I have to second the Herman Miller Aeron. I finally bit the bullet and bought one and I've really noticed a difference with respect to fatigue. I would say I can write for about 2 more hours then usual with the Aeron.
No one wants to invest in a good chair but you have to think about the fact that your chair is in use from the time you sit down at your computer to the time you get up. It's the most utilized piece of computer gear you have. A lot of people skimp on monitors too even though it's the second most utilized piece of hardware.
A solid chair and a solid monitor then keyboard/mouse goes very very far in keeping you productive.
i've also thought that a lot of efficiency gains could be made by using better ball bearings and a smoother drive train. whenever i've changed a tire i was amazed at how hard it was to turn the rotor by hand. Shouldn't it spin freely? I know the brake pads need to be close but they shouldn't physically touching the rotor.
I wonder what they mean by "elegant filesystem-based approach"? Maybe their going to treat tweets like an email and store it all in the filesystem rather than a database? There's certainly some proven extremely high volume email servers so you know that method scales.
I wonder what the disadvantages of setting up a front end to an email system and covert incoming tweets to actual an actual email is. On the retrieval side you just read the mailbox and convert back to the tweet format then send them on to the destination.
That's interesting. I wonder if a new type of terrorism will spring up where instead of destroying things they effectively render them useless. Like a DOS attack. Doing something that shuts down 5 airports for 8 hours simultaneously would be pretty harmful. It doesn't kill anyone but it's still gets a lot of attention.
this is probably more a feature than a bug --- those instruments are rated by multiple agencies, each of which use their own risk evaluation methodologies and software. i find it highly unlikely that s&p would make mistakes, independently, that would cause it to give the same junk paper the same AAA rating that moody's gave. i bet a million dollars they're all using the same, industry standard, software.
Second, all the data was child abuse, spousal abuse, etc. Imagine working with that data for weeks on end, wallowing in that hell, and you really had to dig in the data because there were tons of inconsistencies
I once had to write an application for an oncologist group (cancer doctors) that helped them manage treatments. It was basically a cook book for various drug cocktails for treating cancer. The dataset was sooo depressing.
Once my boss and I had to go see the doctors to get some questions answered. My boss had talked to one of the doctors on the phone beforehand and he was pretty irate. My boss said, in a thick chinese accent, in an elevator full of oncology patients "why he so pissed off? maybe all his patients die" i shit you not. I have never been so mortified in all my life. That was about 8 years ago and i still remember it like it was yesterday.
Isn't there a law that says the government can't use the Armed Forces against us? Like isn't that the reason why the National Guard is called to stop riots and not like the Marines? If the Air Force is building a bot net that comprises American PC's then shouldn't that follow under the same law?
So does that mean that any intelligent alien life is doomed to hell because they don't have the benefit of baptism and the forgiveness of original sin? Did they get a messiah from the catholic god and does that imply more than one "jesus"?
Or, being that they are not human and never ate from the garden of eaden does that mean that original sin doesn't apply to them? Better yet, does that make them more holy then humans and therefore closer to the catholic god?
I don't see how the catholic clergy can just say "yeah alien life doesn't contradict our religeon" without addressing these questiosn.
Sun has been in the back of my mind a lot lately. I like their Sunfire servers and will be needing a decent 2U server in about 6 months. Maybe i'll buy one from them.
I found a comment in my codebase that said something like "All i want to do is dance, dance, dance". I couldn't remember if i wrote it or my coworker... it was probably her seeing how i hate dancing. The code was about 4 years old.
another one said "FIX ME BAD" i'm pretty sure i wrote that one heh
"Whether that technology is from one operating system or another.."
That sound you hear is a million One Linuxlaptop Per Child zealots so besides themselves they can barely type.
not trying to troll but Habeas Corpus, Right to a trial of your peers, and the other legal rights stipulated in the constitution and bill of rights is only meaningful to American citizens.
Also, I think there's something in the international laws regarding war that only soldiers of a state are protected.
The people in Guantanamo are neither American citizens nor soldiers of a state.
Not saying it's right but i think that's the legal reasoning.
People using Linux on BigIron(tm) bank on 24/7/365/25years uptime.
If you own a piece of Big Iron and run Linux on it, it's going to be virtualized.
And, clearly, you know better how to run a bank's systems than they do, despite having run them this way for, what, 30 years? 40? First, how are you trying to say big banks have been running for 30, or 40 years? i said "bank on" as in "count on" or "bet on" i didn't mean "bank' as in Bank Of America. sheesh
Trying to keep one server up 24/7/365 is a usually mistake. You'll never achieve 100% uptime. A much better idea is to use clustering and distributed computing so your overall system can survive the loss of individual servers. People using Linux on BigIron(tm) bank on 24/7/365/25years uptime. When a single server costs hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars you can't afford a spare sitting idle. From day 1 the server needs to be making money and never ever stop.
For smaller general purpose servers like you can buy at Dell.com then yeah having a fail-over makes sense.
it's sort of a pain to install Java(tm) correctly on the linux distros i use because they use GCJ by default and it's tied to their automated update systems.
Allowing distros to include it natively means one less step to getting a linux install with full blown Java off the ground and hopefully automated JRE/JDK updates.
Also, with full Java included in the distro maybe things like Eclipse, Tomcat and the other Java centric software will start getting included.
this would go a long way in loading bombs or missiles on aircraft. I would imagine in a cramped environment it would be more agile then a forklift or whatever it is they use now. Also, it would be useful when doing stuff like changing a truck tire. Those things are heavy.
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I have to second the Herman Miller Aeron. I finally bit the bullet and bought one and I've really noticed a difference with respect to fatigue. I would say I can write for about 2 more hours then usual with the Aeron.
No one wants to invest in a good chair but you have to think about the fact that your chair is in use from the time you sit down at your computer to the time you get up. It's the most utilized piece of computer gear you have. A lot of people skimp on monitors too even though it's the second most utilized piece of hardware.
A solid chair and a solid monitor then keyboard/mouse goes very very far in keeping you productive.
i've also thought that a lot of efficiency gains could be made by using better ball bearings and a smoother drive train. whenever i've changed a tire i was amazed at how hard it was to turn the rotor by hand. Shouldn't it spin freely? I know the brake pads need to be close but they shouldn't physically touching the rotor.
I was on hold, with CIHost no less, while posting so ignore my bad spelling and grammer :(
I wonder what they mean by "elegant filesystem-based approach"? Maybe their going to treat tweets like an email and store it all in the filesystem rather than a database? There's certainly some proven extremely high volume email servers so you know that method scales.
I wonder what the disadvantages of setting up a front end to an email system and covert incoming tweets to actual an actual email is. On the retrieval side you just read the mailbox and convert back to the tweet format then send them on to the destination.
I agree, Apple's industrial design team could nail this.
That's interesting. I wonder if a new type of terrorism will spring up where instead of destroying things they effectively render them useless. Like a DOS attack. Doing something that shuts down 5 airports for 8 hours simultaneously would be pretty harmful. It doesn't kill anyone but it's still gets a lot of attention.
yeah potion control really is the key. Don't eat until you're full eat until you're not hungry.
Once my boss and I had to go see the doctors to get some questions answered. My boss had talked to one of the doctors on the phone beforehand and he was pretty irate. My boss said, in a thick chinese accent, in an elevator full of oncology patients "why he so pissed off? maybe all his patients die" i shit you not. I have never been so mortified in all my life. That was about 8 years ago and i still remember it like it was yesterday.
Isn't there a law that says the government can't use the Armed Forces against us? Like isn't that the reason why the National Guard is called to stop riots and not like the Marines? If the Air Force is building a bot net that comprises American PC's then shouldn't that follow under the same law?
So does that mean that any intelligent alien life is doomed to hell because they don't have the benefit of baptism and the forgiveness of original sin? Did they get a messiah from the catholic god and does that imply more than one "jesus"?
Or, being that they are not human and never ate from the garden of eaden does that mean that original sin doesn't apply to them? Better yet, does that make them more holy then humans and therefore closer to the catholic god?
I don't see how the catholic clergy can just say "yeah alien life doesn't contradict our religeon" without addressing these questiosn.
Good for them.
;)
Sun has been in the back of my mind a lot lately. I like their Sunfire servers and will be needing a decent 2U server in about 6 months. Maybe i'll buy one from them.
Wow good PR works
I found a comment in my codebase that said something like "All i want to do is dance, dance, dance". I couldn't remember if i wrote it or my coworker... it was probably her seeing how i hate dancing. The code was about 4 years old.
another one said "FIX ME BAD" i'm pretty sure i wrote that one heh
I've played around with ZFS, it's very cool. I mean very very cool.
It's a crying shame the licensing issues keep it from being ported to Linux as part of the kernel
Isn't CentOS the free version of Redhat Enterprise Linux? Why is it in a desktop linux shootout?
"Whether that technology is from one operating system or another.."
That sound you hear is a million One Linuxlaptop Per Child zealots so besides themselves they can barely type.
um O'Reilly begs to differ http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596009588/
not trying to troll but Habeas Corpus, Right to a trial of your peers, and the other legal rights stipulated in the constitution and bill of rights is only meaningful to American citizens. Also, I think there's something in the international laws regarding war that only soldiers of a state are protected. The people in Guantanamo are neither American citizens nor soldiers of a state. Not saying it's right but i think that's the legal reasoning.
writing a java VM in javascript? *head asplodes*
that's pretty cool but man, talk about a daunting tedious task. I'd rather bail 600 acres with a weed wacker and twisty-ties.
it's sort of a pain to install Java(tm) correctly on the linux distros i use because they use GCJ by default and it's tied to their automated update systems.
Allowing distros to include it natively means one less step to getting a linux install with full blown Java off the ground and hopefully automated JRE/JDK updates.
Also, with full Java included in the distro maybe things like Eclipse, Tomcat and the other Java centric software will start getting included.
this would go a long way in loading bombs or missiles on aircraft. I would imagine in a cramped environment it would be more agile then a forklift or whatever it is they use now. Also, it would be useful when doing stuff like changing a truck tire. Those things are heavy.