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Accidental Ageism
There is a post that's been seeing quite some spotlight these past two days. The first two thirds of the post or so starts with a short story about a bad database schema (which understandably got Hacker News quite confused since reading a 400-word article from start to finish is not the kind of thing that a busy hacker/founder has time for) but the last part of the article has two good nuggets. One is that, you know, everyone's clueless about something at one point. The other is this one:
Considering that we as an industry tend to chase off anyone who makes it to the age of 35, is it any surprise that we have a giant flock of people roaming around trying anything that'll work?
This is a very real indictment of the software industry and I can only wholeheartedly concur. But I think there is a very bothersome bit of background to this reality of ageism: it's accidental.
I don't mean to say it's accidental as in, all the CEOs and COOs and CWTFs out there set out to build a solid, inclusive work environment but oops! they took a wrong turn at Albuquerque and now you either go into management by the time you're 40 or you're fucked. I mean to say that it's an accidental feature: it doesn't occur because they deliberately set out to exclude people past a certain age. That would've been pretty stupid, seeing how most chief whatever offices are not exactly young, either. It happens because, aiming for completely different things -- "optimizing" return on equity and operating costs and so on -- they built their organizations that simply don't run on grown-ups.
These organizations cultivate a style of work based on easily-replaceable people who don't question things too much. Their hiring practices -- and, because of that, everything else, the way work is done and coordinated, they way evaluations and promotions happen, they way they educate their leaders and the kind of leadership they cultivate -- have to be aimed at easily-impressionable groups. Otherwise their high-churn machine grinds to a halt, as they have nobody to easily replace people with. Unsurprisingly, the 18-25 age segment is the one where it's easiest to find people to drink your Kool-Aid, so that's who they target.
It comes as no surprise that the places that chase away people past a certain age are usually the most glamorous ones: startups, FAANGs (in their high-churn business units -- they know better than to try to build critical things with overworked brogrammers), and the countless companies that cargo cult their practices. The glamour isn't a consequence of their young, highly-energetic team, it's the result of a carefully-cultivated employer branding work, specifically designed to attract young people with a taste for Kool-Aid.
If you don't mind the lack of glamour, there are actually plenty of places that will have you after 35. That's not to say our industry doesn't have a real problem with ageism. Startups and FAANG are a small chunk of our industry, but companies that cargo cult them are a huge chunk, so a huge chunk of our industry chases people away after a while.
But -- given how many people just give up programming altogether -- there's actually plenty of space for those of us who are still punching keys long before our bodies are unable to graciously deal with hangovers anymore. In my experience, most of the glamour goes away once you're on the inside anyway, and working in an organization that isn't systematically constructed to keep 18-25 year-olds busy is extraordinarily refreshing.
This, by the way, is in no way something we should sneer at young developers for. This -- I hate the word, but it's the right one this time -- this toxic approach to entering the work force and building your career is very much a cultural product of the world young developers come into. It's not something they built for themselves, it's something that we, their wise-ass predecessors, built for them. They do what they can, and they don't know better because they're at an age when nobody knows better.
The fact that ageism is an accidental feature of these organizations is also why they are so powerless to change it. It's not a policy that they can simply retract, or a set of bad policies that they can counteract with a set of good policies. The kind of companies that build thirty-year careers, with thirty years' worth of technical expertise, are precisely the kind of companies that MBAs have been dismantling since the early nineties. Building such a company is not something that our generation of corporate leaders lacks the competence to do: it's something they were literally taught not to do in the first place.
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When people pronounce anything as "anythink".
Also, when the site scolds me for using Caps Lock, even though I've been using it my whole life to type capital letters.
late night snacking. It's good, but bad at the same time.
And they say, You're a liberal troll.
When a college professor expects you to purchase a book for $100 for an online class.
College course books are a scam.
When I went, they'd "require" a specific release that changes from year to year (in a minor way) so that there are no used books of the specific version, and what you bought doesn't match the following semester requirements, so it's almost worthless to sell back.
True dat. Which also screws the library over that they can't justify buying copies for the collection.
When you can't post to your favorite forum for almost a weekend.
And the person (or one of his/her friends) says, "You just can't make this stuff up."
But it was made up.
when I go to someone's house, and go to the bathroom with the door close. then a female dog or a female cat open the bathroom's door and walks in. then they come over to the toilet, while I am standing and look at me. they shake their head sideway and then walk out the door.
Be Cautious When You Type "Google", Or "Yahoo"..
"Why People Do Bad Things"
How the hell do you pronounce "Olshfski"
How do you pronounce "Coyote" in your area?
Access Capital Funding, "A Horrible Company."


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Agence France-Presse (AFP) announced this week it will stop accepting work from freelance journalists reporting from rebel-held territories in Syria.
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Several foreign journalists have fallen into the hands of a group calling itself the Islamic State (IS). Over the past six weeks, at least three videos have been distributed online showing the execution of three hostages — including a freelance journalist who filed stories for AFP — by IS forces.
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Q: Using SystemJS modules within gulpfile I'd like to know if it's possible to use SystemJS modules within the gulp configuration file gulpfile.js. The reason for this is because I'd like to use TypeScript to write the gulpfile, as this will give me IntelliSense.
I've set up a Visual Studio 2015 project that uses TypeScript as a transpiler and SystemJS as a module loader. My TypeScript files are compiled by Visual Studio. For this, I've added a tsconfig.json file with the following settings:
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Software engineers Matt Schallert, Katie Tezapsidis, Carissa Blossom, and Tom Croucher discuss what it takes to prepare our systems for holidays and other high traffic events.
While most spend New Year's Eve watching the ball drop or celebrating with friends (festive party hat in tow), Uber Engineering has historically treated the holiday like a final exam. With users worldwide relying on Uber for safe and reliable transportation to and from their celebrations, New Year's Eve often marks our highest traffic event of the year, with Halloween as a close second. Our ability to handle user traffic on both holidays is the culmination of many months of planning, load testing, and future-proofing our systems.
Uber Engineering built our "Uber World View" tool to track demand across our global markets.
At Uber's current scale, however, major events like Halloween and New Year's Eve are anything but special. With lessons learned from holidays past and an ever-growing suite of on-call tools at the ready, our networks are available, reliable, and elastic enough to handle high traffic loads year-round.
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) partners with Uber's development teams to improve product reliability while growing and operating infrastructure at scale.
Observability Engineering is dedicated to providing metrics, tracing, and alerting for all the other engineering teams at Uber.
Located in offices across the globe, these teams work to ensure continuity and scalability across Uber's services by creating and maintaining applications as well as triaging and fixing issues in real time.
Now that we know who is responsible for helping you make it to your New Year's Eve soiree safely and on time (sequins intact), what does it take to prepare for holidays and other large-scale events? Below, members of our Site Reliability and Observability Engineering teams discuss how we keep our networks extensible and reliable in the face of peak traffic.
Figure 2: Uber Engineering maintains several dashboards that help us gauge the health of our services. These particularly come in handy during our preparations for high traffic events like New Year's Eve and Halloween.
What is your role on the Observability Engineering team?
Matt Schallert (MS): I work on building and operating Uber's metrics infrastructure to give engineers visibility into high resolution metrics across billions of unique time series. Teams at Uber use these metrics to measure everything happening with a service and the infrastructure it runs on. These metrics drive real-time alerts, anomaly detection, service health, hardware, and infrastructure.
In the lead up to large-scale events, engineers need to measure more things than normal and we have to scale to that demand. Our goal is to allow every engineer to measure, tune and mitigate to make sure we always provide the best user experience possible, even during times of peak traffic.
Why are Halloween and New Year's Eve such important holidays for Uber?
MS: These are important nights for Uber because many people rely on us to have a safe, efficient, and less stressful way of getting around. Particularly in the United States, Halloween helps us test our services and infrastructure for the traffic increase we see globally during New Year's Eve. In this way, Halloween and New Year's Eve planning are deliberately and strategically tied together. Since Halloween precedes New Year's Eve by a few months, it gives us time to apply our learnings from October to get ready for what is historically our biggest night of the year.
How does Uber load test in preparation for high traffic events?
MS: The Site Reliability Engineering team runs large-scale event drills to simulate the platform running at our predicted trip volume for the event. This simulated trip volume exercises every dependent service and flow of the user experience from requesting a ride to billing after the end of a trip. If a service begins to degrade during the drill, we pause the exercise to address the issue.
It should come as no surprise that our team's highest priority during these tests is to fix any bottlenecks before the next one so that we can continue to iterate and strengthen our network. The frequency of these drills increase as we get closer to the event, until we're eventually running drills multiple times a day.
Katie Tezapsidis (L) and Matt Schallert (R), members of Uber Engineering's Observability team, discuss new tools and techniques for making monitoring system health more efficient.
Can you give us an overview of the preparations required in the lead up to Halloween and NYE?
Katie Tezapsidis (KT): The capacity planning process starts months in advance with Uber's data scientists analyzing information such as the number of riders we have supported on the platform during previous high traffic events with sophisticated machine learning techniques. This analysis is then used to develop a forecasting model that compares the current year's trajectory with the previous year's. This process gives us two bands, an upper predicted value and a lower predicted value. We then conduct multiple load tests at the highest predicted value leading up to the event. We also run these load tests with failure simulations such as failed regions to help us anticipate potential technical issues as well as test our processes for response.
How do individual teams prepare for large-scale load testing?
KT: In addition to system-wide drills, individual teams load test their own services independently by using Uber's self-service load test platform. Our load testing platform provides a harness for executing and scaling up load tests written in a variety of languages. For example, a microservice that indexes nearby drivers will index large volumes of geographically-dispersed mock drivers to validate workload at a higher volume. This on-demand platform allows teams to run drills on a regular basis and during specific events like canary deployments.
All of these preparations are important, but what if something happens to our systems during production? How does Uber detect performance degradations in real time?
KT: Testing the most visible degradations is done by a system that runs outside our network and exercises product flows. Each team monitors their services using extensive whitebox monitoring which looks at the state of our internal systems. We have created over 100,000 real-time alerts that will automatically mitigate these issues. If any are unsuccessful, our On-Call Dashboard will page an on-call engineer to resolve them.
Carissa Blossom is a site reliability engineer on the Uber Marketplace team.
The Uber Marketplace team is responsible for tackling some of the company's hardest quantitative problems by creating and maintaining technologies that power our real time marketplace of drivers, riders, and other users. How does the Marketplace team prepare for high traffic events like Halloween and NYE? What precautions do you take to future-proof our systems?
Carissa Blossom (CB): For major holidays like Halloween and New Year Eve, we project for traffic one and a half months in advance to ensure that we can handle demand with comfortable wiggle room in case real traffic scales faster than our projections. As far as specific preparations go, transitioning from using bare metal servers to containerized services running on Mesos has been a major part of future-proofing that has enabled us to auto-scale our services.
How far in advance do you prepare for major holidays like Halloween and NYE?
CB: In the past, we started preparing for these events months in advance, and on the big day(s) themselves, people would take on special shifts to monitor the system during these holidays. We have now progressed to the point that these systems are already well-prepared for major events and little additional work is needed on the day-of these events.
My favorite SRE analogy draws the connection with the preparedness element of firefighting. Like firefighting in the physical world, the majority of SREs jobs aren't about putting out that one big fire but about working to prevent these fires by developing and maintaining the systems, like sprinklers in your home, which help mitigate issues as quickly and efficiently as possible.
What is the trickiest part about preparing for major holidays?
CB: High traffic events are both exciting and challenging because they are the main test for the extensibility of our systems. The less work that needs to be done in the days leading up to big events, the better our preparations. Uber Engineering has reached a place where insanely high traffic events like Halloween and New Year's Eve come and go without SRE having to do anything extra or out of the ordinary for our apps to work smoothly.
Our preparations are considered successful if the user experience on these holidays is as reliable and seamless as on any other time a trip is requested. On the flipside of this, the most rewarding part of high traffic events for me is how connected to the customer base it makes you feel. I love hearing from drivers about how well the day went for them and knowing that I played a part in making that happen.
What are some of the day-to-day preparations the SRE team does to ensure that our systems are ready for primetime?
CB: One important cross-team effort is our Capacity Safety Team, which includes volunteers from Marketplace, Maps, SRE, and other teams involved in the core Uber trip flow. We have weekly drills that utilize Hailstorm, an internal tool which utilizes test accounts to simulate extra traffic on the system. The point of these drills is to stress the system up to a set number of riders and drivers on trips in a single data center, thereby identifying any issues that might emerge live under similar conditions.
Through these drills, we have been able to make major holidays a non-event because we have already tested that the system and microservices can easily handle the holiday traffic. As our services evolve, we're focusing less on preparing for a single event and more on empowering the system to scale itself.
Tom Croucher is a staff software engineer on Uber's Site Reliability Engineering team, responsible for improving and maintaining reliability across our services.
How did this year's Halloween preparations compare to previous years?
I joined Uber in 2014, and during my first few years, it was all hands on deck—everyone was at the office, actively monitoring. Since then, our preparation for high traffic events has matured to keep up with the scale and scope of our services. This year, I was on-call on the Saturday before Halloween and was able to sign-off before peak traffic, which speaks to our level of preparedness.
From a technical perspective, success is experiencing firsthand the abilities of these systems to remain robust no matter the circumstances. Every year we have an informal bet about when our peak will be; this year we weren't even watching the system to see who'd won because we were so confident we'd be notified if anything went off the rails.
How many teams are involved in preparing our systems for Halloween and NYE?
TC: All of them. Historically, we have always done less prep for New Year's Eve than for Halloween because the former is our test run. We can use metrics from Halloween to gauge how much traffic we can expect on New Year's Eve, and as such, how each team should prepare.
One thing that is great about Uber Engineering culture is that engineers who work on a particular system are responsible for running that system. For core systems, we have a number of SRE teams embedded on feature and product engineering teams that partner on load testing, infrastructure, capacity, and performance analysis. Our core SRE team gives non-SREs the technical tools to succeed, but we let them solve their problems since they are in the right place to understand the specifics of their systems.
What is the biggest piece of advice you would give other companies preparing for their own high traffic events?
TC: Ultimately, a lot of this your success comes down to planning. If you're actually considerate about how you build and grow your systems with reliability and scalability in mind, events like Halloween and New Year's Eve aren't a big deal; they happen every year! While traffic growth isn't 100 percent predictable, these trends and patterns from year-to-year become something you can understand.
If you're prepared, nothing should be a surprise. Moving from a reactionary mindset to a planning mindset requires discipline but it is so worth it once you get there.
If engineering an uneventful New Year's Eve interests you, consider applying for a role on our team!
Matt Schallert and Katie Tezapsidis are software engineers on Uber's Observability Engineering team. Carissa Blossom is a software engineer on Uber's Marketplace SRE team, and Tom Croucher is a staff engineer on Uber's SRE team.


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Mustangs Run away in 2nd Half
The Monte Vista Mustangs defeated the varsity girls 10 to 4.
Lindsay Wilson, Lifestyle Editor
Girls' lacrosse lost 10-4 at the hands of Monte Vista on Tuesday March 25.
While Campolindo is in Division II, Monte Vista, a larger school, is a Division I program.
Going in, the girls knew that it would be a difficult game. Monte Vista's roster is comprised of many good club lacrosse players. "Monte Vista is a really tough competitor. They're Division I, and we have never played them before. But, I knew 10 of them because they play traveling lacrosse with us," said junior Bridget Coleman.
"We knew it was going to be a difficult game because they are all pretty skilled," she said.
Coleman believed her team held its own, playing good defense. "I thought we held up against them. At half time it was only 4-3, which was a pretty good score for us, and I think we played really great defense against them. Every time they tried to switch us on offense, we would just stay there and make them get by," she said.
"I think we need to work on things other than running it," Coleman added. "We dropped the ball a lot, so we need to work on being calm under pressure."
Coleman is coming back from an ankle injury. "I'm still kind of injured, so it's been hard for me. My offense was a little rough yesterday," she explained.
The team now looks ahead to the second round in the DFAL's round-robin format. "I hope to come back and beat all of the teams we lost to because our league was a little rough at first, but now that we have our whole team together we can focus on playing as a team," Coleman said.
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Football Fights Division Change
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Cougars Dominate Matadors in Final League Game
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I'll Have What She's Having
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When: Jan - Aug 2018
Where: Assembly George Square Studios, Studio 4
What: Following a successful research and development run at Camden People's Theatre, the artists approached me for help with producing the show further to take it to a reputable venue at Edinburgh Fringe. I worked closely with Jess & Victoria in drafting venue applications and helping them realise this ambition. My role involved devising and running a successful crowdfunding campaign that raised almost double the initial target, devising and delivering a successful marketing & PR strategy, monitoring ticket sales and budgets closely, and elements of production coordination.
I'll Have What She's Having is an autobiographical show about Jess & Victoria's experiences of career, relationships and motherhood as viewed through the perspective of another person. The show is a devised comedy that uses sketch, dance and monologue to explore why women feel the need to filter their lives for other people; to be happier, wealthier, thinner and prettier than they really feel. It's fun, it's raw, it's honest and it's part of a conversation that, today, is more relevant than ever.
Written & Performed by Victoria Bianchi & Jess Brodie
Directed by Rae Brogan
Photography by Lydia Milne
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This year the London swimming community has come together again as 44 swimmers gathered at the 50m Charlton Lido to take part in one of the classic sets of 100 x 100m off 2 mins.
London Region Masters Representative Richard Jones explains one reason why we all do these crazy things around Christmas time.
In some parts of the country it had dropped to -15°c and London had snow before Christmas for the first time in years so there were a lot of nervous swimmers eyeing the forecast for Saturday 16 December 2017.
On the actual day the forecast was 0° – 6°c but more importantly for the first time in ages the sun shone, although by the end of the swim it had rained (some said sleet), misted over for a bit and there was also an icy blast to remind everyone exactly what time of year it was.
For those not used to lido distance swimming, leaving one's bag poolside didn't seem a problem in the sun.
But luckily a quick-thinking supporter moved the bags under cover when the rain, started saving some blushes and more importantly dry clothes to get changed back into.
The reason why everyone was braving the weather for a 3½-hour swim was at this time in 2015, six swimmers did this exact same set, but sadly within a few months, one of them, Steve Wand, was fatally injured while out training on his bike.
In memory of Steve and to raise funds for the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Air Ambulance that fought so hard to save him, Mark Sheridan sought support from the open water and Masters swimming communities to recreate this swim and more than 30 swimmers raised over £3000 in 2016.
This year, in a fitting tribute to someone who embraced so many sporting disciplines, there were open water swimmers, triathletes, endurance, deaf and Masters swimmers all coming together to take on this challenge for themselves, for charity and in Steve's memory.
Charlton Lido is a fantastic facility; one of the few, if not only, outdoor heated 50m pools in South East London and the staff were brilliant, embracing the ethos of the event. They were very supportive and welcoming to such a large number of swimmers who took over four lanes for several hours.
This good spirit continued after the event when Steve's family presented each swimmer with a specially printed t-shirt to commemorate the occasion and they enjoyed a hot drink, sandwiches and a slice of cake.
If you would like to donate please go to the Steve Wand memorial page.
Let us know about your impressive Christmas swimming sets on our Community page.


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The Dump/The Incinerator = Annihilation/Oblivion/No Afterlife at All: (Again, I don't blame anyone who thinks that no, this is actually Hell. The imagery is certainly there. I just happen to disagree, here's why.) After the possibility of togetherness but pointlessness, and the possibility of ongoing torment, comes the possibility of complete destruction. The toys react with initial mortal terror, as complete destruction is indeed an on the surface very scary concept. There are several times they could be destroyed, but manage to just barely scrape by by the skin of their teeth. But at the very end, falling into the pit, no way out, and no hope of rescue, the toys, starting with Buzz, have a change in attitude. They accept it and intend to go out together, with dignity. The look on Buzz's face seems to say it all. Even if they escaped, where would they go? to lives of unending meaninglessness? They realize that they were there for Andy, and as such lived full lives, and wanting more is not necessary. The toys acceptance of this end perfectly encapsulates why some people find the idea of simple nothingness after death more comforting than an afterlife. You've lived your life well, there's nothing more to want.
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Aside from teaching he also has a passion for performing. Erick likes to perform as a soloist, choral member and to be part of theater productions such as musicals and plays. He was most recently seen performing with the LAKMA (Los Angeles Korean-American Musicians Association) choir at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Erick is a current member of the Verid Chorus and JMNS (Joanna Medawar Nachef Singers) who will have a few performances this coming Fall.
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Q: Word for lack of understanding at scale? Imagine we're back in the days when the Internet was born. Over the next few years, only a tiny fraction of the population understood how the Internet works.
How would an early adopter succinctly describe the flocks of people who don't have a clue about the Internet?
Note: bonus points if the word refers to an asymmetry of information, whereby one party knows a lot more than everybody else.

A: I think 'unenlightened' could work here:

having or showing a lack of necessary knowledge or understanding
// ... an audience of unenlightened laymen.

(source: Merriam-Webster)
Laymen (or the gender-neutral laypersons) itself is another candidate.

A: Uninitiated
The word with the least negative connotation I can think of is "uninitiated". Although "unenlightened" is very similar, and both essentially mean the same thing as "ignorant", both "unenlightened" and "ignorant" are often used in a subject-independent way ("an ignorant/uninformed/unenlightened person") with the implication that the person's lack of understanding is at least partly due to their own unwillingness to learn or adopt new methods.
While these words can be used in a truly neutral tone when they're explicitly linked to a topic ("ignorant/uninformed/unenlightened about message board etiquette", for example), I think they still carry a slight pejorative emphasis compared to "uninitiated", which is always used in a domain-specific way and implies that the person's ignorance is no fault of their own - in this case, the user simply hasn't been "initiated" into the esoteric mysteries of the Internet yet.

A: Digirati will sometimes call them
Hoi Polloi

In English, it has been given a negative connotation to signify deprecation of the working class, commoners, the masses or common people in a derogatory or (more often today) ironic sense.

Here's a recent usage which shows the asymmetry of hoi polloi.

America seems resigned to having a two-tierd workforce, where "knowledge workers" stay home and work via computer while the hoi polloi slave away in the trenches.

(from Fishing, Acupuncture, And Other Newly Virtual Jobs by John Queenan, Wall Street Journal, 8Aug20, p. C6)
or
Unwashed masses

(idiomatic) The collective group of people who are considered to be uneducated, uninformed, or in some other way unqualified for inclusion in the speaker's elite circles.

These terms convey an asymmetry, are both derogatory, and could encompass technology, ability, or knowledge.

A: Technophobe

someone who dislikes new technology, especially computers, and is not
able to use it with confidence
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/technophobe

Technophobia (from Greek τέχνη technē, "art, skill, craft"[1] and
φόβος phobos, "fear"[2]) is the fear or dislike of advanced technology
or complex devices, especially computers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technophobia

Although this word is not  specifically about the internet, it's close.

You ask for asymmetry. The opposite of technophobe is technophile.

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*a person who is enthusiastic about new technology: "he became an ardent technophile, buying every new gadget on the market" Powered by
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A: What about "muggles"?
Those like Vernon & Petunia Dursley know nothing about the magic world in Harry Potter novels.

A: What about
Illiteracy
e.g. People back then were not as computer-literate as today.
Or:
ingorance
Or:
unaware

A: I just stumbled upon "arcane" today:

understood by few; mysterious or secret.

Fits the bill.


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A CGI representation of Keppel's vision of a floating data center park, or "marina."
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In Land-Constrained Singapore, Keppel Eyes Floating Data Centers
CEO says the company is scouting for near-shore locations for a data center "marina."
Yevgeniy Sverdlik | Sep 03, 2019
Two years after investing $10 million in the California company that has designed a floating data center that can be cooled by seawater, Keppel Data Centres is location-scouting to build one that can float somewhere near the shores of its Singapore, its home base.
Land on the tiny island the city state occupies is in short supply, and the government tightly controls land use. While the government's interest in promoting digital-infrastructure growth gives an advantage in data center site selection to big cloud companies like Google or Amazon, many data center developers find it difficult to secure land for construction.
Related: Land Constrained Singapore to Study Underground and High-Rise Data Centers
It's easy to see how the floating-data center idea can gain traction in a market like that.
Keppel's vision is to build entire marinas filled with floating data center modules that share a floating "power-generation module," Wong Wai Meng, Keppel Data Centres CEO, told Channel News Asia.
Related: Who May Use the World's First Floating Data Center?
"We have a couple of sites we're exploring around the island for Singapore's purpose," he said. "Most of the sites are near shore."
CNA's video coverage includes a computer-generated visualization of one such floating data center park, where more than 20 data center barges float along walkways you'd see on a regular marina. Four more barges appear to carry power equipment for the entire park:
In the interview, Keppel's CEO said each barge could have 10MW of data center capacity. Considering that Singapore's entire 2018 data center market's capacity in 2018 was about 360MW (according to Structure Research), a single floating data center park could more than double supply in the market, whose status as a global financial hub makes it one of the world's most sought-after data center locations.
The CGI barges in the video look similar to the ones designed by Nautilus Data Technologies, the Pleasanton, California-based startup in which Keppel invested in 2017. Nautilus has at least three ongoing data center construction projects in various stages: floating ones in Vallejo, California, and Limerick, Ireland, and a dry-land one in Alameda, California.
Besides the flotation factor, a key feature of Nautilus's data center design is its cooling system, which by using seawater as the cooling medium promises significant energy (and total cost of ownership) savings over traditional data center designs.
Keppel Data Centres, one of the three largest data center providers in Singapore, is a division of Keppel Telecommunications and Transportation, a subsidiary of the giant Singaporean conglomerate Keppel Corporation. In addition to Singapore, Keppel operates data centers in Malaysia, Hong Kong, Australia, Germany, The Netherlands, UK, and Ireland.
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John H. Filer Award honors individual(s) who have demonstrated leadership in encouraging private action for the public good in Connecticut.
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The John H. Filer Award was established by CCP's Board of Directors in 1997 to honor the memory of an individual who inspired his peers in Hartford's business community by example and urged the nation's business leaders to accept the responsibility of corporate citizenship. The Filer Award is given to an individual or individuals who are leaders in promoting private action for the public good. Nominees should embody a creative spirit and serve as a model and inspiration to others in promoting philanthropy and solving societal problems.
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The Martha S. Newman Award was established to honor the memory of Martha Newman, a much-loved and well-respected member of the philanthropic community in Hartford for many years. Martha set the standard for an exemplary staff member. The Newman Award is given to a staff member of a philanthropic organization who has demonstrated sustained and exemplary service to one or more organizations and the philanthropic sector in the state.
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ht is also the language code for Haitian Creole, Kreyòl Ayisyen.

See also
Internet in Haiti

References

External links
 IANA .ht whois information
 .ht domain registration website

Country code top-level domains
Communications in Haiti

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Amandine and Eric got married in September, on a moody and foggy day. It was still and amazing day for those two lovebirds. They rented an amazing old car, and used it to travel around town to the different locations. They had a church ceremony in a very small town church, filled with paintings and an amazing light. We then headed to a nearby forest to take couples pictures. It was a very nice and not-so-cold day, with just a little bit of rain! Their first look was truly emotional, and the love between those two is magical. It was a very nice day!


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What Are the Dangers of the Amazon Rainforest?
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Amazon wildlife (Photo: Scarlet Macaw image by wulfpaw from Fotolia.com )
Amazon Rainforest Survival Guide
The Amazon for Tourists
The Amazon rainforest spans nearly 3 million square miles and harbors some of the most diverse species of flora and fauna on the planet. Travel in the rainforest can be as complex as the myriad ecosystems within it, so plan well before stepping foot into this rugged and remote wilderness.
The Amazon rainforest occupies territory in nine South American countries. According to Hillman Wonders of the World, approximately two-thirds of the rainforest lies in Brazil, while roughly 13 percent of it is in Peru. Other countries with smaller portions of the Amazon rainforest include Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Suriname, Guyana and French Guiana. The Amazon River snakes its way through the jungle and across the continent, and at more than 3,900 miles is technically the second longest river in the world.
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Travelers face several health hazards when touring the Amazon rainforest, with yellow fever and malaria presenting the biggest threats. Frommer's Travel Guide highly recommends getting yellow fever shots and taking malaria tablets or receiving an anti-malarial vaccination prior to arrival. Insect repellent helps keep mosquitoes at bay, but vaccinations still are compulsory. Visitors should also be careful about water consumption. Drink only bottled water to avoid parasites and general stomach discomfort.
Transportation is very limited, with dense jungles and hundreds of rivers making it difficult to get very far on the few primitive roads running through the region. The primary means of entry into the Amazon is by plane. The cities of Manaus, Brazil, and Iquitos, Peru, have airports with connecting flights to the outside world. Charter jets are available to some jungle destinations from these main hubs, but the most common way to get around is by boat. Smaller craft are ideal for short distances, while larger barges and pontoons provide long-distance transport to ports along the Amazon River and its tributaries.
Manaus and Iquitos are logical starting points for any journey into the Amazon rainforest, but these bustling cities deserve a day or two of exploration themselves before you set out for more remote destinations. The confluence of the Rio Negro and Rio Solimóes near Manaus in Brazil is known as the "meeting of the waters" and features a unique melding of dark and yellow waters from the two rivers as well as freshwater dolphins. Peru's Manu Biosphere is another popular attraction for ecotourists. This protected region of the rainforest encompasses 5 million acres of virgin jungles hiding impressive macaw clay licks and ox-bow lakes brimming with diverse wildlife. Other points of interest in the Amazon include the Madidi National Park in Bolivia and the Yasuni Biosphere Reserve in Ecuador.
Pack light when traveling to the Amazon. Bring waterproof clothing and a sturdy pair of hiking shoes along with a first-aid kit and personal mosquito net. Banks and ATM machines are scarce, so prepare accordingly. You will likely need to keep some cash on you at all times, but exercise caution since this is a developing region where petty theft is common.
Hillman Wonders of the World: Amazon Rainforest
Frommer's Travel Guide: Amazon Basin
Lonely Planet Travel Guide: Introducting Iquitos
David Thyberg began his writing career in 2007. He is a professional writer, editor and translator. Thyberg has been published in various newspapers, websites and magazines. He enjoys writing about social issues, travel, music and sports. Thyberg holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pittsburgh Honors College with a certificate in Spanish and Latin American studies.
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Travel to the Amazon in Ecuador
Adventure Travel in the Amazon
Travel to the Amazon Basin
Rivers in the Amazon Rainforest
Description of the Rainforest in Central Africa


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Wayne Huebner
Pastor – waynehuebner@slcas.org
Pastor Huebner has served as Salem's pastor since 2012 coming from St. Martin Lutheran Church in Chilton, Wisconsin. He was born in Milwaukee and raised in suburban Brown Deer. He attended Lutheran elementary and high schools. During his school years he worked part-time for a pizza place, an electric motor repair shop, and a lawn service. He is married to Crystal, a native of New Holstein, Wisconsin who is a respiratory therapist at St. Louis Children's Hospital. The Huebners have three daughters; Lauren who is a junior at the University of Missouri – St. Louis, Anna who is a freshman at the University of Missouri – Columbia and Maggie who is a sophomore at Lutheran South.
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Brian Nowak
Vicar – briannowak@slcas.org
Brian Nowak is Salem Lutheran Church and School's Vicar for the 2019 – 2020 year. Brian started his vicarage on August 1st. He is a third year student at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis and he comes to us from the Chicago area where he worked in the banking industry prior to deciding to enroll in the seminary. Brian is working with Pastor Huebner in leading worship at the church, teaching in the school and visiting hospitalized and home bound members of the congregation. He will also work closely with the Board of Elders and Church Council.
Brian is married to Heather who teaches at Immanuel Lutheran School in St. Charles. The Nowaks have three children; Taylor, Matthew and Lilly.
John Wittmayer
Director of Music Ministry – johnwittmayer@slcas.org
John is the Director of Music Ministry at Salem Lutheran Church, a position he has held since 1995. His duties include overseeing, planning and leading music programs for the church and school. John earned his Bachelor's degree from Valparaiso University and his Master's from University of Missouri-Kansas City. John is married to his beautiful wife, Karen, who is the assistant director of the Lutheran Association for Special Education (LASE). John and Karen have a wonderful daughter Jennifer who is a sophomore at Creighton University.
Kristina Paul
Deaconess – kristinapaul@slcas.org
Kristina attended Drake University, playing basketball and volleyball, and graduated in 2005 with a degree in Psychology and Business. Before coming to Concordia Seminary here in the fall of 2007, she was a social worker for Lutheran Social Services of Illinois and a youth director at Christ the Rock LCMS in Rockford, IL. Kristina married Nathan at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis in 2009. The Pauls have three children; Jackson, Claire and Oliver.
Pam Moellenhoff
Director of Assimilation – pammoellenhoff@slcas.org
Pam is a native of Seymour, Indiana. She earned her bachelor's degree in Education from Concordia – Ann Arbor and holds graduate credits from the University of Cincinnati. Pam has taught full time for more than 10 years, and part time for 15 more. Prior to serving Salem, Pam taught at Trinity Lutheran in Port Huron, Michigan and Concordia Lutheran in Cincinnati. During her time at Salem she has subbed and taught middle school for 9 years. Pam believes Salem is special because "it's a family and everyone cares about each other. Each person is an individual, not a number." Pam has two children: Kyle who is a graduate of Missouri University of Science and Technology and Erin who is a junior at the University of Evansville. In her spare time Pam enjoys being with her kids, reading, sewing, weaving baskets, and watching Indiana Hoosier basketball.
Terry Rooney
Financial Coordinator – terryrooney@slcas.org
Terry Rooney joined Salem's staff in June of 2017 and is our congregation's Financial Coordinator. Terry's experience includes work with accounts payable and receivable, payroll and as the owner of a small business. Terry is married to Jim and is a mother and grandmother of nine. Terry earned her bachelor's degree from Maryville University and her master's degree from Lindenwood University.
Susy Schindler
Administrative Assistant – susanschindler@slcas.org
Susan "Susy" Naucke Schindler sings with the Parish Choir and Joyful Sounds. She's also the head of Salem's Greeter team and the treasurer of the Altar Guild. She is, by the grace of God, a three time cancer survivor with a passion to love and support others with cancer. Susy also leads Salem's Cancer Support Ministry.
Susy was baptized at Salem, attended Salem Lutheran School, kindergarten through eighth grade, and was confirmed at Salem. She graduated from Affton High School with a French scholarship to Webster College where she met her husband, Tom. They married in 1985 and live in South City with their dogs Saque, Georges and Eleanor. Susy enjoys decorating, walking her dogs and riding her Harley. She is delighted to be working at Salem and is happy to serve the wonderful, loving people of our congregation.


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I am a wife, mother, daughter, sister, neighbor and friend, who loves to cook, entertain, decorate and write. I love to take pictures and imagine. I love fresh flowers, herbs, fruit, bread and fish. I love coffee in the morning and wine at night. I love watching football, good jazz and an acoustic guitar. I love Egg Mc Muffin's, sushi, white pizza and filet mignon. I love seeing my children dance. I love the sound of crashing waves, popping corks and my kids laughing. I love my husband. I love silence. I love my childhood and my memories. I love time.
I am a wife, mother, daughter, sister, neighbor and friend who loves to cook, entertain, decorate and write, but sometimes...my pictures turn out bad and I can't imagine a thing. I have dried flowers and herbs, mushy fruit, stale bread and fish. Sometimes the coffee's weak, wine rack empty, my team loses, jazz is all wrong and guitar out of tune. Sometimes I approach the drive-thru one minute too late; there is no sushi, the pizza's burnt and filet well done. Sometimes I miss seeing them dance. Sometimes the ocean's still, the wine is corked and my children are crying. Sometimes we disagree. Sometimes it's loud. Sometimes childhood eludes me and a memory is sad. There's never enough time.