Everything you never wanted to know about Jon Watte

I had a hard time finding good feed and speed numbers for milling holes in plastic ABS enclosures ("project boxes.")
After a number of failed attempts, where the plastic would just melt and burr and become a mess, I found something that works for me, at least on the Desktop ShopBot at my local TechShop:

The scheduling latency is the longest time that a "ready" process may have to wait before it actually gets to run.
On a system with a single CPU/core, and many ready processes, this latency will be very long.
On a system that is idle, and has many free CPUs/cores, it should theoretically be zero.

I recently answered question on the gamedev.net multiplayer and networking forum, that I feel warrants further distribution. The question dealt with trying to use MySQL eventing and MySQL data as the "server" for a large-scale multi-player web-based game.

I recently saw this ad:

A whole 60 dollars a year? That's cheaper than outsourcing to Congo! (the poorest nation on Earth).

Job recruiting scam pro-tip: Proofread your ads!

Here's a number. Anyone care to guess what it is?

2003529930406846464979072351560255750447825475569751419265016973710894059556311
4530895061308809333481010382343429072631818229493821188126688695063647615470291
6504187191635158796634721944293092798208430910485599057015931895963952486337236
7203002916969592156108764948889254090805911457037675208500206671563702366126359

I made a Node.js module. It's a packaging and slight update of the JavaScript implementation of the Mersenne Twister random number generator (which is a really high quality generator, as well as pretty fast).

I'm hoping you can soon get it with npm:

$ npm install mersenne
$

Usage is simple:

r = require('mersenne');

There are a bunch of things that are systemically broken in California, and the state would do a lot better if these could be fixed. The problem is, the far left and far right aren't much in agreement about how to fix it, or even what it is that is broken.

I've been thinking about two separate products that I'd want to purchase if they existed, but they don't. For an enterprising entrepreneur, this might be the point where you MAKE one of those products, and see if there's a market. However, I'm already enterprising within IMVU, and as they say -- ideas are a dime a dozen, it's execution that counts.