But he still has the "concidered"...
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Edit: Apparently the image was not produced by the FSI, but by a redditor: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15822493
"The refusal by ICE officials to listen to Carrillo’s claims of citizenship appeared to violate an agency policy that requires officers to thoroughly and quickly investigate such claims"
Of course they are not going to release a suspect immediately, but their responsability was to investigate those claims and bring their supperior's attention to them. They were not "following orders", they were going against them.
If these people believe the earth is flat, where is the center?
I find it interesting[0] because with this answer[1] they also provide the means to prove them wrong. If that map was remotely close to being accurate, then circumnavigating the globe following a southern latitude should take much, much longer than following a northern latitude. Or easier: Flying from Johannesburg to Antananarivo (2150km, 3.5 hours by direct flight) should be much, much longer than from London to Moscow (2500km, 3.75 hours).
And I think I know what a flatearther would say; "Conspiracy!!!"
--- [0] Maybe interesting is not the word... funny?
[1] https://wiki.tfes.org/Frequently_Asked_Questions#What_does_t...
In my (very personal) opinion, the fact that not many people, comparatively speaking, are fluent in any language other than the local languages and a certain level of short sightedness that makes us look only to local markets[1] has much more to do today than the dark ages of the dictatorship.
I moved out of Spain more than a decade ago and things seem to be changing (at least now I find spanish products in my local supermarket that I had to bring in my luggage before when I went for a visit), but we are late to the game and it will take time to catch up.
[0] Well, -ish
[1] Not exclusively a Spanish fault... Many countries suffer this to certain level.
Inshort, I'm not a recruiter, I know a bit about the recruitment industry but I'm not an expert. However, until you get more views, here are my two cents:
1) Without knowing the niche or the contacts you have in it, I don't think I can answer this but my gut feeling is that you might be a bit too optimistic.
2) Assuming you have a big enough pool of candidates and clients, a single recruiter should be able to handle that level of work.
3) As you say, base salary is difficult to judge without knowing the local market. Bonus seems a bit low to me (but again, not an expert).
4) Might depend on your niche, but seems like a reasonable assumption.
5) From what I've seen, three months might be a bit high. The recruiters I've worked with usually ask for 10-20% of gross yearly salary, half when the candidate commences employment and the rest once the employee passes the probation period (usually six months).
The usual play is to get people from the audience say random words while you assign those words to something you do everyday (the most common tool is the way to work/school) in order.
With training (as you are doing), you can remember long lists of seemingly unrelated things (and the order they are in).
As I said, a bit offtopic, but I found it funny for that old trick to come up here :)
Let me explain: I've used Firefox since the beginning (and Navigator before that). I like Mozilla and I agree that most of the changes that they've done internally in quantum were kind of necessary (although many could have been handled better).
However, along the way, they've broken the way many people use Firefox and the only answer the frustrated users seem to get is "but it's fast".
They've changed the UI to be similar to Chrome, to the point where the reload button is not where it used to be. But it's fast.
They've broken the extensibility, which was (at least for me) the main reason to use Firefox instead of Chrome, Chromium or any of the others. You could do things in Firefox that the others couldn't even dream of. But it's fast.
While doing this, they've alienated plenty of plugin developers, people who loved the Firefox ecosystem, some of which have had to rewrite their plugins thrice already (with some being told to, essentially, "bugger off"). But it's fast.
As far as I can tell, it's using more resources in MacOS than the old version, at least the processor runs hotter and the fans kick in more often. I've had issues with the CPU use sky-rocketing, but I believe that has more to do with opening multiple tabs quickly rather than with one specific page. But it's fast.
Honestly, I haven't noticed any major changes in speed in Quantum (it's a bit snappier, that's it) and was happy enough with it's previous performance. IMHO what we've lost is not worth what we've gained.
I'd move to other browser, but which one? None of the main ones have the things I liked about Firefox and I don't really see most of the forks being able to keep up the pace. I guess that I'll stay, hoping that the things I love about Firefox will eventually come back.
> [...]your engineering teams contacted me about some secret internal project and asked a large number of technical questions[...].
> [...]your engineers began asking me to make a number of changes[...]
Those are two cases where Intel asked Tanenbaum to work for free. First as consultant and then implementing custom code modifications.
Yes, not many people will charge for answering questions and maybe he thought that the changes requested by the Intel engineers were appropriate and useful for the project itself, but the fact remains that this work was valuable to Intel and required Tanenbaum to spend time on it.
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I tend to only look at 1-star reviews and 5-star reviews in passing. The first ones are obviously pissed with the product and that will colour their opinions. The latter are either enthusiasts that will love everything about it or people that heve just received it and/or are still on the honeymoon phase. I think ignoring them outright is as bad as focusing only on them, but I don't pay them too much attention.
I find that focusing on the reviews around the middle (and, of course, the number of those compared to the total number of reviews) usually gives me a better idea of the pros and cons of a product.
What if we don't use different ports? Your example uses ICMP packages with different sizes, not ports. What if you use something at the application layer that doesn't require ports, maybe a sequence of (invalid) calls to separate end-points?
Personally, I don't care how it's called as long as everyone agrees on what it is and here, again, I agree with you in that "Gothic Hotel" might not be the best name.
[0] Just the other day I heard a plain-old FTP server described as "cloud-based storage service".
Some of the design work and the people that worked with Jodorowsky actually went into Alien. I mean, Giger, of course, but also Dan O'Bannon a few other people.
He actually got Dali and Orson Welles to say yes to the project. Dali wanted to be the most expensive actor in history.
The story with his son borders abuse. He basically wanted to convert him into the Kwisatz Haderach and made him go through a very tough training for years.
Personally, I did enjoy David Lynch's version and even the tv mini-series they did (back in the late 90's?).
This gives a bit more background: http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/articles/2015/10/spain-a...
I use .local for, well, my local network and I find that Chrome can't find them half the time (telling me that the server can't be found or that I don't have internet connection). Safari, Firefox and even command line tools find them without skipping a beat while Chrome insists that I'm offline.
I think the culprit is the internal DNS cache. If, for whatever reason it can't find the server once, then it gets stored in the cache as unreachable and needs a cache flush to fix. To add insult to injury, in previous versions of Chrome you could disable the internal DNS system, but apparently not anymore.
My dream in high school was to become a pilot. In my country the only realistic way of becoming one was to first go through the air force. There's a lot of challenges in becoming one, but to keep the story short, the main ones are passing an opposed exam where thousands of people apply for only 5-6 places (we were ~50K people for 6 places the year I did it) and having perfect health (and eyesight).
I passed, went through basic training and, before I was going to start pilot training, we went through a second health screening. I passed the first one with flying (heh!) colors but on the second one it was detected that I had 0.25 of myopia in one eye. Automatically thrown out of the air force I found myself with no plans, no idea of what to do with my life and a major depression.
My 'comeback' was slow: I went back to high school to go through the last year again, went to uni to study computer science (I knew basic and very little more, but was always very good at logic), started working, realizing that I was actually good at it... It's been exactly 20 years (almost to the day) since I lost my childhood dreams and I'm extremely happy with this career path (probably happier than I would be in the other).
About the last comeback... let's say that I'm still on it.
In 2015 I was diagnosed with leukaemia. A couple of years before this I had left my cosy job to create a startup and it was just beginning to lift off. Basically this meant that I had no personal health care coverage, minimum salary and no way for the company to keep paying me. I spent the next 10 months in the hospital, much of that time in isolation with no immune system to speak of. Cancer is bad, but the treatment is no walk through the park either. One of the nastiest side effects of chemotherapy is what is known as "chemo brain". There's no way I can describe it accurately, but it's like a fog that clouds everything having to do with memory and the thinking process. I would try to read and hours would go by before I noticed I was still on the same page. I would lose whole days to the point that I wouldn't know what day it was, much less what time. Basically, I lost my mind and would be almost in vegetative state for most of the day. One of the first things I had to do was accepting that I probably wouldn't make it, sorted out as much as much paperwork as I could and put in place a couple of worst case scenario options.
As for the comeback: About a year ago (1.5 years after this ordeal began) I started working again, part time (I still have to go to the hospital every week and take chemo tablets every day), in another startup (the one I founded is still alive but slowly dying, my other partners let everyone go and now only work on it during the weekends). I was upfront with the founders, told them about my situation and the very real risk that I wouldn't be able to do meaningful work. I even offered to start for free just to get me back on the horse again (an offer they refused and insisted on paying me a decent salary from the first day).
I'm still not at the level I was before all this started, still four months of treatment to go and having real trouble accepting that I might actually survive this after all (we'll see in five years time). Actually getting out of the house and getting back to work have done marvels for my recovery.
The next steps for me are: - Saving money for a mortgage: The apartment I was renting was sold while I was in the hospital and that's a level of stress I don't want to have again. By April-May next year my finances will have recovered enough to start talking with banks. - Get back in shape. I lost a lot of weight and muscle mass during my time in the hospital and when I got out I recovered the weight with a vengeance. I have to lose about 40 pounds but have to be very careful with diets/exercise while on treatment.
Many interns I've been in charge of were not comfortable in the command line and most had no experience outside of windows. Writing shell scripts? The everything-is-a-file concept in Unix? You're lucky if they know what you are talking about.
"I save about twenty drafts — that's ten meg of disc space — and the last one contains all the final alterations. Once it has been printed out and received by the publishers, there's a cry here of 'Tough shit, literary researchers of the future, try getting a proper job!' and the rest are wiped."
On one hand, as a long time Pratchett fan, it would be interesting to see what ideas he was working on (I'll miss many of his characters), on the other hand and looking at other examples (cough, cough, Tolkien, cough), I prefer his legacy to be what it is today.
I live in Ireland and at almost every (all?) flight from Dublin to the US you do the US border control check here to the point where they don't even check your passport on arrival.
Second, there really is plenty of people with problems like that. A friend of mine travels frequently to the US and his name is the same as a relatively well known drug lord (it's a fairly common name, too). As far as I know, he's never been denied entrance to the US, but he routinely gets flagged, separated, his identity verified and his luggage checked. Usually, all it means is that when he travels with colleagues or family, they have to wait for him for an extra hour or two to get out of the airport.
[0] I think that, technically, the area of the local airport where they do that is considered US soil and, for all legal purposes, you are in the US. As I said, not sure about this and I might be completely wrong, but that's what the signs lead me to think.
When HP Lovecraft wrote his books about forbidden knowledge which would reduce the reader to insanity, of "Elder Gods" to whom all of humanity were a passing inconvenience, most people assumed that he was making up a fantasy world. In fact he was documenting Kerberos.
What is remarkable is that he did this fifty years before kerberos was developed. This makes him less of an author, instead: a prophet.
What he wrote was true: there are some things humanity was not meant to know. Most people are better off living lives of naive innocence, never having to see an error message about SASL or GSS, never fear building up scripts of incantations to kadmin.local, incantations which you hope to keep evil and chaos away. To never stare in dismay at the code whose true name must never be spoken, but instead it's initials whispered, "UGI". For those of us who have done all this, our lives are forever ruined. From now on we will cherish any interaction with a secure Hadoop cluster —from a client application to HDFS, or application launch on a YARN cluster, and simply viewing a web page in a locked down web UI —all as a miracle against the odds, against the forces of chaos struggling to destroy order. And forever more, we shall fear those voices calling out to us in the night, the machines by our bed talking to us, saying things like "we have an urgent support call related to REST clients on a remote kerberos cluster —can you help?"
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As a somewhat related tool, I started using autoenv (https://github.com/kennethreitz/autoenv) a while ago (automatically sources a .env file when you cd into the directory). I use it to set environment variables, start docker images...
Sierra has disabled the "install from any source" option (although you can re-enable it with some terminal magic). How long until they disable the identified developers option too and leave a system like the iphone?
- fairtrade - organic - gluten free - suitable for vegans - kosher - halal
Now, I like the first one (and maybe the second one), 3 and 4 are just what I would expect from a product that, according to its ingredients, is just tea leaves. I feel that 5 and 6 are simply taking the piss.
Of course no one cares if you print something for your house or a friend and the color is slightly off. But in some industries something like that can cost you a big client and a lot of money.
[0] The difference can be quite dramatic, even without a professional monitor.