It seems to me (normal career newb disclaimer here) that node is going to burn less juice than PHP under Apache. Disregarding for a moment my general dislike of php (except the paychecks) and my general dislike of the Drupal/WP/Joomla... uh... paradigm my experiences with node/mongo have been very refreshing. Async is a cool way to work with once you get your head around it (my head maybe 90 degrees so far...) and Mongo / document storage is way more natural for certain kinds of relatively big data issues than mysql (which I have no hatred for)
But back to the top. Hey server guys and gals: Wouldn't node draw less electric, like way less. So if my webbloging socialnetworking ecommercing socialgaming buzzwordcompliant client blows up they'd need less of a web armada... right? And they'd be helping the environment by not using Wordpress or Drupal.
My wife doesn't get it and my kids are in early elementary school psycho stage so I ended up taking a cheap share on a semi office. It was either that, sit around cafes (too old) or only get 4 hours a day.
would require identical subjects, no? Google: acupuncture nitric oxide and surf around for a while. I agree with > some of which might be correct and some of which might be nonsense and that certainly applies to some of western medicine including all of SSRIs. There's something happening, over the last thousands of years, that hasn't been quantified by western medicine. And "good" western DRs alter their thinking every couple of years as they should. We don't understand systems biology and are only starting to investigate. Dismissing acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine is the mark of ideologues and amateurs.
I, for one, was rooting for FTL. And I thought they'd have a more interesting gravity well or frame of reference mistake. A loose cable? It's like they've got some out of work audio techs doing their setup.
I love writing games, sometimes for pay usually for fun, but don't play them and have very little interest. This has become a problem as I've had to get a crony who's an (ex)gamer to test the money games as I can't tell what's fun and what isn't.
Hey great thread! I can confidently state that I'm in lower percentile of the posters here regarding physics and math (I'm just above the random trolls and bellow everyone else). I found Penrose - The Road to Reality a great overview starting with math I already understood, educating me about some concepts I didn't get before and ending up with today's physics of which I understood, charitably... uh... 10 percent... cough... I already had a tourist knowledge of higher math but my actual arithmetic is a disgrace and I found Penrose kept me on the horse longer than other texts.
And I've been flamed for recommending this book for reasons I didn't understand in the past so YMMV.
I had a meeting once to develop someones patent (they had been granted the patent already). I spent the whole time confused until I realized that they had developed none of the technology they had patented, wanted me to write a demonstration demo - a look and feel front end that didn't actually do anything under the hood but demonstrated the idea. I told them they were hiring me to draw a flying car as they had patented "personal transportation vehicle (car) that operates in three dimensions" but hadn't actually solved any of the technology at all (purely for description, their undeveloped technology was not a flying car). Anyway... they were friends so I said "sure" thinking their plan was probably to wait until someone actually developed the tech and then sue and suspecting, correctly as it turned out, that there was some basic computing issues involved and they were probably going to be up against prior art / patents held by the big boys. I described visions of platoons of lawyers hitting the beach but we did the little demo anyway.
I lost touch. I wonder if they're suing someone in Texas right now.
Break opinion posts down with non judgmental (yeah, right) category moderation. For politics: "conservative", "liberal", "libertarian", "Democrat", "Republican", "SDLP", "Sein Fein"... etc... Moderate comments "opinion" - "background" "(attempted) insight" - "interesting but off topic" "funny" "political flame bait" "random flame bait" "incoherent"
Combine this with Facebook login - that alone keeps me off the tech sites that use it - and - here's the important part - PAID MODERATORS who are monitored by karma (or whatever the site is calling it) holding users. Yeah yeah I know web 2.0 is all about crowd sourcing free content but I offer up youtube comment threads as an argument that it's time to move on. Let's get some new buzzwords going and start paying moderators as there are a lot of people out there who could use the telecommuting $10 an hour.
I've done 2 (and a half) magazine sites writing fully custom CMS and am finishing a site with Drupal. Drupal can be pretty annoying but in the end you get caching for free which is a huge plus. Unlike Wordpress it's not for the "I just want to blog" crowd ("Born to Blog" might be a good t-shirt...) and faced with another site that needs fully customizable pages, I'd only pick Drupal again if the budget was really low or if they were OK with it looking like Drupal's river of news. Next time out, Django.
Which seemed more like a suggestion. Having been in touch with relatives in Chiba and following Japanese news online, the Japanese aren't panicking. US media would rather we didn't think about [domestic political rant redacted out of deference to the seriousness of the thread]
> but because humanity (and more precisely, human bureaucracy) is often far too gaffe-prone to be trusted. Running a nuclear plant isn't amenable to cost-cutting or tight-fisted cost-benefit assessment.
Exactly. Imagine the fiscal debate around replacing pre-Chernobyl reactors. Current US gov arguing about cutting tsunami warning systems the day of the Japanese tsunami. Now imagine a 9 earthquake in LA with our, shall we say, post-modern approach to regulation. There's a reason Tokyo didn't fall down and it's not the hidden hand of the market. (FWIW I have no specific knowledge of LA building codes. Mentioned purely because/. doesn't have enough hot air)
Yeah. I liked it as a kid. IIRC Colossus and the Soviet computer go all SkyNet at the end. Plus they shot it at the science center in the East Bay hills.
They had the ship for years looking at the systems - maybe had cracked the OS somewhat, transmission frequencies (which happened to be the same as the Airport card?). The aliens are telepaths/hive mind(?) so no need for security, ever. Compared to the rest of the movie...
Knowing the preceding statement is flame bait I vote for Jurassic Park - the quote is the current department. Best computer scene ever: The end of Colossus(?).
Translates buttons, gradients, frame sets and some animation - though it generates multiple.svg's for animation. This is for people who bought those (heinous) Flash templates for their restaurant/photo gallery/etc and are now horrified that the site doesn't play on iPad. As a long time Flash guy I enjoy telling most new clients they should go with javascript/css etc... No more discussing pretty (annoying) Flash splash openings. Nice dynamic AJAXee navigation. But for games it's actionscript all the way. Until there's real.svg support.
"The Republicans/Democrats/Whigs are dangerously naive about Soviet/Al Qaida/Chinese/Brazilian intentions regarding multicore MIMD instruction code. We must maintain supremacy in cyberspace to protect FREEDOM."
This would be almost as good as a bridge across the Pacific for keeping cold warriors busy.
$3.99 is too much for a sheet. I say big pro composer guy should understand that. Maybe a couple of (IMHO) hack musicals shouldn't make him as much. They should make him something though.
I'm a long time professional who has probably lost big publishing $ to file sharing but saw it coming 20 years ago so wasn't surprised. (and yes my music would probably not be on musical theater girls iPod)
Times change. I still make a living in meat space - playing live - but there's a lot less work to go around. I also make $ coding, have had clients that said they didn't like it, didn't want to pay and then found my code live on their site. They knew enough to copy the html, css and javascript. It's digital so my labor was worth nothing. Small claims court? I didn't bother but I wonder how it would have played out.
I wonder how all the people who scream that any IP restriction is EVIL feel when they work away at OSS and make very little money. Did they see it coming?
Not that I'd advocate some DRM / IP technological scheme imposed by the state. It's not that you can't put the genie back in the bottle, there is no longer a bottle.
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It seems to me (normal career newb disclaimer here) that node is going to burn less juice than PHP under Apache. Disregarding for a moment my general dislike of php (except the paychecks) and my general dislike of the Drupal/WP/Joomla ... uh ... paradigm my experiences with node/mongo have been very refreshing. Async is a cool way to work with once you get your head around it (my head maybe 90 degrees so far ...) and Mongo / document storage is way more natural for certain kinds of relatively big data issues than mysql (which I have no hatred for)
But back to the top. Hey server guys and gals: Wouldn't node draw less electric, like way less. So if my webbloging socialnetworking ecommercing socialgaming buzzwordcompliant client blows up they'd need less of a web armada ... right? And they'd be helping the environment by not using Wordpress or Drupal.
My wife doesn't get it and my kids are in early elementary school psycho stage so I ended up taking a cheap share on a semi office. It was either that, sit around cafes (too old) or only get 4 hours a day.
would require identical subjects, no? Google: acupuncture nitric oxide and surf around for a while.
I agree with
> some of which might be correct and some of which might be nonsense
and that certainly applies to some of western medicine including all of SSRIs. There's something happening, over the last thousands of years, that hasn't been quantified by western medicine.
And "good" western DRs alter their thinking every couple of years as they should. We don't understand systems biology and are only starting to investigate. Dismissing acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine is the mark of ideologues and amateurs.
I, for one, was rooting for FTL. And I thought they'd have a more interesting gravity well or frame of reference mistake.
A loose cable? It's like they've got some out of work audio techs doing their setup.
I love writing games, sometimes for pay usually for fun, but don't play them and have very little interest. This has become a problem as I've had to get a crony who's an (ex)gamer to test the money games as I can't tell what's fun and what isn't.
mod: hall of fame
I get it. Thanks. I learned perl way back when to avoid malloc but should probably go back and get closer to the machine.
I'm a kludgy self taught coder and I just googled for a moment to no avail ... can you help this perma-newb out:
What is a "picket fence mistake"?
Hey great thread! I can confidently state that I'm in lower percentile of the posters here regarding physics and math (I'm just above the random trolls and bellow everyone else). I found Penrose - The Road to Reality a great overview starting with math I already understood, educating me about some concepts I didn't get before and ending up with today's physics of which I understood, charitably ... uh ... 10 percent ... cough ... I already had a tourist knowledge of higher math but my actual arithmetic is a disgrace and I found Penrose kept me on the horse longer than other texts.
And I've been flamed for recommending this book for reasons I didn't understand in the past so YMMV.
Am I the only one who thought of Theodore Sturgeon? ...)
(note I've only skimmed the comments so
> Thanks for using a great Frank Oppenheimer quote as your sig.
The quote's credited to Feynman. Didn't Frank Oppenheimer do the Exploratorium in SF? I went there as a kid.
hey I like it more than vi ...
I had a meeting once to develop someones patent (they had been granted the patent already). I spent the whole time confused until I realized that they had developed none of the technology they had patented, wanted me to write a demonstration demo - a look and feel front end that didn't actually do anything under the hood but demonstrated the idea. I told them they were hiring me to draw a flying car as they had patented "personal transportation vehicle (car) that operates in three dimensions" but hadn't actually solved any of the technology at all (purely for description, their undeveloped technology was not a flying car). Anyway ... they were friends so I said "sure" thinking their plan was probably to wait until someone actually developed the tech and then sue and suspecting, correctly as it turned out, that there was some basic computing issues involved and they were probably going to be up against prior art / patents held by the big boys. I described visions of platoons of lawyers hitting the beach but we did the little demo anyway.
I lost touch. I wonder if they're suing someone in Texas right now.
Break opinion posts down with non judgmental (yeah, right) category moderation. For politics: "conservative", "liberal", "libertarian", "Democrat", "Republican", "SDLP", "Sein Fein" ... etc ... Moderate comments "opinion" - "background" "(attempted) insight" - "interesting but off topic" "funny" "political flame bait" "random flame bait" "incoherent"
Combine this with Facebook login - that alone keeps me off the tech sites that use it - and - here's the important part - PAID MODERATORS who are monitored by karma (or whatever the site is calling it) holding users. Yeah yeah I know web 2.0 is all about crowd sourcing free content but I offer up youtube comment threads as an argument that it's time to move on. Let's get some new buzzwords going and start paying moderators as there are a lot of people out there who could use the telecommuting $10 an hour.
I've done 2 (and a half) magazine sites writing fully custom CMS and am finishing a site with Drupal. Drupal can be pretty annoying but in the end you get caching for free which is a huge plus. Unlike Wordpress it's not for the "I just want to blog" crowd ("Born to Blog" might be a good t-shirt ...) and faced with another site that needs fully customizable pages, I'd only pick Drupal again if the budget was really low or if they were OK with it looking like Drupal's river of news. Next time out, Django.
Which seemed more like a suggestion. Having been in touch with relatives in Chiba and following Japanese news online, the Japanese aren't panicking. US media would rather we didn't think about [domestic political rant redacted out of deference to the seriousness of the thread]
> but because humanity (and more precisely, human bureaucracy) is often far too gaffe-prone to be trusted. Running a nuclear plant isn't amenable to cost-cutting or tight-fisted cost-benefit assessment.
Exactly. Imagine the fiscal debate around replacing pre-Chernobyl reactors. Current US gov arguing about cutting tsunami warning systems the day of the Japanese tsunami. Now imagine a 9 earthquake in LA with our, shall we say, post-modern approach to regulation. There's a reason Tokyo didn't fall down and it's not the hidden hand of the market. (FWIW I have no specific knowledge of LA building codes. Mentioned purely because /. doesn't have enough hot air)
I meant the first movie when Colossus and the Soviet computer go SkyNet at the end
Yeah. I liked it as a kid. IIRC Colossus and the Soviet computer go all SkyNet at the end. Plus they shot it at the science center in the East Bay hills.
They had the ship for years looking at the systems - maybe had cracked the OS somewhat, transmission frequencies (which happened to be the same as the Airport card?). The aliens are telepaths/hive mind(?) so no need for security, ever. Compared to the rest of the movie ...
Knowing the preceding statement is flame bait I vote for Jurassic Park - the quote is the current department. Best computer scene ever: The end of Colossus(?).
Translates buttons, gradients, frame sets and some animation - though it generates multiple .svg's for animation. ... No more discussing pretty (annoying) Flash splash openings. Nice dynamic AJAXee navigation. But for games it's actionscript all the way. Until there's real .svg support.
This is for people who bought those (heinous) Flash templates for their restaurant/photo gallery/etc and are now horrified that the site doesn't play on iPad.
As a long time Flash guy I enjoy telling most new clients they should go with javascript/css etc
Am I the only one who immediately thought of the Heinline short story? I'd go for the wings!
"The Republicans/Democrats/Whigs are dangerously naive about Soviet/Al Qaida/Chinese/Brazilian intentions regarding multicore MIMD instruction code. We must maintain supremacy in cyberspace to protect FREEDOM."
This would be almost as good as a bridge across the Pacific for keeping cold warriors busy.
sound systems circa 1962, midi circa 1982, protools 1990-ish. They've had machines to do that for a while.
"first they came for the rhythm sections, but as I did not play bass ..."
signed,
a still sometimes working musician
ps: File sharing screwed the lawyers, not the players. Won't someone think of the lawyers ... sob ...
$3.99 is too much for a sheet. I say big pro composer guy should understand that. Maybe a couple of (IMHO) hack musicals shouldn't make him as much. They should make him something though.
I'm a long time professional who has probably lost big publishing $ to file sharing but saw it coming 20 years ago so wasn't surprised. (and yes my music would probably not be on musical theater girls iPod)
Times change. I still make a living in meat space - playing live - but there's a lot less work to go around.
I also make $ coding, have had clients that said they didn't like it, didn't want to pay and then found my code live on their site. They knew enough to copy the html, css and javascript. It's digital so my labor was worth nothing. Small claims court? I didn't bother but I wonder how it would have played out.
I wonder how all the people who scream that any IP restriction is EVIL feel when they work away at OSS and make very little money. Did they see it coming?
Not that I'd advocate some DRM / IP technological scheme imposed by the state. It's not that you can't put the genie back in the bottle, there is no longer a bottle.