I was surprised to see Assembly in the top 10. Perhaps I shouldn't be, as I'm not in the world which uses Assembly, and I haven't even played with it since college back in the day.
Forgive my ignorance here, but why the popularity of Assembly? It's impressive to say the least, but I'm unfamiliar with the world that lives in that language.
I received a copy of Pyst as a gift when it came out. I never opened the package and still have it in the cellophane. Maybe it will be worth something long after my demise.
It just goes to show you... in my many years of watching thing like this (and also from the accurately described observations of Milton Friedman), when you raise taxes, people (etc.) leave. Ultimately it spirals downward where there is less tax revenue, so taxes need to be raised more (or something needs to happen).
Look at the inversion which happened over time, as corporations (evil or not) moved their headquarters to other countries where the tax rate was competitive and much lower than here. Then look at what happened when the corporate tax rate was lowered.
This same thing is happening in other cities with higher tax rates, or ways that the municipality gets your money (via regulations, ridiculous fines, and so on). People will look to move to a place that doesn't nickel and dime them to death. This (obviously) isn't true for everyone, but it tends to lower the tax base if it goes on long enough and taxes, et. al., continue to increase.
Although what I am saying may not be popular, it tends to be true. Please don't blame the messenger.
I had to convince my wife to take the day off, and it worked. We had three different locations in mind which were each in totality and about 2.5 hours from home, so we watched weather.com up until we had to make a decision and leave.
It was to be partly cloudy to mostly cloudy in all locations at the time the eclipse was going into totality, but at the last minute, one location (in KY) changed to sunny, so we made the decision and took off after dropping our son at school (he has already started school here).
It worked out perfectly. We had little traffic and found a clearing in some remote corn field where we stumbled across 8 other adults who were some extremely nice people and shared their space with us.
We had 2:37 seconds of darkness, got some great images, and the other group we were with shared champagne while listening to Dark Side of the Moon. It was amazing and we both drank in the experience.
Needless to say, my wife was grateful for talking her into taking the day off.
I saw this when I went to Google Finance to check my stocks yesterday after the market close. I own and/or follow several of the affected stocks.
At first I thought "Whaaaat?!?!?" Amazon lost 87% in one day!? Cisco down 14%? Apple way down, Microsoft up 5_ (something) points... so obviously it seemed fishy, but still small panic... So I went to Yahoo finance, same things. Uh oh!
I then began searching for new on the NASDAQ and didn't find anything relevant to a tech shakeup or any stocks that got killed on the same day, so I looked for other stock price sources, and saw the real prices. My heart stopped racing and went about my day.
I hadn't put this in context of the elderly/retirees (i.e. fixed income). If prices to go up to account for the higher cost of doing business, fixed income will need to go up as well.
I'm making a lot of assumptions here, but I wonder how much this has been taken into account? The people who simply can't work due to age, disability, ______ (fill in the blank) would be affected. Similar to social security not keeping up with inflation -- it's tough on the people who need it the most.
"The dimming of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus. "
Assuming some NK hardware is not at least as capable is absurd.
This is 2016, not 1942. The technology for detecting and tracking submerged vessels has improved somewhat in the last 74 years. The North Korean subs are basically vintage 1960s era technology, like much of the rest of their military. They're not going anywhere without being tracked and if they approach the United States they will be sunk, war or no war, because nobody will be watching except the ones doing the shooting. Submarines can be accident prone and the Pacific Ocean has a fearsome reputation among mariners. Nobody would have any problem believing that a North Korean submarine had an "accident" while at sea. In fact, the visibility of submarines at sea to the general public is so low that they United States could essentially deny any knowledge. Finally, the North Koreans are so unsympathetic and unpopular these days that nobody would care what happened to their submarine anyway.
There are a lot of good comments about older developers who are more than qualified in numerous ways in the tech world today.
For the younger guys who are developers: Use those long-term thinking skills and remember where you might be in XX years.
Are you a person who loves to learn (and keep up with) new technologies and solve real problems, and has learned a lot over the first few years of your career?
Do you think you'll be any different any years down the road (other than being more experienced and more mature maybe)?
If so, then welcome to the life of may older developers. Granted, some people don't keep up nor want to, but the same can be said for virtually any age group.
My point is simply: Be careful who you prejudge as you will potentially be an older developer one day yourself. Unless you've gone into another role/career or made your retirement $$ before age 40, be kind to the ones who can offer a lot of talent, even at their age.
- Apple didn't want to release a tool to unlock iPhones.
- Back doors should never, ever, ever be required for any type of device.
- Encryption keys should never, ever, ever be given/managed by any government agency.
- Etc., etc., etc.
When will the masses wake up and realize that a large, controlling government will never be a good thing for freedom?
Ramley-out!:-)
American companies can not provide unbreakable encryption? Another country will provide those products and people will want them. Our tech firms get hurt. Brilliant!
...Until all countries follow our laws and prohibit the same thing(s).
Then the only people who have an immense, evil amount of power are governments... beyond what we (in the US) allow today.
Not to get into the politics of it all, but doesn't limiting the size and scope of our government here in the US make the most sense in the long-run? Handing over power to our government might seem great when the right people are in office, but when the people change (and the power is still there), everyone is screwed. History repeating itself over and over.
Another interesting article talking a little less positive about this:
Quote: “No information was taken on the amount of drugs or other things that might have to be used to raise them".
Quote: The main change to the salmon caused them to produce more growth hormone, but tests used by the company couldn’t detect how much they were making, according to Hansen. “It was like using a radar gun that doesn’t detect speeds below 125 miles per hour, and from that concluding that there’s no evidence that cars and bicycles move at different speeds,”
According to a CBS article, the US has a policy that no one single person can be in the cockpit alone during a flight. If one of the pilots needs to leave the cockpit, a member of the flight crew will step in until the other pilot returns.
Apparently this is not the case in Europe. Perhaps it will be now.
Background: I have been using XCode 6.6 (I think) for about a month now, as swift sounded intriguing. I wasn't a huge fan of obj-c, but I worked with it for a mobile app, so swift sounded like a potentially nice evolution...
One of the plus's of the IDE with Mac OS X is the ability to quickly assemble a UI. I would much prefer being able to work under the hood with the code for the rest of the app... it helps me understand the language, and how everything works together... as well as a sense of control, knowing it does what I intended for it to do.
If you want to create a complex app, it seems that one should know what they're doing... especially if it is to be used for more than personal use... for so, so many reasons.
Business decision(s) aside, it feels completely unnatural that such a cool, grassroots company sold out to a behemoth monstrosity like FB.
I would really like to see FB taken down a notch (putting it nicely), and this I am afraid will draw more people to it, as this tech is very compelling. I don't want to have to use FB to play with VR on this level. Perhaps I won't have to.
Maybe Oculus did need the help referred to in the article, but couldn't there have been another way? $2B would be hard to turn down, but (imho) they could have gotten there another way, and maybe surpassed it.
I can already hear the excuses when the footage is "lost" over the one controversy an officer might have. Or (as previously mentioned), the camera magically shut itself off.
I have a client who wanted to implement ModX (Evolution, the prequel to Revolution). I took a look at it for them, and found it to be very simple to work with, and was quite flexible to be able to do what you needed with it.
It has its own coding standards, and allows for static templates or DB storage for HTML. It's definitely easier to use/customize than Joomla, and some of the other (more popular) CMS's. Out of the box, it just works, and works well.
Would I recommend it for everyone? Definitely not. I would compare its ease-of-use to WordPress, but I tend to like it better... if for no other reason than its not WordPress.
It's that simple. No, don't tell me you have to. You don't. You get enough people together and you all refuse to fly until the TSA is dismantled, and you know what'll happen? The airlines will get things changed in a hurry and the TSA will evaporate in a puff of invalid logic. It's that simple!
"Oh but it isn't and I have no choice and I need to fly and-"...
I can't agree with this more....and I've done my part, but not only for TSA reasons.
You can be guaranteed that if *we* all stopped flying to protest the TSA, the TSA would go away because the airlines would scream 'bloody murder'. You can also be guaranteed that this will never (absolutely never) happen, because people in this day & age put their (mostly petty -- a dying family member is not petty) needs before something as important and fundamental as this.
Wouldn't it be a good start if we all could pick a day (or a week, etc.) that no one booked a plane ticket in the name of TSA protest? It would send a message, at least, but wouldn't completely stop the craziness of what is happening today. When can we have a "no fly day"?
This is Slashdot which has a deep user base of highly skilled technical talent, hates what's happening to the Internet (etc.) via the U.S. Government (etc.), and collectively has the ability to do something about it.
Personally, I often find myself reading articles like this, and becoming very frustrated about it to say the least. The older I get, the more I have seen the encroaching government rules/laws/lack thereof which basically invalidates some of the most important parts of the Constitution. It's gone waaaaayyyy too far at this point, don't you think?
All of this has to be somewhat obvious and common in terms of how you feel when you read this. I don't think I am in the minority here, but I might be crazy.
With the long-winded intro above... there must be something we can do as a collective. There are a lot of great minds here, and a lot of talent which can out-think, and out-perform anything the government can come up with without breaking laws.
What we're lacking is organization, and a plan to do something about it. That could be anything from making sure the world knows what's happening, to creating secure means of communication, to outing politicians, and getting the media involved, to a lot of things we haven't thought of.
I'm ready for the neigh-Sayers, and the "it won't happen because...", but doing something is a lot better than watching this all happen and feeling helpless.
How do we organize? How can Slashdot come together to do something positive which stops this atrocious behavior by our governments?
Before we hear about how silly this idea is or how it won't ever work, who has actually tried on a somewhat large scale in terms of people?
I may be alone, but I am so tired of hearing about all the incredibly ridiculous things our government is doing to the people who pay for them to be there.
Well, it was worth a try... I'm ready to be shot down, but if I didn't say something, I'd just be a lemming like a good percentage of the clueless constituency.
YES! this is exactly right. Women's rights, abortion, etc... are very surface and personal issues that hit home to a lot of people, but aren't really going to change no matter who is elected. They are not the relevant issues, nor will they change easily.
It's a smokescreen to get elected, and make the other guy look out of touch. When will people figure this out?
In the U.S. we've got to stop electing the "cool" guy who would be fun (and interesting) to sit and have beers with, rather than a leader who puts the power back into the hands of the people.
The road we are going down undermines everything that this country was founded on, and made it stand out from the rest (good or bad). One must admit, to a point -- we had it good for a while.
This road we're on has been taken countless times before in other ways, and it has never, ever ended well.
Slashdot Mirror
I was surprised to see Assembly in the top 10. Perhaps I shouldn't be, as I'm not in the world which uses Assembly, and I haven't even played with it since college back in the day.
Forgive my ignorance here, but why the popularity of Assembly? It's impressive to say the least, but I'm unfamiliar with the world that lives in that language.
Happy Monday!
I received a copy of Pyst as a gift when it came out. I never opened the package and still have it in the cellophane. Maybe it will be worth something long after my demise.
It just goes to show you... in my many years of watching thing like this (and also from the accurately described observations of Milton Friedman), when you raise taxes, people (etc.) leave. Ultimately it spirals downward where there is less tax revenue, so taxes need to be raised more (or something needs to happen).
Look at the inversion which happened over time, as corporations (evil or not) moved their headquarters to other countries where the tax rate was competitive and much lower than here. Then look at what happened when the corporate tax rate was lowered.
This same thing is happening in other cities with higher tax rates, or ways that the municipality gets your money (via regulations, ridiculous fines, and so on). People will look to move to a place that doesn't nickel and dime them to death. This (obviously) isn't true for everyone, but it tends to lower the tax base if it goes on long enough and taxes, et. al., continue to increase.
Although what I am saying may not be popular, it tends to be true. Please don't blame the messenger.
I had to convince my wife to take the day off, and it worked. We had three different locations in mind which were each in totality and about 2.5 hours from home, so we watched weather.com up until we had to make a decision and leave.
It was to be partly cloudy to mostly cloudy in all locations at the time the eclipse was going into totality, but at the last minute, one location (in KY) changed to sunny, so we made the decision and took off after dropping our son at school (he has already started school here).
It worked out perfectly. We had little traffic and found a clearing in some remote corn field where we stumbled across 8 other adults who were some extremely nice people and shared their space with us.
We had 2:37 seconds of darkness, got some great images, and the other group we were with shared champagne while listening to Dark Side of the Moon. It was amazing and we both drank in the experience.
Needless to say, my wife was grateful for talking her into taking the day off.
I saw this when I went to Google Finance to check my stocks yesterday after the market close. I own and/or follow several of the affected stocks.
At first I thought "Whaaaat?!?!?" Amazon lost 87% in one day!? Cisco down 14%? Apple way down, Microsoft up 5_ (something) points... so obviously it seemed fishy, but still small panic... So I went to Yahoo finance, same things. Uh oh!
I then began searching for new on the NASDAQ and didn't find anything relevant to a tech shakeup or any stocks that got killed on the same day, so I looked for other stock price sources, and saw the real prices. My heart stopped racing and went about my day.
I hadn't put this in context of the elderly/retirees (i.e. fixed income). If prices to go up to account for the higher cost of doing business, fixed income will need to go up as well.
I'm making a lot of assumptions here, but I wonder how much this has been taken into account? The people who simply can't work due to age, disability, ______ (fill in the blank) would be affected. Similar to social security not keeping up with inflation -- it's tough on the people who need it the most.
"The dimming of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus. "
:-)
Sorry, couldn't help myself...
Assuming some NK hardware is not at least as capable is absurd.
This is 2016, not 1942. The technology for detecting and tracking submerged vessels has improved somewhat in the last 74 years. The North Korean subs are basically vintage 1960s era technology, like much of the rest of their military. They're not going anywhere without being tracked and if they approach the United States they will be sunk, war or no war, because nobody will be watching except the ones doing the shooting. Submarines can be accident prone and the Pacific Ocean has a fearsome reputation among mariners. Nobody would have any problem believing that a North Korean submarine had an "accident" while at sea. In fact, the visibility of submarines at sea to the general public is so low that they United States could essentially deny any knowledge. Finally, the North Koreans are so unsympathetic and unpopular these days that nobody would care what happened to their submarine anyway.
Well... here's some news from 2015 ...
"Where are North Korea's submarines? Whereabouts of fleet which vanished from radar remains a mystery days after Kim Jong Un ends stand-off with the South"
Or this: North Korea's 50 Missing Submarines Have Apparently Reappeared Following Truce
Yep *sigh* :-/
There are a lot of good comments about older developers who are more than qualified in numerous ways in the tech world today.
For the younger guys who are developers: Use those long-term thinking skills and remember where you might be in XX years.
Are you a person who loves to learn (and keep up with) new technologies and solve real problems, and has learned a lot over the first few years of your career?
Do you think you'll be any different any years down the road (other than being more experienced and more mature maybe)?
If so, then welcome to the life of may older developers. Granted, some people don't keep up nor want to, but the same can be said for virtually any age group.
My point is simply: Be careful who you prejudge as you will potentially be an older developer one day yourself. Unless you've gone into another role/career or made your retirement $$ before age 40, be kind to the ones who can offer a lot of talent, even at their age.
Thanks for reading.
This is precisely why:
:-)
- Apple didn't want to release a tool to unlock iPhones.
- Back doors should never, ever, ever be required for any type of device.
- Encryption keys should never, ever, ever be given/managed by any government agency.
- Etc., etc., etc.
When will the masses wake up and realize that a large, controlling government will never be a good thing for freedom?
Ramley-out!
American companies can not provide unbreakable encryption? Another country will provide those products and people will want them. Our tech firms get hurt. Brilliant!
...Until all countries follow our laws and prohibit the same thing(s).
Then the only people who have an immense, evil amount of power are governments... beyond what we (in the US) allow today.
Not to get into the politics of it all, but doesn't limiting the size and scope of our government here in the US make the most sense in the long-run? Handing over power to our government might seem great when the right people are in office, but when the people change (and the power is still there), everyone is screwed. History repeating itself over and over.
Should we tweet this, or will it be magically deleted?
Another interesting article talking a little less positive about this:
Quote: “No information was taken on the amount of drugs or other things that might have to be used to raise them".
Quote: The main change to the salmon caused them to produce more growth hormone, but tests used by the company couldn’t detect how much they were making, according to Hansen. “It was like using a radar gun that doesn’t detect speeds below 125 miles per hour, and from that concluding that there’s no evidence that cars and bicycles move at different speeds,”
Here's the link: http://www.webmd.com/food-reci...
Joe's Own Editor. I don't use a traditional IDE, but do still use JOE. Am I alone with this? *sigh*
Apparently this is not the case in Europe. Perhaps it will be now.
How unfortunate this happened.
... at least IMO.
Background: I have been using XCode 6.6 (I think) for about a month now, as swift sounded intriguing. I wasn't a huge fan of obj-c, but I worked with it for a mobile app, so swift sounded like a potentially nice evolution...
One of the plus's of the IDE with Mac OS X is the ability to quickly assemble a UI. I would much prefer being able to work under the hood with the code for the rest of the app... it helps me understand the language, and how everything works together... as well as a sense of control, knowing it does what I intended for it to do.
If you want to create a complex app, it seems that one should know what they're doing... especially if it is to be used for more than personal use... for so, so many reasons.
It seems to me that whatever political party can effectively use this data first, has a great weapon in its arsenal.
Business decision(s) aside, it feels completely unnatural that such a cool, grassroots company sold out to a behemoth monstrosity like FB.
I would really like to see FB taken down a notch (putting it nicely), and this I am afraid will draw more people to it, as this tech is very compelling. I don't want to have to use FB to play with VR on this level. Perhaps I won't have to.
Maybe Oculus did need the help referred to in the article, but couldn't there have been another way? $2B would be hard to turn down, but (imho) they could have gotten there another way, and maybe surpassed it.
just my $0.02
I can already hear the excuses when the footage is "lost" over the one controversy an officer might have. Or (as previously mentioned), the camera magically shut itself off.
Whoops
I have a client who wanted to implement ModX (Evolution, the prequel to Revolution). I took a look at it for them, and found it to be very simple to work with, and was quite flexible to be able to do what you needed with it.
... it's worth a look.
It has its own coding standards, and allows for static templates or DB storage for HTML. It's definitely easier to use/customize than Joomla, and some of the other (more popular) CMS's. Out of the box, it just works, and works well.
Would I recommend it for everyone? Definitely not. I would compare its ease-of-use to WordPress, but I tend to like it better... if for no other reason than its not WordPress.
Just my simple 2
You want to get rid of the TSA?
Don't fly.
It's that simple. No, don't tell me you have to. You don't. You get enough people together and you all refuse to fly until the TSA is dismantled, and you know what'll happen? The airlines will get things changed in a hurry and the TSA will evaporate in a puff of invalid logic. It's that simple!
"Oh but it isn't and I have no choice and I need to fly and-"...
I can't agree with this more. ...and I've done my part, but not only for TSA reasons.
You can be guaranteed that if *we* all stopped flying to protest the TSA, the TSA would go away because the airlines would scream 'bloody murder'. You can also be guaranteed that this will never (absolutely never) happen, because people in this day & age put their (mostly petty -- a dying family member is not petty) needs before something as important and fundamental as this.
Wouldn't it be a good start if we all could pick a day (or a week, etc.) that no one booked a plane ticket in the name of TSA protest? It would send a message, at least, but wouldn't completely stop the craziness of what is happening today. When can we have a "no fly day"?
This is Slashdot which has a deep user base of highly skilled technical talent, hates what's happening to the Internet (etc.) via the U.S. Government (etc.), and collectively has the ability to do something about it.
:)
Personally, I often find myself reading articles like this, and becoming very frustrated about it to say the least. The older I get, the more I have seen the encroaching government rules/laws/lack thereof which basically invalidates some of the most important parts of the Constitution. It's gone waaaaayyyy too far at this point, don't you think?
All of this has to be somewhat obvious and common in terms of how you feel when you read this. I don't think I am in the minority here, but I might be crazy.
With the long-winded intro above... there must be something we can do as a collective. There are a lot of great minds here, and a lot of talent which can out-think, and out-perform anything the government can come up with without breaking laws.
What we're lacking is organization, and a plan to do something about it. That could be anything from making sure the world knows what's happening, to creating secure means of communication, to outing politicians, and getting the media involved, to a lot of things we haven't thought of.
I'm ready for the neigh-Sayers, and the "it won't happen because...", but doing something is a lot better than watching this all happen and feeling helpless.
How do we organize? How can Slashdot come together to do something positive which stops this atrocious behavior by our governments?
Before we hear about how silly this idea is or how it won't ever work, who has actually tried on a somewhat large scale in terms of people?
I may be alone, but I am so tired of hearing about all the incredibly ridiculous things our government is doing to the people who pay for them to be there.
Well, it was worth a try... I'm ready to be shot down, but if I didn't say something, I'd just be a lemming like a good percentage of the clueless constituency.
Rant over...
YES! this is exactly right. Women's rights, abortion, etc... are very surface and personal issues that hit home to a lot of people, but aren't really going to change no matter who is elected. They are not the relevant issues, nor will they change easily.
It's a smokescreen to get elected, and make the other guy look out of touch. When will people figure this out?
In the U.S. we've got to stop electing the "cool" guy who would be fun (and interesting) to sit and have beers with, rather than a leader who puts the power back into the hands of the people.
The road we are going down undermines everything that this country was founded on, and made it stand out from the rest (good or bad). One must admit, to a point -- we had it good for a while.
This road we're on has been taken countless times before in other ways, and it has never, ever ended well.
We would have used these for "How-fast-can-you-get-those-cubes-to-turn-red" parties.