Yeah, in 8.04 dual monitor support for the most part Just Works. Me, I tended to (pre-8.4) do a ctrl+alt+backspace after plugging in a CRT. In more recent ATI/nvidia drivers, it's also just on-the-fly switching via a GUI these days.
This is somewhat off-topic, but I wanted to get your opinion on it. I've been programming professionally for six years now. Three years ago I quit my job to start a startup, and since then I've actually abandoned the failed startup and started working as a partner at a somewhat established company in town. I've been a partner there for a little over a year, and in the past four weeks I've made somewhere in the vicinity of $10k or so. So in a really local sense, it's like a $120k job. This is nice, because I live in Alabama and so it's like having a $250k job in California as far as I'm concerned (I turned down one of those).
Anyway, the point isn't to toot my own horn, but to say this: for the whole time I was in the startup I was making less than minimum wage (like $3 hour for the first couple of months, then our funding partner dropped out and it shifted to ~$0/hour for the next eight months). Upon becoming a partner at this firm, I set my own pay as directly related to my external billing. There was a four month span last year where I had grossly underquoted a project and I worked for free to get it back in line. So in the past three years I've worked for significantly below minimum wage, by choice, because it was required to get to where I am now.
I guess my point is, why was it required that I break the law for those years since it was simply an effort (successful, at that) to better myself on the whole? If it was okay that I did that, why wouldn't it be okay for someone else to do the same in an effort to better themselves?
Anyway, my idealistic reason for being anti-minimum-wage is that wage is simply trade, my time for your money, and I should be able to value my time's worth where I please. I did this in the past, valuing it at $0/hour while doing something extremely risky, and I do so now, valuing my time at $105/hour while doing something fairly boring.
He has a compelling message, but no ability to affect many of the changes he discusses
It's funny you should say that, as I was thinking about this last night. Ron Paul is one of the only candidates who CAN do a lot of what he's proposing. Want to cut spending? Veto everything that crosses your desk. Want to implement the FairTax? YOU HAVE TO GET CONSENSUS.
I understand that Ron Paul can't single handedly end the income tax. He can reduce spending enormously, and anyone who's seen his record must be aware that he WILL reduce spending, enormously.
We just bought one of these dongles for $19 at the IT/Software company I run, and it's easily the best $19 I've ever seen spent by anyone. We're using it exactly as you described.
"Ford's success has startled the country, almost the world, financially, industrially, mechanically. It exhibits in higher degree than most persons would have thought possible the seemingly contradictory requirements of true efficiency, which are: constant increase of quality, great increase of pay to the workers, repeated reduction in cost to the consumer. And with these appears, as at once cause and effect, an absolutely incredible enlargement of output reaching something like one hundredfold in less than ten years, and an enormous profit to the manufacturer".[5]
I don't have the function that passes the tests that they wanted yet, but here's a collection of everything so far:
First off, the craigslist posting leads to: http://wanted-master-software-developers.com/?key= Then, the main.css file has two bits of non-css info in it. At the very bottom, there's:/* 34w4wa */ Then at the top, we have:/* ([Dollar,Daily Universal Register] % 100).([Flavian II => Severus] / 2 - 1).([Sherman Anti-Trust,Van Gogh] / 9).([Tycho Brahe,Stellar] / 12) */ There's a hint at the bottom of the page, as well: sticky falling bricks of truth
I have nothing on 34w4wa. Daily Universal Register, as was noted elsewhere, used to be the name of the Times of London. Dollar, who knows? Flavian II was the Patriarch of Antioch. Setpimius Severus was a Roman general, and Roman emperor. Sherman Antitrust Act was the first US Government action to limit cartels and monopolies. Van Gogh was of course a painter. Tycho Brahe was an awesome astronomer, and stellar, again, I don't know.
It's an array of four things, with dots between them - an IP address. Perhaps something with dates?
The date format tells us it's an American-related quiz. The US dollar was adopted in 1785, while the Daily Universal Register was also begun in 1785. 1785 mod 100 = 85.
Flavian II died in 518. Severus reigned from 193-211, when HE died. 518-211 = -307,/2 ~=-154 - 1 = -155.
So far, 85.155...
Sherman Antitrust and Van-Gogh's death were both in 1890. 1890/9 = 210
So 85.155.210...
Tycho Brahe died 1601...I don't know about stellar, but other dates have coincided so 1601/12.to_i = 133
85.155.210.133 doesn't appear to have a web server on it, but that 155 is really suspect, as is the 133 (not an integer). Brahe was BORN in 1546, and 1546/12 = 129.
85.155.210.129 isn't answering either. Again, the 155 bothers me.
Flavian II died 518, but 518/2 -1 = 258, which isn't exactly a meaningful number for an IP address, eh?
I got my Severus wrong, as there was a Severus that succeeded Flavian II in 512, 14 years after Flavian II became patriarch. 14/2 - 1 = 6.
85.6.210.129 has no website on it either, but it's feeling better. Maybe that 129's a red herring...I feel like the 85 and 210 are right as rain though.
A google search for 'tycho brahe stellar' returns a couple of hits for an article listing 1572 as a date, and 1572/12=131. Turns out SN1572 was known as Tycho's Nova.
However, the 'execute f' button at the bottom, and its action on the blue boxes, seems to imply that cheating is avoided, because the TDD bit is supposed to lead you to write the correct function, not a cheat:)
This is one of my problems with the minimum wage. We essentially DO tie a dollar to ten minutes of labor right now with the minimum wage. When we up the minimum wage, we basically revalue a dollar as worth 6 minutes of labor.
Let's try that comment out again, this time with preview!
Well at least she is doing something wich doesn't matter. Fox News is just for people want to hear what they want to hear. They are not interesting is differnt views just conferming what they think is right so they feel good. Well, at least she is doing something *which* doesn't matter. Fox News is just for people *who* want to hear what they want to hear. They are not *interested* *in* *different* views, just *in* *confirming* what they think is right so they feel good.
Whew. Now, that doesn't actually make your statement grammatically appropriate, but at least now it can be read.
Lucene's good. If you haven't yet have a look at Ferret, a port of Lucene for Ruby. It's listed as faster than Lucene. I've used it in 20+ projects now as my built-in fulltext index of choice, and it's pretty great. You can easily define your own ranking algorithms if you'd like. You can find more information on Ferret here: http://ferret.davebalmain.com/trac/
I've got a prototype of the system described in the OP that we did while quoting a fairly large project. It's really easy to have an 'after upload' action that'll push the document through strings (or some other third party app that can operate similarly, given the document type) and throw the strings into a field that gets indexed as well. That pretty much handles everything you may need.
Obviously I'd also allow someone to specify keywords when uploading a document, but if this engine's going to just be thrown against an existing cache of documents, strings-only's the way to go.
Think you're falling prey to what Bryan Caplan calls the Make-Work bias (http://www.reason.com/news/show/122019.html). It's a few pages down, third heading. Anyway, the gist is that productivity isn't a zero-sum game. Better to have the robots doing the factory jobs, as it's thankless work with a high risk of injury.
A good quote:
After technology throws people out of work, they have an incentive to find a new use for their talents. The Dallas Fed economist W. Michael Cox and the journalist Richard Alm illustrate this process in their 1999 book Myths of Rich and Poor, citing history's most striking example, the drastic decline in agricultural employment: "In 1800, it took nearly 95 of every 100 Americans to feed the country. In 1900, it took 40. Today, it takes just 3....The workers no longer needed on farms have been put to use providing new homes, furniture, clothing, computers, pharmaceuticals, appliances, medical assistance, movies, financial advice, video games, gourmet meals, and an almost dizzying array of other goods and services." DISCLAIMER: My dad runs a robotics engineering company. I was certainly raised to cheer when a machine could put thirty humans out of their job at the factory, because/everyone/ benefited (including those thirty) from reduced goods costs. Surely the localized discomfort of losing one's job is frustrating, but it's also important to realize when working for someone else that they have other concerns than you. If you're currently doing a job where a robot could realistically replace ten lower-pay employees, or three higher-pay employees, simply get out if this is a concern for you. That's the back of the napkin calculation that'll determine whether you're losing your job if your company's smart.
Here's a hint. If the CD says 'The Beatles,' he'll know now that that's something he can be a dick to you about. I'm not suggesting he'd be tracking copyright on code. I *am* suggesting that every cop I've known would be a dick about anything they could be a dick about, and that's a pretty easy one.
The law was copying CDs with copy protection. One would think a quick search that turned up 200 burned CDs could lead to being detained in jail while they sorted that out. It's actually really simple logic, anyway.
Assertion) Cops are dicks. Given) Copying CDs is now illegal. Theorem) Cops will be dicks about your Britney Spears collection.
Oh, please. The question lasted no longer than a minute, first off, since the whole 'question-to-taser' clip is like three minutes long. That's a justified time span for asking a question. And he didn't preach, he was trying to give some context to the question so that the people present might understand why it was relevant (the underlying claim being 'you gave the election to your buddy.') It was speech, and it should have been free.
I'm not saying that the organizers didn't have the right to perform whatever kind of crowd control they felt necessary. I think the proper response would have been to simply take him out of the room. There were four to six cops. Me and any one of my friends could have taken that guy out of the room in an orderly fashion. He wasn't resisting arrest, he was taking advantage of a public forum. He didn't strike out at a cop or anything, and he was going with them. He just happened to be yelling while it happened.
Truth is, acting out at a public forum doesn't justify being pinned down and tased, and yes these cops could have removed him without using a taser. Also, if it was actually a somewhat open Q&A session then I think the question was legitimate. I've been to plenty of speaking events at my university where questions were more hostile than this.
I'm just so sick of everyone's neatly organized spoon-fed lives.
The price must be right, given the SIZE of the market. If I'm a horse proctologist and I reallllly need a piece of software with the same costs-of-development as a similarly-complex project that car salesmen need, the price of EquineProctoLive MUST be higher per instance to recoup the actual costs. My point is the value (or at least justifiable price) of a software to the members of the market might be inversely proportional to the size of the market itself, if the software is truly needed.
Sometimes no one will come along and charge $5 and kill you, because some markets fall under the radar. Those are still hella profitable.
I find this silly. He should price the software based on whatever he feels like. The market will respond. I've written a piece of software that provides a service to a niche group. It's not inherently 'nicer' software than other services I've written that come at a lower price, but there's a fixed cost associated with developing it (not just 'how much can I live off of?,' but 'how much profit am I willing to make this software for?'). If both pieces of software cost $n to make, and the size of market 2 is twice that of market 1, under my pricing scheme it's clear that the software should cost twice as much for market 1. Of course, if they don't want it at that price then market research before development should've suggested that the market doesn't want the software enough to justify making it.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, in 8.04 dual monitor support for the most part Just Works. Me, I tended to (pre-8.4) do a ctrl+alt+backspace after plugging in a CRT. In more recent ATI/nvidia drivers, it's also just on-the-fly switching via a GUI these days.
This is somewhat off-topic, but I wanted to get your opinion on it. I've been programming professionally for six years now. Three years ago I quit my job to start a startup, and since then I've actually abandoned the failed startup and started working as a partner at a somewhat established company in town. I've been a partner there for a little over a year, and in the past four weeks I've made somewhere in the vicinity of $10k or so. So in a really local sense, it's like a $120k job. This is nice, because I live in Alabama and so it's like having a $250k job in California as far as I'm concerned (I turned down one of those).
Anyway, the point isn't to toot my own horn, but to say this: for the whole time I was in the startup I was making less than minimum wage (like $3 hour for the first couple of months, then our funding partner dropped out and it shifted to ~$0/hour for the next eight months). Upon becoming a partner at this firm, I set my own pay as directly related to my external billing. There was a four month span last year where I had grossly underquoted a project and I worked for free to get it back in line. So in the past three years I've worked for significantly below minimum wage, by choice, because it was required to get to where I am now.
I guess my point is, why was it required that I break the law for those years since it was simply an effort (successful, at that) to better myself on the whole? If it was okay that I did that, why wouldn't it be okay for someone else to do the same in an effort to better themselves?
Anyway, my idealistic reason for being anti-minimum-wage is that wage is simply trade, my time for your money, and I should be able to value my time's worth where I please. I did this in the past, valuing it at $0/hour while doing something extremely risky, and I do so now, valuing my time at $105/hour while doing something fairly boring.
I'll assume you meant inversely. Otherwise, we have a winning plan staring us in the face :)
WTF is wrong with you? The linked article is has perpetual motion in its *title*. What idiot modded this crap informative?
It's funny you should say that, as I was thinking about this last night. Ron Paul is one of the only candidates who CAN do a lot of what he's proposing. Want to cut spending? Veto everything that crosses your desk. Want to implement the FairTax? YOU HAVE TO GET CONSENSUS.
I understand that Ron Paul can't single handedly end the income tax. He can reduce spending enormously, and anyone who's seen his record must be aware that he WILL reduce spending, enormously.
We just bought one of these dongles for $19 at the IT/Software company I run, and it's easily the best $19 I've ever seen spent by anyone. We're using it exactly as you described.
-1 didn't read the damn article.
It has specific exemptions for work use.
kudos, I was right behind you but didn't get that transition IP yet (I had done a subtraction from the two beginning dates of rule).
Aaaand, sorted:
irb(main):010:0> q.words.to_a.sort{|a, b| a[1] b[1]}.reverse
=> [["have", 5], ["workers", 5], ["financially", 5], ["cost", 5], ["exhibits", 5], ["than", 4], ["persons", 4], ["increase", 4], ["great", 4], ["the", 3], ["possible", 3], ["contradictory", 3], ["Ford's", 3], ["And", 3], ["of", 3], ["consumer", 3], ["efficiency", 3], ["almost", 3], ["has", 2], ["requirements", 2], ["country", 2], ["most", 2], ["quality", 2], ["thought", 2], ["success", 2], ["to", 1], ["repeated", 1], ["in", 1], ["mechanically", 1], ["industrially", 1], ["higher", 1], ["are", 1], ["which", 1]]
Didn't see the alt text...that quote's a red herring. However, I've got a list of the words, with frequency, right here:
:text, :word_list, :words
irb(main):005:0> q.words.to_a
=> [["which", 1], ["consumer", 3], ["financially", 5], ["And", 3], ["of", 3], ["persons", 4], ["than", 4], ["cost", 5], ["great", 4], ["increase", 4], ["efficiency", 3], ["most", 2], ["almost", 3], ["repeated", 1], ["country", 2], ["has", 2], ["to", 1], ["in", 1], ["mechanically", 1], ["industrially", 1], ["the", 3], ["thought", 2], ["success", 2], ["Ford's", 3], ["have", 5], ["higher", 1], ["exhibits", 5], ["are", 1], ["quality", 2], ["requirements", 2], ["contradictory", 3], ["workers", 5], ["possible", 3]]
FWIW, my ruby script to do this, to check my work, is here:
class QuizSolver
attr_accessor
def initialize
@text = "Ford's, success, has, the, country, almost, financially, industrially, mechanically, exhibits, in, higher, than, persons, have, thought, possible, contradictory, requirements, of, efficiency, increase, great, workers, cost, consumer, And, cost, cost, consumer, And, cost, cost, consumer, And, workers, workers, workers, workers, to, repeated, great, increase, quality, increase, great, great, increase, quality, efficiency, efficiency, which, are, of, contradictory, contradictory, requirements, of, possible, have, have, thought, possible, have, have, persons, than, than, most, persons, persons, than, most, exhibits, exhibits, exhibits, exhibits, financially, financially, financially, financially, almost, the, the, country, almost, Ford's, Ford's, success, has"
@word_list = text.split(', ')
@words = {}
@word_list.each do |word|
handle_word word
end
puts @words.inspect
end
def handle_word word
@words[word] = @words[word].to_i + 1
end
end
Then just require it, and q=QuizSolver.new
The quote I'm referring to:
"Ford's success has startled the country, almost the world, financially, industrially, mechanically. It exhibits in higher degree than most persons would have thought possible the seemingly contradictory requirements of true efficiency, which are: constant increase of quality, great increase of pay to the workers, repeated reduction in cost to the consumer. And with these appears, as at once cause and effect, an absolutely incredible enlargement of output reaching something like one hundredfold in less than ten years, and an enormous profit to the manufacturer".[5]
Also, googling the resulting message from the test page yields an obvious match with some text from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_manufacturing
I don't have the function that passes the tests that they wanted yet, but here's a collection of everything so far:
/* /*
/2 ~=-154 - 1 = -155.
First off, the craigslist posting leads to:
http://wanted-master-software-developers.com/?key=
Then, the main.css file has two bits of non-css info in it. At the very bottom, there's:
34w4wa
*/
Then at the top, we have:
([Dollar,Daily Universal Register] % 100).([Flavian II => Severus] / 2 - 1).([Sherman Anti-Trust,Van Gogh] / 9).([Tycho Brahe,Stellar] / 12)
*/
There's a hint at the bottom of the page, as well:
sticky falling bricks of truth
I have nothing on 34w4wa. Daily Universal Register, as was noted elsewhere, used to be the name of the Times of London. Dollar, who knows? Flavian II was the Patriarch of Antioch. Setpimius Severus was a Roman general, and Roman emperor. Sherman Antitrust Act was the first US Government action to limit cartels and monopolies. Van Gogh was of course a painter. Tycho Brahe was an awesome astronomer, and stellar, again, I don't know.
It's an array of four things, with dots between them - an IP address. Perhaps something with dates?
The date format tells us it's an American-related quiz. The US dollar was adopted in 1785, while the Daily Universal Register was also begun in 1785. 1785 mod 100 = 85.
Flavian II died in 518. Severus reigned from 193-211, when HE died. 518-211 = -307,
So far, 85.155...
Sherman Antitrust and Van-Gogh's death were both in 1890. 1890/9 = 210
So 85.155.210...
Tycho Brahe died 1601...I don't know about stellar, but other dates have coincided so 1601/12.to_i = 133
85.155.210.133 doesn't appear to have a web server on it, but that 155 is really suspect, as is the 133 (not an integer). Brahe was BORN in 1546, and 1546/12 = 129.
85.155.210.129 isn't answering either. Again, the 155 bothers me.
Flavian II died 518, but 518/2 -1 = 258, which isn't exactly a meaningful number for an IP address, eh?
I got my Severus wrong, as there was a Severus that succeeded Flavian II in 512, 14 years after Flavian II became patriarch. 14/2 - 1 = 6.
85.6.210.129 has no website on it either, but it's feeling better. Maybe that 129's a red herring...I feel like the 85 and 210 are right as rain though.
A google search for 'tycho brahe stellar' returns a couple of hits for an article listing 1572 as a date, and 1572/12=131. Turns out SN1572 was known as Tycho's Nova.
85.6.210.131 still gives me nothing though.
and fwiw the message on completing the tests this way is:
:)
Ford's, success, has, the, country, almost, financially, industrially, mechanically, exhibits, in, higher, than, persons, have, thought, possible, contradictory, requirements, of, efficiency, increase, great, workers, cost, consumer, And, cost, cost, consumer, And, cost, cost, consumer, And, workers, workers, workers, workers, to, repeated, great, increase, quality, increase, great, great, increase, quality, efficiency, efficiency, which, are, of, contradictory, contradictory, requirements, of, possible, have, have, thought, possible, have, have, persons, than, than, most, persons, persons, than, most, exhibits, exhibits, exhibits, exhibits, financially, financially, financially, financially, almost, the, the, country, almost, Ford's, Ford's, success, has
However, the 'execute f' button at the bottom, and its action on the blue boxes, seems to imply that cheating is avoided, because the TDD bit is supposed to lead you to write the correct function, not a cheat
This is one of my problems with the minimum wage. We essentially DO tie a dollar to ten minutes of labor right now with the minimum wage. When we up the minimum wage, we basically revalue a dollar as worth 6 minutes of labor.
Inflation by any other name...
Whew. Now, that doesn't actually make your statement grammatically appropriate, but at least now it can be read.
Lucene's good. If you haven't yet have a look at Ferret, a port of Lucene for Ruby. It's listed as faster than Lucene. I've used it in 20+ projects now as my built-in fulltext index of choice, and it's pretty great. You can easily define your own ranking algorithms if you'd like. You can find more information on Ferret here: http://ferret.davebalmain.com/trac/
I've got a prototype of the system described in the OP that we did while quoting a fairly large project. It's really easy to have an 'after upload' action that'll push the document through strings (or some other third party app that can operate similarly, given the document type) and throw the strings into a field that gets indexed as well. That pretty much handles everything you may need.
Obviously I'd also allow someone to specify keywords when uploading a document, but if this engine's going to just be thrown against an existing cache of documents, strings-only's the way to go.
Here's a hint. If the CD says 'The Beatles,' he'll know now that that's something he can be a dick to you about. I'm not suggesting he'd be tracking copyright on code. I *am* suggesting that every cop I've known would be a dick about anything they could be a dick about, and that's a pretty easy one.
The law was copying CDs with copy protection. One would think a quick search that turned up 200 burned CDs could lead to being detained in jail while they sorted that out. It's actually really simple logic, anyway.
Assertion) Cops are dicks.
Given) Copying CDs is now illegal.
Theorem) Cops will be dicks about your Britney Spears collection.
Because no police officer, nowhere, has ever decided to be a dick...
Pulled over in a car while playing a burned music CD? That took a lot of thought, thanks.
Oh, please. The question lasted no longer than a minute, first off, since the whole 'question-to-taser' clip is like three minutes long. That's a justified time span for asking a question. And he didn't preach, he was trying to give some context to the question so that the people present might understand why it was relevant (the underlying claim being 'you gave the election to your buddy.') It was speech, and it should have been free.
I'm not saying that the organizers didn't have the right to perform whatever kind of crowd control they felt necessary. I think the proper response would have been to simply take him out of the room. There were four to six cops. Me and any one of my friends could have taken that guy out of the room in an orderly fashion. He wasn't resisting arrest, he was taking advantage of a public forum. He didn't strike out at a cop or anything, and he was going with them. He just happened to be yelling while it happened.
Truth is, acting out at a public forum doesn't justify being pinned down and tased, and yes these cops could have removed him without using a taser. Also, if it was actually a somewhat open Q&A session then I think the question was legitimate. I've been to plenty of speaking events at my university where questions were more hostile than this.
I'm just so sick of everyone's neatly organized spoon-fed lives.
It seems a bit silly to have 'throughn' the book against the wall due to someone ELSE'S lack of command of the english language.
Now, repeat: threw. threw. threw. threw.
There ya go...
The price must be right, given the SIZE of the market. If I'm a horse proctologist and I reallllly need a piece of software with the same costs-of-development as a similarly-complex project that car salesmen need, the price of EquineProctoLive MUST be higher per instance to recoup the actual costs. My point is the value (or at least justifiable price) of a software to the members of the market might be inversely proportional to the size of the market itself, if the software is truly needed.
Sometimes no one will come along and charge $5 and kill you, because some markets fall under the radar. Those are still hella profitable.
I find this silly. He should price the software based on whatever he feels like. The market will respond. I've written a piece of software that provides a service to a niche group. It's not inherently 'nicer' software than other services I've written that come at a lower price, but there's a fixed cost associated with developing it (not just 'how much can I live off of?,' but 'how much profit am I willing to make this software for?'). If both pieces of software cost $n to make, and the size of market 2 is twice that of market 1, under my pricing scheme it's clear that the software should cost twice as much for market 1. Of course, if they don't want it at that price then market research before development should've suggested that the market doesn't want the software enough to justify making it.