Dell PowerEdge R210 II Ultra-compact Rack Server, Intel® Celeron® G530 processor, 2GB memory and 500GB hard drive, Dell Price $609. That's their lowest end 1U server. Sure, it's a piece of shit, but you've got nearly $400 in upgrades left before you hit that $1k mark.
I'm actually interested in an explanation of why a 100W bulb that runs at 5% efficiency is not creating 95W of thermal energy. I'm not a conservative on a rant, I'm honestly curious about the physics. kthnxbye
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That depends a lot on what you're doing. It costs about $125/hr for me to optimize my code. Every 8 hours spent optimizing is $1k down the drain and you can buy an entry level server for that price. If it's running on one or two VMs it's probably not worth my company's time to optimize it vs buying more hardware. Conversely if I'm Google a 1% optimization could mean literally thousands of servers. I mean, don't get me wrong. I pay attention to memory allocation and CPU optimization as I'm coding, but only to the level of not making unnecessarily egregious use of resources. Pretty much anything beyond that is a waste for most of the projects I work on.
Computers are completely unforgiving. They do only exactly what they've been asked to do. They care nothing about your feelings and are only as useful as their inputs. And there's an insufferable amount of information to assimilate in order to become a talented programmer. Pedantic details are the difference between a good programmer and a great one. This is really true of any type of technical/engineering field. People that aren't "into" the minutia of details are probably better suited for social jobs than technical ones.
I'm not sure things are clear on WMDs either. I firmly believe that the invention of the atomic bomb has saved the lives of millions of people over the decades.
Strictly speaking coders are not engineers. We use that term colloquially but I definitely got the impression that the article was speaking primarily of PEs.
As soon as we decided that hospitals were legally required to give you health care if you walked into the emergency room we decided that health care is a human right. That debate is over. So now what do we do about it? You can either have the blood suckers feed off a system they're not paying into, or you can require they pay into it like every responsible adult has been doing for generations. The government is not requiring me to do ANYTHING really. They've created a new income tax (you're exempt if you have no income) and a corresponding tax break if you happen to buy health insurance. While it may be slimey it's perfectly within the normal business of government to enact income taxes and tax breaks. IMHO single payer or Medicare-for-all would've been a preferable option, but it wasn't politically viable, so we got this. It's not great, it's basically a big handout to the insurance companies. Have you watched their stock prices? They've shot up over the last few years. But at least the bums who were living off me in the form of higher premiums I was having to pay each year will now be paying in. And if someone was really sick and was unable to get health insurance at any price before now gets health coverage.. isn't that GOOD? My ex-wife couldn't get private health insurance. I know, because we tried. She had a clotting disorder but was generally a healthy and able-bodied person. But nope, can't buy health insurance. So unless her provider got her on a group plan, she was completely SOL. If more people like her, and even people who are not able-bodied can get some insurance now then that's awesome.
One of the big parts of the ACA is the "healthcare exchange" where health insurance providers are required to basically bid in a centralized exchange. Supposedly to create competition. There are two options.. either your state can create its own exchange (insurance laws vary by state) or your state can opt out and you'll be dumped on the federal exchange. The "website" everyone is talking about is the federal exchange. If it's down, you can't purchase the health insurance you're required by law to purchase. It's pretty big egg on the face of Obama for it not to work, even though he obviously had no part in the technical aspects of it.
I would like to re-state what I think you're getting at because I think we're largely in agreement. Even if Obama is not specifically involved and aware of this specific case that is going on he is certainly aware of the bigger picture around the country and has not set an agenda of supporting personal privacy and states rights in any of the areas touched by this and many other cases throughout the country.
I don't think I've EVER seen a case where the CEO of a major corporation is held personally responsible for the policies put in place by his minions. I'm honestly interested in a couple of real world examples where this has happened at a company with a household name.
To be fair, users bellow over the tiniest of changes to UIs. If users got their way there would be no progress in the world. I don't use Yahoo Groups so this doesn't impact me whatsoever, but I'm all too familiar with the cries of pain from users who are afraid of even the tiniest change. To be fair it's *usually* not a good idea to make dramatic changes to your UI all at once. Changes should usually be made gradually over time. At the same time when/if your business is failing it's hard to say that Yahoo didn't need to make some big changes quickly in order to improve their business. These recent moves may cause the sinking ship to sink faster or may wind up being their salvation. Either way it's better than the slow crawl towards death they were taking before.
I do wonder about this. It seems to me that the parent company should at least get to pay a portion of the credit card fees out of the tip. At a big company it comes down to some flat rate per charge + a percentage of the total. Does anyone happen to know whether restaurants eat the credit card fees for a server's tip?
Interestingly enough Republicans care a LOT about the economy and historically provide greater funding to the sciences than Democrats because of it. There are a few obvious exceptions like embryonic stem cell research that make headlines but by and large Republicans provide more funding to science. If you don't want to take my word for it youtube search for Neil DeGrasse Tyson talking about it.
This. People get into an uproar over the tiniest of changes to popular websites. The new sports site looks very pretty but I can't hardly read the text.
I own a small business and considered opening a 501c3. I asked my accountant and his advice was "DO NOT DO THIS. IT'S A HUGE PITA." He recommended I just form an LLC that spends all the income because the processes to get and maintain your tax-free status were so onerous that it wouldn't be worth it.
I worked in a few different industries before I stopped working for "the man" and started my own business. I mostly sell products and services back into the industries that I'm already familiar with, often to former employers. Why in god's name would I be foolish enough to enter a market in which I know absolutely nothing?
I don't know where you work, but around here there really is a shortage. IT unemployment is under 3% that means if you have any kind of usable skills and want a job you probably have one. Being on the hiring end of the interviews I can say it's VERY hard to find candidates that are even in the ballpark of our required skill sets. We don't do H1Bs directly but will via consulting firms. We have a team of about 10 of them working on a segregated project. The entire dev team here is probably 50-ish on various projects. Granted, it'd be nice if wages were going up but we're offering six figure incomes in a relatively lower income area. It's tough out there.
It's not just the database, the offer an entire suite of business products on top of it for things like inventory management, HR, accounts billable/payable, etc.
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Bro, nothing beats Tux Racer.
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Ultra-compact Rack Server, Intel® Celeron® G530 processor, 2GB memory and 500GB hard drive, Dell Price $609. That's their lowest end 1U server. Sure, it's a piece of shit, but you've got nearly $400 in upgrades left before you hit that $1k mark.
I'm actually interested in an explanation of why a 100W bulb that runs at 5% efficiency is not creating 95W of thermal energy. I'm not a conservative on a rant, I'm honestly curious about the physics. kthnxbye
That depends a lot on what you're doing. It costs about $125/hr for me to optimize my code. Every 8 hours spent optimizing is $1k down the drain and you can buy an entry level server for that price. If it's running on one or two VMs it's probably not worth my company's time to optimize it vs buying more hardware. Conversely if I'm Google a 1% optimization could mean literally thousands of servers. I mean, don't get me wrong. I pay attention to memory allocation and CPU optimization as I'm coding, but only to the level of not making unnecessarily egregious use of resources. Pretty much anything beyond that is a waste for most of the projects I work on.
Computers are completely unforgiving. They do only exactly what they've been asked to do. They care nothing about your feelings and are only as useful as their inputs. And there's an insufferable amount of information to assimilate in order to become a talented programmer. Pedantic details are the difference between a good programmer and a great one. This is really true of any type of technical/engineering field. People that aren't "into" the minutia of details are probably better suited for social jobs than technical ones.
I'm not sure things are clear on WMDs either. I firmly believe that the invention of the atomic bomb has saved the lives of millions of people over the decades.
Strictly speaking coders are not engineers. We use that term colloquially but I definitely got the impression that the article was speaking primarily of PEs.
provider->employer
As soon as we decided that hospitals were legally required to give you health care if you walked into the emergency room we decided that health care is a human right. That debate is over. So now what do we do about it? You can either have the blood suckers feed off a system they're not paying into, or you can require they pay into it like every responsible adult has been doing for generations. The government is not requiring me to do ANYTHING really. They've created a new income tax (you're exempt if you have no income) and a corresponding tax break if you happen to buy health insurance. While it may be slimey it's perfectly within the normal business of government to enact income taxes and tax breaks. IMHO single payer or Medicare-for-all would've been a preferable option, but it wasn't politically viable, so we got this. It's not great, it's basically a big handout to the insurance companies. Have you watched their stock prices? They've shot up over the last few years. But at least the bums who were living off me in the form of higher premiums I was having to pay each year will now be paying in. And if someone was really sick and was unable to get health insurance at any price before now gets health coverage.. isn't that GOOD? My ex-wife couldn't get private health insurance. I know, because we tried. She had a clotting disorder but was generally a healthy and able-bodied person. But nope, can't buy health insurance. So unless her provider got her on a group plan, she was completely SOL. If more people like her, and even people who are not able-bodied can get some insurance now then that's awesome.
One of the big parts of the ACA is the "healthcare exchange" where health insurance providers are required to basically bid in a centralized exchange. Supposedly to create competition. There are two options.. either your state can create its own exchange (insurance laws vary by state) or your state can opt out and you'll be dumped on the federal exchange. The "website" everyone is talking about is the federal exchange. If it's down, you can't purchase the health insurance you're required by law to purchase. It's pretty big egg on the face of Obama for it not to work, even though he obviously had no part in the technical aspects of it.
I would like to re-state what I think you're getting at because I think we're largely in agreement. Even if Obama is not specifically involved and aware of this specific case that is going on he is certainly aware of the bigger picture around the country and has not set an agenda of supporting personal privacy and states rights in any of the areas touched by this and many other cases throughout the country.
I don't think I've EVER seen a case where the CEO of a major corporation is held personally responsible for the policies put in place by his minions. I'm honestly interested in a couple of real world examples where this has happened at a company with a household name.
To be fair, users bellow over the tiniest of changes to UIs. If users got their way there would be no progress in the world. I don't use Yahoo Groups so this doesn't impact me whatsoever, but I'm all too familiar with the cries of pain from users who are afraid of even the tiniest change. To be fair it's *usually* not a good idea to make dramatic changes to your UI all at once. Changes should usually be made gradually over time. At the same time when/if your business is failing it's hard to say that Yahoo didn't need to make some big changes quickly in order to improve their business. These recent moves may cause the sinking ship to sink faster or may wind up being their salvation. Either way it's better than the slow crawl towards death they were taking before.
I do wonder about this. It seems to me that the parent company should at least get to pay a portion of the credit card fees out of the tip. At a big company it comes down to some flat rate per charge + a percentage of the total. Does anyone happen to know whether restaurants eat the credit card fees for a server's tip?
Yeah, and New York smells like urine. Perhaps there are other qualities about these places that attract people.
I'm always skeptical of these types of studies. I mean who are they surveying that says date rape is okay?
Interestingly enough Republicans care a LOT about the economy and historically provide greater funding to the sciences than Democrats because of it. There are a few obvious exceptions like embryonic stem cell research that make headlines but by and large Republicans provide more funding to science. If you don't want to take my word for it youtube search for Neil DeGrasse Tyson talking about it.
This. People get into an uproar over the tiniest of changes to popular websites. The new sports site looks very pretty but I can't hardly read the text.
I own a small business and considered opening a 501c3. I asked my accountant and his advice was "DO NOT DO THIS. IT'S A HUGE PITA." He recommended I just form an LLC that spends all the income because the processes to get and maintain your tax-free status were so onerous that it wouldn't be worth it.
I worked in a few different industries before I stopped working for "the man" and started my own business. I mostly sell products and services back into the industries that I'm already familiar with, often to former employers. Why in god's name would I be foolish enough to enter a market in which I know absolutely nothing?
I don't know where you work, but around here there really is a shortage. IT unemployment is under 3% that means if you have any kind of usable skills and want a job you probably have one. Being on the hiring end of the interviews I can say it's VERY hard to find candidates that are even in the ballpark of our required skill sets. We don't do H1Bs directly but will via consulting firms. We have a team of about 10 of them working on a segregated project. The entire dev team here is probably 50-ish on various projects. Granted, it'd be nice if wages were going up but we're offering six figure incomes in a relatively lower income area. It's tough out there.
AKA: people with money. AKA: People you want to advertise to.
While I agree with you in principle there's a good chance millions of dollars *are* lost each minute when Google is down.
*whoosh*
It's not just the database, the offer an entire suite of business products on top of it for things like inventory management, HR, accounts billable/payable, etc.