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If you look at the energy expenditures for maintaining a library over a decade, let alone a century, a paper book would be far more environmentally friendly.

I'm not so sure. The longer a book is in existence, the more expensive it is to maintain. Over time, books fall prey to dust, mites, mold, acids used to treat the paper. As books wear out, you upgrade to newer printings. Very similar things happen to computer files; bit rot, format support, etc.

From an energy standpoint, there's a lot more up front energy needed to produce a book than an e-book. After it's created and read, an e-book sits on a hard drive or a flash drive, unused, and thus uses little to no energy for storage. Physical books, on the other hand, require dusting and cleaning, which requires energy in the form of a fed human being and/or a vacuum cleaner.

In in depth comparison between the two types of libraries would be very interesting. Even after typing all of that, I'm not sure which one would come out on top.
Ideally, upward, downward and lateral communication channels have people on both ends who are sensitive to issues created by timing. One of the roles of a leader in some organizations is to model desired behavior and develop productive habits throughout the team.

Since there are many more lateral communication channels within a team and there is an aspect of being a technical lead that is being a peer to the team's members [and not "the boss"], there is more productivity to be gained when all team members communicate in ways that reflect awareness of the state of the communication channel from the other person's perspective.

The problem with the internet text boxes is that complex human interactions get sketched and lose important details.
This is basically my answer as well. I'm the first to admit that my tastes are not very well in line with conventional wisdom (I also cant stand Pixar films..) The closer your tastes are to that sort of normative, middle of the road taste the more useful aggregated reviews will likely be.

Using a single reviewer (or several) only works when someone's tastes are predictable. Using aggregate reviews, can remove the kind of predictability that I can use to predict wether I'd like the movie.
> I sympathize with the tinfoil hat crowd

This is inflammatory insulting language and your use makes me trust Dropbox even less. The thing is that post Snowden companies like the one you work for are assumed to be in the wrong on privacy and the "tinfoil hat crowd" as you put it are demonstrably correct. Companies (and individuals) don't use Dropbox because they trust it (anymore) they use it because they think that they documents they store there don't have any important intellectual property that the US government can pass to their competitors/ will contribute much to the sum total of what the NSA data store knows about them.
The title and major thrust of the article is that ebooks are generally bad. The real point only made at the end though is that they aren't, they're only bad when corporations and DRM are in-control.

Imho, if they had been clearer from the get-go that the problem is DRM, not ebooks in-general, it would be much more powerful.
Spammy tech recruiters are bad but corrupt recruiters and hiring practices are much worse"

I live in Canada and I am amazed at the amount of corruption/nepotism I see in IT hiring for government IT jobs. They will put out job requirements for senior java dev or web developer and you are supposed to fill out a matrix of required skill. In those supposedly mandatory skills/experiences, they will put in some weird shit --stuff no one outside the hiring manager's inner circle would know; this supposedly mandatory skill is used to weed out outsiders, allowing the hiring manager to hire their chosen people. In the 15 years I have been consulting as a Java developer, I have not received one interview call for any open position with any level government despite having all the other requirements. Considering the fact that so many IT initiatives of the government are plagued with controversies and their implementation is rife with incompetence, I feel the the recruiters and the hiring managers have kickback system in place.
SpaceX seems to be using TMR. You'd have to look at the power requirements for TMR. According to TFA, power was a mission driver for New Horizons. Additionally, as others have pointed out, LEO is a very different radiation environment than deep space.
true what the article says...
Give me convenience or give me death.
How I made a Sketch Plugin for my team without knowing code
Interestingly, I've read an article that explains why it's easy to make a great cup of coffee in Denver. The boiling point of water in Denver is 202, so you can add coffee to boiling water and it's right at the right temp (something that would be a big no-no at sea level).
In the US I've been approached by a lot of headhunters/recruiters from the finance industry, usually throwing salary numbers at me before even saying what it is I would be doing for the world. I agree that the tech industry is mostly directly advertised, as it should be.
respect for the law must trump

Why?
It's regulated capitalism... You may not agree with the laws governing investments for private companies, but surely you can understand the motivation for protecting investors?
This is one of the major reasons why Google acqui-hires so many startups. It's the only way for VPs/SVPs to get people they actually want.
> It's the same attitude I have around pirating movies or shows: if a movie company won't let me pay them to let me watch a movie/TV show via Steam, Netflix, or even from their own site, then I'll just watch it on Popcorn Time and it's their loss.

I'm with you, up until here. If I buy some content (e-book, movie, TV show, etc.), and then DRM malfunctions or is senselessly restrictive (client doesn't exist for some platform, etc.), I feel it is justifiable to "pirate" the content which I paid for. Particularly in the case of malfunctioning DRM (which is unfortunately common for PC games these days), it is the provider who failed to hold up their end of the bargain (whatever their EULA may say).

But of all the things studios do, deciding where to sell or not sell content is something that they actually have every right to do. We are entitled to content we paid for, but are not entitled to content just because it exists. If HBO doesn't want to release Game of Thrones during the season to Amazon, etc. because they want people to watch it on their network, what right do I have to steal it because I don't want to pay for cable?
Digital goods are fundamentally non-excludable and non-rivalrous (sometimes anti-rivalrous, as with software). Thus the semantics of "theft" do not apply. At worst it would be free-riding, which has different implications.
My point was that this particular article doesn't tie-in with the others and instead focuses on this specific case rather than taking this case as an instance of the larger problem and driving the issues with the larger problem home.

(Perhaps I was not as clear as I should have been either, doh!)
If whoever downvoted that would care to explain why, I'd be interested. I thought I was providing a potentially-helpful clarification of something easy to misunderstand. If in fact (e.g.) I completely misunderstood what kartan meant, or was rude in some way I still can't see, it would be good to know. Thanks!
Holy god, that's a job in technology? Sounds like your typical retail wage slave situation here in the US. Even entry level tech jobs are in the $40-$50k range generally.
Wrong. In _Europe_ it's going to get snarfed up by those hypocrites _and_ by the NSA.
The mysql driver needs additional work. In particular, it needs a '--single-transaction' flag, or a global lock, to ensure that the dump is consistent - particularly if you want to dump multiple databases concurrently.

Doing one dump per table with chunking (each file has N rows) would help with both speed and disk sizes of backups by allowing S3 or some other program to implement de-duplication between incremental backups.

It also wouldn't hurt to capture the binlog position, if available, to enable point in time recovery.

Have a look at mydumper for an idea of how another tool implemented these:

https://launchpad.net/mydumper
/s :)

Can't they just siphon the data they believe they need into their own little silos before it gets scrapped? Oh right, probable cause and all that…
Wow, I wouldn't have thought that. Thanks much for the information.
I'm not saying piracy has had no part in a positive change in society. I know that, without Napster, stuff like iTunes and Spotify couldn't exist. I know that Spotify itself started out with a repository of pirated music. I know that many cable companies and radio stations just started off by illegally rebroadcasting other networks' content.

The recurring pattern is that these people committing acts of piracy had a larger goal/conclusion in mind. They often ended up legally servicing and selling media and entertainment on a far larger scale than they ever illegally stole it. These people didn't have the resources and content to go about their business otherwise, and saw fit to commit acts of theft in the short-term to convince people that the core of their structure was worth getting access to content legally. The vast majority of pirates don't have such ambitions. They just want free movies.
Why inkjet printing speed is always slower than laser?
I just wonder for a technical explanation about why at same quality level (Best, for example), inkjet printing speed is always slower than that of laser one?

Can inkjet be made to print as fast as laser at the same quality setting?
Really? Terrible companies and terrible people?

Do you know how agencies work? You do understand that employers contact them and ask them to find people, to organise their payroll, do relevant checks e.g. confirm right to work, security, skills etc. And these companies know they will be paying a % to the agency and this is because they dont want to do that work themselves they just want a competent worker in place asap.

Those same employers could spend their time searching job boards for suitable candidates but they don't want to so they outsource.

As for the OP saying they are taking 15% of his money. That's not the case. In most cases the Employer will agree a rate with the agency, so they will be a maximum of e.g £250 a day for the contractor and a 15% fee to the agency. So they are paying out around £290 per day to the agency. If the contractor was located directly do you think they would pay him/her £290 per day? No they would pay £250 as they know that is the going rate. they pay the agency fee so they dont have to go through the recruitment process e.g. post adverts, interview people (phone), interview (in person) skill check, right to work check etc.
> If you look at the energy expenditures for maintaining a library over a decade, let alone a century, a paper book would be far more environmentally friendly.

I suspect that the energy cost of maintaining a paper book at a decent temperature for a decade would be orders of magnitude worse than the energy cost of backing up an ebook for a decade.

My concern is that after a decade, all mirrors of the ebook might disappear.
Until then, have a look at "mydumper", which does both parallel dumps at a table level, but also chunking, which makes de-duplication possible.
They're using changes in the "Interested in" or "gender" fields on your profile.
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Funny - the author divides hand-held images through history as work-related (the people) vs authority-related (the ruling class) e.g. swords, books. Then they go on to wonder why the iPhone is the great equalizer, since it is work-related and the rich and poor alike hold one.

I wonder why a phone is arbitrarily labeled work-related, and not ruling-related. It serves to free us from communication tethers, allow entertainment/socialization anywhere, give instructions and get advice. More like a ruling class tool than a shovel.
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You are using your experience at two of of the best technology companies in the world to trash the author's criticism of the recruiting in the "IT" industry.

Your comment was very tone deaf.
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This is very suspect and very hard to believe. I've been on polling boards in a much (much) smaller country, and it would be logistically impossible to carry out fraud on that scale (25%) without it being widely documented.

The suggestion that there are enough police (including SWAT none the less) to watch over tens of thousands of polling stations and enforce this is even stranger. And this is from a miniscule country compared to Russia (size mentioned because of the logistics challenge of such an endeavour). There were such stories in my country as well, previously, but were generally propaganda from the opposition at the time.
Your suggestion does not really do much towards furthering mutual understanding between people of differing opinions. Instead, it would appear that throwing that sort of invective into the mix would serve only to reinforce each group's previously held beliefs. The answer isn't always to "talk back and hit harder."
> If you're living in SF and married to someone in tech, odds are you make enough to qualify as an accredited investor anyways-- the per annum barrier is pretty low.

I'm not, and I'm not. I recognize that not everyone is sophisticated enough to do well at startup investing, but it's no one's place to tell me that I should be legally forbidden from making my own financial decisions. And I deeply resent the patronizing attitude of anyone who supports that prohibition.
The irony is that we do charge for smells, it's called perfume, and it can be quite expensive
Just buy the paperback or get it from the library. Actual books are great and have no ethical concerns unlike the ones the FSF has raised on e-books. Kindles are cool technology but a paper back is still better for actually reading. Libraries are fantastic and I still like physical books stores as well. If you "want to read what you want" the path is clear, read actual books.
My voicemail recording is just several minutes of classical music with the occasional "All of our representatives are currently busy at this time. Please stay on the line and we'll be with you shortly." at regular intervals.
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I know, it just ticks me off when people act like they're on some fucking morally righteous journey of freedom against the evil companies, and not just finding a sleazy way to get free movies like every other broke college kid.
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People can be persuaded otherwise. They had no problem drinking tap water until water bottle sellers told them otherwise.

Additionally, desalinating water provides more water to go into the water recycling process, without needing to wait for rain.
You are correct, it's not theft. It's counterfeiting, which is worse. If you steal a TV, it can be counted as a loss and the TV manufacturer can still sell TVs with little to no problems.

If enough people pirate, it changes the perceived value of a digital good to $0 or near $0 and will eventually put the person out of business. The big businesses can handle it just fine. The small companies are the ones you are hurting.

The app store, while not pirating, is a good example of this. Apps are no 99 cents. If you try to make an app more expensive than this, people generally will complain or not buy it at all. Why? Because the perceived value of an app is 99 cents.

It's very similar to the principals of currency.
script and scriptreplay are awesome, but this isn't exactly the same thing. The docs clearly state "asciinema was inspired by script (and scriptreplay) commands".

The magic of asciinema is all about playback in the browser. In fact you can combine the two, for example, you can play back a script file, and then playback the playback in asciinema:

https://asciinema.org/a/7975

Now that I think about it, it would be cool if asciinema could directly load files created by script. I'm not sure if there's any difference between the two capture tools.
>and in time men transitioned to helpful spouses later.

And that was only possible because of the development of the 40 hour work week. Most men weren't home enough to be very helpful around the house until then.
> "apt-get -y install foo" that means that you want "foo" to be installed. If it's already installed, it just does nothing.

not really. If you do that it means that you want to update foo to the latest version the system knows about.

And other commands fail if the thing they are supposed to to is already done. Like `adducer`. So you could still run it and assume a failure to mean "the user already exists" - but it could of course also mean: "the user didn't exist, but creating it failed".

Then you start to have a look at the exit code which may be different between the two cases.

But every command behaves differently, so you need to learn all of this.

With Ansible (or puppet), the syntax is always the same and the actually needed operations are abstracted away.
Sure, I'm not saying that there aren't any ways to hack still. And that's especially so in regards to legacy platforms, like the PC. But for newer devices, and for future devices (like, say, VR appliances), it looks like we're taking, or at risk of taking, a big step backwards.

I also acknowledge that if you're willing and able to (find|build|buy) hardware that skates around patent law and the like, then you have more options. And as long as that's a possibility, that's a Good Thing. But I still argue that it's a Bad Thing when major computing platforms become "lock down by default".

OTOH, I don't mean to be all "gloom and doom". Clearly there have been some positive developments over the past few years. The resurgence of the burgeoning DIY/hacker/maker movement, the advent of cheap single-board-computers like Arduino, rPi, BeagleBone, etc., are all good signs. But as they say "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty".
Yeah I realised this was very much how I got into a state of burnout in the first place - and I was staying in a role through guilt, not enjoyment.

I guess from your comments and my situation it should mean not returning to the role.
Just as an aside as the original article seems to think that the recruiter is taking money from him, i.e.t he 15% is 15% he could be receving. It does not work like that. Most employers know what the going day rate is for their required skill set. If they got a contractor directly they would pay the day rate, they would not bump it up 15% because they didn't go through an agency. they pay the agency fee to undertake the work of locating the contractor. If they do the work to locate the contractor themselves why would they pay the contractor extra? They would not.

Its almost as if the article writer has so little knowledge of how recruitment works that he is a target for shitty people in the industry, kind of like how once you respond to a Nigerian prince loads of scammers come out of the woodwork.
This is plainly not true. O'Reilly sells their books DRM-free to a very technical audience. In the US, at least, music that is purchased() today is sold without DRM.

DRM is user hostile and not required to make money.

() purchased does not include Spotify, Apple Music, etc. of course, because those are specifically renting the music.
Are they trying to re-invent smartphones (or tablets) ? Sorry but IMO it seems useless and irrelevant mainly because of Cloud services => it will become rapidly personal (netflix, spotify, solu accounts...), no way I'll give that to a friend
Agreed; I'd also dispute that the existence of early pirates gated the creation of other later (legitimate) businesses. The pirates might have shown folks what was possible, a little earlier than would otherwise have happened. But they did not possess any superior imagination or initiative. It would have happened in a different way.
Inkjet and laser printer, best usage utilization?
Let's say I have 2 printers: 1 monochrome laser printer and 1 inkjet printer using all CMYK pigment ink.

On what type of print job should I use what printer to best utilize both? (Suppose I use refill ink/toner so no ink cost factor here)
This was quite excellent. You could just as well find & replace "IT" with "marketing", too.
phone rings

"Hello?"

"Hello, is this Cloud Strife?"

(pausing a moment to consider whether even to continue) "...Yeah."

"Hey, Cloud, how's your afternoon going? My name is Michael Gravitz and I'm a recruiter for Warmbody Technical Services. I came across your résumé on Dice, and I noticed you have a lot of Buster Sword experience. We've got a great opportunity for a Bodyguard role with an established, profitable company in the electric power industry that I think you'd be a great fit for--"

"It's Shinra, isn't it."

"Bingo! It is Shinra! Out of curiosity, how did you know--"

"Not interested."

"Oh. Okay. Well, do you know anyone who's looking and might be interested in this role?"

"No."

"Oh! Well! I'm so glad to hear that all your friends have jobs, Cloud! You have a great day!"

"Bye."

click
We should grab lunch to chat about this.

Simply put, you split a microservice when you need to split teams.

Microservices aren't a solution to a technical problem, they're a solution to a social/organization problem (described by Conway's law).
They are rent-seekers, pure and simple, and they
leech off our industry.

I'm no fan of recruiters, but nothing stops you applying to the company directly, and nothing stops the company posting their own job ads.
I wonder how these companies/groups will prevent minors from betting? Even countries where gambling is fully legal frown upon underage gambling. I think these startups are not going to be able to dodge all the regulatory problems by pushing the betting onto a blockchain.
I don't really see how it's a sad day when plumbers get more respect than programmers.

Both professions provide skilled, valuable services.
Ordinarily, I paid about 2%. Maybe the rates have changed. I haven't used their services in a long while. Then, I mostly used the services between Kenya and Somalia which are two neighbouring countries.
I don't agree with laws - they are nothing but opinions backed by guns - therefore I don't need to respect any law in any part of the world - I need only respect reasoned arguments that I can agree with.

Respecting laws is no different from accepting bullying. I respect murder and rape laws not because they are laws but because the arguments against killing win over those for killing, and the arguments against rape win over those for rape.

But the arguments against piracy lose to the arguments for piracy.
I never liked overly broad brushes, I understand the author is angry but calling all recruiters names is, I think, not cool.

But, I really enjoyed the funny writing!
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You lost me at suggesting "IT" = "engineer" when speaking to your grandpa.
Complaining about recruiters has to be one of the all-time great humblebrags.

"Oh woe is me--all these people keep calling me to offer well-paying professional jobs!"
Four synthetic biology inventions that flummox the feds
I work in IT and I have literally never received an email from a recruiter. My secret? I don't have a linkedin profile. Yeah, despite what everyone says my life and career have not collapsed without linkedin.
For the longest time, ebooks and physical books were priced about the same by the publishers - even though the revenue structure was different (wholesale vs agency). What they forgot was, because of the reasons above, these products are not equivalent. You can resell, lend, etc a physical book whereas you can't an ebook. The consumer gets that an ebook is intrinsically less valuable (well most consumers; the convenience of not using up physical space or taking up weight with ebooks is a value add for many, but that may depend on price too).