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I did an assignment on networking last year, from what I found out it was that the service providers are having problems with traffic flows.

IPv6 behaves differently than IPv4 (which is known and predictable) and that the network congestion tools need to catch up. You are in effect having to monitor and adjust core routers for double the number of packet types.

The network administrators are not against IPv6, it's just that it requires careful steps forward.

We operate in the B2B market and the key takeaways I would say are:

Our leads come from: 1, 50% Previous users of our software that move to a new company and then call us up looking for a better system at their new workplace 2, 40% Google Adwords 3, 10% Networking/cold calling 4, 1% Conferences

Of those three the likely prospect of them actually spending:

1, 80% chance because they already know and have already done the selling within the organisation 2, 50% They are actively looking and are open to taking risks 3, 10% This requires a lot of time and energy with very little chance of success 4, <1% In all my time only one customer has ever come out of a conference/expo

1 and 2 basically require very little time, if you have a sales team they'll be doing 3 and 4 because that's all that is left. Networking and conferences provides a side benefit of research, you get to see what the market is doing and where it is going.

The other major thing is buying cycles, plan on a 18 month to 2 year cycle, if the contact you have within the organisation moves on then that is generally a good thing as it opens more opportunities.

This is a well documented problem and the crux of the net neutrality debate:

http://mattvukas.com/2014/02/10/comcast-definitely-throttlin...

Netflix buys backbone access from a backbone provider, the ISPs then have a connection with that backbone providers. The pipe from that provider to the ISP gets congested and there is an argument as to who should pay.

However the pipe to your VPN data centre and Netflix's backbone provider are congestion free so you get a faster rate.

Internet routing isn't as dynamic as we imagine and whilst Netflix offer to put caching boxes in the ISP network, the ISP's are not keen on that solution.

End result you are performing a manual re-routing of data to bypass congested links.

This is all signal to noise ratio, you have to become aware that repetition is just noise that you need to remove.

Factor down your Internet reading, trim news feeds to no more than 3. The cream should rise to the top.

Most of all create something; craft beer, a novel, an App, mow the lawn, fix a squeaking gate. You'll get a clearer head from a menial task and a sense of something more.

Napoleon Hill.

If you look past the mantras you'll see a psychology of selling and the need for connections.

Everything you do is selling; the way you look, what you eat, how you communicate and how you work, you are selling yourself to the world hoping to get more back in return.

I assume you are referring to the management book I still own:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Make-So-Leadership-Lessons-Generatio...

Personally I've always read the Greek ministers statements as those who are already planning to leave the Euro. It's the only way they can live up to their promises both to their debtors and to their countrymen.

I imagined this winter a printing press has been running in secret to ensure if the tipping point did come then they would be ready: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_La_Rue

Plus I agree with the suggestion from years ago that German should be the one to leave. Technically its the odd one out in the Eurozone.

I'm a Software Developer.

When I was younger my family owned a local computer company supporting a range of customer sizes. At the time I recall saying to my Dad that I wasn't sure if I should be a programmer or an IT technician. He bluntly said, be a programmer there is no money in IT support.

That was late 80s, whilst at the time there was money in IT support, over the long term he was right.

I think doing what your family does helps, because you have people around you that know and can support you.

The largest problem with Linux deployment is support. Suddenly you need a tech support team that can support Linux as well as Windows.

Blizzard had a Linux version of World of Warcraft, but can you imagine how hard it is to ensure your support staff across the world know how to handle a customer with a Linux PC?

This benchmark is out of date almost immediately because of the patch level of the Java runtime and the Golang compilers change frequently.

I was half thinking of creating a VB6 module for LLVM just as a tongue in cheek joke of taking a language with a slow runtime and effectively strapping a V8 engine to it, but I saw someone already did most of the work: https://github.com/microcai/llvm-qbasic

"If outside was so good why has man spent thousands of years perfecting inside?"

Sheldon Cooper

"Correlation is not causation" is still a valid comment to make, the original article says that deeper questions need to be asked.

However most of the time a news report just reports a single correlation. That's when those comments come out, its statistically insignificant to have one source/correlation and report it as news. Show me two correlations or more and I'll take more notice.

For example:

1, Smoking causes cancer 2, Smokers have a higher rate of lung cancer 3, Heavy smokers are more likely to develop lung cancer sooner than casual smokers 4, Smokers that quit lower their chances of cancer

As a set they make an valid argument, however individually they are weak.

Medical science has, however this Doctor is just making an outlandish claim. There have been no tests on animals that worked and he's just hoping his method of joining the spinal cords will work.

This isn't medicine, this is just someone with a superiority complex.

I am very much pro-nuclear.

I argue against wind and wind alone, it is a very unreliable source of energy, I think it is crazy to rely on gusts of wind to power a population. Nuclear is the only technology which offers a base load without burning fossils.

Solar I am happy with, it could be better than nuclear but the storage problem needs solving before it gets onto everyone's roof.

That's another problem with solar, people are putting up fields of the stuff when there is already enough roof space. In my mind large retail shops should be mandated to fill their roofs with solar.

I don't understand why that would be horrifying?

Terra forming Mars has never been something which I imagined we would do. I always thought we'd be living in greenhouses and digging for minerals and fossils.

I think the difference is that in the UK we have a heritage of building canals that can service as a utility. The Canal system has largely been forgotten but it could be a useful network again.

A canal system wouldn't work for the USA but for a smaller landmass like England it could work.

IPv6 has multicast built in, lets hope the ISP's leave it switched on, as it will help their interconnects and create a new set of application innovations.

I for one would like to see a p2p multicast protocol for super fast file delivery, no more queuing for a download, you just get whichever part is being sent out at that time.

Or Dropbox/Google Drive uploads that automatically send to the different geographical endpoints rather than wait for the data centre to replicate it...

> Remotely controlling or even assisting pilots is a big no no, way too easy to perform a huge attack of docens of planes at a time, using just a laptop and some human engineering.

This is hyperbole, automation that is being discussed is about how we can design a system that would in these circumstances. Retrofitting planes probably isn't going to work. However a whole new approach to sensors and global communications might provide the added information that's required for automated flights.

Each pilot that has commented seems to be against automation, just because their current work practices are too complex. However that is an engineering problem. Hacking a set of planes to crash is an engineering problem. Its not one that is going to be solved tomorrow, but perhaps in 10 to 15 years when a new generation of planes comes along.

My biggest beef isn't with flight automation but with trains. Surely that's the lowest hanging fruit on the automation tree and we seem to be aiming for the hardest with personal cars and commercial planes.

In the broader benchmarks it still looks like Firefox or Chrome is the winner:

http://www.winbuzzer.com/benchmark-deep-dive-microsoft-windo...

That sounds fantastic, you should consider releasing that in some form.

> Those don't always work Of course not, nothing always works. You are implying that checks are worthless because they failed on this co-pilot.

In the context of a pilots mental state verses malicious source code being installed on a set of flight computers, I'd have to say the computer is easier to validate. That many more people have to approve the process. With a pair of pilots the validation process is much smaller and more complex.

We need to stop thinking that machines are flawed and that humans know best. The fact of life is that machines can and do perform better than humans, the only reason flight computers don't currently is that there hasn't been the investment in making them do so. Sensors fail but that is an engineering problem that can be solved.

Except there are checks and balances in place before software gets installed on a plane.

I am not sure how this cannot be seen as insider trading or market manipulation?

You buy stock through a loan. That loan is going to take time to have an impact on the business and therefore the stock value (I assume the trick is in the timing of the granting of the loan and when dividend are handed out). In the short term they drive down the price of the stock through dumping, hoping to get it as low as possible. Keeping enough of a ratio to make it a massive win.

Knowing more than other penny stock investors because they granted a loan to the company. They are more like an investor than a creditor.

> I even wrote my masters thesis on why it was done the way it was done (the only actual academic use I ever got out of the whole Linux exercise ;)

Brilliant sound bite. I've always love academic work, however it does really account for a very small portion of actually creating something.

What? You are using more than 3.5GB of memory for your browser? I consider myself a heavy user with 20-30 tabs open at any one time. I used to have a 2GB memory usage with Adblock Plus and since switching to uBlock it averages 0.6GB of RAM.

64bit will open more address space but it has proven in the past to slow the browser down, the wider memory pointer size has a detrimental effect, Waterfox is Firefox recompiled as 64bit and other compiler optimisations: http://www.networkworld.com/article/2185649/applications/fas...

Not everything should be 64bit.

My dad would say that you can never be overdressed.

Wearing a suit to a hipster office certainly isn't going to loose you the job, they'll be more inclined to look at the person rather than the suit.

Wearing a suit to a corporate role will certainly help get you the job.

Wearing a suit makes you look good, looking good isn't a requirement for day to day work, but there are occasions you should smarten up. An interview is definitely one of those occasions.

Wear a full suit, feel comfortable in it and know you are looking your best and presenting the best side of you.

The ice caps are disappearing, just at a slower rate, the Northwest passage is now open for shipping: http://news.discovery.com/earth/oceans/cargo-ship-is-first-t...

Climate scientists admitted they didn't have a complete model and worked to improve that. Satellites are being launched to add data to the model: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2014/0629/NAS...

Ocean currents have been found to be storing up heat: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6199/897

The earth is an organic system, one that adapts. Nobody can truly know what will happen, the body of evidence and the majority of scientists agree that changing the balance of CO2 is not a good thing.

One persons hypocrisy does not invalidate everything else. Plus how do you know he's not offsetting his carbon footprint by planting trees?

You need to clarify the 4-5K per month, its being assumed it's US Dollars.

If it were Rupees or Yen then I'd get your point and suggest you sell the revenue source. But do it in a way that works as a double win. Find a development shop that will take you on part time and buy the tool. You'll get a lump sum and a steady job, they'll get a proven money maker and motivated employee.

This is one of those nice problems to have.

In the mean time, get community member(s) to be a bug triager and forum voice. Communicate through them.

A long read but an insightful look into the issues surrounding setting up scientific experiments.

28th Dec: "Exco.in surpassed 60 BTC 24H Volume" https://blackwavelabs.com/

It seems to have happened over a 5 day period. So a back of the packet calculation: 60 x 230 * 5 = $69,000

Of course that doesn't tell us anything about if people had larger amounts stored, just that the hot wallet should have contained around that amount before they needed to refill it.