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Intel's CEO, Andy Grove later wrote in his book "Only the Paranoid Can Survive" that the crisis had marked Intel's transition from being run-of-the-mill B2B operation to major B2C brand.

Before the crisis Intel viewed itself as just yet another supplier of microchips to powerful OEM's, a pure business to business operation that had computer manufacturers as their customers. They genuinely believed that it's up to end-product manufactures to handle user's compaints and then settle any issues with Intel account managers in the privacy of company meeting rooms.

What Intel didn't realise is that their prior advertising campaign that was hammering "Intel Inside" into consumers' minds and re-enforcing the belief that a PC powered by Intel microprocessor is superior to any other PC was incredibly successful. Intel became a consumer brand, but the company didn't have the structure, nor the mindset to serve the end-consumers directly!

When the denial was over and it became apparent what the actual problem is - not the microprocessor flaw, but the company's perception of itself - Intel moved with energy, quickly and decisively: hired hundreds extra staff, changed reporting lines, created an entirely new end-consumer servicing structure - all within weeks.

I thoroughly recommend reading Andy Grove's book for the Intel's side of the story.

http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/bios/grove/paranoid.htm
http://www.amazon.com/Only-Paranoid-Survive-Andrew-Grove/dp/...
How do you document your mysql database tables and fields
I was wondering how do you create documentation about a mysql database tables and fields (when building a database). Do you use any software? Or?
Asking for a website URL in a users profile setup can give you the same information and more. Not a one-size-fits-all option obviously, but a useful one nonetheless.
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Backbones seem to be mostly fine. Well, I've got my /48 from Hurricane Electric and had no serious problems except for minor disturbance with my Nokia N900, which needed custom kernel (weirdly, official one has no IPv6 support).

Except that IPv6 space is too empty. There's nothing much out there — Google, Debian & Ubuntu mirrors, Python docs... that's almost all I've noticed to use over IPv6. This is the reason nor ISPs nor users go v6, even those who can. And, on the other side, almost no hosting providers give v6 addresses to their customers, so almost no websites appear at v6 Internet. I believe this is the most important problem: there's really almost nothing to do with IPv6 nowadays.

IANA should really encourage LIRs to get v6 blocks, but they're not doing it at all.
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There's two ways I create database tables:

- either I create them through an ORM, in which case I don't document the database tables or fields, I document the object instead.

- or I create it "by hand", in which case I use the standard comments to document the tables and the fields in my schema file
I remember playing with QNX when it was a 'fits on a floppy disc' OS. It’s really not a new kernel.
I guess you could look at it both ways. When building something you are only as strong as your weakest link. Closest analogy would be the "for want of a nail" in the Art of War.

And when you think of quality "German engineering" tends to get a stamp of approval. It implies that no detail was overlooked or under resourced. It probably doesn't mean much when buying a cheap toy, but if you are spending 40-80k on a car it is reassuring.
The OP was an honest reply, and it's a good reply. No point being a prude.

Q. What do you do to relax?
A. Play poker, masturbate and play with my cat.

What's the big deal here? All healthy fun activities to relax.
Here's also an interesting blog post from the creator of Diesel - http://blog.jamwt.com/2010/08/04/generators-and-back-again/
It's about using generators for trivial task scheduling.
A good read, and interesting on the retaliation by the scammer. Interestingly, someone I know asked me to look at an ebay purchase they were going to make, which I immediately suspected was a scam. They pulled out (hadn't actually put on a bid) and the retaliation was a succession of viruses and phishing emails, all of which (sort of) looked like ebay dispute resolution emails.

I'm guessing the scammers have their message boards as well, and the standard retaliation response is to try and send viruses and/or phish out a credit card for fraud.
Actually, it's only 24 days if you have six work days in a week. For a 5-day-week, it's 20 days per year minimum.
I for one would appreciate a blog post on this. I'm pretty sure the rest of the community are there right along side me.
Play piano, watch movies/TV comedies, rollerskate, play Lego with the kids.
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> "Does it really add that much to the conversation?"

Yes. It has 3 items that satisfy the requirement of relaxing.
Yep, with a camera over his shoulder showing that this isn't fake.
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Ah, didn't know that, thanks.
In fact, I haven't even known the 24 days before I looked it up in Wikipedia... :D
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-um would generally be a neutral-gendered noun in Latin. (You're thinking of -us as a masculine ending). Thus, Pentia is the correct pluralization.

However, Pentium was at best a pseudo-Latin brand name to begin with, and Pentiums is likely the least wrong pluralization in English.
Actually, that is the reason why the conversion to IPv6 has stalled for so long. Which is a bad thing, since for one, it's much simpler to set up networks if you don't have to worry about NATs, and second NAT make many of useful technologies (like some P2P applications much more difficult). And we shouldn't forget that IPv6 is not only about a larger address space; it brings many useful standards like mandatory network layer security, jumbograms etc.
Stand up? Crazy. Get a bath.
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You are right. Although your healtcare is paid by the employment agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit), if you are unemployed.
Python's own @contextmanager decorator ( http://docs.python.org/library/contextlib.html#contextlib.co... ) uses generators in quite a clever way. You can grok quite a lot about Python generators by trying to figure out what @contextmanager actually does under the hood.
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While this is really awesome news, the most astonishing thing is trying to contemplate how much archival storage space is going to be required to keep video at this resolution.
Even then it will be sufficient for the Centaurians to have their own Internet and reuse the whole address space. Until someone invents ansible, any communication between us and them will be too slow for any real-time purposes.
Does this have any functionality over what web developer and firebug provide?
:) Site design doesn't follow traditional design rules (yet).

I like seeing sites from developers that just use plain unstyled HTML, though. No tables even. Some headers, some text, with default font. Maybe some unordered list with those old fat bullet points, at most. No gif bullets (they came later). And if you used horizontal rules, no animated rainbow gif horizontal rule wannabe. No fancy marbled background even! Just headers, text, links, list items, and horizontal rules.
Caveat - I've not played minecraft - but I suspect that the graphics are not the problem, but the simulation (the atomically destructible environment and also AI).

Modern 3d games involve using both the CPU and GPU, and most intensive graphic computation is done on the GPU.

Graphical elements like having complex models, shader effects, filter passes etc. all put strain on the GPU, but don't touch the CPU too much.

Game logic elements like destructible terrain, AI, pathfinding, physics, and generally extensive game rules all put strain on the CPU.

Different games have a different balance between the two (but eventual framerate and performance is determined by the slowest side), a highly detailed FPS (say, Halo) is likely to be GPU-bound, whilst a complex strategy or simulation (eg. Minecraft) is more likely to be CPU-bound.
His business model is very appealing to the customer: pay only once and receive all future versions.
The "downside" is that, once market saturates, you have to come up with a completely new product.
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ITER

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER
Then we disagree about what constitutes a "good reply". I won't convince you, you won't convince me, no point in discussing it further. I just think it's on par with children shouting "Bum!" at the top of their voices and thinking it's funny and clever.
What current technology? The energies involved in getting something to 99% of C are insanely high (the kinetic energy of each kilogram at that speed is about the same as the output of a 132Mt bomb).

Then there are the problems of traveling at that speed - which are significant.

"Realistic" designs for interstellar probes generally rely on not carrying the fuel with the probe and having ultralight masses (e.g. Bob Forwards "Starwisp" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starwisp) - this still requires impressive engineering (a 560km diameter transmitter producing 56GW) for a total probe mass of 1kg and payload of 80g. And that would "only" manage 20% of C.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starwisp

Do I believe something like Starwisp will be built - absolutely. In my lifetime? No chance.

I'd be happy if we get people to Mars in my lifetime - something I don't expect to see.
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Yeah, the idea of a fixed number of sick days is baffling to me as a European. It's like you're penalized for not being sick, by getting less time off...
So do you actually know that every ISP exactly gets /32? Can you point to some material about that? I'm still asking for some exact information.
There are tools that can reverse-engineer tables (and relations). For example, Visio can do it for SQL Server databases.
this would make a big difference in the fight against rare diseases, I know someone who has an illness that is not adequately researched because it is too rare.
Is there anything I as a consumer (and private website admin) can do to help IPv6 along?
Great post! Some suggestions that were new to me, too, although you're mixing Java and Ruby in your examples.

I agree with everything except the DSL stuff at the end. People have mentioned on HN recently, and I believe it is true, that Cucumber, etc. may be something customers get involved with in the beginning, but then they lose interest in it. Sure there are a number of other things that vary from place to place like politics, conformance to standards, etc. But, customers typically just want to see results (in a reasonable amount of time). If you spend time on good design/UI/UE (read "nice looking and easy to use"), it is fast, it doesn't break, and you've tweaked to their needs, you're set.
The real problem with IPv6 is that it focuses too much on the technical issues and mostly ignores the human issues. This is why it hasn't gained significant traction and, IMHO, won't even when the IANA runs out of unallocated IPv4 blocks.

There are a few main issues with IPv4:

1. Everybody wants to have a public IP address, and that is making the available IP addresses run out really fast;
2. There are huge chunks of allocated addresses that are in fact unused. And there are also a number of public addressable /8's being used for internal networks for no good reason;
3. Splitting up wasted /8's in (geographically disperse) small chunks isn't feasible because routing tables would get huge.

No. 1 is easy to solve: not everybody needs a public IP address, no matter what people say. Mobile phones can survive just fine with private addressing behind a NAT. Public addresses for mobile users could be handed out on a case-by-case basis, for an additional fee.

No. 2 will come into play once we run out of address space. Scarcity will trigger a market for IPv4 addresses, and as any scarce resource, its use will be rationalized and made more efficient.

No. 3 is the most tricky. But that's where IPv6 really appears as the problem solver. Internet backbones will have a different structure than the IPv4 addressing implies, and that structure will be made with IPv6. IPv4 will be tunneled over IPv6 networks with its own structure. In fact, this has been done for a long while inside the ISP's networks using MPLS (IP packets enter the ISP network and are then routed using MPLS until they exit into another ISP/carrier's network). Those multiple MPLS domains will become a single IPv6 domain.

The structure of the Internet will change when IPv4 addresses become scarce, that's for sure, but I seriously doubt IPv6 will gain acceptance at the network endpoints. There is just too much legacy for that to happen in the next 30 years at least.

I belive in scarcity dynamics, so I'm not too worried. Also I also belive NAT to be a good solution for private networks and don't agree with the view that NAT is evil.
Do you dispute that he answered the original question honestly and in a useful way?

The fact he added a small joke afterward just adds charm. Lighten up a little ;)

BUM!!!
The Internet will provided it stays free and open. Through freely available information eventually we will resolve our petty differences, overcome destructive behavior and start fixing big problems like illness and space flight. Perhaps.
If we have to invent an enemy alien civilization can I suggest we decide to go to war with the Culture?

Think of it: godless, drug-using communists in space!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture

[NB I've always suspected that Iain M. Banks is a Special Circumstances agent - installing an author to write "fiction" about themselves is exactly the kind of sneaky thing the Culture would do]. ;-)
You're correct (In IE), and also the worst.

Security issues, encoding issues, scripting attack issues, inability to work with tables event handlers etc etc. Never use innerHTML for anything serious.
That solution was raised a few years ago, proposal was using hundreds of thousands of small aluminium very thin foils to somehow decrease the amount of sunligth coming to earth, I believed they shelved it for two reasons, first was not being able stop blocking the sun after a given amount of time and the second reason was the blockage will effect different parts of the world very differently north climates can freeze to death and milder climates can see total environmental destruction due to very quick fluctuation in temperatures.

It was a good idea even then but massive water evaporating ships ( http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=geoengine... ) was better IMHO at least you can stop doing it whenever you want :)
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
It just takes someone with an eye for aesthetics to look at a design and say whether it's good. I'd suggest hiring someone that dresses well. Some clothes make you look fat, others don't. The person should understand why that is so.
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IE6 speaks Latin - both are seriously outdated.
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Um, IMDBPro is kind of a big deal too. Actually, most of the folks trying to get listed on IMDB is because of IMDBPro.
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Funny. Yesterday ( http://i.imgur.com/oKQsd.png ) I needed to have something translated from Latin. It didn't work, I was disappointed and today they fixed it. Google must have read my mind.
If you're not teaching pythons functional concepts, then you're not teaching python.

However I think you have accidentally... consider this short example which shows off first class functions, map, reduce, no side effects, and filtering.

[(lambda a,b,p:(a+p,b+p))(x,y,2) for x in (1,4) for y in (10,15,22) if x*y > 25]

Python does functional programming without people even knowing that it is functional programming :)
1. "not everybody needs a public IP address": sure, and there is no need for more than 6 computers on the entire world, ever. In my opinion, stalling the transition hurts innovation; while it's true that as the things are at present public addresses are not an imperative, new technologies like P2P, which would greatly benefit from public addresses, open a whole new realm of possibilities.

2. Again correct, assuming that there is no cheaper alternative to the "addresses market". But it exists, and is (mostly) free. Once the providers realize that it's less expensive (longterm) to switch to IPv6 than to keep buying new addresses, they'll do it, even such a solution might prolong things even more.

In general, most of "solutions" to the IPv4 crisis represent a sizable effort, which will only increase as the addresses become more scarce; and the sum of it will be much larger than the effort of simply switching to v6. We'll see how it will turn out though.
Every taxi driver in the world should be encouraged to plant at least one tree a year.
I believe an extra terrestrial threat that we can visualize and also threatens whole humanity can unite us other than i doubt any worldly issues will unite anybody.
It's interesting to see the reactions people have to perceived facebook spam. When the YC startup I intern at launched a new product, we invited our facebook friends to check out the fruit of our labor.

The two responses I got from friends were "What the fuck is this astroturfing bullshit? Has your account been hacked or are you really just this much of an asshole? ", and "cool! I'll check this out.", by another friend.

Where do you draw the line? Personally I'd say that friending people you don't know definitely crosses the line. For some, clearly the line is drawn at sending anything remotely business related.
Time to put 'Ingeniarius Programmandi' on my CV.
A Killer Asteroid (one that is big enough to wipe out all humanity) on a guaranteed course to collide with Earth within the next 10 years unless we do something about it.
If basic self preservation against a visible and quantifiable threat will not unite humanity - I have very little hope for anything else.
And it doesn't address the ocean-acidification aspect of climate change either.
Wow. :( "I'm confused. Why would you (a blind user) want to know what the poster frame is? How does it affect you?"

That is pretty bad.

I think they need a group of people with disabilities to review all of the specs. There have to be many more issues like this lurking (that those with disabilities could probably already point me to).
Thank you, there are a wealth of links contained in that link.

I think there may be more practical benefits to aluminum in the sky if we can control it. If we could control it to the point where cities can limit their sunlight to reduce energy needs, then it could be a huge win and a commercial success.
This has more to do with Java being uninteresting than with Java being the best tool for certain situations.
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Interesting I was testing it with Lorem ipsum text and the results are:

"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Morbi sapien leo, dictum a iaculis ut, tincidunt et ante. Nullam tristique lectus ut felis malesuada suscipit. Proin id dui sapien, malesuada ullamcorper ipsum. "

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The Sun isn't a point light source, so the further away from Earth you get (and hence the closer to the Sun), the larger your aluminium sheet needs to be.

Think of it in the limit - at the surface of the Sun, the sheet would need to be almost as large (in diameter) as the Sun itself to block it out.

A remote-controlled moon would be cool though.
Basque as a language should die. Spain should stop trying to maintain disparate legacy languages used only by a few hundreds of thousands (if that) of people.
Ha. I get the feeling your comment is a little tongue in cheek. I have a pet theory that precisely the opposite will happen. That the internet will give rise to increased differences and destructive behaviour. Why? Because the internet allows people to be exposed to widely opposing views, to trolling by groups with opposing views, allows people to "meet" and argue, allows even the most extreme of viewpoints to build an audience, and allows disparate groups to rally together. E.g just look at Atheism vs Religion. I could see that coming to blows at some point.
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the problem is that aliens who would be able to reach Earth to threaten it will be so much more technologically advanced that any resistance will be quite futile.

what I think should unite us is the understanding that this tiny blue dot in the middle of Milky Way is the only thing that keps us alive, so we need to strive to keep it so for as long as possible while searching for other ways to survive in space on a large scale.
Manned trip to Mars

Moon base

Space Elevator
As a website admin, you can request an IPv6 address, configure your webserver to listen on it, and configure your DNS with an AAAA record for it. ie. you can make your website accessible over IPv6.
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That's not the same; not enforcing "realism" (for want of a better word) isn't the same as cheating. A more appropriate example would be something like "when was the last time you played a shooter where your crosshair didn't stick to or gravitate towards enemy targets?".
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Aye. djb is pretty opinionated, but in this case he is spot on.
Ron's talks last year were fascinating. It's great to hear the truth behind the veil of the HPC world. That they run Linux but then use OSBypass becase the Linux kernel is too slow was a revelation, they don't shout that part too loud when gushing about Linux. The curried syscall system was enlightening.
Clojure supports the static from some perspectives and not from others pattern, you just have to go through the var. So even if an fn foo is declared ^:static, you can call #'foo instead so that you always get the latest version of the fn.
I guess this discussion is dead, with essentially no useful outcomes :(
So you say less/more difficult communication and perhaps even censorship is better in order to prevent conflict?