Having read various issue reports - this only affects certain apps and apparently only for certain users in certain regions - just how fast is the submitter expecting an official response?
Instapaper's author was begging happy users to write review to balance out the "-3 stars: crashes! this app is teh suck!" reviews that came flooding in as people installed the new update. If my livelihood were being harmed by a publisher breaking my app, I'd want that official response pretty damn quickly.
Closures this, aspects that, ooh look ma I'm using list operators... academic functionality makes for cute sample code, but those of us with actual jobs have more pressing things to do than learn a new language and syntax.
Fortunately, the "closures this, aspects that, list operators!" group makes a ridiculous amount of money cleaning up the mistakes and horrible non-engineering of the people who "just want to get things done".
Alarmingly, they openly state that they oppose schools teaching critical thinking, on the grounds that it may challenge 'student's fixed beliefs' and undermine 'parental authority.'
As a parent, I don't want complete unquestioned authority over my kids' thoughts. I've made a long-standing habit of flat out lying to my kids and getting them to catch me in it. When one of them says, "Dad, I think you just made that up", then I think I've done my job as a parent.
That doesn't mean I want complete, unquestioned disrespect. To channel my dad, it's my house and my rules. But I fully expect to have to defend my opinions to my kids. Even if they ultimately disagree with my point of view, at least I've taught them why I believe the way I do. And if I'm not able to satisfactorily explain and defend those opinions, maybe I need to reconsider them.
Why, back in my day passing the bar was an effectively unfettered license to intimidate and extort practically anybody who couldn't afford the services of my colleagues.
"What kind of connections does someone have in the world to be this arrogant towards a lawyer?" she asked. "Think about it. Inman is WELL-CONNECTED! To me, that just means one thing: mafia."
Can you believe the nerve of a peasant not to kowtow to a lawyer? Unthinkable!
NOT A SINGLE ONE OF YOU, not one mind you, said even the tiniest bit about the dead Americans i linked to
I did, and what I said was that your link was full of dumb, race-baiting statistical fail. You provided a list of Americans allegedly killed by illegal immigrants, but the count was immeasurably tiny compared to the number of Americans killed by born-and-bred native citizens. It was no more relevant than when politicians trot out the number who died on 9/11 to justify whatever fool thing they're trying to stick us with that day.
I'm sorry those people died, and I'm not being facetious or condescending. Seriously, that sucks. But a lot of people die every day in unfortunate - usually even preventable - ways. That doesn't mean we call it quits and turn off the lights and go home.
When people enter the country illegally, they effectively just take what they want.
Illegal immigrants typically make poverty-level incomes and wouldn't be paying income taxes if they were native citizens. They do, however, pay sales tax, property tax (as a portion of their rent), fuel taxes, etc. It's not a free ride.
Democrats are no alternative.
Eww. I never mentioned them, and for good reason. I'm an independent leaning more toward Libertarian than any other major party.
But do you really carry all that around with you at all times? I have a Social Security card and birth certificate in the safe downstairs, but usually only have my driver's license on me. Yeah, I could prove I'm an American - probably even if the interrogator were being a hard case and not going down the "how do I know you didn't fake your Social Security card" route.
But my main point is that Arizona is requiring a lot more from Americans of Latino descent than it is from me, with my European ancestry. No sheriff is likely to insist that I prove my citizenship. An American kid who was born and raised here by immigrant parents doesn't owe that sheriff any more proof than I should be expected to offer, but by all accounts that's not how it ends up working. If your kid were arrested and taken to jail because he wasn't carrying citizenship papers on him, would you be cool with that? Personally, I'd be madder than hell.
They broke federal law by illegally entering our country.
A man looks at a line on the map and thinks, "on this side, my children go to poor schools until 3rd grade and then start a lifetime of manual labor. They'll have no more than I. On that side of the invisible line, they go to good schools and maybe work hard to become a doctor." Then he steps over the line. Yeah, that's just a hair's breadth away from slanging 'caine with a gang.
The fact that you think this is how humans reason about morality says a lot more about you than it does our new visitors.
Welcome aboard, by the way! Sorry that Arizona is currently acting like a dumbass, but I think most Americans genuinely like that people want to come here and hang out with us. I'm glad that you found something in our home that made you want to stick around.
If you are on a greencard you must carry that with you at all times.
And what if you're not - what if you're a native-born citizen to immigrant parents and you have an accent? Do you have to carry papers showing that you're not required to carry papers? I'm a white guy born and raised in the Midwest. Does my lack of proof of citizenship give Arpaio and his jackboots the right to detain me for no other reason than that I can't prove it? Or is that only for "those people"?
I hate to break the news to ya, but it ain't just poo little Paco coming to work that's crossing the border,
On behalf of us conservative, middle-class, white Americans [1]: kiss my ass. "Poor little Paco" is some dude who wants a better living for his family. You don't get to blithely throw that baby out with the bathwater. Dismissing concerns about "those poor little brown people" is a giant "screw you" to everyone who's ever emigrated to America.
we are talking dope dealers,
...who wouldn't be an issue if we dropped this stupid War On Drugs,
human traffickers,
...who are heavily involved with the same drug warlords our insane policies have made rich,
some really serious scum are crossing that huge leaking sieve of a border as well.
...but fortunately they constitute a tiny portion of border violators. Your little link listed, what, 10? 20? people killed by illegal immigrants. They'd call that a busy week in Chicago (no, really: unlike you, I actually looked up the numbers).
So we have a few tens of millions of decent people who want to work hard at good jobs to send their kids to the schools they themselves didn't have. And then we have a few thousand who want to get rich off the drug laws we've almost custom-tailored to those ends. Ruling out the crime of illegal immigration itself, I'd wager that the crime rate among those immigrants is no more than equal that of natives in similar economic classes. I'd make a side wager that it would be less, as tight-knit communities self-police to keep the limelight off themselves, and because an illegal immigrant making $X is likely to feel much less poor than a native making the same amount.
So in short, you ought to be ashamed for writing off "poor little Paco", as though his desire to live better is no big deal. There are a lot more of him than there are of the scary drug kidnapper straw men you've used to justify your racist assholishness. You, personally, are the reason that the Republicans don't completely own the Latino vote. Their conservative culture would be a near-perfect match for the Republican platform if you could get over your squeamishness and quit driving them away.
[1] I'm still a fiscal conservative, but I couldn't abide by the social hyperconservatism of the current Republican party. I'm not gay and the occasional mai tai is the hardest drug I get near so it's not like I was feeling personally oppressed. It's just that I stopped feeling the need to tell other people how to live. You, too, can get over the "Rush says it so it must be right!" mindset and start enjoying the world around you. It's not nearly as scary as rightwing talk radio would lead you to believe.
Unfortunately, not all the users are reasonable and well behaved. There were a few addresses that were hitting me with a query per second. And you can't blacklist these anti-social idiots because if you do, they're still consuming inbound bandwidth.
I feel your pain, and it is (or at least was) made worse by ntpd itself. I tried to get limiting working a few years ago, but in the end my server kept answering requests from even the most abusive clients. This peeved me greatly. When I've flagged a client as bad, stop talking to them.
I still wanted to help out with the pool, though. I ended up adding a few dummynet pipes with random delays from 0 to 30 seconds and various probabilities of being used, and maintained a manual blacklist of abusive clients who got their answers redirected back through those randomly delayed pipes. That actually seemed to work; those clients noticed that my clock was between 0 and 30 seconds off at any given time and eventually stopped asking.
I don't recommend that approach as it was fairly labor intensive, but I did enjoy my BOFH moment in the sun.
For home use, I actually use ntpupdate in a once-a-day cron job, rather than having a full ntpd talking to the pool all day long. It was a little more work to set up (which is also something I wish could be addressed), but combined with automatic drift correction, it seems more than adequate for my needs.
That's not a good approach. ntpd handles a lot of edge cases - what if your drift isn't constant? what if some of your time sources turn out to be flaky? - and generally only checks the upstream clocks often enough to verify that it's still running correctly. It would be really hard to build that much functionality into a home-rolled solution, and given that it's harder to do it your way than to just run ntpd in the first place, why not?
That's not a very good idea, in my opinion. Our alternative is to run an NTP server on a lot of internal machines and point each client to a random subset of those - in essence, creating our own NTP pool. Each of those internal servers is an independent source, so if one of them goes astray, clients can automatically start ignoring it. If you only have a single machine providing time, your entire organization is dependent on the whims of a single hardware clock.
That is a perfectly reasonable use. Basically, you're configuring a few internal machines to serve as proxies for the rest. And from an operations standpoint, you're providing a (likely) much more stable clock source that's not at the whims of your upstream network.
They don't, as long as it's consistently crappy. If tests can establish that you always have a delay of 1000.000ms, your machine is a better time source than another that has 100 += 99 ms.
I'm sorry but when it comes to my data I don't want to have to wait up to 4 minutes to be able to get back to texting/calling after each time I remove an app from my cell phone.
Huh? Why would you have to reboot your phone after removing an app?
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I hate it.
You have truly demolished the opposition with your insights.
"He" referred to Sculley, not Jobs.
That's how we ended up buying an American Toyota Sienna. Our rural neighbors teased me about "buying foreign" from the cabs of their Mexican Fords.
Having read various issue reports - this only affects certain apps and apparently only for certain users in certain regions - just how fast is the submitter expecting an official response?
Instapaper's author was begging happy users to write review to balance out the "-3 stars: crashes! this app is teh suck!" reviews that came flooding in as people installed the new update. If my livelihood were being harmed by a publisher breaking my app, I'd want that official response pretty damn quickly.
Closures this, aspects that, ooh look ma I'm using list operators... academic functionality makes for cute sample code, but those of us with actual jobs have more pressing things to do than learn a new language and syntax.
Fortunately, the "closures this, aspects that, list operators!" group makes a ridiculous amount of money cleaning up the mistakes and horrible non-engineering of the people who "just want to get things done".
Alarmingly, they openly state that they oppose schools teaching critical thinking, on the grounds that it may challenge 'student's fixed beliefs' and undermine 'parental authority.'
As a parent, I don't want complete unquestioned authority over my kids' thoughts. I've made a long-standing habit of flat out lying to my kids and getting them to catch me in it. When one of them says, "Dad, I think you just made that up", then I think I've done my job as a parent.
That doesn't mean I want complete, unquestioned disrespect. To channel my dad, it's my house and my rules. But I fully expect to have to defend my opinions to my kids. Even if they ultimately disagree with my point of view, at least I've taught them why I believe the way I do. And if I'm not able to satisfactorily explain and defend those opinions, maybe I need to reconsider them.
Why, back in my day passing the bar was an effectively unfettered license to intimidate and extort practically anybody who couldn't afford the services of my colleagues.
You laugh, but from the wife of Charles Carreon, the guy suing The Oatmeal:
Can you believe the nerve of a peasant not to kowtow to a lawyer? Unthinkable!
NOT A SINGLE ONE OF YOU, not one mind you, said even the tiniest bit about the dead Americans i linked to
I did, and what I said was that your link was full of dumb, race-baiting statistical fail. You provided a list of Americans allegedly killed by illegal immigrants, but the count was immeasurably tiny compared to the number of Americans killed by born-and-bred native citizens. It was no more relevant than when politicians trot out the number who died on 9/11 to justify whatever fool thing they're trying to stick us with that day.
I'm sorry those people died, and I'm not being facetious or condescending. Seriously, that sucks. But a lot of people die every day in unfortunate - usually even preventable - ways. That doesn't mean we call it quits and turn off the lights and go home.
When people enter the country illegally, they effectively just take what they want.
Illegal immigrants typically make poverty-level incomes and wouldn't be paying income taxes if they were native citizens. They do, however, pay sales tax, property tax (as a portion of their rent), fuel taxes, etc. It's not a free ride.
Democrats are no alternative.
Eww. I never mentioned them, and for good reason. I'm an independent leaning more toward Libertarian than any other major party.
But do you really carry all that around with you at all times? I have a Social Security card and birth certificate in the safe downstairs, but usually only have my driver's license on me. Yeah, I could prove I'm an American - probably even if the interrogator were being a hard case and not going down the "how do I know you didn't fake your Social Security card" route.
But my main point is that Arizona is requiring a lot more from Americans of Latino descent than it is from me, with my European ancestry. No sheriff is likely to insist that I prove my citizenship. An American kid who was born and raised here by immigrant parents doesn't owe that sheriff any more proof than I should be expected to offer, but by all accounts that's not how it ends up working. If your kid were arrested and taken to jail because he wasn't carrying citizenship papers on him, would you be cool with that? Personally, I'd be madder than hell.
They broke federal law by illegally entering our country.
A man looks at a line on the map and thinks, "on this side, my children go to poor schools until 3rd grade and then start a lifetime of manual labor. They'll have no more than I. On that side of the invisible line, they go to good schools and maybe work hard to become a doctor." Then he steps over the line. Yeah, that's just a hair's breadth away from slanging 'caine with a gang.
The fact that you think this is how humans reason about morality says a lot more about you than it does our new visitors.
So if I steal your wallet, I have everything needed to become you. I would be hard-pressed to overexaggerate the horribleness of your idea.
I'm a recent American citizen
Welcome aboard, by the way! Sorry that Arizona is currently acting like a dumbass, but I think most Americans genuinely like that people want to come here and hang out with us. I'm glad that you found something in our home that made you want to stick around.
Prove that you're not an alien. You have 15 seconds, starting... now.
If you are on a greencard you must carry that with you at all times.
And what if you're not - what if you're a native-born citizen to immigrant parents and you have an accent? Do you have to carry papers showing that you're not required to carry papers? I'm a white guy born and raised in the Midwest. Does my lack of proof of citizenship give Arpaio and his jackboots the right to detain me for no other reason than that I can't prove it? Or is that only for "those people"?
I hate to break the news to ya, but it ain't just poo little Paco coming to work that's crossing the border,
On behalf of us conservative, middle-class, white Americans [1]: kiss my ass. "Poor little Paco" is some dude who wants a better living for his family. You don't get to blithely throw that baby out with the bathwater. Dismissing concerns about "those poor little brown people" is a giant "screw you" to everyone who's ever emigrated to America.
we are talking dope dealers,
...who wouldn't be an issue if we dropped this stupid War On Drugs,
human traffickers,
...who are heavily involved with the same drug warlords our insane policies have made rich,
some really serious scum are crossing that huge leaking sieve of a border as well.
...but fortunately they constitute a tiny portion of border violators. Your little link listed, what, 10? 20? people killed by illegal immigrants. They'd call that a busy week in Chicago (no, really: unlike you, I actually looked up the numbers).
So we have a few tens of millions of decent people who want to work hard at good jobs to send their kids to the schools they themselves didn't have. And then we have a few thousand who want to get rich off the drug laws we've almost custom-tailored to those ends. Ruling out the crime of illegal immigration itself, I'd wager that the crime rate among those immigrants is no more than equal that of natives in similar economic classes. I'd make a side wager that it would be less, as tight-knit communities self-police to keep the limelight off themselves, and because an illegal immigrant making $X is likely to feel much less poor than a native making the same amount.
So in short, you ought to be ashamed for writing off "poor little Paco", as though his desire to live better is no big deal. There are a lot more of him than there are of the scary drug kidnapper straw men you've used to justify your racist assholishness. You, personally, are the reason that the Republicans don't completely own the Latino vote. Their conservative culture would be a near-perfect match for the Republican platform if you could get over your squeamishness and quit driving them away.
[1] I'm still a fiscal conservative, but I couldn't abide by the social hyperconservatism of the current Republican party. I'm not gay and the occasional mai tai is the hardest drug I get near so it's not like I was feeling personally oppressed. It's just that I stopped feeling the need to tell other people how to live. You, too, can get over the "Rush says it so it must be right!" mindset and start enjoying the world around you. It's not nearly as scary as rightwing talk radio would lead you to believe.
Are you sure you don't mean water? Frozen hydrogen exists only at a combination of extremely low temperature and/or high pressure.
Oh, yes, because that's the part that pushes it over the border into ridiculousness.
Unfortunately, not all the users are reasonable and well behaved. There were a few addresses that were hitting me with a query per second. And you can't blacklist these anti-social idiots because if you do, they're still consuming inbound bandwidth.
I feel your pain, and it is (or at least was) made worse by ntpd itself. I tried to get limiting working a few years ago, but in the end my server kept answering requests from even the most abusive clients. This peeved me greatly. When I've flagged a client as bad, stop talking to them.
I still wanted to help out with the pool, though. I ended up adding a few dummynet pipes with random delays from 0 to 30 seconds and various probabilities of being used, and maintained a manual blacklist of abusive clients who got their answers redirected back through those randomly delayed pipes. That actually seemed to work; those clients noticed that my clock was between 0 and 30 seconds off at any given time and eventually stopped asking.
I don't recommend that approach as it was fairly labor intensive, but I did enjoy my BOFH moment in the sun.
For home use, I actually use ntpupdate in a once-a-day cron job, rather than having a full ntpd talking to the pool all day long. It was a little more work to set up (which is also something I wish could be addressed), but combined with automatic drift correction, it seems more than adequate for my needs.
That's not a good approach. ntpd handles a lot of edge cases - what if your drift isn't constant? what if some of your time sources turn out to be flaky? - and generally only checks the upstream clocks often enough to verify that it's still running correctly. It would be really hard to build that much functionality into a home-rolled solution, and given that it's harder to do it your way than to just run ntpd in the first place, why not?
That's not a very good idea, in my opinion. Our alternative is to run an NTP server on a lot of internal machines and point each client to a random subset of those - in essence, creating our own NTP pool. Each of those internal servers is an independent source, so if one of them goes astray, clients can automatically start ignoring it. If you only have a single machine providing time, your entire organization is dependent on the whims of a single hardware clock.
That is a perfectly reasonable use. Basically, you're configuring a few internal machines to serve as proxies for the rest. And from an operations standpoint, you're providing a (likely) much more stable clock source that's not at the whims of your upstream network.
I genuinely can't tell whether you're joking.
These three are the US master clock's stratum-1 servers. They most likely will not run out of bandwidth.
Don't do that, though; it's anti-social. The NTP ecosystem is much better off scaling horizontally than vertically.
They don't, as long as it's consistently crappy. If tests can establish that you always have a delay of 1000.000ms, your machine is a better time source than another that has 100 += 99 ms.
I'm sorry but when it comes to my data I don't want to have to wait up to 4 minutes to be able to get back to texting/calling after each time I remove an app from my cell phone.
Huh? Why would you have to reboot your phone after removing an app?