Just play counter-strike on the airplane in mid-flight. Crank up the volume, have the guns blaring away, then you hear "Hostage down! Hostage down!" I'm sure it will be appreciated.
F**k, what country are you from? 1149 lines of code in a month?
Of course, 1149 codes is after being condensed without comments. Anyone can probably crank out 1149 lines of javascript in a couple of days. The guesstimate of a month is with full testing, debugging, making it work cleanly and intuitively, creating the user interface, etc. Writing the code isn't always the hardest part of creating a fully functional site. The way you put it, you'd think that a single developer at Google just whipped out a fully polished interface in a couple of weeks and they slapped it onto the site because it worked flawlessly the first time. I don't think so.
Sure, it's sophisticated, but 1149 lines of javascript isn't rocket science. Anyone worth their salt in javascript programming along with dhtml and css can reproduce this with about a month of solid coding. The trick is getting the cross-browser stuff working correctly, the rest is standard client/server stuff.
Don't go to your bank with a hitchhiker. Shut your stupid browser down before you get out your passwords, account numbers, etc. Close every browser window. Then open a fresh, blank window and proceed.
Right, and before you launch the browser, make sure you go to your shell of choice and run:
foo$ kill -9 -1
After all, expecting your operating system to sandbox every running process separately is a little like expecting Superman... oh, you get the point.;-)
This Sushi project 'allows you to play a classic pen-and-paper game over the internet'. Which one? Any of them? I don't know, and can't tell from looking at the site.
I didn't even bother visiting the site, but I'm completely guessing that this is a simple collaborative whiteboard application. Both people look at a blank screen and use their mouse to draw on it. Voila! Pen and paper, reproduced electronically. I think I handed something like that in as a computer assignment ten years ago.
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I'd forgotten not just the what, but how exciting it was to learn at the time...
I guess the old saying is true: nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
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Right, I missed that the first time around but caught it on the return trip. Mea culpa.
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Thanks, that's a much better way of asking the question. I guess I got caught up in the whole "what is n" aspect rather than reading between the lines. In my defence, I've yet to have any coffee today.;-)
Okay, never mind my response. I took the 'what is n' in O(n) to be similar to 'what is 1' in O(1). Perhaps I didn't understand how the question was worded. Maybe "What determines the size of the result set and how does the algorithm work?" might have been a better way to ask it. Of course, that I don't know either.
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In your rush to point out you know more than the above poster, did you stop to consider that he might not be asking about the notation? I don't understand what n is supposed to be either. Do you? If you do, why don't you clue us in, instead of your smug arrogance. In case you are still missing it, I do know how O(n) notation works. So does the poster above.
Big O notation refers to the efficiency of the algorithm. If you really understand the notation, you wouldn't be asking what 'n' means. The original post stated that the "Did you mean..." algorithm is O(n) efficient. If it stated that the algorithm is O(1) efficient, would you ask what the 1 represents?
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You missed the point. Is n the size of the word typed so far? the total dictionary size? the number of completions in your answer set?
Actually, you missed it I'm afraid. The "Big O" notation describes how efficient a function is. The thing you're searching might be a billion records or it might be 10 records. What matters here is the search algorithm's efficiency, not what is being searched.
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Why not grab a legal version from the LiveSearch wiki page, which is given away under the Apache license?
... you know that what you are saying is going to be negatively modded, and are trying to save it's face.
BTW, the correct usage is "to save face" which, roughly, means to avoid embarassment as you undoubtedly know. Since a posting on slashdot can't be embarassed (unless posts have somehow become sentient) you can't save a post's face. Nor can you save anyone else's face. "Wow, he was about to do something really dumb but I saved his face." It just doesn't work.
This has been a slashdot public service announcement.
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Type livesearch into the box and hit I'm feeling lucky. You'll then find the details of what I'm positive inspired this. Essentially, as you type it passes data via an XMLHttpRequest control to the server which then returns a list of the top 10 elements and the page gets updated.
Why not turn it into a new reality TV show, a la Survivor? This could easily provide a smidgen of the funding to keep the space station going. And instead of voting people off the space station, the person who loses a challenge gets eaten, so the food situation practically solves itself.
Umm...browsers are one of the most complicated internet products in existence.
Yes, they can be complicated.
You're going to have to be more specific if you're talking about something that uses the internet which is more complicated than a browser - especially something more complicated that actually has other things that depend on it. I can't think of anything like that myself.
Well, how about a supply chain management software which integrates accounting software, inventory, ordering, procuring, messaging, etc. Maybe it has an API which has a subtle bug and the only way to fix it is to change the behavior of the API or to add a security layer which then depends on other applications. Think of an SAP implementation and the millions of dollars corporations spend just rolling it out as it needs to be customized to their particular business processes.
Are you sure you're not talking about Windows again? The place where the browser is part of the operating system?
I'm not necessarily speaking of Windows. But I assume you're speaking of Linux again? The place where there are no complementary products and applications can't be linked together? Uh-huh...
A better solution would be to implement blackhole lists on your firewall itself. The firewall sees an incoming connection, checks with Spamhaus/SPEWS/whoever for whether or not that IP is blacklisted. If so, it simply doesn't respond to the packet. So rather than a "550 FOAD Spammer!" error message, the spammer will see it as completely not there. Same effect, but it doesn't punish legitimate uses.
This is the Windows way. Linux security fixes usually take a few hours up to a few days for services (ssh, apache, Bind, ntp).
That's great for simple products like Firefox, but what about when the product that has the security hole needs a fundamental change in its behavior? And if that product is used by every Fortune 500 company now you'll need to do compatibility testing to make sure that the product fix doesn't b0rk the dozens of other interoperable software which has been built on top of it.
Security is easy when all you need to do is fix a buffer overrun problem. It gets a bit more involved when making changes to software which has many dependencies.
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Just play counter-strike on the airplane in mid-flight. Crank up the volume, have the guns blaring away, then you hear "Hostage down! Hostage down!" I'm sure it will be appreciated.
Nowhere in the GP's post does it state that that site is "p2p".
True, unless you consider the signature part of the post:
"Check out the best P2P sharing website: MEDIACHEST.COM [mediachest.com]"
If you read with sigs disabled (I enjoy them for sheer entertainment purposes), I could see why you'd miss that.
I can see that the tracker sites are providing information that can only be used for getting copyrighted materials.
Tell that to The Pirate Bay... see their legal page for some great reads! For a somewhat serious response, check out this one.
foo$ kill -9 -1
;-)
init runs as pid negative 1 on your computer?
And non-root users can kill init? Interesting OS
Why yes! And as root, I changed my shell prompt to use the $ character instead of #. Wiseass...
F**k, what country are you from? 1149 lines of code in a month?
Of course, 1149 codes is after being condensed without comments. Anyone can probably crank out 1149 lines of javascript in a couple of days. The guesstimate of a month is with full testing, debugging, making it work cleanly and intuitively, creating the user interface, etc. Writing the code isn't always the hardest part of creating a fully functional site. The way you put it, you'd think that a single developer at Google just whipped out a fully polished interface in a couple of weeks and they slapped it onto the site because it worked flawlessly the first time. I don't think so.
Sure, it's sophisticated, but 1149 lines of javascript isn't rocket science. Anyone worth their salt in javascript programming along with dhtml and css can reproduce this with about a month of solid coding. The trick is getting the cross-browser stuff working correctly, the rest is standard client/server stuff.
WTF? Does anyone browse the web with that shit enabled? If it's not text, I'm not interested.
No shit. I browse the web with telnet. If I can't issue a manual GET command to port 80, I'm not interested!
Don't go to your bank with a hitchhiker. Shut your stupid browser down before you get out your passwords, account numbers, etc. Close every browser window. Then open a fresh, blank window and proceed.
;-)
Right, and before you launch the browser, make sure you go to your shell of choice and run:
foo$ kill -9 -1
After all, expecting your operating system to sandbox every running process separately is a little like expecting Superman... oh, you get the point.
This Sushi project 'allows you to play a classic pen-and-paper game over the internet'. Which one? Any of them? I don't know, and can't tell from looking at the site.
I didn't even bother visiting the site, but I'm completely guessing that this is a simple collaborative whiteboard application. Both people look at a blank screen and use their mouse to draw on it. Voila! Pen and paper, reproduced electronically. I think I handed something like that in as a computer assignment ten years ago.
I'd forgotten not just the what, but how exciting it was to learn at the time...
I guess the old saying is true: nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Right, I missed that the first time around but caught it on the return trip. Mea culpa.
Thanks, that's a much better way of asking the question. I guess I got caught up in the whole "what is n" aspect rather than reading between the lines. In my defence, I've yet to have any coffee today. ;-)
Okay, never mind my response. I took the 'what is n' in O(n) to be similar to 'what is 1' in O(1). Perhaps I didn't understand how the question was worded. Maybe "What determines the size of the result set and how does the algorithm work?" might have been a better way to ask it. Of course, that I don't know either.
In your rush to point out you know more than the above poster, did you stop to consider that he might not be asking about the notation? I don't understand what n is supposed to be either. Do you? If you do, why don't you clue us in, instead of your smug arrogance. In case you are still missing it, I do know how O(n) notation works. So does the poster above.
Big O notation refers to the efficiency of the algorithm. If you really understand the notation, you wouldn't be asking what 'n' means. The original post stated that the "Did you mean..." algorithm is O(n) efficient. If it stated that the algorithm is O(1) efficient, would you ask what the 1 represents?
You missed the point. Is n the size of the word typed so far? the total dictionary size? the number of completions in your answer set?
Actually, you missed it I'm afraid. The "Big O" notation describes how efficient a function is. The thing you're searching might be a billion records or it might be 10 records. What matters here is the search algorithm's efficiency, not what is being searched.
Why not grab a legal version from the LiveSearch wiki page, which is given away under the Apache license?
... you know that what you are saying is going to be negatively modded, and are trying to save it's face.
BTW, the correct usage is "to save face" which, roughly, means to avoid embarassment as you undoubtedly know. Since a posting on slashdot can't be embarassed (unless posts have somehow become sentient) you can't save a post's face. Nor can you save anyone else's face. "Wow, he was about to do something really dumb but I saved his face." It just doesn't work.
This has been a slashdot public service announcement.
Type livesearch into the box and hit I'm feeling lucky. You'll then find the details of what I'm positive inspired this. Essentially, as you type it passes data via an XMLHttpRequest control to the server which then returns a list of the top 10 elements and the page gets updated.
If you consider "blow job" to be work-safe, may I enquire as to your line of work? ;-)
Glass blower? "Hey, Mike... that customer liked his vase and wants us to create another blow job for his living room." Okay, it's a stretch...
Where n is??? ... the notation you should have learned in Computer Science 101? :)
Why not turn it into a new reality TV show, a la Survivor? This could easily provide a smidgen of the funding to keep the space station going. And instead of voting people off the space station, the person who loses a challenge gets eaten, so the food situation practically solves itself.
Umm...browsers are one of the most complicated internet products in existence.
Yes, they can be complicated.
You're going to have to be more specific if you're talking about something that uses the internet which is more complicated than a browser - especially something more complicated that actually has other things that depend on it. I can't think of anything like that myself.
Well, how about a supply chain management software which integrates accounting software, inventory, ordering, procuring, messaging, etc. Maybe it has an API which has a subtle bug and the only way to fix it is to change the behavior of the API or to add a security layer which then depends on other applications. Think of an SAP implementation and the millions of dollars corporations spend just rolling it out as it needs to be customized to their particular business processes.
Are you sure you're not talking about Windows again? The place where the browser is part of the operating system?
I'm not necessarily speaking of Windows. But I assume you're speaking of Linux again? The place where there are no complementary products and applications can't be linked together? Uh-huh...
A better solution would be to implement blackhole lists on your firewall itself. The firewall sees an incoming connection, checks with Spamhaus/SPEWS/whoever for whether or not that IP is blacklisted. If so, it simply doesn't respond to the packet. So rather than a "550 FOAD Spammer!" error message, the spammer will see it as completely not there. Same effect, but it doesn't punish legitimate uses.
This is the Windows way. Linux security fixes usually take a few hours up to a few days for services (ssh, apache, Bind, ntp).
That's great for simple products like Firefox, but what about when the product that has the security hole needs a fundamental change in its behavior? And if that product is used by every Fortune 500 company now you'll need to do compatibility testing to make sure that the product fix doesn't b0rk the dozens of other interoperable software which has been built on top of it.
Security is easy when all you need to do is fix a buffer overrun problem. It gets a bit more involved when making changes to software which has many dependencies.
All text and numbers, no punctuation or symbols at all. Hey, isn't that Cobol?