Seems like you put a lot of thought into this but you're frankly wrong. Wordpress didn't exist until years after "register globals" got deprecated. I agree it should never existed in the first place, but Wordpress is insecure entirely without any help from "register globals."
If Snowden's revelations were actually a surprise to me I'd have nominated him instead, but what he revealed I'd already simply guessed and been warning everyone about (and hence been ignored as being paranoid and delusional for) since about 1997.
I got logged out, and when I went to log back in Firefox stopped me, saying slashdot's SSL certificate was invalid. A few minutes later the problem seemed to correct itself and I did not have to re-authenticate.
Its an obvious and simple problem that has plagued their services for a very long time, in one or another similar incarnation at least. I'm quite sure in fact that they are actively avoiding hiring anyone who looks like they are experienced enough to notice and seem willing to speak up about it.
I care. You wouldn't have posted unless you care too. Fearing enough that he might be taken seriously that you'd field a ham-fisted attempt to discredit him is still a type of caring.
Large companies need to stop spending boat loads of money on buying overpriced, re-released commercial operating system and productivity software that changes absolutely nothing useful about business functionality and spend maybe say, 10% of the money from what that budget would have been on donating to or contributing to software projects that the infrastructure's critical functionality relies upon.
Seriously. The money would go further and the software would last longer and everyone would get a lot more actual work done. Every time you buy a new version of Windows its like you're paying to re-arrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.
And don't fucking reply to me saying shit like "durrr, but OpenSSL got hacked and doesn't deserve to have had more money." Maybe that's true, but probably not. Even if it were true, above, I said donating or contributing, as in - spend your own company resources auditing the software if you don't trust it. If you find enough vulnerabilities to distrust the people who make it, then FORK IT OR PAY SOMEONE TO DO SO. The bottom line is, economically even in a worst-case scenario its still cheaper than every single company rolling their own from scratch, or every single company buying the same software over and over again made (perhaps not any more securely or competently) by some completely unaccountable, inauditable closed-source company.
But that's hardly what I'm accusing Ruby of whatsoever. I merely pointed out that its enough slower that its gained a bad reputation. I think you are the one who should get over yourself. You're obviously personally affronted by facts neither of us have direct control over, and unwilling to do the research yourself to prove your case.
Look, these benchmarks have been widely published and are easily re-creatable. Do it yourself, like I said, or since you're familiar with google, use that. Irrelevantly bringing up Python or just responding "no, u" isn't acceptable.
Clients care about hosting costs. Clients care about employment costs. Ruby is not enough slower than most other stuff to matter to a good coder, but most employers avoid actually hiring coders who are that good; they're too expensive and too hard to hold onto, and badly written Ruby is easily MUCH slower than badly written [anything else] for a number of circumstantial reasons. Hence, employers see Ruby as too expensive.
But a lot of this is definitely reinforced by hype.
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No, the mods got it right this time; I was straight-up trolling. However, I was hoping for +5 Funny. It works for me about half the time.
Magically washing away all those horribly traumatizing childhood experiences... along with most of your personality!
Seems like you put a lot of thought into this but you're frankly wrong. Wordpress didn't exist until years after "register globals" got deprecated. I agree it should never existed in the first place, but Wordpress is insecure entirely without any help from "register globals."
PHP coder since before 4.x. All the bad stuff started happening when people started using redistributed PHP frameworks.
If Snowden's revelations were actually a surprise to me I'd have nominated him instead, but what he revealed I'd already simply guessed and been warning everyone about (and hence been ignored as being paranoid and delusional for) since about 1997.
Yes, you are being paranoid, but Paranoia grants a 10% bonus to chance to detect stealthed enemies...
Probably, and probably also pulseaudio.
Those are too simple and reliable. For Linux to compete with mainstream operating systems it needs more complexity and more bugs.
I think that by inferring an association to NetworkManager, you're being unfair and derogatory to the Gay and Wigger communities.
Yea, astute investments in what? Textbook company stocks?
I heard it once said to never let a serious crisis go to waste.
I got logged out, and when I went to log back in Firefox stopped me, saying slashdot's SSL certificate was invalid. A few minutes later the problem seemed to correct itself and I did not have to re-authenticate.
Nope, you've missed nothing. Its over-hyped crap that only gained initial popularity because someone did it in Java, and enterprises like Java.
You forgot vertical integration. :-p
I thought they did, actually... purportedly along with several other not-yet-released movies, though I didn't go searching to verify this myself.
Nice try but most of it was already desert. They're just doing a really bad job lately of changing it into something more useful.
Its an obvious and simple problem that has plagued their services for a very long time, in one or another similar incarnation at least. I'm quite sure in fact that they are actively avoiding hiring anyone who looks like they are experienced enough to notice and seem willing to speak up about it.
I care. You wouldn't have posted unless you care too. Fearing enough that he might be taken seriously that you'd field a ham-fisted attempt to discredit him is still a type of caring.
Start here.
Large companies need to stop spending boat loads of money on buying overpriced, re-released commercial operating system and productivity software that changes absolutely nothing useful about business functionality and spend maybe say, 10% of the money from what that budget would have been on donating to or contributing to software projects that the infrastructure's critical functionality relies upon.
Seriously. The money would go further and the software would last longer and everyone would get a lot more actual work done. Every time you buy a new version of Windows its like you're paying to re-arrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.
And don't fucking reply to me saying shit like "durrr, but OpenSSL got hacked and doesn't deserve to have had more money." Maybe that's true, but probably not. Even if it were true, above, I said donating or contributing, as in - spend your own company resources auditing the software if you don't trust it. If you find enough vulnerabilities to distrust the people who make it, then FORK IT OR PAY SOMEONE TO DO SO. The bottom line is, economically even in a worst-case scenario its still cheaper than every single company rolling their own from scratch, or every single company buying the same software over and over again made (perhaps not any more securely or competently) by some completely unaccountable, inauditable closed-source company.
But that's hardly what I'm accusing Ruby of whatsoever. I merely pointed out that its enough slower that its gained a bad reputation. I think you are the one who should get over yourself. You're obviously personally affronted by facts neither of us have direct control over, and unwilling to do the research yourself to prove your case.
Look, these benchmarks have been widely published and are easily re-creatable. Do it yourself, like I said, or since you're familiar with google, use that. Irrelevantly bringing up Python or just responding "no, u" isn't acceptable.
I wasn't talking about ereg* functions. PHP also links to PCRE (preg* functions) ... seriously, you should try some comparative benchmarks.
Try benchmarking some regular expressions in PHP and compare it to Ruby and then see if you can still say that with a straight face.
Clients care about hosting costs. Clients care about employment costs. Ruby is not enough slower than most other stuff to matter to a good coder, but most employers avoid actually hiring coders who are that good; they're too expensive and too hard to hold onto, and badly written Ruby is easily MUCH slower than badly written [anything else] for a number of circumstantial reasons. Hence, employers see Ruby as too expensive.
But a lot of this is definitely reinforced by hype.