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Check Netflix. Most of their H1Bs are making far greater than prevailing wage for their positions.

Ah. Good to know. This is just running on a personal test box. I'll email them, though I think the wave is over anyway.

Thanks :)

That's unfortunate. My little 512Mb Linode apparently couldn't handle it. It's back up for the moment.

Edit: Scratch that. Resizing to a larger linode now. This got far more traffic than I ever expected it would.

Thanks! I'll look into that.

Yeah, graphing is a thing I'll probably implement. It would be useful to use as a tool when fighting with them.

I currently don't account for that. I guess I could ping something always stable like 8.8.8.8 or something as a baseline to compare against.

EDIT: Well, this got more popular than I ever expected. Resizing the linode now. Should be back up soon.

After months of fighting with CableOne about speed and service problems, I decided to finally spice up my website dedicated to their poor service: www.iscableoneshitty.com

Now, instead of just saying "YES," it gives an actual representation of the quality of the connection to my house. The server pings my modem 5 times at the top of every minute. It takes the response times and averages them.

If the average response time is <60ms, it reads "NOT CURRENTLY."

If the average response time is between 60 and 100ms, it reads "MOSTLY."

If the average response time is >100ms and <150ms, it reads "YES."

If the average response time is >150ms, it reads "VERY YES."

I've distributed to friends and neighbors in the area, because almost every one in my town is on CableOne for lack of other choices, so they can check and see if at least someone else is having trouble.

I have thoughts of actually tracking the data and compiling monthly reports of downtime and slowness, I just haven't gotten around to that yet.

Moving your mouth muscles isn't significantly more manual then moving the finger muscles you used to type this comment.

In either case, expending a few neural cycles prior to the action would be beneficial.

Because all entertainment must also be high art?

Just 2 days ago, I commissioned a work from a local painter.

People support artists in many ways. One of those ways is paying to enjoy the things they produce.

You usually pay for this sort of thing based on profit, more or less.

In this case, his basis is $0 (his cost to acquire the asset). Were he to sell all of them, his profit is essentially 100%; however, I'm not entirely sure how bitcoin gains are codified. If they're regular capital gains, then it's done around that cost basis ($0 in this case), but if they aren't, then I don't know.

All of you asking for the transaction ID are incorrigible. The man clearly wants privacy. The kind of privacy that you all opine for every time there's some governmental incursion. Or some startup gets hacked or whatever.

Leave the man be.

lmm: (For some reason your post doesn't have a reply link) These are usually webapps for department-specific needs, and I generally find PHP to be easier. I have a few python things that I use on the backend, as well as a plethora of bash scripts. But, I admit to knowing PHP more than Python. (I'm in a smallish company, so I end up wearing a lot of hats)

generalpf: I will do so! Do you have any go-to references that you prefer? Or shall I just dig through the PHP docs?

Probably. I'm a pretty poor developer. I'm a sysadmin who sometimes writes PHP apps for work. So, I'll look into PDO. :D