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dreamhost, bluehost, hostgator etc are notorious for this. It works fine at low volumes, but as soon as you are getting a few thousand hits per day, the site is mysteriously unavai…

When I read articles like this, I feel old. Really old. I mean, 28 years in the workforce, staring blankly in meetings when someone talks about 'synergy' and 'driving the key facto…

Yes he is, he is trying to motivate him to find another job.

Hi, My account has been deaded. I haven't received any explanation as to why this occurred, and in fact I wasn't aware of it until someone managed to get a message to me that it wa…

Edit: Thanks ars. I guess it's because one of my posts was downvoted 5 times without explanation. Or maybe because I suggested fluoride was rat poison in another post. I've obvious…

>> The chlorine makes salt, and the fluoride can be sold to be added to city drinking water. Yes, because what our drinking water REALLY needs is more rat poison. On the up side,in…

I remember reading about this valve in 'Man Out Of Time'[1], (great book BTW, highly recommended). Well, you said ask questions. :) 1) I seem to recall this valve only works when t…

The strong prey upon the weak? Who knew????

I think the author of the article answers his own question on why he misses war so much: Being in danger is NOT the same as being helpless. When you are in a war, you are in danger…

Thanks for enlightening me. Welch's tenure ended in 2001, by which time 40% of GE's revenues were from GE Capital, who were actively engaged in derivatives markets and had large ex…

Is this the same Jack Welch that nearly bankrupted the world's largest company through high risk speculation in financial markets?

"An Industry Moves On." LOL. Here's a little secret from a 43yo programmer making the best $$$ of his career. MOST SOFTWARE IS NOT BUILT BY SOFTWARE COMPANIES. Sure, everyone knows…

>> TrueCrypt's deniability was broken in 2008. Citation? >> I'm not sure if they fixed it since then. Maybe you could find out and post something useful.

Actually, this article reads like a play book for the next group who wants to create 'MegaUpload2'. 1) Secure your servers 2) Encrypt your email 3) Keep a low profile 4) Hide your …

1. Register (with email) for practices - THAT INFORMATION WAS NOT PROVIDED BEFOREHAND 2. Python only - THAT INFORMATION WAS NOT PROVIDED BEFOREHAND 3. Skype required - THAT INFORMA…

> I've visited twice, read a lot, and conversed with a number of people who've lived there. So did I before I lived there. Once you live there for a while (a year or more), you beg…

> Often not worth it, C is the lowest common denominator of languages, if you want to be accessible to all languages... you'll probably use C. Personally I see that not so much as …

Thanks for replying. I lived in Singapore for a year, and my experience of the place was very different from yours is, so I am interested in your perspective. From your reply, I un…

> If you're passionate about computing and software engineering, you'll have a natural interest in how things work under the hood. When I was 12, I learned 6502 assembly language. …

> Singapore has many admirable qualities Could you enumerate them? Do you (or have you) live(d) in Singapore?

If I wanted to do iOS/Cocoa programming, I would go straight to Objective-C, bypassing C without stopping, but that's me. I learned C++ without ever learning C. Although, one could…

Thanks for your reply. > Not all of us see C++ as an improvement over C. I know, but you are the first I've encountered to quantify it. > The result is code that is easily FFI'able…

OK. NOT TROLLING, but can I ask why anyone would want to learn C, other than to develop device drivers, kernel modules or other arcane software that is yet to be replaced by C++? I…

> That being said, I never felt particularly inclined to write the whole things in C++. Agreed, however one of the problems we are encountering is passing messages efficiently betw…

I am currently writing part of a web application in C++, the other part of the web application is being developed by another programmer in Ruby On Rails. In a single request, the R…