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As the article said, if the recruiter is at that level of box-ticking it would be a major disincentive for me as a hypothetical applicant.

Generally, from the other side a candidate not having experience in RHEL (our bread and butter distro) isn't a deal breaker here. It's somewhat surprising if an applicant has really never used RHEL or CentOS but as you say there frankly aren't that many differences that someone intelligent can't pick up shortly. As long as there's a general knowledge of unix concepts the details of package management and where the config files happen to live isn't enough to get worked up over.

What would be a red flag would be experience in only one distro, ever, even outside work.
I disagree with this as an absolute.

Google will often show cooks.com search results for a search for "X X recipe," and these are typically the correct result, showing a dozen similar recipes for the dish I'm looking to cook.
For the population effects see Julian Simon's "The Great Breakthrough and Its Cause" for the historical analysis. His "Ultimate Resource" talks about the current and recent historical benefits of population.
Well, a physical dollar bill has intrinsic value as well; if nothing else, you could burn it for energy. The intrinsic value is a minuscule fraction of the "official" value, but still nonzero.

The intrinsic value of gold is a lot greater, but probably still only a small fraction of its general market value; its very reputation as synonymous with tangible wealth serves to paradoxically inflate its value.
It certainly did at the moment when I was posting the comment. I did not make a screenshot though.
On Earth they co-evolved from different single-celled (protoctist) ancestors.
At $20B annual, assuming Christmas is a big chunk, I'm guessing $2B (10%) in the last two weeks, 2 minutes would then be worth $200,000?

I think my 10% number is too low, so maybe $500K for two minutes? But this is not profit, just revenue.
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It's a great book for Rails 2. I'd wait for a Rails 3 revision though.
The Na'vi really are little more than noble savages. But they hold out a particular hope that's attractive for technological late-capitalist humans; they feel "connected". In the movie, that metaphor is taken all the way to be a literal connection -- to their communities, to their ancestors, to a spirituality, to their working animals, to the entire ecosystem.

I think that's the only way to understand their ponytail USB cables, and the root-mesh information network. It may be amusing to pretend that it's a hard-SF piece and work out the implications, but it's just not. It's a fantasy piece about the longing for connectedness.

There is (maybe) a secondary theme of viewing an ecosystem as a giant information exchange. But that wasn't explored well.
I don't think that Amazon itself will lose much, since they're well-known enough that most people who fail to reach them will retry later.

I think the small fry using S3 and EC2 will be the ones who are actually hit by this.
Inflation is a tax on hoarding.

If you buy assets, they'll generally keep pace with inflation (with some fluctuation, depending on which assets you've bought.)

If you engage in productive investment of some sort, you'll generally beat inflation and acquire wealth, which is certainly a desired effect.

If you try to sit on your money, investing in nothing, doing nothing, it will dwindle away. And most people in society are pretty happy with that, because it really means "if you're rich, that's fine... but if you want to stay rich you need to continue contributing to society, if only by loaning others your money for a return."
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Are you referring to me? I certainly don't want anyone to think that I "know all the differences between multiple Lisp families and multiple implementations within families". Life is much too short to spend a lot of cycles on trivia.
"Why, in the Linux world should it matter if I have experience with CentOS instead of Unbreakable?"

I think it should matter to employers. No doubt you could learn OEL very quickly but I'm sure it has a bunch of little oddities and quirks that could make the day-to-day administration and troubleshooting more difficult for someone without practical OEL experience. From the employer's stand point if they can find someone who knows PAC & OEL inside-out why would they take any chances? It may reflect the job market more than your skill set or the company policies on recruitment. It's very likely they can find a candidate who meets their exact requirements. (Personally I would have just lied and spent the next couple of days learning OEL inside-out to back up my lies)
I have no intention of seeing the movie, although I may when it's on DVD if I get sufficiently bored. If you can find a copy see Benford's essay "Reactionary Utopias", originally written as a reaction to Ursula Leguin's anti-industrial screeds masquerading as science fiction.
Yes, that's arguably true. That's also a completely boring semantic argument that completely misses what the guy was trying to express.
Do you think it might catch up once it is available again? It is a pretty serious shopping destination, and possibly people retry.
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It's rather dated, but Asimov's book, "The Dark Ages" is fairly readable, and gives a decent overview.
I'm sorry. I don't really care enough about eating to do a research on it. I just cited advice I've seen lately because It was just as verbose as in my opinion it should be and was in line with the things I've read earlier.
Why wouldn't such a company run their own name servers? I understand it's "yet another thing to maintain," but I've set up bind before... didn't seem that bad.
having just now read the article, it appears they are using wifi to connect players. bluetooth isn't usable by third-party programs if you've got an original 2g iphone, so they've widened their target market a bit that way.

therefore, there's no need for gps. i suspect it wouldn't be accurate enough to do any good, even if you wanted to use it. there's no reason to determine whether a player is in range or not; the program knows which players are in the game from the very beginning.

also, i'm guessing that they don't use an internet server to mediate games. there's no real need for one, and eliminating that need means the game is less expensive to maintain.
You are crazy for doing that - one instance of downtime doesn't justify ignoring all the advantages DNS brings.
That's like saying a supernova is not significant because it's not the Big Bang.
Only if TC was hosted there.
Sometimes you just need memory management and some powerful abstractions with which to blow yourself up.
It really depends on downtime, if it was more than say an hour a lot of people would probably buy elsewhere, small amount of downtime you wouldn't think would effect sales though.
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> I'm kinda wondering how large your social circles are if you don't know anyone in that situation.

And I'm kind of wondering what sort of circles you move in if you know several people in that situation.
You're actually paying that "interest" as actual interest to people who buy treasury bills.

Where did you think the interest on t-bills comes from?

So "who it benefits" is simple: Whoever buys treasury bills.
"Several mental disorders, including bipolar disorder, can be rapidly ameliorated by a resetting of the body clock."

What she conveniently fails to mention is that there is no evidence that this works in the absence of pharmacologic measures. The reference for the actual original research can be found at PMID 19358978.
She is like the Malcolm Gladwell of biological science (typically, but not always, with a sex-bio slant since that is her background).

What will be her Igon Value, I wonder? (Sincere question.)
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One major point you seem to have missed, most people have very little of their wealth held as raw currency.

Most people have wealth held in real estate, stocks, bonds, cars, businesses, retirement accounts, etc... and a comparative few bucks of cash.

So even if you take the view that it's compound annual interest to the central bank, you're only paying it on the amount of money that you float as cash and non-investment accounts. And in return you get a managed, reasonably predictable currency.
This is a good introduction to Git. Some of the pictures chosen to illustrate points are hilarious, like the smoking angel, or the RCS shack.
And from the article it doesn't sound to be the case. It's the same thing that happens with programming languages.
All deflation is bad if you owe anybody else any money at all. Mortgage, Car Note, Credit Card.

If we had a stretch of deflation, the proportion of that debt (which does not deflate) to your now-deflated income would push you into bankruptcy.
The last time I was employed I got frustrated with this having deployed 5 applications to customers in a few months on my own, and simply negotiated a contracting role. We came up with a fixed price for each job, bugs included, and I tried to make as much per hour as possible. My hourly rate ended up being >250$/hr, and the application is still in production now 7 years after deploying.

The other comments are correct; if you aren't willing to take any risk, then you don't deserve the benefits. If you think you are good, put your money where your mouth is :)
Another idea about Avatar... maybe this is very loopy, but is it possible that the Na'vi are a metaphor for the internet, and its more democratic culture? Maybe an unconscious one?

They live in this world which is literally founded on an information network. People from the default world enter this other world via technology, and by creating avatars which are remotely controlled. There is a power struggle between those who see the communities as something to exploit, and those who see them as something valuable for their own sake.
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No, Peopleware's research was on the productivity of individuals at different organizations. To be precise what they did is arranged a series of "coding wars" where multiple organizations would each select 2 individuals and all would code up solutions to the same problem in the language of their choice. People were asked to keep a log of what they did, and describe various things about their environment.

They found an order of 10 productivity difference that showed up under any of a number of possible measures. The also found that the best predictor of a given person's productivity was the productivity of the other person from the same organization. They also identified a number of workplace environment issues that were strongly correlated with productivity.

This overall picture comes with many caveats. Individual productivity differences were still quite significant. They didn't have any way to tell correlation versus causation. (To what extent does a better environment make programmers better, versus correlate with being able to hire and retain them?) The coding assignments were fairly small. So don't read too much into the result.

But given the size of the difference, and that it is one of the few attempts to quantify these issues, it isn't a result to take lightly either.
Note that this rewrites history and changes the commit ids (i.e. the SHA hashes). That could be seen as a feature. The same thing happens if you rebase a branch.
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What about your income? Is that keeping pace as well? I know mine surely isn't.
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Another advantage of DVCS that wasn't mentioned in the slide deck is that, with git (and other DVCSes), you are always working in a revision controlled arena. Git's got your back.

When I used RCS, I was always working in a revision controlled arena - all my changes were revision controlled, assuming I checked them in... and after the first or second disaster, I learned to check things in. Frequently.

When I used CVS/SVN, I lost the ability to always work in a revision controlled arena (theoretically I still had the ability, but doing it was such a hassle that it simply did not happen). I ended up checking out a copy from SVN and then locally revision controlling my changes in RCS. Ugly.

Working without git is like driving without seat belts. You can do it and probably nothing bad will happen... but if something bad does happen, it is the difference between walking away a bit sore and an extended hospital visit.
I don't know, I don't think it'd be as much as 4 - 7 days before Christmas. Most people know that it's too late to order from Amazon or any other online-only store by the night of Dec. 23. It's probably more money than they'd lose normally, but maybe not that significant?

I have no data to back that up, it's pure speculation.
But inflation is a good antidote to deflation. That's why we are willing to put up with it. There's a great post in this thread that goes into more detail.
If your real income is decreasing, then your real income is decreasing, no matter what currency is in use. They're essentially unrelated.

The only "benefit" of inflation to employers is that it makes it easier to implement wage cuts without facing resistance. That said, if you took away inflation as a way to hide wage cuts, nominal wage cuts would be the new normal in a lot of fields.
And the Deutsche Mark made great wallpaper. The intrinsic value of an object created for a lost purpose is worth less than the materials it's made out of.

Gold, on the other hand, has a naturally limited supply and has notable uses. It's reputation as a symbol of wealth is not only because of the cost, but also because there's not enough for everybody. If there was a limited supply of denim, we'd see a big comeback in Storm Riders.

It's like owning a Tesla - it's not just a $100k car, it implies that you're a somebody.
In other words: this is about publishing, specifically who's doing the publishing. In the current world, entities other than the artist publish the artist's music. Zed wants to create a music-only browser that retrieves and renders metadata that is published directly by the artist. Get rid of the publisher/distributor in-between the artist and the listener. This is definitely where the world is headed. I don't think a new browser is the missing bridge to getting there, though.
Yes, I use Latex on my Mac Book Pro (Snow Tiger). Works very well.
They are all sorts of people - one was a childhood friend that I played with when I was 3. Another is a 60-something friend of my mother's. A third (not sure if she's actually been foreclosed upon yet) is my former landlady.

It is good to have friends - or at least acquaintances - outside of the high-powered tech industry circles. Helps you keep perspective.
I feel similarly. To me, as a (primarily) Debian user, there's Debian and all the distros that descend from it, then there's all the others. This differentiation exists in my mind primarily because of the difference in package management.

It's not that I couldn't use CentOS and stuff (I have and still do to some extent), but I certainly have a much harder time of it. I guess that would probably change pretty quickly if I really wanted it to.

I don't want to though.
If you find Latex too daunting, take a look at Lyx. It works more like a WYSIWYG word proc without changing the Lyx/Latex concept of writing what you mean.

One huge win with Latex is that if your publication is formatted to, say ACM guidelines, and it gets rejected, it takes less than a day to convert to IEEE transactions guidelines. With a WYSIWYG word proc, even with extensive use of styles, it would take many days to achieve the same level of transformation.
This is why I've never been impressed with people who are supposedly 10x programmers, but are actually people who just hammer out tons of code in response to any given problem.

It strikes me that I'm seemingly one of the few people at my workplace who can handle abstracted functionality comfortable and make use of third party code/libraries without fear.

tl;dr, I wrote a customer service app for my company in about a week flat.
When I made that design decision I wasn't considering the possibility of DNS outages at all; I was just thinking in terms of "there's a huge number of places between me and ultradns where someone could insert a spoofed DNS response".
"How did he get that good?"

Ask Justin?

Maybe someone here who knows him can ask him and post the reply, oeven better, ask him to post. Once of the reasons I enjoyed "Coders At work" was that this question in (at least implicitly) answered by some great programmers.
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> I've heard that inflation doesn't actually 'tax' you because all nominal prices adjust so they have similar (previous) real values. If inflation increases, so do your wages, prices at stores, and interest rates (savings rate, loans rate, etc).

What are the odds that each and every one of those will change in exactly the right amount?

For example, fixed interest things won't change. My mortgage payment doesn't change with inflation.
If the economy suddenly switched from a 3% steady inflation to 3% deflation, than yeah, that would be very bad for debtors. Conversely, a sudden switch from 3% deflation to 3% inflation would be very bad for creditors and holders of dollars. But I'm talking about what would be good in steady-state. In steady state, borrowers take expected inflation/deflation into consideration. So the net result would be the ratio of home prices and mortgages to income would fall (which would be a good thing, IMO, because I think Americans have too much debt).
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A good point.

Could be taken even further to view it as a regressive tax...
Chances are if one can afford to hold your wealth as you described, she is not living paycheck to paycheck.

Especially relevant in an economy where many may have been forced to drain their savings and now indeed are trying to save raw currency to re-establish.
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Are there DNS servers that support versioning? The best solution I could imagine would simply be to set Tarsnap to normally use the current DNS records for S3, but be able to rollback to a valid zone record if they encounter an update that makes the servers stop resolving.
It doesn't say in the TC article and I can't really tell from this thread. How long was Amazon actually down?
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I have seen a different summary of (less recent) research in the second edition of the Goodwin and Jamison textbook,

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I don't have too much money (I'm 16), but basically all of my wealth is, though not cash, basically in the same situation. I have a checking account earning 0.1%/year and a "savings" account earning 0.2%. So the interest is negligible, and my money is still depreciating just about as fast as cash.

Yeah, when I get older I'll buy stocks, maybe buy a house, etc. But I have a decent amount of wealth, and I'm "paying interest" on all of it.

If interest rates weren't in the toilet right now, I'd look for a savings account paying real interest, a CD, or something of that sort. Luckily the "interest rate" levied on cash is low right now, so it's not worth it to me to bother.
The internet is such a pile of crap. Why all these things can't work perfectly in every browser is just beyond belief. The W3C is worse than the UN.

As a remember: All of these work great in Webkit. Some of these things don't work right in Firefox (the drop shadows are rendered very badly, for example). And none of them at all work in any type of common IE.
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> The Vulcan are one of the most technologically advanced civilizations in The Federation.

The Vulcans were one of the most technologically advanced civilizations in the Federation, but not any longer, you haven't been keeping up.
In order for your first statement to be true, those phones would have to be told only to operate UMTS on T-Mobile AWS frequencies, which is an asinine strategy. The 900/1700/2100 might be a common setup for European T-Mobile phones. T-Mobile phones in the US are almost entirely 850/1900. T-Mobile operates almost exclusively on PCS (1900MHz) frequencies in the US.
I never said 'exactly'. I said 'similar'. Interest rates are a signal, but since the underlying micro economy is constantly changing, the derived macro economy is also changing. Therefore, the (equilibrium) interest rate is constantly changing and always a bit off.

You are right. Some interest rates change; others don't. For instance, you can choose between a fixed and variable annuity IRA accounts. I didn't mean to imply that all interest rates change.
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