Devilboy

This is not a 'problem' I'm trying to solve. I do this because I truly believe this IS the best value I can add to the company as a whole.

My old desktop-based email reader could do it though. I definitely feel like I lost something here. Even just a KEYWORD* search would be an improvement, and that does not require a bigger index.

I'm a software engineer in a software-centered B2B company. They all use the back-end system, and our clients use the front-end.

During the day I may solve up to a dozen small problems, which might be a small customization of the font-end for a big client, debugging a random bug or two on the spot, querying the database for some new sales stat, and so on. If something comes in to our bug-tracker that I think I can resolve within 30 minutes, I do it immediately. The rest of the time I work on the long term (no deadline) projects to improve the system as a whole. Sure those projects suffer a bit but our clients are always very impressed when we can fix his bug, make his customisation change or implement his new report, literally just minutes after he requested it.

In Gmail you can search your own mail but whole words only. Searching for PROPEL will not bring up an email containing the word PROPELLER for example.

I work in an open plan office and I hate it. I am constantly annoyed, inconvenienced and I can't get half as much code written as I do at home. The designers, salespeople, tech-support staff, managers and accountants I work with, however, love it. Their productivity is way up because they have quick, easy, friction-free and immediate access to me at all times. In aggregate the company does significantly better as a result of this open-plan office and I realise that wanting to be in 'The Zone' 8 hours a day is not why I work there. I work there to make the company as a whole as awesome as possible.

I'd pay to see that

Only a million dollars? That means the government can shut down Bitcoin any time it wants.

Would it be possible to hire a large number of servers just for a short time and take control of the whole chain? Is it just a matter of time before this happens? You could combine various cloud providers' servers and black market zombie machines.

If Bitcoin continues to grow in popularity at a sufficient pace it should be safe, but the minute it becomes cost-effective to attack it, it will fall.

The system works!

If you have any kind of trouble with depression the first thing you should always check is that you exercise and eat right. It really makes a huge difference. You may also need to experiment with different drugs to find one that works for you but you're wasting your time if you don't exercise. EXERCISE!

So this NZ court decided to let him out on bail and give him access to his bank accounts for 'essential expenses'. I think that's pretty decent. Unlike what the US did with his entire company before even starting a trial.

Layoffs are bad for morale either way, but one big round is much better morale-wise than 20 small rounds.

So $35 turned into $50

'We know what we're doing, we'll just palm it off to some random third party to take the heat!'

They did not need new hardware, just a super-streamlined single-product order page for the Pi.

This is a terrible article, which is to be expected from Wired I guess.

> You would lose interop with existing email infrastructure.

I think you could perhaps make it work with a bridging service between the networks?

Well the stuff that do not require human fingers have already been robiticized.

There's only about a million industrial robots in operation worldwide today. For Foxconn to turn around all those iPads (for example) in only a month or two requires about million people right now. The scale of what they do is just staggering, imagine how much it would cost to go to a third party like Siemens and buy a million industrial robots with the dexterity of human hands and fingers.

Well, with this new internal development project Foxconn will do it all by itself in just 2 years. This will DOUBLE the number of industrial robots in the world and make China the leading robotics country. Impressive stuff.

Apple ALWAYS takes a few days to officially respond to issues like this one. A week is about average. I guess they really have high-level people considering their moves from a PR perspective, or maybe they like to run stuff past their lawyers first or something.

Don't forget about /r/niggers et al

OK seriously that was some of the best support responses to a customer complaint I've read in a LONG time. The support person was super friendly, spoke to several devs internally to get a good resolution, and really tried their best to help this annoyingly persistent customer with their complaint. Calling them names is totally uncalled for here in my view.

If you run RAID 10 on a busy system and a disk fails, everything keeps running at full speed until you replace the missing disk and rebuild your redundancy.

If you run RAID 5 or 6 and a disk fails, suddenly every read operation becomes several times slower because the missing data must be computed from the parity and remaining data channels. If your normal day-to-day load on the storage is too high you are screwed until you rebuild your missing disk.

Yea 100GB is tiny! Our database is several times that big and we're just some random B2B company with a few dozen employees. And we don't use sharding or whatever, it's all just one machine with lots of RAM. We've not even moved it to SSDs yet.

wat

Although Intel mentioned recently that they think they can make it to 8nm

People have been warning developers to 'get ready for multithreading' for at least a decade and somehow everything is mostly the same. Mostly because of abstractions (e.g. on GPUs) and also because the USERS of our software are ALSO getting parallelised! So we're back to one thread for one user, since most of the time you really don't want to do loads of work for one user request. Cases where parallelism matters (graphics, data stores, query engines) are already pretty solid on multithreading anyway.

Meh.

If you don't know the requirements to the point that you can't even design a data structure for your project... A schemaless database is NOT going to save you.

Right there with you. The excuses I hear for not wanting to use a good 'ole RDBMS just does not make sense to me sometimes. CREATE TABLE too hard? Time consuming? Difficult?

Those who do not study the history of databases are doomed to repeat it. Soon we'll add back row-level write locks, transaction logging, schemas, multiple indexes and one day they wake up with MongoSQL.

This is so obviously a scam. 100% scam in my view. The 'customer' is anonymous, clearly just a figment of Rossi's imagination.