I frequently get fairly close to the raw protocol, using curl, and have even been known to manually make HTTP requests in a telnet session on occasion. That said, I'm assuming a future version of curl would simply translate the headers and stuff into the historical format for human readability, making this sort of change fairly unimportant in the grand scheme of things.
What happens when a) curl(v. next)'s HTTP2 binary parser is broken b) binary request or response is corrupted c) binary response from server is not corrupted, but non-standard?
In all of these cases, a quick examination of an HTTP1.x transmission usually leads to a rapid determination of the cause of the error. In HTTP2, there could be significant time/effort wasted unless the investigating person/app happens to understand all the details and nuances of an unexpected syntax.
Furthermore, how much more efficient would HTTP2 binary be over pipelined, gzip-9 content? If headers are that big of an overhad, why not just a standard compression on headers?
With our recent innovation of no-bid contracts (well, there's one bid - from the crony that's been hand-selected by the corrupt government department), you get all the benefits of outsourced work along with the quality of a supplier with a monopoly for your project(s).
So to make sure I understand you correctly. What you are saying is Obama and his management of financial regulations is so pathetic, and shamefully corrupt; your only option is to compare his actions to other hypothetical time lines to make him look better. Got it.
Well, this is the shit sandwich that passes for political choice in our era. And this article about dark pools pretty much exemplifies exactly what is happening (and has been happening) in Washington DC - the public side is a side-show only dealt with by the power players when the real "behind closed doors" private power-trading doesn't pan out.
When this is the case and when the two parties are being bankrolled by the private dark-pool players... well, you see where this is headed.
So, if someone is walking around in a place where they should not be, you are not allowed to get out of your car?
It's called the neighborhood watch, not the neighborhood police - for a reason. Watchmen are told not to confront, but report suspicious activity, otherwise this kind of shit happens. Zimmerman had a history of this kind of behavior, and he was in the wrong place and did the wrong things. Bad things happened.
What I really dislike about this is how it is a group of companies acting as a pack to instill their own laws/moral judgement on the world at large. Why do they get to decide which companies I deal with or not?
And the republican/libertarians are more worried about *government* intrusion? Unchecked corporate power and it's massive money is the *cause* of government malfeasance as corporations corrupt and subvert regulatory bodies, legislators and judges. Wherever you see an uncaring official who thumbs his/her nose at the electorate, you can bet your ass there's corrupt money coming from somewhere to hide/protect someone's shady business dealings.
In Canada they call them north American aboriginals if memory serves correctly. Native American being ambiguous and offensive to those of us that are more native to America than anywhere else, but not aboriginal.
Nope, that's "First Nations" [1] people. All my Canadian colleagues use this term.
While the Egyptian Army is certainly no paragon of freedom (or battle prowess, but that's another story...), at least there is a formidable power in Egypt that leans toward secular sanity and against Islamist lunacy. Egypt could again one day stand with Turkey (for all its troubles) and Jordan as examples of modern, stable states among the insane theocracies that surround them.
The Egyptian military has very strong ties with the Egyptian economy. What's bad for Egypt's economy impacts the Egyptian military's bottom line. Making sure the Suez keeps traffic flowing, making sure tourists aren't killed/taken hostage are very high priorities for the military. Also the US spends $1bn/year propping up the military.
You do realize that the protests leading up to this overthrow were the most massive in human history? The numbers bandied about were anywhere from 20-35 million in the streets. At least 22 million signed a petition denouncing Morsi.
With a population of 82M, that's anywhere from 25-40% of the country's populace. If even 1/10 of that number (much less %) got out on the streets in the USA, there'd be dozens of/. posts as it impacted the largest block of slashdotters on a daily basis.
Furthermore, Egypt is keyholder of the Suez canal. Instability in this country would be like instability in Panama - and impact world trade.
But you have to remember that a significant "influencer" on the democratic side of the legislation was the trial lawyers guild (hence no tort reform in the bill).
Nice strawman there. Medical malpractice suits only really add about 1-2% to the total costs of healthcare in the economy [1]. Bigger factors that influence the cost of healthcare are: 1) For-profit insurers who have an incentive to take your premiums and stiff you when you're actually sick. 2) Big Pharma charging $1k/dose for their latest life saving drugs and fighting tooth and nail (and winning) against generics after their patents expire 3) Medical equipment manufacturers that charge defense-contract rates for their required equipment ($300 plastic tubing).
Being stuck at a job, because you drifted away from your main skills, and now have difficulty to catch up. Or more specific: being stuck at a job where you don't want to spend another year or even longer. In the company I'm working I stand alone, being the only programmer, so no support from other programmers. I find it hell to get my skills up to date while doing my job properly.
I had this exact fear in my old job. Due to reorgs/layoffs I ended up being the sole maintainer of dozens of systems, but while the job itself was interesting, the long-term prospects for the company were not so great. Furthermore, I felt my skills were atrophying/over-specializing into small-enterprise (I had always been a big company coder). Once I jumped ship onto a much more relevant place, I found out that I actually did quite a bit of skills improvement on my own at the old company, and was proud of a lot of the cool stuff I did (ie, more front-end work and prototyping). I also did keep a lot of "transferrable skills" (ie, requirements/expectations elicitation, bug/feature tracking, long-term scoping) in practice.
In the end, I'm glad where I am now (no more existential dread about company going under in the next quarter) but I don't think I would have become unhireable - just my specialization would have drifted from it's current area to one more focused on what I was doing there.
I have no information but as idle speculation this might be a very very interesting change of strategy for home / small business.
You're assuming business strategy change competency from a convicted monopolist that's been coasting for a decade+ on their cash cows? I like your analysis, but I think it'd be very un-Microsoft to actually sell their product for any less than they feel is necessary.
Aside from the fact that Microsoft won't be doing this, I doubt it's a good tactic after all. Is there something in the water in Seattle? Why are Amazon and Microsoft so gung-ho on selling products (Win8.1, Kindle Fire) that have baked-in un-removable advertising?
Perhaps the government is to blame, but if I had a Moto phone, I could be liable for the security breach if I worked at a secure company location. If I were a responsible IT manager at one of those companies, I'd be pretty pissed about this.
You can't sue the government for Motorola's ineptitude, but you can sue Motorola. I hope someone does just that, and slaps down this culture of snooping and ineptitude that could ruin careers and lives.
Did the creators of Metro UI consider that ads would be some of the smart tiles? Look, iOS's spotlight search may be boring, but at least it doesn't show me ads along with my apps/music/contact results. Even Google doesn't put ads on your Android homescreen.
Now you'll have to put that test client on the cloud and get it through Azure so you can do your testing. I'm sure with Azure you can deploy almost any Windows OS you want.
I've long felt that schools have been doing a disservice to pupils since the 70's; preparing grade school kids for life should include basic money management, awareness of the state and federal tax code, family law, and the penal code.
Add to this the very dangerous fact that "ignorance of the law is no excuse" fact, and essentially, it's a tax on poor people to NOT provide basic finance and penal code instruction.
Is this catastrophically bad education policy mirrored in other countries? It's sad, but most US high-schoolers know more about driving safety than about basic money management.
This is my money, the state and its corporate partner shouldn't be making money off me when I try to get it.
I just wanted to interject this: conservative or liberal, I hope we can all agree that big business colluding with big government is often times a recipe for bad things to happen.
Isn't that Mussolini's definition of Fascism [1]? " Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."
Other cute nicknames that sum up the state of our wonderful nation since the new millenium: Crony Capitalism Military Industrial Complex Kleptocracy
The Silicon Valley Leadership Council has in general been for better roads and against mass transit spending. It's the typical business short-term thinking. They don't care what the situation will be in 15 years, just now.
If this is the group you're referring to, then it seems they've been around for 35 years. 35 years of "bigger roads + no mass transit spending" seems to me have resulted in a whole lot of backwards policy - that misguided future seems to be here, and have been here for decades.
For a few months I am consulting in San Jose and driving from Berkeley. I can't wait for all of those folks to move to the cities and get off the roads! Typical commute is 1.5 hours to drive no more than 49 miles. Even getting on the road at 6 AM doesn't beat the traffic.
I really wonder what the average anti-public-transport folks are thinking - if people who want good public transport (just gimme a train from south bay to tri-valley) got what they want, the bus/train riders would leave the roads freeing them up for folks who do want to commute.
Corrupt politics is the root (or most visible symptom) of all the major problems our state/country faces.
>> we pay TMobile $10/mo for unlimited long distance
umm nope that service is not unlimited it just allows you to use your minutes against international calls made from the US. I guess if you also pay for an an unlimited local plan that may be it.
Yep. It's the new "Simple Choice" family plan - 5 lines unlimited call/text/data (well, 500MB LTE then 2G speeds) for $120 (of which $10 is the boosted international plan call/text).
Wow.. you're still using fax? scan and email dude. Do you have a VHS at home an an 8 track in your car?:-)
Now that was uncalled for:)
Some people just don't like getting emails with pdf attachments. Also some other folks dont like sending emails (highly overlapping set actually). The efax service like $3.5/mo+per-page cost - totally worth it for those email-disapproving holdouts you don't have a choice to avoid.
Though it's been quite stellar for years, ever since the DoubleClick acquisition, Google's DNA has become more spammy [1]. Not that Bing is any saint [2], and Microsoft has it's sordid history with not showing "linux" search results (before Bing days).
This kind of intervention from big bad government might do something to keep the search engines from devolving into glorified billboards.
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I frequently get fairly close to the raw protocol, using curl, and have even been known to manually make HTTP requests in a telnet session on occasion. That said, I'm assuming a future version of curl would simply translate the headers and stuff into the historical format for human readability, making this sort of change fairly unimportant in the grand scheme of things.
What happens when a) curl(v. next)'s HTTP2 binary parser is broken b) binary request or response is corrupted c) binary response from server is not corrupted, but non-standard?
In all of these cases, a quick examination of an HTTP1.x transmission usually leads to a rapid determination of the cause of the error. In HTTP2, there could be significant time/effort wasted unless the investigating person/app happens to understand all the details and nuances of an unexpected syntax.
Furthermore, how much more efficient would HTTP2 binary be over pipelined, gzip-9 content? If headers are that big of an overhad, why not just a standard compression on headers?
That always ensures quality.
With our recent innovation of no-bid contracts (well, there's one bid - from the crony that's been hand-selected by the corrupt government department), you get all the benefits of outsourced work along with the quality of a supplier with a monopoly for your project(s).
So to make sure I understand you correctly. What you are saying is Obama and his management of financial regulations is so pathetic, and shamefully corrupt; your only option is to compare his actions to other hypothetical time lines to make him look better. Got it.
Well, this is the shit sandwich that passes for political choice in our era. And this article about dark pools pretty much exemplifies exactly what is happening (and has been happening) in Washington DC - the public side is a side-show only dealt with by the power players when the real "behind closed doors" private power-trading doesn't pan out.
When this is the case and when the two parties are being bankrolled by the private dark-pool players... well, you see where this is headed.
Completely Agree - small edit:
I just wish the other government agencies were held to that belief^W international treaty.
So, if someone is walking around in a place where they should not be, you are not allowed to get out of your car?
It's called the neighborhood watch, not the neighborhood police - for a reason. Watchmen are told not to confront, but report suspicious activity, otherwise this kind of shit happens. Zimmerman had a history of this kind of behavior, and he was in the wrong place and did the wrong things. Bad things happened.
What I really dislike about this is how it is a group of companies acting as a pack to instill their own laws/moral judgement on the world at large. Why do they get to decide which companies I deal with or not?
And the republican/libertarians are more worried about *government* intrusion? Unchecked corporate power and it's massive money is the *cause* of government malfeasance as corporations corrupt and subvert regulatory bodies, legislators and judges. Wherever you see an uncaring official who thumbs his/her nose at the electorate, you can bet your ass there's corrupt money coming from somewhere to hide/protect someone's shady business dealings.
In Canada they call them north American aboriginals if memory serves correctly. Native American being ambiguous and offensive to those of us that are more native to America than anywhere else, but not aboriginal.
Nope, that's "First Nations" [1] people. All my Canadian colleagues use this term.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Nations
While the Egyptian Army is certainly no paragon of freedom (or battle prowess, but that's another story...), at least there is a formidable power in Egypt that leans toward secular sanity and against Islamist lunacy. Egypt could again one day stand with Turkey (for all its troubles) and Jordan as examples of modern, stable states among the insane theocracies that surround them.
The Egyptian military has very strong ties with the Egyptian economy. What's bad for Egypt's economy impacts the Egyptian military's bottom line. Making sure the Suez keeps traffic flowing, making sure tourists aren't killed/taken hostage are very high priorities for the military. Also the US spends $1bn/year propping up the military.
It's not all about secular vs. islamist either. Mubarak wasn't exactly an islamist, but still managed to steal billions from the country over his 30 year reign: http://theweek.com/article/index/212105/hosni-mubaraks-stolen-70-billion-fortune
yeah thats right baby
You do realize that the protests leading up to this overthrow were the most massive in human history?
The numbers bandied about were anywhere from 20-35 million in the streets. At least 22 million signed a petition denouncing Morsi.
With a population of 82M, that's anywhere from 25-40% of the country's populace. If even 1/10 of that number (much less %) got out on the streets in the USA, there'd be dozens of /. posts as it impacted the largest block of slashdotters on a daily basis.
Furthermore, Egypt is keyholder of the Suez canal. Instability in this country would be like instability in Panama - and impact world trade.
I'd say this is news for nerds.
Same with America. Give the land back to the aboriginals. :P
The polite term is "Native americans" because, they're a bit different from aboriginals in modern-day Australia.
But you have to remember that a significant "influencer" on the democratic side of the legislation was the trial lawyers guild (hence no tort reform in the bill).
Nice strawman there. Medical malpractice suits only really add about 1-2% to the total costs of healthcare in the economy [1]. Bigger factors that influence the cost of healthcare are: 1) For-profit insurers who have an incentive to take your premiums and stiff you when you're actually sick. 2) Big Pharma charging $1k/dose for their latest life saving drugs and fighting tooth and nail (and winning) against generics after their patents expire 3) Medical equipment manufacturers that charge defense-contract rates for their required equipment ($300 plastic tubing).
[1] http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/would-tort-reform-lower-health-care-costs/
...but because they made the sa password blank for the...
You must post this to DailyWTF. The story just gets better and better :)
Being stuck at a job, because you drifted away from your main skills, and now have difficulty to catch up. Or more specific: being stuck at a job where you don't want to spend another year or even longer. In the company I'm working I stand alone, being the only programmer, so no support from other programmers. I find it hell to get my skills up to date while doing my job properly.
I had this exact fear in my old job. Due to reorgs/layoffs I ended up being the sole maintainer of dozens of systems, but while the job itself was interesting, the long-term prospects for the company were not so great. Furthermore, I felt my skills were atrophying/over-specializing into small-enterprise (I had always been a big company coder). Once I jumped ship onto a much more relevant place, I found out that I actually did quite a bit of skills improvement on my own at the old company, and was proud of a lot of the cool stuff I did (ie, more front-end work and prototyping). I also did keep a lot of "transferrable skills" (ie, requirements/expectations elicitation, bug/feature tracking, long-term scoping) in practice.
In the end, I'm glad where I am now (no more existential dread about company going under in the next quarter) but I don't think I would have become unhireable - just my specialization would have drifted from it's current area to one more focused on what I was doing there.
Then it was discovered another programmer had turned off the daily backup a week before, to free up some CPU cycles.
Why did a programmer, not a sysadmin or DBA have the duties to perform/script the daily backup? You should post this (in more detail) to DailyWTF.
I have no information but as idle speculation this might be a very very interesting change of strategy for home / small business.
You're assuming business strategy change competency from a convicted monopolist that's been coasting for a decade+ on their cash cows? I like your analysis, but I think it'd be very un-Microsoft to actually sell their product for any less than they feel is necessary.
Aside from the fact that Microsoft won't be doing this, I doubt it's a good tactic after all. Is there something in the water in Seattle? Why are Amazon and Microsoft so gung-ho on selling products (Win8.1, Kindle Fire) that have baked-in un-removable advertising?
Perhaps the government is to blame, but if I had a Moto phone, I could be liable for the security breach if I worked at a secure company location. If I were a responsible IT manager at one of those companies, I'd be pretty pissed about this.
You can't sue the government for Motorola's ineptitude, but you can sue Motorola. I hope someone does just that, and slaps down this culture of snooping and ineptitude that could ruin careers and lives.
Did the creators of Metro UI consider that ads would be some of the smart tiles? Look, iOS's spotlight search may be boring, but at least it doesn't show me ads along with my apps/music/contact results. Even Google doesn't put ads on your Android homescreen.
Now you'll have to put that test client on the cloud and get it through Azure so you can do your testing. I'm sure with Azure you can deploy almost any Windows OS you want.
I've long felt that schools have been doing a disservice to pupils since the 70's; preparing grade school kids for life should include basic money management, awareness of the state and federal tax code, family law, and the penal code.
Add to this the very dangerous fact that "ignorance of the law is no excuse" fact, and essentially, it's a tax on poor people to NOT provide basic finance and penal code instruction.
Is this catastrophically bad education policy mirrored in other countries? It's sad, but most US high-schoolers know more about driving safety than about basic money management.
This is my money, the state and its corporate partner shouldn't be making money off me when I try to get it.
I just wanted to interject this: conservative or liberal, I hope we can all agree that big business colluding with big government is often times a recipe for bad things to happen.
Isn't that Mussolini's definition of Fascism [1]?
" Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."
Other cute nicknames that sum up the state of our wonderful nation since the new millenium:
Crony Capitalism
Military Industrial Complex
Kleptocracy
[1] http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/b/benitomuss388775.html
The Silicon Valley Leadership Council has in general been for better roads and against mass transit spending. It's the typical business short-term thinking. They don't care what the situation will be in 15 years, just now.
If this is the group you're referring to, then it seems they've been around for 35 years. 35 years of "bigger roads + no mass transit spending" seems to me have resulted in a whole lot of backwards policy - that misguided future seems to be here, and have been here for decades.
For a few months I am consulting in San Jose and driving from Berkeley. I can't wait for all of those folks to move to the cities and get off the roads! Typical commute is 1.5 hours to drive no more than 49 miles. Even getting on the road at 6 AM doesn't beat the traffic.
I really wonder what the average anti-public-transport folks are thinking - if people who want good public transport (just gimme a train from south bay to tri-valley) got what they want, the bus/train riders would leave the roads freeing them up for folks who do want to commute.
Corrupt politics is the root (or most visible symptom) of all the major problems our state/country faces.
>> we pay TMobile $10/mo for unlimited long distance
umm nope that service is not unlimited it just allows you to use your minutes against international calls made from the US. I guess if you also pay for an an unlimited local plan that may be it.
Yep. It's the new "Simple Choice" family plan - 5 lines unlimited call/text/data (well, 500MB LTE then 2G speeds) for $120 (of which $10 is the boosted international plan call/text).
Wow.. you're still using fax? scan and email dude. :-)
Do you have a VHS at home an an 8 track in your car?
Now that was uncalled for :)
Some people just don't like getting emails with pdf attachments. Also some other folks dont like sending emails (highly overlapping set actually). The efax service like $3.5/mo+per-page cost - totally worth it for those email-disapproving holdouts you don't have a choice to avoid.
Lot better. it is now far faster than Chrome. I have switched back.
It can still leak memory and be fast. (well, right up to the point where the computer runs out of memory)
Luckily modern operating systems are pre-emptively scheduled allowing you to simply kill and restart the offending App.
Are you by chance running Classic MacOS9?
Though it's been quite stellar for years, ever since the DoubleClick acquisition, Google's DNA has become more spammy [1]. Not that Bing is any saint [2], and Microsoft has it's sordid history with not showing "linux" search results (before Bing days).
This kind of intervention from big bad government might do something to keep the search engines from devolving into glorified billboards.
[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/google-is-blurring-the-lines-between-ads-and-search-results-2012-4
[2] http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/microsofts-bing-uses-google-search.html