IANAAE, but I can't help thinking that a valve on the balloon would enable it to survive longer, siphoning off gas when the inner pressure gets too high. What other cheap improvements are available to these guys?
I've got a home Subversion server with separate repositories for documents, settings, contacts, and projects. Been like that for five years now, and it's remarkably stable and nice. For anything data intensive, there's Flickr, del.icio.us, Gmail, WordPress, etc., with a private backup just in case.
Having received my MSc in 2004, I'd say it's definitely worth it. Just watch it when getting a job afterward - There are places where you'd be doing the programming equivalent of unjamming printers (e.g., debugging business rule setups, running SQL queries that others created). Should probably note that I got the degree for almost no money (yay Norway), that I worked two years IT support at the university and loved it (university staff / students normally don't need help with jammed printers), and that I'm starting a PhD to get to the really interesting problems.
When we were taught about redundancy back in uni, the prof made a point out of knocking it into our heads that having a copy "somewhere" doesn't necessarily make a system redundant. If it's in the same room, a flood could take them out at the same time*, if it's in the same building, theft or fire can still get both, etc..
Since then I firmly believe a backup is only safe if an event that could take out both the original and the backup would be so devastating that the backup is the least of your problems.
* As they learned the hard way shortly afterward at the very same university, go figure
From what I've heard from the computation / scientific side of CERN, it seems that most of them are using Linux as their main OS. Unfortunately the official distribution (SLC 4) is stone age by now, but most of those I've talked to just use Ubuntu. I don't know of any official statistics on this though. The LHC grid is also AFAIK mainly on Linux.
If size and performance really do matter, I'd say take a long, hard look at the data model and trim it until it hurts. Once you've got it replicated, cached, checksummed, indexed, normalized, de-normalized and compressed in all the right places, then we can start talking about the efficiency of libraries that have been optimized for years, probably by some really smart people. That said, using the same library for every project should ring a bell with any competent programmer - Don't Repeat Yourself.
I've used Dvorak for some time now, and AFAIK these problems have been solved years ago. Old RDP clients had problems with "double conversion", but that was fixed last I checked, and Windows XP's password prompt is QWERTY when nobody is logged in, and the user's setting when logged in and locked. You can change the main layout for all users in the registry ("00000409" for Dvorak).
I think this is very language-dependent and human-dependent. My Perl codebases got completely unmaintainable as they grew, but with Python I haven't had any problems scaling to thousands of lines of code.
s/thousands/millions, and see where that gets you. At all of my three last jobs we had code bases in that range, from literally decades of development (hundreds to thousands of work years), and the code bases were surprisingly easy to navigate. I'm not saying it can't be done in Python, but I think it's much more human that language dependent.
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Weeell, it is the biggest cryogenic installation ever, the most complex machine ever built, the largest and most powerful particle accelerator ever, and they're pushing lots of data handling limits, such as network transfer speed, storage space and CPU cycles used. Now, what did I forget?
Try XForms. It's what web forms wanted to be when they grew up. Validation, direct editing of data, creates and removes form elements dynamically, abstract input types, and much more.
Yep, there are extremely few job ads (at least in Switzerland) for serious web developers (i.e., knows how to write valid, semantic markup with minimal, valid & cross-browser CSS and JavaScript, making the whole thing WCAG & Section 508 compliant while flexible). Most companies seem happy slapping together a few Flash nightmares or developing separate versions for each browser. 1995 called, it wants its bugs back!
We've got a similar situation in Switzerland - Positions are typically only available for people with at least a year (often 3, 5, or even 10 years) of proven work experience in the particular technology in use, while they don't care one bit if you've got five years experience in that general area, and have learned at least five similar technologies in that period.
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IANAAE, but I can't help thinking that a valve on the balloon would enable it to survive longer, siphoning off gas when the inner pressure gets too high. What other cheap improvements are available to these guys?
Like this: --- - That is, the stack of atoms (or whatever) is compressed in some areas, and sparse in others.
Triple boot of course: XP for the planning evil deeds, Vista for burning off power while idling, and ME for guest users.
Using salts with hashes obsoleted rainbow tables years ago (if you know what you're doing).
There, corrected it for you.
I've got a home Subversion server with separate repositories for documents, settings, contacts, and projects. Been like that for five years now, and it's remarkably stable and nice. For anything data intensive, there's Flickr, del.icio.us, Gmail, WordPress, etc., with a private backup just in case.
Having received my MSc in 2004, I'd say it's definitely worth it. Just watch it when getting a job afterward - There are places where you'd be doing the programming equivalent of unjamming printers (e.g., debugging business rule setups, running SQL queries that others created). Should probably note that I got the degree for almost no money (yay Norway), that I worked two years IT support at the university and loved it (university staff / students normally don't need help with jammed printers), and that I'm starting a PhD to get to the really interesting problems.
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I always found token count to be much more useful than SLOC. Many tokens = lots of thinking necessary to "get" what's going on.
When we were taught about redundancy back in uni, the prof made a point out of knocking it into our heads that having a copy "somewhere" doesn't necessarily make a system redundant. If it's in the same room, a flood could take them out at the same time*, if it's in the same building, theft or fire can still get both, etc..
Since then I firmly believe a backup is only safe if an event that could take out both the original and the backup would be so devastating that the backup is the least of your problems.
* As they learned the hard way shortly afterward at the very same university, go figure
From what I've heard from the computation / scientific side of CERN, it seems that most of them are using Linux as their main OS. Unfortunately the official distribution (SLC 4) is stone age by now, but most of those I've talked to just use Ubuntu. I don't know of any official statistics on this though. The LHC grid is also AFAIK mainly on Linux.
If size and performance really do matter, I'd say take a long, hard look at the data model and trim it until it hurts. Once you've got it replicated, cached, checksummed, indexed, normalized, de-normalized and compressed in all the right places, then we can start talking about the efficiency of libraries that have been optimized for years, probably by some really smart people. That said, using the same library for every project should ring a bell with any competent programmer - Don't Repeat Yourself.
I've used Dvorak for some time now, and AFAIK these problems have been solved years ago. Old RDP clients had problems with "double conversion", but that was fixed last I checked, and Windows XP's password prompt is QWERTY when nobody is logged in, and the user's setting when logged in and locked. You can change the main layout for all users in the registry ("00000409" for Dvorak).
Include the content instead of copying it. The content displayed to the user might not be compliant, but at least your web site will be.
What To Know Before Debating Type Systems. Interesting read.
I think this is very language-dependent and human-dependent. My Perl codebases got completely unmaintainable as they grew, but with Python I haven't had any problems scaling to thousands of lines of code.
s/thousands/millions, and see where that gets you. At all of my three last jobs we had code bases in that range, from literally decades of development (hundreds to thousands of work years), and the code bases were surprisingly easy to navigate. I'm not saying it can't be done in Python, but I think it's much more human that language dependent.
The kind of ads Google show are not the kind that annoy and distract. Image ad-blocking is no threat to them. Can AdBlock Plus even block the Google ads?
Weeell, it is the biggest cryogenic installation ever, the most complex machine ever built, the largest and most powerful particle accelerator ever, and they're pushing lots of data handling limits, such as network transfer speed, storage space and CPU cycles used. Now, what did I forget?
Try XForms. It's what web forms wanted to be when they grew up. Validation, direct editing of data, creates and removes form elements dynamically, abstract input types, and much more.
Yep, there are extremely few job ads (at least in Switzerland) for serious web developers (i.e., knows how to write valid, semantic markup with minimal, valid & cross-browser CSS and JavaScript, making the whole thing WCAG & Section 508 compliant while flexible). Most companies seem happy slapping together a few Flash nightmares or developing separate versions for each browser. 1995 called, it wants its bugs back!
We've got a similar situation in Switzerland - Positions are typically only available for people with at least a year (often 3, 5, or even 10 years) of proven work experience in the particular technology in use, while they don't care one bit if you've got five years experience in that general area, and have learned at least five similar technologies in that period.
Even IE6 does with the Adobe plugin.
Paul Graham has an interesting take on (among other things) parents' illusions about their children: Lies We Tell Kids
Now we just adapt it to use Martian soil for building material and sunlight for energy, and ship it off.
and an XHTML-to-HTML XSLT file.
Soap: Oh you assume do ya? And what do they say about assumption being the other of all fuck-ups?
Tom: It's the mother of all fuck-ups, stupid...