Nope, they screwed it up. His family name is "Lin", his given name is "Mun Poo".
However, since he is Malaysian Chinese, things get weirder, Malaysian Chinese may write their name Chinese order "Lin Mun Poo", western order "Mun Poo Lin", without family name "Mun Poo", a single Arabic name e.g. "Muhammad", a single English name or an English name with a Chinese surname e.g. "David Lin". Any one of these might be what is written on this individual's birth certificate.
Well, I would be extremely pissed off about this if I was a student, I will give this guy no admiration. However 200 people admitted to cheating as a result of his (potential) bluff, if it wasn't for this guy and his actions, we wouldn't know how many students cheated, something that I found interesting. Sure, it hurt his students and he is bad teacher, but I am still glad he did it.
Well, I try not to be biased against Microsoft, some of their products (in my opinion) are actually better than their competitors were Excel (very polished and usable spreadsheet) and Visual Studio (slightly buggy, but very well integrated). Well, I decided to check out Windows Phone 7, after all, Windows 7 is much better than XP.
It sucked, it was just terrible beyond compare, things were slow, badly laid out, hard to read and slow to navigate. I just have to think to myself, why is Microsoft with its resources so incapable of doing something that Nokia, Apple, Google et. al have all done and not made a mess of it? There is just something about how that company is run, some inherent lack of direction regarding quality that just seems to pop up, even when you try to give them more and more chances.
I am starting to think the MS bashing Apple/Linux fanboys were right all along.
I live in Asia, like most other people in the world. Personally, I do not care that he didn't mention Asia, maybe he is not interested in Asia, maybe he doesn't know about Asia and does not want to speak about something he doesn't know (which would make him an idiot). He was writing about North America and Europe, places that I have briefly visited and not seen at all respectively, but these markets are a completely valid topic of conversation. Anyway, you are wrong, in Japan, phones and networks are almost always locked down. Also, in China, Unicom locks the iPhones it sells down pretty tightly.
I'm sorry but like most publisher they take a large part of the money... often only 15-20 % of the sales go to the creator if it's not less!
Well, publishers give developers money to develop games, before the game is developed and do not demand it be paid back if the game does not sell well. The publisher takes about 50% of the gross, mainly because so many games do not break even, many are not even released. Sure, if publishers managed to only fund and advertise the great selling games, then they would need to take a lot less. But if you subtract what is spent on funding and advertising games that just didn't turn out how everyone hoped, you will find what is paid to shareholders is quite low.
The fortunes in the games industry are still only there to be made on the development side. If a game studio manages to release two smash hits in a row, investing their cut of the first into the second they stand to make the stakeholders in that studio very, very rich. While this is still statistically fairly unlikely, it is still much more likely than a publisher going an entire year without throwing away half of its money to dead-end projects. Also, consider that the studios that have had a very successful project and are thus more likely to produce a second will already have that 20% or whatever to self fund and therefore will pay the publisher a fraction of what it would be getting if the publisher was putting up the money upfront.
Making games is extremely fun about 40% of the time, which is why so many people do it or want to do it. But if I was a smart businessman, I would want absolutely nothing to do with this stupid industry. Publishing is no exception, because making good games is so hard, finding people to make good games for you is even harder. Real money in this world is made by doing something simple and useful more efficiently than the incumbents, the computer games industry is saturated with talent and we are working so hard that the speed and cost of development, related to the complexity of a project has got so fine that nobody really has any room left to get an edge in any "business" type way. The only avenue left is making a "hit" who's causes are so unknown that no executive, nomatter how adept can possibly bring one into being.
I am a game programmer, I was in the office until 10pm tonight getting a low-spec one pass water shader looking almost as good as our two pass high-spec one. But do you know what? I did, and it was awesome. My girlfriend is out of the country, I am in an unfamiliar city and I have absolutely nothing else to do but either fix shaders or comment on Slashdot and my shader is much better than this post. If I wanted money, I would be doing something else instead.
I find them very calming also. Even though since I was weaned, I have so far only have a chance to interact them during sex, I would still associate them more with nutriment than arousal. The warm feeling of two soft breasts against ones skin during a loving or even a friendly embrace feels as comforting as another pair of arms around one's body. I have heard that the association of breasts with sexuality is strongest in men who were not breastfed, I guess because having something associated with ones mother kind of takes the sexy out of anything.
I've got my 12" laptop straddling between my gut and right thigh in a recumbent position, quite comfortable. No apparent increase in temperature to the groin, thigh or abdomen, which sucks because my room is freezing.
Sales and Marketing are important, the only problem is that the quality of some idiots drawn to the field. If you have a guy who is _not_ an idiot telling you what the customers need, then maybe it is a good time to listen and do some of those things. If your Sales and Marketing department cannot differentiate between what your customers need and what they don't and are finding out what they really need at the last minute and filling your in-tray with bullshit, then that is their problem. I am a programmer and I have a great relationship with some sales guys and have some sales guys amongst the list of my most loathed enemies. The difference is, one set is good at their job, keep customers happy, make sales and help you work out what needs doing for your users, the others are disgusting idiots who fail in doing their job because their lack of inter personal skills and pile bullshit on the other departments to cover their own arses. It sounds like your sales and marketing head was just shit at his job, if you don't like him, it is doubtful that customers like him either.
I think your CEO was a geek who was conditioned by places like Slashdot and Dilbert into thinking that you are "supposed" to not like the S&M team, rather than them being supposed to be the most instantly likable guy in the company. That is a stupid attitude and I would be surprised if it hasn't harmed him immensely.
Well, I have to say, I had some great experience pair programming with the lead programmer at my second job after university. He's a very good programmer, but he has this major conservative bent whereby he enjoys calling problems "fixed" once he has made a single improvement and waiting for it to pop up three weeks later. He also takes exception to some of my programming style (which you would have to ask him about) and has a very concrete idea about certain things like which parts of STL can and cannot be used. I do not think either of us enjoyed working together as a general rule, in a sense we were too different, but mostly we were too similar in that we both possessed talent and arrogance in equal amounts. Anyway, there came a time where we had to majorly re-structure a critical system to make it threadsafe and to fix some glaring interface and behavioral issues that would have been almost impossible to do in the old structure, neither of us trusted the other to do the job, so we agreed to do it in a pair. It is amazing the quality of code you can write when you have to justify every line to the jerk sitting behind you. It is amazing how fast you can think when you know you need to propose a better solution than the other guy or you will have the keyboard stolen from you. We did a job we thought would never be done and it took us two days. In the end, we had major performance improvements, inadvertently fixed a devastating bug that showed up later on the old branch and turned a 7000 line unmaintainable mess into a well built, clean and modular system that could be used easily for many other tasks while introducing only a single new (detected) bug, which was fixed just a few days later. I would advise it to be used whenever a situation justifies it or if you have two people who work well as a team, often a good relationship mixes respect and contempt. One benefit is review and accountability, another benefit is that the person at the keyboard can think about this line, this loop, this function and the guy behind can think of the larger scope.
I once took part in a beach-assault where, despite the use of GPS, our guides somehow managed to bring us in more than 3 kilometers away from the designated landing.
Having never done military training, I am very interested to know if when stuff like that happens, do you ever think about that if it was a real war, your unit would have probably been cut to pieces? I can imagine experiencing a situation like that and seeing how quickly something like that can go wrong would be a frightening feeling.
Yes, I do realise that I responded to a five word aside with a few hundred words about the fluid dynamics of toilets. I just wish that someone would clear that stupid thing up without the standard correct but completely irrelevant answer about the Coriolis forces not being dominant at that scale.
If you want to want an answer relating to upload and download, I can tell you that even though I am in the northern hemisphere right now, this nomenclature is not clear cut. What is one host's downstream is another host's upstream. Developing the client and server of an online computer game together leaves room for two interpretations, however, the convention inevidably becomes that all measurements are discussed in terms of the server's connection, since that is the side you are paying for yourself. Upstream certainly dominates in this case.
Contrary to The Simpsons, Australian toilets don't swirl, the standard type I believe is called a "non-siphoning washdown", which basically means that the velocity head at the start of the s-trap during a flush is greater than the elevation between the bowl level to the peak of the s-trap. Usually this means the toilet has a slightly higher cistern than American varieties and the s-bend is lower and around double the diameter. The upshot is that this kind of toilet uses less water, since it relies on kinetic energy, not volume which also suits the Australian climate. Also that fecal matter is removed almost as soon as the button is hit is comforting for some. The drawback is that older designs of washdown are slightly unreliable compared to American style siphon toilets, since if the flush's velocity is lost due to a badly shaped bowl or an obstruction, there will be no way of building the hydraulic head needed to complete the siphon in the S-bend and empty the bowl.
Toilets are so deeply entwined in social norms and so rarely discussed that they become one of the most unexpected parts of traveling the world. Australia and America's common traits such as common language are reflected by the seated (not squatting) position and the fact that fecal matter falls directly into water. The contrary mindsets are evinced by the Australian direct approach of a sudden wave of not quite enough water to instantly clean away most but not all, compared to the American steady but wasteful surge which bobbles the shit halfway to the rim, before finally sucking it away completely when it can take no more.
Well, maybe what I said was not expressed very well. My viewpoint is that if someone understands development and management, they will generally not focus on what style they are doing, but why they are doing it. It is not the name that is the issue, it is the tendency to quote the name in liu of a justification. Your summation in the final paragraph is correct.
Wow, if you lost that job, it sounds like you have a lot to be grateful to Agile for. Though it sounds like these guys would have done badly given any development style they had chosen, had they gone for something they had called "waterfall" or anything else, they would have implemented it in practically the same way and met the same problems for the same reasons. I personally believe that if a company needs to use a development style with a name, it generally means that they do not understand their own situation well enough to create their own workflow and certainly not enough to finish a project properly. When I hear "this is what agile programmers do", I am 90% sure that the individual making the claim is just trying to rationalise doing something that he has no actual rationale for, otherwise he could explain it in real terms.
The thing is, "making it harder to adapt" does not, nor it can ever mean "making it impossible to adapt".
A pathogen is like a person, put a mild poison in their water supply and they will build an immunity, inject a 30ml vial of ricin into their aorta and they will die in seconds. Flooding a person's body with almost enough vancomycin to kill them is going to kill pretty much anything else inside of them. But give the same person a single dose of oxacillin and it will just kill off the weakest and least resistant of the bacteria allowing the less vulnerable to thrive and spread to new generations. This is why you should always swallow all of your antibiotics, even if you do not need it. The analogy holds for virus as well, if a virus mutates into a sort-of resistant strain, it is much better if we give it enough antibodies to kill all of it than provide evolutionary pressure to make a fully resistant version.
We are discussing biology, not making lines for Jurassic Park 4, life can always find a way, but if you kill it quickly, its evolutionary choices are limited. MRSA was caused by low doses of antibiotics by proscribing it to people who don't need it and not supervising them to take it properly, high doses of Meticillin would have killed its great great grandparents too, which were still partially vulnerable to the penicillin family, not just pruning its less resilient great aunts and uncles. If someone's got antibodies in their body anyway (as we all do), it is good to encourage the body to pump out enough to thoroughly kill viruses before they iterate and evolve into something that resists your antibodies, just like how mankind betrayed itself in its abuse of the Penicillin family.
In my country of birth Australia, we used Imperial units until the 60s and 70s, when we switched, right after we adopted decimal currency ($1 = 100c, not 1£ = 20d = 240p). In reality, it was quite a pain in the arse at the time, but the inconvenience faded in a few years and we were left with a better system of measurements in the long run. If a country expects a bright future of growth and progress, then accepting a few years of mildly reduced productivity in exchange for long term benefits makes good sense. Australia was a bit of a backwater at the time that system was adopted, but grew sharply in the decades after, not cause and effect in any way shape or form, but still a positive step.
Well, as someone who went through K-12 in the NSW public school system, I believe that a parent should have the right to get the same amount of government funding to educate their child be it at a public or any other school that teaches an approved curriculum. The bulk of private schools are not exceedingly affluent, some have a smaller total funding per student than state schools. Some private schools have money to blow on oversized network infrastructure, but this is not a typical one.
During my education in the public school system, I saw 50% or more of the teachers being quite good. Most of the principals I saw were promoted far above their level of incompetence and the bureaucracy who control the money seem to be composed of exactly those people who know so little about teaching that they cannot survive in a classroom and thusly continue to invest in exactly the opposite things to what children need to learn. These people need less money, not more. All that is needed is for the teachers and students to be given more options as to where to go.
The FAQ refers to the having more stories regarding the US than any other nation because the editors are American and invites people to submit stories relating to other countries. Suggesting that it gives any reference frame for comments is somewhat disingenuous.
Also, the US population is extremely large, I live in China and I still get that sense when I visit the US, however it does not really dominate the population on English language websites since these days there are a hell of a lot of people out there that know English and like computers.
There are guys out there that like to fuck sheep. Personally, although I would not encourage it, I don't think the sheep has much idea what is going on. Yet, for all the sheep that are screwed in this world, it is not a common subject in pornography for a man to screw a sheep and for the audience to watch and fantasise of being in sexual union with the sheep themselves.
What one does see a lot of in bestiality porn targeted for men is women being penetrated by dogs, pigs, etc. In this case, what is going on I believe is more focused around the sexual degradation of the woman, rather than the sexuality of the animal. In fact, I do not think rationale behind Australia's restriction of this kind of pornography focuses on animal cruelty in the slightest. I do not believe that sexual or other forms of extreme degradation, consensual or otherwise can be part of a healthy relationship, which are built on mutual respect in and out of the bedroom. I do not believe that men being able to access pornography that features animals penetrating women is as a whole beneficial to society and I support the Australian government in its effort to censor such things.
I have seen the sort of dominating, cruel and misogynistic arseholes who like this kind of stuff. Personally, I do not feel that depriving them of this is a bad thing. You can argue for this to be protected a free speech all you like, but I am glad that both the law and public opinion in Australia stands against this kind of media.
A hammer is better than a screwdriver. Firstly, it is faster to hammer in a nail than screw in a screw. Secondly a hammer can be used to shape hot metal, you can forge a screwdriver with a hammer but not forge a hammer with a screwdriver. Thirdly, a hammer can be used with a chisel as a substitute for a mallet (another useless tool). Thusly, anyone using a screwdriver (apart from unfastening legacy screwed-together systems) is obviously inexperienced or trying to show off.
Are we all convinced that "DevOps" is not some kind of parody site or straw man? Surely nobody could write such non-sensical waffle and mean it.
Seriously though, I think what he's trying to say is for individuals to take responsibility for solving the whole problem, from implementation to deployment. I personally do not like working in a niche all day anyway and I like to make sure that what I do is being used effectively and is working well, otherwise there is not much point of doing it to begin with. If I didn't care whether something I did was designed right, implemented right, tested right and deployed right as long as I did my bit, that would be my cue to find a new job. No point spending half my waking hours doing something that I don't care about.
But seriously, I don't think he could have written it worse if he tried. I hope his code is better than his prose or he should get back into his sysadmin niche.
This is not a case of Linux IO schedulers being unsuitable for the desktop, but more a case of desktop applications being written in a horrendous way in terms of data access. The general pattern being to open up a file object, load in a few hundred kilobytes, processing this then asking the operating system for more. This is a small inefficiency when the resource is doing nothing, but if the disk is actually busy, then it will probably be doing something else by the time you ask for it to read a little bit more. Not to mention the habit of reading through a few hundred resource files one at a time in seemingly random order, and blocking every time it reads, because the application programmer is too lazy to think about what resources the app is using.
Linux has such a nice implementation of mmap, which works by letting Linux actually know ahead of time what files you are interested in and managing them itself, without the application programmer worrying his pretty little head over it. Other options are running multiple non-blocking reads at the same time and loading the right amount of data and the right files to begin with.
The best thing about a simple CSCAN algorithm is that it gives applications what they asked for and if the application doesn't know what it wants, well, that's hardly a system issue.
Barbarism is barbarism, society shouldn't encourage either form, there is no irony there. Using deadly force to hunt down thieves isn't justice, it isn't necessary and it has no net effect but maybe encouraging robbers to target your neighbour who isn't willing to kill a man over a data cable.
Honestly, this system I think is 70% as good as Ubuntu, it's main drawbacks seem to be 1) lack of pre-installed or easy to install software, for example anything such as reading a spreadsheet or watching a movie is impossible without searching for software on the web or buying it. Sure, photoshop originated on the Mac, meaning it works well, but I simply do not edit enough images to justify that, having a decent port of GIMP would do me much good. 2) Shitty, shitty IME support, something like typing Chinese is a giant pain on OSX, even after downloading QIM, which is 100x better than the default but still awful compared to the pinyin method that ships with Ubuntu or the Google or Sogou IMEs that can be downloaded with Windows. 3) Lack of basic operating system features, like being able to mute a particular app from the sound control rather than trying to find it wherever the app developer decided to put it.
MacOS X is a good OS for surfing the web, checking emails and watching movies through VLC, which is why I bought this Macbook Pro, which is a lovely device by the way. Linux is a great OS for those things too, especially if you cannot afford my Macbook Pro. MacOS is also good for the imaginary demographic that needs their computer shipped with GarageBand and iMovie rather than say a vector or raster image editor and maybe even a decent quality word processor or text editor. Oh, and OSX also has all your favourite voices from OS7- such as Bad News and Trinoids, now accessible from the console. It also has the lovely Zaphino font, which you can type out to your hearts content in TextEdit. When using OSX, I just can't shake the feeling that I am playing with a product designed to look "hip" rather than be a functional tool. It really does not seem to want to put things that I need where I can just reach for them and click them, the room is too cluttered with toys. But do you think their playfulness would lead to some decent games shipped by default? I can't find anything but chess, which doesn't really appeal to me, so on the long train ride back from getting my Macbook in Hong Kong I was stuck writing my own games in Python, which was not exactly the quick, hip experience Mr Jobs promised me and much more akin to the hardcore Unix of old than today's funpacked linux distros.
Anyway, sounds like you either got lucky with OSX or really had some bad luck with linux, because your experience sounds so remote to mine.
Well, Hong Kong isn't really quite the same as the regular China, HK has had this stuff for 35 years, roughly as long as most other developed places outside North America. In HK it is roughly seen in the same way and thus a wedding in one is likely to be for kitsch value.
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Nope, they screwed it up. His family name is "Lin", his given name is "Mun Poo".
However, since he is Malaysian Chinese, things get weirder, Malaysian Chinese may write their name Chinese order "Lin Mun Poo", western order "Mun Poo Lin", without family name "Mun Poo", a single Arabic name e.g. "Muhammad", a single English name or an English name with a Chinese surname e.g. "David Lin". Any one of these might be what is written on this individual's birth certificate.
Well, I would be extremely pissed off about this if I was a student, I will give this guy no admiration. However 200 people admitted to cheating as a result of his (potential) bluff, if it wasn't for this guy and his actions, we wouldn't know how many students cheated, something that I found interesting. Sure, it hurt his students and he is bad teacher, but I am still glad he did it.
Well, I try not to be biased against Microsoft, some of their products (in my opinion) are actually better than their competitors were Excel (very polished and usable spreadsheet) and Visual Studio (slightly buggy, but very well integrated). Well, I decided to check out Windows Phone 7, after all, Windows 7 is much better than XP.
It sucked, it was just terrible beyond compare, things were slow, badly laid out, hard to read and slow to navigate. I just have to think to myself, why is Microsoft with its resources so incapable of doing something that Nokia, Apple, Google et. al have all done and not made a mess of it? There is just something about how that company is run, some inherent lack of direction regarding quality that just seems to pop up, even when you try to give them more and more chances.
I am starting to think the MS bashing Apple/Linux fanboys were right all along.
I live in Asia, like most other people in the world. Personally, I do not care that he didn't mention Asia, maybe he is not interested in Asia, maybe he doesn't know about Asia and does not want to speak about something he doesn't know (which would make him an idiot). He was writing about North America and Europe, places that I have briefly visited and not seen at all respectively, but these markets are a completely valid topic of conversation. Anyway, you are wrong, in Japan, phones and networks are almost always locked down. Also, in China, Unicom locks the iPhones it sells down pretty tightly.
Well, publishers give developers money to develop games, before the game is developed and do not demand it be paid back if the game does not sell well. The publisher takes about 50% of the gross, mainly because so many games do not break even, many are not even released. Sure, if publishers managed to only fund and advertise the great selling games, then they would need to take a lot less. But if you subtract what is spent on funding and advertising games that just didn't turn out how everyone hoped, you will find what is paid to shareholders is quite low.
The fortunes in the games industry are still only there to be made on the development side. If a game studio manages to release two smash hits in a row, investing their cut of the first into the second they stand to make the stakeholders in that studio very, very rich. While this is still statistically fairly unlikely, it is still much more likely than a publisher going an entire year without throwing away half of its money to dead-end projects. Also, consider that the studios that have had a very successful project and are thus more likely to produce a second will already have that 20% or whatever to self fund and therefore will pay the publisher a fraction of what it would be getting if the publisher was putting up the money upfront.
Making games is extremely fun about 40% of the time, which is why so many people do it or want to do it. But if I was a smart businessman, I would want absolutely nothing to do with this stupid industry. Publishing is no exception, because making good games is so hard, finding people to make good games for you is even harder. Real money in this world is made by doing something simple and useful more efficiently than the incumbents, the computer games industry is saturated with talent and we are working so hard that the speed and cost of development, related to the complexity of a project has got so fine that nobody really has any room left to get an edge in any "business" type way. The only avenue left is making a "hit" who's causes are so unknown that no executive, nomatter how adept can possibly bring one into being.
I am a game programmer, I was in the office until 10pm tonight getting a low-spec one pass water shader looking almost as good as our two pass high-spec one. But do you know what? I did, and it was awesome. My girlfriend is out of the country, I am in an unfamiliar city and I have absolutely nothing else to do but either fix shaders or comment on Slashdot and my shader is much better than this post. If I wanted money, I would be doing something else instead.
I find them very calming also. Even though since I was weaned, I have so far only have a chance to interact them during sex, I would still associate them more with nutriment than arousal. The warm feeling of two soft breasts against ones skin during a loving or even a friendly embrace feels as comforting as another pair of arms around one's body. I have heard that the association of breasts with sexuality is strongest in men who were not breastfed, I guess because having something associated with ones mother kind of takes the sexy out of anything.
I've got my 12" laptop straddling between my gut and right thigh in a recumbent position, quite comfortable. No apparent increase in temperature to the groin, thigh or abdomen, which sucks because my room is freezing.
Sales and Marketing are important, the only problem is that the quality of some idiots drawn to the field. If you have a guy who is _not_ an idiot telling you what the customers need, then maybe it is a good time to listen and do some of those things. If your Sales and Marketing department cannot differentiate between what your customers need and what they don't and are finding out what they really need at the last minute and filling your in-tray with bullshit, then that is their problem. I am a programmer and I have a great relationship with some sales guys and have some sales guys amongst the list of my most loathed enemies. The difference is, one set is good at their job, keep customers happy, make sales and help you work out what needs doing for your users, the others are disgusting idiots who fail in doing their job because their lack of inter personal skills and pile bullshit on the other departments to cover their own arses. It sounds like your sales and marketing head was just shit at his job, if you don't like him, it is doubtful that customers like him either.
I think your CEO was a geek who was conditioned by places like Slashdot and Dilbert into thinking that you are "supposed" to not like the S&M team, rather than them being supposed to be the most instantly likable guy in the company. That is a stupid attitude and I would be surprised if it hasn't harmed him immensely.
Well, I have to say, I had some great experience pair programming with the lead programmer at my second job after university. He's a very good programmer, but he has this major conservative bent whereby he enjoys calling problems "fixed" once he has made a single improvement and waiting for it to pop up three weeks later. He also takes exception to some of my programming style (which you would have to ask him about) and has a very concrete idea about certain things like which parts of STL can and cannot be used. I do not think either of us enjoyed working together as a general rule, in a sense we were too different, but mostly we were too similar in that we both possessed talent and arrogance in equal amounts. Anyway, there came a time where we had to majorly re-structure a critical system to make it threadsafe and to fix some glaring interface and behavioral issues that would have been almost impossible to do in the old structure, neither of us trusted the other to do the job, so we agreed to do it in a pair. It is amazing the quality of code you can write when you have to justify every line to the jerk sitting behind you. It is amazing how fast you can think when you know you need to propose a better solution than the other guy or you will have the keyboard stolen from you. We did a job we thought would never be done and it took us two days. In the end, we had major performance improvements, inadvertently fixed a devastating bug that showed up later on the old branch and turned a 7000 line unmaintainable mess into a well built, clean and modular system that could be used easily for many other tasks while introducing only a single new (detected) bug, which was fixed just a few days later. I would advise it to be used whenever a situation justifies it or if you have two people who work well as a team, often a good relationship mixes respect and contempt. One benefit is review and accountability, another benefit is that the person at the keyboard can think about this line, this loop, this function and the guy behind can think of the larger scope.
Having never done military training, I am very interested to know if when stuff like that happens, do you ever think about that if it was a real war, your unit would have probably been cut to pieces? I can imagine experiencing a situation like that and seeing how quickly something like that can go wrong would be a frightening feeling.
Yes, I do realise that I responded to a five word aside with a few hundred words about the fluid dynamics of toilets. I just wish that someone would clear that stupid thing up without the standard correct but completely irrelevant answer about the Coriolis forces not being dominant at that scale.
If you want to want an answer relating to upload and download, I can tell you that even though I am in the northern hemisphere right now, this nomenclature is not clear cut. What is one host's downstream is another host's upstream. Developing the client and server of an online computer game together leaves room for two interpretations, however, the convention inevidably becomes that all measurements are discussed in terms of the server's connection, since that is the side you are paying for yourself. Upstream certainly dominates in this case.
swirls their toilet flushes backwards.
Contrary to The Simpsons, Australian toilets don't swirl, the standard type I believe is called a "non-siphoning washdown", which basically means that the velocity head at the start of the s-trap during a flush is greater than the elevation between the bowl level to the peak of the s-trap. Usually this means the toilet has a slightly higher cistern than American varieties and the s-bend is lower and around double the diameter. The upshot is that this kind of toilet uses less water, since it relies on kinetic energy, not volume which also suits the Australian climate. Also that fecal matter is removed almost as soon as the button is hit is comforting for some. The drawback is that older designs of washdown are slightly unreliable compared to American style siphon toilets, since if the flush's velocity is lost due to a badly shaped bowl or an obstruction, there will be no way of building the hydraulic head needed to complete the siphon in the S-bend and empty the bowl.
Toilets are so deeply entwined in social norms and so rarely discussed that they become one of the most unexpected parts of traveling the world. Australia and America's common traits such as common language are reflected by the seated (not squatting) position and the fact that fecal matter falls directly into water. The contrary mindsets are evinced by the Australian direct approach of a sudden wave of not quite enough water to instantly clean away most but not all, compared to the American steady but wasteful surge which bobbles the shit halfway to the rim, before finally sucking it away completely when it can take no more.
Well, maybe what I said was not expressed very well. My viewpoint is that if someone understands development and management, they will generally not focus on what style they are doing, but why they are doing it. It is not the name that is the issue, it is the tendency to quote the name in liu of a justification. Your summation in the final paragraph is correct.
Wow, if you lost that job, it sounds like you have a lot to be grateful to Agile for. Though it sounds like these guys would have done badly given any development style they had chosen, had they gone for something they had called "waterfall" or anything else, they would have implemented it in practically the same way and met the same problems for the same reasons. I personally believe that if a company needs to use a development style with a name, it generally means that they do not understand their own situation well enough to create their own workflow and certainly not enough to finish a project properly. When I hear "this is what agile programmers do", I am 90% sure that the individual making the claim is just trying to rationalise doing something that he has no actual rationale for, otherwise he could explain it in real terms.
A pathogen is like a person, put a mild poison in their water supply and they will build an immunity, inject a 30ml vial of ricin into their aorta and they will die in seconds. Flooding a person's body with almost enough vancomycin to kill them is going to kill pretty much anything else inside of them. But give the same person a single dose of oxacillin and it will just kill off the weakest and least resistant of the bacteria allowing the less vulnerable to thrive and spread to new generations. This is why you should always swallow all of your antibiotics, even if you do not need it. The analogy holds for virus as well, if a virus mutates into a sort-of resistant strain, it is much better if we give it enough antibodies to kill all of it than provide evolutionary pressure to make a fully resistant version.
We are discussing biology, not making lines for Jurassic Park 4, life can always find a way, but if you kill it quickly, its evolutionary choices are limited. MRSA was caused by low doses of antibiotics by proscribing it to people who don't need it and not supervising them to take it properly, high doses of Meticillin would have killed its great great grandparents too, which were still partially vulnerable to the penicillin family, not just pruning its less resilient great aunts and uncles. If someone's got antibodies in their body anyway (as we all do), it is good to encourage the body to pump out enough to thoroughly kill viruses before they iterate and evolve into something that resists your antibodies, just like how mankind betrayed itself in its abuse of the Penicillin family.
In my country of birth Australia, we used Imperial units until the 60s and 70s, when we switched, right after we adopted decimal currency ($1 = 100c, not 1£ = 20d = 240p). In reality, it was quite a pain in the arse at the time, but the inconvenience faded in a few years and we were left with a better system of measurements in the long run. If a country expects a bright future of growth and progress, then accepting a few years of mildly reduced productivity in exchange for long term benefits makes good sense. Australia was a bit of a backwater at the time that system was adopted, but grew sharply in the decades after, not cause and effect in any way shape or form, but still a positive step.
Well, as someone who went through K-12 in the NSW public school system, I believe that a parent should have the right to get the same amount of government funding to educate their child be it at a public or any other school that teaches an approved curriculum. The bulk of private schools are not exceedingly affluent, some have a smaller total funding per student than state schools. Some private schools have money to blow on oversized network infrastructure, but this is not a typical one.
During my education in the public school system, I saw 50% or more of the teachers being quite good. Most of the principals I saw were promoted far above their level of incompetence and the bureaucracy who control the money seem to be composed of exactly those people who know so little about teaching that they cannot survive in a classroom and thusly continue to invest in exactly the opposite things to what children need to learn. These people need less money, not more. All that is needed is for the teachers and students to be given more options as to where to go.
The FAQ refers to the having more stories regarding the US than any other nation because the editors are American and invites people to submit stories relating to other countries. Suggesting that it gives any reference frame for comments is somewhat disingenuous.
Also, the US population is extremely large, I live in China and I still get that sense when I visit the US, however it does not really dominate the population on English language websites since these days there are a hell of a lot of people out there that know English and like computers.
There are guys out there that like to fuck sheep. Personally, although I would not encourage it, I don't think the sheep has much idea what is going on. Yet, for all the sheep that are screwed in this world, it is not a common subject in pornography for a man to screw a sheep and for the audience to watch and fantasise of being in sexual union with the sheep themselves.
What one does see a lot of in bestiality porn targeted for men is women being penetrated by dogs, pigs, etc. In this case, what is going on I believe is more focused around the sexual degradation of the woman, rather than the sexuality of the animal. In fact, I do not think rationale behind Australia's restriction of this kind of pornography focuses on animal cruelty in the slightest. I do not believe that sexual or other forms of extreme degradation, consensual or otherwise can be part of a healthy relationship, which are built on mutual respect in and out of the bedroom. I do not believe that men being able to access pornography that features animals penetrating women is as a whole beneficial to society and I support the Australian government in its effort to censor such things.
I have seen the sort of dominating, cruel and misogynistic arseholes who like this kind of stuff. Personally, I do not feel that depriving them of this is a bad thing. You can argue for this to be protected a free speech all you like, but I am glad that both the law and public opinion in Australia stands against this kind of media.
A hammer is better than a screwdriver. Firstly, it is faster to hammer in a nail than screw in a screw. Secondly a hammer can be used to shape hot metal, you can forge a screwdriver with a hammer but not forge a hammer with a screwdriver. Thirdly, a hammer can be used with a chisel as a substitute for a mallet (another useless tool). Thusly, anyone using a screwdriver (apart from unfastening legacy screwed-together systems) is obviously inexperienced or trying to show off.
Are we all convinced that "DevOps" is not some kind of parody site or straw man? Surely nobody could write such non-sensical waffle and mean it.
Seriously though, I think what he's trying to say is for individuals to take responsibility for solving the whole problem, from implementation to deployment. I personally do not like working in a niche all day anyway and I like to make sure that what I do is being used effectively and is working well, otherwise there is not much point of doing it to begin with. If I didn't care whether something I did was designed right, implemented right, tested right and deployed right as long as I did my bit, that would be my cue to find a new job. No point spending half my waking hours doing something that I don't care about.
But seriously, I don't think he could have written it worse if he tried. I hope his code is better than his prose or he should get back into his sysadmin niche.
This is not a case of Linux IO schedulers being unsuitable for the desktop, but more a case of desktop applications being written in a horrendous way in terms of data access. The general pattern being to open up a file object, load in a few hundred kilobytes, processing this then asking the operating system for more. This is a small inefficiency when the resource is doing nothing, but if the disk is actually busy, then it will probably be doing something else by the time you ask for it to read a little bit more. Not to mention the habit of reading through a few hundred resource files one at a time in seemingly random order, and blocking every time it reads, because the application programmer is too lazy to think about what resources the app is using.
Linux has such a nice implementation of mmap, which works by letting Linux actually know ahead of time what files you are interested in and managing them itself, without the application programmer worrying his pretty little head over it. Other options are running multiple non-blocking reads at the same time and loading the right amount of data and the right files to begin with.
The best thing about a simple CSCAN algorithm is that it gives applications what they asked for and if the application doesn't know what it wants, well, that's hardly a system issue.
Barbarism is barbarism, society shouldn't encourage either form, there is no irony there. Using deadly force to hunt down thieves isn't justice, it isn't necessary and it has no net effect but maybe encouraging robbers to target your neighbour who isn't willing to kill a man over a data cable.
I'm posting from OS10.6.4
Honestly, this system I think is 70% as good as Ubuntu, it's main drawbacks seem to be 1) lack of pre-installed or easy to install software, for example anything such as reading a spreadsheet or watching a movie is impossible without searching for software on the web or buying it. Sure, photoshop originated on the Mac, meaning it works well, but I simply do not edit enough images to justify that, having a decent port of GIMP would do me much good. 2) Shitty, shitty IME support, something like typing Chinese is a giant pain on OSX, even after downloading QIM, which is 100x better than the default but still awful compared to the pinyin method that ships with Ubuntu or the Google or Sogou IMEs that can be downloaded with Windows. 3) Lack of basic operating system features, like being able to mute a particular app from the sound control rather than trying to find it wherever the app developer decided to put it.
MacOS X is a good OS for surfing the web, checking emails and watching movies through VLC, which is why I bought this Macbook Pro, which is a lovely device by the way. Linux is a great OS for those things too, especially if you cannot afford my Macbook Pro. MacOS is also good for the imaginary demographic that needs their computer shipped with GarageBand and iMovie rather than say a vector or raster image editor and maybe even a decent quality word processor or text editor. Oh, and OSX also has all your favourite voices from OS7- such as Bad News and Trinoids, now accessible from the console. It also has the lovely Zaphino font, which you can type out to your hearts content in TextEdit. When using OSX, I just can't shake the feeling that I am playing with a product designed to look "hip" rather than be a functional tool. It really does not seem to want to put things that I need where I can just reach for them and click them, the room is too cluttered with toys. But do you think their playfulness would lead to some decent games shipped by default? I can't find anything but chess, which doesn't really appeal to me, so on the long train ride back from getting my Macbook in Hong Kong I was stuck writing my own games in Python, which was not exactly the quick, hip experience Mr Jobs promised me and much more akin to the hardcore Unix of old than today's funpacked linux distros.
Anyway, sounds like you either got lucky with OSX or really had some bad luck with linux, because your experience sounds so remote to mine.
Well, Hong Kong isn't really quite the same as the regular China, HK has had this stuff for 35 years, roughly as long as most other developed places outside North America. In HK it is roughly seen in the same way and thus a wedding in one is likely to be for kitsch value.