Tamerlin

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by Tamerlin 16y ago
That's part of it -- if they're able to respond, or if they're coughing, they're still breathing.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
"Another important thing that they brought up in my training: the first thing to check for before going in to save someone (land or sea) is if the conditions are safe. As far as I know, every trained rescuer is told to put their own safety
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
When I was in lifeguard training, they taught us how to deal with a struggling victim. It was a bit like aikido in the water, except that a panicking victim is probably stronger. The following year they changed the "rules" and the instructo
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Clever isn't it? Instead of just addressing the cause of the negative review so that it gets buried under better ones, let's go and spend a lot of money on a lawyer and make this one review into a PR disaster!
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
I have a few observations to add based on my own experience as well. Due to the fact that most enterprise software is developed by those not qualified to get better jobs, a lot of enterprise software is complex due to bad engineering. The r
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
There are a few things in Jalopnik's analysis that I think are flawed. One, the Volt is crap. It only gets around 50mpg and has a 40 mile battery. It's only suitable for daily commuting. Two, the Japanese auto manufacturers used the model t
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
I've had a number of projects in which the management complained that the developers weren't writing any code, but they refused to take the time to answer our questions about requirements. One actually said that if he was to write down the
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
I don't think the agilistas get it -- there's too much hero worship in the industry, and the newbie developers who haven't bothered to learn how to design software that actually works play right into the hands of the legions of incompetent
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Whole heartedly agree. Are we hired for our skill, or to warm seats? In corporate america, I'd say to warm seats.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
If you want to be totally, brutally, honest about it, companies should pay me a full salary for a half work week. Why? Well, take John Harrington's example (photographer). You book a one-hour shoot, for say $200, to make it an easy number t
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Ruby. The strongest agile proponents that I have met prefer Java. I think that's probably enough to estimate their "caliber" right off the bat. The strongest proponents of agile that I've met use agile as an excuse for cowboy coding, though
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
All of the (few) successful projects I've been on have been ones where the team whole-heartedly rejected agile practices. On the other hand, every single "agile" project I've been on devolved rapidly into a sweatshop environment with a hack
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
XServe is really not much of an indicator, since it's always been a pretty poor seller. Apple never did figure out why the likes of Dell and RackSaver rack-mount server solutions cost 2-4x as much as Apple's, and why everyone else kept buyi
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Not to mention, Apple nearly lost the market entirely during the g4 era, and sales in that segment of the market have been largely static since. The big winner in that was actually Linux though, not Windows.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Experience WILL tell you that the best answer is ALWAYS #1. Don't make it complicated unless you absolutely have to. 99% of the time, you don't, and the architects are full of it, but if they ever admit that, then they lose their job securi
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
If you're an incompetent manager looking for a way to advance, then you WANT people working overtime. It means to your (incompetent) superiors that you are a good leader, and that you need more people, which means more responsibility, and t
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
So you're saying that frogs are smarter than people? ;)
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
You're right, and you shouldn't be getting downvoted for that post. We all know that the levels of overtime described in the EA Spouse post are both unproductive and unhealthy, so it's a case of sacrificing one's health, the quality of one'
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Sadly, you're probably correct. The games industry might be a bit on the extreme side of this, but I don't think it's limited to game programmers.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
If you look at a high enough level of abstraction, the current series of GP-GPUs are basically a large collection of vector processors with a fast interconnect between them -- one that mirrors the mechanism Cray used in its supercomputing s
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
"would a nuclear bomb going off underwater create a tsunami?" Possibly a small one. It would vaporize a large volume of water around the blast, leading to a vast surge in pressure, and as we all know, water isn't compressible. So you'd have
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
That probably means an executable rather than an assembly, but the underlying execution platform is still the .NET virtual machine, and all that goes with the VM, including managed memory. I could be mistaken, of course; I'm not an expert a
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
I'd forgotten that Rackable did they acquiring in that one. Oops :)
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
"Here are my few observations: Break down by STEM: CS,EE,Chem Engg, Mechanical Engg PhD's are much more in demand than Marine Biology PhD's. Thus when Eric Schmidt talks about lack of students it about these fields." Well, duh. The blinding
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
It doesn't consume all that much CPU, though it is possible to saturate it. The trick is to take advantage of the smooth scaling model: you an add memcached nodes until you run out of nodes. The clients have a list of nodes as part of their
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
That does limit the applicability of the Atom-based cluster to things like web applications. It would do nicely for running a memcached cluster, as well, as long as the interconnect latency is low enough.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
The article also describes Lua as a library, so it may just have been simple ignorance. People occasionally ask me what Lisp is when they see the book on my desk while passing by.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
The SGI machines are geared pretty heavily toward supercomputing applications. As such they're tailored for applications that need to share data between processes efficiently, and that also need to do a lot of computing. The SeaMicro server
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
It's not like Apple is a stranger to marketing puffery... remember the SPEC CPU claims for the G5?
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
That's probably because they use their extra revenue to bribe the people whose job it is to take them to task for their deception, rather than investing that money in infrastructure upgrades.

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