I could not agree with you more had I said those words myself.
A year ago I had a great job as a sysadmin, then I got laid off. Shit happens. I got a job doing landscaping for $10 an hour til I could find something better, and when winter came I worked in a restaurant serving people in the city.
What did I do? I stopped eating out and put my cooking skills to use saving money by eating in. I cut out cable, lowered my Internet speed and got Netflix. Got more conscientious about power usage.
What did I learn? At that job I both cooked and took orders in a 24/7 setting in a large city. I saw wealthy executives and immigrant Somalians alike buy food. The one thing I took away from that is that poor people stay poor by making poor decisions. Pun. Intended. When you walk around buying lottery tickets and junk food, wearing bling bling, smoking a pack a day, and clubbing every night, of course you're going to hit a financial hurdle.
My advice? Exercise that section of your mind we call common sense. Shop smarter. Do some math. Skip the club. Stop smoking. Put that on a 4x6.
As I read his comment I was going to write basically what you did, but I thought "No. No, that is too nerdy." So thank you =D
Relevant: I do wonder though if the disorientation would be less for someone with complete deafness in one ear. I would think that they are already somewhat used to the balance/orientation issues.
I'm working on a perl script that will serve as a migration assistant from WhatsUp Gold v8 to Nagios v3. My company has 1,300+ hosts and 2,500+ services, all in various groups and states of health. It is my job to port over everything.
The version of WhatsUp we are using does not have a good way to export the configuration, and no API to query, so I am basically screen-scraping the web GUI for all the relevant info. I then do some basic sanitization (there are some illegal chars in Nagios configs), error-checking (how to handle a URL with a loopback IP address), and some cross-reference (putting hosts in groups and attaching services to them).
Overall it has been a great learning experience for me. I got to know Nagios quite well, practiced my perl a bit, and got to use git beyond just the tutorials I had read.
I plan on open-sourcing this as soon as I get permission from my employer. Company time and all that.
I'm a sub-par C programmer and the comments definitely helped me out. Instead of assuming the reader knows what each function does, they are explained in enough detail that the average reader could at least Google for more info based on keywords.
I see what you're getting at, but I think you're being a bit douchey about it.
Of course blind people do not have a "right" to access his content. Neither does anyone else. There is no law anywhere that says "X person or group has an inalienable right to view Google". That doesn't mean we shouldn't be considerate of disabilities.
ADD: He says blind people have "the same right" and not "a right", the implication here being that they have "the same right" as any sighted person.
>As for the courier companies, every time they have to deal with a bad label or anything that requires a human to step in to help process the shipment you are slowing down the production line. Watch a couple videos of a Fedex or UPS sort facility to get an appreciation of what they deal with daily.
Vouch.
I worked as a FedEx loader/unloader for a year in college. We wear these cool wrist-mount computers with scanner rings to inventory the packages. A smudge, tear, wrinkle, or glossy tape can make reading the barcode a pain. When that happens you have to set the package aside, key in the numbers by hand, confirm the info, and then you can load it. Oh, and this is all while you are getting swamped with about 1 package every 3 seconds that might also need to go through this process.
As a sub-novice C/++ programmer myself, it's awesome to see a program like this being discussed. The source code is relatively short, it's a simple enough implementation, and all the feedback in the comments here is teaching me things I wouldn't necessarily be exposed to in a book.
This is terrible. Music should stimulate the mind, not dull it. Creepy little men "singing" is not going to make me more focused, but a nice piece of Baroque will certainly do the trick.
I think the purpose is to show how easily some of these scare tactics can be defeated. This took what, 40 minutes to get posted? Less than an hour to thwart what is being hyped up as a big deal for anonymity.
As an aside, I think you should name it CoverAlls.
EDIT: I guess I worded that a bit harshly. Underpants is meant to be a PoC for a tactic that may work in some situations, but the feeling I got is that people are taking it to be a lot more serious than it is.
That was honestly my first thought when I read about this. I could see Mehran playing this in his spare time. It would be a pretty great end-of-semester project too, having a competition like this in the class. Everyone would know Java, but they would have to learn a new language by building off what they already know.
$1,000 says this will be featured in a heist movie in the next year. This is exactly the kind of tech I used to scoff at when the uber-skilled hacker pulls up a 3D map of the target building.
I don't think this is irresponsible, exactly. Mischievous, yes, but there's not a ton of damage being done and it's something we can laugh at and say "Hey, that was pretty good."
This is the closest to what I intend to do. I wanna display interest without making it obvious that I am gonna push for the best offer from both parties.
I was thinking that, but a small part of me feels like that would come across poorly. I mean I know I am supposed to be looking for the best that is available to me, but I don't wanna turn them off by asking so bluntly.
A year ago I had a great job as a sysadmin, then I got laid off. Shit happens. I got a job doing landscaping for $10 an hour til I could find something better, and when winter came I worked in a restaurant serving people in the city.
What did I do? I stopped eating out and put my cooking skills to use saving money by eating in. I cut out cable, lowered my Internet speed and got Netflix. Got more conscientious about power usage.
What did I learn? At that job I both cooked and took orders in a 24/7 setting in a large city. I saw wealthy executives and immigrant Somalians alike buy food. The one thing I took away from that is that poor people stay poor by making poor decisions. Pun. Intended. When you walk around buying lottery tickets and junk food, wearing bling bling, smoking a pack a day, and clubbing every night, of course you're going to hit a financial hurdle.
My advice? Exercise that section of your mind we call common sense. Shop smarter. Do some math. Skip the club. Stop smoking. Put that on a 4x6.