government wants the camera back because it has undeniable proof that the landings were a hoax. or maybe footage of our dealings with secret aliens to acquire microchip technology....
If this new job is on either the gov or contractor side of the DoD, this is more than normal (did my time in that setting, never want to go back). This sort of development setting is also commonly found in larger companies outside of DoD. I've only been out of school a few years, but I've already learned a valuable lesson: bad development environments are caused by lack of caring from the dev team which leads to a horrible working environment if you actually care about programming. Unfortunately these bad settings tend to pay the most, but I assure you that working in a company surrounded by people who know and stay current in their field who are also passionate about the work being done (professionally and personally) is worth more than any amount of hard currency.
I mostly use AWS, but have tried app engine a while back. I get the feeling that if you're trying to do something that app engine supports, it is easier to do it there instead of rolling everything together on your own from the various AWS offerings. Basically AWS = many more options, App Engine = better support/interfacing for a smaller subset of functions.
." Book editors, journalists, video store clerks, musicians, novelists without tenure". A lot of the 'jobs' he's talking about are radically changing or weren't worth anything to begin with. The article doesn't really have a concrete, well laid out argument. It sounds like yet another generalized complaint I've kept hearing for the past couple years: the elite are taking all my money and I'm a poor starving average joe. Except here it is some ill defined "creative class". Adapt to the world around you and use your money wisely. Same age old problem, same age old solution.
Some really terrible articles get through sometimes. Articles from some no-name person's blog that contain no or very few external links to anything to back up the crap put forth on their site.
Every time I have a complaint against a company, I know my best recourse is to go elsewhere. Many people think/say this, but reality is that the convenience (or in most cases the lack of inconvenience) of staying with some company goes a looong way to keep us from putting our money where our mouth is. My BofA accounts are my oldest because I was a naive 16 year old boy who didn't know anything about banking, so I went with the most convenient. Many years have passed and I have multiple credit union accounts with most of my money. The problem is, these credit unions don't have very good ATM/physical locations, especially outside of where I live. For this reason I have kept my BofA account, because there is one everywhere.
FYI: Nobody, NOBODY should be using BofA savings/cd etc and thinking you're doing good with your money. They have the most abysmal APY of any bank I have ever seen. Get a credit union account, please. Their customer service is horrible, I have spent almost an hour on hold before. I have had problems with my debit card randomly being declined places, and magically working again (not a strip error or anything). I have had problems with their automatic shutoff protection flagging my accounts when I'm spending the exact same amounts of money at the exact same places I do every week, forcing me to call them and turn my accounts back on. They even bait-and-switched me on a credit card. They advertised some no maintenance fee card, I wanted a low limit card 'just in case', so I signed up for it. At the end of the year, I get charged a service fee on it. I called them up, asking why my no-fee card was charged one, and they said "details of the card can differ between the advertisement and the agreement you actually signed." So i check my the papers I signed, and sure enough, in the details there is a fee (which I skipped over because the advertisement for this exact card said otherwise, no stipulation) Shame on me for not being more careful, but a dirty trick regardless.
Even through all that I have kept my old accounts for the 'convenience'. Now with the debit card fees and this recent outage, I am done. It has taken a long time, but they have tried their best to completely drive me off. So I ask all of you, stop and REALLY think if shitty service (from any company!) is worth their 'convenience'. I think if more people realy started voting with their wallets, we would stop getting abused so much by large corporations. Just take your business elsewhere.
Whenever I am on W7 I always use the windows key which launches the start menu and puts the cursor in the search box (which can be used to launch applications). So, for example, if I want to launch chrome I just hit windows key then 'c' then enter. This is also useful for finding and opening specific files very quickly. If this functionality remains, where windows key basically launches search, then I am perfectly happy.....I never use the rest of the start menu (why would you when it is faster to just start typing what you want after hitting the windows key)
I agree! I currently use a micro ec2 instance for just this. I'm often logged into public wifi so I route as much traffic as possible through an ssh tunnel attached to the instance. This way I can control as much of the proxy as possible.
don't make the mistake I did and underestimate these little guys. They drank me under the table and I woke up the next day with black marker cloacas all over my face.
Most of the people who are only using tablets and ultra-thins are likely not the people who were buying parts from newegg to begin with. The demographic newegg caters to is not going anywhere. If anyone should be scared in this 'post-pc world" (god I hate that buzz-phrase) it is commodity system sellers like Dell.
in the classical sense yes, but the more we learn about everything science, the more we realize labeling ANYTHING in the universe and placing everything in nice little separate buckets is a totally artificial and unrealistic goal. We keep finding species that are really bizarre and hard to categorize-even using genetics, or astronomical 'bodies' that don't quite fit into the nice little labels we give 'planets' and 'moons' and whatnot. Think about it as more of a "guideline" than an absolute.
Here is a blog post on a related topic http://goo.gl/K3dDG. We already have genetic proof of interbreeding with Neanderthals and Denisovans (more common in specific asian populations). There are also suggestions that all of this mixing is a lot more complicated than we ever thought and not even subject to single periods of time. Personally I find the fact that we are actually a mix of old divergent species really exciting and our genome is really a big twisted mystery just asking to be unraveled to find out where the hell parts of it came from.
Okay apparently you aren't trolling but you have to understand people's suspicions. I understand you've lost key people, but still, these sorts of decisions are important for initial phases of the design that everyone should be aware of. A few suggestions:
If you are running a lot of smaller parallel jobs that do most of the computation within the same node (more of a SMP parallel vice mpi) then you may get away without using 10gbe unless you are also moving a lot of data through the network for storage. If you are doing a lot of cross-node computation among a lot of different jobs, or especially in very large cross node jobs, you are going to want IB. IB is very expensive, but there is a reason almost all of the top supercomputers use it. Depending on your application, you may be able to get away with 10 gbe, especially if IB is too expensive. If you are adding GPU's (go with NVIDIA. throw teslas in there if you have the money) you will most likely want IB as well. HPC code I help develop has CUDA ability, and once you start to feed huge datasets to the GPU's across the network, you are going to need IB level speed and throughput. If you are only doing GPU computation within the nodes, this won't be necessary. Basically if money isn't an issue, go with IB and NVIDIA teslas. If money is an issue, GTX 580's and 10gbe will probably be fine. I would be hesitant on using anything less on the networking front. As for OS, take a look at scientific linux.
As somehow who works with supercomputers, I have serious suspicion about this . You do not get the funding for a supercomputer of this size without knowing these basic specifications. How can he be getting "everything necessary" in two weeks when he doesn't have a planned network, GPU's, OS or application? There is so much effort that goes into speccing these clusters, building them and then installing and configuring all of the administrative software such a queuing systems. Hell, if you're doing HPC work on supercomputers, you need an equally impressive storage solution to contain all of the data. It isn't a matter of sticking a sata hdd on each node and calling it a day.
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I need to make my girlfriend wear one of these made from my face. I'm VERY narcissistic .
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government wants the camera back because it has undeniable proof that the landings were a hoax. or maybe footage of our dealings with secret aliens to acquire microchip technology....
If this new job is on either the gov or contractor side of the DoD, this is more than normal (did my time in that setting, never want to go back). This sort of development setting is also commonly found in larger companies outside of DoD. I've only been out of school a few years, but I've already learned a valuable lesson: bad development environments are caused by lack of caring from the dev team which leads to a horrible working environment if you actually care about programming. Unfortunately these bad settings tend to pay the most, but I assure you that working in a company surrounded by people who know and stay current in their field who are also passionate about the work being done (professionally and personally) is worth more than any amount of hard currency.
I mostly use AWS, but have tried app engine a while back. I get the feeling that if you're trying to do something that app engine supports, it is easier to do it there instead of rolling everything together on your own from the various AWS offerings. Basically AWS = many more options, App Engine = better support/interfacing for a smaller subset of functions.
." Book editors, journalists, video store clerks, musicians, novelists without tenure". A lot of the 'jobs' he's talking about are radically changing or weren't worth anything to begin with. The article doesn't really have a concrete, well laid out argument. It sounds like yet another generalized complaint I've kept hearing for the past couple years: the elite are taking all my money and I'm a poor starving average joe. Except here it is some ill defined "creative class". Adapt to the world around you and use your money wisely. Same age old problem, same age old solution.
Some really terrible articles get through sometimes. Articles from some no-name person's blog that contain no or very few external links to anything to back up the crap put forth on their site.
Every time I have a complaint against a company, I know my best recourse is to go elsewhere. Many people think/say this, but reality is that the convenience (or in most cases the lack of inconvenience) of staying with some company goes a looong way to keep us from putting our money where our mouth is. My BofA accounts are my oldest because I was a naive 16 year old boy who didn't know anything about banking, so I went with the most convenient. Many years have passed and I have multiple credit union accounts with most of my money. The problem is, these credit unions don't have very good ATM/physical locations, especially outside of where I live. For this reason I have kept my BofA account, because there is one everywhere. FYI: Nobody, NOBODY should be using BofA savings/cd etc and thinking you're doing good with your money. They have the most abysmal APY of any bank I have ever seen. Get a credit union account, please. Their customer service is horrible, I have spent almost an hour on hold before. I have had problems with my debit card randomly being declined places, and magically working again (not a strip error or anything). I have had problems with their automatic shutoff protection flagging my accounts when I'm spending the exact same amounts of money at the exact same places I do every week, forcing me to call them and turn my accounts back on. They even bait-and-switched me on a credit card. They advertised some no maintenance fee card, I wanted a low limit card 'just in case', so I signed up for it. At the end of the year, I get charged a service fee on it. I called them up, asking why my no-fee card was charged one, and they said "details of the card can differ between the advertisement and the agreement you actually signed." So i check my the papers I signed, and sure enough, in the details there is a fee (which I skipped over because the advertisement for this exact card said otherwise, no stipulation) Shame on me for not being more careful, but a dirty trick regardless. Even through all that I have kept my old accounts for the 'convenience'. Now with the debit card fees and this recent outage, I am done. It has taken a long time, but they have tried their best to completely drive me off. So I ask all of you, stop and REALLY think if shitty service (from any company!) is worth their 'convenience'. I think if more people realy started voting with their wallets, we would stop getting abused so much by large corporations. Just take your business elsewhere.
Whenever I am on W7 I always use the windows key which launches the start menu and puts the cursor in the search box (which can be used to launch applications). So, for example, if I want to launch chrome I just hit windows key then 'c' then enter. This is also useful for finding and opening specific files very quickly. If this functionality remains, where windows key basically launches search, then I am perfectly happy.....I never use the rest of the start menu (why would you when it is faster to just start typing what you want after hitting the windows key)
I agree! I currently use a micro ec2 instance for just this. I'm often logged into public wifi so I route as much traffic as possible through an ssh tunnel attached to the instance. This way I can control as much of the proxy as possible.
Just another attempt in the modern crusade to make everything Not Our Fault. Push the blame to someone else and sue when things go awry. Lovely.
I can finally go back to sharing needles. I gotta save money, what with the economy in the gutter.
don't make the mistake I did and underestimate these little guys. They drank me under the table and I woke up the next day with black marker cloacas all over my face.
Most of the people who are only using tablets and ultra-thins are likely not the people who were buying parts from newegg to begin with. The demographic newegg caters to is not going anywhere. If anyone should be scared in this 'post-pc world" (god I hate that buzz-phrase) it is commodity system sellers like Dell.
in the classical sense yes, but the more we learn about everything science, the more we realize labeling ANYTHING in the universe and placing everything in nice little separate buckets is a totally artificial and unrealistic goal. We keep finding species that are really bizarre and hard to categorize-even using genetics, or astronomical 'bodies' that don't quite fit into the nice little labels we give 'planets' and 'moons' and whatnot. Think about it as more of a "guideline" than an absolute.
Here is a blog post on a related topic http://goo.gl/K3dDG. We already have genetic proof of interbreeding with Neanderthals and Denisovans (more common in specific asian populations). There are also suggestions that all of this mixing is a lot more complicated than we ever thought and not even subject to single periods of time. Personally I find the fact that we are actually a mix of old divergent species really exciting and our genome is really a big twisted mystery just asking to be unraveled to find out where the hell parts of it came from.
Okay apparently you aren't trolling but you have to understand people's suspicions. I understand you've lost key people, but still, these sorts of decisions are important for initial phases of the design that everyone should be aware of. A few suggestions: If you are running a lot of smaller parallel jobs that do most of the computation within the same node (more of a SMP parallel vice mpi) then you may get away without using 10gbe unless you are also moving a lot of data through the network for storage. If you are doing a lot of cross-node computation among a lot of different jobs, or especially in very large cross node jobs, you are going to want IB. IB is very expensive, but there is a reason almost all of the top supercomputers use it. Depending on your application, you may be able to get away with 10 gbe, especially if IB is too expensive. If you are adding GPU's (go with NVIDIA. throw teslas in there if you have the money) you will most likely want IB as well. HPC code I help develop has CUDA ability, and once you start to feed huge datasets to the GPU's across the network, you are going to need IB level speed and throughput. If you are only doing GPU computation within the nodes, this won't be necessary. Basically if money isn't an issue, go with IB and NVIDIA teslas. If money is an issue, GTX 580's and 10gbe will probably be fine. I would be hesitant on using anything less on the networking front. As for OS, take a look at scientific linux.
As somehow who works with supercomputers, I have serious suspicion about this . You do not get the funding for a supercomputer of this size without knowing these basic specifications. How can he be getting "everything necessary" in two weeks when he doesn't have a planned network, GPU's, OS or application? There is so much effort that goes into speccing these clusters, building them and then installing and configuring all of the administrative software such a queuing systems. Hell, if you're doing HPC work on supercomputers, you need an equally impressive storage solution to contain all of the data. It isn't a matter of sticking a sata hdd on each node and calling it a day.