Even on reliable connections, using.complete files is a great idea.
It works this way: If you're pushing, open ftp, after ftp completes, you check remote filesize, if matches local file size, you also ftp a 0 size.complete file (or a $filename.complete file with md5 checksum, if you want to be extra paranoid).
Any app that reads that file will first check if.complete file is there.
If remote file size is less, you resume upload. If remove filesize is more than local, you wipe out remote file and restart.
Same idea for the reverse side (if you're pulling the file, instead of pushing).
You can also setup scripts to run every 5 minutes, and only stop retrying once.complete file is written (or read).
Note that the above would work even if the connection was interrupted and restarted a dozen times during the transmission. [we use this in $bigcorp to transfer hundreds of gigs of financial data per day... seems to work great; never had to care for maintenance windows, 'cause in the end, the file will get there anyway (scripts won't stop trying until data is there)].
You're confusing temporary employment and immigration. I'm all for immigration (the best and the brightest should come and stay in US!). What I dislike is corps/govs taking advantage of folks by ``temporarily'' moving work and people around at minimum wage. You think an H1-B holder can demand a fair salary? Ha!
...hand a CEO a floor buffer and watch him fumble about with it.
I once watched the boss of a small corp (~50 employees) do just that. Them buffers sure can swing-and-slam you into a wall if you dunno how to hold it right.
I don't agree with the article, but... why do there have to be intermediaries? The whole success story of the Internet is that... it removed a lot of the intermediaries. Suddenly, you could have 1 single `creator' reaching millions of folks without too much investment. Now, you suddenly need an investment into...google/amazon (paying them to advertise you---to connect you to your customers).
Physical gold may allow you to avoid taxes (depending on where you buy it and who you sell to).
No inheritance tax.
Can't be taken away in bankruptcies or other such situations (well, nobody needs to know you have it). Not so easy with ETFs.
Easily sell-able anywhere in the world (just walk into any small jewelry business; might not get "full" market value---but in emergency you never get full value on anything).
ETFs charge fees (that's why they're in this business---not to make your life easier).
And the "uh, oh, market is collapsing"; when an emergency happens, you might find there's a large stack of worthless paper contracts with bankrupt intermediaries behind that ETF, and real gold is nowhere in sight. In other words, the point of gold is that it's "physical gold", not some paper contract saying "there is gold behind it".
Not saying everyone should convert to the gold standard, just saying there are good rationalities for it (there are also fairly bad reasons for it too).
but but... that's exactly what the advertisement business is all about! It hasn't been about "search" in a long long time (not since maybe 2003 or so when Google's search results started to suck).
Indeed. This constant may not be a constant. It may not be the same everywhere in the universe. So by observing things very far away (distance and time), we may actually end up with a less accurate number for a `local' variable.
Community colleges often have open admission policies (meaning you just pick your major, take classes, and get a degree... no fancy entry exams or requirements, etc.). I took a ``college'' (eh!) level class that way when I was a sophomore in high school that way.
actually, it's the shareholders who pay the tax. a corp could operate quite successfully without paying any taxes (which are based on profits). the only time they -have- to pay a tax is when shareholders wanna see their investment making a profit or take money out via dividends.
And who are the shareholders? they're the folks to provide the funds but don't do much work themselves. Shouldn't they pay extra for that privilege of making something with no extra effort? Compare shareholder to an employee. When the corp does well (lets say they make 2x than last year), who reaps the benefits?
In the same light, I wish corp tax would go to 0%, and shareholders get taxed on any money derived from the corp as their personal "income".
Also, doesn't US military not allow the use of stuff manufactured by non-US corporations? (I remember hearing something about that years ago... not sure if it's true now). So if MS becomes a non-US corp, does that mean that whole branches of the government won't be allowed to use MS software?
Planes are only safer when you ignore number of folks driving vs flying. Most folks fly once a year (if even that), yet drive every single day---so your chances of dying by car vs airplane are already out of whack. What if you flew (~2 hours) every day and drove (~2 hours) once a year, would airplanes still be comparatively "safer"? What if -everyone- on the planet was doing that?
Exactly! Who the heck even -knows- what string theory really is? (beyond the pop-sci ``we model things as strings instead of point particles'').
From what I've read, the equations are so broad that you can calculate and fit'em to pretty much anything (sorta like you can calculate anything with a general purpose computer...therefore, the computer is a physics theory---it calculates things so exactly!)
The problem of string theory isn't its ability to predict. It's falsifiability. I've yet to see an experiment (or even an -idea-) that -could- prove string theory wrong. Without that little bit, it's not a theory at all... it's a... religion!
So if Mr.Anonymous gets hit by a car during his morning exercise (no id on him), and needs EMERGENCY care to save his life... no hospital would be able to treat him 'cause "no history exists"?
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Even on reliable connections, using .complete files is a great idea.
It works this way: If you're pushing, open ftp, after ftp completes, you check remote filesize, if matches local file size, you also ftp a 0 size .complete file (or a $filename.complete file with md5 checksum, if you want to be extra paranoid).
Any app that reads that file will first check if .complete file is there.
If remote file size is less, you resume upload. If remove filesize is more than local, you wipe out remote file and restart.
Same idea for the reverse side (if you're pulling the file, instead of pushing).
You can also setup scripts to run every 5 minutes, and only stop retrying once .complete file is written (or read).
Note that the above would work even if the connection was interrupted and restarted a dozen times during the transmission. [we use this in $bigcorp to transfer hundreds of gigs of financial data per day... seems to work great; never had to care for maintenance windows, 'cause in the end, the file will get there anyway (scripts won't stop trying until data is there)].
They should swap Fn and Ctrl. I'm sure most linux/unix users would agree.
Urgh. The first time I heard the word "scrum" from my boss, I had to go look it up. Unfortunately it makes management feel they're useful...
You're confusing temporary employment and immigration. I'm all for immigration (the best and the brightest should come and stay in US!). What I dislike is corps/govs taking advantage of folks by ``temporarily'' moving work and people around at minimum wage. You think an H1-B holder can demand a fair salary? Ha!
...hand a CEO a floor buffer and watch him fumble about with it.
I once watched the boss of a small corp (~50 employees) do just that. Them buffers sure can swing-and-slam you into a wall if you dunno how to hold it right.
...and it was still cheaper :-/
I don't agree with the article, but... why do there have to be intermediaries? The whole success story of the Internet is that... it removed a lot of the intermediaries. Suddenly, you could have 1 single `creator' reaching millions of folks without too much investment. Now, you suddenly need an investment into...google/amazon (paying them to advertise you---to connect you to your customers).
Physical gold may allow you to avoid taxes (depending on where you buy it and who you sell to).
No inheritance tax.
Can't be taken away in bankruptcies or other such situations (well, nobody needs to know you have it). Not so easy with ETFs.
Easily sell-able anywhere in the world (just walk into any small jewelry business; might not get "full" market value---but in emergency you never get full value on anything).
ETFs charge fees (that's why they're in this business---not to make your life easier).
And the "uh, oh, market is collapsing"; when an emergency happens, you might find there's a large stack of worthless paper contracts with bankrupt intermediaries behind that ETF, and real gold is nowhere in sight. In other words, the point of gold is that it's "physical gold", not some paper contract saying "there is gold behind it".
Not saying everyone should convert to the gold standard, just saying there are good rationalities for it (there are also fairly bad reasons for it too).
"start firing congressmen and senators"
...out of a cannon...into the sun.
And yet despite all that, I still see developers flocking towards their new offerings :-/
Microsoft is doing what it's best at - Marketing
but but... that's exactly what the advertisement business is all about! It hasn't been about "search" in a long long time (not since maybe 2003 or so when Google's search results started to suck).
Indeed. This constant may not be a constant. It may not be the same everywhere in the universe. So by observing things very far away (distance and time), we may actually end up with a less accurate number for a `local' variable.
Community colleges often have open admission policies (meaning you just pick your major, take classes, and get a degree... no fancy entry exams or requirements, etc.). I took a ``college'' (eh!) level class that way when I was a sophomore in high school that way.
DeVeLOPeRS DeVeLOPeRS DeVeLOPeRS DeVeLOPeRS!
actually, it's the shareholders who pay the tax. a corp could operate quite successfully without paying any taxes (which are based on profits). the only time they -have- to pay a tax is when shareholders wanna see their investment making a profit or take money out via dividends.
And who are the shareholders? they're the folks to provide the funds but don't do much work themselves. Shouldn't they pay extra for that privilege of making something with no extra effort? Compare shareholder to an employee. When the corp does well (lets say they make 2x than last year), who reaps the benefits?
In the same light, I wish corp tax would go to 0%, and shareholders get taxed on any money derived from the corp as their personal "income".
Also, doesn't US military not allow the use of stuff manufactured by non-US corporations? (I remember hearing something about that years ago... not sure if it's true now). So if MS becomes a non-US corp, does that mean that whole branches of the government won't be allowed to use MS software?
Planes are only safer when you ignore number of folks driving vs flying. Most folks fly once a year (if even that), yet drive every single day---so your chances of dying by car vs airplane are already out of whack. What if you flew (~2 hours) every day and drove (~2 hours) once a year, would airplanes still be comparatively "safer"? What if -everyone- on the planet was doing that?
Eh, margins aren't big enough, otherwise I'd do just that.
...the public who can't possibly understand the mathematics (I can't either).
That's the beauty of it... nobody does! In fact, I have a theory on that too... but it would take two 1000 page books to express it.
Exactly! Who the heck even -knows- what string theory really is? (beyond the pop-sci ``we model things as strings instead of point particles'').
From what I've read, the equations are so broad that you can calculate and fit'em to pretty much anything (sorta like you can calculate anything with a general purpose computer...therefore, the computer is a physics theory---it calculates things so exactly!)
The problem of string theory isn't its ability to predict. It's falsifiability. I've yet to see an experiment (or even an -idea-) that -could- prove string theory wrong. Without that little bit, it's not a theory at all... it's a... religion!
Indeed. Sounds like an application of NMF: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-negative_matrix_factorization
So if Mr.Anonymous gets hit by a car during his morning exercise (no id on him), and needs EMERGENCY care to save his life... no hospital would be able to treat him 'cause "no history exists"?
Similarly, you can still make collect calls by dialling operator.
Eh. I remember liking Microsoft at some point. They were once "good" too.
Don't forget the very profitable prison system!