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If you want to work for Hashrocket, you'll need to provide a resume, references and a week of your time. [ ITworld ]
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Oh dear: just penned a pithy response to this when IE decided to flake out and I lost what I'd typed. 
Suffice it to say that I don't like the idea of a week long interview: arrogance at it's finest.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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Very impressive - not. Even less impressive is the fact that I've never heard of any of their clients referenced in their testimonials (other than Vanderbilt University, but the reference is from a professor). Smells like self-promotion to me.
/ravi
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A few thoughts here.
If he really is associated with Anonymous, he's done a great job of screwing their cause.
The internet crazies are out in force (claiming it's really a government conspiracy).
Why is his Twitter account still there?
Why do people feel the need to give him the attention he craves by posting his Twitter account in there?
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It will be interesting to see what the motive behind the attack was and what he/she was trying to expose.
Yes it hurts the customer, but if it exposes critical security issues surely that must carry a positive.
If this is one individual I find it intriguing how he/she can so easily take down such a large player with apparent ease.
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Quote: but if it exposes critical security issues surely that must carry a positive
I don't get it... are you trying to justify this attack as being OK, or are you just being existential and try to find the positive in everything?
There are responsible ways to disclose security vulnerabilities. There is no justification for the way in which this attack occurred.
DaveAuld wrote: so easily take down such a large player with apparent ease.
My guess is social engineering rather than anything purely technical.
Be The Noise
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No I'm not try to justify it as being ok, or looking to find the positive in everything. Yes I am all for responsible disclosure.
I'm only interested in the how it is performed. Maybe that is the engineer in me!
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I just heard about it on the radio,
So this is just for dns lookups hosted by GoDaddy? I use them for name registration.
I wonder why, is it the hot sexy girls they use in there advertising. I don't have a problem with that.
Maybe it's the automatic registration of domain names, when you say no I don't want to renew it, and they do it anyways.
Well, I have the wacky weather here to worry about more, emergency alerts for rain, flash floods, wind and hail.
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Has anyone ever really died at 69?
Sorry, was typing out loud again. Noisey keyboard.
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Dude, it's the News forum for crying out loud! 
/ravi
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In my defense, I did delete it. 
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Adobe’s Roy Fielding, who is also the original author of the W3C’s Tracking Preference Expression draft, has patched Apache, the open source web server, to ignore the Do Not Track header sent by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 10, the browser in Windows 8. Even if you agree with Fielding’s views on browser defaults, quietly patching the world’s most used web server to ignore the IE10 setting looks hard to defend, especially on a matter that is far from clear cut. Fielding is personally involved, not only as the author of the Tracking Preference Expression document, but also as an employee of Adobe, which specialises in digital marketing and may be more aligned with the vendors and their brands which may want to track user activity wherever their ads appear, rather than with end users. More web standards drama... where's the popcorn?
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I use C# with .NET or Mono on a daily basis. To be honest, I love the language. It’s clean, efficient and simple. Yesterday however, I suggested on IRC that whilst C# has definately benefited OpenSim with its simple debugging, rapid development and wide selection of prebuilt classes to choose from, it was not a great choice for what is, essentially, a high performance application. Upon stating this, a couple of people chirped up to tell me that while a language like C or C++ would provide better performance, I would be suprised how far JIT compilers have come. I decided to put this to the test. More evidence that how you code is just as important as what you code it in?
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Shouldn't postings in 'The Insider News' be 'new' news  ?
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I've had the misfortune to use RealBASIC in the past. I remember the IDE not letting you view the code for a form, class or whatever in one piece. Instead you had to choose a method or property declaration from a dropdown at the top of the code window, and you could only see that. An unintuitive and fundamentally unproductive IDE complete with a language that is VB6 more or less. Bleh.
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First paragraph, highlighted in red in the original article;
Edit: This article has just been featured on HackerNews, but it’s very old. The code I used here for the comparison is suboptimal – the results here should not be considered accurate. I’m leaving this here for archive purposes only.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
if you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Broken link!
tomgrimshaw.wordpress.com is no longer available.
The authors have deleted this blog.
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I still have the associated source in my history
Original C# code: http://pastebin.com/f287a2609[^]
RealBASIC code: http://pastebin.com/f22e9ffa2[^]
One of the optimizations to the C# code done by a commenter: http://pastebin.com/3765W95A[^] (I guess RealBASIC doesn't have an equivalent to Stopwatch?)
I think there were a few other code postings but that last one was the only submission I took a look at before realizing how old this blog entry was...
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Anything can run on a high spec machine. If you want to know how efficient a language is, try running the executables on say WXP or W2K with 256Mb on a PIII. The difference is that some programs written in languages like Java and C# can take forever to run on environments with low resources, even in JIT.
If the code does not involve any libraries, then I agree, JIT C# is as fast as anything else you can get on the market. Once you start going into .net framework, what happens is anyone's guess. Some things are faster than libc, some are a lot slower. eg C# dictionary vs C++ map vs C bsearch vs MFC map vs MS C++ hashmap.
To use any language in a real-time system, you need all your new's up front and ensure no garbage collection once it starts running. The random GC really screws the system big time. I have used C# in realtime systems before (just for fun at lunchtime). Scary what happens when GC kicks in - the machine actually starts juddering. Someone told me my aeroplane would have dropped out of the sky, possibly gone into a steep dive, if that had happened in a real life situation!
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Today I am going to tell you about my newest build: Fluffy2 and how I got her as efficient as she is now. What I want for my computers is low power consumption and efficiency. That last term means that I want them to achieve maximal performance while using minimal power, money and space on my desk. To accomplish this, I do not hesitate to solder the most essential parts right off the motherboard to see if that helps in it’s power consumpion. Also, to help both myself and others, I often design special electronics to make personal computers more efficient. Have soldering gun, will optimize.
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The trick of Apple’s Retina graphics isn’t simply producing hardware with high-resolution displays, it’s also producing software that understands how and when to use pixel-doubling tricks to produce the best output without making everything tiny. This is especially true when it comes to rendering text. Oddly enough, Apple did something very similar almost 30 years ago with the original ImageWriter. How Apple scaled fonts for the ImageWriter.
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