Outsourcing the reading part doesn't buy you much. If this just did a crawl, it would be of very limited value. That's not what it does.
Wrong. If I want to spider a single web site, many sites have rate-limiters that kick in and will block me after a while. This would allow me to hit it from multiple machines.
There are some security limits, which might even work. Supposedly, all the Java apps can do is look at crawled pages and phone results home. Right.
Why the sarcasm? This seems like a perfect use case for the JVM's security mechanism.
There are more than 4 reasons.
5) You are lazy.
6) You are working a "day job" while pursuing your passion that you hope will one day pay the bills.
There are probably more than 6.
I've never lived anywhere that I could be in the house but not within ear-shot of/easy walk to my cell phone. Maybe you should consider getting a smaller house.:)
Dude. I write code for free. The salary is just so I'll sit through the meetings and deal with my coworkers.
If you don't love writing code so much that you want to do it when you get home, maybe you just shouldn't be writing code. Life is too short to do something you don't love for a living.
They already do. Originally it was mostly just PSA videos that would just be a single frame until you clicked "play". They must have just signed a pretty big deal with CBS because just today, I started seeing a bunch of ads for CBS shows, and the videos play on their own (you have to click to turn the sound on.)
I own a Chumby and an N800. I bought the N800 a few months after foolishly buying the Chumby. The difference is like night & day.
Chumby: No battery (WTF??) Freezes up needing a reboot every day or 2. Loses its network connection need a reboot about once a week. Only displays Flash widgets, and the annoying cross-domain restrictions severely limit the types of widgets you can build. For example, they include a Picasa photo viewer widget on the site, and all of the photos are being proxied through the developer's personal web site, because Chumby won't provide a proxy. Videos are either choppy or completely broken.
N800: Works over both Wifi and cell-phone/bluetooth. Battery lasts for hours of normal use, or days on standby. Can ssh into the thing even when it's on standby! Video quality is amazing. I mounted my home server's NFS share on the N800 and now have instant access to 1 TB of videos in the palm of my hand. Firefox with full AJAX support. Full Flash support in the browser. CPU is a bit slow. Large flash apps take over 1 min. to load, and it can't handle DVD-quality vids.
I love this little N800, and I picked it up for $200 -- $20 more than the chumby.
Come up with a funny-sounding name for a top 10 list with strong geek appeal.
Populate said list with 10 lame-ass items.
Break list into 2 pages and stick a banner ad at the top of each.
Submit page to Slashdot, because they'll post anything.
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Profit!
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I bought something from geeks.com a couple years ago and a couple months later got an e-mail from them to let me know that someone stole their database of credit card information and that my card was among the stolen data. Stay away from these guys.
I have a friend who's worked there for about 6 months and so far neither the pay nor the bonuses are anything special. It seems like the big draws are rather the chance to work with some really smart people, lots and lots of perks, and your company's name being a household word.
I've heard first-hand from Google employees that they spend their 1 day per week catching up on everything they're behind on from the other 4 days. Google doesn't enforce the 20% rule.
"Basically, the higher of a language you use, the less secure you can possibly be because of all of the implications of trusting trust. If you can't audit it, you can't trust it. End of discussion."
Good point, but not quite the end of discussion. The corollary to this is that the lower the level of the language you use, the less secure you are LIKELY to be because of the fewer number of checks in the platform that you aren't doing something stupid.
Sure they have, but that's because the JVM is written in C++.:) There will always be the possiblity of security holes in the JVM because of this, but those are just a few holes in _the JVM_ not thousands of holes in the endless Java applications written _on top of the JVM_. See the difference?
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Outsourcing the reading part doesn't buy you much. If this just did a crawl, it would be of very limited value. That's not what it does.
Wrong. If I want to spider a single web site, many sites have rate-limiters that kick in and will block me after a while. This would allow me to hit it from multiple machines.
There are some security limits, which might even work. Supposedly, all the Java apps can do is look at crawled pages and phone results home. Right.
Why the sarcasm? This seems like a perfect use case for the JVM's security mechanism.
N900 supports Flash. Pre doesn't.
There are more than 4 reasons. 5) You are lazy. 6) You are working a "day job" while pursuing your passion that you hope will one day pay the bills. There are probably more than 6.
I've never lived anywhere that I could be in the house but not within ear-shot of/easy walk to my cell phone. Maybe you should consider getting a smaller house. :)
Lots more info here: http://excavatrix.blogspot.com/
$ kill -9 -1
Yeah, it still sucks.
I see you've met my mother in law.
"Look, it's just did, did you ever go to a party and think, 'Would really anyone miss me if I weren't here?'"
"Huh. But still, your worst day with two women, pretty much better than any other day! Y'know what I mean?"
"Oh-oh, absolutely!"
"It's just, my part seemed to be over pretty quickly and then, and then there was a lot of waiting around."
"But you got to be with both of them, right?"
"Not-not really. Th-th-there was just Carol."
"Not the other one?"
"No, she kept kicking me away!"
"Yeah, you don't want that."
"No!"
"Well hey, at least you got to see a lot of stuff, right?"
"Oh a lot of stuff!"
"You got a little bored?"
"A little. Yeah. I made a snack."
"Yeah? What did ya have?"
"Just a sandwich. Turkey, a little mustard."
"Sounds good."
"It really was!"
People still buy computers bigger than laptops...? :)
That's easy. Just install PGP on Grandma's computer for her, have it sign all mails by default, and then reject any mails that aren't signed.
Jesus, how do you even get out of bed in the morning? :)
Dude. I write code for free. The salary is just so I'll sit through the meetings and deal with my coworkers.
If you don't love writing code so much that you want to do it when you get home, maybe you just shouldn't be writing code. Life is too short to do something you don't love for a living.
They already do. Originally it was mostly just PSA videos that would just be a single frame until you clicked "play". They must have just signed a pretty big deal with CBS because just today, I started seeing a bunch of ads for CBS shows, and the videos play on their own (you have to click to turn the sound on.)
I own a Chumby and an N800. I bought the N800 a few months after foolishly buying the Chumby. The difference is like night & day.
Chumby:
No battery (WTF??)
Freezes up needing a reboot every day or 2.
Loses its network connection need a reboot about once a week.
Only displays Flash widgets, and the annoying cross-domain restrictions severely limit the types of widgets you can build. For example, they include a Picasa photo viewer widget on the site, and all of the photos are being proxied through the developer's personal web site, because Chumby won't provide a proxy.
Videos are either choppy or completely broken.
N800:
Works over both Wifi and cell-phone/bluetooth.
Battery lasts for hours of normal use, or days on standby.
Can ssh into the thing even when it's on standby!
Video quality is amazing. I mounted my home server's NFS share on the N800 and now have instant access to 1 TB of videos in the palm of my hand.
Firefox with full AJAX support.
Full Flash support in the browser.
CPU is a bit slow. Large flash apps take over 1 min. to load, and it can't handle DVD-quality vids.
I love this little N800, and I picked it up for $200 -- $20 more than the chumby.
http://waitinginlinesucks.com/
I bought something from geeks.com a couple years ago and a couple months later got an e-mail from them to let me know that someone stole their database of credit card information and that my card was among the stolen data. Stay away from these guys.
I have a friend who's worked there for about 6 months and so far neither the pay nor the bonuses are anything special. It seems like the big draws are rather the chance to work with some really smart people, lots and lots of perks, and your company's name being a household word.
I've heard first-hand from Google employees that they spend their 1 day per week catching up on everything they're behind on from the other 4 days. Google doesn't enforce the 20% rule.
Amen brother.
Check out Canoo WebTest. This is my favorite tool for the kind of high-level functional testing you're talking about (assuming your app is a web app).
"Basically, the higher of a language you use, the less secure you can possibly be because of all of the implications of trusting trust. If you can't audit it, you can't trust it. End of discussion."
Good point, but not quite the end of discussion. The corollary to this is that the lower the level of the language you use, the less secure you are LIKELY to be because of the fewer number of checks in the platform that you aren't doing something stupid.
Sure they have, but that's because the JVM is written in C++. :) There will always be the possiblity of security holes in the JVM because of this, but those are just a few holes in _the JVM_ not thousands of holes in the endless Java applications written _on top of the JVM_. See the difference?
Just because you have a hard time keeping up with your workload doesn't change the fact that it's still ignorance.