Its pretty damn easy to find charities, jobs, etc. if you are willing and really, really need it.
Have you ever actually lived on the streets? I haven't, but I've spoken to people who have. From what I've heard, losing your permanent address is like a one-way ticket out of society. Good luck trying to apply for a job, get benefits, or have anyone take you seriously for anything if you don't have one.
Our currency is the same thing that all currency has been over the ages. A belief that others will accept a certain physical good in return for other goods or services. Whether that physical good is paper, shiny metal, or wampum shells is immaterial. Currency is belief.
You do not have the guaranteed right to rebel. What you do have is the right to bear arms. Saying that gives you the right to rebel is like me saying that my right to carry a hammer includes the right to hit you over the head with it.
Besides, the federal government proved in 1861 that it will go to any and all lengths necessary to prevent citizens or territories from seceding. Your right to rebel doesn't exist either in theory or in practice.
All of this begs the question. The real question is why we use a technology that is so sensitive to bad schema design? Why use a technology that has such a high baseline overhead? Why use a technology that is so tedious? Why use a technology that is so hard to test?
Those statements could be applied to any technology that's being used inappropriately. Why are our programs so sensitive to bad algorithm design?
because on every application I have ever worked on, the Database has always been the performance bottleneck.
That means you need to fire your DBA and hire one that actually knows how to structure tables for performance.
Testing of DB applications is always a problem, because the running of tests generally changes the database, rendering tests unrepeatable without reseting the database.
And how is that different from testing any sort of application that has a persistent state?
Configuring applications to use this database or that database also ends up being a problem for most applications.
Really? What sort of libraries are you using? Every framework and DB library I've used has had a priority towards making it very easy to connect to a database. Usually, if you're only connecting to a single database, all you need to do is write your connection string in the appropriate file, and you're set. The only time you need to change that is when you're deploying your application from development to test, and from test to production.
Why is it that we continue to use a technology based on a 1960's view of a problem when clearly there ARE other solutions and ways to approach said problem?
Why do we use quicksort when there are other approaches to sorting?
That's true, but you have to look at it from the perspective of these companies as well. For them a sum of $475,000 is quite a lot. This may be one of those small government investments that changes the world (like the activities of DARPA, for example).
Google, for all its reputation and power in the tech. world, actually doesn't have that much pull with Congress. If they were as good at lobbying as they were at search, Net Neutrality wouldn't even be up for debate.
I would also add that I hope you don't get too discouraged by the mistakes you make (and you will make many if I'm interpreting your situation correctly). Relatedly, I hope that the VPs pushing this responsibility on you realize that you don't have any experience at this and will tolerate the mistakes you make.
Good luck. I've been in your shoes, and I quit that job because I wasn't ready for the pressure. Hopefully you're made of sterner stuff.
I see. I guess that's not the accepted definition of "compiling", though. That's more like "integration" in my experience. If that is what the grandparent is posting about, then it is valuable programming experience. Its easy to write code when you're the only person who has to read and work with said code. Its considerably more difficult to write code that's understandable by other people.
Wait, you didn't get to compile you own code? Then how did you learn from your mistakes? Moreover, how did this experience prepare you for programming on anything besides a circa 1970 mainframe environment?
In my experience, the best way to learn programming is to experience your mistakes. If someone else is responsible for compiling your code you're not being exposed to your mistakes, hamstringing your ability to learn.
Depends on the platform. I haven't had any problems with 32-bit Flash on Windows. Flash on 64-bit Windows has crashed a couple of times. Flash on 64-bit Linux? Forget it. Between the fact that there is no official 64-bit Flash build for Linux and nspluginwrapper's issues, Flash on 64-bit Linux crashes about half the time.
You're not understanding. "Innocent until proven Guilty," implies that its the prosecutor's job to prove that Mr. Prasad actually stole the voting machine. He or she can do this via direct evidence (showing video footage or securing eyewitness testimony) or via circumstantial evidence (fingerprints and the like). The one thing he or she cannot do is just say, "Well, obviously he's lying. Look at the flimsiness of his alibi!"
The fact that he had no legal right or reason to hold the property does not mean that he his automatically guilty of theft. For example, if I find a wallet on the street, I have no legal right or reason to pick it up. That does not mean, however, that I necessarily stole the wallet. The evidence we have only indicates that he is guilty of receiving stolen property. That may or may not be a crime, depending on the particular Indian statutes and the circumstances of the transaction with which he got the voting machine. But out and out theft? The Indian prosecutors haven't proven it yet.
The fact remains that the government has presented no evidence that he, himself stole the voting machine. It could be as others have stated - Mr. Prasad is guilty of receiving stolen property, but not stealing the property itself.
While you can argue, "Well, Iraq started it," the fact remains that Iranian units did not stop at the pre-existing Iran-Iraq boundary. They pushed forward into Iraqi territory, invading Iraq.
Sprint, at least is calling its LTE network "4G", as it rolls it out.
As I understand it:
1G = Analog transmission from phone to tower
2G = Digital transmission from phone to tower
3G = CDMA2000/UMTS
4G = 700MHz LTE
As I see it, the xG shorthand is a way to track the evolution of the network, link level, and physical layers. Every time one of those changes, you get a new "generation" of cell phones.
As long as the data is being transferred from one client to another without any intermediation on the part of Linden Labs, vulnerabilities like this will continue to exist. The solution is to have all data exchange pass through Linden Labs' servers. Of course, whether this is feasible in terms of bandwidth is an entirely different matter.
He doesn't really explain, but he says that he used the shell access that the QuickTime exploit gave him to inject code into the main event loop of the Second Life client. I too would be really interested in knowing how he managed to patch the binary on the fly.
Of course ADD and ADHD are real medical conditions. The problem, however, is that we don't know enough about the neurology of the illness to define a biological threshold between "normal" and "ill." Without that hard knowledge, the tests for ADD and ADHD all seem to rely on comparing the child with his or her peers. As the article shows, this process is prone to making false positives. Given the potency of the drugs used to treat ADD and ADHD, a false positive has the potential to cause as much damage as a missed diagnosis. Adderall, lets not forget, is amphetamine. The neurological consequences of long term exposure to such a potent substance have not been adequately explored, in my opinion.
Oh wait, it's still bogged down with streets laid down during the fucking Dark Ages.
The really old sections of most cities in Europe are actually quite small. Why? Back then, people had to walk everywhere. If you were really rich (e.g. top.5%) you got a horse. Back then, even 1 mile was considered quite a commute. Most of any given city in Europe was built during the Industrial Revolution. The older American cities (e.g. New York, Philadelphia, Boston) were built up during the Industrial Revolution as well.
But New York, Boston, and Philadelphia aren't the sort of cities in which most American's live. Most Americans live in cities like Los Angeles, Dallas, Atlanta, and Kansas City. These cities weren't built until after World War 2, when gas was cheap and cars were the future. These cities explicitly rejected the urban planning process that European cities and older American cities used and instead opted to build lots of highways and allow residents to build outward at will. Now that the conditions that fostered their growth are going away, all of these cities are starting to hurt.
So yeah, European urban planning is a shining beacon. We used it to build cities like New York and Washington DC. We consciously turned away from that beacon in the '50s. And now we're paying for it in the form of vast quantities of obsolete infrastructure, maintenance nightmares, and hastened resource constraints.
The only thing closed-source at Facebook is their caching and optimization code that allows them to grow to hundreds of millions of users whilst maintaining a high level of responsiveness and throughput. I heard that they have something like a 99% hit rate on their caches.
You're confusing open standards with open source. Take e-mail for example. E-mail is an open standard (or rather, a set of open standards). Anyone is free to make their own e-mail client and make it open or closed source. Outlook and GMail are closed source. Thunderbird and SquirrelMail are open. But an Outlook user can communicate with a Thunderbird user because the protocol is open, even if the particular implementations aren't.
In this case, the proposal is for an open, standardized protocol with regards to social media. This protocol would allow users of different social networking applications to communicate with each other, much as a GMail user can communicate with a Thunderbird user.
Not everyone is a tinkerer, but there are very few options for those of us who want to tinker with our cars. Modern cars are like consoles - all sealed boxes with warning labels screaming, "No user serviceable parts inside." Right up until the early '80s, a person could largely do all of their own maintenance - right up from changing the oil to swapping in a new transmission. Since then, however, the increasing presence of proprietary, sealed electronic black boxes has made this increasingly difficult.
In this day and age what options does the "shade tree" mechanic have? I'm not in the market currently, but I'd like my next car to be something that I can fix myself.
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Its pretty damn easy to find charities, jobs, etc. if you are willing and really, really need it.
Have you ever actually lived on the streets? I haven't, but I've spoken to people who have. From what I've heard, losing your permanent address is like a one-way ticket out of society. Good luck trying to apply for a job, get benefits, or have anyone take you seriously for anything if you don't have one.
Our currency is the same thing that all currency has been over the ages. A belief that others will accept a certain physical good in return for other goods or services. Whether that physical good is paper, shiny metal, or wampum shells is immaterial. Currency is belief.
You do not have the guaranteed right to rebel. What you do have is the right to bear arms. Saying that gives you the right to rebel is like me saying that my right to carry a hammer includes the right to hit you over the head with it.
Besides, the federal government proved in 1861 that it will go to any and all lengths necessary to prevent citizens or territories from seceding. Your right to rebel doesn't exist either in theory or in practice.
All of this begs the question. The real question is why we use a technology that is so sensitive to bad schema design? Why use a technology that has such a high baseline overhead? Why use a technology that is so tedious? Why use a technology that is so hard to test?
Those statements could be applied to any technology that's being used inappropriately. Why are our programs so sensitive to bad algorithm design?
because on every application I have ever worked on, the Database has always been the performance bottleneck.
That means you need to fire your DBA and hire one that actually knows how to structure tables for performance.
Testing of DB applications is always a problem, because the running of tests generally changes the database, rendering tests unrepeatable without reseting the database.
And how is that different from testing any sort of application that has a persistent state?
Configuring applications to use this database or that database also ends up being a problem for most applications.
Really? What sort of libraries are you using? Every framework and DB library I've used has had a priority towards making it very easy to connect to a database. Usually, if you're only connecting to a single database, all you need to do is write your connection string in the appropriate file, and you're set. The only time you need to change that is when you're deploying your application from development to test, and from test to production.
Why is it that we continue to use a technology based on a 1960's view of a problem when clearly there ARE other solutions and ways to approach said problem?
Why do we use quicksort when there are other approaches to sorting?
That's true, but you have to look at it from the perspective of these companies as well. For them a sum of $475,000 is quite a lot. This may be one of those small government investments that changes the world (like the activities of DARPA, for example).
This may be on a smaller scale than you're imagining, but there does exist one such service today: TubeSat.
Google, for all its reputation and power in the tech. world, actually doesn't have that much pull with Congress. If they were as good at lobbying as they were at search, Net Neutrality wouldn't even be up for debate.
I would also add that I hope you don't get too discouraged by the mistakes you make (and you will make many if I'm interpreting your situation correctly). Relatedly, I hope that the VPs pushing this responsibility on you realize that you don't have any experience at this and will tolerate the mistakes you make.
Good luck. I've been in your shoes, and I quit that job because I wasn't ready for the pressure. Hopefully you're made of sterner stuff.
I see. I guess that's not the accepted definition of "compiling", though. That's more like "integration" in my experience. If that is what the grandparent is posting about, then it is valuable programming experience. Its easy to write code when you're the only person who has to read and work with said code. Its considerably more difficult to write code that's understandable by other people.
Wait, you didn't get to compile you own code? Then how did you learn from your mistakes? Moreover, how did this experience prepare you for programming on anything besides a circa 1970 mainframe environment?
In my experience, the best way to learn programming is to experience your mistakes. If someone else is responsible for compiling your code you're not being exposed to your mistakes, hamstringing your ability to learn.
Depends on the platform. I haven't had any problems with 32-bit Flash on Windows. Flash on 64-bit Windows has crashed a couple of times. Flash on 64-bit Linux? Forget it. Between the fact that there is no official 64-bit Flash build for Linux and nspluginwrapper's issues, Flash on 64-bit Linux crashes about half the time.
You're not understanding. "Innocent until proven Guilty," implies that its the prosecutor's job to prove that Mr. Prasad actually stole the voting machine. He or she can do this via direct evidence (showing video footage or securing eyewitness testimony) or via circumstantial evidence (fingerprints and the like). The one thing he or she cannot do is just say, "Well, obviously he's lying. Look at the flimsiness of his alibi!"
The fact that he had no legal right or reason to hold the property does not mean that he his automatically guilty of theft. For example, if I find a wallet on the street, I have no legal right or reason to pick it up. That does not mean, however, that I necessarily stole the wallet. The evidence we have only indicates that he is guilty of receiving stolen property. That may or may not be a crime, depending on the particular Indian statutes and the circumstances of the transaction with which he got the voting machine. But out and out theft? The Indian prosecutors haven't proven it yet.
The fact remains that the government has presented no evidence that he, himself stole the voting machine. It could be as others have stated - Mr. Prasad is guilty of receiving stolen property, but not stealing the property itself.
That's probably due to the fact that Iran has never invaded another country,
False.
While you can argue, "Well, Iraq started it," the fact remains that Iranian units did not stop at the pre-existing Iran-Iraq boundary. They pushed forward into Iraqi territory, invading Iraq.
I stand corrected.
Sprint, at least is calling its LTE network "4G", as it rolls it out.
As I understand it:
As I see it, the xG shorthand is a way to track the evolution of the network, link level, and physical layers. Every time one of those changes, you get a new "generation" of cell phones.
Steam gives you this too. I was playing Battlefield: Bad Company 2, and I was chatting with a friend playing CounterStrike:Source.
As long as the data is being transferred from one client to another without any intermediation on the part of Linden Labs, vulnerabilities like this will continue to exist. The solution is to have all data exchange pass through Linden Labs' servers. Of course, whether this is feasible in terms of bandwidth is an entirely different matter.
He doesn't really explain, but he says that he used the shell access that the QuickTime exploit gave him to inject code into the main event loop of the Second Life client. I too would be really interested in knowing how he managed to patch the binary on the fly.
Of course ADD and ADHD are real medical conditions. The problem, however, is that we don't know enough about the neurology of the illness to define a biological threshold between "normal" and "ill." Without that hard knowledge, the tests for ADD and ADHD all seem to rely on comparing the child with his or her peers. As the article shows, this process is prone to making false positives. Given the potency of the drugs used to treat ADD and ADHD, a false positive has the potential to cause as much damage as a missed diagnosis. Adderall, lets not forget, is amphetamine. The neurological consequences of long term exposure to such a potent substance have not been adequately explored, in my opinion.
Oh wait, it's still bogged down with streets laid down during the fucking Dark Ages.
The really old sections of most cities in Europe are actually quite small. Why? Back then, people had to walk everywhere. If you were really rich (e.g. top .5%) you got a horse. Back then, even 1 mile was considered quite a commute. Most of any given city in Europe was built during the Industrial Revolution. The older American cities (e.g. New York, Philadelphia, Boston) were built up during the Industrial Revolution as well.
But New York, Boston, and Philadelphia aren't the sort of cities in which most American's live. Most Americans live in cities like Los Angeles, Dallas, Atlanta, and Kansas City. These cities weren't built until after World War 2, when gas was cheap and cars were the future. These cities explicitly rejected the urban planning process that European cities and older American cities used and instead opted to build lots of highways and allow residents to build outward at will. Now that the conditions that fostered their growth are going away, all of these cities are starting to hurt.
So yeah, European urban planning is a shining beacon. We used it to build cities like New York and Washington DC. We consciously turned away from that beacon in the '50s. And now we're paying for it in the form of vast quantities of obsolete infrastructure, maintenance nightmares, and hastened resource constraints.
The only thing closed-source at Facebook is their caching and optimization code that allows them to grow to hundreds of millions of users whilst maintaining a high level of responsiveness and throughput. I heard that they have something like a 99% hit rate on their caches.
You're confusing open standards with open source. Take e-mail for example. E-mail is an open standard (or rather, a set of open standards). Anyone is free to make their own e-mail client and make it open or closed source. Outlook and GMail are closed source. Thunderbird and SquirrelMail are open. But an Outlook user can communicate with a Thunderbird user because the protocol is open, even if the particular implementations aren't.
In this case, the proposal is for an open, standardized protocol with regards to social media. This protocol would allow users of different social networking applications to communicate with each other, much as a GMail user can communicate with a Thunderbird user.
Not everyone is a tinkerer, but there are very few options for those of us who want to tinker with our cars. Modern cars are like consoles - all sealed boxes with warning labels screaming, "No user serviceable parts inside." Right up until the early '80s, a person could largely do all of their own maintenance - right up from changing the oil to swapping in a new transmission. Since then, however, the increasing presence of proprietary, sealed electronic black boxes has made this increasingly difficult.
In this day and age what options does the "shade tree" mechanic have? I'm not in the market currently, but I'd like my next car to be something that I can fix myself.