@drachenstern the code I'm working on automatically updates a database and logs at LOG_EMERG if the database upgrade fails (and thus the site is probably totally down)
And you can choose from multiple logging providers, one of which is syslog
I just installed a bad SQL upgrade command by mistake and my screen session went berserk :-D
I once updated an entire table instead of 1 row, on a production database, at the 66th largest company in the world, on software in active use. Mistakes are fun.
That was the only time I was working on software with an impact on tangible things... whenever we broke it, tens of thousands of dollars in chemicals would be stuck at customs between two countries somewhere.
@YiJiang can you VPN out? I'm sure you're a smart enough chap you can bypass a few things ... I'm really curious about first hand accounts of being on both sides of the GFW from someone who really speaks English well.
@YiJiang the reason for why the RMB has been rising is because the US is trying to coordinate with China to prevent an inflation spiral in both countries
there's actually been some good writeups on that, but the point of the story is that the whole world needs to quit pretending there's such a thing as cash
Read this paragraph in the Atlantic article - they do actually scan through the contents of the pages that go through it:
> The final step involves the newest and most sophisticated part of the GFW: scanning the actual contents of each page—which stories The New York Times is featuring, what a China-related blog carries in its latest update—to judge its page-by-page acceptability.
> The GFW scanner checks the content of each item against its list of forbidden terms. If it finds something it doesn’t like, it breaks the connection to the offending site and won’t let you download anything further from it.
I've actually seen this happen - it was a slow connection, and the Wikipedia page on the history of China was halfway loaded before bam the connection was shut off
@YiJiang so you don't want us discussing dissent in Chinese and talking about the GFW ... can we post nudy pics? :P (as if the room would let that happen)
It should not be that surprising, all you need is the ability to read the color at each pixel to do virtually any image recognition/manipulation algorithm
Do you ever think to yourself: compared to people in other professions, I'm like Neo. I know how all the systems behind these screens work. It's like seeing the code flow down every webpage where normal people only see the rendered page.
I bought a domain, got an SSL certificate, set up a new server, got the website up, and edited 3 other websites to call its APIs so I can start gathering some data to develop against. A productive night, for once.
Fore-warning: I'm typing this question on 3 hours' sleep in the last 48, after a month straight of long hours and sacrificed weekends. Launch deadline D-day was 12 hours ago, now we're in red time.
What do you do to make it through delivery deadline crunches? Survival strategies? Tips? Caffeine...
@TimStone, I'm not sure if hitting the rep cap for the first time in my life on Programmers is really an achievement, especially for an answer that is arguably not as good as a few of the lower-voted ones...
What can anyone do about it? Taking on North Korea is very complicated.
South Korea could militarily destroy them and has been able to for a long time, but any type of full out war with NK would result in massive deaths in South Korea
SK is very dense, NK is very sparse, and has tens of thousands of artillery pointed at SK that are easily hidden and... because it's so sparse... hard to take out in any reasonable amount of itme
Tab stacks aren't an horrible idea, it could do with some refinement
Way more simple and userfriendlier than FF4 TabCandy, IMHO.
I just wish the stack-representing tab was the one active when you visually closed the group. That is all
If you make two groups and both are too large to be opened at the same time without making each group too small, opening one closes the other. I guess it's a nice touch.
@DanGrossman Chicken Tikka Masala really is delicious, that photo doesn't do it justice.
And no I didn't read the entire transcript, I got alerted to @Benjol posting links to Lamb Ronanjosh (which is also delicious) because my XMPP client saw the word "Josh" :-)
LOL. At least chat's up. I just woke up and was trying to start my day off right by checking in on StackOverflow, but I guess I'll just have to dive right into real work =b
Ug. not fun. I'm resuming working on a bug which I was wrestling with when I quit at midnight last night, and I had more dreams about this chat, so I'm feeling like I never left, LOL
