I will say this though: some of the folks that came through were clearly very smart, but just lacked the experience we were looking for.
Here is where you messed up. If you get someone who is smart enough, he or she will be able to pick up whatever you need picked up within a few weeks (more likely, within a few days). I admit, threads are hard, but did you think of:
Opening up the applicant pool to those with multithreading experience in other languages
Using a COTS or OSS product to handle the concurrency issues (such as an application server)? Or license the technology from somebody else (probably for less $$ than you'd pay your magic guru)?
Using your current guru for the threading issues only? Or having him/her design and review your new guy/gal's work until this smart person gets up to speed?
You say you need someone who can work right away, but now you have an open req so you are totally stuck. Seriously, nobody is going to hit the ground running for you. A new person will need time to learn your product, corporate culture, etc. There is no White Knight.
P.S. Geography can also be an issue as well. Are you in Armpit, Idaho? Yeah, good luck then. And before you ask, yes, I'm already taken, and no, I am not moving, and no, you can't afford me anyway.
I wouldn't let not being informed about the candidates dissuade you from voting. Most of the people who think they are informed don't know their candidates at all.
For instance, in 2000, I thought Republican Presidential Candidate George W. Bush was an isolationist, fiscally-responsible, more-or-less dim bulb. It turns out he is a warmongering, deficit-spending, Constitution-violating, bulldozer.
Seriously, would you have guessed that in November, 2000?
It's nice to see the true lowercase-c conservatives finally getting the point that the current "Conservatives" are very much not conservative.
Give me a true pro-fiscal responsibility, pro-personal freedom conservative, and I'll happily vote for him. I want my balanced budget amendment. I want my freedom back. Where have all the conservatives gone in the Republican Party?
I was within earshot of the Pentagon on 9/11, so it's not so surprising I remember that date a little better than the Tsunami, which happened a little farther from home.
Don't forget who paid $100,000 so you could go to college and be such a "smart" computer person. The way I figure it, you owe me 5000 hours of consulting services.
If you need to contact me with any apologies, you can find me at my attorney's office rebalancing the asset allocations in my will.
My parents are not very tech-savvy, but they have never gotten infected. Not yet, anyhow. The following procedures work for them:
Anti-Virus (pick your favorite) with subscription for auto-updates
Windows set to auto-update
Hardware firewall with no incoming ports and uPnP disabled.
802.11+WEP (WEP key taped on the router)
Email through a webmail provider that virus-scans (pick your favorite)
Don't open email attachments that you didn't specifically request, and even if you did request, realize that there is still some risk.
Don't install cute cursors, taskbar buddies, etc. They will cease to be cute after about 90 minutes, but they will slow down your machine forever
I think that's about it for their training. Notice that it doesn't involve them having to do any maintenance themselves and it keeps them pretty-well protected. I lock my own machine down much harder, but I am willing to tolerate that inconvenience.
By the way, your suggestion that computer safety begins with logging out of your home machine while you're not at the keyboard made you look like the biggest jackass I've seen in a long while. I'm just sayin'.
GP is an Asterisk consultant. It's hard to sell consulting services while recommending sound business decisions like "just buy a mid-range server with a top-range service contract".
I mean, how much would you pay a consultant who recommends you "just go to dell.com and buy something."
Well, I'm not familiar with UK law, but in the US, as long as you pay all your taxes (including the employer's share), you're golden. The IRS doesn't really give a hoot if it gets its money from you or your "employer" as long as it gets its money in the end.
This "nolisting" thing that you linked to will cause more delays and filter less spam than true greylisting. The allure of modifying a few DNS records has gotten in the way of your carefully analyzing the problem, methinks. As a result, I am not going to explain why this is the case. I think it would be of benefit to you to do the analysis yourself and see why you are wrong.
A miscarriage means maybe a six month delay in parenting.
That is very much untrue. You obviously have never had a miscarriage or known somebody who has.
First of all, there's the physical: the down's test is done at 3 months, so that's half your "delay" right there. Then, assuming you miscarry, you need a D&C, which causes another 3 menstrual cycle delay, which eats up the rest of your "six month delay". Now, you have to factor in that conception takes an average of 3-4 cycles. So your estimate is way low.
Next, you have to remember that miscarriages often cause psychological issues that most people would rather avoid. A deep sense of loss is very common, as can be some form of depression. All to do a test.
My point here is that you shouldn't be so dismissive of people who would rather not take an invasive and totally elective test that has a 1 in 200 chance of killing their their unborn child. Would you take a medical exam to detect a nonfatal condition if you knew there was a 1 in 200 shot the exam itself would kill you? I realize that there is a difference between an unborn child and an adult human, but you should cut a bit more slack to those who don't want to take on that risk.
Those "roll over in their sleep preventers" (those foam things with the blocks on the sides) are to be avoided, as I understand it.
My daughter had some reflux when she was first born that kept her awake. Her doctor wanted to medicate her, but I suggested trying one of those foam thingies first to prop her on an incline.
Incline worked great, but I have a great picture of her, having completely escaped the sleep positioner, the only thing remaining from her original "correct" position was her winter sleeping cap perfectly lined up. That's how she let us know when it was time to ditch the positioner and the cap.
I used to be skeptical of greylisting, but now I'm a total convert. I wrote a simple greylisting implementation in about 30 minutes and it has blocked an insane amount of spam that never had to be fed to spamassassin. SA takes several seconds to score an email, while a greylisting evaluation can be done in just a few milliseconds.
Took a ton of load off my mailserver since so many fewer emails get fed to spamassassin, and no one has yet called me to ask why I'm rejecting their mail. Regarding the delay, if you're not on the whitelist, I give an email a 10 second delay by default, but a 60 minute delay if your IP is listed as dynamic. Most spammers don't retry at all, and very few retry for the full 4 hours that they're required to.
After all, you're not calculating DST by hand, are you? You're using zoneinfo like good little developers, aren't you?
Only embedded apps that don't phone home will be affected. And apps written by people who don't know how to code. I'm sure Windows has a similar library.
Nowadays, many spammers intentionally try your backup MX instead of your primary. They figure mail filtering is more lax on the backup MX than primary, and that is usually true.
Why not use true greylisting? There are many open-source greylist solutions out there for any mailer, and it's trivial to write your own. I wound up writing my own whose logic was basically thus:
Is your class C on my whitelist? If so, accept message. If not...
Is your class C on my greylist? If not, add to greylist and tempfail message. If so...
Have you been on the greylist for at least 10 seconds (or 60 minutes, if your IP is dynamic)? If not, tempfail message. If so, whitelist IP and accept message.
I white/greylist the class C to account for SMTP clusters.
This simple solution has drastically reduced the amount of spam that gets through to SpamAssassin, which means much less CPU is dedicated to fighting spam.
I really doubt that. Every US history book I've ever seen has this famous picture in it.
GP said that his well-educated Chinese girlfriend had never heard of the Tiananmen Square protests. You'd have a hard time finding a well-educated high school senior in America who had no idea about the Kent State shootings and had never seen that photo.
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Did you ever take Econ 101? Did you read the part about the labor market? If not, that's your assignment for today.
That article summarizes the correct way to end a thread's life and also contains a link to Sun's tutorial on thread lifecycles.
Was that so hard?
- Opening up the applicant pool to those with multithreading experience in other languages
- Using a COTS or OSS product to handle the concurrency issues (such as an application server)? Or license the technology from somebody else (probably for less $$ than you'd pay your magic guru)?
- Using your current guru for the threading issues only? Or having him/her design and review your new guy/gal's work until this smart person gets up to speed?
You say you need someone who can work right away, but now you have an open req so you are totally stuck. Seriously, nobody is going to hit the ground running for you. A new person will need time to learn your product, corporate culture, etc. There is no White Knight.P.S. Geography can also be an issue as well. Are you in Armpit, Idaho? Yeah, good luck then. And before you ask, yes, I'm already taken, and no, I am not moving, and no, you can't afford me anyway.
Lieberman has already come out and said that he will caucus with the Democrats.
For instance, in 2000, I thought Republican Presidential Candidate George W. Bush was an isolationist, fiscally-responsible, more-or-less dim bulb. It turns out he is a warmongering, deficit-spending, Constitution-violating, bulldozer.
Seriously, would you have guessed that in November, 2000?
So they gave with one hand, but they took it right back with the other. I, for one, want my goddamn tax cut.
Give me a true pro-fiscal responsibility, pro-personal freedom conservative, and I'll happily vote for him. I want my balanced budget amendment. I want my freedom back. Where have all the conservatives gone in the Republican Party?
Just wait until you have to pay it too in a couple of years and see how happy you are with your "tax-cutting" Republicans.
I was within earshot of the Pentagon on 9/11, so it's not so surprising I remember that date a little better than the Tsunami, which happened a little farther from home.
If you need to contact me with any apologies, you can find me at my attorney's office rebalancing the asset allocations in my will.
Love, Dad.
- Anti-Virus (pick your favorite) with subscription for auto-updates
- Windows set to auto-update
- Hardware firewall with no incoming ports and uPnP disabled.
- 802.11+WEP (WEP key taped on the router)
- Email through a webmail provider that virus-scans (pick your favorite)
- Don't open email attachments that you didn't specifically request, and even if you did request, realize that there is still some risk.
- Don't install cute cursors, taskbar buddies, etc. They will cease to be cute after about 90 minutes, but they will slow down your machine forever
I think that's about it for their training. Notice that it doesn't involve them having to do any maintenance themselves and it keeps them pretty-well protected. I lock my own machine down much harder, but I am willing to tolerate that inconvenience.By the way, your suggestion that computer safety begins with logging out of your home machine while you're not at the keyboard made you look like the biggest jackass I've seen in a long while. I'm just sayin'.
I mean, how much would you pay a consultant who recommends you "just go to dell.com and buy something."
Well, I'm not familiar with UK law, but in the US, as long as you pay all your taxes (including the employer's share), you're golden. The IRS doesn't really give a hoot if it gets its money from you or your "employer" as long as it gets its money in the end.
Why should the IRS care? As long as he's paying his taxes and following the law, there should be no problem with it.
That's easier to get than you might think.
Your bitching about Fair Isaac is like you bitching at google because your webpage sucks. Google didn't make it suck--you did.
Even when payments are made by automatic draft, your bank can provide proof the payment was made. Ask them about it if you want more information.
Good luck!
First of all, there's the physical: the down's test is done at 3 months, so that's half your "delay" right there. Then, assuming you miscarry, you need a D&C, which causes another 3 menstrual cycle delay, which eats up the rest of your "six month delay". Now, you have to factor in that conception takes an average of 3-4 cycles. So your estimate is way low.
Next, you have to remember that miscarriages often cause psychological issues that most people would rather avoid. A deep sense of loss is very common, as can be some form of depression. All to do a test.
My point here is that you shouldn't be so dismissive of people who would rather not take an invasive and totally elective test that has a 1 in 200 chance of killing their their unborn child. Would you take a medical exam to detect a nonfatal condition if you knew there was a 1 in 200 shot the exam itself would kill you? I realize that there is a difference between an unborn child and an adult human, but you should cut a bit more slack to those who don't want to take on that risk.
Incline worked great, but I have a great picture of her, having completely escaped the sleep positioner, the only thing remaining from her original "correct" position was her winter sleeping cap perfectly lined up. That's how she let us know when it was time to ditch the positioner and the cap.
Kids are funny.
Took a ton of load off my mailserver since so many fewer emails get fed to spamassassin, and no one has yet called me to ask why I'm rejecting their mail. Regarding the delay, if you're not on the whitelist, I give an email a 10 second delay by default, but a 60 minute delay if your IP is listed as dynamic. Most spammers don't retry at all, and very few retry for the full 4 hours that they're required to.
Only embedded apps that don't phone home will be affected. And apps written by people who don't know how to code. I'm sure Windows has a similar library.
Why not use true greylisting? There are many open-source greylist solutions out there for any mailer, and it's trivial to write your own. I wound up writing my own whose logic was basically thus:
- Is your class C on my whitelist? If so, accept message. If not...
- Is your class C on my greylist? If not, add to greylist and tempfail message. If so...
- Have you been on the greylist for at least 10 seconds (or 60 minutes, if your IP is dynamic)? If not, tempfail message. If so, whitelist IP and accept message.
I white/greylist the class C to account for SMTP clusters.This simple solution has drastically reduced the amount of spam that gets through to SpamAssassin, which means much less CPU is dedicated to fighting spam.
GP said that his well-educated Chinese girlfriend had never heard of the Tiananmen Square protests. You'd have a hard time finding a well-educated high school senior in America who had no idea about the Kent State shootings and had never seen that photo.