I'm interested in aspects of benchmarking with the help of UNIX's time, specifically, what user, system and elapsed times correspond to, within the functional context of the system and the tested application. [more inside]
posted on Mar 4, 2008 - 4 answers

What are my rights when being pulled over by the police for no reason? [more inside]
posted on Oct 30, 2007 - 47 answers

I'm Sikh, I'm going to SF, I'm (irrationally) scared... [more inside]
posted on Aug 27, 2007 - 42 answers

How do you calculate the burden a bit of code is likely to put on the server? Extra points for free and easily understood. [more inside]
posted on Aug 24, 2007 - 14 answers

search: Can you help me find a citation? There was an article or post, possibly a pdf, that is a template used by our wonderful homeland security et al, to track and monitor would be terrorist's, one of these criteria's were certain flag signals for them. [more inside]
posted on Jul 21, 2006 - 2 answers