Joel talks about shredding paper resumes. Is this legal? I'm not sure where I got this notion, but I was under the impression that businesses are required by law to keep your resume on hand for a few years if you send it to them, even if it was sent unsolicited.
i didn't know raster and mandrake were still making software.. I had been the biggest enlightenment fan for a long time but switched got [black|flux]box last year.
i spoke with raster once when he did did a small talk with keith packard.
How does caching work anymore with an encrypted harddrive? One of the ideas behind caching is that if you access a piece of data, you will access nearby data as well. If your data is encrypted, one would hope that one could no longer ascertain what data is "nearby" to it.
I've been subscribing to Linux Journal for a number of years now. I enjoy most issues, but have been wondering who exactly the target audience is. One article extremely expert article (ie. explaining how to write video4linux drivers) will be juxtaposed with a newbie article (ie. a list of useful shell commands like "du" and "df".)
My hypothesis is that the number of people who would want to subscribe to Linux based magazines isn't large enough to be able to faction even further into gearing it towards either newbies or experts.
The nice thing about this format though, is that once you find yourself getting more expert with the system, you can go back and learn how to write those v4l drivers.;)
Two summers ago, I worked at a company that made dynamic webpages for real estate companies. Before I left, they asked me to help interview people to help replace me. Of all the people whom we interviewed, the person who seemed to suit job best happend to have previously worked for a porn site.
Myself and all the other programmers recommended him, because he simply was the best. The managers themselves admitted that many porn sites probably are more technically advanced than the stuff we were doing, and that he probably was very skilled, but they felt that they didn't want someone like that representing their company and interacting with clients.
They hired someone else, less skilled and less fit for the job over it.
When I first played Riven, I was particular bothered by the way you constantly had to swap the CD-ROMs every time you changed worlds. In fact, it bothered me so much that I stopped playing.
A friend told me a year or so ago that they made a version of Riven that runs on a single DVD disk. I thought that it was a great idea -- That would have made everything fine. I also wondered why more multiple CD-ROM software wasn't released in DVD format.
I must admit that I've never actually used NeWS myself, but when I glaced at the UNIX Hater's Handbook, the chapter complaining about X Window talked about NeWS.
Here's a snippet:
Sounds like science fiction? An extensible window server was precisely the strategy taken by the NeWS (Network extensible Window System) window system written by James Gosling at Sun. With such an extensible system, the user interfae toolkit becomes an extensible server library of classes that clients download directly into the server (the approach taken by Sun's TNT Toolkit). Toolkit objects in different applications share common objects in the server, saving both time and memory, and reating a look-and-feel that is both consistent aross applications and customizable. With NeWS, the window manager itself was implemented inside the server, eliminating network overhead for window manipulation operations -- and along with it the race conditions, context switching overhead, and interaction problems that plague X toolkits and window manager.
I disagreed with a good amount of things I read in that text though, so I'd take it with a grain of salt. Interesting, anyway, though.
--harlan
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The reason the free software doesn't need fixing is because someone already scratched the itch you would get -- because they could.
No one was able to stratch the itches when the source wasn't availible, which is why you feel the need to.
It's part of one of the classes I'm taking right now, actually.
While I found it slightly confusing at first, coming from a background of C-like programming, I can see why it's a good choice. For a student with no programming experience, SML is very close to the mathematical recursion and discrete math. That way their mathematical knowledge can transfer over pretty easily.
It's also a nice way to learn functional programming.
I really doubt oracle is slower than mySQL for stuff like this. I just think that it's like using a "too good tool" for a simple job. In oracle you can really fine tune your queries and your server itself to speed them up alot. The issue is that for a small website, it might not warrent the costs needed for oracle.
At my last job, I worked with both MySQL and Oracle extensively.
There's a difference. A real difference.
At first you'll think they're the same, but as you start getting more advanced with your queries and commands you want to run, it starts becoming obvious. I'd have to do big work arounds and spend hours doing things that would be a few calls in Oracle.
Eventually we moved the MySQL machien to PostgreSQL and that helped a bit. But I still preferred oracle.
Not to say that I dislike MySQL or PostgreSQL. They're good applications. But Oracle one of the few expensive things that is really worth the money.
When I was in high school, I took Japanese instead of the standard french/spanish. I wasn't surprised to find that most of the kids in there were taking it because either they were interested in creating anime or were avid anime viewers.
i used to freeshell back when they were called sdf.lonestar.org. Theyre definitely cool guys. Unfortunately, shells would often lock up on there, and more than once my ~ directory got deleted and I got no answer when I mailed admins about it. Hopefully they've gotton better considering it's nice service, but I have moved on.
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Joel talks about shredding paper resumes. Is this legal? I'm not sure where I got this notion, but I was under the impression that businesses are required by law to keep your resume on hand for a few years if you send it to them, even if it was sent unsolicited.
i didn't know raster and mandrake were still making software.. I had been the biggest enlightenment fan for a long time but switched got [black|flux]box last year.
i spoke with raster once when he did did a small talk with keith packard.
How does caching work anymore with an encrypted harddrive? One of the ideas behind caching is that if you access a piece of data, you will access nearby data as well. If your data is encrypted, one would hope that one could no longer ascertain what data is "nearby" to it.
The class for which I was a TA last semester had 1300 students in it. Believe me, programs were used to check for cheating!
I've been subscribing to Linux Journal for a number of years now. I enjoy most issues, but have been wondering who exactly the target audience is. One article extremely expert article (ie. explaining how to write video4linux drivers) will be juxtaposed with a newbie article (ie. a list of useful shell commands like "du" and "df".)
;)
My hypothesis is that the number of people who would want to subscribe to Linux based magazines isn't large enough to be able to faction even further into gearing it towards either newbies or experts.
The nice thing about this format though, is that once you find yourself getting more expert with the system, you can go back and learn how to write those v4l drivers.
Two summers ago, I worked at a company that made dynamic webpages for real estate companies. Before I left, they asked me to help interview people to help replace me. Of all the people whom we interviewed, the person who seemed to suit job best happend to have previously worked for a porn site.
Myself and all the other programmers recommended him, because he simply was the best. The managers themselves admitted that many porn sites probably are more technically advanced than the stuff we were doing, and that he probably was very skilled, but they felt that they didn't want someone like that representing their company and interacting with clients.
They hired someone else, less skilled and less fit for the job over it.
i didnt realize that it was a female posting that message, and i was like ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
... i tried it without looking. and i was lucky it didn't work.
When I first played Riven, I was particular bothered by the way you constantly had to swap the CD-ROMs every time you changed worlds. In fact, it bothered me so much that I stopped playing.
A friend told me a year or so ago that they made a version of Riven that runs on a single DVD disk. I thought that it was a great idea -- That would have made everything fine. I also wondered why more multiple CD-ROM software wasn't released in DVD format.
Doesn't konquerer do most of the things you're asking for here? Browse around the preferences and you'll notice it does most of that stuff.
- You can filter cookies by domain.
- You can enable javascript, yet disable the window.new() javascript function to stop popups.
etc etc
Did Sun keep developing NeWS until very late or did they drop it and pick up X pretty quickly?
I must admit that I've never actually used NeWS myself, but when I glaced at the UNIX Hater's Handbook, the chapter complaining about X Window talked about NeWS.
Here's a snippet:
Sounds like science fiction? An extensible window server was precisely the strategy taken by the NeWS (Network extensible Window System) window system written by James Gosling at Sun. With such an extensible system, the user interfae toolkit becomes an extensible server library of classes that clients download directly into the server (the approach taken by Sun's TNT Toolkit). Toolkit objects in different applications share common objects in the server, saving both time and memory, and reating a look-and-feel that is both consistent aross applications and customizable. With NeWS, the window manager itself was implemented inside the server, eliminating network overhead for window manipulation operations -- and along with it the race conditions, context switching overhead, and interaction problems that plague X toolkits and window manager.
I disagreed with a good amount of things I read in that text though, so I'd take it with a grain of salt. Interesting, anyway, though.
--harlan
The reason the free software doesn't need fixing is because someone already scratched the itch you would get -- because they could.
No one was able to stratch the itches when the source wasn't availible, which is why you feel the need to.
Well, you might want to try posting silly questinons to "Ask Slashdot" to kill time ;-)
I find links renderes slightly pages more pretty than lynx too.
but I keep using lynx because it's classic like that.
SML is pretty standard for intro CS classes.
It's part of one of the classes I'm taking right now, actually.
While I found it slightly confusing at first, coming from a background of C-like programming, I can see why it's a good choice. For a student with no programming experience, SML is very close to the mathematical recursion and discrete math. That way their mathematical knowledge can transfer over pretty easily.
It's also a nice way to learn functional programming.
---harlan
Me too. Perhaps I should have said 'formal high school'?
My high school has an edu domain. 4 year colleges??
http://www.bxscience.edu/
I really doubt oracle is slower than mySQL for stuff like this. I just think that it's like using a "too good tool" for a simple job. In oracle you can really fine tune your queries and your server itself to speed them up alot. The issue is that for a small website, it might not warrent the costs needed for oracle.
At my last job, I worked with both MySQL and Oracle extensively.
There's a difference. A real difference.
At first you'll think they're the same, but as you start getting more advanced with your queries and commands you want to run, it starts becoming obvious. I'd have to do big work arounds and spend hours doing things that would be a few calls in Oracle.
Eventually we moved the MySQL machien to PostgreSQL and that helped a bit. But I still preferred oracle.
Not to say that I dislike MySQL or PostgreSQL. They're good applications. But Oracle one of the few expensive things that is really worth the money.
When I was in high school, I took Japanese instead of the standard french/spanish. I wasn't surprised to find that most of the kids in there were taking it because either they were interested in creating anime or were avid anime viewers.
It was a free service so I wasn't expecting too much.
i used to freeshell back when they were called sdf.lonestar.org. Theyre definitely cool guys. Unfortunately, shells would often lock up on there, and more than once my ~ directory got deleted and I got no answer when I mailed admins about it. Hopefully they've gotton better considering it's nice service, but I have moved on.
here here The gallery
I actually have pictures from last year:
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