instance, they call ANY USB dongle, be it memory stick, Bluetooth dongle, HASP key, HSDPA/3G modem, a "key" (clé). They're also pretty much in the same shelf in their retail stores (FNAC/Darty). I've been living in France since January so I've had enough time to observe them. Their lack of interest for all things IT is troubling. Sure, they do have an elite, but the overall apetite for technology is surprisingly low. Must be the wine, I guess :)
Point taken :)
Mind you, I met a couple of Swedish software development managers who weren't even 25. Needless to say, they were complete morons at either management or software engineering. One sad, sad trend in Europe is thinking that if you go to college (after which you get your obligatory master's degree or even a doctorate) you'll be guaranteed to fit a manager role. I've had kids coming to interviews for software development positions, with no previous experienge, saying they expected to become managers in 6 months. Why? Because, they said, they went to the right university. It's not even funny. Most rich kids, who can afford turning 28-30 and still be in school, become managers only because they're unfit at anything else, since they totally lack the real world experience. I'm Romanian. I used to have a Croatian girlfriend who told me the same about her country. I now live in France. Guess what, it's the same.
Sounds like you live somewhere in Europe. I'm being serious. I'm European myself, I've noticed this more than once, unfortunately.
You use threads when your app is CPU-bound and async I/O (it's actually sync, it's just multiplexed, but the name stuck) when it's I/O bound. Using threaded/synchronous models works better when you have a small number of connections, because the OS scheduler can cope with them. Going to 10k connections over the same model is downright stupid. Your software would spend more time switching contexts than performing useful I/O. Hybrid models, with per-thread I/O loops, are a good approach. IIRC, Mina does the same thing, moving connection objects from one thread to another when their state changes, while doing async I/O in each thread. I'm not entirely sure on this, I'm not a Java guy, but I remember reading this in a paper at some point.
It's addictive, you know... Fucking helicopter moron parents. Their kids wouldn't be so bored today, had they tried showing them what fun & games are. You don't fight boredom with psychiatrists and police, but with proper, age-suited activities.
Apparently they're not happy enough with what they know about you, they won't stop until your Facebook/Buzz/Yahoo/whatever profile is a 1:1 mapping of you. It all sucks badly when you think of how, a few years ago, having such a profile was kind of embarassing in the context of, say, a job interview, while now it's almost mandatory - "What, you're not on Facebook? How do you LIVE?" I'm not a conspiracy theorist, I always laugh at tinfoil hats, but all this looks like soon we won't be able to do anything without registering to a data mining website first. The other day I was reading an article which led me to the European Commission's website, only to find that part of the information that was supposed to be there was actually on Facebook: http://europa.eu/epso/apply/today/tra_en.htm Yeah, I know, it's just a link, but I think it's really lame that the Comission provides more information about an open position on some employee's Facebook page instead of its own. Hell, let's stop funding their infrastructure, they might as well move everything on Facebook. Or Second Life! Bleh.
Except for Chuck Norris.