I usually like the Guardian, but yeah, they've dropped the ball on this one. "Revolt"? In what possible sense could this be even compared to a popular revolt?
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How many of these "protestors" are there? I haven't seen any pictures of huge crowds. The only photo I have seen showed about 4 or 5 cranky looking people standing in front of a bus.
The whole thing smells like news media being a) lazy and b) hungry for a "conflict" story and so playing right into the protestors' hands. From what I can see, this shouldn't be a story at all.
It's possibly even worse being the driver, but it always struck me what an utterly horrific job that must be and wondering what stress-related illnesses it would produce in the affected employees.
edit: I should clarify that any large body parts are collected by the police or medical personnel. The engineer's job is to certify the integrity of the track and clear it of foreign matter, washing it down too if necessary.
Your willingness to throw people to the wolves because they've pursued their dreams without strict pragmatism about their career prospects is disturbing, to say the least. Do you really think society will be better off without any English professors? Artists? Dreamers? Of course not. So this guy's problem is indirectly everyone's problem.
Anyone who owns one care to share their thoughts?
If this is going to become a regular thing, Betalist, I would recommend a proper comments system. Disqus is OK for blogs but if you intend to have a high value conversation then it's a bad choice, IMO.
If the word "addicting" exists at all, which is debatable, it would be a transitive verb - eg. the pimp's strategy is addicting girls to heroin, then exploiting them
"US arms export regulations force CNC manufacturers to implement anti-relocation lockout mechanisms"
Of course it's not just the manufacturers being dicks; they implement that or they can't import to the USA.
HN is persisted to flat files.
Any hope of being transferred under that category instead?
This is true in some industries but not all. In the world of programming, it is perhaps true for your first couple of jobs. After that, if you have done well, it is basically irrelevant.
If you have access to an excellent CS program like Stanford or MIT, then that is definitely worth it, and any university is good for making social and business connections which can be very valuable later on.
But from a strict getting-a-job perspective - well, I hire programmers for a startup, and I don't place too much weight on a degree. I've seen people with CS degrees who were absolutely useless, and absolute top-notch developers without a degree, and vice versa. I will look at their work and their personalities over some long-ago half-forgotten theoretical knowledge every time.
Great post btw. I am looking forward to getting some production apps onto 2.1 in the coming weeks and seeing how performance characteristics have changed in the new release.
I certainly wouldn't want to live in Seoul if (when?) that comes to pass but wouldn't be too worried even in Japan - it's a good 1000km, and I don't think NK has the tech to get much precision at those distances. Certainly they don't have stealth missiles which would be able to evade JP's considerable number of aegis equipped vessels. They could likely do some damage but I doubt it would be catastrophic.
As for Australia, I wouldn't be worried at all - that's well into ICBM territory, a whole different technological level and NK have never demonstrated anything even close. Not to mention Hawaii is actually closer to Pyongyang than Sydney - if they really can lob missiles ~8000km, why not go for the Great Satan himself?
As for competitiveness, I'm not sure how having more burns victims being paid for by medicare is great for the economy, nor do I see how it's efficient for every homebuilder to be forced to go and become an expert on burns so they know exactly what delivery temperature their taps should be set to. It's far more efficient to have a central expert organisation do this research, then declare it the standard.
I don't agree with it all the time, of course. Bicycle helmets would be my #1 example, where I think the regulatory authorities have made a big mistake not considering all the externalities and second order ramifications of their policy.
Isn't that exactly what government is supposed to do?
The point is that you wrote a very damning indictment of a company, accusing them of theft, and I pointed out they could probably fix your issue if you actually cared, even without the receipt. You then admitted you couldn't be bothered going through the process.
So what you wrote was basically a load of crap. But hey, bitcoin!
The form you filled out when you sent the money had carbon copies, which are retained. If data from the form was mis-typed later, they should be able to check their copy, or you might be able to retrieve a copy from the outlet or receiver or something.
I assure you that no-one in WU is trying to steal $50 from you. Mistakes happen, but there is a paper trail, so if you really care, escalate. They operate under the supervision of your country's financial regulator, whom they are deathly afraid of, and are hardly going to risk their banking license pilfering fifty bucks.
The setup they're using is an nginx serving 8 unicorn workers with a backlog of 256. They then throw requests at that with a concurrency of 20. DB pool is 256 too. It seems to me quite likely that the unicorn queue fills up very quickly and it starts rejecting requests, which could be an error. It's hard to see how a maximum of 8 workers would ever get close to the 256 available DB connections.
At first glance the unicorn setup is totally inadequate for the amount of traffic being thrown at it. The first thing to do would be massively increase both the number of workers and the backlog, otherwise this almost instantly turns into an overflowing request queue and literally millions of errors.
There's no denying, though, that this kind of request flood is not exactly rails' strong point and if you're expecting massive numbers of fairly simple requests you're probably better off with something else.
This post has no point at all. And as someone who does his fair share of hiring, it is terrible advice anyway. If you really, really want another chance, just ask. I'll usually give someone a second shot if they seem to really want it, and give them an opportunity to explain why I was wrong the first time.
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I'm slightly less happy about the HTTP live streaming being in the Plus package, though. I've been playing around a lot with a media app using HLS and I can't even trial using nginx for it - not that I'd be too happy paying $1300 a year since I don't have a single user yet. I can see how they are trying to get money out of the big streaming companies, but it's not too friendly to the little guy.
In this case, if they kept the same setup, I can see that it would be prohibitively expensive to pay for nginx plus on every single one of those VMs. I'm not sure of the nginx's license terms but if they count VMs as a separate server - probably a no go.
A better solution might be to turn all those VMs into application servers and put a big meaty nginx reverse proxy in front of them; that sounds like it would reduce the nginx bill but could be an awful lot of work. Then again, I presume they have automation, you'd hope so with hundreds of VMs...
My point is that it's likely not quite as simple as a grand a year, which would likely be a no-brainer if it was a site license.
With respect, what did you expect? To be able to play the full game before it is installed?
> Oh, and if I want online multiplayer, I usually have to download a 700MB patch
Oh, the horror. I am guessing that could take as long as 10 minutes!
Talk about your first world problems....
My god. I used to think I was a bit of a rock star, with (rails) web sites exceeding 100 requests/second on my resume. 1.5 million requests per second ... I cannot even really imagine that.