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Check Netflix. Most of their H1Bs are making far greater than prevailing wage for their positions.

Ah. Good to know. This is just running on a personal test box. I'll email them, though I think the wave is over anyway.

Thanks :)

That's unfortunate. My little 512Mb Linode apparently couldn't handle it. It's back up for the moment.

Edit: Scratch that. Resizing to a larger linode now. This got far more traffic than I ever expected it would.

Thanks! I'll look into that.

Yeah, graphing is a thing I'll probably implement. It would be useful to use as a tool when fighting with them.

I currently don't account for that. I guess I could ping something always stable like 8.8.8.8 or something as a baseline to compare against.

EDIT: Well, this got more popular than I ever expected. Resizing the linode now. Should be back up soon.

After months of fighting with CableOne about speed and service problems, I decided to finally spice up my website dedicated to their poor service: www.iscableoneshitty.com

Now, instead of just saying "YES," it gives an actual representation of the quality of the connection to my house. The server pings my modem 5 times at the top of every minute. It takes the response times and averages them.

If the average response time is <60ms, it reads "NOT CURRENTLY."

If the average response time is between 60 and 100ms, it reads "MOSTLY."

If the average response time is >100ms and <150ms, it reads "YES."

If the average response time is >150ms, it reads "VERY YES."

I've distributed to friends and neighbors in the area, because almost every one in my town is on CableOne for lack of other choices, so they can check and see if at least someone else is having trouble.

I have thoughts of actually tracking the data and compiling monthly reports of downtime and slowness, I just haven't gotten around to that yet.

Moving your mouth muscles isn't significantly more manual then moving the finger muscles you used to type this comment.

In either case, expending a few neural cycles prior to the action would be beneficial.

Because all entertainment must also be high art?

Just 2 days ago, I commissioned a work from a local painter.

People support artists in many ways. One of those ways is paying to enjoy the things they produce.

You usually pay for this sort of thing based on profit, more or less.

In this case, his basis is $0 (his cost to acquire the asset). Were he to sell all of them, his profit is essentially 100%; however, I'm not entirely sure how bitcoin gains are codified. If they're regular capital gains, then it's done around that cost basis ($0 in this case), but if they aren't, then I don't know.

All of you asking for the transaction ID are incorrigible. The man clearly wants privacy. The kind of privacy that you all opine for every time there's some governmental incursion. Or some startup gets hacked or whatever.

Leave the man be.

lmm: (For some reason your post doesn't have a reply link) These are usually webapps for department-specific needs, and I generally find PHP to be easier. I have a few python things that I use on the backend, as well as a plethora of bash scripts. But, I admit to knowing PHP more than Python. (I'm in a smallish company, so I end up wearing a lot of hats)

generalpf: I will do so! Do you have any go-to references that you prefer? Or shall I just dig through the PHP docs?

Probably. I'm a pretty poor developer. I'm a sysadmin who sometimes writes PHP apps for work. So, I'll look into PDO. :D

I think it's only a problem if you're using mysql_ instead of mysqli_.

https://mariadb.com/kb/en/installation-issues-with-php5/

Since mysql_ is being deprecated soon (so they say, maybe PHP6 haha), it'd be good to migrate to mysqli_ anyway.

A lot of the big distros have transitioned to MariaDB already (https://mariadb.com/kb/en/distributions-which-include-mariad...). Debian probably will soon as well, which will trickle down into Ubuntu probably.

I think there's plenty of room outside Oracle if they were to ever shut down MySQL. I moved to MariaDB, and it really was a drop-in replacement.

I'll give you your second point. I bought one because I thought it was neat. If I can reduce the size of my wallet, then sure, that's great, but the biggest draw for me is "OOh. That's neat tech, how did they fit it in a credit card?"

It isn't that it relies on it, per se. You can set it to require authentication with your phone so it can disable itself if it's lost or stolen, but it works just fine without constant connection.

It doesn't. The FAQ says so. But it also says that it's made for the USA market, which is sufficiently large to generate some serious profit.

Not everything has to have global reach or impact.

I'm a sysadmin and I write some simple database driven tools for internal use. I wish I could make the owners of the company realize this simple truth.

Just because I can make the program, doesn't mean your shitty neighbor's son will care more about his job.

I had David Flanagan's O'Reilly Jquery Pocket Reference show up, but it was $2.99 vs $8.49.

The only other one was a Charles Williams novel which was $2.99 vs $7.99.

The deals are a little anemic. A $5 discount just seems weak. As was mentioned above, this is very nearly full price already. In fact, there are used paperback copies available for $2.09 from the Amazon Sellers.

So far, I'm pretty underwhelmed. Just a quick browse through the available books, the pickings are pretty slim. Lots of pulp novels, not a lot of newer stuff.

It's a step in the right direction, but it isn't really there yet. I'm hoping Amazon can show publishers the light.

I've spent some time with this. NB This is my experience on the Android app and the website.

In the app, searching is abysmal. There's no way to specify the type of keyword you're searching for, so if it's an author, you'll probably have to wade through a sea of wildly irrelevant results to find that maybe they don't even have anything from that author.

I grabbed two different versions of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, both of which the website proudly stated were included in my subscription. Neither was a truely optimized ebook. More like PDF images, so the text or pages didn't scale.

The reading experience on the app is sub par. No options for font type, size, or color; no background options; or margin options. No "night mode" or similar.

There's also often not an indication that a book is just a preview on the website. I added Cormac McCarthy's Child of God to my library, and the app told me that it wasn't available in my country (US), but I could read it on the website, but I discovered it was a preview only.

Related to that, when searching on the website, it seems to prioritize purchase-only books over subscription books. I understand the why, but it's really frustrating to have to start scrolling to get to what most people will be looking for.

Then there's the trouble with having to wade through the sea of user-uploaded content. It seems like there should either be a separate app for the subscription portion, or at least a way to search ONLY that.

All in all, I really wish this was something I could see myself paying for, but right now, I think it's kind of a mess.

Exactly. When Rise of the Warrior Cop came out, I wanted to pick it up on release day. None of the local bookstores had it in stock, but all were happy to order it for me. It would have taken them all 4-5 business days.

I went to Amazon that night, and with Prime, I got it in 2 days, for about $10 less than the local brick and mortar stores.

How can anyone compete with that? Especially if they build out their same-day service?

Closer to False Dichotomy.

Or you pay them the same, and skip out on benefits as well as payroll taxes and your ROI is much higher.