I got an interview with Google in 1999, and I had the opportunity to have lunch with Craig. He never mentioned to me that he was the 1st employee at the time.
I do remember what he asked me. I was interviewing for the job of initializing their QA department. He asked me how I would look for problems in an indexer that stored MILLIONS (ha) of pages. I had to ask what exactly an indexer was.
On the way out, I spent too much time flirting with the hot red head they had at the front desk, and Larry walked by and saw what I was doing. I don't think that's why I didn't get the job though.
This man has done more for my understanding of JavaScript than anyone else. My abilities took a huge leap after reading his clear and deep explanations that get to the heart of JavaScript's design:
He covers prototypical inheritence, classical inheritence, how to create private members, closures, engine performance, and other widely misunderstood aspects of javascript. HIGHLY recommended.
Actually this doesn't seem to be the case anymore. Seems to me that linux crashes a lot more than windows at this point. If your computer doesn't get Linux support directly from the manufacturer, it's very possible that running Linux smoothly on it will be a bitch. Example, my HP DV4-3011TX laptop.
Speaking of which, why am I even still on this site. You can find everything on reddit as well, which now has a much more active community than slashdot. The founders of Slashdot have bailed, and Slashdot is dying.
So they won't inadvertently support the patenting of genes? Maybe it's about IP for some people. When it comes to software, IP is a big deal to the slashdot crowd, but apparently not the same for genes.
If they are technically different, why can't they taste different? What makes you such an expert that you are sure they don't taste different? Have you done double blind side by side comparisons of GM vs non-GM food? Or are you just a blindly faithful GM proponent?
Fuck AMD. I specifically bought an HP D4-3011TX notebook due to it's relatively powerful Radeon HD 6750, and as it turns out the douchebags at AMD aren't going to put out a Linux driver that supports it. Their standard Windows driver doesn't even support it - you've got to use the old one from HP. And I DID do my research on this before purchasing. I couldn't find anything anywhere that stated that they wouldn't support it, and in fact everything on their site indicates that their drivers support the 6750. The laptop happens to also have an intel graphics processor, and AMD won't support chipsets that switch between two graphics processors. Assholes. I have to buy a new laptop because of this.
I don't buy this. I (hate to admit that I) worked at Zynga, and their entire business model is based off of metrics, both internal and customer metrics. They are behaviorists, and brought in financial industry data modeling to design games and make business decisions. It works, and it works fucking well. In the long term this Skinner box model may or may not work for creating a sustainable business, but it has worked for the last couple years. People may not like their games, but they keep playing them.
The problem is bad or incomplete or misinterpreted metrics. Metrics in and of themselves or not bad. The problem is with the people that use them.
As an internet developer in China, I can tell you that the duopoly posed by these two companies is wrecking havoc on the Chinese internet. First, a bit of history:
Around 2001, there was only one company controlling most of China's internet access, and that was China Telecom. Jiang Mianheng, the eldest son of the Chinese President at the time, Jiang Zemin, took in hundred of millions in investment to start a new telecommunications company, China Netcom. They struggled for a while trying to compete, but China Telecom's dominance prevented them from getting much headway in the market. Jiang Zemin then used his massive leverage to break up China Telecom, and give 1/3 of its business, all in northern China, to China Netcom. This caused serious enmity between the two entities. Eventually China Netcom was purchased by China Unicom, the second largest mobile provider in China. So now you have China Telecom and China Unicom as the two major telecommunications entities in China.
Do to the bad blood between the two, the connectivity between the Unicom and Telecom backbones is utter shit. International lines are connected through Telecom's backbone through Shanghai and other hubs further south, so if you are on Unicom, expect international connections to be utter shit. I'm in Beijing, and most home and small business connections are on Unicom. 90% of the time international connectivity is slow or non-existent.
We have clients in Shanghai, which is mostly Telecom, our server is on Unicom here in Beijing, and they get dropped connections 1 out of every 5 or 6 requests. We had to set up a proxy in Shanghai to get around this. If you do a traceroute from a Unicom ADSL connection to a Telecom server, you can see response times jump to 300-400ms where the hand-off occurs.
It's fucking infuriating. You basically have to either build a convoluted topology and set up some serious monitoring, or pay exorbitant extortion fees and get on a BGP network to have solid nation-wide service for your customers. As a small start-up we are opting for the first for now.
Hopefully this government probe will also deal with these sorts of deeper issues as well, because these problems are seriously crippling the Chinese internet as a good place to do business.
Everyone is ignoring the 900 pound gorilla in the corner. The internet is a virtual space, not a real one. There is no space-time continuum that the internet consists of. It is actually a conglomeration of mostly private pieces. Not only is it mostly private, the owners of those private pieces are large corporate entities that it relies upon to exist. There would be no ubiquitous internet in the hands of most humans were it not for the complex organizations that are able to implement it. In the current state the internet cannot be a fundamental and basic aspect of human life without giving up some level of freedom.
Either we keep the internet private and don't expect any special rights, or we move toward an ever more distributed and open internet that can be fully built up with DIY open source systems, and requires no top-down control by ICANN, backbone providers, and end-loop ISPs.
No, I was just explaining that the parent poster misunderstood the grandparent's point, which is that the apps can shut down at any time. I actually am a big google fan, and utilize their services to the fullest. I'm just pointing out a fact.
With JavaScript, you've got to support multiple browsers from the get-go, doing things that were never intended by the VM implementers, such as network polling and widget systems.
There's a difference. Code vs data. The app = code. The document = data. With google, you can export your document and keep it, yes, but the app - they can shut it down at any time. With MS office, you have a copy of the app, so Code = Data. They can't shut down the app. They can't take away the code. With google, you never have the code.
Who are "the rest of us"? The vast majority of people? And what rights exactly does he plan to give this so-called group that turns them into dictators of those of moneyed interests?
It still doesn't have google task API integration. People have been whining and bitching for years to get Google to release a Tasks API, and several months ago they finally did it. Still waiting for it in Lighting. Thunderbird will be everything I want once this happens.
I never said anything about complexity, or simulations in the military or scientific sense. Every game simulates a portion of reality to a degree. The point of some games is to experience something that would be unpleasant or tiring or difficult to access in real life.
what about FIFA, or car racing? come on, all of you guys have no imagination.
I'm not talking about either of these games. In fact I've only played Battlefield one night. What I'm saying is that it is often fun to do something in a video game that would not be fun at all in real life.
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It was great knowing you all. I guess it's time we all pack up and leave now that we've been shown the error of our ways. bye.
I got an interview with Google in 1999, and I had the opportunity to have lunch with Craig. He never mentioned to me that he was the 1st employee at the time.
I do remember what he asked me. I was interviewing for the job of initializing their QA department. He asked me how I would look for problems in an indexer that stored MILLIONS (ha) of pages. I had to ask what exactly an indexer was.
On the way out, I spent too much time flirting with the hot red head they had at the front desk, and Larry walked by and saw what I was doing. I don't think that's why I didn't get the job though.
DAMMMMMNN I wish I got that job!!!!!!!!
Creating fake videos of osama bin laden.
This man has done more for my understanding of JavaScript than anyone else. My abilities took a huge leap after reading his clear and deep explanations that get to the heart of JavaScript's design:
Douglas Crockford's JavaScript articles
He covers prototypical inheritence, classical inheritence, how to create private members, closures, engine performance, and other widely misunderstood aspects of javascript. HIGHLY recommended.
LS
Actually this doesn't seem to be the case anymore. Seems to me that linux crashes a lot more than windows at this point. If your computer doesn't get Linux support directly from the manufacturer, it's very possible that running Linux smoothly on it will be a bitch. Example, my HP DV4-3011TX laptop.
To be fair though, Symantec does do quite a bit of offshoring, with development offices in Beijing and Chengdu, amongst other places in Asia.
Nice platitude, but you are exposing yourself as a mindless parrot.
You might as well tell people to beware of rednecks and niggers while you are at it.
Speaking of which, why am I even still on this site. You can find everything on reddit as well, which now has a much more active community than slashdot. The founders of Slashdot have bailed, and Slashdot is dying.
http://www.reddit.com/r/slashdot
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology
http://www.reddit.com/r/science
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming
http://www.reddit.com/r/geek
http://www.reddit.com/r/linux
http://www.reddit.com/r/hardware
http://www.reddit.com/r/android
http://www.reddit.com/r/apple
http://www.reddit.com/r/google
etc
So they won't inadvertently support the patenting of genes? Maybe it's about IP for some people. When it comes to software, IP is a big deal to the slashdot crowd, but apparently not the same for genes.
If they are technically different, why can't they taste different? What makes you such an expert that you are sure they don't taste different? Have you done double blind side by side comparisons of GM vs non-GM food? Or are you just a blindly faithful GM proponent?
Fuck AMD. I specifically bought an HP D4-3011TX notebook due to it's relatively powerful Radeon HD 6750, and as it turns out the douchebags at AMD aren't going to put out a Linux driver that supports it. Their standard Windows driver doesn't even support it - you've got to use the old one from HP. And I DID do my research on this before purchasing. I couldn't find anything anywhere that stated that they wouldn't support it, and in fact everything on their site indicates that their drivers support the 6750. The laptop happens to also have an intel graphics processor, and AMD won't support chipsets that switch between two graphics processors. Assholes. I have to buy a new laptop because of this.
I don't buy this. I (hate to admit that I) worked at Zynga, and their entire business model is based off of metrics, both internal and customer metrics. They are behaviorists, and brought in financial industry data modeling to design games and make business decisions. It works, and it works fucking well. In the long term this Skinner box model may or may not work for creating a sustainable business, but it has worked for the last couple years. People may not like their games, but they keep playing them.
The problem is bad or incomplete or misinterpreted metrics. Metrics in and of themselves or not bad. The problem is with the people that use them.
LS
As an internet developer in China, I can tell you that the duopoly posed by these two companies is wrecking havoc on the Chinese internet. First, a bit of history:
Around 2001, there was only one company controlling most of China's internet access, and that was China Telecom. Jiang Mianheng, the eldest son of the Chinese President at the time, Jiang Zemin, took in hundred of millions in investment to start a new telecommunications company, China Netcom. They struggled for a while trying to compete, but China Telecom's dominance prevented them from getting much headway in the market. Jiang Zemin then used his massive leverage to break up China Telecom, and give 1/3 of its business, all in northern China, to China Netcom. This caused serious enmity between the two entities. Eventually China Netcom was purchased by China Unicom, the second largest mobile provider in China. So now you have China Telecom and China Unicom as the two major telecommunications entities in China.
Do to the bad blood between the two, the connectivity between the Unicom and Telecom backbones is utter shit. International lines are connected through Telecom's backbone through Shanghai and other hubs further south, so if you are on Unicom, expect international connections to be utter shit. I'm in Beijing, and most home and small business connections are on Unicom. 90% of the time international connectivity is slow or non-existent.
We have clients in Shanghai, which is mostly Telecom, our server is on Unicom here in Beijing, and they get dropped connections 1 out of every 5 or 6 requests. We had to set up a proxy in Shanghai to get around this. If you do a traceroute from a Unicom ADSL connection to a Telecom server, you can see response times jump to 300-400ms where the hand-off occurs.
It's fucking infuriating. You basically have to either build a convoluted topology and set up some serious monitoring, or pay exorbitant extortion fees and get on a BGP network to have solid nation-wide service for your customers. As a small start-up we are opting for the first for now.
Hopefully this government probe will also deal with these sorts of deeper issues as well, because these problems are seriously crippling the Chinese internet as a good place to do business.
LS
Everyone is ignoring the 900 pound gorilla in the corner. The internet is a virtual space, not a real one. There is no space-time continuum that the internet consists of. It is actually a conglomeration of mostly private pieces. Not only is it mostly private, the owners of those private pieces are large corporate entities that it relies upon to exist. There would be no ubiquitous internet in the hands of most humans were it not for the complex organizations that are able to implement it. In the current state the internet cannot be a fundamental and basic aspect of human life without giving up some level of freedom.
Either we keep the internet private and don't expect any special rights, or we move toward an ever more distributed and open internet that can be fully built up with DIY open source systems, and requires no top-down control by ICANN, backbone providers, and end-loop ISPs.
LS
No, I was just explaining that the parent poster misunderstood the grandparent's point, which is that the apps can shut down at any time. I actually am a big google fan, and utilize their services to the fullest. I'm just pointing out a fact.
With JavaScript, you've got to support multiple browsers from the get-go, doing things that were never intended by the VM implementers, such as network polling and widget systems.
There's a difference. Code vs data. The app = code. The document = data. With google, you can export your document and keep it, yes, but the app - they can shut it down at any time. With MS office, you have a copy of the app, so Code = Data. They can't shut down the app. They can't take away the code. With google, you never have the code.
LS
Scandi-lous!
*ducks*
Who are "the rest of us"? The vast majority of people? And what rights exactly does he plan to give this so-called group that turns them into dictators of those of moneyed interests?
As long as you are playing semantics, how can a bubble pop if it wasn't already partially inflated?
So in Ireland, "spontaneous combustion" is just a euphemism for "unexplained combustion?"
Darwin at work. Sacrificing your nuts for a childhood sci-fi fantasy.
It still doesn't have google task API integration. People have been whining and bitching for years to get Google to release a Tasks API, and several months ago they finally did it. Still waiting for it in Lighting. Thunderbird will be everything I want once this happens.
LS
I never said anything about complexity, or simulations in the military or scientific sense. Every game simulates a portion of reality to a degree. The point of some games is to experience something that would be unpleasant or tiring or difficult to access in real life.
what about FIFA, or car racing? come on, all of you guys have no imagination.
I'm not talking about either of these games. In fact I've only played Battlefield one night. What I'm saying is that it is often fun to do something in a video game that would not be fun at all in real life.