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The Law of Leaky Abstractions
The Law of Leaky Abstractions
11/12/2002 09:37 AMTCP is a way to transmit data that is reliable. By this I mean: if
you send a message over a network using TCP, it will arrive, and it
won't be garbled or corrupted.
We use TCP for many things like fetching web pages and sending email.
The reliability of TCP is why every exciting email from embezzling
East Africans arrives in letter-perfect condition. O joy.
By comparison, there is another method of transmitting data called IP
which is unreliable. Nobody promises that your data will arrive, and
it might get messed up before it arrives. If you send a bunch of
messages with IP, don't be surprised if only half of them arrive, and
some of those are in a different order than the order in which they
were sent, and some of them have been replaced by alternate messages,
perhaps containing pictures of adorable baby orangutans, or more
likely just a lot of unreadable garbage that looks like the subject
line of Taiwanese spam.
Here's the magic part: TCP is built on top of IP. In other words, TCP
is obliged to somehow send data reliably using only an unreliable
tool. - Joel Spolsky
"tri" One of the most beautiful essays on science and computers I have
ever read. As brilliant as anything Lewis Thomas has
written.
"zeldman.hc"
My Leaky Wallet
My Leaky Wallet
09/14/2004 10:49 AMA closer inspection of a phone bill reveals a lost opportunity.
And More on Leaky Windows
And More on Leaky Windows
02/15/2004 10:45 AMMore articles on the leaked Windows source code. Legal experts (and
Microsoft officials, too) are advising developers who want to avoid
any possibility of "contamination" to forego the temptation to peek at
the leaked Windows NT 4.0 and 2000 source.
Fix Your Leaky Wallet
Fix Your Leaky Wallet
06/21/2004 10:57 AMSmall daily financial sacrifices that can add up to a big payoff.
Intel Said to Fix Leaky Chip Transistors
Intel Said to Fix Leaky Chip Transistors
11/05/2003 01:23 PMMiami Herald Nov 5 2003 12:18PM ET
Icky Sticky Leaky PHPloat
Icky Sticky Leaky PHPloat
11/03/2003 01:01 AMAfter running PHP5 beta 2 for 2 days on Apache 1.3 (multi-threaded
SAPI on Windows), I was surprised to find that the process was taking
500 Mb. There must be lots of memory leaks. I'm pretty happy that most
PHP code just runs, but obviously it's not production ready.
Now the hard work starts, how to integrate new PHP5 functionality
without impacting old PHP4 code. After thinking a while, I realize
there are only a few things I can do to write portable code:
Unfortunately, most other features require explicit use of
keywords that are illegal in PHP4, eg. private, protected, implements,
etc. These require maintaining a separate codebase for both versions
of PHP, or some special pre-processing to be done on the code
depending on the versions.
Does anyone have a better suggestion?
PS: I will be releasing a new version of ADOdb soon, one that should
be compatible with PHP5.
Leaky Soyuz Makes Perfect Landing
Leaky Soyuz Makes Perfect Landing
05/03/2004 05:26 AMThree astronauts return safely from space with a bull's-eye touchdown
in Kazakhstan. Also: NASA says there's still hope for the Hubble.... A
Hollywood stunt pilot successfully tests a daring in-flight capture of
the Genesis probe.... and more. By Amit Asaravala.
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translation company UK, UK translation
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agency, translation jobs, translators,
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06/26/2004 09:12 AMthe most untranslatable word in the world .. ten most untranslateable
words .. a poll of 1,000 translators .. googly and spam .. full list
..
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WWW-Nextbus-Agency-0.02
WWW-Nextbus-Agency-0.02
12/06/2003 11:21 PMEverything In Its Place
Everything In Its Place
01/01/2004 03:24 AMInternetRetailer.com Jan 1 2004 3:06AM ET
Place Lab
Place Lab
09/09/2004 10:06 PMPlace Lab is a software base
and a community-building activity that facilitates widespread adoption
of low-cost, easy-to-use user positioning for location-enhanced
computing applications. I couldn't figure out how access points are
mapped to geographical locations; I guess it's via correlation with
GPS data.
"look for a place"
"look for a place"
05/14/2004 03:36 AMIsrael spy agency recruiting on Web
Israel spy agency recruiting on Web
05/25/2004 07:10 PMglobetechnology.com May 25 2004 10:38PM GMT
New UK agency to target net paedophiles
New UK agency to target net paedophiles
04/01/2005 06:47 AMCo-ordinated assault
UK Agency Gives VOIP a New Number
UK Agency Gives VOIP a New Number
09/07/2004 03:58 PMOfcom, Britain's telecom regulator, is setting aside an area code
specifically for VOIP calls.
Agency making use of Internet
Agency making use of Internet
09/06/2004 07:22 AMAberdeennews.com - Mon Sep 6, 09:40 am GMT
WebService-Nextbus-Agency-0.02
WebService-Nextbus-Agency-0.02
12/08/2003 10:29 AMUN agency set for Aceh withdrawal
UN agency set for Aceh withdrawal
03/24/2005 04:34 PMThe UNHCR pulls out of tsunami-hit Aceh on Friday, ahead of new
restrictions on foreign agencies.
Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
12/28/2003 06:34 AMThe CIA's Online Spy Museum ..
Webmuseum
cia.gov/cia/information/artifacts/index.htm
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HHS names agency veteran as CIO
HHS names agency veteran as CIO
04/14/2004 05:23 PMThe Department of Health and Human Services named Charles Havekost,
and IT veteran and the program manager for the federal government's
Grants.gov Web site, as its new CIO.
Online Recruitment Agency 1.0
Online Recruitment Agency 1.0
09/20/2004 09:26 PMWeb-based recruitment agency software.
The Agency Opportunity in PPC Search
The Agency Opportunity in PPC Search
01/07/2005 12:35 AMWebService-Nextbus-Agency-0.10
WebService-Nextbus-Agency-0.10
07/12/2004 05:31 AMThe No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency
The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency
10/28/2003 11:06 PM
I'm not sure why I picked up this little book--aside from its setting,
that is. It is a work of loosely-coupled vignettes, each a character
study, brief yet revealing. And with each new character wandering in
through our heroine's detective agency door is revealed a little more
about her inner and outer life. By the last page, you feel as if
you've a friend in Botswana, someone with whom to share a cup of
rooibos tea and anything that may
be on your mind.
She awoke in the small hours of the morning, and the fire was low.
She could make out its embers through the spaces between the branches
that made up the wall of the hut. ... And she thought: I am just a
tiny person in Africa, but there is a place for me, and for everybody,
to sit down on this earth and touch it and call it their own. She
waited for another thought to come, but none did, and so she crept
back into the hut and the warmth of the blankets on her sleeping mat.
My favorite government agency
My favorite government agency
04/14/2005 03:50 PM
More than 16,000
photos related to the USGS from the years 1868 through 1992 are
now available online where they may be easily searched, viewed, and
downloaded free of charge.
These are old stereo pairs, sites drowned by dams, geologists and
surveyers in horse drawn wagons, petroglyphs, national parks, Mount
St. Helens, John Wesley
Powell, hoodoos, arches, ruins, mines...
WebService-Nextbus-Agency-0.11
WebService-Nextbus-Agency-0.11
07/14/2004 07:01 AMWTC agency sues Saudis over 9/11
WTC agency sues Saudis over 9/11
09/10/2004 07:59 PMThe owner of the World Trade Center site announces plans to sue Saudi
Arabia three years to the day since 9/11.
WebService-Nextbus-Agency-0.12
WebService-Nextbus-Agency-0.12
07/19/2004 05:02 PMLast place finishers
Last place finishers
08/23/2004 01:14 AM
When I watched the women's marathon today (which has only existed
for 20 years,
a shocking
story in and of itself), the US coverage noted
t
he final finisher, pulling in at just under four hours, almost an
hour and a half after the gold medal. I thought it was odd, and
wondered what the last place times and scores were for other events.
Lucky for me, I don't have to look too far, as
McWetboy's DFL blog tracks the
last place in every event at this year's olympics.
Because
they're there, and you're not. cool dry place
cool dry place
03/08/2004 11:12 PMcool dry place
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A puzzle in which one has to place
A puzzle in which one has to place
09/22/2004 02:43 AMTechTree Sep 22 2004 7:07AM GMT
Place a bet. Now go to jail
Place a bet. Now go to jail
02/05/2005 09:08 PMStates are cracking down on offshore online gambling. That's worrisome
to Mark Stone, head of the Interactive Gaming Council.
"A better place for that icon would be
up your..."
"A better place for that icon would be
up your..."
05/26/2004 07:51 PMPlace Project
Place Project
12/26/2004 06:38 PM
Place Project. A
suitcase with a camera and a blank book travelled the world. 35
designers have translated the world around them into their pages.
After 18 months and 170.000 km it will be presented in Barcelona.
November 23 - December 12, 2004.
For the Digerati, the Only Place to Be
For the Digerati, the Only Place to Be
01/04/2005 11:30 PMNew York Times Jan 5 2005 2:42AM GMT
No Place Like Home
No Place Like Home
05/17/2004 02:48 PMIn investing overseas, it's easy to confuse lack of information with
lack of risk.
"The place is broken"
"The place is broken"
05/12/2004 08:20 AMCIA veteran Bob Baer says torture was forbidden when he worked for the
agency. "Now contractors are sent out to torture people to death and
then hide it."
Too many ideas in one place?
Too many ideas in one place?
05/10/2004 03:01 AMJonas has another thing to say.....
Back to The
Future.
Dave Winer:
Supernova
and the recently announced Web 2.0 conference are throwbacks to the
priorities of old conferences, of the eighties and nineties: sponsors,
speakers, panels, audience.
Execs from high tech companies pay
sponsorship fees, not disclosed, and guarantee that the content is
paid advertising and that nothing real is said on stage. If you
don’t pay the sponsorship fee, you don’t get a speaking
slot. If you offend a sponsor, you don’t get invited
back.
I agree with Dave and Marc.
Conferences like these are more or less paid-for sales events, highly
priced ones at that. Speaker selection and attendee lists reflect this
trend, as well. We have at our hands what can be simply described as a
traveling circus of speakers, echoing a number of messages which have
been carefully selected and tailored to support the barely buried
ulterior motives of sponsors and organizers.
This is less so an issue with the speakers. Most of which are
genuine and looking to spread not a sales message but to educate and
entertain.
I disagree with Dave on the next part:
The organization of the conferences, with speakers and
panels, guarantees that the audience falls asleep or is frustrated,
waiting to make their point until they get to ask questions at the end
of the session.
Not so, I say. Conferences do their best to deliver a lively and
inductive message. Supernova, Web 2.0, and others, make generous use
of the traveling circus, add promises about financial gain or new
discoveries and developments, and keep attendees on their toes.
This is, where the true problem lies. The infusion of new material,
different speakers, or dissenting opinions is dangerous to the ideas
of events with an agenda. A controlled message requires controlled
ideas. The circus, by means of exposure, has since created celebrities
of their own makings, another benefit to the organizers – big
names draw big bucks, and big recognition for the advertised
services.
[
a preponderance of
evidence - What Willis Wuz' Talkin' 'Bout]
Thought for the day:Know thy place
Thought for the day:Know thy place
05/20/2004 09:51 PMComputer Weekly May 21 2004 1:17AM GMT
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