Because WP is the product of a lousy team with the lowest possible standard of practices, their tradition since 2004. Those attitudes permeate throughout the WP "development" landscape. If the core presented best practices and enforced using them, so many vulnerabilities would have been mitigated. Not only is WP shitty code, it begets shitty code.
All of this leads to the conclusion that Microsoft's approach to security is fundamentally broken. This isn't new in Windows 10, it's been that way since they first decided to implement user accounts.
This year, Mozilla Will Remove the #2 reason everyone started using Firefox in the first place.
Copying Chrome has been a bad strategy, and killing XUL is one of their worst decisions ever. I'm waiting for the announcement that Firefox will become a re-branded Chrome, like Opera. Yay for software monoculture!
Close. Through at least 1999, WU still operated on a mainframe that had been in service since 1974. There were scores of filing cabinets full of microfiche bundled with rubber bands.
For a company based on what was once high tech, they've been deathly afraid of it for a long, long time.
Users don't care about "brand experience", they care about product experience. Maybe if Mozilla hadn't spent the last 9 years making terrible decisions, poorly allocating resources and prioritizing bugs, distracting themselves with silly crap, useless feature churn, and making their flagship product copy every bad decision Chrome made, more people might still use their products. The path they're on is all but guaranteed to get them into the dustbin of internet relevance.
What would be telling (especially in light on left-pad) about npm, JS developers, and JS itself is how many of those packages are larger than a size that would be considered ridiculously small in another repository: 25 lines of code (which is being quite generous), measured the same way that left-pad becomes 11 lines.
The video game industry has long been most concerned with the superficial aspects of a game: primarily graphics and sound, and more recently online/MM aspects. These are the simplistic aspects that are easy to quantify and turn into sales drivers. The actual game play experience, which is more than just its appearance, is always somehow relegated to secondary importance because many elements are subjective. Classic cases of style over substance, and form over function.
It doesn't help that browsers are expected, to a degree unheard of in most other software, to accept then try to normalize sloppy input (markup) across 6+ version of HTML, and that the latest standard canonizes sloppiness.
The entire corporate establishment wants the TTP, there's too much at stake for them if it dies. Trump doesn't really give a shit about it, but he's not about to pass up some gain for himself if he threatens to kills it.
If I'm going to patronize a business in meatspace, I expect the experience to include at least one interaction with... meat (as in, an employee). This is part of the social contract that goes back to the beginning of commerce.
As such, I detest self-checkout because as a customer I should not be expected to perform employee's duties without compensation.
Likewise I plan to boycott fully automated restaurants. Wendy's and McDonald's have already begun to automate, so no more of them for me.
And probably CPU/GPU cycles. They'll inevitably animate a majority of elements, even things no other GUI animates, just to say they did it. Very little of this "beautification" will actually bring a net improvement to the experience.
MS design language used to be "shiny", now it's "flat", and soon to be "wiggly".
They won't have it for long. Brexit remorse will set in quickly and a D wave will flow into Congress in 2018. I have a suspicion that Trump will be a pariah in DC, constantly at odds with everyone except the sycophants in his Cabinet.
Big-ish (such as Adobe) and niche consumer software vendors have had no reason to support Linux and its paltry 2% usage share, and many reasons not to, including MS platform FUD and the legal understanding of FOSS licenses.
Apple has a reputation for supporting professionals, but this new lineup all but wipes that out. The hardware is too underwhelming to maintain the hype. Apple has finally reached the point where their obsession with aesthetic design is compromising their products' capabilities. Apple has fully abandoned "form follows function" in favor of "function follows form", and in doing so have put themselves on a path to failure.
System76 may have experienced a traffic spike, but unfortunately it won't last once all the disillusioned Apple users realize how spoiled they've been by OSX.
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Because WP is the product of a lousy team with the lowest possible standard of practices, their tradition since 2004. Those attitudes permeate throughout the WP "development" landscape. If the core presented best practices and enforced using them, so many vulnerabilities would have been mitigated. Not only is WP shitty code, it begets shitty code.
All of this leads to the conclusion that Microsoft's approach to security is fundamentally broken. This isn't new in Windows 10, it's been that way since they first decided to implement user accounts.
This year, Mozilla Will Remove the #2 reason everyone started using Firefox in the first place.
Copying Chrome has been a bad strategy, and killing XUL is one of their worst decisions ever. I'm waiting for the announcement that Firefox will become a re-branded Chrome, like Opera. Yay for software monoculture!
Autoplay video has been on every year's "Top 10 Web Don'ts" list since at least 1998. It's the most consistently hated practice since the web began.
$1MM is a million dollars. He engineers 3D printers, notably the Prusa i3.
Have they suddenly become subject to banking regulations like all other money transfer services?
Do they still freeze seller accounts on a whim? (When will Josef Prusa be able to access the $1MM PayPal froze on him?)
PayPal are assholes. Don't support them.
Close. Through at least 1999, WU still operated on a mainframe that had been in service since 1974. There were scores of filing cabinets full of microfiche bundled with rubber bands.
For a company based on what was once high tech, they've been deathly afraid of it for a long, long time.
09:19 to 10:33 is 74 minutes, not 20. Did you learn arithmetic on code.org?
Users don't care about "brand experience", they care about product experience. Maybe if Mozilla hadn't spent the last 9 years making terrible decisions, poorly allocating resources and prioritizing bugs, distracting themselves with silly crap, useless feature churn, and making their flagship product copy every bad decision Chrome made, more people might still use their products. The path they're on is all but guaranteed to get them into the dustbin of internet relevance.
YotLD is still on schedule for 2018, 2019 if video drivers slip.
At this point, Windows 3.0 offers users more privacy and security than Windows 10.
What would be telling (especially in light on left-pad) about npm, JS developers, and JS itself is how many of those packages are larger than a size that would be considered ridiculously small in another repository: 25 lines of code (which is being quite generous), measured the same way that left-pad becomes 11 lines.
B-level people are those who have reached their career pinnacle according to the Peter Principle.
Trying to make Edge sound popular, when in reality they're just admitting how infrequently used they both are.
The video game industry has long been most concerned with the superficial aspects of a game: primarily graphics and sound, and more recently online/MM aspects. These are the simplistic aspects that are easy to quantify and turn into sales drivers. The actual game play experience, which is more than just its appearance, is always somehow relegated to secondary importance because many elements are subjective. Classic cases of style over substance, and form over function.
Everything MS produces has value to our everyday lives. Unfortunately, most of it is negative value.
It doesn't help that browsers are expected, to a degree unheard of in most other software, to accept then try to normalize sloppy input (markup) across 6+ version of HTML, and that the latest standard canonizes sloppiness.
The entire corporate establishment wants the TTP, there's too much at stake for them if it dies. Trump doesn't really give a shit about it, but he's not about to pass up some gain for himself if he threatens to kills it.
If I'm going to patronize a business in meatspace, I expect the experience to include at least one interaction with... meat (as in, an employee). This is part of the social contract that goes back to the beginning of commerce.
As such, I detest self-checkout because as a customer I should not be expected to perform employee's duties without compensation.
Likewise I plan to boycott fully automated restaurants. Wendy's and McDonald's have already begun to automate, so no more of them for me.
And probably CPU/GPU cycles. They'll inevitably animate a majority of elements, even things no other GUI animates, just to say they did it. Very little of this "beautification" will actually bring a net improvement to the experience.
MS design language used to be "shiny", now it's "flat", and soon to be "wiggly".
They won't have it for long. Brexit remorse will set in quickly and a D wave will flow into Congress in 2018. I have a suspicion that Trump will be a pariah in DC, constantly at odds with everyone except the sycophants in his Cabinet.
That's what happens when your entire development pipeline aims to put a prototype into production.
Also, "Just validate user input on the front end, it'll be fine once it hits the server" is a recipe for disaster.
Big-ish (such as Adobe) and niche consumer software vendors have had no reason to support Linux and its paltry 2% usage share, and many reasons not to, including MS platform FUD and the legal understanding of FOSS licenses.
Apple has a reputation for supporting professionals, but this new lineup all but wipes that out. The hardware is too underwhelming to maintain the hype. Apple has finally reached the point where their obsession with aesthetic design is compromising their products' capabilities. Apple has fully abandoned "form follows function" in favor of "function follows form", and in doing so have put themselves on a path to failure.
System76 may have experienced a traffic spike, but unfortunately it won't last once all the disillusioned Apple users realize how spoiled they've been by OSX.
Isn't this pretty much what a Stingray does? Or does Stingray use weaknesses deliberately built into the networks?