we are all sloppy and careless, because we can get away with it
If you're not micromanaging those factors (memory allocation, bounds checking, type checking) yourself, it means your concerns have evolved to a level above them.
That's the whole point of abstraction.
I am writing this as a programmer who is reasonably comfortable with the following levels:
VHDL
Assembler
Macro assembler
Compiler
Parser/lexer generator
Interpreter/VHLL (gc)
Declaration/expression language
... English language requirements(?)
The interplay of these levels is interesting: A grammar as used in a compiler can be expressed in a declarative language, as can code transformation rules; etc.
It strikes me that the definition is probably recursive, as data itself is perhaps the highest level of all - it is self-descriptive (programs being data, of course). So all programs and data can be positioned in the hierarchy and can be refactored accordingly. In other words, an example of data or program can have a particular semantic meaning in one level (e.g. machine code), but can be re-expressed (usually more concisely) in a higher level, more expressive form.
Wow, I'm rambling, it's late.
mod parent UP - Quiet Earth is an incredible movie
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He coined a name for the hypothesis, but since I gave my copy away I can't look it up. This page calls it a "developmental window". Fiasco is intensely enjoyable, thought-provoking, and arguably deeply condemnatory of human nature.
There's all kinds of ways Microsoft is known to influence deals like this (especially high profile deals). No sane person would want their bank, Navy, doctor, hospital, airliner, public transport running Windows anywhere: But throw enough money under the table and suddenly really bad ideas look really attractive to decision makers. Little else can explain these Microsoft deployments.
How about credit where it's due. Could you design a system to handle the entire FAA flight plan traffic that would run for 20 years? A lot of lives depend on what you come up with.
If I had eyes sharp enough I'd have noticed your initials on the post, instead of telling you something you already knew. Thanks for the clarification, and it's good to know that you're still involved in Falcon.:)
Monty's been working on the interesting "Maria" transactional engine (evolved from, and compatible with MyISAM), which is slated to become MySQL's future default engine.
Since they recently made a feature-complete ("no known bugs"!) release of Maria, I'm tempted to think that was his personal deadline to quit.
I like Sun. I'm sad that they have lost these two brilliant database engineers, and I hope they go on and kick Oracle's (and that other company's) butt anyway.
But note that shrinking pools is not yet supported. It's almost the #1 wishlist item though, so it shouldn't be too long coming.
While ZFS can be RAM hungry, the 8GB suggested by another poster is probably exaggerated, depending on your workload. A light ZFS workload runs fine on a 2GB box (which is what I run it on). 64-bit architecture is recommended for best performance.
A 9/11-style attack that can be blamed on "foreigners" does not threaten them at all; in fact it strengthens their position as they can spin it into public fear. "We're tough, we'll protect you from the terrorists." A full-scale foreign invasion would not threaten them either.
What the government is terrified of is an angry public finally figuring out what's going on. That's the only thing that can bring them down.
They need to crush dissent, silence protest, and neutralise those sectors of society who criticise and may undermine them. (Honest journalists are high on the list. Independent thinkers. Students. "Anarchists." Liberals.)
This is exactly how they do it: by intimidation. The excessive force is a measure of how scared those in power are. In history the tyrannical personality is insecure and paranoid: Stalin is a classic example. This was what brought Nixon down: An obsession with his detractors and paranoia that led him to compulsively and indiscriminately spy on critics, journalists, political opponents. Kissinger was no better.
And they have real reason to be afraid - as they have broken many laws and violated the Constitution, ethics, morality, and public trust in innumerable ways. The "accountability moment" has not passed: it has yet to arrive, but your tyrants will do anything to avoid it.
Watch Naomi Wolf explain how the US is precisely following the historical totalitarian blueprint - what is happening in St Paul is part of it.
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Bill Parish described it in detail.
we are all sloppy and careless, because we can get away with it
If you're not micromanaging those factors (memory allocation, bounds checking, type checking) yourself, it means your concerns have evolved to a level above them.
That's the whole point of abstraction.
I am writing this as a programmer who is reasonably comfortable with the following levels:
The interplay of these levels is interesting: A grammar as used in a compiler can be expressed in a declarative language, as can code transformation rules; etc.
It strikes me that the definition is probably recursive, as data itself is perhaps the highest level of all - it is self-descriptive (programs being data, of course). So all programs and data can be positioned in the hierarchy and can be refactored accordingly. In other words, an example of data or program can have a particular semantic meaning in one level (e.g. machine code), but can be re-expressed (usually more concisely) in a higher level, more expressive form.
Wow, I'm rambling, it's late.
and true classic. I miss Bruno Lawrence.
After all, it's a big day tomorrow! (World ending, and all.)
He coined a name for the hypothesis, but since I gave my copy away I can't look it up. This page calls it a "developmental window". Fiasco is intensely enjoyable, thought-provoking, and arguably deeply condemnatory of human nature.
Don't you think hookers of the world are entitled to just one night off before the world ends?
Besides, plenty of wives and girlfriends would like one good bonk before then as well...
Microsoft is the posterchild; they even break the law to get those advantages.
There's all kinds of ways Microsoft is known to influence deals like this (especially high profile deals). No sane person would want their bank, Navy, doctor, hospital, airliner, public transport running Windows anywhere: But throw enough money under the table and suddenly really bad ideas look really attractive to decision makers. Little else can explain these Microsoft deployments.
Windows is just consumer junk, and not even very good consumer junk.
Kickbacks are almost certainly at work in a deployment like this.
n/t
Picking Windows is a really bad way to start out.
Your aunt probably runs it, but is it really enterprise ready?
...and then you call it "POS"?
How about credit where it's due. Could you design a system to handle the entire FAA flight plan traffic that would run for 20 years? A lot of lives depend on what you come up with.
Awesome. If only more people thought like you. :)
Her scandalous record on the environment alone should perpetually disqualify her from government.
If I had eyes sharp enough I'd have noticed your initials on the post, instead of telling you something you already knew. Thanks for the clarification, and it's good to know that you're still involved in Falcon. :)
There were one or two terrible, low res pictures of doors in the results. The rest were porn.
I am *so* going back to AltaVista! Thanks for the tip!
I've been there once. The tour docent was fairly knowledgeable too.
I just hope they're concentrating on the old stuff more than Web 1.0.
It's worth mentioning that Jim Starkey (inventor of MVCC, etc) also quit recently. (He joined MySQL in 2006 to work on Falcon.)
So Sun has lost more database genius in 2008 than most companies ever had. :(
She doesn't get out of bed for less than $2 million.
That's fine if it's your bed, I guess...
For those curious, like I was, here are the original Google server pictures missing from the Wayback Machine's archive.
Monty's been working on the interesting "Maria" transactional engine (evolved from, and compatible with MyISAM), which is slated to become MySQL's future default engine.
Since they recently made a feature-complete ("no known bugs"!) release of Maria, I'm tempted to think that was his personal deadline to quit.
Josh Berkus (core PostgreSQL developer) also recently quit Sun.
I like Sun. I'm sad that they have lost these two brilliant database engineers, and I hope they go on and kick Oracle's (and that other company's) butt anyway.
But note that shrinking pools is not yet supported. It's almost the #1 wishlist item though, so it shouldn't be too long coming.
While ZFS can be RAM hungry, the 8GB suggested by another poster is probably exaggerated, depending on your workload. A light ZFS workload runs fine on a 2GB box (which is what I run it on). 64-bit architecture is recommended for best performance.
More info at the OpenSolaris ZFS Community.
Groklaw has more on this.
The #1 threat to the government is YOU.
A 9/11-style attack that can be blamed on "foreigners" does not threaten them at all; in fact it strengthens their position as they can spin it into public fear. "We're tough, we'll protect you from the terrorists." A full-scale foreign invasion would not threaten them either.
What the government is terrified of is an angry public finally figuring out what's going on. That's the only thing that can bring them down.
They need to crush dissent, silence protest, and neutralise those sectors of society who criticise and may undermine them. (Honest journalists are high on the list. Independent thinkers. Students. "Anarchists." Liberals.)
This is exactly how they do it: by intimidation. The excessive force is a measure of how scared those in power are. In history the tyrannical personality is insecure and paranoid: Stalin is a classic example. This was what brought Nixon down: An obsession with his detractors and paranoia that led him to compulsively and indiscriminately spy on critics, journalists, political opponents. Kissinger was no better.
And they have real reason to be afraid - as they have broken many laws and violated the Constitution, ethics, morality, and public trust in innumerable ways. The "accountability moment" has not passed: it has yet to arrive, but your tyrants will do anything to avoid it.
Watch Naomi Wolf explain how the US is precisely following the historical totalitarian blueprint - what is happening in St Paul is part of it.
BUNAC offers a range of working holidays including a summer camp counselling programme in the USA and Canada, flexible work and travel programmes to Canada, the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Britain and South Africa and volunteering/teaching placements. These are open to 18 year olds and over in the UK, the USA and Ireland. Programmes last from five weeks to two years.