I really like this approach. You could even automate it where the 0–100ms queue's workers could sever the connection after 100ms and re-queue the message on the next level up, while also incrementing the timeout counter. You could do really interesting things by incrementing and decrementing a timeout counter... e.g., it gets decremented when the transaction completes under the line for the queue it's in. That could help with flap.
It’s a truly broken system. I always answer 10 for call center employees, because often they’re not empowered to actually fix anything, and answering anything else often hurts that person instead of shedding light on the broken system they’re stuck in.
The only time I answer less than 10 for a CS person is if they’re actually rude or not trying to be helpful. I much prefer the surveys that ask multiple specific questions that split the interaction between the rep and the outcome.
I know someone hired at Netflix who is belligerent, inexperienced, and lazy. He is a senior engineer there. Titles don’t really matter much at the end of the day.
The first article you sited actually says that airlines are a low margin business. The fact that they've been more profitable than normal, according to your source, has to do with fuel prices driving more volume and saving some overhead, and their efficiency programs. Even with all that, their gross profits are still just in line with an average corporation.
This chart is so nonesense. HTML is deprecated? Really? And how is having more versions a higher risk of obsolescence, but having /multiple specifications/ reduces risk?
For things like this, since the majority of lawmakers are also real estate owners, it would be a non-starter. But, even if it did happen, I feel like the food costs would just increase to compensate for the taxes, since the rental prices would certainly go up disproportionately.
But food prices _wouldn't_ go up in the owner-operated restaurants which would then have a significant competitive edge. Likewise real estate prices should go down, higher taxes would mean less demand and owner-operators would be more motivated to buy than investors. Likewise investor dollars would be guided by taxes to more productive targets.
Investing in restaurants that own land as opposed to investing in land that restaurants use seems like it would have significantly different effects to the economy.
I never hit that minimum thing. I'll give $1 every once in a while because they're friendly and the town is so expensive, but the food prices already definitely reflect that, and there is no service, so /shrug
Specifically for the requirement "Is there another open source vcs that would be a more natural upgrade to CVS": the answer is hands down Subversion for that requirement. If you want distributed or "more modern" but not git, perhaps Mercurial or Bazaar, but they're less prevalent choices.
Thank you! Subversion does seem like a great fit. Mercurial seems like it might be easier to use (Facebook uses their own customized version [1]), but we don't need distributed at this time.
