I subscribe to one of the RSS feeds at http://www.gdacs.org/ and sometimes it takes them awhile to push out earthquake alerts. The raw data has already been chewed on a bit and for earthquakes they provide depth, magnitude, a map of where the fun is, some rough guess of affected population...
There are other similar services, this is just the one I RSS subscribe to.
I upgraded from 98 to 2000 because second life required 2000 I upgraded from 2000 to XP but I don't remember which game wouldn't work on 2000 but did on XP I'll upgrade from XP to... 7? when I find a game I want requiring windows 7.... I have not run into one yet, but I'm sure it'll happen someday?
I only upgraded to the most recent service pack of XP when I recently got the couple years old GTA IV.
For all other activities I use my linux and mac machines, the windows PC is just for gaming.
Many Walmarts and Sam's Clubs will let you park overnight. Some require you to ask. Highway est stops are usually safe places so take advantage of them. In either case, be discreet and safe.
My father's life as an RVer results in the advice that if you buy a pop-up or a slide-out camper there is no way to argue with the cops or rentacops or just jerks in general that you're camping/sleeping. The slideout / pop up is kind of a give away that you're doing something "not allowed". However if you buy a completely fixed RV with no moving parts, there is no way for "the man" to know you're sleeping in the back of the RV vs maybe inside the store shopping.
In an urban environment if you take a pop-up/slide out RV to the mall and obviously camp, you can expect to be very severely hassled. On the other hand, unless you offend them somehow, there's no way for a mall rentacop to figure out if you are shopping or sleeping in a fixed configuration RV. If they start chalking and towing then "regular customers" are going to scream bloody murder when their car is towed away while they're shopping, so thats a non-starter if the TV and newspapers could ever hear about it.
So no slideout / popup is a HUGE logistical advantage. Also what you don't have, can't break. So you'll never be "stuck" unable to leave a campground because your slideout is stuck open or the pop-up is jammed.
This leads to a vampiric lifestyle. Wake up around mall closing time, lets say 9pm, drive until the next big city mall opening time, lets say 9am (with stops for meals along the way, etc) then sleep or sightsee or shop or whatever until 9pm again. It sucks being exhausted at 8:30 am but can't park until the mall opens. Also being on the road shortly after bar closing time is often far too exciting... thats a good time to park somewhere for your "lunch".
The cheapest daily urban camping rate I've ever heard of is sports stadiums, assuming you can sleep thru the sporting event. Sometimes as low as $3 per sleep period, which is amazingly cheap in a heavily urban environment. I've heard some places demand to see your event tickets before you get to park, but almost all do not. In urban environments there are also airports and convention centers and strangely enough, hotels, all of which are often pretty good places to park for cheap/free. Hotels will often hassle you if you park there overnight, but rarely if ever during the day.
Are you keeping your current home? If not, what will you use as an address? You will have problems with things like driver's licenses if you don't have a permanent address.
Well since he's coming out of his mom's basement to go mobile, I'm sure she will continue to let him use her mailbox....
I know you're joking but more than a decade ago I accumulated vast quantities of postal mail for my parents when they went thru their RV phase. Its surprising if you get half an inch of junk mail per day, then a couple weeks worth is a hell of a lot of paper. They didn't "legally move in" because they maintained a residence with an address, but "stuff that just needs a maildrop" like old fashioned paper ham radio magazines, etc, slowly collected in a big pile at my house. I would estimate I collected about one plastic shopping bag of mail per week for my parents.
This "problem" is one of those stereotypical things that has been solved literally a million times by other RVers in the past, but if you try really hard you can use it to talk yourself out of going RVing.
Many of the places you may want to travel to may have limited cell coverage. I have stayed in many campgrounds where 2G is the most I can hope for. Think about where you want to go before you dive into this plan.
My father made money with dialup while RVing over a decade ago. "I can't survive without the latest modern tech" is a great way to talk yourself out of it.
Much as probably very few/.ers have Aeron chairs at home yet somehow compute none the less.
There will be "issues" like GUI/VNC is not a good idea compared to CLI/SSH. Learn how to make your computer multitask. If you're the type who can only do one thing at a time, such as watch a download process bar while doing absolutely nothing else, you'll be in agony. On the other hand if you're using something like GIT for distributed VCS you really don't care how long it takes to sync the repos as long as it takes less time that your average successful connection, then OK...
Also since roughly the dotcom boom almost all commercial/non-public campgrounds have wifi. So your 2G campground was almost certainly public, I'm guessing. I've never been to a commercial campground without wifi or a public campground with anything other than cell service. Luckily, being mobile, you don't have to stay at a park thats a telecommunications black hole. All campgrounds, commercial or public, seem surrounded by wifi equipped coffee shops. Even 10 years ago this was just not much of an issue. To some extent a coffee shop is more conducive to work than looking out the window at the ladies suntanning on the beach all day anyway.
You get pretty good at batching too, or you get pretty frustrated. I just did a git push, now I need to immediately instantly sync up with everyone else. Well, no, probably not, not if you're managing it well. Sure you would if you were not communications limited, but if you have to drive 5 minutes to the coffee shop, then it turns out you don't.
My father RVed (not full time, but a large fraction of the time) and consulted during his psuedo-retirement in his 50s.
First of all RVs are incredibly expensive to maintain, fuel, buy (if new) and park. They're designed to separate retirees from their money in the couple years it takes for them to get sick of it. Assuming you're not a confirmed landlubber, you're about 1e9 times better off on a live aboard sailboat. You'll get more space for cheaper and it costs virtually nothing to move it and maint costs aren't any more or less than a RV. If you love the sea you want a boat, if you love the mountains, well, maybe not. Also boats are awesome in the summer and generally suck in the winter, assuming you're in a climate that has a real winter. TIME also strikes in that simple things like doing the dishes in a sink about the size of a large salad bowl simply takes a long time compared to the dishwasher at home.
RV takes more maintenance cost / ability / TIME and guts than a house. As long as you're cool with spending 4 hours rebuilding the generator carb instead of billable hours during crunch time deadline instead of just calling the local electrical company during an outage... If you are used to doing housework/repair/improvement on saturday morning, maybe a RV will realistically require housework/repair/improvement all day saturday and maybe some of sunday if you're full time or pseudo-full time.
Clients understand if you're living in a cabin in Wyoming and they're in NYC you aren't going to just drop on by the office. Clients do not understand that at $4/gallon and 5 MPG you are not realistically able to drive from a state park in Wyoming to NYC to discuss a $1000 contract in person, I mean, you're mobile and free, right, so you should be parking your RV in their corporate parking lot, not in a national park, and being mobile means you have no commute/travel costs at all, right? Clients have problems understanding the expense per mile of a RV.
Clients understand travel time is an hour at the airport each side plus at most a couple hours in the air. Clients do not understand that RV travel means at least one full day to maybe a week to "travel" during which its physically impossible to generate billable hours.
Its not all perfect with sailboats either.... Clients do not understand how slowly sailboats move. So you want to be 200 miles away from the hurricane that is 3 days away... you need to evac NOW like 3 days before landfall, and clients think 200 miles divided by 75 MPH in a car means you should be working for them right up until hours before hurrican landfall, or at most, a day. It doesn't work that way with boats. 100 miles is a excellent daily run (depending on size of boat, weather, and skill of sailor...) and if your life depends on it, 200 miles should have at least three days budgeted. Of course there will be no marina slips 200 miles away, so you need to go further or pray wifi works out to an anchorage, or work from the remote marina clubhouse, or... Realize that when evac from a hurricane in a sailboat you do not need to reach blue sky, you merely need to reach a level of storm you're comfortable with. 30 MPH winds are no big deal, and the odds of your marina being ground zero are very low anyway, so you might only need to evac 20 miles or something. Also clients don't understand that a hurricane striking the middle of nowhere is a big deal if your marina is in the middle of nowhere, just because the weather channel isn't FUDing New Orleans or Tampa Bay, doesn't mean there's no personal emergency for you... Clients kind of understand if they see New Orleans being evacuated but if its not leading the news...
You need to understand that you can't drive your RV during rush hour (at least in the cities) and you can't drive during the day because you're supposed to be working, but the RV park office is only open 9-5 so you have to check in and out while you're supposedly working and/or avoiding traffic jams, the logistics are much mor
The number of tweets with the word "earthquake" in them is a raw piece of data.
A USGS trained analytical geologists opinion of magnitude / depth / time is much higher level information and is going to take a couple minutes at least to think about it. I suppose if the on duty guy is in the can when a earthquake starts, or even worse if you have two guys who start arguing before one finally calls the boss to resolve the fight....
The standard/. automotive analogy is that a bunch of tweeter twits will always be the first to "report" a car crash. It'll take a couple hours at least for the accident investigation team to gather all the legal evidence, and at least days until a judge / jury convicts. I'm sure the twits are always going to be faster than Judge Dredd or whoever.
Something really weird and bad must be happening to some of you people when you sit in a car, thats never happened to me so I can't relate. Driving my car is not like those idiotic car commercials where its always a joyride in a empty nature preserve and when I park I'm instantly surrounded by supermodels, but driving is not that awful of a soul crushing experience, either. The drive is frankly not very important or noteworthy compared to the destination. Soul crushing is urban, like your neighbor's kid was in the crossfire got shot and died, or your car/house/garage was broken into for the fifth time, or you were mugged again, etc.
Much like there's 50 ways to do anything in Perl, there's quite a few ways to do this in SQL.
select filename_and_backup_tape_number_and_stuff_like_that, count(*) as number_of_copies from pile_of_junk_table group by md5hash having number_of_copies > 1
Theres another strategy where you mush two tables up against each other... one is basically the DISTINCT of the other.
triggers are widely complained about, but you can implement a trigger system (or psuedo-trigger, where you make a wrapper function in your app) where basically a table of "files" is stored with a row called "count of identical md5hash" and then your sql looks like select * from pile where identicalcount>1
There's ways to play with views.
Do you need to run it interactively or batch it or just run it basically once or... If you're allowed to barf on data input you can even enforce the md5 hash as a UNIQUE INDEX or UNIQUE KEY in the table definition.
You'll learn a lot about how to think about high performance computing. Are you trying to minimize latency or minimize storage or minimize index size or maximize reliability/uptime or minimize processor time or minimize NAS bandwidth or minimize (initial OR maintenance) programming time or....
The funniest thing is if you're never tried restoring data from backups (hey, it happens), and/or never had a tape failure (hey it happens), you'll THINK you want to eliminate dupes, but trust me, those dupes will save your bacon someday, and tape is cheap compared to cost of programmer and cost of lost data.... 5 TB is not much technically but is obviously worth a lot from a business standpoint...
Also from personal experience you're going to find people gaming the system where DOOM3.EXE and NOTEPAD.EXE happen to have the same md5hash and length and NOTEPAD.EXE was found an a not-totally but pretty much noob's desk. Use some judgement and don't come down too hard on the newest of new learners.
Pinterest, Zynga, Yelp, Square, Twitter, and Salesforce.com are some of the more notable tech companies
Pinterest, Zynga - please, Sir, can I have a share of the social media pie?. Yelp - a phone book - bravo, new world. Square - because it's not already too easy to get people spending money. Twitter - RSS for the ADHD-sufferer. Salesforce - because your clients' data's not worth shit.
I'd take your detailed and accurate analysis and rather than damning capitalism simply claim they're not tech companies.
My father's first IT job was in computerizing a major class B railroad. Of course they'd had "unit record machines" and such since they were first invented but right up to today they're still adding more and more IT "stuff" to run the business. Only an idiot would call the railroad a "tech company" just because they use a lot of computers in every area of the business.
When I was a teen he worked at a huge heavy industrial fabricator basically doing the same thing, computerizing operations. Databases of whats in stock, early CAD, early data warehousing operations, etc. Again only an idiot would call an 50 acre industrial fabrication factory complex, which happens to have a lot of computers, a "tech company"
In the 10's now that every business is heavily computerized, it seems stylish to call a boring business in a boring field a "tech company" in order to make it look less boring, and/or if there is no viable long term business plan, just call it a "tech company" and it'll be OK.
But I just don't get the hateful crusade against them.
Jealousy. Won't come out and honestly say they're jealous of not being able to afford it, so you get mindless blather like "nah nah naa boo boo you suuuuck sooouls nah nah naa boo boo you suuuuck souuuls!" repeat until nauseated. Apparently that's what passes for a detailed logical engineering analysis of why suburb life is worse than urban life. There's some spite to it too, I can only afford to live in squalor so I'll feel better if everyone else has to live in squalor too. Also a little stockholm syndrome where we'll all cheer each other up in the slum by telling ourselves that our dump is really better than someone else's nice place, maybe if we tell it to ourselves enough times we'll actually believe it? There tends to be a bit of immaturity-effect, so if the parents like X (where X might be suburbs, or rock music, etc) then rebellious teenagers (of any actual chronological age) will declare their undying love of -X (where -X might be urban living, or hip hop, etc). Its stealth ageism, in that if you're 23 its time for an exciting adventure, being a crime victim is something that happens to someone else and could never happen to me, and you have no responsibilities (aka spouse and kids), so the city is great fun and adventure, but by 30 its time to move somewhere civilized... right about the time your employer is ready to downsize you for the next wave of cheap recent grads, so mass publicity about moving HQ into an urban environment is kind of a legal "over 25 need not apply" sign. Closely related to the stealth ageism thing there's a "can't keep them down on the farm after they've seen Paris" effect where you can transition from a dumpy dorm directly to a dumpy city as a 22 year old kid, but once you've had a job in a civilized area out in the burbs its hard to stomach downgrading to urban lifestyle again, so its another "older people need not apply" sign... Finally there tends to be the idea that urban living is "new" so if you're trying to hide from yourself or don't like yourself or "just have issues", then maybe trying something new like moving to the city will help... unfortunately where-ever you go, there you are, so as a "find yourself" activity moving to the big city is not likely to be as successful as, say, one of the more atheistic branches of Buddhism or perhaps psychotherapy, or rephrased "if you're running from something, then the process of running matters a much more than where you're running toward"
Locally the only amenity offered by "the big city" over the suburbs is incredibly low rent because no one wants to work there. Crippling decaying infrastructure, one of the worst ranked school systems in the nation (no one between 25-50 wants to live here unless they're rich enough for private schools), extremely high crime, police don't respond to anyone not actively bleeding or shooting (that was weird to discover), one of the most racially segregated cities in the North (burbs are much more multicultural, weird but true), no parking so only locals are allowed, filthy, crippling tax/license/fee burdens, larger scale corruption in govt (note the burbs are almost as corrupt, just not quite as big). So why would anyone voluntarily work there? Oh, I see, rents are about a tenth the cost of equivalent rent in the burbs, assuming you can find burb space at similar level of squalor.
Don't ague that world class cities are better than my "top 20 city". World class cities are surrounded by world class suburbs, so Again the only reason to locate in the city is low rents.
There are exceptions where there are pretty good high rent locations squashed up against water features. They don't matter, less than 1% of the population lives and works there. For the 99% of the remaining population, the big cities suck.
I realize I'm posting late, but the point is its a very small variation. At most 100%. Compared to off to the races paper money printing press once we got off the standard.
Basically $20 was coincidentally "about an ounce of gold". Which in modern rapidly becoming more worthless money would be about two grand. Which is probably a fairly reasonable cutoff for a federal vs local case, rather than $20.
Also its an interesting anecdote often quoted as constitutional "proof" we need to be on the gold standard. Not necessarily saying I agree with it, but I can report that oddly enough no one on/. mentioned that traditional... situation or whatever.
There have been no recent changes that would require them to no longer provide WOW in Iran.
Its a widely held, but completely wrong, belief that US companies can't do business with/in Iran. Totally false. We mostly export "bad stuff" to them like tobacco products, corn, soy... the kind of stuff we use to sicken and poison our own walmart-ian underclass. So thats kind of weird. We also export stereotypical medical stuff to Iran. No one wants TV stories about how the state dept slowly killed a cute little Iranian kid by denying export of some obscure medical pill. Well, maybe it would play at the republican convention but in general it would be bad PR.
It is, however, expensive with endless forms and licenses to fill out. All you need is a PHB to decide, "The paperwork isn't worth the profit" and its done. If there were a million profitable subscribers I'm sure they'd still be playing WOW right now, but if the legal compliance costs exceed gross revenue from just a couple gamers (which sounds extremely likely) then....
If you did public transit you don't even need that.
TSA now "inspects" railroad passengers to prevent terrorists from hijacking a train and crashing it into a skyscraper. Most news reports about it were the usual frothing at the mouth stockholm syndrome request for them to start body cavity searches of bus passengers. Several states require if you're an adult on public land you must carry ID or you'll be charged. In practice across the entire country if you interact with any cop and have no ID it is assumed there's a warrant out for you and you'll sit in a cell until they figure out who you are via prints or... something.
In the USSR you could be detained for moving between zones without a good reason
In the USA we only do that to black people. As a white dude I'm free to travel, not so for my black ex-coworkers who have all kinds of stories. They're only allowed to drive on certain roads and shop in certain stores without suspicion. Admittedly I live in one of the most segregated metro areas in the country (and no, its not in the south). My cousin who went to Soweto (spelling?) township in South Africa during the apartheid years didn't feel race relations were all that different from home, but some of his fellow peace corps volunteers were pretty freaked out, so I guess it depends where you live in the USA.
I can't believe those n00b founding fathers hard-coded that value...
Before "they" had the brilliant idea of removing the dollar from the gold standard, there was no inflation. If you've got an axe to grind about returning to the gold standard, that's one of the stereotypical constitutional arguments. Don't kid yourself that its a new argument.
otherwise your answers are little better than flipping a coin.
Isn't that the ideal result? Any blatantly obvious situation is settled outta court. Probably you could replace 90% of jury trials with a coin flip and the remaining 10% could actually go to a jury just to keep things honest.
Then why does anyone pick 12 random people who are screened to ensure they have no legal knowledge and no knowledge of your specific issue
Anti-corruption. Its "cheap and easy" to purchase the vote of a couple people working in your field. Really expensive to purchase every moron out there (at least in advance). If the special jury pool was selected solely of patent lawyers then every decision would be decided based on what would make patent lawyers as a whole more money, etc.
I would like to see the "jury" solution tried on the legislative and executive sides. Obviously we've had a string of morons (on both sides) in the executive so its not like you really need the prez to be a superman, just your average idiot off the street would probably do less damage. On the legislative side you'd probably have serious issues with vote buying UNLESS they legislators were anonymous, very much like some juries.
it has finalized new fuel efficiency standards that will require new cars and light-duty trucks to have an average efficiency of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.
Its a politician's job to tell lies. But tell a better one, like we're going back to the moon in a decade, or we're getting out of the middle east, or we're closing the concentration camp in Cuba, or going to mars in two decades or whatever BS. Its not even a good lie, its darn near believable, they should have made it 250 mpg. As far as lies go, this one was no good.
I wonder if this has something to do with the nature of the people who went into programming 20 years ago (compared to today), or what...?
After you live and work through 10 or so silver bullet fads you'll get a bit jaded at "oh god not yet another silver bullet that'll magically fix everything if we just change everything and hire some expensive consultants".
My main whine about pair programming is its a bastardization of ye olde master/apprentice. Oh so close to being correct, yet still miss the target. That's worked in about a zillion other fields for only about a zillion centuries. I learned a lot as an apprentice from some good masters and taught a few apprentices as a master, hopefully well. Pair programming claims master/apprentice inevitably leads to "watch the master" where the apprentice sits around and learns nothing. That's wrong; its not an inherent effect of master/apprentice, it's an inherent effect of shittymaster/apprentice. It does correctly show that having a con man or moron as master doesn't work, or maybe the older the programmer is the more important it is that he not be an idiot. Also its the apprentice's job not to be passive... ask why, ask how it works, ask what other options exist, etc.
I suppose you can't charge $xxx/hr as a consultant or book author merely by telling the boss to set up something like a medieval blacksmithing guild, gotta come up with some new twist on the old story.
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anything odd in the subconscious of the twitterers
You mean unusual not odd. twits are already pretty odd people all the time.
I subscribe to one of the RSS feeds at http://www.gdacs.org/ and sometimes it takes them awhile to push out earthquake alerts. The raw data has already been chewed on a bit and for earthquakes they provide depth, magnitude, a map of where the fun is, some rough guess of affected population...
There are other similar services, this is just the one I RSS subscribe to.
Are there games requiring windows 7 yet?
I upgraded from 98 to 2000 because second life required 2000 ... 7? when I find a game I want requiring windows 7.... I have not run into one yet, but I'm sure it'll happen someday?
I upgraded from 2000 to XP but I don't remember which game wouldn't work on 2000 but did on XP
I'll upgrade from XP to
I only upgraded to the most recent service pack of XP when I recently got the couple years old GTA IV.
For all other activities I use my linux and mac machines, the windows PC is just for gaming.
Many Walmarts and Sam's Clubs will let you park overnight. Some require you to ask. Highway est stops are usually safe places so take advantage of them. In either case, be discreet and safe.
My father's life as an RVer results in the advice that if you buy a pop-up or a slide-out camper there is no way to argue with the cops or rentacops or just jerks in general that you're camping/sleeping. The slideout / pop up is kind of a give away that you're doing something "not allowed". However if you buy a completely fixed RV with no moving parts, there is no way for "the man" to know you're sleeping in the back of the RV vs maybe inside the store shopping.
In an urban environment if you take a pop-up/slide out RV to the mall and obviously camp, you can expect to be very severely hassled. On the other hand, unless you offend them somehow, there's no way for a mall rentacop to figure out if you are shopping or sleeping in a fixed configuration RV. If they start chalking and towing then "regular customers" are going to scream bloody murder when their car is towed away while they're shopping, so thats a non-starter if the TV and newspapers could ever hear about it.
So no slideout / popup is a HUGE logistical advantage. Also what you don't have, can't break. So you'll never be "stuck" unable to leave a campground because your slideout is stuck open or the pop-up is jammed.
This leads to a vampiric lifestyle. Wake up around mall closing time, lets say 9pm, drive until the next big city mall opening time, lets say 9am (with stops for meals along the way, etc) then sleep or sightsee or shop or whatever until 9pm again. It sucks being exhausted at 8:30 am but can't park until the mall opens. Also being on the road shortly after bar closing time is often far too exciting... thats a good time to park somewhere for your "lunch".
The cheapest daily urban camping rate I've ever heard of is sports stadiums, assuming you can sleep thru the sporting event. Sometimes as low as $3 per sleep period, which is amazingly cheap in a heavily urban environment. I've heard some places demand to see your event tickets before you get to park, but almost all do not. In urban environments there are also airports and convention centers and strangely enough, hotels, all of which are often pretty good places to park for cheap/free. Hotels will often hassle you if you park there overnight, but rarely if ever during the day.
Are you keeping your current home? If not, what will you use as an address? You will have problems with things like driver's licenses if you don't have a permanent address.
Well since he's coming out of his mom's basement to go mobile, I'm sure she will continue to let him use her mailbox....
I know you're joking but more than a decade ago I accumulated vast quantities of postal mail for my parents when they went thru their RV phase. Its surprising if you get half an inch of junk mail per day, then a couple weeks worth is a hell of a lot of paper. They didn't "legally move in" because they maintained a residence with an address, but "stuff that just needs a maildrop" like old fashioned paper ham radio magazines, etc, slowly collected in a big pile at my house. I would estimate I collected about one plastic shopping bag of mail per week for my parents.
This "problem" is one of those stereotypical things that has been solved literally a million times by other RVers in the past, but if you try really hard you can use it to talk yourself out of going RVing.
Many of the places you may want to travel to may have limited cell coverage. I have stayed in many campgrounds where 2G is the most I can hope for. Think about where you want to go before you dive into this plan.
My father made money with dialup while RVing over a decade ago. "I can't survive without the latest modern tech" is a great way to talk yourself out of it.
Much as probably very few /.ers have Aeron chairs at home yet somehow compute none the less.
There will be "issues" like GUI/VNC is not a good idea compared to CLI/SSH. Learn how to make your computer multitask. If you're the type who can only do one thing at a time, such as watch a download process bar while doing absolutely nothing else, you'll be in agony. On the other hand if you're using something like GIT for distributed VCS you really don't care how long it takes to sync the repos as long as it takes less time that your average successful connection, then OK...
Also since roughly the dotcom boom almost all commercial/non-public campgrounds have wifi. So your 2G campground was almost certainly public, I'm guessing. I've never been to a commercial campground without wifi or a public campground with anything other than cell service. Luckily, being mobile, you don't have to stay at a park thats a telecommunications black hole. All campgrounds, commercial or public, seem surrounded by wifi equipped coffee shops. Even 10 years ago this was just not much of an issue. To some extent a coffee shop is more conducive to work than looking out the window at the ladies suntanning on the beach all day anyway.
You get pretty good at batching too, or you get pretty frustrated. I just did a git push, now I need to immediately instantly sync up with everyone else. Well, no, probably not, not if you're managing it well. Sure you would if you were not communications limited, but if you have to drive 5 minutes to the coffee shop, then it turns out you don't.
My father RVed (not full time, but a large fraction of the time) and consulted during his psuedo-retirement in his 50s.
First of all RVs are incredibly expensive to maintain, fuel, buy (if new) and park. They're designed to separate retirees from their money in the couple years it takes for them to get sick of it. Assuming you're not a confirmed landlubber, you're about 1e9 times better off on a live aboard sailboat. You'll get more space for cheaper and it costs virtually nothing to move it and maint costs aren't any more or less than a RV. If you love the sea you want a boat, if you love the mountains, well, maybe not. Also boats are awesome in the summer and generally suck in the winter, assuming you're in a climate that has a real winter. TIME also strikes in that simple things like doing the dishes in a sink about the size of a large salad bowl simply takes a long time compared to the dishwasher at home.
RV takes more maintenance cost / ability / TIME and guts than a house. As long as you're cool with spending 4 hours rebuilding the generator carb instead of billable hours during crunch time deadline instead of just calling the local electrical company during an outage... If you are used to doing housework/repair/improvement on saturday morning, maybe a RV will realistically require housework/repair/improvement all day saturday and maybe some of sunday if you're full time or pseudo-full time.
Clients understand if you're living in a cabin in Wyoming and they're in NYC you aren't going to just drop on by the office. Clients do not understand that at $4/gallon and 5 MPG you are not realistically able to drive from a state park in Wyoming to NYC to discuss a $1000 contract in person, I mean, you're mobile and free, right, so you should be parking your RV in their corporate parking lot, not in a national park, and being mobile means you have no commute/travel costs at all, right? Clients have problems understanding the expense per mile of a RV.
Clients understand travel time is an hour at the airport each side plus at most a couple hours in the air. Clients do not understand that RV travel means at least one full day to maybe a week to "travel" during which its physically impossible to generate billable hours.
Its not all perfect with sailboats either.... Clients do not understand how slowly sailboats move. So you want to be 200 miles away from the hurricane that is 3 days away... you need to evac NOW like 3 days before landfall, and clients think 200 miles divided by 75 MPH in a car means you should be working for them right up until hours before hurrican landfall, or at most, a day. It doesn't work that way with boats. 100 miles is a excellent daily run (depending on size of boat, weather, and skill of sailor...) and if your life depends on it, 200 miles should have at least three days budgeted. Of course there will be no marina slips 200 miles away, so you need to go further or pray wifi works out to an anchorage, or work from the remote marina clubhouse, or ... Realize that when evac from a hurricane in a sailboat you do not need to reach blue sky, you merely need to reach a level of storm you're comfortable with. 30 MPH winds are no big deal, and the odds of your marina being ground zero are very low anyway, so you might only need to evac 20 miles or something. Also clients don't understand that a hurricane striking the middle of nowhere is a big deal if your marina is in the middle of nowhere, just because the weather channel isn't FUDing New Orleans or Tampa Bay, doesn't mean there's no personal emergency for you... Clients kind of understand if they see New Orleans being evacuated but if its not leading the news...
You need to understand that you can't drive your RV during rush hour (at least in the cities) and you can't drive during the day because you're supposed to be working, but the RV park office is only open 9-5 so you have to check in and out while you're supposedly working and/or avoiding traffic jams, the logistics are much mor
Confusing data and information.
The number of tweets with the word "earthquake" in them is a raw piece of data.
A USGS trained analytical geologists opinion of magnitude / depth / time is much higher level information and is going to take a couple minutes at least to think about it. I suppose if the on duty guy is in the can when a earthquake starts, or even worse if you have two guys who start arguing before one finally calls the boss to resolve the fight....
The standard /. automotive analogy is that a bunch of tweeter twits will always be the first to "report" a car crash. It'll take a couple hours at least for the accident investigation team to gather all the legal evidence, and at least days until a judge / jury convicts. I'm sure the twits are always going to be faster than Judge Dredd or whoever.
Basically... it comes down to 'luck' with linux desktop.
Google, not luck. Before multi-tab web browsers were invented you needed two browser windows to shop, its a little easier now.
I got linux on desktop.
It works perfectly.
Seriously, what's the problem?
Agreed, "it" has worked properly for a long time. But someone elses "pet project" doesn't, so we have to hear endlessly about how "it" is broken.
His hammer doesn't install drywall screws very well, therefore we are all supposed to be in a tizzy that the world is not ready for drywall.
Bye bye gnome, bye bye kde, awesome / xfce / ratpoison are the way to go.
For my own education please elaborate on how
you have to drive
automagically translates to
soul to be crushed.
Something really weird and bad must be happening to some of you people when you sit in a car, thats never happened to me so I can't relate. Driving my car is not like those idiotic car commercials where its always a joyride in a empty nature preserve and when I park I'm instantly surrounded by supermodels, but driving is not that awful of a soul crushing experience, either. The drive is frankly not very important or noteworthy compared to the destination. Soul crushing is urban, like your neighbor's kid was in the crossfire got shot and died, or your car/house/garage was broken into for the fifth time, or you were mugged again, etc.
4. play with inner joins.
Much like there's 50 ways to do anything in Perl, there's quite a few ways to do this in SQL.
select filename_and_backup_tape_number_and_stuff_like_that, count(*) as number_of_copies
from pile_of_junk_table
group by md5hash
having number_of_copies > 1
Theres another strategy where you mush two tables up against each other... one is basically the DISTINCT of the other.
triggers are widely complained about, but you can implement a trigger system (or psuedo-trigger, where you make a wrapper function in your app) where basically a table of "files" is stored with a row called "count of identical md5hash" and then your sql looks like select * from pile where identicalcount>1
There's ways to play with views.
Do you need to run it interactively or batch it or just run it basically once or ... If you're allowed to barf on data input you can even enforce the md5 hash as a UNIQUE INDEX or UNIQUE KEY in the table definition.
You'll learn a lot about how to think about high performance computing. Are you trying to minimize latency or minimize storage or minimize index size or maximize reliability/uptime or minimize processor time or minimize NAS bandwidth or minimize (initial OR maintenance) programming time or ....
The funniest thing is if you're never tried restoring data from backups (hey, it happens), and/or never had a tape failure (hey it happens), you'll THINK you want to eliminate dupes, but trust me, those dupes will save your bacon someday, and tape is cheap compared to cost of programmer and cost of lost data.... 5 TB is not much technically but is obviously worth a lot from a business standpoint...
Also from personal experience you're going to find people gaming the system where DOOM3.EXE and NOTEPAD.EXE happen to have the same md5hash and length and NOTEPAD.EXE was found an a not-totally but pretty much noob's desk. Use some judgement and don't come down too hard on the newest of new learners.
Pinterest, Zynga, Yelp, Square, Twitter, and Salesforce.com are some of the more notable tech companies
Pinterest, Zynga - please, Sir, can I have a share of the social media pie?.
Yelp - a phone book - bravo, new world.
Square - because it's not already too easy to get people spending money.
Twitter - RSS for the ADHD-sufferer.
Salesforce - because your clients' data's not worth shit.
I'd take your detailed and accurate analysis and rather than damning capitalism simply claim they're not tech companies.
My father's first IT job was in computerizing a major class B railroad. Of course they'd had "unit record machines" and such since they were first invented but right up to today they're still adding more and more IT "stuff" to run the business. Only an idiot would call the railroad a "tech company" just because they use a lot of computers in every area of the business.
When I was a teen he worked at a huge heavy industrial fabricator basically doing the same thing, computerizing operations. Databases of whats in stock, early CAD, early data warehousing operations, etc. Again only an idiot would call an 50 acre industrial fabrication factory complex, which happens to have a lot of computers, a "tech company"
In the 10's now that every business is heavily computerized, it seems stylish to call a boring business in a boring field a "tech company" in order to make it look less boring, and/or if there is no viable long term business plan, just call it a "tech company" and it'll be OK.
But I just don't get the hateful crusade against them.
Jealousy. Won't come out and honestly say they're jealous of not being able to afford it, so you get mindless blather like "nah nah naa boo boo you suuuuck sooouls nah nah naa boo boo you suuuuck souuuls!" repeat until nauseated. Apparently that's what passes for a detailed logical engineering analysis of why suburb life is worse than urban life. There's some spite to it too, I can only afford to live in squalor so I'll feel better if everyone else has to live in squalor too. Also a little stockholm syndrome where we'll all cheer each other up in the slum by telling ourselves that our dump is really better than someone else's nice place, maybe if we tell it to ourselves enough times we'll actually believe it? There tends to be a bit of immaturity-effect, so if the parents like X (where X might be suburbs, or rock music, etc) then rebellious teenagers (of any actual chronological age) will declare their undying love of -X (where -X might be urban living, or hip hop, etc). Its stealth ageism, in that if you're 23 its time for an exciting adventure, being a crime victim is something that happens to someone else and could never happen to me, and you have no responsibilities (aka spouse and kids), so the city is great fun and adventure, but by 30 its time to move somewhere civilized... right about the time your employer is ready to downsize you for the next wave of cheap recent grads, so mass publicity about moving HQ into an urban environment is kind of a legal "over 25 need not apply" sign. Closely related to the stealth ageism thing there's a "can't keep them down on the farm after they've seen Paris" effect where you can transition from a dumpy dorm directly to a dumpy city as a 22 year old kid, but once you've had a job in a civilized area out in the burbs its hard to stomach downgrading to urban lifestyle again, so its another "older people need not apply" sign... Finally there tends to be the idea that urban living is "new" so if you're trying to hide from yourself or don't like yourself or "just have issues", then maybe trying something new like moving to the city will help... unfortunately where-ever you go, there you are, so as a "find yourself" activity moving to the big city is not likely to be as successful as, say, one of the more atheistic branches of Buddhism or perhaps psychotherapy, or rephrased "if you're running from something, then the process of running matters a much more than where you're running toward"
Drawn by amenities
Locally the only amenity offered by "the big city" over the suburbs is incredibly low rent because no one wants to work there. Crippling decaying infrastructure, one of the worst ranked school systems in the nation (no one between 25-50 wants to live here unless they're rich enough for private schools), extremely high crime, police don't respond to anyone not actively bleeding or shooting (that was weird to discover), one of the most racially segregated cities in the North (burbs are much more multicultural, weird but true), no parking so only locals are allowed, filthy, crippling tax/license/fee burdens, larger scale corruption in govt (note the burbs are almost as corrupt, just not quite as big). So why would anyone voluntarily work there? Oh, I see, rents are about a tenth the cost of equivalent rent in the burbs, assuming you can find burb space at similar level of squalor.
Don't ague that world class cities are better than my "top 20 city". World class cities are surrounded by world class suburbs, so Again the only reason to locate in the city is low rents.
There are exceptions where there are pretty good high rent locations squashed up against water features. They don't matter, less than 1% of the population lives and works there. For the 99% of the remaining population, the big cities suck.
I realize I'm posting late, but the point is its a very small variation. At most 100%. Compared to off to the races paper money printing press once we got off the standard.
Basically $20 was coincidentally "about an ounce of gold". Which in modern rapidly becoming more worthless money would be about two grand. Which is probably a fairly reasonable cutoff for a federal vs local case, rather than $20.
Also its an interesting anecdote often quoted as constitutional "proof" we need to be on the gold standard. Not necessarily saying I agree with it, but I can report that oddly enough no one on /. mentioned that traditional ... situation or whatever.
There have been no recent changes that would require them to no longer provide WOW in Iran.
Its a widely held, but completely wrong, belief that US companies can't do business with/in Iran. Totally false. We mostly export "bad stuff" to them like tobacco products, corn, soy... the kind of stuff we use to sicken and poison our own walmart-ian underclass. So thats kind of weird. We also export stereotypical medical stuff to Iran. No one wants TV stories about how the state dept slowly killed a cute little Iranian kid by denying export of some obscure medical pill. Well, maybe it would play at the republican convention but in general it would be bad PR.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-United_States_relations#Economic_relations
It is, however, expensive with endless forms and licenses to fill out. All you need is a PHB to decide, "The paperwork isn't worth the profit" and its done. If there were a million profitable subscribers I'm sure they'd still be playing WOW right now, but if the legal compliance costs exceed gross revenue from just a couple gamers (which sounds extremely likely) then ....
Given the hardline stance in Iran, I would think all western games would be banned for being un islamic in the first place.
Probably not all of them, but some of them, yeah. There's a wiki page for everything:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_video_games_by_genre
Computerized chess game, yeah I think that'll be OK.
If you did public transit you don't even need that.
TSA now "inspects" railroad passengers to prevent terrorists from hijacking a train and crashing it into a skyscraper. Most news reports about it were the usual frothing at the mouth stockholm syndrome request for them to start body cavity searches of bus passengers. Several states require if you're an adult on public land you must carry ID or you'll be charged. In practice across the entire country if you interact with any cop and have no ID it is assumed there's a warrant out for you and you'll sit in a cell until they figure out who you are via prints or... something.
In the USSR you could be detained for moving between zones without a good reason
In the USA we only do that to black people. As a white dude I'm free to travel, not so for my black ex-coworkers who have all kinds of stories. They're only allowed to drive on certain roads and shop in certain stores without suspicion. Admittedly I live in one of the most segregated metro areas in the country (and no, its not in the south). My cousin who went to Soweto (spelling?) township in South Africa during the apartheid years didn't feel race relations were all that different from home, but some of his fellow peace corps volunteers were pretty freaked out, so I guess it depends where you live in the USA.
on creating a death star start up
If you live on Alderaan don't fund the kickstarter... Unless you're one of those "Alderaan shot first" cranks.
They need to adjust 20$ for inflation though.
I can't believe those n00b founding fathers hard-coded that value...
Before "they" had the brilliant idea of removing the dollar from the gold standard, there was no inflation. If you've got an axe to grind about returning to the gold standard, that's one of the stereotypical constitutional arguments. Don't kid yourself that its a new argument.
otherwise your answers are little better than flipping a coin.
Isn't that the ideal result? Any blatantly obvious situation is settled outta court. Probably you could replace 90% of jury trials with a coin flip and the remaining 10% could actually go to a jury just to keep things honest.
Then why does anyone pick 12 random people who are screened to ensure they have no legal knowledge and no knowledge of your specific issue
Anti-corruption. Its "cheap and easy" to purchase the vote of a couple people working in your field. Really expensive to purchase every moron out there (at least in advance). If the special jury pool was selected solely of patent lawyers then every decision would be decided based on what would make patent lawyers as a whole more money, etc.
I would like to see the "jury" solution tried on the legislative and executive sides. Obviously we've had a string of morons (on both sides) in the executive so its not like you really need the prez to be a superman, just your average idiot off the street would probably do less damage. On the legislative side you'd probably have serious issues with vote buying UNLESS they legislators were anonymous, very much like some juries.
it has finalized new fuel efficiency standards that will require new cars and light-duty trucks to have an average efficiency of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.
Its a politician's job to tell lies. But tell a better one, like we're going back to the moon in a decade, or we're getting out of the middle east, or we're closing the concentration camp in Cuba, or going to mars in two decades or whatever BS. Its not even a good lie, its darn near believable, they should have made it 250 mpg. As far as lies go, this one was no good.
we can talk about it in complete detail when it makes sense, i don't need to smell your farts
You might change your mind if you were working with me. My farts smell like roses.
Theoretically pair programming is supposed to pair up programmers with other programmers, not with management.
I wonder if this has something to do with the nature of the people who went into programming 20 years ago (compared to today), or what...?
After you live and work through 10 or so silver bullet fads you'll get a bit jaded at "oh god not yet another silver bullet that'll magically fix everything if we just change everything and hire some expensive consultants".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet
My main whine about pair programming is its a bastardization of ye olde master/apprentice. Oh so close to being correct, yet still miss the target. That's worked in about a zillion other fields for only about a zillion centuries. I learned a lot as an apprentice from some good masters and taught a few apprentices as a master, hopefully well. Pair programming claims master/apprentice inevitably leads to "watch the master" where the apprentice sits around and learns nothing. That's wrong; its not an inherent effect of master/apprentice, it's an inherent effect of shittymaster/apprentice. It does correctly show that having a con man or moron as master doesn't work, or maybe the older the programmer is the more important it is that he not be an idiot. Also its the apprentice's job not to be passive... ask why, ask how it works, ask what other options exist, etc.
I suppose you can't charge $xxx/hr as a consultant or book author merely by telling the boss to set up something like a medieval blacksmithing guild, gotta come up with some new twist on the old story.