I've recently begun really playing with sauces, coincidently after finishing reading your book and Shirley Corriher's "Cookwise," and have some questions that were left unaddressed... Yes, it's more than one, but pick your favourite.
1. When trying to pan-fry things, the books recommend leaving the food in place without moving for a few minutes to develop the fond. Unfortunatly for me, I always end up with burnt bits and an hour of scrubbing my All-Clad pots. For poaching, it's recommended to cook in liquid at the target temperature, because then the food will never overcook. Can you do the same thing for pan frying, or will you never develop a fond? Or to put it another way (aka the geeky slashdot way,) what's the magic temperature for the Maillard reaction?
2. Because I'm a typical indentured serf with long work hours, I cook enough food on the weekends that I can bring my dinners to work and microwave them. But I'm having problems with Roux-based sauces, as after a night in the refrigerator, they turn to gelatenous blobs instead of creamy sauces (This may be a result of using home-made chicken stock.) What's the best way to reconstitute a sauce?
AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.2ghz Processor
256mb Kingston 150mhz SDRAM
ATI Radeon 32meg Video Card, w/ TV out
Anyone else think this is overkill for simulating machines that generally had < 1 MHz of processor, < 64k of memory and graphics in the 320x200 range (if you were lucky)?
They might have a better market if they just sold their button-box... Or better yet, some sort of lego-like button box where you could "plug in" buttons, trackballs, joysticks, &c, to get the same config as the original machine.
I'm Canadian and I came to the US two years ago under the free-trade program.
I decided I liked it here so I decided to start the road to naturalization. First step was to trade the TN visa (1 year renewable forever) for an H1-B visa (6 year) since TN is not supposed to be used for people who want to immegrate.
And suddenly now I'm the evil one, bent on destroying the american economy or something. Man, I should have stayed on the TN...
BTW, it's not the H1-B that "locks" people into their company like a slave; it's the Labour Certification that you need for a green card. If you change jobs and your new job isn't exactly the same as your old one, you have to restart the LC process from scratch. Here in California, it looks like it will take 3-4 years to get my LC complete. That's in addition to the 3 years it takes to get the green card once you have the LC...
Just in case anyone isn't aware of the individual implications of being a visa worker in the US,
You pay FICA, Social Security & all the other taxes, but are not allowed to collect unemployment or medicare or welfare.
If you lose your job, you have 60 days (15 officially) to get your stuff together and get out of the country unless you find a new job. Kind of hard in today's anti-immegrant climate.
In many ways, illegal immegrants have more rights than legal ones do.
Finally, it's funny how you never see anyone railing about all the immegrants from central and south america who work on the farms to help bring you cheap groceries...
A notice of the settlement was sent -- by fax -- to the 33,000 numbers turned over by the company that did the faxing for the dealership. That company, American Blast Fax of Dallas, is out of business, he said.
Can they now sue the people who faxed them the settlement for another unsolicited fax (the settlement itself.)
I smell recursion, and it will make me a millionaire! Send me $5 to find out how:)
When I was a young, pimply faced pre-adult (as opposed to now, when I'm a middle aged pimply faced childish-adult,) the only jobs I could get were with telephone soliciting companies.
Now this was in the days before (a) do-not-call lists, (b) war-dialers and (c) calling-line ID. We worked from pages torn from the local phone book, holding our heavy 2500 set phones uncomfortably to our ears as we
vainly tried to sell whatever warez we were pushing for minimum wage.
People didn't scream at us that much in those days, but you always got a few who did. When it happened, you made a "stress relief" call, to one of your carefully collected list of numbers of people who were either (a) always drunk, or (b) never home and had answering machines.
My favourite was leaving messages that their moose was sick and they'd better get down to the vet's office soon before it died. The next day, you'd leave another message, saying the moose was dead and "confirming" their name & address to send the large bill for the funeral to... and leaving as a phone number that of a pizza store.
It's funny, when Rusty started his kuro5hin.org funding drive, he said he needed $70k per year to keep it running. $70k for everything. Half the posts were from people saying "That's too much, I could run this site for $10k" note to hecklers: then why haven't you started
your own?.
Let's compare some numbers from Salon's
2001 annual report, available under "Investor Relations" on their web site...
Total Executive Compensation: $1.18 Million
Software Development: $674k
Goodwill (accounting-ease for "Paid too much for some company we acquired"): $3.5 Million
Production, Content & Producing (i.e. the articles): $9.8 Million
Rent expenses (simple): $540k
Suddenly, I think throwing $20 at Rusty is a pretty good buy...
Dental Hygene: Have some. Buy toothbrush and use it regularly, yet not more than four times a day. Unless you grew up in the sewers of Calcutta, at some point in your childhood a dentist showed you how to brush. Dredge your memory and do it - If it seems to take twice as long as normal, you're probably on the right track. Try to avoid having things caught between your teeth, even if it's a hunk of CAT-5 insulation.
Auto Repair: Go to garage. Pay money. Would you trust your mission critical software to a mechanic who "plays with software?" Didn't think so...
How to remove tough Stains: Point out stain to drycleaner. They will remove it. Unless you're the kind of person who regularly spills stuff on your clothes (in which case, try to stop,) it's cheaper to pay them occasionally than to buy a whole bunch of cleaning products that will sit unused under your sink 99% of the time.
Arctic Survival Skills: Stay warm. It only takes a tiny fire to warm an igloo. Remember the fire needs a chimney hole. Note "warm" doesn't mean room temperature - It's surprisingly easy to melt a hole in an igloo, or have the whole thing collapse on you while you sleep, which kind of defeats the point of survival. If you kill a polar bear, don't eat the liver, as it has a toxic level of Vitamin A.
Fashion (in general): Fashion is designed as "planned obsolescence" without an upgrade path. Designers want you to replace everything every six months - This is why fashion changes every year. The easiest rule to avoid wasting your money is only buy "the look" the year
after it's first seen. If it's going to be around for a while, they'll be still selling it. If not, then you avoided having to toss out things after six months because that's "soooo last year." You do get what you pay for, but after a certain point, the incremental return is marginal. These points are (approximatly) Shirt: $45, Pant/Skirt: $80, Shoes: $130, Suit Jacket: $450.
Men's Fashion: "Sloppy Chic" is not only out, it was never really in. Shirts should have measurements for both sleeve and collar, not S/M/L/XL. No woman on earth is impressed by your "Mozilla 1.0" Tee Shirt. It you're wearing a tie, you should barely know it - if it's choking you, either you tied it too tight or your shirt collar is too small. Pants come in other fabrics than Denim. Shoes should have laces, not velcro or buckles, and cover your whole foot. Mixing and Matching Rules: Solid+Solid or Stripe+Solid or Pattern+Solid - There are no other valid combinations. Easiest way to accessorize and match: Go to Macy's/The Bay/Marks&Spencer and buy the exact same outfits the mannequins are wearing. Don't try this at K-Mart/Zellers/Tesco.
It's far easier to be successful dressing "somewhat conservitive" than "modern and fashionable." If you saw it in a magazine and the model's hair was not combed, you have almost a 0 percent chance of wearing that garment successfully. Try mixing in at most one (1) "fun" or "trendy" thing with your outfits (i.e. shirt, tie, shoes.)
Women's Fashion: See "Men's Fashion," but you have both more choices and more lattitude. If a boot comes less than 1/2 the way up to your knee, you should not see the top of it (They're called pant boots for a reason.) Don't mix clunky with sleek. Undergarments should not show through clothes. If more than 1/2 the time you're wearing the outfit is indoors, wear hose or socks. Never be seen in public in a Mu-Muu.
Extreme Sports: Have a good medical plan and life insurance first.
Gourmet Coffee Reviews: I don't drink coffee, so I can't comment on this.
an architect designs a house that doesn't blow over, or a bridge that
handles the traffic load without collapsing. However, in these cases, anyone who does something out of the
ordinary with the house (fills it with water, tries to open the inside door without opening the screen door), would
be laughed at if they called it a design flaw.
I find it funny how so many people assume that software development is some sort of "special" thing that has problems that have never been noted in the history of civilization...
Changing requirements are a fact of life. Architects are told half way through construction "Oh, that floor will have to support 9000 kg/m because we decided to put our lab there." Civils half way through building a bridge are told it needs a car pool lane.
Subcontractors will always try to perform cost-reduction, which may or may not change tolerances of components.
So what's the difference?
First, expectation. In any of the cases above,
people will say "Sure - Here's how much more it will cost and how much longer it'll take." But we've deluded ourselves and our managers into
thinking "We can do anything" - We passive-aggressivly accept the change and then bitch about it on slashdot.
Second, design-for-change, or what's commonly called "overengineering." Make your damn
code stable in the face of instability. It can
be done - Look at Oracle for example. Or, to put
it another way - When was the last time you checked the return value of write(2) or close(2)? Do you have any idea what to do if they return -1? (abort(3) should not be the answer)
Still apparently doesn't have a fix for allowing
cut/paste from xterm to URL bar...
No, I Don't want to go wading through mostly undocumented configuration files to figure
out why it doesn't work - It just should work by default - That's what's called usability
and why people still see Linux (apps/os/&c) as
hard to use.
Back in my old Unix Admin days, working at a company where everyone knew the root password, People would sometimes try to hide directories by putting non-printing control characters in the name, e.g. ". ^hfoo"
Of course, this is easy to defeat with a simple combination of backticks, ls -1 and wc.
The best way I
discovered to hide the contents of a directory in unix is:
use
fsdb(8) to change the first character of the directory name to "/"
Unix is rather unhappyful trying to cd to a directory that has a / as part of its file name.
Shell quoting tricks won't get you past it, since
it's the kernel handling the /
Of course, you had to un-/-ify the directory
every time you wanted in, but hey, the price of
security...
midiclorianitis == Inflamation or swelling of the midicloria. Don't eat the overpriced theatre popcorn, lest you undergo midicloriorrhexis, or bursting of the swollen midicloria.
I would have gone with midicloripenia, an unusual reduction of the midicloria (due to all the geeks at the theatre instead of work,) or midiclororhea, an excessive flow (from work) of midicloria.
And of course, if the movie sucks, all those poor geeks will return with midiclorodynia (should be evident from context.)
I need quiet - pure unadultered quiet, which
unfortunatly *never* happens here in cubicle-land.
What I want to know is: Those $300 Bose noise
cancelling headsets - Can you use them without piping a signal into them to get pure and clean quiet? Or are there any other
alternatives other than those massive earmuffs
that construction workers wear?
There's been numerous attempts in the past to
make MULE clones, but EA has always put the kibosh
on them. Despite not having any obvious interest in doing anything with the property, they seem pretty adamant that nobody else can do anything
either.
Kinda like kids that outgrow playing marbles
but refuse to give their old marbles to their younger siblings because "those are my marbles!"
if we brought our original CD's in, stuck them in a CD tower, and played them at work, that'd be legal [...]
Um, actually it wouldn't, because that would constitute "public performance," which is basically the same as a broadcast, which means
you have to pay the RIAA money.
It's the same reason that restraunts don't sing "Happy Birthday" to their patrons anymore; they don't want to pay for the rights to perform the song.
<celene>
And I.....
will always....
love yoooooouuuuugggghhfdbfdshjk^Y$&#^^&(*@!(*)#&@!*(
Blue screen of death
I like it. I think Microsoft should license Celene's music to play as your computer crashes...
Nice and mournful...
'tis like a summer night...
on
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· Score: 5, Informative
The real reason Perl is getting a facelift is because it was getting to be hard to write stories
and poetry in Perl 5.
Fortunatly, Larry brings us a new language that will compile and execute things like:
given $beer {
when 'empty' { next beer; }
when 'budwiser' { die; }
when... err 'drunk' { throw up; }
}
A fun experiment is to take some great work of literature and feed it to a grammar checker, and then to see what
mincemeat it makes of it. Here are some mindless tips on the first sentence of Milton's Paradise Lost:
"Consider revising. Very long sentences can be difficult to understand."
Avoid contractions like "flow'd" in formal writing ("consider 'flow had'").
Avoid the use of "Man" ("Try 'he or she'").
"One greater Man restore" has subject-verb agreement problems.
"In the Beginning" should be "at first."
"Or if Sion" should be "also if Sion."
Milton's style is judged appropriate for a 98th-grade reading level. (Well, okay, that seems about right. But the rest
is silly.)
Slashdot Mirror
1. When trying to pan-fry things, the books recommend leaving the food in place without moving for a few minutes to develop the fond. Unfortunatly for me, I always end up with burnt bits and an hour of scrubbing my All-Clad pots. For poaching, it's recommended to cook in liquid at the target temperature, because then the food will never overcook. Can you do the same thing for pan frying, or will you never develop a fond? Or to put it another way (aka the geeky slashdot way,) what's the magic temperature for the Maillard reaction?
2. Because I'm a typical indentured serf with long work hours, I cook enough food on the weekends that I can bring my dinners to work and microwave them. But I'm having problems with Roux-based sauces, as after a night in the refrigerator, they turn to gelatenous blobs instead of creamy sauces (This may be a result of using home-made chicken stock.) What's the best way to reconstitute a sauce?
Anyone else think this is overkill for simulating machines that generally had < 1 MHz of processor, < 64k of memory and graphics in the 320x200 range (if you were lucky)?
They might have a better market if they just sold their button-box... Or better yet, some sort of lego-like button box where you could "plug in" buttons, trackballs, joysticks, &c, to get the same config as the original machine.
I decided I liked it here so I decided to start the road to naturalization. First step was to trade the TN visa (1 year renewable forever) for an H1-B visa (6 year) since TN is not supposed to be used for people who want to immegrate.
And suddenly now I'm the evil one, bent on destroying the american economy or something. Man, I should have stayed on the TN...
BTW, it's not the H1-B that "locks" people into their company like a slave; it's the Labour Certification that you need for a green card. If you change jobs and your new job isn't exactly the same as your old one, you have to restart the LC process from scratch. Here in California, it looks like it will take 3-4 years to get my LC complete. That's in addition to the 3 years it takes to get the green card once you have the LC...
Just in case anyone isn't aware of the individual implications of being a visa worker in the US,
You pay FICA, Social Security & all the other taxes, but are not allowed to collect unemployment or medicare or welfare.
If you lose your job, you have 60 days (15 officially) to get your stuff together and get out of the country unless you find a new job. Kind of hard in today's anti-immegrant climate.
In many ways, illegal immegrants have more rights than legal ones do.
Finally, it's funny how you never see anyone railing about all the immegrants from central and south america who work on the farms to help bring you cheap groceries...
Wasn't PNG supposed to be the "Open Alternative?"
Can they now sue the people who faxed them the settlement for another unsolicited fax (the settlement itself.)
I smell recursion, and it will make me a millionaire! Send me $5 to find out how :)
Abe must have retired rich to fuel that beast...
When I was a young, pimply faced pre-adult (as opposed to now, when I'm a middle aged pimply faced childish-adult,) the only jobs I could get were with telephone soliciting companies.
Now this was in the days before (a) do-not-call lists, (b) war-dialers and (c) calling-line ID. We worked from pages torn from the local phone book, holding our heavy 2500 set phones uncomfortably to our ears as we vainly tried to sell whatever warez we were pushing for minimum wage.
People didn't scream at us that much in those days, but you always got a few who did. When it happened, you made a "stress relief" call, to one of your carefully collected list of numbers of people who were either (a) always drunk, or (b) never home and had answering machines.
My favourite was leaving messages that their moose was sick and they'd better get down to the vet's office soon before it died. The next day, you'd leave another message, saying the moose was dead and "confirming" their name & address to send the large bill for the funeral to... and leaving as a phone number that of a pizza store.
Ah, fourteen...
Google, five seconds... Life is good
Let's compare some numbers from Salon's 2001 annual report, available under "Investor Relations" on their web site...
Suddenly, I think throwing $20 at Rusty is a pretty good buy...
> My roommate would be!
You live with a woman impressed by CompuShwag shirts and you had yourself painted green at BurningMan.
I fear there is nothing I can teach you, grasshopper.
Dental Hygene: Have some. Buy toothbrush and use it regularly, yet not more than four times a day. Unless you grew up in the sewers of Calcutta, at some point in your childhood a dentist showed you how to brush. Dredge your memory and do it - If it seems to take twice as long as normal, you're probably on the right track. Try to avoid having things caught between your teeth, even if it's a hunk of CAT-5 insulation.
Auto Repair: Go to garage. Pay money. Would you trust your mission critical software to a mechanic who "plays with software?" Didn't think so...
How to remove tough Stains: Point out stain to drycleaner. They will remove it. Unless you're the kind of person who regularly spills stuff on your clothes (in which case, try to stop,) it's cheaper to pay them occasionally than to buy a whole bunch of cleaning products that will sit unused under your sink 99% of the time.
Arctic Survival Skills: Stay warm. It only takes a tiny fire to warm an igloo. Remember the fire needs a chimney hole. Note "warm" doesn't mean room temperature - It's surprisingly easy to melt a hole in an igloo, or have the whole thing collapse on you while you sleep, which kind of defeats the point of survival. If you kill a polar bear, don't eat the liver, as it has a toxic level of Vitamin A.
Fashion (in general): Fashion is designed as "planned obsolescence" without an upgrade path. Designers want you to replace everything every six months - This is why fashion changes every year. The easiest rule to avoid wasting your money is only buy "the look" the year after it's first seen. If it's going to be around for a while, they'll be still selling it. If not, then you avoided having to toss out things after six months because that's "soooo last year." You do get what you pay for, but after a certain point, the incremental return is marginal. These points are (approximatly) Shirt: $45, Pant/Skirt: $80, Shoes: $130, Suit Jacket: $450.
Men's Fashion: "Sloppy Chic" is not only out, it was never really in. Shirts should have measurements for both sleeve and collar, not S/M/L/XL. No woman on earth is impressed by your "Mozilla 1.0" Tee Shirt. It you're wearing a tie, you should barely know it - if it's choking you, either you tied it too tight or your shirt collar is too small. Pants come in other fabrics than Denim. Shoes should have laces, not velcro or buckles, and cover your whole foot. Mixing and Matching Rules: Solid+Solid or Stripe+Solid or Pattern+Solid - There are no other valid combinations. Easiest way to accessorize and match: Go to Macy's/The Bay/Marks&Spencer and buy the exact same outfits the mannequins are wearing. Don't try this at K-Mart/Zellers/Tesco. It's far easier to be successful dressing "somewhat conservitive" than "modern and fashionable." If you saw it in a magazine and the model's hair was not combed, you have almost a 0 percent chance of wearing that garment successfully. Try mixing in at most one (1) "fun" or "trendy" thing with your outfits (i.e. shirt, tie, shoes.)
Women's Fashion: See "Men's Fashion," but you have both more choices and more lattitude. If a boot comes less than 1/2 the way up to your knee, you should not see the top of it (They're called pant boots for a reason.) Don't mix clunky with sleek. Undergarments should not show through clothes. If more than 1/2 the time you're wearing the outfit is indoors, wear hose or socks. Never be seen in public in a Mu-Muu.
Extreme Sports: Have a good medical plan and life insurance first.
Gourmet Coffee Reviews: I don't drink coffee, so I can't comment on this.
I find it funny how so many people assume that software development is some sort of "special" thing that has problems that have never been noted in the history of civilization...
Changing requirements are a fact of life. Architects are told half way through construction "Oh, that floor will have to support 9000 kg/m because we decided to put our lab there." Civils half way through building a bridge are told it needs a car pool lane. Subcontractors will always try to perform cost-reduction, which may or may not change tolerances of components.
So what's the difference?
First, expectation. In any of the cases above, people will say "Sure - Here's how much more it will cost and how much longer it'll take." But we've deluded ourselves and our managers into thinking "We can do anything" - We passive-aggressivly accept the change and then bitch about it on slashdot.
Second, design-for-change, or what's commonly called "overengineering." Make your damn code stable in the face of instability. It can be done - Look at Oracle for example. Or, to put it another way - When was the last time you checked the return value of write(2) or close(2)? Do you have any idea what to do if they return -1? (abort(3) should not be the answer)
Stop whining and learn to be a professional.
sed s/.NET/JAVA/ | sed s/Microsoft/Sun/
I don't think so Tim...
No, I Don't want to go wading through mostly undocumented configuration files to figure out why it doesn't work - It just should work by default - That's what's called usability and why people still see Linux (apps/os/&c) as hard to use.
Of course, this is easy to defeat with a simple combination of backticks, ls -1 and wc.
The best way I discovered to hide the contents of a directory in unix is:
Unix is rather unhappyful trying to cd to a directory that has a / as part of its file name. Shell quoting tricks won't get you past it, since it's the kernel handling the /
Of course, you had to un-/-ify the directory every time you wanted in, but hey, the price of security...
bermuda$ whois naked.kids.us
No match for "NAKED.KIDS.US".
Alright, who's got the guts to try and register this?
I would have gone with midicloripenia, an unusual reduction of the midicloria (due to all the geeks at the theatre instead of work,) or midiclororhea, an excessive flow (from work) of midicloria.
And of course, if the movie sucks, all those poor geeks will return with midiclorodynia (should be evident from context.)
What I want to know is: Those $300 Bose noise cancelling headsets - Can you use them without piping a signal into them to get pure and clean quiet? Or are there any other alternatives other than those massive earmuffs that construction workers wear?
Kinda like kids that outgrow playing marbles but refuse to give their old marbles to their younger siblings because "those are my marbles!"
Um, actually it wouldn't, because that would constitute "public performance," which is basically the same as a broadcast, which means you have to pay the RIAA money.
It's the same reason that restraunts don't sing "Happy Birthday" to their patrons anymore; they don't want to pay for the rights to perform the song.
I like it. I think Microsoft should license Celene's music to play as your computer crashes... Nice and mournful...
There's a fight I'd pay money to see. Wouldn't care who won or lost either... Just wanna see the fight.
Given the combatants, I think it'd be a pretty good sissy-fight, what with the pulling of the hair and the biting and the kicking...
From the Jack Lynch Guide to Grammar and Style: