1. From the top your not passing pertinent information, you have a website. But you didnt if it's a Co-located machine. Which is what my best guess is given the info.
2. If they want to see the logs, it seems like a no brainer to make a logview account for that purpose. unless you dont want them to see the logs.
3. They've violated your trust, it's time to move on. Sue if they violated their contract, and you have enough proof/money.
4. If your not ok with them looking at your logs, what level of extra outage are you willing to sacrifice for that privacy?
yea, your wishful thinking that were all alone out here, and that theres nothing to worry about..
Tell that to all of the native people that thought they were all alone out there when the Europeans came along in their ships.
Yea, life is some magic anomaly that appears to have occurred as soon as it was cold enough to happen. And your assuming that were alone because we're not bombarded with evidence. It's like Robinson Caruso declaring the island abandoned after walking 60 paces..
it is relevant, in that a difference can be discerned.. as it is, I was directed to the album that the difference was noticeable in.
Though in fairness, he was able to notice the quality shift in the other songs, after knowing what to listen for.
For instance "Talkie Walkie" by Air has some very subtle sound that gets jacked even at 320kbps mp3 compression. Even with $30 headphones it's quite easy for me to tell the difference. My skeptic friend could nail the blind test, after knowing what part of the sound to listen to.
"Cat and the cradle" with audiophile equipment at 192kbps I'd be guessing. poorly.
"AxelF" (beverly hills cop theme song) might be hard to distinguish at 64kbps.
Most everything encodes pretty well under mp3, but it has its limitations.
Computer Science isnt programming..
yea, I've seen a fair chunk of folk that thow a fit over lambda calculus. And a bunch that lose it when they get to functional programming. And a few that break down and cry trying to get ANTLR to make a mini-java compiler for MIPS. Or getting through the deadlock diagnostic in OS design. Proving that moving horizontal or vertical on a checkerboard from black will give red.
For a coder, most of this doesnt need to come into play, ever.
Though writing a compiler geve me a much deeper grasp of what the error messages in GCC were, and how to find the offending line.
Graph theory provides some awesome ways to prevent discongruent states from occuring. OS design threw me a whole bunch of nonobvious problems that can occur, and how to avoid whole subsets of them.
Functional programming taught me how to code without chained statements and classical loops.
CS gives out a whole set of skills to analyse and develope code, processes and math. If a boss asked to implement a simple programming language that the user could use within the application-- can your average code monkey handle that? Do you grab someone who balked at calc being a tough concept to grasp? Then do they have the skills to show that it doesnt freak out on legit input?
Sure, there are a bunch of people who cheated-googled their way through CS programs, and some that crammed for tests with zilch retention. And some CS programs that are CS in name only, actually coding trade schools with some required courses to seem a bit more legit. Plenty of all of these out there, a talented code monkey will beat these any day of the week.
Plenty of non-CS degrees do quite a bit of coding, and it works fine. Some long term coders will totally school a CS grad, as practical experience plus talent means that they've assimilated most of the good tricks of the CS side of life, and they have awesome habits like "if (2==x)" rather than "if (x==2)" so the compiler will bite them when they get dumb and use one "=". As most schools wont teach habits.
A legit degree is usefull to a point.
Storm
P.S. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake, you are the same organic decaying matter as everything else.
Education is exactly what makes someone more skilled. Education can help compensate for less talent. Education is what you learn, not how you learn it.
The degree can be gained through some combinations of talent, education, persistence, dishonesty, and money.
The degree is all about status, the education is what you make of it. No one forces you to list a degee on your resume, it just raises your status for many potential employers. It's a nice filter to reduce the amount of applicants that can spew keywords, and talk a convincing talk.
I like the blacklist... i have a quarter million addresses in mine. if you're on one, you need to pitch the address and get fresh one. because you're never getting clean internet access again. The addresses are tainted for at least a decade. I don't even let blacklisters surf my sites.
though I would like to see ARIN report a list of freshened addresses (with purchaser approval of course), with digital sig and time stamp, so I could fix my blacklist.. I dont see any easier feasible way to proceed.
First off.. it's just the wrong distance from C..
Perl and Python have a nice distance from C grammar rules.
Java sticks in pretty tight.
Go isnt close enough to guess, or far enough away to be distinct.
Printf instead of printf no.
The for loop.. same syntax, but no parens.. with infinite loop behavior in "for{STMT}"
sure I can use parens.. but I can force other peoples code to not use jacked conventions.
And yea, I kinda feel that a language should have a core, and a simple way to go full featured, without sending a beginner to cpan and explain the make process, explain the:: conventions for something as simple as making a window with a few buttons.
The whole object oriented window system.. needs the low tech version, where a whole paradigm doesnt need to be explained, just to do a simple parameter->okbutton-> render function.
Baseline is that I see a language that doesnt make coding fun..
perl's @junk=LessThan_GreaterThan; is a thing of beauty (slashdot parses the symbols sorry)
Python and ruby's huge integer types.. no C++ NTL hassles awesome.
var s string:= "hello world" WTF?? like some pascal-C cross breed. it's clumsy.. and conflicts with the pattern in my head of how a var should be declared.
The memory protection seem alright..
IMHO..
Check it for the standard disaster scenarios..
Flood... is this place in new orleans, below sea level, or in Cheyenne, a mile up with 12 inches of moisture a year.
Fire, Looting, Snow (can collapse roofs if not shoveled, and leave power outages for days).
tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, landslides, sinkholes, train derailment, proximity to a place someone would like to destroy (WTC, Fedral buildings,the killdozer targets). Buildings that can be affected by highway closures. Close proximity to airport increases chances of plane collision.
See if you can get the full insurance adjustment estimates on the property. I've heard Detroit is considered the safest area for natural disasters (needs citation).
ask rough questions of the managment. "if cogent gets in another spat with level3, will we lose any connectivity?", "can a backhoe take out out service?", "if our rival comes into the data center to physically access their boxes, how will our boxes be secure?","how much wood could a wood chuck chuck..."
Resting Metabolism is about 1000 kcal/day
So about a pound of fat every 3 days.
Another 1000 ish is enough for sedentary living.
With some cardio conditioning, a person can burn 1000kcal / hour a few times a day.
however, the body will scavenge muscle if glucose is unavailable. so the calories go up a bit.. but the weight can drop like a rock.. if someone can find a spare 4 hours a day. with an hour a day, it still drops reasonably.
A 2000-3000 kcal diet is fine if your cranking 2+ hours of cardio.
Imagine you dislike a comcast subscriber, and you have access to a big internet pipe.
What happens when you send UDP packets to your enemies IP address, when there either sleeping, or not home?
Assume your smart enough to not get throttled.
at 1MB/Sec you can eat 3.6GB/hr or 30GB/Night first 8 nights=~ 250gb.
next 22 nights=~30GB/N*22N *$15/10GB=~ $999 in overage fees.
now that's what I call abuse...
of course they'd be disbarred.. the dont know law for jack
Commenting out sections of argument would be rough too.
Though the concept of catching laws that were totally jacked would be truly amusing.
For instance because Kansas doesnt recognize gay marriage.. you can be gay married in Washington, move to Kansas, get straight married(they'd have to recognize the gay marriage to claim bigamy), and move to Vermont where they would have to recognize both.
Just add Graph Theory.. and you can have size 2n circular marriages for [n >2,n
Programmers would rip the law to shreds.. as those inconsistencies flourish when you let people who dont consider the edge conditions.
"in closing your honor I would like to submit that this state sanctioned dictionary is recursive with no base case, as such none of the words can be considered to be defined, therefore the law are made of undefined words, meaning the defendant must be acquitted", programmer judge "Therefore I didnt understand a word of your closing, instructing the jury to strike closing"
The whole bloody mess is mis-engineered... The secure settings in IE are a bear to browse with, and are still vulnerable to some zero day exploits. Windows itself is a mess, how many areas are there to check for programs that load at boot?
the legacy dos files...
the run and run-once lines in the registry (all of them)
runservices
load
userinit
the startup menu
the startup menu for the user
lots of the code doesnt work unless it gets full rein to jack your system. Turn on the windows based security and programs like xfire throw a fit as they are constantly requesting to break security for legit reasons.. The security breaks usability and the idiots want to be able to just see the video from a friend without all this hassle of loading flash. Or download a file without a freak-out.
While you can limit what sites you visit. mistype google or microsoft, and theres no telling what your pc will contract.
awesome list... Id mod up if possible.
id go with 2 parts...
________________________
Humans gone amok
1984.... There's a reason that it holds up for 60 years.
O'Brian, wow. I need my 2 minutes of hate.
soylent green aka "get out get out"
Shows that those things we take for granted can be amazing.
Gattaca or Brave new world
Both Awesome dystopias that are polished to respectability.
_____________________________________________________
Aliens and Space opera..
man-kzin wars
orson scott card-- enders game
Aliens to end things out with some fun
__________________________________
Borlaug has been one of my heroes for some time now.. so I say bullshit. total steaming bullshit. internet harpy screaming bullshit.
He provided the world the breathing room that it needed to get our population problem under control before we trashed the planet beyond human habitability. Family sizes in the third world have dropped, population growth has slowed. and we still have some reasonable areas that contain wildlife on this planet.
People with starving children will take to arms if there is food to be had. Without Borlaug's green revolution we would probably lose the large creatures of Africa, and many parts of Asia. The amazon would be mostly farmland. And the planet would lose millions of potential sources of bio-pharmacuticals to exploit.
Boiling it down.. Sure math people think they're smart.. Trying to attack a problem that has stood up to hundreds of mathematicians before you requires some real arrogance *for most folk anyway* and solid confidence in your brain, otherwise its time to walk away.
And to expect that by and large the folks of the lunchroom could hold their own in geography, or Geology, does seem a bit outlandish to them.. And yes my money is on the math professors for a geography quiz. Sure their might be a geography ringer or two in the lunchroom, but the whole room wont smoke the whole math dept.
These things are not mutually exclusive. I have anecdotes of examples. What some people may call "critical thinking" is just expertise in a subject area. Einstein was very good at relativity for example, but he wasn't good in quantum mechanics (or mathematics in general). Unfortunately people confuse their expertise in a particular area as applying to all fields of endeavor. If that were true then Chinese people who are good at mathematics would also be good at driving cars. In fact doctors are required to take "science" courses (which includes mathematics) and yet they are still notorious for not washing their hands, and often perform medical procedures out of tradition or guess work as opposed to something based in reality. The same with the educated number-crunchers who gave bogus companies buy ratings when they (the balance sheets and quarterly reports) didn't offer the public anything but hope and unjustified claims.
Einstein not good in quantum mechanics..WTF?. He introduced the theory of light-wave duality. It's still taught in high school today.
Calling Chinese people quite good at mathematics, though not Einstein. I know a fair share of Chinese grad students, and I've seen pictures of Einsteins notes. I'm pretty sure Einstein was better at math than the average Chinese citizen. Oh.. the skill of Chinese drivers is just fine, but a person cant drive like a westerner on Chinese roadways, it would cause accidents.
Doctors scrub in and out. Otherwise their handwashing habits dont concern me. Im the states a Doc who performs medicine based on guess work will be sued faster than a kid can make a mess. And number crunchers acting unethically.. isnt nessisarily stupid.
And as far a math people go.. calculating isnt real math.
I have yet to see a particularly dumb person implement RSA encryption
Emphasis here. You didn't define what "particularly dumb" is so I don't know what you are talking about. I could presume that you are a Mathematics fanyboy because of your inability to express what you mean, but that would unjustifiably label me a Troll by Fanboys who have moderation points. Also, it is easy to presume that you consider people who do RSA encryption are intelligent and not "dumb" and therefore would have a cognitive bias in unjustly validating your statement. Again, it's easy to point out fallacies in people, especially people who study Mathematics, which I presume you have.
Worse yet, a lot of these Math people think they are somehow more intelligent than other people.
I left "particulary dumb" as a vague term that left some weasel space for the replier. I could say, someone who scores at the 25th percentile of his/her age group across categories (within the expected standard deviation ) in a well recognized and accredited standardized test, given in a fair environment. But that colors it quite unfairly.. So I left weasel space.
I do have some cognitive bias. Getting all of the parts an RSA cryptosystem working correctly, and resistant to the known attacks is something I was unable to complete.. The system was succeptable to timing assaults, and the randomizer was too weak to generate safe 400+ bit keys, as the randomizer only had 400bits of reachable state space. So I consider a person who wraps their head around this to be smarter than average. Assuming of course that this isnt the focus of their studies.
And yea, I think that people who work in Math all day think themselves brighter than the person who has been scooping the vegetables in the faculty cafeteria for the last 40 years. Almost to the same extent that a marathon runner considers himself more fit than a slashdot junkie.;)
How the blazes is someone going to handle pure mathematics without reasoning and critical thinking. Sure some calculations can be done that way, but math cant. I have yet to see a particularly dumb person implement RSA encryption, none the less build a sound assymetric cypher based on alternate one way functions.
While plenty of "reasoning and Critical Thinking" folk out there dont have the slightest clue.. big numbers dont seem to mean anything.. Millions, Billions, Trillions, Quadrillions, 10 ^ 40 th it all seems to get mashed together. How many joules of kinetic energy does it take to total a car? How much gas would it take to melt a ton of snow. Meanwhile these people are still struggling with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem of which the solution should seem obvious.
The TTY code has been pretty decent to me over the years. I've never found a situation that my code could do right with the TTY. Not that Im writing editors.
Overall I hope Alan finds a new project, I suspect that his experience could really help all sorts of userland code.
Coders are stubborn and dislike being told how to do anything. No shame in saying shove it when its time.
Slashdot Mirror
Storm
2. If they want to see the logs, it seems like a no brainer to make a logview account for that purpose. unless you dont want them to see the logs.
3. They've violated your trust, it's time to move on. Sue if they violated their contract, and you have enough proof/money.
4. If your not ok with them looking at your logs, what level of extra outage are you willing to sacrifice for that privacy?
Storm
Tell that to all of the native people that thought they were all alone out there when the Europeans came along in their ships.
Yea, life is some magic anomaly that appears to have occurred as soon as it was cold enough to happen. And your assuming that were alone because we're not bombarded with evidence. It's like Robinson Caruso declaring the island abandoned after walking 60 paces..
weak
it is relevant, in that a difference can be discerned.. as it is, I was directed to the album that the difference was noticeable in. Though in fairness, he was able to notice the quality shift in the other songs, after knowing what to listen for.
For instance "Talkie Walkie" by Air has some very subtle sound that gets jacked even at 320kbps mp3 compression. Even with $30 headphones it's quite easy for me to tell the difference. My skeptic friend could nail the blind test, after knowing what part of the sound to listen to.
"Cat and the cradle" with audiophile equipment at 192kbps I'd be guessing. poorly.
"AxelF" (beverly hills cop theme song) might be hard to distinguish at 64kbps.
Most everything encodes pretty well under mp3, but it has its limitations.
Storm
that's awesome.. I'd mod you up, if I didn't alreaddy post to this conversation.. thanks,
Storm
CS gives out a whole set of skills to analyse and develope code, processes and math. If a boss asked to implement a simple programming language that the user could use within the application-- can your average code monkey handle that? Do you grab someone who balked at calc being a tough concept to grasp? Then do they have the skills to show that it doesnt freak out on legit input?
Sure, there are a bunch of people who cheated-googled their way through CS programs, and some that crammed for tests with zilch retention. And some CS programs that are CS in name only, actually coding trade schools with some required courses to seem a bit more legit. Plenty of all of these out there, a talented code monkey will beat these any day of the week.
Plenty of non-CS degrees do quite a bit of coding, and it works fine. Some long term coders will totally school a CS grad, as practical experience plus talent means that they've assimilated most of the good tricks of the CS side of life, and they have awesome habits like "if (2==x)" rather than "if (x==2)" so the compiler will bite them when they get dumb and use one "=". As most schools wont teach habits.
A legit degree is usefull to a point.
Storm
P.S. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake, you are the same organic decaying matter as everything else.
The degree can be gained through some combinations of talent, education, persistence, dishonesty, and money.
The degree is all about status, the education is what you make of it. No one forces you to list a degee on your resume, it just raises your status for many potential employers. It's a nice filter to reduce the amount of applicants that can spew keywords, and talk a convincing talk.
Storm
though I would like to see ARIN report a list of freshened addresses (with purchaser approval of course), with digital sig and time stamp, so I could fix my blacklist.. I dont see any easier feasible way to proceed.
Storm
thanks for the info. the public/private practice warrants some pondering as to my coding practices. Go is staying on my bad list.
Perl and Python have a nice distance from C grammar rules.
Java sticks in pretty tight.
Go isnt close enough to guess, or far enough away to be distinct.
Printf instead of printf no. The for loop.. same syntax, but no parens.. with infinite loop behavior in "for{STMT}"
sure I can use parens.. but I can force other peoples code to not use jacked conventions.
And yea, I kinda feel that a language should have a core, and a simple way to go full featured, without sending a beginner to cpan and explain the make process, explain the :: conventions for something as simple as making a window with a few buttons.
The whole object oriented window system.. needs the low tech version, where a whole paradigm doesnt need to be explained, just to do a simple parameter->okbutton-> render function.
Baseline is that I see a language that doesnt make coding fun.. := "hello world" WTF?? like some pascal-C cross breed. it's clumsy.. and conflicts with the pattern in my head of how a var should be declared.
The memory protection seem alright..
perl's @junk=LessThan_GreaterThan; is a thing of beauty (slashdot parses the symbols sorry)
Python and ruby's huge integer types.. no C++ NTL hassles awesome.
var s string
IMHO.. Check it for the standard disaster scenarios..
Flood... is this place in new orleans, below sea level, or in Cheyenne, a mile up with 12 inches of moisture a year.
Fire, Looting, Snow (can collapse roofs if not shoveled, and leave power outages for days). tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, landslides, sinkholes, train derailment, proximity to a place someone would like to destroy (WTC, Fedral buildings,the killdozer targets). Buildings that can be affected by highway closures. Close proximity to airport increases chances of plane collision.
See if you can get the full insurance adjustment estimates on the property. I've heard Detroit is considered the safest area for natural disasters (needs citation).
ask rough questions of the managment. "if cogent gets in another spat with level3, will we lose any connectivity?", "can a backhoe take out out service?", "if our rival comes into the data center to physically access their boxes, how will our boxes be secure?","how much wood could a wood chuck chuck..."
Resting Metabolism is about 1000 kcal /day
So about a pound of fat every 3 days.
Another 1000 ish is enough for sedentary living.
With some cardio conditioning, a person can burn 1000kcal / hour a few times a day. however, the body will scavenge muscle if glucose is unavailable. so the calories go up a bit.. but the weight can drop like a rock.. if someone can find a spare 4 hours a day. with an hour a day, it still drops reasonably. A 2000-3000 kcal diet is fine if your cranking 2+ hours of cardio.
What happens when you send UDP packets to your enemies IP address, when there either sleeping, or not home? /Night first 8 nights=~ 250gb.
Assume your smart enough to not get throttled.
at 1MB/Sec you can eat 3.6GB/hr or 30GB
next 22 nights=~30GB/N*22N *$15/10GB=~ $999 in overage fees.
now that's what I call abuse...
Storm
Commenting out sections of argument would be rough too.
Though the concept of catching laws that were totally jacked would be truly amusing. ,n
Programmers would rip the law to shreds.. as those inconsistencies flourish when you let people who dont consider the edge conditions.
For instance because Kansas doesnt recognize gay marriage.. you can be gay married in Washington, move to Kansas, get straight married(they'd have to recognize the gay marriage to claim bigamy), and move to Vermont where they would have to recognize both.
Just add Graph Theory.. and you can have size 2n circular marriages for [n >2
"in closing your honor I would like to submit that this state sanctioned dictionary is recursive with no base case, as such none of the words can be considered to be defined, therefore the law are made of undefined words, meaning the defendant must be acquitted", programmer judge "Therefore I didnt understand a word of your closing, instructing the jury to strike closing"
The whole bloody mess is mis-engineered... The secure settings in IE are a bear to browse with, and are still vulnerable to some zero day exploits. Windows itself is a mess, how many areas are there to check for programs that load at boot?
the legacy dos files...
the run and run-once lines in the registry (all of them)
runservices
load
userinit
the startup menu
the startup menu for the user
lots of the code doesnt work unless it gets full rein to jack your system. Turn on the windows based security and programs like xfire throw a fit as they are constantly requesting to break security for legit reasons.. The security breaks usability and the idiots want to be able to just see the video from a friend without all this hassle of loading flash. Or download a file without a freak-out.
While you can limit what sites you visit. mistype google or microsoft, and theres no telling what your pc will contract.
awesome list... Id mod up if possible. id go with 2 parts... ________________________ Humans gone amok 1984.... There's a reason that it holds up for 60 years. O'Brian, wow. I need my 2 minutes of hate. soylent green aka "get out get out" Shows that those things we take for granted can be amazing. Gattaca or Brave new world Both Awesome dystopias that are polished to respectability. _____________________________________________________ Aliens and Space opera.. man-kzin wars orson scott card-- enders game Aliens to end things out with some fun __________________________________
nope, sadly no-one manages to keep me on the correct servings of the food^h^h^h^h porn pyramid.
Your friend has a "supervisor of porn"? I'm envious
He provided the world the breathing room that it needed to get our population problem under control before we trashed the planet beyond human habitability. Family sizes in the third world have dropped, population growth has slowed. and we still have some reasonable areas that contain wildlife on this planet.
People with starving children will take to arms if there is food to be had. Without Borlaug's green revolution we would probably lose the large creatures of Africa, and many parts of Asia. The amazon would be mostly farmland. And the planet would lose millions of potential sources of bio-pharmacuticals to exploit.
Storm
And to expect that by and large the folks of the lunchroom could hold their own in geography, or Geology, does seem a bit outlandish to them.. And yes my money is on the math professors for a geography quiz. Sure their might be a geography ringer or two in the lunchroom, but the whole room wont smoke the whole math dept.
Einstein not good in quantum mechanics..WTF?. He introduced the theory of light-wave duality. It's still taught in high school today.
Calling Chinese people quite good at mathematics, though not Einstein. I know a fair share of Chinese grad students, and I've seen pictures of Einsteins notes. I'm pretty sure Einstein was better at math than the average Chinese citizen. Oh.. the skill of Chinese drivers is just fine, but a person cant drive like a westerner on Chinese roadways, it would cause accidents.
Doctors scrub in and out. Otherwise their handwashing habits dont concern me. Im the states a Doc who performs medicine based on guess work will be sued faster than a kid can make a mess. And number crunchers acting unethically.. isnt nessisarily stupid.
And as far a math people go.. calculating isnt real math.
I left "particulary dumb" as a vague term that left some weasel space for the replier. I could say, someone who scores at the 25th percentile of his/her age group across categories (within the expected standard deviation ) in a well recognized and accredited standardized test, given in a fair environment. But that colors it quite unfairly.. So I left weasel space.
I do have some cognitive bias. Getting all of the parts an RSA cryptosystem working correctly, and resistant to the known attacks is something I was unable to complete.. The system was succeptable to timing assaults, and the randomizer was too weak to generate safe 400+ bit keys, as the randomizer only had 400bits of reachable state space. So I consider a person who wraps their head around this to be smarter than average. Assuming of course that this isnt the focus of their studies.
And yea, I think that people who work in Math all day think themselves brighter than the person who has been scooping the vegetables in the faculty cafeteria for the last 40 years. Almost to the same extent that a marathon runner considers himself more fit than a slashdot junkie. ;)
While plenty of "reasoning and Critical Thinking" folk out there dont have the slightest clue.. big numbers dont seem to mean anything.. Millions, Billions, Trillions, Quadrillions, 10 ^ 40 th it all seems to get mashed together. How many joules of kinetic energy does it take to total a car? How much gas would it take to melt a ton of snow. Meanwhile these people are still struggling with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem of which the solution should seem obvious.
Storm
Admit it, retirement is better with Viagra.
Storm
Overall I hope Alan finds a new project, I suspect that his experience could really help all sorts of userland code.
Coders are stubborn and dislike being told how to do anything. No shame in saying shove it when its time.
Storm