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> Also you need to eat vitamins

Since when did "vitamins" replace "fruit and vegetables"?

> only two UUNet DNS servers

I'm talking about their publicly accessible caching DNS servers, of which are there are far more than two. I'm not talking about the ones they register with the domain registrar to host their authoritative zone files. That's completely different.

> both of which are on the same network. You've just exchanged the load from 13 servers across the Inernet to two servers on a single network.

That's not how DNS works. Furthermore, that's the entire role of a cache server.

There's a big difference between understanding a job and being able to do it.

I define success by a market capitalization of one billion dollars or more.

Is that cut and dry enough for you?

Dude, he runs a small business on the internet. I'm talking about companies like YouTube, Google, and yes, Doubleclick like the person above you said.

> if you don't exercise and don't actively try to build muscle.

Which is why I said "Get Off Your Ass".

> More polite

No, this intuition is incorrect.

By using one of UUNet's (or someone else's) public caching name servers, you're increasing the cache diversity in a very widely used public cache and reducing the overall load on the global root name servers AND domain-level authority servers by reducing cache misses and reducing query traffic in a cumulative manner.

Think about it in terms of extremes/limits. If everyone on the internet ran their own server, would the root infrastructure slow down or speed up?

Personally I think it's somewhat insane and counterproductive to setup a DNS server on your laptop - not only are you wasting your own CPU cycles, you're wasting the CPU cycles of the root name servers and CPU cycles of the domain-level authority servers. Why do that when there are numerous public cache servers setup specifically for this very purpose?!

There's a reason those massive cache servers are accessible by the public internet. They help it work.

That guy is a quack.

No, those numbers are way off. If you eat 1000 calories a day and are male, you will almost definitely be in poorer health. You will lose muscle and gain fat %, and while you may be "lighter", you will almost definitely be fatter.

Use fitday.com or something to ACTUALLY TRACK (yes, actually, as in EVERY DAY) the calories you eat. You can't "guess" something like this. Furthermore, google for 'daily caloric expenditure calculator' and find out exactly how much someone of your height and build is burning, and eat accordingly.

Stop guessing! It obviously doesn't work.

Protip: Skip configuring BIND and use UUNet's original name servers (which are blazingly fast and still maintained) because you've been staring at DNS settings for so god damn long they've been burning into your brain for the past 15 years.

Protip #2: Also learn to configure your DHCP client so this is possible.

I really have to ask, as a resident of California - have there been any massively successful startups to come out of NYC?

I'm being honest when I say I can't think of a single one. Maybe my memory has selection bias since I live in the bay area and LA.

Based on personal experience I would say that tech companies in NYC have a huge disadvantage because they're competing with hedge funds and investment banks for engineering talent.

> I didn't tell myself I had done a favor

Trust me, if you weren't a delusional prick or egotist, nobody blames you personally for failure. Failure happens, it's a startup.

The problem is that a high percentage of people who actually have the balls to helm a startup are delusional egotists.

> engineers and technical people whose jobs you don't understand

If you're CEO and you don't understand what your engineers do, you're in trouble.

I imagine you're being facetious.

> Use finally to stabilize program state when exceptions are thrown > Catch and handle exceptions locally when the effects of the error are local and completely understood > Wrap independent units of work in try-catch blocks to handle errors that have global impact

... isn't this what everybody does?

> Technology seems to make cultural borders disappear, but sometimes these borders are very strong.

That's because the media insists on redrawing the borders to make foreigners (especially ones with slanty eyes) appear as different from you as humanly possible.

> terrible generalizations

An American news article with terrible and inaccurate generalizations about Asian people? I'm shocked.

Apple products are immensely popular in all of Asia, because they're fucking awesome and appeal to Asians for the same reasons they appeal to Americans, for the most part. But there's no news story in that - Apple products are popular everywhere, so what.

Write a story about how Apple is being rejected using some half-cocked cultural stereotypes about Japanese people that ignorant head-nodders will use to reaffirm their own prejudices - that'll get clicks.

> but most of us in the real world have been trying that for years, and with little result

Oh please. If you followed all those points and didn't lose weight, you're defying the laws of physics.

Use fitday.com to actually count your calories. If you're doing all those things and STILL can't lose weight, the simple fact of the matter is you're eating TOO MANY CALORIES.

You're probably one of those people who has no idea that a small cheeseburger, fries, and a coke represent over HALF of the calories you're supposed to eat in a single day.

> Has anyone tried the Shangri-La Diet

No, but I've tried the Get Off Your Ass and Don't Eat More Than 2000 Calories Per Day diet, and it works really well.

> This is a lifestyle thing

"Losing weight" is a lifestyle thing... people with healthy lifestyles aren't fat, no matter what. I believe this is one of those rules to which there aren't any exceptions.

> You didn't say what you were drinking

Yeah, well, part of the problem I was drinking anything I could get my hands on.

I stopped drinking a 6 weeks ago and I've lost 15 pounds.

You might be surprised how much alcohol (not just the calories) is contributing to your fat ass.

Yeah, well, you don't need a college degree to drink a bunch of booze, have sex with lots of chicks, and do lots of interesting drugs and hang around with interesting people, but it's how most people go about doing those things when they're 18-22 years old.

American ISPs have been doing this with failed DNS lookups for years.

Yeah, the people I work for would never stand up and sing me happy birthday.

In other words, the #1 thing for a CS student to know is that the world does not stop at the borders of computer science.

Teach yourself about money, finances, and the absolute basics of contract law. There's a reason why lawyers, accountants, and the like make very good livings.

As a programmer, you should be aware of the distinction between syntax and semantics.

> And I've been around enough Chinese Americans to know that yes, a lot of them do look down on white Americans, for the aforementioned reasons as well as others.

Yeah, so you know it's bullshit logic.

> All human sub-populations are not equal

You look down on hispanics, do you think Asian Americans look down on you because your racial "subpopulation" is behind theirs in college degrees, graduate degrees, and median income?

> That doesn't say much about any given individual. It does say a lot about groups.

Why are you repeating everything I just said?

> As a manager, especially when I'm not coding in the project, I need some way to know how hard the engineers are working

You could just ask them in a clever manner, you know.