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It may be fashionable to rag on Perl, but it does have excellent performance.
A while ago I was testing database scaling with GNU dbm and Berkeley dbm. I needed a large dataset and hit on the idea of using a number as the key (e.g. "123456789") and the number's words in English as the data (e.g. "one hundred twenty-three million, four hundred fifty-six thousand, seven hundred eighty-nine".) Such a dataset is by its very nature infinitely scalable. The algorithm I developed is pretty straightforward, and out of curiosity I ended up implementing it in several languages. Here are the results from tests I ran on my laptop (Intel Pentium 3825U, 1.90GHz), in thousands of records generated per second: Compiled C program (gcc -O3): 2,840 PHP 7: 403 mawk (a fast version of awk): 311 Perl: 287 Lua: 164 Ruby: 158 Java: 137 Python: 116 TCL: 68 Bash script: 6.4 The Perl program ran at more than twice the speed of the equivalent Python and Java programs. On more powerful hardware such as a Ryzen CPU, Java and Python fared better when compared with Perl, running at 79% and 68% (respectively) the speed of the Perl program. |
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The social illusion reigns to-day upon all the heaped-up ruins of the past, and to it belongs the future. The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Gustav Le Bon, The Crowd, 1895 (from the French) Canadian or living in Canada? PM me if you want an entry on the list of Canadians on the forum. |
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I was just asked by one of the management team to submit a request for an increase in my security clearance. Since this is a prerequisite for the position I've been going for, I think things are starting to look pretty good.
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...our governments are just trying to protect us from terror. In the same way that someone banging a hornets’ nest with a stick is trying to protect us from hornets. Frankie Boyle, Guardian, July 2015 |
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Then again, there's this rather ominous sounding development: https://www.theguardian.com/australi...ervice-changes
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Well that was an unusual call. Here is a near-exact transcript:
Hello, Service Desk, how can I help? Everything is working, nothing is going wrong, and you're all doing a great job. Uh... thanks. Bye! *click* |
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I'm super happy - I've been in this same role at my company since 2006. (with a brief interruption around 2014, but that's a whole 'nuther story). I'm good at it, and there is only a very small subset of people in the country that do what I do. It's why they *love* me.
Anyway, they asked me to learn this other thing! New Things! Shiny objects! So, I've been having a blast the last two days playing around with the new thing. I'm in fake it until you make it mode. Wonder what this button does? <click> Whee! |
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Anecdotes don't make evidence. I am sure there is a rational explanation for arthwolipot's claim, he was probably on drugs or had a crossed line on the phone.
You claiming it had to be a supernatural act before all the rational reasons are exhausted is not very sceptical. I know people have made claims of "appreciation" in the IT support profession for decades but we are yet to see one single iota of solid evidence it actually happens. |
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Okay friends, I know you've been as much on the edge of your seats about this as I have been on mine. I heard back about the interview.
My interview was successful. But. There's always a but. This but is but there are more successful applicants than there are positions to fill. So I don't have the position. However, it is still a win for me, because I am now on a merit list for 12 months. During this time I can be offered any APS4-level position in Tech Services without an application or an interview. I would of course like a position here in the Service Desk because it's what I know and enjoy, but if I can get a permanency in another team, you bet I'll take it. Furthermore, we are about to go through a massive MoG (Machinery of Government) shakeup because of this, so who knows what positions at this level may open up in a couple of months? So for now, I'm not in the position I wanted but I'm not disappointed because I know that I am good enough for it. And yeah, I'll be subtly hinting to the existing 4s here to think about advancing their careers too. |
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If there are no openings the logical course is to make some. Does this workplace have shared coffee pots? The second statement is unrelated to the first, and neither are related to the ubiquity of toxic plant life globally and in your region particularly. I'm certainly not suggesting the course of action you're thinking of, wink wink.
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I have news!
Starting next week I'll be moving fully over on to Service Requests. From there they have a non-ongoing APS3 position to put me into, though we are on a recruitment pause right now because MoG. One of the TLs though - a 4 - is moving on to an APS5 position in Desktop Support in February, so that's going to open up a vacancy, and that is an ongoing position. Things are definitely Looking Up. |
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Awesome. Congratulations.
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That's fair.
The Australian Public Service (APS) has a system of classifying their staff according to their ability and experience. It starts with the APS classifications - APS1 at the bottom, APS6 at the top. Above that is Executive Level - EL1 and EL2. These are management positions and are generally section heads. My boss is an EL1. Above that you have the Special Executive Service who are in charge of whole divisions of a public service department. I applied for, and was successful at attaining, an APS4 position. This is about the highest I can go without supervisory duties. My Team Leader (TL) (who is distinct from my boss) is an APS5. The higher the number, the higher the moolah, but also the higher the responsibility. MoG stands for Machinery of Government. At the end of last year, Megablaze Morrison announced that, amongst other shakeups in the Public Service, the department of Education was going to merge with the department of Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business. These two departments are our biggest clients, and they're going to be mushed together. That means work. All of the work required to implement that change is characterised as part of the MoG. |
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