I was thinking that anyone who uses something like this deserves to be shot on the spot - this thing appears designed to main and seems intended for use against protestors - not even close to kosher.
is there any wonder combat troops sign up as cops as the only viable job they're halfways trained for?
The way we treat soldiers is shameful, but there's no way a soldier is in anyway trained as a cop. I'd say that they are less qualified for being a soldier, since they've been trained to kill and subjugate, while cops are supposed to keep the peace and build ties with the community - the army is a wholly improper tool for policing.
That was my point - smoothbores suck at accuracy, rifles, even badly maintained, beat them. Anyway, rifled barrels were around during the revolutionary war, but black powder rifles were slow compared to muskets. It was minnie balls that made rifles practical, and they showed up around 1840, but it wasn't until breech loading weapons that people really abandoned muskets. That was shortly after the civil war concluded.
having been at amazon, it's often the former - nothing like thousands of boxes pushing gigs of data across broadcast groups to show the limits of cisco gear.
he initial version was written in Python because the implementation I inherited was written in Python. However its runtime was measured in hours. I rewrote it in C++ and it now completes in around five minutes.
With a profiler and judicious use of python's ability to nativize cod, you could have saved lots of dev time.
The previous version was impossible to work on: a combination of terrible performance and weak/loose typing meant that if there was a typo near the end of the algorithm, I might only find out about it 6 hours later. This is clearly impractical.
So bundle up a small dataset and use it for unit tests. Simple.
Final example, read up on the Chandler project. One of the biggest problems they had was performance. Python is [a] single threaded [b] interpreted [c] a memory pig and [d] damn near impossible to optimize or compile. This is death by a thousand cuts.... it really doesn't matter how smart your algorithms are if every time you want to do some non-trivial thing your gui stops responding for a few seconds. Works great for simple scripts though.
Python is intended as a perl substitute. Why are you so shocked that it behaves like it? Works fine for large volume data processing.
This is kinda vicious but my strategy is if someone else's coding isn't good enough or they make massive mistakes, I don't just let it fly. You don't have to be their boss, you only have to be working on the same project as them because you're the one putting up with missing object methods and bad documentation and poorly written code. Tell em to rewrite it before you can use it and correct them and generally let them know that it has to be acceptable or they get to fix it. If anyone asks about project delays, don't hesitate to throw them under the bus and accurately report that they were the reason for the delay because their code didn't work. Soon it'll become really obvious that they're the inferior employee who should be replaced if possible.
Or, you could just come off looking like a jerk to both your team and to your boss. You're on a team for a reason: to work together, not complain about how bad someone else's code (or any other work, for that matter) is.
If you are a team member and not in a lead role, you're not in a position to decide what's acceptable and what's not. And you'd be foolish to believe that you are in that position.
Yes, you should let the other person know that improvement is needed, but "throwing them under the bus" isn't the way to do it.
Why should I spend all my time fixing someone else's mess instead of doing my own work? It's perfectly reasonable to tell a dev that it's their mess to fix - this is a fairly effective way to make poor devs a self limiting problem.
That's not really an acceptable answer. An employee's job is not to select tools--his or her job is to provide value to the company. An unprofessional employee that costs the company into the 7 figures is not providing positive value to the company.
It is when they head up a tool selection process. Management's job is not to select tools for developers, but to set goals and standards and enable their reports to meet them.
What spain has done is basically what the USA does already - they claim global jurisdiction over their citizens and attempt to apply their laws globally. In the sklyarov case, it appears that dmitri wasn't a corporate officer, and so would not really be liable for the actions of his company. What little I know about the spanish case points to a judge going after officials, which is far closer to reasonable. Sure, int'l law doesn't really cover that, but so what? it's all gentleman's agreements anyway - no overriding authority. From my side, it looks like the two cases are fairly close, with the perp's position being the major difference.
hehe India is east asia. But hey, having fun with some outsourced devs in ShenZen who only really report to chinese devs. The situation is kind of fucked up, but my company is big out outsourcing, so fuck them.
So let's get this right: grafitti something in singapore and the state department will ask nicely for your release (but no more), but violate a spanish law and get nabbed when you go there and we ought to go to war? Meanwhile, Sklyarov does something legal in Russia and we nab him when he shows up for a conference.
Not only are you proposing two tier justice, you're also under the delusion that US law is the only one that counts.
It's not like we're trying to scientifically measure them, just convey some idea what these big numbers might mean in a more "real world" sense.
In which case, we have these things called units and numbers that allow us to say exactly how big things are.
Now moving on: what privacy implications would this much processing power have? How long would it take for a billion PCs (equivalent) collectively computing to crack a 1024 bit key? 2048 bits? 4096 bits? Can an RSA key easily computed on a P3 in a few seconds still hold the NSA at bay, when they could conceivably have a the equivalent of a BILLION cores under a single point of control?
You don't know encryption; absent a mathematical attack, cracking time is currently measured in years at the very least. That's long enough to make the data useless and means that what you really need to worry about is rubber hose decryption.
Airport employees have the right to expect you to be responsive to simple questions about unusual activities.
No they don't. They can expect it, be disappointed, and ask you to leave - the ticket counter is not a secure area, and acting weird isn't worthy of the response the girl got.
If you are a terrorist, you want as many people as possible to be SCARED, and if they aren't noticing you they they aren't going to be SCARED.
Bullshit. If you're a terrorist, you want the population to be scared and politicians to bribe you to stop killing people. The people around you - you want them to not notice until it's too late.
If your goal is to test the responses of security to different situations, you will be pushing the system incrementally until you push hard enough so it notices you.
Generally, people are trying to evade security. This does not include wearing something weird and flashy.
Getting the attention of the police in unpleasant ways IS the price to pay for acting out of the ordinary and refusing to respond to simple questions.
It's also something you do when you're tired or distracted and just there to pick up a friend. Ticket agents don't have the right to expect you to id yourself unless you're trying to fly somewhere.
You ain't a very good terrorist if nobody pays any attention to what you are doing.
If you're a terrorist, you sort of do want that, at least until the bomb goes off.
It's only close to even if you use a ridiculous metric like number of encounters.
It's expected that, since the numbers for the other three pairings (MM, MF, FF) are about even, the numbers for FM violence is severely underreported. Also, since women can attack with near impunity, often with weapons, it's hardly as onesided as you say.
But the question is, are people turning down white men for jobs because they are white? No. Not on a large scale.
No, but lots of public jobs and government contractors make it very hard to get hired if you're white. My favorite is the guy who can only get government contracts for education CDs (from about 10 years ago) by using a black man as a one man shell company. Basically, he was told that they couldn't contract with him because of diversity requirements and his nonminority status.
It's nice to try and counter generations of discrimination, but we have gone too far in some cases - I really think we have no business mandating diversity for government contracts; mandating a percentage of business going to small companies would accomplish much the same goals without shutting out us white folk:)
I've heard people claim that this happens, but I don't believe it. You'd have to give me some examples if you want to convince me.
Just anecdotes from people allegedly in admissions who see the bumps minorities get for being minorities - the actual data is confidential, so good luck there. You can check the scholarship stuff, though - lots of stuff available for blacks, not so much for a poor white boy. This results in blacks from affluent families getting full or partial ride scholarships for iffy grades while the poor white applicants get not much in the way of admissions bumps or financial aid. If you're white from the ghetto, you're screwed.
What I'd like to see here is some financial aid for people based more on economic hardships than race - hell, we could solve this tomorrow by guaranteeing tuition to an in state public college to anyone who can get in (or a voc tech job if that's your focus). It's not simple or easy, but would remove a major hurdle to middle class lifestyle: qualify and you get tuition for one BS/BA.
Black students have to learn all of the same material as white students (math, biology, etc, etc) PLUS they have to learn how to "act white" in order to be accepted.
Hehe, acting white? you mean some blacks can't go act gangster and talk like an idiot and expect respect? Are the asian kids acting white? Lots of them and they do ok, even with the language barrier (and a whole different culture). But seriously, this is where I ask for examples: are they being rejected for saying 'wif' or are they being insular? Those chinese students (and later, workers) are okay to get along with but it's really goddamn annoying that they socialize almost exclusively with other chinese.
Similarly, women have to not only learn all the same material as men, and build the same (genderless) skills, but they must also spend a bunch of energy learning to "act male", in everything from clothes to patterns of argumentation,
Haven't noticed that so much. Could you describe a female pattern of argument?
And on top of that, they have to deal with harassment.
Harassment? not so much where I work. I have seen one or two women socially who are incapable of telling someone that they aren't interested, even when asked rather bluntly. I expect that that could cause problems at work - someone makes a pass, they 'act polite to avoid conflict' and it gets interpreted as interest.
White men have no idea how much extra free time and energy they have because of their whiteness and maleness.
Ahh, male privilege, what a gas...
College admissions are a little like holding olympic trials
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I was thinking that anyone who uses something like this deserves to be shot on the spot - this thing appears designed to main and seems intended for use against protestors - not even close to kosher.
is there any wonder combat troops sign up as cops as the only viable job they're halfways trained for?
The way we treat soldiers is shameful, but there's no way a soldier is in anyway trained as a cop. I'd say that they are less qualified for being a soldier, since they've been trained to kill and subjugate, while cops are supposed to keep the peace and build ties with the community - the army is a wholly improper tool for policing.
That was my point - smoothbores suck at accuracy, rifles, even badly maintained, beat them. Anyway, rifled barrels were around during the revolutionary war, but black powder rifles were slow compared to muskets. It was minnie balls that made rifles practical, and they showed up around 1840, but it wasn't until breech loading weapons that people really abandoned muskets. That was shortly after the civil war concluded.
having been at amazon, it's often the former - nothing like thousands of boxes pushing gigs of data across broadcast groups to show the limits of cisco gear.
just reading the comments, which state that the software is years out of support and that the admin hasn't applied patches in 5 years.
he initial version was written in Python because the implementation I inherited was written in Python. However its runtime was measured in hours. I rewrote it in C++ and it now completes in around five minutes.
With a profiler and judicious use of python's ability to nativize cod, you could have saved lots of dev time.
The previous version was impossible to work on: a combination of terrible performance and weak/loose typing meant that if there was a typo near the end of the algorithm, I might only find out about it 6 hours later. This is clearly impractical.
So bundle up a small dataset and use it for unit tests. Simple.
Final example, read up on the Chandler project. One of the biggest problems they had was performance. Python is [a] single threaded [b] interpreted [c] a memory pig and [d] damn near impossible to optimize or compile. This is death by a thousand cuts .... it really doesn't matter how smart your algorithms are if every time you want to do some non-trivial thing your gui stops responding for a few seconds. Works great for simple scripts though.
Python is intended as a perl substitute. Why are you so shocked that it behaves like it? Works fine for large volume data processing.
Hmm, octomom did 14 kids in only a few years while on welfare. Let's hear it for crazy bitches with fertility doctors!
I hope you didn't take any vacation days. If I have to do work for a significant period, that isn't a vacation day.
Or, you could just come off looking like a jerk to both your team and to your boss. You're on a team for a reason: to work together, not complain about how bad someone else's code (or any other work, for that matter) is.
If you are a team member and not in a lead role, you're not in a position to decide what's acceptable and what's not. And you'd be foolish to believe that you are in that position.
Yes, you should let the other person know that improvement is needed, but "throwing them under the bus" isn't the way to do it.
Why should I spend all my time fixing someone else's mess instead of doing my own work? It's perfectly reasonable to tell a dev that it's their mess to fix - this is a fairly effective way to make poor devs a self limiting problem.
That's not really an acceptable answer. An employee's job is not to select tools--his or her job is to provide value to the company. An unprofessional employee that costs the company into the 7 figures is not providing positive value to the company.
It is when they head up a tool selection process. Management's job is not to select tools for developers, but to set goals and standards and enable their reports to meet them.
Good to know, but sql 2005 has an advantage over sql 2000 in that it's actually supported. These things are important when running production systems.
I go for amber and brown ales, personally. And pinot noir is tasty now and again.
What spain has done is basically what the USA does already - they claim global jurisdiction over their citizens and attempt to apply their laws globally. In the sklyarov case, it appears that dmitri wasn't a corporate officer, and so would not really be liable for the actions of his company. What little I know about the spanish case points to a judge going after officials, which is far closer to reasonable. Sure, int'l law doesn't really cover that, but so what? it's all gentleman's agreements anyway - no overriding authority. From my side, it looks like the two cases are fairly close, with the perp's position being the major difference.
God forbid that technical people make the technical decisions.
hehe India is east asia. But hey, having fun with some outsourced devs in ShenZen who only really report to chinese devs. The situation is kind of fucked up, but my company is big out outsourcing, so fuck them.
So do you agree with the Sklyarov case or not? This is just building on precedent.
So let's get this right: grafitti something in singapore and the state department will ask nicely for your release (but no more), but violate a spanish law and get nabbed when you go there and we ought to go to war? Meanwhile, Sklyarov does something legal in Russia and we nab him when he shows up for a conference.
Not only are you proposing two tier justice, you're also under the delusion that US law is the only one that counts.
It's not like we're trying to scientifically measure them, just convey some idea what these big numbers might mean in a more "real world" sense.
In which case, we have these things called units and numbers that allow us to say exactly how big things are.
Now moving on: what privacy implications would this much processing power have? How long would it take for a billion PCs (equivalent) collectively computing to crack a 1024 bit key? 2048 bits? 4096 bits? Can an RSA key easily computed on a P3 in a few seconds still hold the NSA at bay, when they could conceivably have a the equivalent of a BILLION cores under a single point of control?
You don't know encryption; absent a mathematical attack, cracking time is currently measured in years at the very least. That's long enough to make the data useless and means that what you really need to worry about is rubber hose decryption.
Airport employees have the right to expect you to be responsive to simple questions about unusual activities.
No they don't. They can expect it, be disappointed, and ask you to leave - the ticket counter is not a secure area, and acting weird isn't worthy of the response the girl got.
If you are a terrorist, you want as many people as possible to be SCARED, and if they aren't noticing you they they aren't going to be SCARED.
Bullshit. If you're a terrorist, you want the population to be scared and politicians to bribe you to stop killing people. The people around you - you want them to not notice until it's too late.
If your goal is to test the responses of security to different situations, you will be pushing the system incrementally until you push hard enough so it notices you.
Generally, people are trying to evade security. This does not include wearing something weird and flashy.
Getting the attention of the police in unpleasant ways IS the price to pay for acting out of the ordinary and refusing to respond to simple questions.
It's also something you do when you're tired or distracted and just there to pick up a friend. Ticket agents don't have the right to expect you to id yourself unless you're trying to fly somewhere.
You ain't a very good terrorist if nobody pays any attention to what you are doing.
If you're a terrorist, you sort of do want that, at least until the bomb goes off.
xerox is a generic term. Iphone refers to a specific product. None of the people in my office (half of hwome have iPhones) use the word in that way.
iPhone is the term that is used now becasue of it's huge usage.
Language does this all the time, get used to it.
Does what? Iphone isn't a generic term, it's a popular product.
even bullets collected in the pouring rain can still be matched to a national gunpowder manufacturer database.
Heh, that sounds like the lead composition BS that recently got outed as having no basis infact whatsoever.
It's only close to even if you use a ridiculous metric like number of encounters.
It's expected that, since the numbers for the other three pairings (MM, MF, FF) are about even, the numbers for FM violence is severely underreported. Also, since women can attack with near impunity, often with weapons, it's hardly as onesided as you say.
But the question is, are people turning down white men for jobs because they are white? No. Not on a large scale.
No, but lots of public jobs and government contractors make it very hard to get hired if you're white. My favorite is the guy who can only get government contracts for education CDs (from about 10 years ago) by using a black man as a one man shell company. Basically, he was told that they couldn't contract with him because of diversity requirements and his nonminority status.
It's nice to try and counter generations of discrimination, but we have gone too far in some cases - I really think we have no business mandating diversity for government contracts; mandating a percentage of business going to small companies would accomplish much the same goals without shutting out us white folk :)
I've heard people claim that this happens, but I don't believe it. You'd have to give me some examples if you want to convince me.
Just anecdotes from people allegedly in admissions who see the bumps minorities get for being minorities - the actual data is confidential, so good luck there. You can check the scholarship stuff, though - lots of stuff available for blacks, not so much for a poor white boy. This results in blacks from affluent families getting full or partial ride scholarships for iffy grades while the poor white applicants get not much in the way of admissions bumps or financial aid. If you're white from the ghetto, you're screwed.
What I'd like to see here is some financial aid for people based more on economic hardships than race - hell, we could solve this tomorrow by guaranteeing tuition to an in state public college to anyone who can get in (or a voc tech job if that's your focus). It's not simple or easy, but would remove a major hurdle to middle class lifestyle: qualify and you get tuition for one BS/BA.
Black students have to learn all of the same material as white students (math, biology, etc, etc) PLUS they have to learn how to "act white" in order to be accepted.
Hehe, acting white? you mean some blacks can't go act gangster and talk like an idiot and expect respect? Are the asian kids acting white? Lots of them and they do ok, even with the language barrier (and a whole different culture). But seriously, this is where I ask for examples: are they being rejected for saying 'wif' or are they being insular? Those chinese students (and later, workers) are okay to get along with but it's really goddamn annoying that they socialize almost exclusively with other chinese.
Similarly, women have to not only learn all the same material as men, and build the same (genderless) skills, but they must also spend a bunch of energy learning to "act male", in everything from clothes to patterns of argumentation,
Haven't noticed that so much. Could you describe a female pattern of argument?
And on top of that, they have to deal with harassment.
Harassment? not so much where I work. I have seen one or two women socially who are incapable of telling someone that they aren't interested, even when asked rather bluntly. I expect that that could cause problems at work - someone makes a pass, they 'act polite to avoid conflict' and it gets interpreted as interest.
White men have no idea how much extra free time and energy they have because of their whiteness and maleness.
Ahh, male privilege, what a gas...
College admissions are a little like holding olympic trials
Binding on the defendant for receipt of process. If you don't think it was properly served, argue with the judge. For a fee, you can have a sheriff's deputee serve process.