Is that really the case with Google, though? It's not making do with a few employees, or slim margins. They have 20,000 employees on staff. Twenty thousand! Surely with that kind of payroll they can afford to keep their operations group staffed up 24/7?
I had missed that the thrust of your comment was about getting paged because of not having enough staff, not because something went offline. I imagine the real reason is that it comes down to money: it's cheaper to have redundancy in place to handle a partial failure and page people to come in to fix occasional problems as they are needed rather than paying people to sit idle for a lot of the time just in case something goes wrong.
Maybe it's a difference between tech-engineering and real engineering? I know people with 40+ year careers in chemical engineering who've been woken up at night probably twice in their entire careers, and those were genuine emergencies. I think they would've been looking for new jobs, and considered their employers incompetent, if people were being woken up multiple times per year for supposed "emergencies". That's the sign of an engineering firm that doesn't know how to handle routine operations.
A tech firm that goes to the same lengths to ensure 100% problem-free operation would get out-innovated by every other firm. In chemical engineering, the cost of failure is very high. In tech engineering, the cost of failure is very low -- just restart the server.
Sadly people misunderstand how extremely important it is to have fun at school, to excercise creativity and gain inspiration. To be happy, have fun and work on positive socializing AS well as learning. Not all the learning done at schools is purely academics as it's the prime area we learn how to socialize, to get a long with people etc.
Sure, but there's a huge difference between having fun by browsing pr0n and warez sites or downloading torrents of the latest movies and having fun by playing around with hacking a bit of Python, playing Bejeweled, or even wasting hours and hours playing Farmville.
Now that radio buttons are widely understood, that format is somewhat counter-intuitive as I wouldn't have expected to be able to assign two votes to one candidate. It would be more intuitive if the rows had "Vote 1" to "Vote n" and the columns represented who you could vote for. To further the point, take a look at the prior version of that image:
"Both KIN and Windows Phone 7 share common OS components, software and services. We will seek to align around a single platform for both products as well as consistent hardware specifications."
From a security point of view, I'd feel better if Google wrote their own PDF implementation. Far be it for me to read TFA, but I get the impression that this code comes from Adobe, whose software generally makes me nervous.
Bingo! I was about to post the exact same sentiment. I don't get why people are so against PDF... it's a freaking document format, for crying out loud. That said, one of the downsides is that Adobe's implementation is typically bloated and full of bugs. Had Google gone and wrote their own PDF renderer, that would have actually been very cool and likely way more secure.
And nowhere did GP mentioned impaired motor skills.
And wtf does neurotoxicity means and does to you? Newsflash: Neurotoxicity -> motor impairment.
Newsflash: someone can have suffered from neurotoxicity and have their motor skills unimpaired, but suffer from headaches. The effects of neurotoxicity depend on the area of the neurological system that was affected as well as the specifics of the toxin including what kind of toxin, what the level of toxicity was, the immune response to the toxin, and so on.
However, perhaps I haven't taken the same 1000-level college courses as you have.
And nowhere did GP mentioned impaired motor skills. Mentions lymphoma, chemo, and "neurotoxicity", and how exercise helped reduce the after effects.
What the fuck do you think neurotoxicity means? I'd never heard the word before but it seemed pretty obvious from the "neuro" and of course the context. The idea that exercise improves your overall balance and control is simply a fact.
Calm down... you'll live longer. Nobody is arguing that exercise doesn't improve balance and control. The specific claim was "it's taken a decade of tai chi to undo some of the neurotoxicity". This would be clearer had PopeRatzo said "to undo some of the effects of neurotoxicity", but the specific claim was that Tai Chi undid the neurotoxicity. It wasn't until PopeRatzo clarified his statement in a follow-up reply that it was made clear he was talking about Tai Chi being used for recovering his balance.
One can hardly fault the AC for questioning the claim that Tai Chi undoes neurotoxicity.
A database MUST treat all of these names the same: McClean, MacClean, MCLean, Mc Clean, Mac Clean. McCleen,...
I assume you left out a "not" in that sentence? I think there are quite a few people that will kindly (or maybe not-so-kindly) explain why "Mc" and "Mac" are not the same.
Read between the lines a bit. Treat them the same means: treat them as all potentially valid, not that all the names would match in a string comparison.
Grandparent did not say Conway invented the domain name.
You're being disingenuous. By saying "Conway is the guy who invented it" in the same sentence as promoting a website that has conway in the domain name, I find it difficult to conclude that there wasn't meant to be an implied association between the two. This is especially true given that everyone already knows it's "Conway's Game of Life" (that's in the article title) and given that when you parse the sentence, "it" refers to the forum.
[...] or, you reject the notion of personal responsibility entirely (in which case I'd like you to pay the electric bill I ran up and the car insurance I purchased, y'know, for the sake of consistency). Since those two positions are mutually exclusive, you may choose only one.
Well I was going to choose to pay your bills but you posted as AC, so never mind.
Well said, AC. On the other hand, to get around that you would only need to create a "Don't Like Their Email RBL" with the explanation "I received email that I don't like from these IP addresses". As long as no further claims are made about the emails or the IPs on the list, this is as legally actionable as someone saying they don't like Apple, Nike, and Starbucks.
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I'm not sure how that follows. Software is a good part of what makes a good cell phone, and Google certainly has a lot of talented software engineers.
Then again, acting is a big part of being a politician, so...
How is babby formed? How girl get pragnant?
Is that really the case with Google, though? It's not making do with a few employees, or slim margins. They have 20,000 employees on staff. Twenty thousand! Surely with that kind of payroll they can afford to keep their operations group staffed up 24/7?
I had missed that the thrust of your comment was about getting paged because of not having enough staff, not because something went offline. I imagine the real reason is that it comes down to money: it's cheaper to have redundancy in place to handle a partial failure and page people to come in to fix occasional problems as they are needed rather than paying people to sit idle for a lot of the time just in case something goes wrong.
I'm rapidly approaching 40
Not more rapidly than others.
Perhaps he's relativistically stationary?
Maybe it's a difference between tech-engineering and real engineering? I know people with 40+ year careers in chemical engineering who've been woken up at night probably twice in their entire careers, and those were genuine emergencies. I think they would've been looking for new jobs, and considered their employers incompetent, if people were being woken up multiple times per year for supposed "emergencies". That's the sign of an engineering firm that doesn't know how to handle routine operations.
A tech firm that goes to the same lengths to ensure 100% problem-free operation would get out-innovated by every other firm. In chemical engineering, the cost of failure is very high. In tech engineering, the cost of failure is very low -- just restart the server.
Sadly people misunderstand how extremely important it is to have fun at school, to excercise creativity and gain inspiration. To be happy, have fun and work on positive socializing AS well as learning. Not all the learning done at schools is purely academics as it's the prime area we learn how to socialize, to get a long with people etc.
Sure, but there's a huge difference between having fun by browsing pr0n and warez sites or downloading torrents of the latest movies and having fun by playing around with hacking a bit of Python, playing Bejeweled, or even wasting hours and hours playing Farmville.
Seriously. If you can't understand this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cumballot.gif
then maybe you shouldn't be voting.
Now that radio buttons are widely understood, that format is somewhat counter-intuitive as I wouldn't have expected to be able to assign two votes to one candidate. It would be more intuitive if the rows had "Vote 1" to "Vote n" and the columns represented who you could vote for. To further the point, take a look at the prior version of that image:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/9/9d/20050910063203!Cumballot.gif
Obviously not as understandable as one would hope.
Pretty soon we will have the pleasure of seeing the president communicating in a similar fashion when starting another (pointless) war.
First, Utah announces a Twexecution. Next, the US president announces another Twinvasion. Rally the Twoops! We're going to Twar!
From the first link:
"Both KIN and Windows Phone 7 share common OS components, software and services. We will seek to align around a single platform for both products as well as consistent hardware specifications."
You can't have it both ways.
Why can't you? Is it a false dichotomy?
Here's your woosh:
*woosh*
You're welcome.
It sucks you had to type that in all by yourself given that you could've copied and pasted it from numerous other missed jokes on Slashdot.
In other news, researchers learn that script kiddies tend not to be very good software developers.
Tip: Poster is probably Canadian or speaks UK English. Poured over is a common phrase in both countries.
Was that a subtle attempt at humour? If not, "pour" is not the British spelling of "pore".
[...] where a group of people have poured over the source code...
FYI:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pore_over
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pore#Verb
From a security point of view, I'd feel better if Google wrote their own PDF implementation. Far be it for me to read TFA, but I get the impression that this code comes from Adobe, whose software generally makes me nervous.
Bingo! I was about to post the exact same sentiment. I don't get why people are so against PDF... it's a freaking document format, for crying out loud. That said, one of the downsides is that Adobe's implementation is typically bloated and full of bugs. Had Google gone and wrote their own PDF renderer, that would have actually been very cool and likely way more secure.
And nowhere did GP mentioned impaired motor skills.
And wtf does neurotoxicity means and does to you? Newsflash: Neurotoxicity -> motor impairment.
Newsflash: someone can have suffered from neurotoxicity and have their motor skills unimpaired, but suffer from headaches. The effects of neurotoxicity depend on the area of the neurological system that was affected as well as the specifics of the toxin including what kind of toxin, what the level of toxicity was, the immune response to the toxin, and so on.
However, perhaps I haven't taken the same 1000-level college courses as you have.
And nowhere did GP mentioned impaired motor skills. Mentions lymphoma, chemo, and "neurotoxicity", and how exercise helped reduce the after effects.
What the fuck do you think neurotoxicity means? I'd never heard the word before but it seemed pretty obvious from the "neuro" and of course the context. The idea that exercise improves your overall balance and control is simply a fact.
Calm down... you'll live longer. Nobody is arguing that exercise doesn't improve balance and control. The specific claim was "it's taken a decade of tai chi to undo some of the neurotoxicity". This would be clearer had PopeRatzo said "to undo some of the effects of neurotoxicity", but the specific claim was that Tai Chi undid the neurotoxicity. It wasn't until PopeRatzo clarified his statement in a follow-up reply that it was made clear he was talking about Tai Chi being used for recovering his balance.
One can hardly fault the AC for questioning the claim that Tai Chi undoes neurotoxicity.
Who the hell has numbers in there name?
Girls who practice cup sharing?
What about Arthur "Two Sheds" Jackson?
A tragic accident happened, and now he's Arthur 'No Sheds' Jackson. Very tragic.
Last I heard he was living next to No Shed Sherlock.
A database MUST treat all of these names the same: McClean, MacClean, MCLean, Mc Clean, Mac Clean. McCleen, ...
I assume you left out a "not" in that sentence? I think there are quite a few people that will kindly (or maybe not-so-kindly) explain why "Mc" and "Mac" are not the same.
Read between the lines a bit. Treat them the same means: treat them as all potentially valid, not that all the names would match in a string comparison.
Grandparent did not say Conway invented the domain name.
You're being disingenuous. By saying "Conway is the guy who invented it" in the same sentence as promoting a website that has conway in the domain name, I find it difficult to conclude that there wasn't meant to be an implied association between the two. This is especially true given that everyone already knows it's "Conway's Game of Life" (that's in the article title) and given that when you parse the sentence, "it" refers to the forum.
[...] or, you reject the notion of personal responsibility entirely (in which case I'd like you to pay the electric bill I ran up and the car insurance I purchased, y'know, for the sake of consistency). Since those two positions are mutually exclusive, you may choose only one.
Well I was going to choose to pay your bills but you posted as AC, so never mind.
Mod parent up (not troll). I thought it was a decent very tiny sci-fi story.
still more are arguing for more openness in the early stages of the process.
The internet is for 'more openness in the early stages of the process'!
So that explains all the porn?
Check out the forum where it was posted: http://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=399&start=0
That's the game of life forum - Conway is the guy who invented it.
It may be a popular forum, but the domain conwaylife.com is not owned by Conway.
Well said, AC. On the other hand, to get around that you would only need to create a "Don't Like Their Email RBL" with the explanation "I received email that I don't like from these IP addresses". As long as no further claims are made about the emails or the IPs on the list, this is as legally actionable as someone saying they don't like Apple, Nike, and Starbucks.