It is false to say there is a technology problem. It's more of a political problem. Indeed with simply changes (proper insulation, solar water heater switch in summer, requiring new buildings have south facing windows), we could get dramatic energy savings.
Yet alcohol is a risk factor for developing cancer of the throat, mouth, and basically the rest of the digestive tract. The anti-oxidants in wine are also readily available (without risk-factor alcohol) in the form of grape juice or grapes.
The Ubuntu LTS releases are actually pretty good. Of course it is just a re-presentation of all the work that goes into the Debian project. I don't like where Ubuntu is going with default Window managers. Ubuntu is what got me off of olvwm/enlightenment and onto Gnome 2. Now I use xfce under Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and it's perfectly acceptable, and no intrusive Amazon search.
Alexmarchant cites a NYT article in which the author wrote: "According to one specialist, the Web site contains about 500 million lines of software code. By comparison, a large bank’s computer system is typically about one-fifth that size."
I, for one, find this claim difficult to believe, especially when the actual source cited is "one specialist" who remains nameless.
The US spends more on education per pupil then just about any other country in the world and we have shit results from it. Until the educational/unionization/bureaucratic complex is dealt with, more money wont make any difference in our schools.
*Citation required*
I would argue the reverse. The US spends vastly different amounts of money per pupil depending on the community that they live in. Where I grew up, the property values were prohibitively high as well as the taxes. As a result, I was privileged to attend great public schools. http://www.greatschools.org/connecticut/easton/ 15 miles away in the Bridgeport, CT are some of the worst schools. http://www.greatschools.org/connecticut/bridgeport/
You appear to hate unions, but not lack of funding. The greatest programmer alive grew up in the "educational socialism" that is europe and seems to agree that educational quality in the US is a regional thing instead of a national thing https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/J1NCgKQi55X
I drink about a can of soda a week. Usually Stevia sweetened cola or root beer. Why would I want a 2L bottle? It would either encourage me to drink more soda (before it goes flat) or go to waste.
A better solution would just be a sugary drink tax and that tax could go directly towards subsidizing fruits and vegetables:)
if Martin had not attacked Zimmerman, Martin would quite likely still be alive today. The correct response when someone is following you is not to attack them, it is to put distance between the person following and yourself. Martin was a violent person and he paid the price for his violent behavior.
We don't know this, but it is a possile plausible chronology. What we do know is Trayvon yelled "Why you following me" and then his phone hit the ground and a bump could be heard on the line. My "suspicion" is that Zimmerman attempted to tackle him at that point. TM was not trained in martial arts (as was GZ) and was lighter, younger, and less experienced. GZ had a history of fighting and even assaulted a police officer.
But TM had an advantage, he was terrified. I think that TM was able to get GZ off of him and pin him to the ground. GZ responded with escalation of force.
Again, that's my suspicion. It could be TM would randomly attack people who were following him, but I think that's less plausible.
The police were supposed to test Zimmerman for intoxication. They did not.
A self-appointed adult vigilante is wandering around outside late at night carrying a firearm and ends up killing an unarmed teenager, and the police abridge due process.
Skimming 3 paragraphs shows 3 sites in the US and I'm sure proper research would turn up a lot more. There is a movie about this (arguably propaganda) called Gasland that I have yet to watch. Considering potable water is a necessary resource, and natural gas is not necessary (although it is important). I am very very wary of the proposition of risking one for another.
To be fair the Joker may have been belligerent and annoying. I don't like it when people talk during lectures either. It makes it hard to pay attention. To make it worse they were telling off-color, extra-annoying jokes. There's nothing necessarily sexist or anti-woman about making a dongle joke, but it certainly can make women (or men) feel uncomfortable. It very well may create less friendly environment to some women. That being said, the photograph/tweet response was not terribly appropriate. Neither is she to blame for the consequent firing of photographed employees (except maybe getting herself fired)
Her response could have been to turn around and nicely (or angrily) ask them to be quiet or leave. I don't agree with her approach to solving the problem, but I do not think it is her fault that one of the guys got fired. Perhaps he was otherwise incompetent or was always making stupid jokes that pissed everyone off? Perhaps the guys employer overreacted badly to this incident and then that is really unfortunate. In which case I guess she would share some of the blame with the employer.
So hopefully a good python dev can get a new job. I'm not sure what a technology evangelist does, but I hope she uses better judgement at dealing with similar situations in the future. This sucks. Whenever I go to a tech conference, I get very excited and inpsired by all the good work being done by other people. I will continue to attend conferences for sure and hope they can be a welcoming place for everyone.... even n00bs.
I agree with you completely. I really feel like newer Gnome was a major step back (at least for my usability there may be other valid arguments for Gnome 3). Sigh.
I use both OSX (only very recently) and Linux desktops and always felt that the Gnome 2.0 desktop (abandoned by Ubuntu, but still the default for Debian stable for the moment), was the best desktop ever. It was the Ubuntu 8.04 LTS desktop that got be to "betray" my simple and straightforward olvwm solution and now I don't want to switch back to olvwm.
So I'm using LXDE on my Ubuntu desktop (only because I don't want to reinstall with Debian stable). It is OK. I like it more than OSX GUI, but not more than Gnome 2.0. I run OSX on my MacBookAir, but mostly I spend my time in a Debian VM which uses Gnome 2.0. Honestly having only just started using MACs really, and am not part of the group that abandoned Linux in the early 2000's. But Gnome 3.0 etc to me feel like a nudge away from Linux. The wonderful thing about Linux desktops though is the diversity of options, so if you don't like desktop X, you can use desktop Y or dekstop Z.
So OSX might be OK. I still like gnome-terminal and lxterm more than OSX terminal program. And left click should mark stuff, middle mousebutton (or chordmiddle) should paste!
Honestly, when using Ubuntu, unless you are willing to troubleshoot problems, you should stick with the LTS releases only. I run the interim releases in VMs, but never on production systems.
I can't speak for Gnome 3 on Fedora, because I have not tried it yet. My strategy (with Ubuntu) has been to use olvwm or LXDE. I really did like Gnome 2 though, but other WMs are fine, and to me they are more easy-to-use than Gnome 3.
First off, I love Perl, but I hate it too. All of my backend code used to be Perl, but I long since abandoned it for Ruby. Now when I have to use Perl, it's usually called from a Ruby script and I real the Perl output into Ruby through JSON.
As far as performance is concerned, i think Python is really a top contender with native thread support, but generally for sysadmin stuff, you don't always need a high-performance solution. For something that is easy-to-write, and easy-to-manage, and almost more importantly easy-to-read-the-code-2-months-later, Ruby is great. I have nothing bad to say about Perl, but there are clearly some advantages (when using objects especially) to Ruby and Python. The Perl community (perlmonks.org) is the best programming community I've ever come across. The only reason I even switched to Ruby was because I believed that Parrot would bring a convergence and interoperabilty between Perl 6, Ruby and Python.
If Perl becomes less relevant in the future it would make me sad.
What about ARM? I know amd64 really is the dominant architecture today, but there are lot of really nice 4 watt systems (like Trim Slice/chromebook running Debian/etc) which could replace the x86/amd64 desktop.
Thats true, but if you have to be at work every day, then your only alternative would be to own 2 cars: 1 for good days and 1 for snowy days. Also there is a risk of unpredicted snow (being stuck at work because your SmartCar cannot be driven on unplowed roads). I'm still going with a car that can be both fuel efficient and good in snow.
I drive a VW TDI with low-ground clearance front-wheel drive and 4 studded winter tires. I'm not in Ontario, but I can get around pretty well on unplowed roads here in snowy New England (often better than people with 4wd and all season tires). I admit being higher off the ground would be an advantage (I have a small shovel in the trunk for the rare occasions when I get stuck), but 40+ MPG is an advantage too.
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hydro, geothermal, wave, leaf (and other biomass) gassification, biogas, biodiesel (not ethanol)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_energy
It is false to say there is a technology problem. It's more of a political problem. Indeed with simply changes (proper insulation, solar water heater switch in summer, requiring new buildings have south facing windows), we could get dramatic energy savings.
Those who the most powerful economic interests in the world do not benefit from deterring from business as usual oil, coal and natural gas.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/21/1249269/-For-the-Koch-brothers-possible-100-billion-in-tar-sands-profit-if-Keystone-XL-pipeline-is-approved#
Yet alcohol is a risk factor for developing cancer of the throat, mouth, and basically the rest of the digestive tract. The anti-oxidants in wine are also readily available (without risk-factor alcohol) in the form of grape juice or grapes.
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/alcohol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_and_cancer (3.6% of cancer cases and 3.5% of cancers deaths are attributed to alcohol)
Research into a healthier alternative (maybe added to a high anti-oxidant blueberry juice) is certainly worthwhile.
I'd rather have my expensive car crumple and be beyond repair than get whiplash and have my irreplacable spine get damaged.
Just saying...
The Ubuntu LTS releases are actually pretty good. Of course it is just a re-presentation of all the work that goes into the Debian project. I don't like where Ubuntu is going with default Window managers. Ubuntu is what got me off of olvwm/enlightenment and onto Gnome 2. Now I use xfce under Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and it's perfectly acceptable, and no intrusive Amazon search.
There are more lines of code in Healthcare.gov (500m!) than Google Chrome, the Linux kernel, XP, Facebook, Mac OS, and the Debian 5 packages combined:
http://www.alexmarchant.com/blog/2013/10/22/healthcare-dot-gov-lines-of-code-comparison.html
Alexmarchant cites a NYT article in which the author wrote:
"According to one specialist, the Web site contains about 500 million lines of software code. By comparison, a large bank’s computer system is typically about one-fifth that size."
I, for one, find this claim difficult to believe, especially when the actual source cited is "one specialist" who remains nameless.
Thanks, I checked out the study mentioned in that article and for the life of me in the 404 pages, I could not find anything that compared educational spending by country in its contents. http://www.oecd.org/edu/eag2013%20(eng)--FINAL%2020%20June%202013.pdf
However I did find this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_spending_on_education_(%25_of_GDP) which certainly does not put us at the top of education spenders.
The US spends more on education per pupil then just about any other country in the world and we have shit results from it. Until the educational/unionization/bureaucratic complex is dealt with, more money wont make any difference in our schools.
*Citation required*
I would argue the reverse. The US spends vastly different amounts of money per pupil depending on the community that they live in. Where I grew up, the property values were prohibitively high as well as the taxes. As a result, I was privileged to attend great public schools. http://www.greatschools.org/connecticut/easton/ 15 miles away in the Bridgeport, CT are some of the worst schools. http://www.greatschools.org/connecticut/bridgeport/
You appear to hate unions, but not lack of funding. The greatest programmer alive grew up in the "educational socialism" that is europe and seems to agree that educational quality in the US is a regional thing instead of a national thing https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/J1NCgKQi55X
I drink about a can of soda a week. Usually Stevia sweetened cola or root beer. Why would I want a 2L bottle? It would either encourage me to drink more soda (before it goes flat) or go to waste.
A better solution would just be a sugary drink tax and that tax could go directly towards subsidizing fruits and vegetables :)
if Martin had not attacked Zimmerman, Martin would quite likely still be alive today.
The correct response when someone is following you is not to attack them, it is to
put distance between the person following and yourself. Martin was a violent person
and he paid the price for his violent behavior.
We don't know this, but it is a possile plausible chronology. What we do know is Trayvon yelled "Why you following me" and then his phone hit the ground and a bump could be heard on the line. My "suspicion" is that Zimmerman attempted to tackle him at that point. TM was not trained in martial arts (as was GZ) and was lighter, younger, and less experienced. GZ had a history of fighting and even assaulted a police officer.
But TM had an advantage, he was terrified. I think that TM was able to get GZ off of him and pin him to the ground. GZ responded with escalation of force.
Again, that's my suspicion. It could be TM would randomly attack people who were following him, but I think that's less plausible.
The police were supposed to test Zimmerman for intoxication. They did not.
A self-appointed adult vigilante is wandering around outside late at night carrying a firearm and ends up killing an unarmed teenager, and the police abridge due process.
1 site contaminated? really? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_hydraulic_fracturing#Groundwater_contamination
Skimming 3 paragraphs shows 3 sites in the US and I'm sure proper research would turn up a lot more. There is a movie about this (arguably propaganda) called Gasland that I have yet to watch. Considering potable water is a necessary resource, and natural gas is not necessary (although it is important). I am very very wary of the proposition of risking one for another.
Noo it's "Star Trek into Darkness" (note the capitalization) http://xkcd.com/1167/
To be fair the Joker may have been belligerent and annoying. I don't like it when people talk during lectures either. It makes it hard to pay attention. To make it worse they were telling off-color, extra-annoying jokes. There's nothing necessarily sexist or anti-woman about making a dongle joke, but it certainly can make women (or men) feel uncomfortable. It very well may create less friendly environment to some women. That being said, the photograph/tweet response was not terribly appropriate. Neither is she to blame for the consequent firing of photographed employees (except maybe getting herself fired)
Her response could have been to turn around and nicely (or angrily) ask them to be quiet or leave. I don't agree with her approach to solving the problem, but I do not think it is her fault that one of the guys got fired. Perhaps he was otherwise incompetent or was always making stupid jokes that pissed everyone off? Perhaps the guys employer overreacted badly to this incident and then that is really unfortunate. In which case I guess she would share some of the blame with the employer.
So hopefully a good python dev can get a new job. I'm not sure what a technology evangelist does, but I hope she uses better judgement at dealing with similar situations in the future. This sucks. Whenever I go to a tech conference, I get very excited and inpsired by all the good work being done by other people. I will continue to attend conferences for sure and hope they can be a welcoming place for everyone.... even n00bs.
As does abiliy to spell things correctly or write coherently.
Thank you. All Language should have ( ) and && || ||'s. :-D
Thanks I'll check those out. fink works pretty well http://fink.thetis.ig42.org/ . Have not tried homebrew or macports.
I would use OSX a lot more if I could license it (legally giving my money to Apple) to run in a VM on my PC!
I agree with you completely. I really feel like newer Gnome was a major step back (at least for my usability there may be other valid arguments for Gnome 3). Sigh.
I use both OSX (only very recently) and Linux desktops and always felt that the Gnome 2.0 desktop (abandoned by Ubuntu, but still the default for Debian stable for the moment), was the best desktop ever. It was the Ubuntu 8.04 LTS desktop that got be to "betray" my simple and straightforward olvwm solution and now I don't want to switch back to olvwm.
So I'm using LXDE on my Ubuntu desktop (only because I don't want to reinstall with Debian stable). It is OK. I like it more than OSX GUI, but not more than Gnome 2.0. I run OSX on my MacBookAir, but mostly I spend my time in a Debian VM which uses Gnome 2.0. Honestly having only just started using MACs really, and am not part of the group that abandoned Linux in the early 2000's. But Gnome 3.0 etc to me feel like a nudge away from Linux. The wonderful thing about Linux desktops though is the diversity of options, so if you don't like desktop X, you can use desktop Y or dekstop Z.
Hmm while writing this I just did a web search for virtual desktops in OSX (the major feature I miss from Linux when I'm on my macbook air)
http://osxdaily.com/2010/02/01/virtual-desktops-in-mac-os-x/
So OSX might be OK. I still like gnome-terminal and lxterm more than OSX terminal program. And left click should mark stuff, middle mousebutton (or chordmiddle) should paste!
For me the only extension that makes Windows usable at all is cygwin (but I haven't used Windows 8)
Honestly, when using Ubuntu, unless you are willing to troubleshoot problems, you should stick with the LTS releases only. I run the interim releases in VMs, but never on production systems.
I can't speak for Gnome 3 on Fedora, because I have not tried it yet. My strategy (with Ubuntu) has been to use olvwm or LXDE. I really did like Gnome 2 though, but other WMs are fine, and to me they are more easy-to-use than Gnome 3.
First off, I love Perl, but I hate it too. All of my backend code used to be Perl, but I long since abandoned it for Ruby. Now when I have to use Perl, it's usually called from a Ruby script and I real the Perl output into Ruby through JSON.
As far as performance is concerned, i think Python is really a top contender with native thread support, but generally for sysadmin stuff, you don't always need a high-performance solution. For something that is easy-to-write, and easy-to-manage, and almost more importantly easy-to-read-the-code-2-months-later, Ruby is great. I have nothing bad to say about Perl, but there are clearly some advantages (when using objects especially) to Ruby and Python. The Perl community (perlmonks.org) is the best programming community I've ever come across. The only reason I even switched to Ruby was because I believed that Parrot would bring a convergence and interoperabilty between Perl 6, Ruby and Python.
If Perl becomes less relevant in the future it would make me sad.
Am I wrong thinking that this is not dramatically faster than Titan (27 TF peak)
http://www.top500.org/system/177975
The specifications in the doc are interesting nonetheless!
What about ARM? I know amd64 really is the dominant architecture today, but there are lot of really nice 4 watt systems (like Trim Slice/chromebook running Debian/etc) which could replace the x86/amd64 desktop.
Thats true, but if you have to be at work every day, then your only alternative would be to own 2 cars: 1 for good days and 1 for snowy days. Also there is a risk of unpredicted snow (being stuck at work because your SmartCar cannot be driven on unplowed roads). I'm still going with a car that can be both fuel efficient and good in snow.
I drive a VW TDI with low-ground clearance front-wheel drive and 4 studded winter tires. I'm not in Ontario, but I can get around pretty well on unplowed roads here in snowy New England (often better than people with 4wd and all season tires). I admit being higher off the ground would be an advantage (I have a small shovel in the trunk for the rare occasions when I get stuck), but 40+ MPG is an advantage too.