In addition to all of the advice above keep in mind this: people who become professional managers are just as much geeks as those who program.
By that I mean people who become executives and mid- and upper level managers are people who should love the political/people stuff as much as a programmer loves technology.
Think about mid to senior management as the equivalent of mid to senior level developers -- how much time and energy have they spent working on the skills that matter in a political, people-everything environment? Just as much as the developers did in their coding and technical stuff, if not more. And they're just as motivated as well.
Be sure that you're comfortable in making a jump to that kind of peer group!
I was benchmarking *native* binaries on my old rig (dual PIII Xeon 700MHz 2MB w/ 640MB PC100 DRAM) on both Gentoo 2004 (gcc 3.3.2) and FreeBSD 5.2.1 (gcc 3.3.3) using:
nbench - FreeBSD slightly faster on memory & integer (3% and 1% respectively) - Linux much faster on floating point (17%)
scimark - FreeBSD faster on FFT (11%), SOR (3%) & LU (5%) - Linux faster on Monte Carlo (2%) & Sparse Matmult (16%)
stream - FreeBSD faster on copy (1%) & scale (2%) - Linux faster on add (7%) & triad (10%)
ubench - Linux faster on both cpu (5%) & mem (60%)
I haven't pulled apart these programs in minute detail to account for any discrepencies, but it seems that most operations will operate at the same speed (within a margin of error) at least on this old machine.
On my newest rig (dual Opteron 242s w/ 2GB PC3200 DDRAM each) FreeBSD wasn't stable enough at the time of setup for me to test it properly.
My only complaint about Gentoo (compared w/ say, FreeBSD or OpenBSD) from an admin point of view on the AMD64 platform is that you've really got to keep up with the postings from the engineering team.
I've been running for almost a year now and while the architectural changes haven't been crippling, they weren't trivial either.
The reason we get so bogged down in the states is because everything is done by committee.
Unfortunately it has the huge cost of distribution (e.g., pipelines) and (safe) storage added on. Adding the cost of liability insurance to that and you've got to have a huge and dedicated customer base to swallow that bill.
Doubly unfortunate is that gas and oil are usually found together and the practice nowadays is to suppress gas recovery in favour of oil...
OT but part of that entails studying the micro environments of decaying matter to see what organisms, in what life stages and in what proportions exist at various stages of decay, i.e., given so many of such bug and its given stage in life, when was the time of death?
That's what the bugs in Starship Troopers were doing -- sending us their nuclear waste! They just didn't think a bunch of mammals would mind or matter...
the entire US signs up to take correspondence courses in taxidermy that are shown on TV.
And here, ladies and gentlemen, is a fine specimen of the once prolific, American Cube Dwelling Programmer, posed as his career died, browsing Slashdot...
Roughly speaking of course -- the exact details are framed in their separate charters and, of course, the constitution differs between our two countries.
That reminds me of the policy position of the Canadian Rhino Party, "As for the environment, let's get rid of it -- it's too big and it's always getting dirty."
One thing that's always puzzled me -- I thought that eBay ran on Windows (NT, 2K, XP whatever). While hardly an HPC app, it's still likely thousands of headless machines. I wonder what the justification for MS is there?
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People here have a very limited view of compensation -- the total value of her exit package is $45 Million .
In addition to all of the advice above keep in mind this: people who become professional managers are just as much geeks as those who program.
By that I mean people who become executives and mid- and upper level managers are people who should love the political/people stuff as much as a programmer loves technology.
Think about mid to senior management as the equivalent of mid to senior level developers -- how much time and energy have they spent working on the skills that matter in a political, people-everything environment? Just as much as the developers did in their coding and technical stuff, if not more. And they're just as motivated as well.
Be sure that you're comfortable in making a jump to that kind of peer group!
... producitivty is enhanced in the backseats of CamarOS.
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It's true -- I hate myself for writing that
Lesse, lmbench 2.0 ...
"Simple" stat, fstat, read, write, open/close
- Linux at least 100% faster than FreeBSD
"Select" fd's (incl. tcp)
- FreeBSD at least 100% faster than Linux
"Process" fork +exit,+execve,+/bin/sh -c
- Linux up to 100% faster than FreeBSD
"Bandwidth"
- tmp write: Linux 30% faster
- localhost socket: Linux 13% faster
- sock stream: FreeBSD 16% faster
- pipe: FreeBSD 33% faster
I was benchmarking *native* binaries on my old rig (dual PIII Xeon 700MHz 2MB w/ 640MB PC100 DRAM) on both Gentoo 2004 (gcc 3.3.2) and FreeBSD 5.2.1 (gcc 3.3.3) using:
nbench
- FreeBSD slightly faster on memory & integer (3% and 1% respectively)
- Linux much faster on floating point (17%)
scimark
- FreeBSD faster on FFT (11%), SOR (3%) & LU (5%)
- Linux faster on Monte Carlo (2%) & Sparse Matmult (16%)
stream
- FreeBSD faster on copy (1%) & scale (2%)
- Linux faster on add (7%) & triad (10%)
ubench
- Linux faster on both cpu (5%) & mem (60%)
I haven't pulled apart these programs in minute detail to account for any discrepencies, but it seems that most operations will operate at the same speed (within a margin of error) at least on this old machine.
On my newest rig (dual Opteron 242s w/ 2GB PC3200 DDRAM each) FreeBSD wasn't stable enough at the time of setup for me to test it properly.
My only complaint about Gentoo (compared w/ say, FreeBSD or OpenBSD) from an admin point of view on the AMD64 platform is that you've really got to keep up with the postings from the engineering team.
I've been running for almost a year now and while the architectural changes haven't been crippling, they weren't trivial either.
Is there a fund set up yet where we can donate to their legal defense?
There was -- but they took it down when it would only accept 0.25 at a time.
The reason we get so bogged down in the states is because everything is done by committee.
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Unfortunately it has the huge cost of distribution (e.g., pipelines) and (safe) storage added on. Adding the cost of liability insurance to that and you've got to have a huge and dedicated customer base to swallow that bill.
Doubly unfortunate is that gas and oil are usually found together and the practice nowadays is to suppress gas recovery in favour of oil
Kawasaki has a column for Forbes called Art of the Start where he does Q&A about VC stuff. He seems to be mostly concentrated on his VC company, now.
Speed 3: Revenge Served Cold!
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Just a sec while I get out my etch-a-sketch and pound out a script
OT but part of that entails studying the micro environments of decaying matter to see what organisms, in what life stages and in what proportions exist at various stages of decay, i.e., given so many of such bug and its given stage in life, when was the time of death?
That's what the bugs in Starship Troopers were doing -- sending us their nuclear waste! They just didn't think a bunch of mammals would mind or matter ...
Looking at PubMed for "Actinomycosis" brings up a couple hundred papers on this beastie.
A good portion of these are "post-", i.e., this looks like its easily misdiagnosed/missed.
The common treatment seems to be: 6-12 months of high levels of penicillin/amoxicillin/ceftriaxone plus surgery to get rid of pseudo-tumour growths.
No, he'll just have to start wearing more pieces of flair ...
the entire US signs up to take correspondence courses in taxidermy that are shown on TV.
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And here, ladies and gentlemen, is a fine specimen of the once prolific, American Cube Dwelling Programmer, posed as his career died, browsing Slashdot
You've got it!
;-)
People won't take this seriously until it's the "Department of e Homeland i Security".
I believe I used up all my Karma with this post.
Yup,
RCMP == FBI
CSIS == CIA
CSE == NSA
Roughly speaking of course -- the exact details are framed in their separate charters and, of course, the constitution differs between our two countries.
Personally I use the Mozilla programs for their clean, intuitive interfaces and the many useful plugins.
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Check out this README for their latest, Mozilla Fireball Z:
Interface Keywords:
- typing short, descriptive phrases will start actions or launch plugins,
e.g., Kamehameha launches the Hair Dye and Mousse plugin which simulates a complete bleach job in a windtunnel
Device Gestures:
- Quick, easily remembered actions using normally connected devices offer another shortcut to performing useful actions in Fireball Z,
e.g., using the mouse, keyboard, DDR pad, wireless Thighmaster and microphone
If you're a US resident, try the Sun auctions.
I'd like to add another moderation category: grumpy old man. ;-)
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Of course, I'm as guilty too
You made my day by not writing, ice hockey. Back to watching the Cup!
That reminds me of the policy position of the Canadian Rhino Party, "As for the environment, let's get rid of it -- it's too big and it's always getting dirty."
One thing that's always puzzled me -- I thought that eBay ran on Windows (NT, 2K, XP whatever). While hardly an HPC app, it's still likely thousands of headless machines. I wonder what the justification for MS is there?
Like the airlines think Saftey, Saftey, Saftey - Microsoft need to adopt the slogan.. Security Security Security
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And some sort of chant -- maybe a dance
And this is different from how human body language is used how?
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Just think of the possibilities when we can translate the following into chimp:
Developers! Developers! Developers!
I mean, we already have the body language part down (and probably the olfactory as well)