I think the term bloated is quite misleading. I will only speak for Drupal, but the module system means that code will load only if it has been enabled. It is a large code base, but bloat implies that there is a bunch of code sitting around that detracts from performance. This is not the case.
If you are addressing performance in particular with Drupal vertical scaling like other technology is trivial, throw more resources to it, pay higher cost. Scaling horizontally takes non-trivial sys admin knowledge and Drupal best practices; OpCache, Redis/Memcache, shared file system, Varnish, etc.
I get your dislike of how many here hate PHP, but I think "Hack programming languages" is referring to this:
"Hack is a programming language for HHVM. Hack reconciles the fast development cycle of a dynamically typed language with the discipline provided by static typing, while adding many features commonly found in other modern programming languages."
Are you naive enough to believe that these tactics don't play in political telemarketing already? I worked on a major presidential race, and we had many trustworthy reports from Iowa that people where getting calls from our campaign around 2 to 4am in the morning. Guess what...it really wasn't our campaign, and it was making people pissed of at us none the less. This is par for the course along with push polls and the sort. There needs to be major election reform that starts at campaigning and financing.
and while your at it, to share the photos with others, just recreate it somehow on an abacus connected to all other abacii around the world via really tight strings...
just because other methods exist, does not mean we should stop discussing the impact of liberties of new methods.
it's actually quite cool, and extremely easy to install. i just wish it was as easy to get IP over firewire so i could ssh (or telnet) into the thing. i know it is quite possible on linux, but on OSX it is tricky and that is my ipod connectivity.
As someone that worked sys/dev back in Vermont on the Dean campaign, I cannot begin to tell you how much influence staffers can have. It can only be that way, since election campaign boils down to one person, who never can do everything. Dev/Admin team was comprised of almost ALL open source advocates. Of course we had to support the desktop; non-scientific #s: Win - 90% Mac - 9% Linux.8% BSD.2%; funny enough, almost all the techies either had a MacOSX machine or got bought one by the end of the campaign, kudos to OSX. Where we could (and it was apropos) we used Linux/BSD/MySQL/Postgres/Apache/PHP/Perl for workstations and servers. But we had those other systems that where 3rd party, and moving as fast as we did, it was impossible to implement from the ground up.
Did Dean really know what we where developing on and the environment? No for the most part and really was it his job? No. But unlike probably most other campaigns Trippi did actually know the environment and the spirit of open source. It helped that he had worked with Linux in Silicon Valley, and that he has a deep love of technology.
So bottom line, do the candidates pick the software? Hell no. Do the candidates attract people with particular ideologies? Thats the name of the game of politics and from what I can tell the point that has been missed.
Oh, and it is worth noting that Gore is quite a gear head from what I understand:).
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From the UI I had no idea.
I think the term bloated is quite misleading. I will only speak for Drupal, but the module system means that code will load only if it has been enabled. It is a large code base, but bloat implies that there is a bunch of code sitting around that detracts from performance. This is not the case.
If you are addressing performance in particular with Drupal vertical scaling like other technology is trivial, throw more resources to it, pay higher cost. Scaling horizontally takes non-trivial sys admin knowledge and Drupal best practices; OpCache, Redis/Memcache, shared file system, Varnish, etc.
I get your dislike of how many here hate PHP, but I think "Hack programming languages" is referring to this:
"Hack is a programming language for HHVM. Hack reconciles the fast development cycle of a dynamically typed language with the discipline provided by static typing, while adding many features commonly found in other modern programming languages."
http://hacklang.org/
Are you naive enough to believe that these tactics don't play in political telemarketing already? I worked on a major presidential race, and we had many trustworthy reports from Iowa that people where getting calls from our campaign around 2 to 4am in the morning. Guess what...it really wasn't our campaign, and it was making people pissed of at us none the less. This is par for the course along with push polls and the sort. There needs to be major election reform that starts at campaigning and financing.
and while your at it, to share the photos with others, just recreate it somehow on an abacus connected to all other abacii around the world via really tight strings...
just because other methods exist, does not mean we should stop discussing the impact of liberties of new methods.
...people!!!
it's actually quite cool, and extremely easy to install. i just wish it was as easy to get IP over firewire so i could ssh (or telnet) into the thing. i know it is quite possible on linux, but on OSX it is tricky and that is my ipod connectivity.
RTAFI (read the appropriate f*ing info:):
http://www.speakeasy.net/netshare/learnmore/
I think the biggest downside would having to be a big brother to all the P2P-like stuff.
you have to ask, is the customer base of 7/11 a fair representation of dems vs repubs or the makeup of the country? how does it being 7/11 skew it?
i RARELY go into a 7/11 and it i can't think of a time when i bought a hot beverage there!
on top of this, having 3 choices and only have 2 of them total 100% is symptomatic of a problem.
As someone that worked sys/dev back in Vermont on the Dean campaign, I cannot begin to tell you how much influence staffers can have. It can only be that way, since election campaign boils down to one person, who never can do everything. Dev/Admin team was comprised of almost ALL open source advocates. Of course we had to support the desktop; non-scientific #s: Win - 90% Mac - 9% Linux .8% BSD .2%; funny enough, almost all the techies either had a MacOSX machine or got bought one by the end of the campaign, kudos to OSX. Where we could (and it was apropos) we used Linux/BSD/MySQL/Postgres/Apache/PHP/Perl for workstations and servers. But we had those other systems that where 3rd party, and moving as fast as we did, it was impossible to implement from the ground up.
:).
Did Dean really know what we where developing on and the environment? No for the most part and really was it his job? No. But unlike probably most other campaigns Trippi did actually know the environment and the spirit of open source. It helped that he had worked with Linux in Silicon Valley, and that he has a deep love of technology.
So bottom line, do the candidates pick the software? Hell no. Do the candidates attract people with particular ideologies? Thats the name of the game of politics and from what I can tell the point that has been missed.
Oh, and it is worth noting that Gore is quite a gear head from what I understand
I am thinking that although Office on Linux would draw quite the crowd, we don't need to fill Linux with bloated apps.