Because Russian politics is manic-depressive. It's either all liberalism and opening borders, and forgetting laws and letting the crime gangs roam free around the country, or it's all totalitarian, with TV stations shut down, constant Orwellian-type war and positioning itself as world's superpower (in fact, Russian papers are told to consistently call G7 a G8 to create the impression that Russia really belongs there).
There's no middle ground, no moderation to politics in that country, and it's usually moderation that's the hotbed of sound economy.
... Russian Mafia-driven identity/credit card fraud against Americans and citizens of other perceived (note I said "perceived") well to do nations.
Any system that relies on combination of 16 digits and the name of the card holder (9 digits and the name in case of SNN) to authenticate the owner of the bank account and give complete access to that account's finances is bound to be broken sooner or later, Russian mob or no Russian mob.
Buy a license from FCC and then use their power to prosecute anyone who transmits on your licensed frequency. They have the power to shut down anyone who squats on licensed spectrum.
I've seen RSS results on recently launched work search engines, which mostly parse the sites like Monster.com and Yahoo! HotJobs, scraping the results into their database. You can mostly subscribe to the searches, not to the feed of jobs directly (since for national searches probably wouldn't do you much good).
RSS search results is supported by: http://www.indeed.com/ http://www.workzoo.co m/
Not supported: http://www.simplyhired.com/
The practicality of job searches as RSS feeds is pretty good for both active and passive job seekers. Adding a feed to My Yahoo! or local RSS aggregator can always provide pointers when a new job arrives.
Well, having a legit link to Wikipedia and having the comment links (and thus the spamming links) default to ref=nofollow would be a pretty workable solution.
Well, the technical knowledge is required of the CEO, but not deep down technical knowledge, like being able to parse Assembly code thrown out by debugger. Gerstner understood his business, and understoof the fact that engineers design stuff while sales people sell it.
I've read his book about his experience at IBM and most of it dealt with getting rid of middle layer (IBM had so many managers, that half of the time the secretaries of the managers would arrive at a meeting instead of the managers). Guess who else suffers from managerial overflow.
Also Gerstner started layoffs in groups that did not produce any valuable products and that grew enormously by hiring, but never delivering real results. Some smart people there, but not capable of delivering a 1.0. The layoffs caused lots of criticism.
So generally while technical knowledge is advised, more often than not it's the CEO's organizational skills and ability to spend X dollars to earn Y dollars where Y>X.
And when choosing letters and numbers for variables, choose the ones that take the fewer pixels on the screen, like i, l, _i_, __i, ____i, i1, _i1. This will shave a few seconds off your graphical card processing and will lower your power bill, since there're fewer bytes traveling between mother board and graphics card.
Yes, basically the decisions are made in the firmware of your brain, for which you have the sources, but they are written in language you hardly understand, so you think you know how a certain decision is made, since it's your brain, after all, but in the reality you start making up stuff as you go (I guess I like this jam because my grandmother made something similar when we lived on the farm).
He was talking about that property applied specifically to jam. Can you describe in detail the texture of the last jam you tried? Or how would you rate the texture of that jam on the scale of 1-10 and why? What would you improve in the jam texture?
When brain of anyone but a professional food taster faces with these questions, it starts making stuff up.
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Yes, you're totally right. It's like brain kicks in some processing where processing is not due. He talks about the case where people are asked to choose a jam they like, so the choice is made, but when they asked to rationalize their choices on some criteria (like smell, texture, taste) suddenly a new winner emerges.
They apply mental energy that overpowers the gut feeling and somehow you're now required to rationalize the jam texture on the scale of 1 to 10 (what the hell is texture anyway, and did you ever pay attention to it in your life?), so the decisions are changed.
Right on the money
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I bought the CD version of the book after I read the previous Slashdot review, since it has been on my wishlist for a while. Right now I am on disk 6 (out of 7) in my car, and generally it's underwleming. Interesting, but nothing new, you don't learn a whole lot.
The author does bring up good stories and examples about the Aeron chair and cola sampling methods and some musical artists and TV shows that were rejected by public, approved by someone with a gut feeling, and then re-recognized by the public as masterpieces.
In a nutshell? Trust the gut feeling, but it can fool you sometimes.
And then he spends almost an entire chapter telling you how racist you are based on some test, where more people associate the black race with "bad" than with "good", and then same people have troubles putting the words "good" and "black" in one basket. Interesting, but still, not really useful as far as personal growth and self-education.
It seems that Microsoft is a strong believer in putting all the eggs in one basket. Only one division of the company is in charge of producing operating systems, but it seems that everyone else (with the exception of Mac Business Unit) seems to follow the strategy of releasing their products just for one OS.
Do you see possible Linux versions for any of the following Microsoft products:
- Streets & Maps, MapPoint - Encyclopedias - Games - Office applications - Server applications, such as Speech Server and Live Communications Server
Firefox browser by itself is pretty nice, but the barebones edition does not really offer much added value compared to IE or Opera. The extensions, however, are amazing, I sometimes browse their extensions catalog just to see what I am missing, or make sure I don't miss articles like this to see what the other folks are using.
This book has been on my wishlist for a while, saw it recommended on some blog. Apparently Amazon sells an audio version on CD, I will be getting that today.
Two things that come to mind is search and scalability. Can you conduct quick searches through the files, and will the system scale if you become as popular as Slashdot, with thousands of daily updates (in form of user comments).
Actually, thanks for pointing out, I was enrolled in their 10% program, which they give out by default.
I was hoping to buy a private jet and retire to a private island with half a dozen of supermodels all thanks to the affiliate link in my Slashdot post, but apparently things might not work out that way.
Anyway, it's a great host, and I would have pointed them out whether they had an affiliate program or not (the other one doesn't, by the way). Since it doesn't cost any more money to those who click on the link, I fail to see the damage.
My apologies if that link in any way offended you.
I am currently using two Web hosting providers, both for Web and e-mail, that I feel I can recommend. That's out of 5-6 hosting providers that I've used total. DreamHost has good plans, almost 99.999% uptime and pretty strong support services. I've been with them for about half a year, and so far have only the best impressions. I sent out a support e-mail once (had some database troubles), and got back a reply within 5 minutes (they don't promise that, but they guarantee a reply within 24 hours). Seems like they have plenty of customers and hence hire dedicated staff for support. Some domains hosted there (if you want to check the traceroute or load speed) - collectorcarbuff.com, thatwasfunny.com.
I've been with VerveHosting for about 5 years, they've been hosting my e-mail and provided Web hosting, the same thing - excellent uptimes and timely support, always got a reply within an hour or so in case I had a problem. Also, several times I needed custom Perl modules for the Web server, and all I had to do is ask. Domain hosted on VerveHosting - moskalyuk.com and hotdealsportal.com.
There are three others which I won't recommend (one happened to give me a 3-day-in-a-row downtime once), but I don't want to mention their names. WebHostingTalk is a great place to look for deals on hosting and read reviews.
From personal experience - I stopped looking for unbeliavably low prices, as those hosters would inevitably be the ones having problems. Good service costs money, and support can be crucial issue, if your site is selling products or selling ads, since every hour of downtime brings lost revenues. The link to DreamHost above is a kickback link (they have an award program for each customer, where the kickback earned goes towards the hosting bill), but other than that I don't profit from the links, and do not work for any of the companies.
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Because Russian politics is manic-depressive. It's either all liberalism and opening borders, and forgetting laws and letting the crime gangs roam free around the country, or it's all totalitarian, with TV stations shut down, constant Orwellian-type war and positioning itself as world's superpower (in fact, Russian papers are told to consistently call G7 a G8 to create the impression that Russia really belongs there).
There's no middle ground, no moderation to politics in that country, and it's usually moderation that's the hotbed of sound economy.
You're right on the money.
There's just so little left for Russia to be proud of. They used to make great vodka until the damn Grey Goose came along.
Literature was another one, but damn if I saw a world-class writer coming out of Russia over the past few decades or so.
... Russian Mafia-driven identity/credit card fraud against Americans and citizens of other perceived (note I said "perceived") well to do nations.
Any system that relies on combination of 16 digits and the name of the card holder (9 digits and the name in case of SNN) to authenticate the owner of the bank account and give complete access to that account's finances is bound to be broken sooner or later, Russian mob or no Russian mob.
http://www.techbooksforfree.com/
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If you posted an entry or a comment, you probably pinged weblogs.com or ping-o-matic, which is default in WordPress. Hence your URL was picked up.
The only caveat so far is you have to think in Russian in order for it to work.
I don't get it. What's the problem?
--Alex Moskalyuk
Buy a license from FCC and then use their power to prosecute anyone who transmits on your licensed frequency. They have the power to shut down anyone who squats on licensed spectrum.
I've seen RSS results on recently launched work search engines, which mostly parse the sites like Monster.com and Yahoo! HotJobs, scraping the results into their database. You can mostly subscribe to the searches, not to the feed of jobs directly (since for national searches probably wouldn't do you much good).
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RSS search results is supported by:
http://www.indeed.com/
http://www.workzoo.c
Not supported:
http://www.simplyhired.com/
The practicality of job searches as RSS feeds is pretty good for both active and passive job seekers. Adding a feed to My Yahoo! or local RSS aggregator can always provide pointers when a new job arrives.
Well, having a legit link to Wikipedia and having the comment links (and thus the spamming links) default to ref=nofollow would be a pretty workable solution.
How would you reverse-engineer it?
Shameless plug, it's my site: Linux Interview Questions
THe questions were forwarded by recruiters and companies, pretty much all of them in the US, except the first one, who was located in India.
Well, the technical knowledge is required of the CEO, but not deep down technical knowledge, like being able to parse Assembly code thrown out by debugger. Gerstner understood his business, and understoof the fact that engineers design stuff while sales people sell it.
I've read his book about his experience at IBM and most of it dealt with getting rid of middle layer (IBM had so many managers, that half of the time the secretaries of the managers would arrive at a meeting instead of the managers). Guess who else suffers from managerial overflow.
Also Gerstner started layoffs in groups that did not produce any valuable products and that grew enormously by hiring, but never delivering real results. Some smart people there, but not capable of delivering a 1.0. The layoffs caused lots of criticism.
So generally while technical knowledge is advised, more often than not it's the CEO's organizational skills and ability to spend X dollars to earn Y dollars where Y>X.
And when choosing letters and numbers for variables, choose the ones that take the fewer pixels on the screen, like i, l, _i_, __i, ____i, i1, _i1. This will shave a few seconds off your graphical card processing and will lower your power bill, since there're fewer bytes traveling between mother board and graphics card.
Yes, basically the decisions are made in the firmware of your brain, for which you have the sources, but they are written in language you hardly understand, so you think you know how a certain decision is made, since it's your brain, after all, but in the reality you start making up stuff as you go (I guess I like this jam because my grandmother made something similar when we lived on the farm).
He was talking about that property applied specifically to jam. Can you describe in detail the texture of the last jam you tried? Or how would you rate the texture of that jam on the scale of 1-10 and why? What would you improve in the jam texture?
When brain of anyone but a professional food taster faces with these questions, it starts making stuff up.
Yes, you're totally right. It's like brain kicks in some processing where processing is not due. He talks about the case where people are asked to choose a jam they like, so the choice is made, but when they asked to rationalize their choices on some criteria (like smell, texture, taste) suddenly a new winner emerges.
They apply mental energy that overpowers the gut feeling and somehow you're now required to rationalize the jam texture on the scale of 1 to 10 (what the hell is texture anyway, and did you ever pay attention to it in your life?), so the decisions are changed.
I bought the CD version of the book after I read the previous Slashdot review, since it has been on my wishlist for a while. Right now I am on disk 6 (out of 7) in my car, and generally it's underwleming. Interesting, but nothing new, you don't learn a whole lot.
The author does bring up good stories and examples about the Aeron chair and cola sampling methods and some musical artists and TV shows that were rejected by public, approved by someone with a gut feeling, and then re-recognized by the public as masterpieces.
In a nutshell? Trust the gut feeling, but it can fool you sometimes.
And then he spends almost an entire chapter telling you how racist you are based on some test, where more people associate the black race with "bad" than with "good", and then same people have troubles putting the words "good" and "black" in one basket. Interesting, but still, not really useful as far as personal growth and self-education.
Oops, my bad.
Put me for $50 on red!
It seems that Microsoft is a strong believer in putting all the eggs in one basket. Only one division of the company is in charge of producing operating systems, but it seems that everyone else (with the exception of Mac Business Unit) seems to follow the strategy of releasing their products just for one OS.
Do you see possible Linux versions for any of the following Microsoft products:
- Streets & Maps, MapPoint
- Encyclopedias
- Games
- Office applications
- Server applications, such as Speech Server and Live Communications Server
Firefox browser by itself is pretty nice, but the barebones edition does not really offer much added value compared to IE or Opera. The extensions, however, are amazing, I sometimes browse their extensions catalog just to see what I am missing, or make sure I don't miss articles like this to see what the other folks are using.
This book has been on my wishlist for a while, saw it recommended on some blog. Apparently Amazon sells an audio version on CD, I will be getting that today.
Two things that come to mind is search and scalability. Can you conduct quick searches through the files, and will the system scale if you become as popular as Slashdot, with thousands of daily updates (in form of user comments).
Actually, thanks for pointing out, I was enrolled in their 10% program, which they give out by default.
I was hoping to buy a private jet and retire to a private island with half a dozen of supermodels all thanks to the affiliate link in my Slashdot post, but apparently things might not work out that way.
Anyway, it's a great host, and I would have pointed them out whether they had an affiliate program or not (the other one doesn't, by the way). Since it doesn't cost any more money to those who click on the link, I fail to see the damage.
My apologies if that link in any way offended you.
I am currently using two Web hosting providers, both for Web and e-mail, that I feel I can recommend. That's out of 5-6 hosting providers that I've used total. DreamHost has good plans, almost 99.999% uptime and pretty strong support services. I've been with them for about half a year, and so far have only the best impressions. I sent out a support e-mail once (had some database troubles), and got back a reply within 5 minutes (they don't promise that, but they guarantee a reply within 24 hours). Seems like they have plenty of customers and hence hire dedicated staff for support. Some domains hosted there (if you want to check the traceroute or load speed) - collectorcarbuff.com, thatwasfunny.com.
I've been with VerveHosting for about 5 years, they've been hosting my e-mail and provided Web hosting, the same thing - excellent uptimes and timely support, always got a reply within an hour or so in case I had a problem. Also, several times I needed custom Perl modules for the Web server, and all I had to do is ask. Domain hosted on VerveHosting - moskalyuk.com and hotdealsportal.com.
There are three others which I won't recommend (one happened to give me a 3-day-in-a-row downtime once), but I don't want to mention their names. WebHostingTalk is a great place to look for deals on hosting and read reviews.
From personal experience - I stopped looking for unbeliavably low prices, as those hosters would inevitably be the ones having problems. Good service costs money, and support can be crucial issue, if your site is selling products or selling ads, since every hour of downtime brings lost revenues. The link to DreamHost above is a kickback link (they have an award program for each customer, where the kickback earned goes towards the hosting bill), but other than that I don't profit from the links, and do not work for any of the companies.