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| 1998/4/15 [Politics/Domestic/California, Academia/Berkeley/CSUA] UID:13956 Activity:very high |
4/14 There was a CSUA election where a female candidate claimed
that guys were voting with their dicks. Does anyone remember
the details?
\_ That was almost certainly rachel.. don't remember much else
\_ nope
\_ It was Rachel in private. VP doesn't need that many extra
dicks/votes to win.
\_ that was probably Alissa Pritchard vs. Amee election. And if
anyone was doing anything with their dick, it was Amee.
\_ i like alissa. Tall... Blond... Cute... Smart. :-) Where
has she been lately??? -horny CSUA guy
\_ as far away from you as possible |
| 1998/4/15 [Computer/SW/OS, Computer/SW] UID:13957 Activity:very high 71%like:13941 |
4/14 Get your tax forms from the web!
Federal:
http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/prod/forms_pubs/forms.html
California:
http://www.ftb.ca.gov/forms/97_forms/index.asp
\_ How quaint, something actually useful on the web!
\_ http://www.turbotax.com fill out forms and file online for $10
\_ gifs of nekkid gurlz aren't useful, d00d? --dim
\_ why would I want gifs when I can have the real thing?
\_ never got crabs from gifs
\_ what about GIFs of crabs?
\_ what about GIFs from crabs?
\_ 'cause the real thing snags 20s from your wallet |
| 1998/4/15 [Uncategorized] UID:13958 Activity:nil |
4/14 http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~sandyl |
| 1998/4/15 [Uncategorized] UID:13959 Activity:nil 52%like:13964 |
4/15 Where can I find info on the GPA average of the entire Berkeley
undergrad? Thanks |
| 1998/4/15-16 [Computer/Networking] UID:13960 Activity:kinda low |
4/14 Are there any reputable ISPs that have a pre-payment plan,
e.g. you pay for a year in advance and in exchange, get a
dicounted rate?
\_ isn't 'reputable ISP' some kind of oxymoron?
\_ the experience of most of my friends is that they go
for such a plan as the service is good at the outset,
and in a few months it's gone to pot and they're screwed
for the rest of the year or whatnot. good luck in your
quest to find a decent isp.
\_ FWIW, I know people who have had good experiences with http://rahul.net
and http://idiom.com. If you want cheap, http://autobahn.org has nice student
discounts.
\_ Ricochet has a $299 prepay plan or monthly 34.95 plan. - tpc
\_ Stillpushing the Ricochet crap? They pay you?
\_ I'm sorry, that is too expensive to justify going wireless.
Ricochet should die, just like ISDN. High price, low demand.
GET IT???!?!?? Take a business class.
\_ I have a Ricochet and love it. Where else can you get
24x7 connectivity (much less *portable* connectivity)
for $25/month? I leave the thing connected for days
at a time without needing a second phone line ($15 or so
right there), check email from coffeeshops,
and hardly ever use dialups any more even from home.
Ricochet *rules*. --phr
\_ as if. laptops are getting way cheap; handhelds are booming
the market for Ricochet is growing wildly, both for
vertical and consumer applications
\_ Oh puleeze, keep the hype off the motd. vertical apps?
Are you a palmpilot or ricochet salesdrone? |
| 1998/4/15 [Industry/Jobs] UID:13961 Activity:very high |
4/14 Can someone please give some good answers to the interview
question: "What is your biggest flaw?"
\_ Something to consider: if they're asking this sort of inane
question for a technical position, then you're applying to the
wrong place. This is a head-game question. It doesn't matter
what you answer.
\_ Ch33zy: "I work too hard" "I have a tendency to ignore my personal
life when I get challenging assignments"
\_ Why is that a flaw? - manager
\_ "I can't stand people who ask stupid rhetorical questions"
\_ It's a chance for you to hang yourself.Just make sure your
answer is positive and strengthens your case...
\_ Some wanker-manager texts use this question as a way
to see if the candidate is a BS-er and uses some crap
answer like "I work too hard" --- most consider that
sort of cheese a negative, and you don't want to work
for the ones who call it a positive.
\_ How about "I'm an honest person. For example, I don't like being told
to lie to customers." Can be a real flaw in cut-throat or sleazy
businesses. But would you really want to work for them anyway?
\-yeah, there is a head-game aspect to it, but it is a pretty
efficient question. i usually am pretty honest and just say
"i am kinda disorganized". --psb
\_ Try this - "While I am a decent public speaker, I still get
a little bit nervous when I have to go up on a stage to
speak to a large group of people." This is probably true
for many people so it is sincere and there is a good chance
the interviewer will empathize with you. Also, while the
problem may be relevant to everyday life, it is often
irrelevant for technical jobs.
\_ what a load of bullshit. Any hiring committee with a clue
will see that as an evasive answer.
\-to me this is a reasonable category of answer
but it sounds defensive and canned. "while i am decent ...".
I would just say "i dont have that much experience giving
presenatations. One of my flaws is I get very nervous speaking
to audiences i dont know or suspect are stupid. --psb
\_ A good way to answer this is something that really is a flaw
but completely irrelavent to your job, like the above.
Another good one is, "I'm sorta a klutz." psb's could also
fall in this category, depending on the position.
\_ YOU FUCKING CORPORATE SLAVES MAKE ME SICK. GET A BACKBONE.
\_ Wolves hunt in a pack. Stone age men hunt mammoth in a group.
Obviously you don't know what slavery is about.
\_ um what? I know that slaves often work on a planttation...
\_ I just don't see anything slavish about working for
a corporation or interviewing for a corporate job.
Being evaluated may be an uncomfortable experience
for many people, but if you are going to pay
someone $25 and up every hour, you want to make
sure you get the right person, and since you only
have about 5 hours to get to know the person, you
have to ask some tough questions.
\_ This kind of reasoning makes you a slave. Have a nice
life, you l00zer.
\_ And you earn how much from who for doing what?
\_ asking tough questions and asking stupid questions
are two very different things.
\_ Whether it is a tough question or stupid question
is irrelevant to whether corporate workers are
slaves which is what my argument is about. In
fact, I agree that it is a stupid question.
However, you can answer a stupid question stupidly,
or you can answer it intelligently.
\_ however it wasn't irrelevant to the comment it
was responding to. Get a fucking clue.
\_ It is irrelevant. Dumbass.
\_ I don't give very good head
\_ thats alright. one can always be trained to do it right.
\_ And I can't wait to be trained properly sir/madam! Do
I have to swallow ? manager -- "Yes you do, but don't
worry, everyone does it -- there's no other way"
\_ Just be honest. Most of time, recruiters and hiring managers
are just looking to see how self aware prospective employees are...and it works
to your benefit to accurately state your strengths and areas
for improvement to ensure for a good fit with the employer's
environment. --chris
\_ I was asked this by some random tech guy doing one of my 'views.
It was pretty clear he was only asking because he had run out of
real questions and thought that might be a cool thing to ask. :-)
I told him I hate stupid people. :-) |
| 1998/4/15 [Computer/SW/Apps/Media, Politics] UID:13962 Activity:nil |
4/14 I heard this on the song on the radio: "James Brown is dead". Is he
really dead? If not, what is he doing lately?
\_ No James Brown is not dead. In fact, he got of prision not too
long ago. I will tell you, however, and with no doubt whatsoever,
that James Brown is quite queer. Last I heard he performed at the
\_ huh?
second to the last superbowl.
\_ This is a song by L.A.Style i believe. It has nothing to do with
reality. |
| 1998/4/15 [Computer/SW/Languages/Perl] UID:13963 Activity:very high |
4/15 Let me clarify on the Perl question. I have two commands need
to be spawned from a Perl script, $cmd1, $cmd2. $cmd2 depends on
$cmd1. However, $cmd1 and $cmd2 are called millions (no, not an
exaggeration) of times in a foreach loop now with different
arguements each time, so performace suffers. Now the question is,
how to run each set of $cmd1 and $cmd2 in parallel while still
keeping $cmd1 and $cmd2 to run in serial? I tried system but
failed. Each set of $cmd1 and $cmd2 waits for the previous set
to finish...
\_ run fork, and have each child system $cmd1 then $cmd2, then
exit. The parent process just forks a million times,
then exits. Now, make sure to run this on a big box, or
million perls will bring you to your knees. - seidl
\_ Is there an alternative? fork-ing a million times
is expensive even on a big box. (I just ran a simple
script that forks 10,000 times and it increased the system
load by 10-fold, and it also forbids more processes to be
spawned). Can we execute each set in parallel w/o fork?
Thanks. Or maybe it wasn't pratical to try to run these
millions of set of commands in parallel in the first place?
\_ depending on the speed needed, spacing out the forkings
might be a good idea (just sleep 0.1 secs between each
pair or something like that)
\_ So thats 100k seconds per million iterations roughly
equals 27 hours per run? 3 million = 81 hours. I think
not. That 27 hours is only the added delay between runs
and does not include actual runtime for the binaries.
\_ doh. well again, it depends on the binaries'
runtime. 27 hours might be acceptable if it means
not killing an overloaded server. Adjust the figure as
as appropriate for a faster box
\_ Uh, how do you plan on running different commands without
forking separate processes?
\_ errrr...good point. So fork is the only option when
you want to run things in parallel? How does UNIX
shell execute two background commands? By forking
twice?
\_ Yep. Thats how you get a new process. fork.
Now, you might be able to avoid the extra perl
processes with creative use of system("$cmd1 ; $cmd2");
but a million jobs in parallel is a lot. - seidl
\_ Instead, sh was spawned. Is that necessarily
faster than spawning perl itself?
\_ Fork isn't the only way to run tasks in parallel --
you can thread things too. But unix command-line
programs can't be run in threads.
\_ you cna also call system("$cmd1;$cmd2 &");
\_ buy a clue. system forks implicitly
\_ if forks but it also waits till completetion you dumbass.
try the following in perl
system("echo foo; sleep 10");
system ("echo bar");
note that it prints foo, then waits for 10 seconds, and then
prints bar. -aspolito
\_ Ok... can you rewrite the unix binaries so that you're only doing
a single system call from perl and the binary does the looping
without forking? Are the command line parameters known before
or non-deterministic based on user input, the time, or grains of
sand on the beach? I agree with the previous person that doing
millions of calls to a binary from perl is a bad way to go.
Rewrite the C, if possible, to relieve PERL and the system of this
forking burden. |
| 1998/4/15-16 [Reference/BayArea, Academia/Berkeley, Academia/GradSchool] UID:13964 Activity:kinda low 52%like:13959 |
4/15 Where can I find stat/info on the GPA average of the entire Berkeley
campus (ugrad/grad) and comparisons of GPA w/other schools that
either have same or different grading scales? Thanks.
\_ i don't know about the gpa average, but i've heard that the
curve for some of the more impacted classes are as vicious
here as anywhere else
\-"as vicious"? berkeley, after UChi, MIT, and CalTech probably
has about the hardest grading around. --psb
\_ CalTech? Gimme a break. I know some people who have
various cs/engineering type degrees from there who don't
stand a chance here. They'd be lucky to figure out how
their phone worked to call TeleBears.
\_ Sure, everyone has rumors from these schools, but what are
some actual numbers to prove it, psb boy???
\-grad schools have implicit modifiers for GPAs from
various schools. they know a 3.6 at berkeley > 3.6 at
the 'fraud. unfortuantely some people with less exp.
in looking at lots of grades and correlating to perf
dont realize this and just go with the higher gpa.
i have visited all of the schools in question, i know
what textbooks they use in depts i am familiar with,
i know a lot of people from all except UChi so i think
i know what i am talking about here.
people also look at the department. i think mass comm
and "human biodynamics" have the highest GPAs here.
i guess that is where all the smart people are, as
opposed to say physics. --psb
\_ "Human Biodynamics" is no longer a department or
major; it has been split into Phys Ed and the
actual human biodynamics stuff is now part of
Integrative Biology. -tom
\_ Side question: after Stanfurd brought back the D and F grades
a couple years ago, has overall GPA dropped from 3.5?
\_ You can still drop after the final so I doubt the avg
GPA dropped noticeably. "I was too stoned to drop after
the final! Can I drop now?" - Farm stoner 6 months later
\_ From all the discussions, I can just tell you that in real life
there is no single equation that schools use. It is mostly based on
"feeling", "intuition", and "historical reputation". As with all
things in life, yes, this is totally unfair.
\-that isnt the case. some institutions have the knowledge
and incentive to correlate f(GPA,school)->clverness-in-reality,
others are either lacking in the info, and yet others lack
the incentive. --psb |