First of all, I resent the vaguely cultural-studies post-structuralist jargon of the article: "Here the heterarchy transcends the firewall and pressure can be applied from without." What's a heterarchy? Is that firewall a metaphorical one? I, for one, do NOT welcome our Foucault-reading post-modern academic overlords.
Hm. I was going to comment on TFA by asking:
Was this supposed to have been written in English?
I'm the web QA manager at Netflix, and I'm sorry that you didn't have a seamless transition experience. I'd be interested in seeing your notification email so I can determine what went wrong. Learning from this mistake is important to us, mostly because it annoyed a customer, but also so that we can reduce the chance of making a similar mistake elsewhere on the site.
Please forward the email to rfagen at netflix dot com and I'll pass it on to the relevant engineers.
I certainly hope that you will give us a try. If you have any further difficulty signing up so that you get your Walmart price lock-in, please call our customer service department at 1-888-638-3549, and they can help you out.
I saw this on the web when looking for interesting math stuff for my kids. It's a drum sequencer that works on similar principles to the article's hardware approach. http://www.philtulga.com/unifix.html
The company also is applying machine learning to its system to give better results. Theoretically, he said, if someone searches for "Bay Area cooking class," the system should know that "Berkeley courses: vegetarian cuisine" is a good match even though it contains none of the query words.
From Form 4506-T, which is a request for a transcript of a tax return: ---- CAUTION: Lines 6 and 7 must be completed if the third party requires you to complete Form 4506-T. Do not sign Form 4506-T if the third party requests that you sign Form 4506-T and lines 6 and 7 are blank. ---- Lines 6 & 7 describe what information and for what years the IRS should provide to the requestor or third party. This form must be signed by the taxpayer.
You have control over all of your information that you send to the IRS. They have a duty to keep it to themselves, and they even advise you that it's a good idea to not release this information indiscriminately.
They tell you that in bureaucratesee, but they do tell you.
I might suggest re-reading the original post, where the author says that he's not trying to buy the account, but to create a completely new account using the same authorization key.
Perhaps based on this one datapoint, the best indication of something fishy is if someone well versed in the art can't make heads or tails of a company's books.
The beauty of accounting is that it follows the second law of thermodynamics: it all has to balance in the end. You can neither create nor destroy value. It either comes in from somewhere outside the system under study, or it leaves the system under study to go into another system. Eventually, it all boils down to shareholder equity measuring the net inflow or outflow of value.
What happened in Enron was plain old misdirection. They said, "Look at all the income we have from these external and independent entities!" When they really meant, "Hmm, I'll give a bunch of my debt to this shell corporation and they'll give me a bunch of revenue in return." Just debits and credits, plusses and minuses, but the meaning of plus and minus was perverted. Enron said, "Here's two systems, System Enron and System Outside Company. Enron's doing great." What they didn't mention is that Enron really should have been reported as E+OC, which would have shown a much worse situation.
You know, the parent probably isn't a troll, but it sure reads like one to me. I guess I'm just too far away from the state of the art over here. I've lost my buzzword compliance.
or a jar the size of the Rose Bowl with however many jellybeans that holds
If the jar encompasses the entire Rose Bowl, that would be 1,443,820,001,299,308 jellybeans. If you're really asking how many jellybeans would the Rose Bowl hold (ie. the seating and playing surfaces make up the bottom of the jar) then that would be only 687,340,113,449,120 jellybeans. This assumes standard JellyBelly beans (popcorn flavor, if I have a choice).
But I have noticed netflix is starting to slowdown in response time. My turnaround time with them is generally 1-2 days...it's becoming four and five and even six days
Maybe your postman has figured out what's in those red envelopes, and they're taking a short detour thru your postman's DVD player?
...as an engineer I don't really get the connection between garbage collection and caching algorithms....
It seems to make sense to me, if only because the two are complimentary problems. Caching is figuring out what stuff is valuable so you keep it around. GC is figuring out what stuff is valuable so you can throw away the rest. Kind of like in probability where it's easier to figure out the likelihood of something not happening and then subtracting from 1 to figure out how likely it is to happen.
Anyway, in Tyrant you played the dicatator of an impoverished third world country, which is slowly falling to pieces and going into higher debt and inflation.
I don't know that I'd describe the U.S. as impoverished or third world. Too close to home, indeed.
Chernobyl happened because the Soviets let regular Engineers perform a test on a reactor - not Nuclear Engineers who actually would have known what they were doing. Three Mile Island happened because of pure stupidity. A properly designed nuclear plant, with proper safeguards and well trained staff is a fairly safe place.
I actually think that we should pursue more nuclear energy. I haven't actually read the article in question, but based on the reactions from almost everyone here, I can sort of figure out what it must say.
While I don't agree with the NoNukes(tm) crowd, I certainly can't get behind the argument, "Don't do anything stupid, and nothing bad will happen."
Everything you cite where 'something bad' happened comes about because people are involved. You can't ask people to collectively not be stupid occasionally any more than you could ask gravity to stop working for just a moment.
Half of us are below the median intelligence, after all.
The monorail is there. It's a grey dotted line looping around the lower middle left area of the map.
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Or, read "Positively Fifth Street" for an excellent telling of a poker tale. Jim McManus takes us on an adventure where he uses a magazine advance on an article to buy his way into the WSOP. He comes in sixth, I beleive. The article he's writing is about the murder of Teddy Binion, late of the Binion family, owners (until recently) of the Horseshoe, where the WSOP takes place. Two engrossing stories intertwined.
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It's 2004 and I'm not living in a real life Post Apocalyptic "Mad Max" world full of thugs and killers spilling Blood for Oil.
Haven't you been watching what GWB has been doing over in Iraq? Granted, the latest round has been "Sexual Humiliation for Oil," but he's a thug and killer no matter what you say.
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Hm. I was going to comment on TFA by asking:
Yours was much better. Thank you.
Colin.
I'm the web QA manager at Netflix, and I'm sorry that you didn't have a seamless transition experience. I'd be interested in seeing your notification email so I can determine what went wrong. Learning from this mistake is important to us, mostly because it annoyed a customer, but also so that we can reduce the chance of making a similar mistake elsewhere on the site.
Please forward the email to rfagen at netflix dot com and I'll pass it on to the relevant engineers.
I certainly hope that you will give us a try. If you have any further difficulty signing up so that you get your Walmart price lock-in, please call our customer service department at 1-888-638-3549, and they can help you out.
Thanks,
Rob
That was GREAT! It was like reading the script for an episode of Connections.
Now how do I get "James Burke" from the initials KFG?
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
-Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
"There will be 2 frozen light optiocal (sic) supercomputers."
- brontus3927, Slashdot poster, 2005
I saw this on the web when looking for interesting math stuff for my kids. It's a drum sequencer that works on similar principles to the article's hardware approach. http://www.philtulga.com/unifix.html
I'm an amputee, *and* I lost all my teeth, you insensitive clod!
The company also is applying machine learning to its system to give better results. Theoretically, he said, if someone searches for "Bay Area cooking class," the system should know that "Berkeley courses: vegetarian cuisine" is a good match even though it contains none of the query words.
FYI.
I am 40, you insensitive clod.
From Form 4506-T, which is a request for a transcript of a tax return:
----
CAUTION: Lines 6 and 7 must be completed if the third party requires you to complete Form 4506-T. Do not sign Form 4506-T if the third
party requests that you sign Form 4506-T and lines 6 and 7 are blank.
----
Lines 6 & 7 describe what information and for what years the IRS should provide to the requestor or third party. This form must be signed by the taxpayer.
You have control over all of your information that you send to the IRS. They have a duty to keep it to themselves, and they even advise you that it's a good idea to not release this information indiscriminately.
They tell you that in bureaucratesee, but they do tell you.
I might suggest re-reading the original post, where the author says that he's not trying to buy the account, but to create a completely new account using the same authorization key.
Perhaps based on this one datapoint, the best indication of something fishy is if someone well versed in the art can't make heads or tails of a company's books.
The beauty of accounting is that it follows the second law of thermodynamics: it all has to balance in the end. You can neither create nor destroy value. It either comes in from somewhere outside the system under study, or it leaves the system under study to go into another system. Eventually, it all boils down to shareholder equity measuring the net inflow or outflow of value.
What happened in Enron was plain old misdirection. They said, "Look at all the income we have from these external and independent entities!" When they really meant, "Hmm, I'll give a bunch of my debt to this shell corporation and they'll give me a bunch of revenue in return." Just debits and credits, plusses and minuses, but the meaning of plus and minus was perverted. Enron said, "Here's two systems, System Enron and System Outside Company. Enron's doing great." What they didn't mention is that Enron really should have been reported as E+OC, which would have shown a much worse situation.
You know, the parent probably isn't a troll, but it sure reads like one to me. I guess I'm just too far away from the state of the art over here. I've lost my buzzword compliance.
I hear a faint echo in the room. "Hacker"..."Cracker"..."hacker"..."cracker"..."hac ..."..."crac..."......
LIAR! That's not the right Springfield. There isn't a Shelbyville anywhere near there!
If the jar encompasses the entire Rose Bowl, that would be 1,443,820,001,299,308 jellybeans. If you're really asking how many jellybeans would the Rose Bowl hold (ie. the seating and playing surfaces make up the bottom of the jar) then that would be only 687,340,113,449,120 jellybeans. This assumes standard JellyBelly beans (popcorn flavor, if I have a choice).
Maybe your postman has figured out what's in those red envelopes, and they're taking a short detour thru your postman's DVD player?
Really. No, really. I just buy the magazine for the articles!!
It seems to make sense to me, if only because the two are complimentary problems. Caching is figuring out what stuff is valuable so you keep it around. GC is figuring out what stuff is valuable so you can throw away the rest. Kind of like in probability where it's easier to figure out the likelihood of something not happening and then subtracting from 1 to figure out how likely it is to happen.
I don't know that I'd describe the U.S. as impoverished or third world. Too close to home, indeed.
I actually think that we should pursue more nuclear energy. I haven't actually read the article in question, but based on the reactions from almost everyone here, I can sort of figure out what it must say.
While I don't agree with the NoNukes(tm) crowd, I certainly can't get behind the argument, "Don't do anything stupid, and nothing bad will happen."
Everything you cite where 'something bad' happened comes about because people are involved. You can't ask people to collectively not be stupid occasionally any more than you could ask gravity to stop working for just a moment.
Half of us are below the median intelligence, after all.
The monorail is there. It's a grey dotted line looping around the lower middle left area of the map.
Or, read "Positively Fifth Street" for an excellent telling of a poker tale. Jim McManus takes us on an adventure where he uses a magazine advance on an article to buy his way into the WSOP. He comes in sixth, I beleive. The article he's writing is about the murder of Teddy Binion, late of the Binion family, owners (until recently) of the Horseshoe, where the WSOP takes place. Two engrossing stories intertwined.
Haven't you been watching what GWB has been doing over in Iraq? Granted, the latest round has been "Sexual Humiliation for Oil," but he's a thug and killer no matter what you say.
Wouldn't that be Jar-Jar-Jar-Jar Binkselbrox?