Why I Never Hire Brilliant Men:
There is not a single brilliant man in our organization,” he said. “I am not brilliant myself. I am just an average chap who started in peddling policies, and — knowing my own limitations — felt that I must put in a couple of hours’ extra work every day in order to hold my own against my competitors.
To put it simply, if your interview process has any effect at all, it likely selects “brilliant” candidates. Unfortunately, you really need to hire non-dumb hard-workers.
The whole internet is abuzz. Google has finally added IMAP support to Gmail. Not since Google Reader got search have we seen such a v1.0 feature shipped so late.
But, to the point — every hour on the hour I check my Gmail account settings. Still no IMAP for me. Grrr.
Is this because I talk smack about adsense? Uhh, yea I was just kidding, really…
I’m sorry. Can I have IMAP now?
Update 11pm: Got it!
Sometimes I copy text from a formatted document, often a web page, and end up getting more than I bargained for. When I paste the text, I see that it has retained its source formatting. I hate this. I never ever want it.
No, I don’t want to start instant messaging in boldface just because tinyURL used a bold tag.
Where is the global-off-switch for this idiot feature?
Drew and I had a blast this weekend playing some classic NES games thanks to the Wii’s Virtual Console. We played the original Zelda and Tecmo Bowl. These games were 500 Wii points each (5 bucks) and took only a few minutes to download.
I was a bit surprised that Drew didn’t laugh at the graphics. Clearly, game play matters more.
Whenever my wife uses BitTorrent, I immediately notice increased network latency. Web browsing and other interactive sessions begin to suck. I’ve tried some simple traffic shaping, but it did not really help.
I know that most BT clients have built in limit settings, but these don’t seem to help much either. They attempt to limit the amount of bandwidth used by the client, but my problem is clearly one of latency. Additionally, this does not scale. I want to solve this problem once, in one place.
I’m considering some layer-7 stuff to identify BT traffic and give it a low priority. Encrypted BT would be a problem here. The deep packet inspection would also require a lot of horsepower — perhaps more than I have.
But the bigger problem is that I feel scummy about it. How will I ever argue Net Neutrality again? Anyway, I don’t really want to look in the damn packets — I just want the network to remain usable.
So, with apologies to jwz:
Dear Lazyweb,
How the hell do you use BitTorrent without killing your network?
Are you the live fast, die young type? Put your Mac to sleep quicker by disabling Safe Sleep:
$ sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0
$ sudo nvram "use-nvramrc?"=false
$ sudo rm -P /var/vm/sleepimage
If you change your mind:
$ sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 3
$ sudo nvram "use-nvramrc?"=true
Update 3/22/08: I’ve started using SmartSleep instead of this hack. Check it out. It’s free.
So, I’m reading this article by rabid athiest, Sam Harris. As I scroll South, I notice the sidebar advert:
Meet Christian Singles in Your City
That would certainly make for an interesting first date…
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