The US wouldn't have that problem and i'll tell you why. They probably had socialized medicine and it was normal to have doctors just see someone on the government's dime. That would never happen here, lol. If anyone is seen by someone even capable of diagnosing schizophrenia and it didn't take three referrals and several months of persistence on the patient's part then everyone would call bullshit. I'm sure someone already in prison has far far fewer options though.
I think the custom phone thing is hit or miss because of updating. It seems like a lot of carriers miss the old days where you released a phone and never touched it again. Android (base) is constantly improving and being refined. If the phone manufacturer or carrier of your phone doesn't push new updates to your phone you can feel left behind and unsupported. This makes people gravitate to the source of the updates : /
You are right though, phones should be profitable on their own. But the extra income from media/app sales shouldn't be hand-waved away either.
This is like saying that consoles don't make money because they are sold at cost. Phones continue to make businesses a lot of money long after they have been bought. Ebooks, music, shows, netflix, games, and normal phone services are some great money makers. Anything on the play store makes money for Google.
There should always be an audit trail. If i made a mistake and ship bad code it isn't anyone's fault but mine. It can be verified via source control. DBs are no different. Anyone with access to prod has their own login which will show in the logs. Companies that fire people because they made mistakes will end up being a blame-game cluster fuck and their IT dept will die. Shit happens, fix it and move on. Nobody benefits (certainly not the company) if we spend more time pinning blame on someone than restoring from backups or doing a midnight bugfix release. Let's just try to do better next time.
If management is clueless then that is telling me that they are literally hiring clueless people to work there. Abandon ship. If people are intentionally sabotaging production then serve up some logs and have the saboteurs outed for what they are. That sounds really crazy. I would be stressed out if someone was intentionally trying to break production.
Petabyte DB is rare. Even a terabyte DB is rare. If you are storing actual content in your DB and not just data, i could understand it. But most people store actual files outside the DB with a reference to them./dev/null seems to have great writing performance but has terrible reading performance. I wouldn't recommend it.
So someone made a change to production that didn't pass QA? And they did it without you doing a backup first? Three days restoring is too long too. Unless your server is remote and upstream is super slow. But none of these things should give you permission to be a control freak. You are responsible for keeping the databases up, yes. But you are not responsible for everything that happens to them. Sometimes your dbs just get screwed up and you'll have to fix it. Just like sometimes business wants things done to the site/app that will totally jack up the fung shui i had going on in code. Nobody is purposefully trying to screw anyone over. We all want the business to grow and succeed. People make mistakes and shit happens. There's no need to also be an ass to each other on top of it all.
A lot of companies lease solar setups now. SolarCity does i think. A quick google should find you something near you too.
A good way to think about Solar is if you don't mind paying rent the rest of your life or if you'd rather own your own home. Most people go into debt to buy a home that takes them decades to pay off. That is normal and everyone considers it to be a good investment. You are right that the payback for solar is years away. But it's the same for almost all long-term investments.
You can always rent them for less than the price you are currently paying for electricity. That makes economic sense. You are paying less each month and someone else is using you as an investment. Win-win : ) Or you could just buy them and invest in yourself.
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Does that make it superior or just your preference?
It seems very silly to have to link to evidence in order to have a conversation here. I know you were just pointing out that i did not counter his argument and just made a snarky remark about it. But I was not intending to carry a flag for either side. Was just pointing out how he had to exclude any success links to make his point.
They could have displayed an error message instead of simply giving a vague, unhelpful error. I can agree with that. But i don't think it is a very strong criticism because nearly every application gives a useless error when it can't reach beyond your router. Too bad the rest of their stuff is so broken that most of us can't play. You are the first person i've ever seen say this. I've heard of people who did not want to play but certainly not "can't". Exceptions being when authentication temporarily dies or is under maintenance. No service can have 100% uptime though. So that is a weak criticism as well.
I'm not saying your problem with Valve doesn't have merit. It is very real. But it is a problem that is specific to you. Your firewall does not prevent other people from playing steam games, just yourself. It has also been very common since the beginning of online pc-gaming to have to have very permissive firewalls. Especially if you are hosting.
There were competing projects within Valve. One was AR the other was VR. VR won and the AR team was let go. It turns out that the AR project can also do VR with a small attachment though. But i have the feeling there was politics at play and not just the technical merits of each project.
I'm very excited for CastAR and helped with the kickstarter. I have no doubt that Jeri will deliver something great.
Her story about how she was let go is pretty good. She did not want the AR project to die and sounded pretty emotional in meeting with Gabe. He told the layer to let her have it. What company does that kind of thing?!
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The US wouldn't have that problem and i'll tell you why. They probably had socialized medicine and it was normal to have doctors just see someone on the government's dime. That would never happen here, lol. If anyone is seen by someone even capable of diagnosing schizophrenia and it didn't take three referrals and several months of persistence on the patient's part then everyone would call bullshit. I'm sure someone already in prison has far far fewer options though.
It doesn't have to go back to Earth. A million dollars worth of fuel on Earth is probably worth 100 million dollars in space.
I think the custom phone thing is hit or miss because of updating. It seems like a lot of carriers miss the old days where you released a phone and never touched it again. Android (base) is constantly improving and being refined. If the phone manufacturer or carrier of your phone doesn't push new updates to your phone you can feel left behind and unsupported. This makes people gravitate to the source of the updates : /
You are right though, phones should be profitable on their own. But the extra income from media/app sales shouldn't be hand-waved away either.
This is like saying that consoles don't make money because they are sold at cost. Phones continue to make businesses a lot of money long after they have been bought. Ebooks, music, shows, netflix, games, and normal phone services are some great money makers. Anything on the play store makes money for Google.
There should always be an audit trail. If i made a mistake and ship bad code it isn't anyone's fault but mine. It can be verified via source control. DBs are no different. Anyone with access to prod has their own login which will show in the logs. Companies that fire people because they made mistakes will end up being a blame-game cluster fuck and their IT dept will die. Shit happens, fix it and move on. Nobody benefits (certainly not the company) if we spend more time pinning blame on someone than restoring from backups or doing a midnight bugfix release. Let's just try to do better next time.
If management is clueless then that is telling me that they are literally hiring clueless people to work there. Abandon ship. If people are intentionally sabotaging production then serve up some logs and have the saboteurs outed for what they are. That sounds really crazy. I would be stressed out if someone was intentionally trying to break production.
Petabyte DB is rare. Even a terabyte DB is rare. If you are storing actual content in your DB and not just data, i could understand it. But most people store actual files outside the DB with a reference to them. /dev/null seems to have great writing performance but has terrible reading performance. I wouldn't recommend it.
Keep it up!
So someone made a change to production that didn't pass QA? And they did it without you doing a backup first? Three days restoring is too long too. Unless your server is remote and upstream is super slow. But none of these things should give you permission to be a control freak. You are responsible for keeping the databases up, yes. But you are not responsible for everything that happens to them. Sometimes your dbs just get screwed up and you'll have to fix it. Just like sometimes business wants things done to the site/app that will totally jack up the fung shui i had going on in code. Nobody is purposefully trying to screw anyone over. We all want the business to grow and succeed. People make mistakes and shit happens. There's no need to also be an ass to each other on top of it all.
Because they know things.
A lot of companies lease solar setups now. SolarCity does i think. A quick google should find you something near you too.
A good way to think about Solar is if you don't mind paying rent the rest of your life or if you'd rather own your own home. Most people go into debt to buy a home that takes them decades to pay off. That is normal and everyone considers it to be a good investment. You are right that the payback for solar is years away. But it's the same for almost all long-term investments.
You can always rent them for less than the price you are currently paying for electricity. That makes economic sense. You are paying less each month and someone else is using you as an investment. Win-win : ) Or you could just buy them and invest in yourself.
Does that make it superior or just your preference?
Just checked back. Looks like i was modded to zero and you were modded to 5. I just googled "aca enrollment success" and found plenty. Here's a link (or it didn't happen, right?): http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/19/politics/obamacare-enrollment-update/
It seems very silly to have to link to evidence in order to have a conversation here. I know you were just pointing out that i did not counter his argument and just made a snarky remark about it. But I was not intending to carry a flag for either side. Was just pointing out how he had to exclude any success links to make his point.
People are crazy about this ACA stuff.
no problem! i'll send you some binaries you can run to access my site. It's safe, TRUST ME.
Column mode like when you do alt+shift+up/down?
You just cherry-picked a bunch of failures. Great job.
Looks like steam auth was offline for 5 minutes.
They could have displayed an error message instead of simply giving a vague, unhelpful error.
I can agree with that. But i don't think it is a very strong criticism because nearly every application gives a useless error when it can't reach beyond your router.
Too bad the rest of their stuff is so broken that most of us can't play.
You are the first person i've ever seen say this. I've heard of people who did not want to play but certainly not "can't". Exceptions being when authentication temporarily dies or is under maintenance. No service can have 100% uptime though. So that is a weak criticism as well.
I'm not saying your problem with Valve doesn't have merit. It is very real. But it is a problem that is specific to you. Your firewall does not prevent other people from playing steam games, just yourself. It has also been very common since the beginning of online pc-gaming to have to have very permissive firewalls. Especially if you are hosting.
How is firewalling yourself Valve's problem?
There were competing projects within Valve. One was AR the other was VR. VR won and the AR team was let go. It turns out that the AR project can also do VR with a small attachment though. But i have the feeling there was politics at play and not just the technical merits of each project.
I'm very excited for CastAR and helped with the kickstarter. I have no doubt that Jeri will deliver something great.
Her story about how she was let go is pretty good. She did not want the AR project to die and sounded pretty emotional in meeting with Gabe. He told the layer to let her have it. What company does that kind of thing?!
Not sure but i'm very thankful that Gabe let Jeri have the tech.
lol, could be worse! You could be a libertarian, AMD hating, apple loving, microsoft shill. Also, you'd be fine if you 3d printed that gun.
That might be hard with a remotely controlled plane that travels between 300-500 km/h. Perhaps flying over a large body of water would be safe?
Where would you suggest product demonstrations and end-user training should take place?