Actually, that's our production configuration, (other than the RAM, which I agree is low).
I think the deeper criticism is that the loads and scenarios are simplistic and not representative of at least the loads I use. Give me a day's processing action against a database, and show me what happens there. How about a variety of machine to machine small and large file transfers? I know, these should be limited by the network, but then that would should that the speed of the FS doesn't matter, and that other features should govern. How about a restore from backup? How about an application that opens, reads, writes, and closes lots of small files?
Simulating certain failure modes is exceedingly difficult to do.
And especially difficult when you have a day job, and no time to invent and implement test plans that bring out these scenarios. Trying to explain the necessity of this to a PHB is fun, too.
Except, this sounds perilously close to a work for hire. There is a presumption that if you hire someone to build something for you, you own it after you've paid him for it. Particularly if the employer provided the office, platform, and tools. If the employer provided a spec as well, I'd say the OP is SOL. But IANAL.
I would add that there is now application/infrastucture engineering, which is different than software engineering. Defining the application/hardware/system infrastructure is significantly different field than designing the software that runs inside that environment.
This isn't unique to CS. There are legions of students in all disciplines who got good grades, but are useless, and a fair amount who didn't get good grades, but are nonetheless the effective, 'go-to' guys in the real world. I doubt that it's efficiently possible to design a curriculum to completely avoid this. Nor should we. Good students do not always make good employees, and good employees aren't always the good students. It isn't the job of universities to make good employees, nor to guarantee that a given grade represents anything more than mastery of the class material. It's up to the student to use the material to become a good engineer.
I would say that the same is true of most of us, most of the time, regardless of our position on the political spectrum. It's rare that people are open to new ideas, particularly ideas with negative consequences for our current position. I think to readily accept a new idea requires intellectual effort that most of us avoid if possible.
I think this illustrates one of the traits of a 'good' easter egg; a hard working, not that well paid, group of folks just trying to get a shout out from their fans.
Do civil or mechanical engineers leave easter eggs?
Take a look at the concrete around the footings of bridges. You'll find some initials on more than a few.
My 2 cents: I've left my initials on a few projects. And I test the code around those initials diligently to make sure that my reputation is intact if they are viewed.
It doesn't matter. The algorithms are focused on what the 'account' will like. They will find that your account likes both Oscar winners and Mel Brooks films.
Yeah, whatever, nutcase. Anyone with a smattering of economics education would understand that these are markets with many participants, free exchange of information, and clear price signaling. The government interference you decry seems to be the basic function of rule of law, which even libertarians like. Taking your points one by one:
1) if you pitch your tent, you are trespassing. Do you want to do away with private property?
2) The swoosh is a copyrighted trademark, which has little to do with sporting goods. It's private property. See prior comment.
3) If you doubt a free and unregulated market in fishing tackle, please visit www.cabelas.com, www.llbean.comand report back on the limited offerings, fixed prices, and government control of the offerings. I fish with 8 to 16 ounce lead sinkers here in Washington.
4) Women's clothing? You can even make this argument with a straight face? You need to increase your meds dosage.
Uh, no. In fact, it is classic UNIX that has the poorer architecture, with its superuser concept.
Which is different than a Windows Server local admin account how?
I think SELinux steps it up a notch, other than that, I figure it's six of one, half dozen of the the other. Either environment is about as secure as the administrator of the system cares to/is capable of making it. I've made both acceptably secure for business purposes (demonstrably able to hold off random internet based attacks, still susceptible to social engineering)
Well, there is the economic dimension (capitalism vs less free market approaches) and the managerial role of government (more paternal, vs less intrusive), the later of which admittedly has become less differentiating among the US parties in recent years.
just gets harder and harder to earn more money as your income goes up
Actually, it gets harder and harder for a bit, and then it gets easier, then it levels out. The US tax rate maxes out at a flat rate of, I believe, 28%. The marginal tax rate climbs above that rate for a bit, as income climbs, until the average rate hits 28%, then the marginal rate drops to the average rate. The reason the marginal rate climbs above 28% is to make up for the first several $1,000 of income that are taxed at less than 28%.
Well, the basic reason for having a representative government is that you hope that the representatives will find out more about the issues than the man on the street will know, and thus be empowered to make better decisions.
For the simplest case, how do you think the vote on "lets eliminate taxes" would go? After that, how about a vote on "Let's give everyone a million dollars"? Finally, what do you think the results of those two votes would be? For a hint, google "hyperinflation" or "pre WWII germany economy".
There are still serious issues with Wireless in 8.10 (and Fedora, and Sabayona, and SuSE). If you have an Atheros 5007 series chipset, you're hosed until the next rev of Madwifi comes out, which is supposed to Real Soon Now. I have hopes for Fedora Core 10, but we'll see.
Neither of these beliefs are necessarily maladaptive, however; rather, they are contingently maladaptive in the sense that they are violently countermajoritarian. So the question for psychology becomes: do we "treat" this group as "delusional" or do we accept it as a "subculture?"
Elegantly phrased.
The problem with religion^h^h^h^h^h^h^hdelusion is not the act per se, it's the side effects that the individual with the delusion has on society as he/she acts according to a non-factually based belief set.
If a person's beliefs are generally in line with those of a recognised culture/subculture (whether recognised to be 'scientifically' correct or not) then it is not considered to be delusion.
A point which could be debated, in my opinion. Popular delusions are still delusional, regardless of whether some authority recognizes them as such. This is just another case of religion's delusional influence on the world.
Well, eventually you'll get old, and some phrase you thought was cool when you were young will piss off some young grammer nazi, and then Total Consciousness will be yours.
Says the guy who remembers when an 11/780 was pretty fucking cool.
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Actually, that's our production configuration, (other than the RAM, which I agree is low).
I think the deeper criticism is that the loads and scenarios are simplistic and not representative of at least the loads I use. Give me a day's processing action against a database, and show me what happens there. How about a variety of machine to machine small and large file transfers? I know, these should be limited by the network, but then that would should that the speed of the FS doesn't matter, and that other features should govern. How about a restore from backup? How about an application that opens, reads, writes, and closes lots of small files?
Simulating certain failure modes is exceedingly difficult to do.
And especially difficult when you have a day job, and no time to invent and implement test plans that bring out these scenarios. Trying to explain the necessity of this to a PHB is fun, too.
Except, this sounds perilously close to a work for hire. There is a presumption that if you hire someone to build something for you, you own it after you've paid him for it. Particularly if the employer provided the office, platform, and tools. If the employer provided a spec as well, I'd say the OP is SOL. But IANAL.
Sh-h-h-h!
I would add that there is now application/infrastucture engineering, which is different than software engineering. Defining the application/hardware/system infrastructure is significantly different field than designing the software that runs inside that environment.
This isn't unique to CS. There are legions of students in all disciplines who got good grades, but are useless, and a fair amount who didn't get good grades, but are nonetheless the effective, 'go-to' guys in the real world. I doubt that it's efficiently possible to design a curriculum to completely avoid this. Nor should we. Good students do not always make good employees, and good employees aren't always the good students. It isn't the job of universities to make good employees, nor to guarantee that a given grade represents anything more than mastery of the class material. It's up to the student to use the material to become a good engineer.
I would say that the same is true of most of us, most of the time, regardless of our position on the political spectrum. It's rare that people are open to new ideas, particularly ideas with negative consequences for our current position. I think to readily accept a new idea requires intellectual effort that most of us avoid if possible.
I think this illustrates one of the traits of a 'good' easter egg; a hard working, not that well paid, group of folks just trying to get a shout out from their fans.
Thanks for the nice story.
Do civil or mechanical engineers leave easter eggs?
Take a look at the concrete around the footings of bridges. You'll find some initials on more than a few.
My 2 cents: I've left my initials on a few projects. And I test the code around those initials diligently to make sure that my reputation is intact if they are viewed.
Those of us outside the feverish and patriotic US Propaganda machine could see that machine heavily at work.
Lots of us inside could see it as well. Sadly, not enough of us...
It doesn't matter. The algorithms are focused on what the 'account' will like. They will find that your account likes both Oscar winners and Mel Brooks films.
Yeah, whatever, nutcase. Anyone with a smattering of economics education would understand that these are markets with many participants, free exchange of information, and clear price signaling. The government interference you decry seems to be the basic function of rule of law, which even libertarians like. Taking your points one by one:
1) if you pitch your tent, you are trespassing. Do you want to do away with private property?
2) The swoosh is a copyrighted trademark, which has little to do with sporting goods. It's private property. See prior comment.
3) If you doubt a free and unregulated market in fishing tackle, please visit www.cabelas.com, www.llbean.comand report back on the limited offerings, fixed prices, and government control of the offerings. I fish with 8 to 16 ounce lead sinkers here in Washington.
4) Women's clothing? You can even make this argument with a straight face? You need to increase your meds dosage.
Go away, troll.
I challenge you to show me an unregulated market where the government doesn't have its hands in it in some way
Golf courses. Sporting goods. Fishing tackle. Women's clothing.
Uh, no. In fact, it is classic UNIX that has the poorer architecture, with its superuser concept.
Which is different than a Windows Server local admin account how?
I think SELinux steps it up a notch, other than that, I figure it's six of one, half dozen of the the other. Either environment is about as secure
as the administrator of the system cares to/is capable of making it. I've made both acceptably secure for business purposes (demonstrably able to hold off random internet based attacks, still susceptible to social engineering)
"'e's pining for the Fjords, 'e is."
My experience has been that I have gotten an exclusion all three times this has come up. The key is to be reasonable.
Well, there is the economic dimension (capitalism vs less free market approaches) and the managerial role of government (more paternal, vs less intrusive), the later of which admittedly has become less differentiating among the US parties in recent years.
just gets harder and harder to earn more money as your income goes up
Actually, it gets harder and harder for a bit, and then it gets easier, then it levels out. The US tax rate maxes out at a flat rate of, I believe, 28%. The marginal tax rate climbs above that rate for a bit, as income climbs, until the average rate hits 28%, then the marginal rate drops to the average rate. The reason the marginal rate climbs above 28% is to make up for the first several $1,000 of income that are taxed at less than 28%.
Well, the basic reason for having a representative government is that you hope that the representatives will find out more about the issues than the man on the street will know, and thus be empowered to make better decisions.
For the simplest case, how do you think the vote on "lets eliminate taxes" would go? After that, how about a vote on "Let's give everyone a million dollars"? Finally, what do you think the results of those two votes would be? For a hint, google "hyperinflation" or "pre WWII germany economy".
There are still serious issues with Wireless in 8.10 (and Fedora, and Sabayona, and SuSE). If you have an Atheros 5007 series chipset, you're hosed until the next rev of Madwifi comes out, which is supposed to Real Soon Now. I have hopes for Fedora Core 10, but we'll see.
Neither of these beliefs are necessarily maladaptive, however; rather, they are contingently maladaptive in the sense that they are violently countermajoritarian. So the question for psychology becomes: do we "treat" this group as "delusional" or do we accept it as a "subculture?"
Elegantly phrased.
The problem with religion^h^h^h^h^h^h^hdelusion is not the act per se, it's the side effects that the individual with the delusion has on society as he/she acts according to a non-factually based belief set.
If a person's beliefs are generally in line with those of a recognised culture/subculture (whether recognised to be 'scientifically' correct or not) then it is not considered to be delusion.
A point which could be debated, in my opinion. Popular delusions are still delusional, regardless of whether some authority recognizes them as such. This is just another case of religion's delusional influence on the world.
Ah, Grasshopper, you worry so much. My sarcasm was meant in a friendly way. There is no need for defense, because no attack was intended.
And, as a paying customer, I wasn't.
Well, eventually you'll get old, and some phrase you thought was cool when you were young will piss off some young grammer nazi, and then Total Consciousness will be yours.
Says the guy who remembers when an 11/780 was pretty fucking cool.