I commend the Fedora project for sustaining and growing the popularity... of Arch Linux, Linux Mint, and Debian. Good community spirit, people!
I second that. I started using linux on PPC (Suse on a PowerMac G4) back in 2000. Then used RedHat at work, started using Fedora at home. Dependency hell was a nightmare, especially the upgrades from Fedora 1 to 2 then 3 !!!! Everything including X and drivers had to be reconfigured all over again. Switched to Debian just after Fedora 3, then to Ubuntu around 2007. Still use Ubuntu server every day.
I had to use RedHat at work in recent years and every time it is dependency hell all over again. Even with paid support we still had major pains with it. With Ubuntu I get 99%+ of the packages I need without having to recompile the world. I don't care for Unity since I use Ubuntu as a solid server system that has a large set of supported packages that all work together and are not many years obsolete (yes I look at you RedHat). For the little Linux UI needs I have I'm very happy with Lubuntu (runs very nicely on a 256MB RAM VM).
Unless you have a collection of older films and encourage the younger generation to watch them. Obviously only works within your own family, but it's a start.
That's called Netflix. They have lots of older films and even have Classics and Cult categories. There movies in the Classics start in 1914 all the way to 1993. I'm sure they have a lot more that are not in theses categories but they are making it harder to 'browse' in list mode these days.
I've personally switched jobs twice while under H1-B, getting something like 10%+ raise each time. The visa is transferable under 2 weeks for an extra fee, and transfers are not subjected to quotas. There is a theoretical limit of 6 years (3 years times 2) with H1-B but it definitely does not mean you have to be tied to any specific company. At least that's how it was for me 6 years ago. While a H1-B is tied to employment, you have 'reasonable time' to leave the country, or get an other job. I've seen someone out of a job on H1-B, stay in the area for a few months (reasonable time) and get an other job with the visa being transferred. All legal. Also note that after my first H1-B job, which was actually my first job out of college, I did get paid much above the legal base salary which was about $60k/y in 2001.
The real problem is when the employees that are on extended H1-B past the 6 years while waiting on a green card application. Because the extension is tied to the green card application and hence that company which is applying for you, this mean that you are literally stuck or have to leave the country.
Well you could with implicit line joining: def square(x):
print( 'DEBUG: x=%x' % x)
return x*x
Note that the print starts indented but since a parenthesis is opened the rest of the statement can continue anywhere on the next line. Until the closing parenthesis whitespace rules are ignored.
But really you should use the logging module and set log levels. Debuggers are good tools as well, but I usually rely on unit tests to track bugs (or rather, not have to track them down).
Same here. I use my Amex as much as possible and got return protection, damage protection and free extended warrantee to kick in more than once. In the past 3 years I got credited over $1000 back with very little hassle.
Well I would 'like' that if it only took $20 to magically have more space and the very same user experience. In practice, not so much. Most likely the new memory is a lot slower and the whole device experience will show, with complaints of 'why are my photo albums so slow now'? And why can't I just upgrade from 16GB, to 32GB and then 48GB seamlessly? Half the stuff disappeared when grandma replaced the old memory thing with the new, this sucks!!! I never have to deal with helping people fix technical issues on iDevices, with other things with more 'features', that means more complexity and me having to help fix them.
Seriously the masses treat their devices as appliances, my laundry machine has a color display and chime tunes (seriously). I don't bitch because I want new tunes on it. I don't pimp my car and, again the masses do not. There is a market for easily pimp-able cars, yet most people really do not care.
I don't want Blu-ray playback, if it means the OS has to conform with the required DRM hooks. Honestly I have not even used my DVD drive in over a year on my laptop.
We did that at my startup 10y ago. One of the founders setup a Yahoo messenger webcam to point to the rya key of a remote contractor. They later got acquired by Microsoft.
It takes a lot more american lagger to get drunk than if you drink a good belgian ale. It always pains me to see someone with a cart full of Bud/Coors light, you can get better for cheaper, or much much better for little more.
The worse I had was probably Apple (before the iPod got popular) where I waited for month, but I would have been a junior for the position at the time. I think it took just a few weeks overall with Google, but for a job title with high demand and few candidates (yes I was hired). As for Amazon... I got an offer under 24h from initial contact with the hiring manager (I turned it down and stayed where I was). On average I would say what I've had typically is technical phone screen within a week from the initial contact, first on site interview a week later, and second one the following week, with an offer days later. Easily under 1 month for the whole process.
My own experience is that if it is not happening quickly, then you are not the perfect fit and they would hire you only because they could not find anyone better matching their checklist. You are going to be much better off somewhere where they really want *you*. I've also had the opposite where they wanted me too much: the technical level of the interviewers is so low that I would have been an instant rockstar, but I did not want to be surrounded by mostly subpar coworkers (such places do not do well).
True story from when I started at Google, back in the good days years ago. It was on the last company wide ski trip, talking to an other employee.
- So where is you office on the campus, what is your closest cafe?
- It is Cafe Foo. (not real name)
- Oh I like cafe Foo, good food.
- NO! IT SUCKS! IT'S LOBSTER ALL THE TIME!!!
She was dead serious. Nobody's complaining about too much lobster or kobe beef these days.
They are 'space' savers, not 'weight' savers ? The spare tires are usually in the trunk where you want maximum storage while the 12V battery is under the hood, where things are crammed but most consumers would rather see that the space is fully used rather than seeing a lot of empty space where the engine lives.
The model S goes 265 miles with current battery technology, if you take the claim from the summary that goes to about 750 miles. You need a high end diesel car to get close to this kind of range.
Of course I do not expect a 800 miles electric car anytime soon. The cars will probably stay in the under 300 miles range while getting the prices down to a more affordable level ($30k range). The other big issue is charging. It probably takes 10m on average to fill a tank (my costco has long lines), but the infrastructure for an 'electric station' is much much cheaper than for gasoline (no underground tank, expensive permits, electricity get delivered 24/7, etc...) so there would be more charging stations around. Restaurants could start providing charging stations in their parking lot, some public parkings in SF have them, etc...
If you can charge 2h worth of driving in 10/20m then this even becomes a viable solution for long trips like from SF to LA. Not as convenient as Gasoline, I admit, but that's assuming gasoline will not go up to $10/gallon in the next 5 years (it is 1.67 euro/L in France, so $8.1/gallon today).
Overall: tripling battery capacity will probably allow for cheaper 200m+ range cars electric cars, maybe a wireless charging technology will allow you to recharge while you sit down at a starbucks without even pulling out a wire (don't mind the billing issue, that's easy), and you end up with something that is cheaper and easier to use than a gasoline car.
We should keep the overall efficiency of the fuel and the engine in mind. The traditional gazoline engines only have a 30%to 40% efficiency in the best case (40% to 50% for diesel), while electrical engines are usually over 90%. Add to that the electrical car can get energy back when breaking while it is pure loss for gasoline, and you have now an electrical car that has a longer range than a gasoline car.
Amongst other things he forgot to mention is battery life. First review I could find:
Since heat has a negative effect on battery life, the included 6-cell, 51Wh battery was simply not enough to accommodate a portable power-house like the Envy 15. It scored 1 hour 55 minutes in MobileMark 2007 tests. Meanwhile, similar systems like the MacBook Pro 15-inch and Dell XPS 16 delivered scores of 5 hours 30 minutes and 4 hours 20 minutes, respectively.
And the heat management does not seem to be on par with my experience with MacBookPro, also seem to explain the poor battery life:
The palm rests registered 89-92 degrees Fahrenheit and as high as 110 degrees in the base—while idling.
This is something that drove me to Python and then Django. Python might not be the best scripting language nowadays, though I still consider it one of the most productive languages from small to large size projects (as long as pure speed is not a hard requirement). Django is also probably not the most full featured web framework around but the documentation is rather good. And yes with examples. Usually the Python community also takes unittesting seriously and that also is a form of documentation and examples of how the original coder expected the classes/methods to be used.
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I commend the Fedora project for sustaining and growing the popularity... of Arch Linux, Linux Mint, and Debian. Good community spirit, people!
I second that. I started using linux on PPC (Suse on a PowerMac G4) back in 2000. Then used RedHat at work, started using Fedora at home. Dependency hell was a nightmare, especially the upgrades from Fedora 1 to 2 then 3 !!!! Everything including X and drivers had to be reconfigured all over again. Switched to Debian just after Fedora 3, then to Ubuntu around 2007. Still use Ubuntu server every day.
I had to use RedHat at work in recent years and every time it is dependency hell all over again. Even with paid support we still had major pains with it.
With Ubuntu I get 99%+ of the packages I need without having to recompile the world. I don't care for Unity since I use Ubuntu as a solid server system that has a large set of supported packages that all work together and are not many years obsolete (yes I look at you RedHat). For the little Linux UI needs I have I'm very happy with Lubuntu (runs very nicely on a 256MB RAM VM).
Unless you have a collection of older films and encourage the younger generation to watch them. Obviously only works within your own family, but it's a start.
That's called Netflix. They have lots of older films and even have Classics and Cult categories. There movies in the Classics start in 1914 all the way to 1993. I'm sure they have a lot more that are not in theses categories but they are making it harder to 'browse' in list mode these days.
I've personally switched jobs twice while under H1-B, getting something like 10%+ raise each time. The visa is transferable under 2 weeks for an extra fee, and transfers are not subjected to quotas. There is a theoretical limit of 6 years (3 years times 2) with H1-B but it definitely does not mean you have to be tied to any specific company. At least that's how it was for me 6 years ago. While a H1-B is tied to employment, you have 'reasonable time' to leave the country, or get an other job. I've seen someone out of a job on H1-B, stay in the area for a few months (reasonable time) and get an other job with the visa being transferred. All legal. Also note that after my first H1-B job, which was actually my first job out of college, I did get paid much above the legal base salary which was about $60k/y in 2001.
The real problem is when the employees that are on extended H1-B past the 6 years while waiting on a green card application. Because the extension is tied to the green card application and hence that company which is applying for you, this mean that you are literally stuck or have to leave the country.
Well you could with implicit line joining:
def square(x):
print(
'DEBUG: x=%x' % x)
return x*x
Note that the print starts indented but since a parenthesis is opened the rest of the statement can continue anywhere on the next line. Until the closing parenthesis whitespace rules are ignored.
http://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#implicit-line-joining
But really you should use the logging module and set log levels. Debuggers are good tools as well, but I usually rely on unit tests to track bugs (or rather, not have to track them down).
Same here. I use my Amex as much as possible and got return protection, damage protection and free extended warrantee to kick in more than once. In the past 3 years I got credited over $1000 back with very little hassle.
One example: Groovy code compiled with JDK 6 will throw exceptions when running in JRE 7. It is indeed a design flaw in Groovy, not in Java:
http://blog.proxerd.pl/article/how-to-fix-incompatibleclasschangeerror-for-your-groovy-projects-running-on-jdk7
Well I would 'like' that if it only took $20 to magically have more space and the very same user experience. In practice, not so much. Most likely the new memory is a lot slower and the whole device experience will show, with complaints of 'why are my photo albums so slow now'? And why can't I just upgrade from 16GB, to 32GB and then 48GB seamlessly? Half the stuff disappeared when grandma replaced the old memory thing with the new, this sucks!!! I never have to deal with helping people fix technical issues on iDevices, with other things with more 'features', that means more complexity and me having to help fix them.
Seriously the masses treat their devices as appliances, my laundry machine has a color display and chime tunes (seriously). I don't bitch because I want new tunes on it. I don't pimp my car and, again the masses do not. There is a market for easily pimp-able cars, yet most people really do not care.
I don't want Blu-ray playback, if it means the OS has to conform with the required DRM hooks. Honestly I have not even used my DVD drive in over a year on my laptop.
But that's not what the masses want, you're a nerd (admit it you're on slashdot) and what you want is a microscopic market niche. Steve was right.
Probably sold to someone else on the refurbish store: http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals/mac
shoe not show (damn autocorrect)
just put show on top of each wheel so that you are over the center, like an inline rollerblade.
We did that at my startup 10y ago. One of the founders setup a Yahoo messenger webcam to point to the rya key of a remote contractor.
They later got acquired by Microsoft.
It takes a lot more american lagger to get drunk than if you drink a good belgian ale. It always pains me to see someone with a cart full of Bud/Coors light, you can get better for cheaper, or much much better for little more.
The worse I had was probably Apple (before the iPod got popular) where I waited for month, but I would have been a junior for the position at the time. I think it took just a few weeks overall with Google, but for a job title with high demand and few candidates (yes I was hired). As for Amazon ... I got an offer under 24h from initial contact with the hiring manager (I turned it down and stayed where I was). On average I would say what I've had typically is technical phone screen within a week from the initial contact, first on site interview a week later, and second one the following week, with an offer days later. Easily under 1 month for the whole process.
My own experience is that if it is not happening quickly, then you are not the perfect fit and they would hire you only because they could not find anyone better matching their checklist. You are going to be much better off somewhere where they really want *you*. I've also had the opposite where they wanted me too much: the technical level of the interviewers is so low that I would have been an instant rockstar, but I did not want to be surrounded by mostly subpar coworkers (such places do not do well).
True story from when I started at Google, back in the good days years ago. It was on the last company wide ski trip, talking to an other employee.
- So where is you office on the campus, what is your closest cafe?
- It is Cafe Foo. (not real name)
- Oh I like cafe Foo, good food.
- NO! IT SUCKS! IT'S LOBSTER ALL THE TIME!!!
She was dead serious. Nobody's complaining about too much lobster or kobe beef these days.
http://img23.xooimage.com/files/5/5/5/johan_et_pirlouit_1-13aaf68.jpg
Quelle surprise!
They are 'space' savers, not 'weight' savers ? The spare tires are usually in the trunk where you want maximum storage while the 12V battery is under the hood, where things are crammed but most consumers would rather see that the space is fully used rather than seeing a lot of empty space where the engine lives.
The model S goes 265 miles with current battery technology, if you take the claim from the summary that goes to about 750 miles. You need a high end diesel car to get close to this kind of range.
Of course I do not expect a 800 miles electric car anytime soon. The cars will probably stay in the under 300 miles range while getting the prices down to a more affordable level ($30k range). The other big issue is charging. It probably takes 10m on average to fill a tank (my costco has long lines), but the infrastructure for an 'electric station' is much much cheaper than for gasoline (no underground tank, expensive permits, electricity get delivered 24/7, etc...) so there would be more charging stations around. Restaurants could start providing charging stations in their parking lot, some public parkings in SF have them, etc...
If you can charge 2h worth of driving in 10/20m then this even becomes a viable solution for long trips like from SF to LA. Not as convenient as Gasoline, I admit, but that's assuming gasoline will not go up to $10/gallon in the next 5 years (it is 1.67 euro/L in France, so $8.1/gallon today).
Overall: tripling battery capacity will probably allow for cheaper 200m+ range cars electric cars, maybe a wireless charging technology will allow you to recharge while you sit down at a starbucks without even pulling out a wire (don't mind the billing issue, that's easy), and you end up with something that is cheaper and easier to use than a gasoline car.
We should keep the overall efficiency of the fuel and the engine in mind. The traditional gazoline engines only have a 30%to 40% efficiency in the best case (40% to 50% for diesel), while electrical engines are usually over 90%. Add to that the electrical car can get energy back when breaking while it is pure loss for gasoline, and you have now an electrical car that has a longer range than a gasoline car.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brake_specific_fuel_consumption
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premium_efficiency
reference
When they kill and burry the project?
Amongst other things he forgot to mention is battery life. First review I could find:
Since heat has a negative effect on battery life, the included 6-cell, 51Wh battery was simply not enough to accommodate a portable power-house like the Envy 15. It scored 1 hour 55 minutes in MobileMark 2007 tests. Meanwhile, similar systems like the MacBook Pro 15-inch and Dell XPS 16 delivered scores of 5 hours 30 minutes and 4 hours 20 minutes, respectively.
And the heat management does not seem to be on par with my experience with MacBookPro, also seem to explain the poor battery life:
The palm rests registered 89-92 degrees Fahrenheit and as high as 110 degrees in the base—while idling.
This is something that drove me to Python and then Django. Python might not be the best scripting language nowadays, though I still consider it one of the most productive languages from small to large size projects (as long as pure speed is not a hard requirement). Django is also probably not the most full featured web framework around but the documentation is rather good. And yes with examples. Usually the Python community also takes unittesting seriously and that also is a form of documentation and examples of how the original coder expected the classes/methods to be used.