Kindof depends on how you read 'niche.' yes, there is a relatively small number of companies (customers) that have such requirements, but if each of them have a massive, massive number of servers, then i wouldn't call that niche any more, because it still represents a large turnover.
Think about it: if you paid somebody to clean your house, and they worked on their sister's car while charging you for the time, wouldn't you be upset? There you are, paying (your dime) to have some gal's car (that you don't even know) fixed. Sound fair to you?
Of course he has to work for you in the time you pay him for it. I don't see why you're explaining this to me.
What I meant was that, once you pay him for it, he gets to do what he wants on his own time, on his own dime, even if that means starting a competing company.
if you come up with a useful idea while working on our products and decide to keep it for yourself rather than provide it, that would piss me off - it's my dime that you developed it with!
I understand, but I'm not so sure you can really say this reasonably.
Econ 101, folks...
I admit not having taken any official economics courses or anything, but is this really in econ 101?
and who is to say that our new robotic overlords wouldn't be sociopaths? They probably wouldn't have developed the same way that a child develops in human society. They would be totally alone if, like Skynet, it became self aware on it's own, and not aided by human teaching.
I am reminded of The Adolescence of P-1, a book I enjoyed reading (while i was young admittedly)
Although in the case of HGTTG, I think the radio show out-shines the movie
The what?;)
That said, I have to agree with GPP - It aged badly. When I go back to watch the episodes over, it's rare that I watch anything beyond the ship being reconstructed. It was still fun, but lacked a lot of the charm that the early episodes had.
Not a matter of aging imho. Something weird happened after season 6. I still deeply love seasons 1-6.
Let me guess, the submitter likes to enable all the useless bling effects on Compiz but never gets any work done, and has racing stripes on his Civic....
Well said. Also the rest of your post is spot on. I'm going for the 'ignorantsummary' tag myself.
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Kindof depends on how you read 'niche.' yes, there is a relatively small number of companies (customers) that have such requirements, but if each of them have a massive, massive number of servers, then i wouldn't call that niche any more, because it still represents a large turnover.
his company's inability to design a scalable architecture?
You don't know what facebook is, do you?
Oh, I see.
I would suggest that is a 'claimer' then ;-)
Disclaimer: I am a Linux user and I've contributed to open source Linux/Unix apps.
What are you disclaiming?
http://xkcd.com/138/
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Think about it: if you paid somebody to clean your house, and they worked on their sister's car while charging you for the time, wouldn't you be upset? There you are, paying (your dime) to have some gal's car (that you don't even know) fixed. Sound fair to you?
Of course he has to work for you in the time you pay him for it. I don't see why you're explaining this to me.
What I meant was that, once you pay him for it, he gets to do what he wants on his own time, on his own dime, even if that means starting a competing company.
if you come up with a useful idea while working on our products and decide to keep it for yourself rather than provide it, that would piss me off - it's my dime that you developed it with!
I understand, but I'm not so sure you can really say this reasonably.
Econ 101, folks...
I admit not having taken any official economics courses or anything, but is this really in econ 101?
I want you to work for me. I have no desire to pay you to start up a competing company - do that on your own dime like I did.
I don't get it. What you pay him is his own dime.
Nice one :)
and who is to say that our new robotic overlords wouldn't be sociopaths? They probably wouldn't have developed the same way that a child develops in human society. They would be totally alone if, like Skynet, it became self aware on it's own, and not aided by human teaching.
I am reminded of The Adolescence of P-1, a book I enjoyed reading (while i was young admittedly)
I'm a huge fan of red dwarf, so I somehow feel like I suddenly have the authority to post spelling/grammar corrections in this story.
death throws.
That's death throes. http://xkcd.com/386/
BTW I actually totally agree with you - I only watch seasons 7 and 8 out of loyalty. 1-6 still really rule hard.
Although in the case of HGTTG, I think the radio show out-shines the movie
The what? ;)
That said, I have to agree with GPP - It aged badly. When I go back to watch the episodes over, it's rare that I watch anything beyond the ship being reconstructed. It was still fun, but lacked a lot of the charm that the early episodes had.
Not a matter of aging imho. Something weird happened after season 6. I still deeply love seasons 1-6.
"...several huge, yellow slab-like somethings. Huge as office blocks, silent as birds. They hung in the air exactly the same way that bricks don't."
http://xkcd.com/386/ ;)
Let me guess, the submitter likes to enable all the useless bling effects on Compiz but never gets any work done, and has racing stripes on his Civic....
Well said. Also the rest of your post is spot on. I'm going for the 'ignorantsummary' tag myself.
"that's what she said?"
Hmm I guess I'm starting to get it.. ;)
Haha, you're asking to be pun-ished with that one.
I never quite got that one btw. Can someone explain it to me :)
Anyone else find it hilarious that XML processing is used in a performance benchmark nowadays?
I've always thought those things were bloated and slow, but I hadn't expected this :)
The parallel universes in which the LHC works without failure are already wiped out by the LHC
This is the.. unanthropological principle :) ?
you also have an annoying habit of making passive aggressive comments ;)
Speaking of redundancy.
Why are you repeating the GP's post to itself?
A nit: It turns out you don't know what AJAX is.
He does in the sense that actually matters, as opposed to what the J in AJAX stands for.
"It would be at best VERY difficult to know that some similar technique was not used on any given distribution."
here is an interesting counter:
http://www.dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/
"Ken Ritchie (IIRC it was he)" - haha that's funny :)
reminds me of this:
In The Know: Is The Government Spying On Paranoid Schizophrenics Enough?
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/in_the_know_is_the_government
This includes pages that don't actually hold anything at the moment, but remain part of the process' malloc heap due to internal heap fragmentation.
Only if they've been touched..
After being used and freed they are probably kept aruond, admittedly, yes.