RAID is not a very good failover system. It never was, and it never will. Disks on raid often have extremely similar use patterns, leading to very similar drive life. When one drive in a RAID dies, it's not uncommon to see one or two more die at nearly the same time.
Real failover comes from offline backups. RAID wins at providing improved IO with little setup cost: You'll be hard pressed to find a modern DB server under a significant read and write load that isn't using RAID 10 either directly or on a SAN to improve its IO throughput.
Strengthening copyright is anything but socialist. If anything, you'll find that the further to the left a government is, the less they like IP. The socialist move would be to get rid of copyrights entirely.
If Obama was such a socialist, wouldn't the socialist be cackling with glee at his actions. Instead, you see them very worried about how he's not a socialist, but a corporatist, like the guy that preceded him.
If that was the case, companies wouldn't have trouble hiring competent personnel. There might not be trouble finding decent programmers in the Bay area, but in large chunks of the midwest, finding good programmers is often problematic, even with H1-Bs.
Don't get me wrong, it's easy to find a random recent graduate. Now, one that has a semblance of programming instincts, not so much. Our hiring lately has required using employee's networks and then poaching people that weren't looking for a job in the first place.
Now, if you want to complain about the H1-B program, say that it does't care about candidate quality, and doesn't have a fast enough path into the green card process.
In a more generic way: Application quality cannot be measured at the time of delivery. It's usually many months before on can really say how good a custom app really is. Sometimes what seems like the best infrastructure ends up being the worst, because it was a lot less flexible than no infrastructure at all, and the requirements gathering that the system was designed from was faulty. Other times, the big infrastructure cost is more than warranted.
Using the obligatory car analogy: The car that has the best test drive isn't necessarily the best car after you've put 100K miles on it.
But they still pay all kinds of other taxes. Looking at federal income taxes is very skewed in favor of those that make a lot of money. Add payroll, sales and property, and the picture is a whole lot different. You end up with people who end up paying more taxes overall than people who pay federal income taxes, but it's all due to capital gains.
Under those circumstances, Spain played an amazing game against Switzerland this week: Hundreds of accurate passes that ended in shots. More passes in one half than most teams make in an entire game. And yet, they didn't score, and lost the game against a team that had 25% ball position, but actually managed to score.
It would also mean that every Italian national team from the last 30 years happens to be terrible, despite their world championship titles.
It just happens that, in a world where most individuals cooperate, the sociopaths win, while in a world where most people are sociopaths, those that cooperate lose a little bit less that those that don't.
And, as we spend more time in English-speaking countries, we get worse and worse at spelling. After a decade in the US, I started to make spelling mistakes that I'd have never made when the written word was a whole lot more important in my understanding of the language than speech.
Being a native speaker of a language where there's not a big conceptual difference between the written word and speech, many times I wish English made more sense.
Ah, but while science doesn't really have much to say about religion, it has a lot to do about religious dogma that goes past metaphysical matters. So scientific facts are quite compatible with, say, Buddhism or Catholicism, but many evangelicals go straight into science's turf, and at that point, science does clash with this extended religion.
If a religion claims that a key tenet of their faith is the fact that the ratio between the area of a circle and its diameter was 27.5, that religion's dogma would go against geometry. Would we then claim geometry should not be taught, since it's very controversial?
If Lawrence Fishburne is nearby wearing a trench coat, I'd close my eyes, cover my ears with my fingers, and chant: "This is a dream, the sequels don't exist" over and over like a mantra.
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Watch season one, and then pretend that it was canceled. Curse the network executives for doing so.
There you go, you got a better Lost experience than most of us who gave up on it later. Watching the rest is like volunteering to watch your neighbor's father as Alzheimer makes him lose his mind, and become a husk of himself.
The lowest sells weren't really about high speed traders, but about stop orders. A stop order triggers when a price goes under a specific price, and sells as a market order: It takes the best offer available at the time. That's where the high speed traders really come in: They see a huge drop, with sales still there, and reap a crazy amount of profit by buying the shares for pennies.As the price lowers, more stop orders are hit, and everyone that had one gets taken to the cleaners.
Now the question is: In a market as volatile as the one we have, why would anyone really want to place a stop order? Something like that, but with a lower bound, would have stopped the dip a whole lot faster than it did.
Under a Keynesian model, the government sets policies that will charge up an economy when the private sector is in a bug slump. However, the government should also try to cool down the economy when it grows too fast, precisely to contain possible bubbles. You can't really do what Keynes suggested by just looking at one side of the coin, which is what we saw for the last decade and a half.
Now, you could argue that the Keynesian model still fails due to the complexity of the market, or because the government intervention can be gained, but at least describe it right.
The test itself already has bias, precisely because it works on a family of programs that happen to have a very limited set of inputs, and where the avenues of attack are relatively limited in some very important ways. The core vulnerabilities of websites have been done to death, so at this point, barring utter stupidity, I'd have been surprised if the security problems were noticeably different depending on the language.
Except to do all that, one first has to get documentation on TCPIP, a modem, find a connection into the network, get knowledge of the other person's computer, and THEN hack it.
So to hack into the PC, you need information that would take many decades to reverse engineer by hand. You can only hack it by using a ton of shortcuts.
However, if I did want job security, I'd not do stupid stuff like giving my boss fake passwords: The key to job security is to convince your boss that the operation can't survive without me. To do that, I should show them how dependent they are on me, not by giving them false information. Anything that makes me hard to replace and my employer doesn't understand isn't really providing job security, but will lower my reputation when I leave, as It'd not lower my chances of getting fired, but would make anyone that used to do my job badmouth my job in fron of my former boss.
So kids, if you are going to be sleazy enough to follow job security practices, at least pick the ones that work.
An out of state driver's license technically doesn't prove jack shit. Quite a few states don't require legal status, and some that do still give you a 10 year license If they accept them, they'll just get a million out of state ids.
And yet, the fact that they are not doing their job right still allows him to stay in the US, because they are the only ones that should deport him if he became illegal. They know the kinks of their system, and wide exemptions are made so that immigrants don't get deported while legal.
A completely different police force who has no knowledge of how the system works in practice puts legal immigrants in quite a bit of jeopardy, and they are doing so on purpose. He should be mad at one group for incompetence, and the other for malice. Most of us think the second reason makes someone more deserving of hate.
The thing is that a registration card is not given to all aliens anyway, either on entry or otherwise. It is quite possible to be legal and have no better proof than a big ass piece of legal paper, or even worse, no proof at all.
Look at say, an applicant for adjustment of status. Having applied for adjustment of status, by itself, does not make someone legal. However, if they did so while they had a legal status, AND said application is still pending, the person is 100% legal, but NOBODY has proof of it.
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RAID is not a very good failover system. It never was, and it never will. Disks on raid often have extremely similar use patterns, leading to very similar drive life. When one drive in a RAID dies, it's not uncommon to see one or two more die at nearly the same time.
Real failover comes from offline backups. RAID wins at providing improved IO with little setup cost: You'll be hard pressed to find a modern DB server under a significant read and write load that isn't using RAID 10 either directly or on a SAN to improve its IO throughput.
Strengthening copyright is anything but socialist. If anything, you'll find that the further to the left a government is, the less they like IP. The socialist move would be to get rid of copyrights entirely.
If Obama was such a socialist, wouldn't the socialist be cackling with glee at his actions. Instead, you see them very worried about how he's not a socialist, but a corporatist, like the guy that preceded him.
If that was the case, companies wouldn't have trouble hiring competent personnel. There might not be trouble finding decent programmers in the Bay area, but in large chunks of the midwest, finding good programmers is often problematic, even with H1-Bs.
Don't get me wrong, it's easy to find a random recent graduate. Now, one that has a semblance of programming instincts, not so much. Our hiring lately has required using employee's networks and then poaching people that weren't looking for a job in the first place.
Now, if you want to complain about the H1-B program, say that it does't care about candidate quality, and doesn't have a fast enough path into the green card process.
In a more generic way: Application quality cannot be measured at the time of delivery. It's usually many months before on can really say how good a custom app really is. Sometimes what seems like the best infrastructure ends up being the worst, because it was a lot less flexible than no infrastructure at all, and the requirements gathering that the system was designed from was faulty. Other times, the big infrastructure cost is more than warranted.
Using the obligatory car analogy: The car that has the best test drive isn't necessarily the best car after you've put 100K miles on it.
But they still pay all kinds of other taxes. Looking at federal income taxes is very skewed in favor of those that make a lot of money. Add payroll, sales and property, and the picture is a whole lot different. You end up with people who end up paying more taxes overall than people who pay federal income taxes, but it's all due to capital gains.
Under those circumstances, Spain played an amazing game against Switzerland this week: Hundreds of accurate passes that ended in shots. More passes in one half than most teams make in an entire game. And yet, they didn't score, and lost the game against a team that had 25% ball position, but actually managed to score.
It would also mean that every Italian national team from the last 30 years happens to be terrible, despite their world championship titles.
Which is easy to deal with when the play stops every 5 seconds and the teams can talk and regroup.
Remember, in an NFL game, the ball is actually in play for about 7 minutes total. And the game lasts three hours.
Now, what I want is a 21' monitor with the same dpis, instead of crappy 1080p resolutions, no matter the monitor size.
It just happens that, in a world where most individuals cooperate, the sociopaths win, while in a world where most people are sociopaths, those that cooperate lose a little bit less that those that don't.
Game theory FTW
Hey, just because it follows the house-of-cards scalability model, it doesn't mean it is not sleek!
And, as we spend more time in English-speaking countries, we get worse and worse at spelling. After a decade in the US, I started to make spelling mistakes that I'd have never made when the written word was a whole lot more important in my understanding of the language than speech.
Being a native speaker of a language where there's not a big conceptual difference between the written word and speech, many times I wish English made more sense.
Ah, but while science doesn't really have much to say about religion, it has a lot to do about religious dogma that goes past metaphysical matters. So scientific facts are quite compatible with, say, Buddhism or Catholicism, but many evangelicals go straight into science's turf, and at that point, science does clash with this extended religion.
If a religion claims that a key tenet of their faith is the fact that the ratio between the area of a circle and its diameter was 27.5, that religion's dogma would go against geometry. Would we then claim geometry should not be taught, since it's very controversial?
If Lawrence Fishburne is nearby wearing a trench coat, I'd close my eyes, cover my ears with my fingers, and chant: "This is a dream, the sequels don't exist" over and over like a mantra.
Watch season one, and then pretend that it was canceled. Curse the network executives for doing so.
There you go, you got a better Lost experience than most of us who gave up on it later. Watching the rest is like volunteering to watch your neighbor's father as Alzheimer makes him lose his mind, and become a husk of himself.
The lowest sells weren't really about high speed traders, but about stop orders. A stop order triggers when a price goes under a specific price, and sells as a market order: It takes the best offer available at the time. That's where the high speed traders really come in: They see a huge drop, with sales still there, and reap a crazy amount of profit by buying the shares for pennies.As the price lowers, more stop orders are hit, and everyone that had one gets taken to the cleaners.
Now the question is: In a market as volatile as the one we have, why would anyone really want to place a stop order? Something like that, but with a lower bound, would have stopped the dip a whole lot faster than it did.
Maybe they got keynes wrong?
Under a Keynesian model, the government sets policies that will charge up an economy when the private sector is in a bug slump. However, the government should also try to cool down the economy when it grows too fast, precisely to contain possible bubbles. You can't really do what Keynes suggested by just looking at one side of the coin, which is what we saw for the last decade and a half.
Now, you could argue that the Keynesian model still fails due to the complexity of the market, or because the government intervention can be gained, but at least describe it right.
They took down a bunch of stuff from BoardGameGeek too: They are doing their best to commit PR Suicide.
The test itself already has bias, precisely because it works on a family of programs that happen to have a very limited set of inputs, and where the avenues of attack are relatively limited in some very important ways. The core vulnerabilities of websites have been done to death, so at this point, barring utter stupidity, I'd have been surprised if the security problems were noticeably different depending on the language.
Except to do all that, one first has to get documentation on TCPIP, a modem, find a connection into the network, get knowledge of the other person's computer, and THEN hack it.
So to hack into the PC, you need information that would take many decades to reverse engineer by hand. You can only hack it by using a ton of shortcuts.
I wouldn't, and look for a different job quickly.
However, if I did want job security, I'd not do stupid stuff like giving my boss fake passwords: The key to job security is to convince your boss that the operation can't survive without me. To do that, I should show them how dependent they are on me, not by giving them false information. Anything that makes me hard to replace and my employer doesn't understand isn't really providing job security, but will lower my reputation when I leave, as It'd not lower my chances of getting fired, but would make anyone that used to do my job badmouth my job in fron of my former boss.
So kids, if you are going to be sleazy enough to follow job security practices, at least pick the ones that work.
An out of state driver's license technically doesn't prove jack shit. Quite a few states don't require legal status, and some that do still give you a 10 year license If they accept them, they'll just get a million out of state ids.
And yet, the fact that they are not doing their job right still allows him to stay in the US, because they are the only ones that should deport him if he became illegal. They know the kinks of their system, and wide exemptions are made so that immigrants don't get deported while legal.
A completely different police force who has no knowledge of how the system works in practice puts legal immigrants in quite a bit of jeopardy, and they are doing so on purpose. He should be mad at one group for incompetence, and the other for malice. Most of us think the second reason makes someone more deserving of hate.
The thing is that a registration card is not given to all aliens anyway, either on entry or otherwise. It is quite possible to be legal and have no better proof than a big ass piece of legal paper, or even worse, no proof at all.
Look at say, an applicant for adjustment of status. Having applied for adjustment of status, by itself, does not make someone legal. However, if they did so while they had a legal status, AND said application is still pending, the person is 100% legal, but NOBODY has proof of it.
No it isn't. You could teach an entire class about economic systems that didn't have a currency.
That is illogical!