Most companies doesn't care about the best technical solution for a problem. They also take in account availability of workforce to use that particular solution, suppliers interested in working and giving support and a some other factors, like cost.
Take the example you mention, the LAMP stack. PHP programmers with knowledge of MySQL are a dime a dozen, and you can filter through them to pick and choose the real competent ones. Most hosting providers already have an already optimized and time tested stack that supports these technologies, so companies can filter through them to choose the cheaper and more reliable. It gets the job done so other potential better solutions gets overlooked.
Technical merit is not the only factor when choosing the right tool for the job.
This is by far the best article I read on Slashdot, and one of the most insightful cautionary tales about open source and the convoluted world of software patents in the U.S.
Congratulations to Slashdot to let this indeed delicious article to filter through the usual two minutes of hate, and also to Bruce Perens, for writing this simple and concise summary of what must have been a neverending story of legal slapfest.
That was not what I meant. The study is probably valid and based on sound science. My point is that the headline should be closer to the point in question "Y cromossome still mutates and mutates fast, contrary of what thought before", but that would not generate enough controversy to pay for this site through advertisement.
Mod the whole article flamebait. The headline plays with the common association between "evolution" and "improvement" in order to gather angry responses and its fair share of taunting.
It is the wisdow of the crowds. There are two words, one is a normal mangled (and known beforehand) captcha, the other is one that the best OCR google got its hands on couldn't solve.
People still have to solve the first one correctly, and if enough people give the same answer to the second one, it is added considered correct.
That's not really far from the truth. If you pay attention on what really happened, it was NSA (an American agency) monitoring British citizen communications and passing it to the British. It is not far fetched to assume that the British counterpart is also monitoring U.S. communication (on U.S. soil) and passing it to the law enforcement there.
Although it says "IEEE" in the summary, TFA name names:
That's the dream of Paul Sweazey, who's heading up a new study group on "digital personal property" at the IEEE.
A quick Google search brings his Linkedin profile, along with his current job position:
President
TeleBind, Inc.
(Online Media industry)
February 2009 -- Present (8 months)
That leads us to his company homepage, Telebind Inc. Not surprisingly, their sole product is "technology and tools to create ownable Digital Property".
This is nothing but a pitiful attempt to pass astroturfing as a peer (or standardization group) reviewed article. And it is more probable that not even he believe on his product, but want to suck a few into his scam, just like the ones who sold the rootkit to Sony.
(...)added Conner, an unschooling parent. "We cannot know beyond the shadow of a doubt precisely what our children will need when they are 10, 20, 30 or 80. We do all want what is 'best' for our children and we want our children, now and when grown, to be poised to accomplish whatever they may decide is important. This is where unschoolers excel."
Joyce L. Epstein, director of the National Network of Partnership Schools at the Johns Hopkins University, had never heard of it. She knew of no research on the topic, "and research would be needed in order to justify it."
"I'm reading e-mail from unschooling parents who think having their kids remodel their house with them is 'school.' I'm sorry, but it's not," Flemal said. "Painting, hammering, measuring - hey, that was great in primary school. I love that stuff.
"We don't punish our children. We don't have bedtimes," Martin said. "We don't live by rules; we live by principles. Our philosophy is respect for children's equality in the home."
"We stayed there until sunrise, then went home and shared the experience with mom, who was just getting up," he [Greer from Pasadena] said. "Finally, as the excitement wound down and exhaustion set in, we went back to bed for a nap just as most kids were getting ready to leave for school."
I wonder what will this generation of kids achieve when they are finally exposed to the mean, harsh and unforgiving world of the job market, menial work and personal relationships. Another generation of "flower children"?
Still account for at least more than 60% of users, no matter what source of statistics you use. I know for a fact, as a web developer, that if anything is wrong in a page when rendered on IE, our clients would notice instantly and file that as a bug in my code, not IE's code.
Paint.net [20] has a checkered past as a free open source solution. Originally released as a completely open source project, its developers were forced to scale back to a more restrictive Creative Commons License (still freely available, but without source code) after unscrupulous parties decided to rename the original and try to resell it for profit.
As currently constituted, Paint.net qualifies for only the "free" part of the FOSS acronym, which is a shame since the program itself is a hidden gem.
Paint.net is not Free, as in the FOSS acronym. It may be free as in beer, but not as in speech. That mistake, and including Paint.net instead of GIMP demonstrates the lack of understanding the author have about the FOSS movement and achievements.
Yes, the GPL allows everyone to do this. The right to sell copies is part of the definition of free software. Except in one special situation, there is no limit on what price you can charge. (The one exception is the required written offer to provide source code that must accompany binary-only release.)
Why was this posted on Slashdot anyway. They may call programmers rude, but this is clearly a case to RTFM before asking.
I second that. There is absolutely no direct involvement of technology in any aspect of this news. Not even something a so called "nerd", if interested, would look for to discuss on this particular website.
This is nothing but a pitiful attempt to flamebait the British, the Brazilian and the peanut gallery over here for more ad clicks.
Licensing as BSD, MIT or Creative Commons Attribution is as much valid as a way to get recognition for your work as licensing as GPL. The only thing the later adds is that not only your work can be freely (as in the 4 freedoms) distributed but also the improvements on your work must also be.
If recognition is all you want, by all means, just choose any attribution license. If having your work used by the most people is more important, use a BSD style one. Now, if your goal is to assure that your code will be always free, use GPL, LGPL or AGPL.
He is spending other people's money in a risky environment with their full knowledge and consent. it is not called "venture" capital without a reason. They know they are investing in a high risk high potential business plan.
IIRC, AGPL only additional clause over GPL is that, in addition to being obligated to provide the source code if you distribute the executable, you are also obligated to do it if you make it available to the public. There is nothing forbidding you to alter it in any way, as long as you make the source code available for anyone that either received a copy of the executable or received access to use the application.
I don't know how did you came to that particular conclusion, but it is not right at all.
Anyway, exceptions in languages like Java which enforces its treatment in compile time are more than just a "goto error handling". It all depends on the language you are using.
GOTO has its uses. I never used it (as I prefer a more structured way to code), but critical mission error handling may take advantage of a more direct way to "jump".
Anyway, one excepcional addition to the language is closures. Real anonymous functions were missing for a long time on the language, and it is great to have it now.
Now it is only a matter of our customers' hosting providers to update their versions of PHP. Oh, well, considering most just migrated from PHP 4 to 5 (thanks to the EOL last year), it may take some time.
That's the real meaning of "voting with your feet". There is an unjust law, or even a just one that Amazon doesn't agree, and they don't want to be subjected to it, so they move out of the state.
One interesting trend I'm seeing here (as people flock to fight "their" revolution on the Iran story a couple of posts below), is that while the vocal minority that is the Internet connected America keeps worrying about other countries affairs, the government does what it is supposed to do: legislate on internal matters.
It is more positive for USA and the world when their government does its homework and clean up their house, much better than when they try to fix the world and accomplish neither the former nor the latter.
It looks like classic civil disobedience. Break am unjust law, get punished in the maximum extent possible and appeal at a superior court, all the way to the Supreme.
Although in a smaller scale, it already happened once: The Great IRC split. Once a single more or less decentralized network (just like the web now), disagreements on the policies lead to a transatlantic split. Hope that never happens on the WWW.
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Most companies doesn't care about the best technical solution for a problem. They also take in account availability of workforce to use that particular solution, suppliers interested in working and giving support and a some other factors, like cost. Take the example you mention, the LAMP stack. PHP programmers with knowledge of MySQL are a dime a dozen, and you can filter through them to pick and choose the real competent ones. Most hosting providers already have an already optimized and time tested stack that supports these technologies, so companies can filter through them to choose the cheaper and more reliable. It gets the job done so other potential better solutions gets overlooked. Technical merit is not the only factor when choosing the right tool for the job.
This is by far the best article I read on Slashdot, and one of the most insightful cautionary tales about open source and the convoluted world of software patents in the U.S. Congratulations to Slashdot to let this indeed delicious article to filter through the usual two minutes of hate, and also to Bruce Perens, for writing this simple and concise summary of what must have been a neverending story of legal slapfest.
That was not what I meant. The study is probably valid and based on sound science. My point is that the headline should be closer to the point in question "Y cromossome still mutates and mutates fast, contrary of what thought before", but that would not generate enough controversy to pay for this site through advertisement.
Mod the whole article flamebait. The headline plays with the common association between "evolution" and "improvement" in order to gather angry responses and its fair share of taunting.
It is the wisdow of the crowds. There are two words, one is a normal mangled (and known beforehand) captcha, the other is one that the best OCR google got its hands on couldn't solve.
People still have to solve the first one correctly, and if enough people give the same answer to the second one, it is added considered correct.
That's not really far from the truth. If you pay attention on what really happened, it was NSA (an American agency) monitoring British citizen communications and passing it to the British. It is not far fetched to assume that the British counterpart is also monitoring U.S. communication (on U.S. soil) and passing it to the law enforcement there.
A quick Google search brings his Linkedin profile, along with his current job position:
That leads us to his company homepage, Telebind Inc. Not surprisingly, their sole product is "technology and tools to create ownable Digital Property".
This is nothing but a pitiful attempt to pass astroturfing as a peer (or standardization group) reviewed article. And it is more probable that not even he believe on his product, but want to suck a few into his scam, just like the ones who sold the rootkit to Sony.
I wonder what will this generation of kids achieve when they are finally exposed to the mean, harsh and unforgiving world of the job market, menial work and personal relationships. Another generation of "flower children"?
Still account for at least more than 60% of users, no matter what source of statistics you use. I know for a fact, as a web developer, that if anything is wrong in a page when rendered on IE, our clients would notice instantly and file that as a bug in my code, not IE's code.
Paint.net is not Free, as in the FOSS acronym. It may be free as in beer, but not as in speech. That mistake, and including Paint.net instead of GIMP demonstrates the lack of understanding the author have about the FOSS movement and achievements.
You sunk my battleship!
<old people's laughter>Hahahahaha!</old people's laughter>
Why was this posted on Slashdot anyway. They may call programmers rude, but this is clearly a case to RTFM before asking.
I second that. There is absolutely no direct involvement of technology in any aspect of this news. Not even something a so called "nerd", if interested, would look for to discuss on this particular website.
This is nothing but a pitiful attempt to flamebait the British, the Brazilian and the peanut gallery over here for more ad clicks.
Licensing as BSD, MIT or Creative Commons Attribution is as much valid as a way to get recognition for your work as licensing as GPL. The only thing the later adds is that not only your work can be freely (as in the 4 freedoms) distributed but also the improvements on your work must also be.
If recognition is all you want, by all means, just choose any attribution license. If having your work used by the most people is more important, use a BSD style one. Now, if your goal is to assure that your code will be always free, use GPL, LGPL or AGPL.
He is spending other people's money in a risky environment with their full knowledge and consent. it is not called "venture" capital without a reason. They know they are investing in a high risk high potential business plan.
Not different from the rest of the internets.
IIRC, AGPL only additional clause over GPL is that, in addition to being obligated to provide the source code if you distribute the executable, you are also obligated to do it if you make it available to the public. There is nothing forbidding you to alter it in any way, as long as you make the source code available for anyone that either received a copy of the executable or received access to use the application.
I don't know how did you came to that particular conclusion, but it is not right at all.
I didn't said "exception handling", but "error handling", like linux kernel developers use.
Anyway, exceptions in languages like Java which enforces its treatment in compile time are more than just a "goto error handling". It all depends on the language you are using.
GOTO has its uses. I never used it (as I prefer a more structured way to code), but critical mission error handling may take advantage of a more direct way to "jump". Anyway, one excepcional addition to the language is closures. Real anonymous functions were missing for a long time on the language, and it is great to have it now. Now it is only a matter of our customers' hosting providers to update their versions of PHP. Oh, well, considering most just migrated from PHP 4 to 5 (thanks to the EOL last year), it may take some time.
Can anyone summarize the summary?
That's the real meaning of "voting with your feet". There is an unjust law, or even a just one that Amazon doesn't agree, and they don't want to be subjected to it, so they move out of the state.
One interesting trend I'm seeing here (as people flock to fight "their" revolution on the Iran story a couple of posts below), is that while the vocal minority that is the Internet connected America keeps worrying about other countries affairs, the government does what it is supposed to do: legislate on internal matters.
It is more positive for USA and the world when their government does its homework and clean up their house, much better than when they try to fix the world and accomplish neither the former nor the latter.
It looks like classic civil disobedience. Break am unjust law, get punished in the maximum extent possible and appeal at a superior court, all the way to the Supreme.
That, or massive incompetence of her defense.
Cue the "not using until it has adblock" posts in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...
Seriously, nobody cares if you are not using, no need to repeat it every time.
Although in a smaller scale, it already happened once: The Great IRC split. Once a single more or less decentralized network (just like the web now), disagreements on the policies lead to a transatlantic split. Hope that never happens on the WWW.