-D port
Specifies a local ``dynamic'' application-level port forwarding.
This works by allocating a socket to listen to port on the local
side, and whenever a connection is made to this port, the connec-
tion is forwarded over the secure channel, and the application
protocol is then used to determine where to connect to from the
remote machine. Currently the SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 protocols are
supported, and ssh will act as a SOCKS server. Only root can
forward privileged ports. Dynamic port forwardings can also be
specified in the configuration file.
My prior job required me to travel to China for a few weeks every 2-3 months & I found it invaluable. Fire it open on the command line, and set your browser to use that local port as a SOCKS proxy.
(Note, however, this will not help you deal with shitty bandwidth to sites outside china. On that front, you're pretty much just fucked until you leave China. Even "off hours" don't help that much.)
An honest question, I haven't been able to find the answer to online:
How do we know these models are correct?
Of course, what's also in my mind are the models of Wall Street . I understand it's not apple-to-apples, but I think given the collapse we've seen in the financial sector due to incorrect models, it seems a fair question.
I was an altavista user. A die-hard one, for most of the mid/late-nineties. In fact, I remember the day I finally convinced my boss to switch from Altavista to Google, because he had worked on Altavista.
Today's results completely blow away the search engines of 10 years ago. In fact, any of the major players -- Yahoo, Microsoft, even Ask & co. -- would blow away the search engines of 10 years ago.
(Add to the fact that the number of documents on the web that they need to crawl & rank have exploded.)
Your comment that "the resultant pile of URLs for any given keyword is utterly worthless" is itself hyperbolic nonsense. If that were true, nobody would use them.
I can't speak to consulting, but being granted equity is fairly common in tech. Some initial points:
* Four years is much more common than five.
* Make sure you understand the vesting schedule. You could suggest a 1 year cliff, followed by monthly after that. If they push to yearly, compromise at quarterly.
Next, as it's a consulting business, ask what happens to profits. Are they distributed to the owners? (I.e., you?) If so, how often & are the books validated by an outside firm? How would the payout of unvested equity work? E.g., say they make $1,000 profit in the first year. Do you get $100 (10%), $25 (10% / 4 year vesting), or $0 (nothing was vested).
Then you need some sense of what that equity is worth. This is where understanding the above will be key, along with looking at past performance and some forecasting of future profit.
If it looks like your salary + the equity would be significantly above what you would make as a salaryman elsewhere, you should consider.
One thing to keep in mind, is that once you sign the deal, they may be less welling to increase your base compensation (e.g., annual salary), thinking that the equity may be golden handcuffs of a sort.
Either way, good luck with your decision! As stressful as it is, this is a Good Problem to have.:)
I was a developer on My Yahoo! several years ago. I disliked this new version & figured if I was going to have to re-do everthing, I might as well try iGoogle.
Sadly, I know a lot of others who have done the same.
I worked at Yahoo for five years. I have no idea who's left (most folks I knew have also since left), but this is a clear sign of losing focus on the user. First there was the draconian booting of everyone off the old version of My Yahoo! & now this.
Why do people get to make decisions like this & keep their jobs?
No, he must be a recent hire. In 1999, Yahoo did not do search advertising; it didn't even do search. For a long time, the Yahoo model was exactly what he described. Yahoo focused on content & best of breed technology via 3rd parties. If Altavista was the best search, AV would be used. If it was Google, then that was the search engine. Likewise, maps & so on. The rationale was that the top dog would always be changing, and by partnering instead of competing, Yahoo could always use the "best."
(It was under this reasoning that Yahoo declined opportunities to buy Ebay (twice), Google, and others.)
It wasn't ~2002 that Yahoo got into the search engine biz itself and until ~2003, via the purchase of Overture/Goto.com, search advertising.
BTW, Yahoo never used AdSense (Google's contextual advertising), but they did use AdWords (search advertising). While a lot of people don't know the difference, it's unlikely the poster knows much about online advertising if he doesn't.
"According to computer forensics expert witness Keith Jones, for every logic bomb on the network or Terry Childs case that makes it into the press, there are 98 other incidents of disgruntled IT pros damaging company assets that you never hear about."
Soooo, not that many?
Frankly, I think it's best to create an atmosphere of trust & openness. I don't know 100% of what happened yet in the Terry Childs case (I don't think anyone does), but it's fairly clear his bosses were a bunch of political asshats.
I'm also in Beijing. Actually, I'm in the airport, typing this as I wait for my flight to leave.
One piece of advice on the great firewall, from one geek to another, is ssh tunnels. If you a unix box on the other side of the firewall, just fire up:
ssh -D 8080 youhost.example.com
The configure you proxy to use a SOCKS proxy on localhost:8080.
Suddenly no more firewall. I'd say it's a bit slower, but saying the Internet is slow in China is redundant.
Slashdot Mirror
Seriously, ssh -D is your friend:
-D port
Specifies a local ``dynamic'' application-level port forwarding.
This works by allocating a socket to listen to port on the local
side, and whenever a connection is made to this port, the connec-
tion is forwarded over the secure channel, and the application
protocol is then used to determine where to connect to from the
remote machine. Currently the SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 protocols are
supported, and ssh will act as a SOCKS server. Only root can
forward privileged ports. Dynamic port forwardings can also be
specified in the configuration file.
My prior job required me to travel to China for a few weeks every 2-3 months & I found it invaluable. Fire it open on the command line, and set your browser to use that local port as a SOCKS proxy.
(Note, however, this will not help you deal with shitty bandwidth to sites outside china. On that front, you're pretty much just fucked until you leave China. Even "off hours" don't help that much.)
was or is?
timothy is one of the reasons I rarely come to slashdot anymore.
Bing Video Search?
An honest question, I haven't been able to find the answer to online:
How do we know these models are correct?
Of course, what's also in my mind are the models of Wall Street . I understand it's not apple-to-apples, but I think given the collapse we've seen in the financial sector due to incorrect models, it seems a fair question.
-Bill
What surprising is they don't use it for Bing.
Put the crackpipe down!
I was an altavista user. A die-hard one, for most of the mid/late-nineties. In fact, I remember the day I finally convinced my boss to switch from Altavista to Google, because he had worked on Altavista.
Today's results completely blow away the search engines of 10 years ago. In fact, any of the major players -- Yahoo, Microsoft, even Ask & co. -- would blow away the search engines of 10 years ago.
(Add to the fact that the number of documents on the web that they need to crawl & rank have exploded.)
Your comment that "the resultant pile of URLs for any given keyword is utterly worthless" is itself hyperbolic nonsense. If that were true, nobody would use them.
Oh the irony of this comment & the story editor being timothy...
Interesting. The business has never asked your IT group to help reduce the bottom land?
What a fanciful company you must work for.
-Bill
Agreed, I thought the same. The most telling was using low-latency as an indication that he should be seeing high bandwidth. Not necessarily the case.
-Bill
You know that part where you quote something he said in his blog? Yeah, a link would have been nice there.
I can't speak to consulting, but being granted equity is fairly common in tech. Some initial points:
* Four years is much more common than five.
* Make sure you understand the vesting schedule. You could suggest a 1 year cliff, followed by monthly after that. If they push to yearly, compromise at quarterly.
Next, as it's a consulting business, ask what happens to profits. Are they distributed to the owners? (I.e., you?) If so, how often & are the books validated by an outside firm? How would the payout of unvested equity work? E.g., say they make $1,000 profit in the first year. Do you get $100 (10%), $25 (10% / 4 year vesting), or $0 (nothing was vested).
Then you need some sense of what that equity is worth. This is where understanding the above will be key, along with looking at past performance and some forecasting of future profit.
If it looks like your salary + the equity would be significantly above what you would make as a salaryman elsewhere, you should consider.
One thing to keep in mind, is that once you sign the deal, they may be less welling to increase your base compensation (e.g., annual salary), thinking that the equity may be golden handcuffs of a sort.
Either way, good luck with your decision! As stressful as it is, this is a Good Problem to have. :)
-Bill
"convincing-sounding"... wtf does that mean?
How does kdawson work here?
Uh, no. They don't give two squats about either.
What they do want is the advertiser base for sponsored search.
I was a developer on My Yahoo! several years ago. I disliked this new version & figured if I was going to have to re-do everthing, I might as well try iGoogle.
Sadly, I know a lot of others who have done the same.
-Bill
:q!emacs !^
I worked at Yahoo for five years. I have no idea who's left (most folks I knew have also since left), but this is a clear sign of losing focus on the user. First there was the draconian booting of everyone off the old version of My Yahoo! & now this.
Why do people get to make decisions like this & keep their jobs?
Actually, I prefer to think of it this:
Yahoo uses PHP. Google uses Python.
-Bill
No, he must be a recent hire. In 1999, Yahoo did not do search advertising; it didn't even do search. For a long time, the Yahoo model was exactly what he described. Yahoo focused on content & best of breed technology via 3rd parties. If Altavista was the best search, AV would be used. If it was Google, then that was the search engine. Likewise, maps & so on. The rationale was that the top dog would always be changing, and by partnering instead of competing, Yahoo could always use the "best."
(It was under this reasoning that Yahoo declined opportunities to buy Ebay (twice), Google, and others.)
It wasn't ~2002 that Yahoo got into the search engine biz itself and until ~2003, via the purchase of Overture/Goto.com, search advertising.
BTW, Yahoo never used AdSense (Google's contextual advertising), but they did use AdWords (search advertising). While a lot of people don't know the difference, it's unlikely the poster knows much about online advertising if he doesn't.
-Bill
"According to computer forensics expert witness Keith Jones, for every logic bomb on the network or Terry Childs case that makes it into the press, there are 98 other incidents of disgruntled IT pros damaging company assets that you never hear about."
Soooo, not that many?
Frankly, I think it's best to create an atmosphere of trust & openness. I don't know 100% of what happened yet in the Terry Childs case (I don't think anyone does), but it's fairly clear his bosses were a bunch of political asshats.
-Bill
Never in my life have I wish so badly that I had mod points. kdawson is the new timothy.
I'm also in Beijing. Actually, I'm in the airport, typing this as I wait for my flight to leave.
One piece of advice on the great firewall, from one geek to another, is ssh tunnels. If you a unix box on the other side of the firewall, just fire up:
The configure you proxy to use a SOCKS proxy on localhost:8080.
Suddenly no more firewall. I'd say it's a bit slower, but saying the Internet is slow in China is redundant.
-Bill
Uh, if you're never heard of literate programming & you're surprised by what Knuth said, it's because you're not listening very closely.
-Bill
"Archivists?"
Last I checked, Andy was just one guy.
-Bill
Somebody tell that to California, as we already have it.
*grumble* *grumble*