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Technically yes, but it's against Twitch's ToS as of June:
https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/simulcasting-guidelines?lan...
Archmage (magewars.com, probably the first really big browser game) was the first game I remember waiting for my next turn to be available on. Apparently there's a "reincarnation" of it running today. https://wiki.the-reincarnation.org/Archmage
The one place they could never ban was the TMI/MudOS development MUD - I don't even remember what it was called, but looking at what the folks from there are doing today... boy, I should've spent a lot more time actually trying to get to know them instead of bugging the people I played with elsewhere.
Xpdf tools have been a lifesaver for ages. Thank you Derek et all!
I think Andy (dros) is a Linux filesystem contributor working at NetApp. Definitely interesting stuff from many of the monkey.org users all over the interwebs!
A more Ann Arbor story there is not!
"Some services, such as IAM, do not support Regions; therefore, their endpoints do not include a Region."
There was a partial outage maybe a month and a half ago where our typical AWS Console links didn't work but another region did. My understanding is that if that outage were in us-east-1 then making changes to IAM roles wouldn't have worked.
I mean it's not everything, give them a little time though.
Steve Blank gives a good talk about the "Secret History of Silicon Valley" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo
You'll note that at the end he kind of says "but everything got better and we're all driven solely by the capital markets and they know best - don't worry be happy! Pay no attention to the g-men behind the cur.."
Seriously you're less then 40 miles away from tons of people going through the same thing trying to get themselves together. Even if you end up doing something completely different, it's a place to start and it's just a hitchhike with a bunch of people you'll probably want to meet anyways away.
Usually these things start pretty innocently - you'll be approached by a local police department who has a real murderer they're trying to catch, who happens to be stalking people on your service. I've been through and heard of that kind of approach happening several times. Everyone knows the big NSA/MegaFed style visits happen as well, usually not before your CEO is hobnobbing with Senators anyways, giving keynote speeches to large globalist audiences, etc. (IE by the time they let you know, you're already part of the system anyways.) That's theory, I've only experienced the former not the latter.
Some day hopefully!
(edit: I've witnessed the FBI backdoor, not the NSA. :P)
I didn't exactly drop out but I got a summer job between high school and my first semester and by the first day of classes I'd agreed to move across the country with the company that'd hired me. That was about fifteen years ago. I've accumulated a few college credits here and there since then and even took a full course load of (online, community college) classes for a semester, definitely nowhere near a degree though.
I've been everything from a low-level developer to an upper middle manager (as well as a co-founder) at small startups, mid-range enterprises and one Fortune 50 and what I've figured out at this point is that my lack of a degree can and will hold me back at times, but it frames my experience and motivations in ways that help me explain and even justify who I am in the world. (Nobody special - but it's my choice!)
The biggest negative impact, as many people have mentioned here, is the HR/Bschool-driven hiring process that virtually any established company has. Your resume will be algorithmically removed from generic candidate-pool searches. Your salary range will be capped lower than other people's. You may be offered a position, you may even work at a position for a goodly amount of time, and at some point your lack of "credentials" may cost you salary or even your position, either by way of an acquirer opting not to hire you on, or your position being eliminated and the only remaining positions requiring credentials you do not have.
So you're working harder to find jobs, getting paid less once you find them, you have no alumni network to milk, and if you know how to market these facts (to yourself as well as others) you've got a pretty good story about your dedication to your career, or your family, or whatever it was and is that keeps you from pursuing a degree. That's how I comfort myself at least.
My story is a pretty easy sell generally as far as interview discussions go - I ran a consulting company in high school that was by no means wildly successful but kept me busy when I wanted to be, the startup I took that summer job with seemed like a fun laid back place to get a little more experience before school started, and things just naturally took off for the company... that eventually was acquired, its acquirer went bankrupt, got bought a few more times, and its husk is still around somewhere. I was one of the first people laid off when the bankruptcy was announced. I was one of the youngest employees, I didn't contribute as much as my (slightly) older, (slightly) more experienced, (slightly) more tenured teammates. It was a good decision, whether that's what lead to it or not - both for me and for the company. The people I worked with there are amazing, they've gone on to do amazing things since then, and not a day goes by I'm not grateful for having gotten to work with them. Mad props to jeffiel, thuddwhir, beans and that whole crew for being my "college" experience.
The good news? I feel that way about every single team I've worked with since then. I've worked with amazing people, all of whom I chose to work for because I liked them and what they were doing, not because I felt like I needed the job or that it was the right career move. At some level they all took a chance on me no matter whether I came to them as an a bright-eyed kid or a battle-hardened street fighter. I'm always conscious of that, and I feel it serves me well in making the kind of connections that suit me personally.
The really good news though? No matter what you tell yourself it's never too late to go back and get a degree. The value may diminish over the years but at any point along the road, even if you have to go completely bankrupt and shed a lot of the responsibility you become used to, you can go back to school and leap back into the workforce if you choose.
Or better yet.. Not jump back into the workforce! There's really nothing better in life than making your own success without a care in the world for what other people think of you, your credentials, your history, whatever. Your success is ultimately your own to make. If a degree gives you the kick-start you need, great. If not - school will be there if you ever want it.
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Yeah.
Reaching for anything when pulled over is the absolute worst thing you can do to an officer no matter how innocuous you may think you seem.
Please, just keep your hands on the wheel until they're at the window.
I currently have my default search provider set to Bing because I hate searching from the navigation bar anyways and it really annoys me that there's no way to turn it off. I suppose that's the price I pay for using a browser built by a search engine.
I fondly remember the days when Michael Arrington was some corporate puke working for RealNames, a search-from-the-URL-bar concept that everyone outside of RealNames and Microsoft hated. Literally. Everyone.
Google made Mozilla profitable by paying them to be the default search engine. The moment they figured out that worked was probably the last moment browsing was safe anywhere - and the last moment being a Mozilla employee was safe as a long term goal for anyone, oddly enough.
Jeff, it might speed things up to bring on Joe Stump as the next Y! CEO - he's applied in the past so they're already familiar with his style (http://stu.mp/2011/06/dear-yahoo-hire-me-as-your-next-ceo.ht...) He also looks a lot like this Sean McQuillan fellow. An awful lot alike. Weird...
Anyways I'll take 15% of his first year's salary to make the intro, and I'll donate half to Charity: Water. Deal?
In 2001 I had a lunch meeting in downtown Los Gatos with John Frank, a sales guy from Spacedisk (now Accellion) - he'd just gotten off a plane from LA where a number of large tech/media tradeshows (Comdex? CES? idk) had just concluded. He spent a couple minutes raving about how awesome Midwest Airlines was, then pulled a business card out of his wallet and proceeded to spend the next hour telling me how he'd sat on the plane next to MC Hammer and had an absolutely fascinating conversation with him.
Hammer was both representing his own projects and providing general insight on media and technology to large technology-focused audiences in 2001. As an entrepreneur. A tech entrepreneur. While Tara was just getting settled in at Microsoft.
Pot: You've no idea the things I've seen out there, Kettle.
Also John, if you're out there, sup! :)
This is the internet, so pastebin is as good as any other evidence:
Of course that doesn't say NSA but my tinfoil is strong.
Seriously, if you don't believe that these large social sites that popped out of nowhere with no obvious need and no chance of profitability haven't at least been very happily ushered along the path to success by an all-too-eager network of governments that give not two shits about their population for anything but their perverse amusement and enrichment, you're a complete moron and a prime example of why the founding fathers knew you can't trust the people to run a country. Because you're morons.
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Your blog is your business, the Lorax speaks only for HN.. (hey is Internet Lorax a job?) It would of course be great to update your readers, it'd be cooler to update your application and tell everyone how it worked out! Then you've got a story you can actually submit again
I've personally been down this road many times, and the last time I made the mistake of relying on SELECT FOR UPDATE in a queueing system it broke down somewhere on the road between 1msgs/sec and 50msgs/sec. That application committed before it dispatched to the worker app so I would consider it a fairly similar access pattern as yours.
The solution I went with in that case was exactly what Baron describes at "Locking is actually quite easy to avoid." - something along the lines of UPDATE queue SET selected_by = dispatcher_id, selected_time = NOW().. and then SELECT * FROM queue WHERE selected_by = dispatcher_id. I hate putting pseudo-SQL because it's already setting bad ideas in some random reader's head. Anyways, that scaled up to several thousand messages per second and ran happily for years, long after I left that particular company. May still be running depending on who you ask.
Long story short, it's great that your solution is working for you but the weight of public knowledge suggests it's not a great solution for anyone else to pick up on. Ping Brigade looks nifty, I hope it works great for you. Please don't suggest this pattern to other people.
Personally the system I work on day-to-day these days runs a Redis set-based queue similar to Resque to send a few thousand emails per second and I'm ok with it. Not thrilled, but happy enough that I don't read the Resque introduction text and blanch in horror as I did reading your article, especially as a reply to Baron's which is based on... lots and lots of real world experience with many different applications.