supertruth

il y a 11 ansdiscuss

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il y a 11 ansdiscuss

Can anyone explain what the value-add of this product is?

If it's increasing memory sizes, we already have virtual memory.

If it's about increasing IO speeds to NVM, we already have NVMe.

Those configurations are more widely-supported and cheaper, so why would anyone rely on this product?

supertruth

il y a 11 ansdiscuss

Before Yahoo! went public David Filo contacted Larry Wall and gave him the option to buy a good portion of pre-IPO stock at a low price.

The reason? Yahoo! could not have existed without Perl.

FFmpeg has been used in so many profitable ventures (hint[1] hint[2] Netflix). I sincerely hope there is a business leader with the same level of consciousness and grace that will do the same for Michael. He's one of the heroes of the past decade. Internet video streaming would certainly not exist as soon as it did without him.

[1] https://twitter.com/nicolasweil/status/466248052454727680

[2] http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/Editorial/Featured-Ar...

supertruth

il y a 11 ansdiscuss

lucifer, scary

supertruth

il y a 11 ansdiscuss

Yeah, like I said, I think you're living in a bubble and/or this is confirmation bias. I grew up in the 00s and, from my perspective, I see Monty Python as belonging to my grandparent's generation. No one in my age group commonly quotes Monty Python.

If people still do quote Monty Python, I think it's a culty minority or people who study media. The same status as the Marx Brothers and other comedians of bygone eras.

But we can agree to disagree :)

supertruth

il y a 11 ansdiscuss

Yeah but even then, you have The Three Stooges, The Marx Brothers, and Charlie Chaplin. All 30s-era comedy groups similar in notoriety to Monty Python.

supertruth

il y a 11 ansdiscuss

I think you're in a bubble. Lots of people have interest in the 30s given it was the golden age of Hollywood: Gone with the Wind references have entered the cultural lexicon, so have The Wizard of Oz references.

supertruth

il y a 11 ansdiscuss

tragically named. given the reference to ascii, looks like u.s. cii.

supertruth

il y a 11 ansdiscuss

for the curious:

    (1 - reduce(operator.mul, map(lambda a: (8 ** 8.0 - a) / 8 ** 8, range(12000)))) * 100.0

supertruth

il y a 11 ansdiscuss

Linus is just being Linus. He's brusque, non-chalant. He's inflammatory to get people to listen. His thesis here is that bad DBus performance isn't due to context-switching overhead or buffer copies (which can be solved by moving the daemon into the kernel), but instead it's due to malloc-intensive / utf8-parsing-intensive marshalling.

Secondly, he's saying that if performance is being used as an argument for kdbus, then that's an invalid argument.

He's totally right by the way. In this pure message-passing benchmark, where the message-passing overhead is the majority of the work, the slowness is not in kernel-scheduling/system-call/kernel-buffer-copies. People confused a potential impossible-to-overcome bottleneck as the most relevant bottleneck.

But that doesn't mean there isn't a reason for kdbus. Kdbus allows for much better authentication than UNIX sockets do (you can authenticate with pid, pgid, uid, gid, kdbus token, etc.). Also it allows for message-passing security policies to live in the kernel which is crucial for security applications. The tangential performance benefits are nice too, even though the bottleneck wasn't in the kernel to begin with.

supertruth

il y a 11 ansdiscuss

Thanks for calling my ideas idiotic. It probably seems that way because you're missing the subtext of this advice.

At worst HR/Legal will recommend that you get fired, at best you aren't on their radar. There is a very low chance that HR will go against your manager and fight for you. They just aren't incentivized that way: their job is to protect the company, not ensure fairness. HR people are awarded for cleaning up messes, not for interfering with the management structure. They risk more downside to support a single employee. In general HR departments are in a position of weakness when compared to management in companies.

His priority is to stay at the company, not make a change. The best way to maximize his chances of staying at the company is to not make a ruckus and do what his manager says. If he wanted to maximize his chances of making a change, however, the best way would be to go to his manager's manager. His manager's manager is actually incentivized to ensure his reports are doing good/non-illegal work. His chances of getting firing go up by taking that route, but in the slim chance his manager's manager has detected these sorts of problems in the past and is currently waiting for the straw that broke the camel's back then he might be successful.

I'm not advocating not making a change in the company, I'm just being logical w.r.t. to keeping his job right now. The spirit of my advice is "die another day." Right now he has very little influence to actually make change. Better to advance those goals once he's in a more stable position in the company. For him, the stakes are too high to risk martyrdom.

supertruth

il y a 11 ansdiscuss

Okay it seems like you want to keep this job so that's step one. The goal here is to keep the job. Now just arrange the chess pieces to accomplish your goal. Here are two things I would keep in mind:

1. Do exceptionally good work for the next 30 days. Bust Your Ass. Most likely this is his way of reasserting his superior status over you since you went out of line. You need to show him that he's the master and you're the subordinate. The best way to do that is to bust your ass and do the work the way he's dictated that he wants the work done. Don't do this passive-aggressively or in a desperate way, do this with determination, with purpose, authentically. Like you were born and live to serve him. Once you've pleased his ego, he'll have a harder time rationalizing firing you.

2. DO NOT COMPLAIN TO HR/LEGAL. Only say good things about your boss and how's he's so intelligent and you really respect his leadership and blah blah. Swallow your pride and openly acknowledge his criticisms of you and say this whole process is helping you grow as a person and be better. Repeat: DO NOT COMPLAIN TO HR/LEGAL NO EXCEPTIONS IT DOES NOT MATTER IF YOU THINK THEY ARE YOUR FRIEND. If you have negative things to say about him/the company, they will begin their campaign to disarm you and support the decision to let you go.

On a meta-note. I think you should actually leave the company and find a company/manager with a supportive culture. By staying at this company you are stunting yourself. You seem too dependent and fearful and that is a recipe for life-long stress and anxiety, both of which will ultimately kill you. Improve your independence and self-reliance, find another job.

I've hired and fired many people and I can tell you that getting fired is not that bad. Companies know there are bad companies and that personalities don't always mix. What matters most to a potential future employer is not if you've been fired but if you can actually do good work and you fit in. If you do good work and there are companies where you can fit in, you don't need to fear being fired from anywhere. You'll find your place.

supertruth

il y a 11 ansdiscuss

Seems like there is still a significant amount of initial latency by waiting for the first-byte of the HTML before making the subsequent requests for the dependent resources.

To actually minimize latency the server should understand what resources the HTML file is dependent on, and eagerly send those in addition to the request resource. i.e.

    client: send me index.html and dependent resources
    server: here is index.html, along with
            other initial resources you didn't ask
            for but will need

This avoids the latency of the second round-trip time to ask for dependent resources. Does anyone know if HTTP/2 allows for a scheme like this?

supertruth

il y a 11 ansdiscuss

I feel like I learned something about the problem. I was expecting to also learn about the solution but instead got hit with sales pitch at the end there.

How does Superpowered get around ALSA and the Audio Flinger?

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