In practice the differences are fairly trivial. They are both static strongly-typed languages which support reflection, introspection, inversion of control, and some degree of templating. There's really very little choose one over the other that amounts to anything at the level that architects should be thinking about. If you are considering other languages you should be considering maybe Erlang, Go, Rust, or one of the various JVM targeted languages like Clojure. Making C# an important point of distinction is pretty menial.
There's about a billion times more library support for Java, particularly if you want to do anything that isn't related to Windows. And you have at least as much cross platform portability, you can reuse a lot of code for Android apps. iOS is a black hole for ALL VMs, so you really might as well just stick with Java, or else go the QT/C++ route.
X5650 are cheap because they are JUST BARELY still in the realm of usable performance and power utilization. The problem is really memory bandwidth. I picked up a machine like that a while back and it was FAIRLY good, had dual 5650's for 12 cores, but it just didn't hold a candle to the i7-4770S I have now. Even with every memory slot filled with the fastest RAM it would take you just couldn't feed those CPUs fast enough on DDR2. IN THEORY with the newest chipset they will work with it might be an OK choice, and certainly very nice for say a big web server or something that isn't really compute bound. For a desktop, not really THAT great.
That's what I've found. I'm angling to get one of my clients to pay for an upgrade to 32GB. Figure it will take a couple years to eat through that.... I will say though, in 2013 16GB was fine, the stuff just shrinks over time and the fit gets tight.
I'm running a i7-4770S on an Asus Z87-K motherboard, 16 gigs of Corsair DDR3 1600 MHz (PC3 12800) (CMX8GX3M2A 1600C9) Ram, with an OCZ Vertex 4 Series 128GB SSD, and secondary storage is a WD Red 2TB WD20EFRX. I have a very basic Nvidia 610 graphics card (it was too much of a PITA to try to get my dual Acer H233H's to work with the built-in Intel graphics, though they are PROBABLY faster than this card. Honestly, I'm a developer, I like screen realestate, I could care less about super speed GPU. The thing sips power, usually around 72 watts total system power, Corsair CX500M PS is very efficient. I have NO CPU FAN on this machine at all (its in some old brand-X mini-tower. Its dead quiet and really awesome.
I bought my wife a prebuilt Acer the other day, it was nearly the same price, barely any faster, if at all, has half the RAM, no SSD, 500GB HD, and integrated graphics. This is a good time for build-your-own, unlike 5 or 10 years ago. Prebuilt desktop machines are junk, and the crap they call windows that comes on them is some nasty nasty stuff.
I think its a better plan than "give out massive student loans for 40 years until the prices are so bloated and everyone is a debt slave, THEN terminate the loan program and watch the poor all be utterly fucked". I mean seriously, I don't understand how we're going to pull that off. The truth is that today you are UNEMPLOYABLE without a college degree. I mean you are so screwed it is not even funny. My wife (who has a Chinese BBA) went to work at the local grocery chain a few months ago. Those people are so screwed. They work their asses off and you can't even come close to living on the $8/hr they get (and of course each place puts you on a random schedule that maxes out at 30 hours, good luck getting 2 jobs). Its CHEAP to live here, and you are still screwed (one of the cheapest places in the US, you can rent a whole house for $500/month), but you can't live on $200/wk, its just not feasible. There's no public transit, etc. This is the reality for poor people and her friends tell her in downtown Boston, MA where cost of living is 3x more, the pay is exactly the same, $8/hr.
The point is, either we educate our fekking workforce or we turn into Nigeria 2. Its the same choice we faced 200 yrs ago when the country created public schools to start with. Same exact considerations apply, and in the end the same exact solution will also apply. I mean you can send your kids to private school if you have money, and presumably you'll still be able to pay for college too if you WANT, but a usable secondary education makes sense. Frankly I think what Germany is doing makes even more sense, get all the best people by making the best quality education free.
Beyond that you don't know how hard or easy it is to get into a German University. If there are nearly 5000 US students there now it has to be quite possible. Germany also sends pretty much everyone to some sort of trade school if they don't deem them to be worth sending to college. We don't even do that.
I've taught computer security and web application security at an undergraduate level, and I can tell you that this is just not true. Now, its possible you can have foreclosed all the most obvious direct methods of breaking into your system. You've closed every possible content injection hole, you've configured the network such that even if someone started a rogue process on your machine it couldn't talk to anything outside your network, you've locked down every file using SELinux rules so no process exposed to any outside influence can write to any file whatsoever. Great, that's all wonderful!
Now, are all the other systems on your network, even the appliances and your connectivity providers routers all 100% secure? No? Gosh, now I've defeated the network origin based aspects of your setup. Now, is the IPMI properly secured on the physical server your instance is running on? Is the VMWare hypervisor unhackable? Could I get into the management infrastructure (maybe through an insecure operator workstation, etc) and say create an instance of my own that I can use to leverage an attack on that hypervisor? Or maybe I can just poison the image you use and force VMWare to restart your instance. Once I'm on your network, eventually I own you. I don't care what you do, I WILL own you. If its worth my time and energy to own you then I will. And all of the suggestions above? Those are the HARD way to do it. As the Chinese have amply shown you can ALWAYS count on human weakness. You can spearfish someone, etc, own their machines, get their ssh keys, run APTs on their system that can spread through a network by means you don't even know exist.
There are basically 2 things you do. First you do what you're doing, its not valueless, its just that all it does is keep out the riffraff. It makes you uninviting to the casual, inept, and poorly resourced threats. That allows you to concentrate on the REAL threats. Next you analyze your assets and determine which things are most valuable to protect. You can now determine what might be viable pathways for an attacker to get to those things. You can now use active defenses, monitoring and threat response systems to make attacks on those things so difficult and expensive that they're just not economically worth it. There still might be some insane guy that won't quite and he'll beat you perhaps, but that's life. No Russian mobster or Chinese corporate hack will bother, its not cost-effective to them.
And that is the key point, static defenses, as good as you may make them, are worthless. You wouldn't defend a ton of gold by just locking it in a safe. A safe is great, but if I can stand in front of that safe for a week its GOING to fail. You must have active defenses, guard dogs around the safe, watchmen that can catch intruders, etc. Likewise, you need active defenses. Not only do they (hopefully) detect intrusions, but they at least allow you after the fact to narrow down what happened, find out which files the bad guys got, which machines they accessed, etc. They are both security AND mitigation methods, and they're the most important things. Even the simple ones, running some sort of file system integrity checker on each server and keeping track of the results, etc.
There's a LOT more to security than write protecting all your files and such. You can NEVER lock down everything and the attack surface of your machine always extends beyond the reach of any single sysadmin.
What, are you some kind of race warrior idiot? People are just people, who gives a fuck? The US will be stronger for having greater diversity and so will Europe. Every other place will get its turn too, if they ever manage to stop being crapholes. Its a whole new world out there buddy, and its a LOT smaller than the old one.
Personally I don't think people in this country are any more ignorant than they have ever been, and history is rife with hucksters and rascals. So, are you advocating a return to absolutist rule? I think Churchill had it quite right when he said "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the rest."
So, that leaves making it work. Frankly, since participation is rather low, it may not be as hard as one thinks. If you can get a modicum of actual intelligent people to engage the system, particularly at the local level, they can make wholesale changes even if they're 5%. For instance the City Council elections in my town of 125,000 people had 485 votes cast, and there must be AT LEAST 30,000 registered voters. Almost anyone that can whip up a couple 100 people can literally run the City Council, and while city government is pretty low level they get to do a lot of rather surprisingly important stuff.
There's lots of ways to make things work. It just takes creativity.
So, your answer is "nyanyanya no it doesn't", eh? I find it humorous that you claim all the nations of Western Europe, who are beating the crap out of the US in every measure there is of quality of life, and manage to be perfectly secure while spending drastically less than the US, are somehow 'being conquered'. This is asinine to say the least.
I think part of the problem here is that tech people simply hold all other fields in contempt except STEM. The idea that you can simply take such courses online or 'go study at the library' is ludicrous to me. In fact I'd say its much easier to study engineering or science that way than humanities. The whole POINT of humanities is to engage other people as human beings at a deep level.
I mean I have a technical degree from a 4 year college, but to be quite frank the exact things I studied in my majors is largely irrelevant. I don't do anything in those exact fields now, nor would I know appreciably less about how the world worked had I not taken them since I'd already mastered those subjects at an early age to whatever degree I need in order to have a good sense of how the world works. No, it is the english, history, ethics, logic, and other such courses, the very ones being cast off as economically worthless, which have done the most for me in every respect.
I cannot say if there are a whole bunch of people studying a subject that is worthless for them simply because it is easy. I can't say if ever sociology course is really worth it, but the one of the best engineers I know has an MS in Sociology, and HE doesn't think it was worthless! I just don't think its smart to put anyone in charge of making up a list of what will and will not be taught.
I'd further observe that Germany has made ALL courses of study at all levels tuition-free, even for foreign students. If you can get admitted to a German university, you will pay nothing (at least in tuition, that may not represent a totally free ride). We might want to contemplate who's leading the world into the 21st Century as all the most brilliant students from around the world flee our shores, including almost 5,000 US citizens.
But the outer space crap that Rand Paul suggests is completely out to lunch. The entire Libertarian agenda of magically returning the government to what it was in 1800 or something and that will just cause rainbows to come out of everyone's asses and make the world into a paradise is so utterly lunatic as to be unworthy of even 5 minutes of reflection. You might as well put the government in the hands of Scientology and let them have a bunch of Operating Thetans run it. I mean its childishly simplistic and divorced from reality.
People can poop on Sanders all they want, but every liberal democracy in Western Europe is proof that moderate liberal socialism WORKS. It is a perfectly reasonable and practical political philosophy that gets shit done and produces results. All the FUD to the contrary is just that, elitist FUD from a bunch of crapshits that are scared they might only be single-digit billionaires instead of triple-digit billionaires. Fuck them.
Which courses of study are worthy? You're going to decide that? No, no, some sort of 'board' or 'agency' is going to decide that. Do you see how bad an idea this is? How impossible for it to actually work? No, the only reasonable course of action is to make undergraduate tuition zero across the board. Maybe there can be other ways to say "OK, we can only afford to educate X number of people in subject Y" but trying to decree from on high that only certain subjects are 'worthy' is a poisonous idea, and one that will be regretted badly by all in short order.
And that would be a good debate to have. I'm not sure honestly where I come down on what you're saying, but I get the feeling its a bad idea to put someone in charge of deciding which subjects are and are not 'worthy'. That will lead to a real swamp that nobody wants to go into. OTOH I understand where you're coming from, but then the question is aren't you putting too much value on money? I mean isn't that what it comes down to, you only want the govt to pay for the part of education that makes more money for business because its technical people that they really want. At least that's what they THINK they really want. Did you know that English Majors have a much better track record as business managers than MBAs? Yeah, the world is a funny place, we need to be pretty careful how we make these kinds of decisions.
WTF is 'offtopic' about Bernie Sanders here, he's the guy that is promising 0 tuitions across the board, that's a major plank in his platform. Are the mods here complete morons or what?
Yeah, I never understood the whole expectation that there would be any sort of 'change' with Obama. He made a few mumbles that sounded like he might think about this or that reform, and that was about it. ACA was the size of it, and the Republicans are slowly strangling the life out of that.
What is needed is exactly what Sanders offers a REAL EXPRESSION of true Liberal philosophy and intent instead of bullshit handwaving. I don't know if he's enough of a real leader to pull it off, we really need MORE than what Sanders offers, but he's got the basic piece that things cannot be done without. Frankly I think he's more likely to be the precursor to a true leader from the left, someone with both the credibility, the politics, AND the ability to really light people on fire (which Sanders frankly is not so good at).
OK, so its better to what, elect Marco Rubio or some shitheel like that? I mean you got a choice amongst the people that ARE running, or Mickey Mouse if you so please.
I speak from experience when I say that Sanders is a different sort of guy than these assholes. I've met the guy. I spent 30 years living in Vermont, I was there when he first got elected to public office, and I've seen what he's like. Honestly I don't think he's some sort of panacea, and maybe he can't do crap either, but he WILL try. He's a very serious person who doesn't spout shit he doesn't believe in and won't try to follow through on. Why do you think he's being crapped on by the media so much? The establishment is SCARED SHITLESS of this guy, because he isn't a pussy and he won't be bought. He may WELL fail, but idiots like Rand Paul sure as hell aren't going to succeed, Sanders at least isn't a lunatic.
That's what the news media said, who won't even cover the fact that he's running for President. If you want to fix this shit, VOTE SANDERS, its as simple as that.
Well, we, who send rockets to outer space, fly aircraft with millions of passengers every day, and route billions of $ worth of financial transactions on any given afternoon, we know these things. That guy who thinks code is 'shitty' because it is explicit and well-documented and perhaps a little more wordy than is convenient for him or faddish? He's probably building some of those web sites you hear about in security bulletins, or the ones that just aren't working every 3rd day.
Doing right is HARD, 'shitty' is thinking that spitting out a bunch of code is all there is to the job.
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In practice the differences are fairly trivial. They are both static strongly-typed languages which support reflection, introspection, inversion of control, and some degree of templating. There's really very little choose one over the other that amounts to anything at the level that architects should be thinking about. If you are considering other languages you should be considering maybe Erlang, Go, Rust, or one of the various JVM targeted languages like Clojure. Making C# an important point of distinction is pretty menial.
There's about a billion times more library support for Java, particularly if you want to do anything that isn't related to Windows. And you have at least as much cross platform portability, you can reuse a lot of code for Android apps. iOS is a black hole for ALL VMs, so you really might as well just stick with Java, or else go the QT/C++ route.
X5650 are cheap because they are JUST BARELY still in the realm of usable performance and power utilization. The problem is really memory bandwidth. I picked up a machine like that a while back and it was FAIRLY good, had dual 5650's for 12 cores, but it just didn't hold a candle to the i7-4770S I have now. Even with every memory slot filled with the fastest RAM it would take you just couldn't feed those CPUs fast enough on DDR2. IN THEORY with the newest chipset they will work with it might be an OK choice, and certainly very nice for say a big web server or something that isn't really compute bound. For a desktop, not really THAT great.
That's what I've found. I'm angling to get one of my clients to pay for an upgrade to 32GB. Figure it will take a couple years to eat through that.... I will say though, in 2013 16GB was fine, the stuff just shrinks over time and the fit gets tight.
My Vic 20 still works too ;)
I'm running a i7-4770S on an Asus Z87-K motherboard, 16 gigs of Corsair DDR3 1600 MHz (PC3 12800) (CMX8GX3M2A 1600C9) Ram, with an OCZ Vertex 4 Series 128GB SSD, and secondary storage is a WD Red 2TB WD20EFRX. I have a very basic Nvidia 610 graphics card (it was too much of a PITA to try to get my dual Acer H233H's to work with the built-in Intel graphics, though they are PROBABLY faster than this card. Honestly, I'm a developer, I like screen realestate, I could care less about super speed GPU. The thing sips power, usually around 72 watts total system power, Corsair CX500M PS is very efficient. I have NO CPU FAN on this machine at all (its in some old brand-X mini-tower. Its dead quiet and really awesome.
I bought my wife a prebuilt Acer the other day, it was nearly the same price, barely any faster, if at all, has half the RAM, no SSD, 500GB HD, and integrated graphics. This is a good time for build-your-own, unlike 5 or 10 years ago. Prebuilt desktop machines are junk, and the crap they call windows that comes on them is some nasty nasty stuff.
I think its a better plan than "give out massive student loans for 40 years until the prices are so bloated and everyone is a debt slave, THEN terminate the loan program and watch the poor all be utterly fucked". I mean seriously, I don't understand how we're going to pull that off. The truth is that today you are UNEMPLOYABLE without a college degree. I mean you are so screwed it is not even funny. My wife (who has a Chinese BBA) went to work at the local grocery chain a few months ago. Those people are so screwed. They work their asses off and you can't even come close to living on the $8/hr they get (and of course each place puts you on a random schedule that maxes out at 30 hours, good luck getting 2 jobs). Its CHEAP to live here, and you are still screwed (one of the cheapest places in the US, you can rent a whole house for $500/month), but you can't live on $200/wk, its just not feasible. There's no public transit, etc. This is the reality for poor people and her friends tell her in downtown Boston, MA where cost of living is 3x more, the pay is exactly the same, $8/hr.
The point is, either we educate our fekking workforce or we turn into Nigeria 2. Its the same choice we faced 200 yrs ago when the country created public schools to start with. Same exact considerations apply, and in the end the same exact solution will also apply. I mean you can send your kids to private school if you have money, and presumably you'll still be able to pay for college too if you WANT, but a usable secondary education makes sense. Frankly I think what Germany is doing makes even more sense, get all the best people by making the best quality education free.
Beyond that you don't know how hard or easy it is to get into a German University. If there are nearly 5000 US students there now it has to be quite possible. Germany also sends pretty much everyone to some sort of trade school if they don't deem them to be worth sending to college. We don't even do that.
OK, dream on. I've worked with some damned fine security guys in my time. You really could learn a few things from them.
ROFLMAO! OK, I feel sorry that you are trapped in such a small mind. Maybe someday you will learn just how much you're missing out on.
I've taught computer security and web application security at an undergraduate level, and I can tell you that this is just not true. Now, its possible you can have foreclosed all the most obvious direct methods of breaking into your system. You've closed every possible content injection hole, you've configured the network such that even if someone started a rogue process on your machine it couldn't talk to anything outside your network, you've locked down every file using SELinux rules so no process exposed to any outside influence can write to any file whatsoever. Great, that's all wonderful!
Now, are all the other systems on your network, even the appliances and your connectivity providers routers all 100% secure? No? Gosh, now I've defeated the network origin based aspects of your setup. Now, is the IPMI properly secured on the physical server your instance is running on? Is the VMWare hypervisor unhackable? Could I get into the management infrastructure (maybe through an insecure operator workstation, etc) and say create an instance of my own that I can use to leverage an attack on that hypervisor? Or maybe I can just poison the image you use and force VMWare to restart your instance. Once I'm on your network, eventually I own you. I don't care what you do, I WILL own you. If its worth my time and energy to own you then I will. And all of the suggestions above? Those are the HARD way to do it. As the Chinese have amply shown you can ALWAYS count on human weakness. You can spearfish someone, etc, own their machines, get their ssh keys, run APTs on their system that can spread through a network by means you don't even know exist.
There are basically 2 things you do. First you do what you're doing, its not valueless, its just that all it does is keep out the riffraff. It makes you uninviting to the casual, inept, and poorly resourced threats. That allows you to concentrate on the REAL threats. Next you analyze your assets and determine which things are most valuable to protect. You can now determine what might be viable pathways for an attacker to get to those things. You can now use active defenses, monitoring and threat response systems to make attacks on those things so difficult and expensive that they're just not economically worth it. There still might be some insane guy that won't quite and he'll beat you perhaps, but that's life. No Russian mobster or Chinese corporate hack will bother, its not cost-effective to them.
And that is the key point, static defenses, as good as you may make them, are worthless. You wouldn't defend a ton of gold by just locking it in a safe. A safe is great, but if I can stand in front of that safe for a week its GOING to fail. You must have active defenses, guard dogs around the safe, watchmen that can catch intruders, etc. Likewise, you need active defenses. Not only do they (hopefully) detect intrusions, but they at least allow you after the fact to narrow down what happened, find out which files the bad guys got, which machines they accessed, etc. They are both security AND mitigation methods, and they're the most important things. Even the simple ones, running some sort of file system integrity checker on each server and keeping track of the results, etc.
There's a LOT more to security than write protecting all your files and such. You can NEVER lock down everything and the attack surface of your machine always extends beyond the reach of any single sysadmin.
What, are you some kind of race warrior idiot? People are just people, who gives a fuck? The US will be stronger for having greater diversity and so will Europe. Every other place will get its turn too, if they ever manage to stop being crapholes. Its a whole new world out there buddy, and its a LOT smaller than the old one.
Now, if this is a REAL Republic, we'll have Rand Paul vs Bernie Sanders. Let the issues be clearly debated and sorted out for the next 40 years. hehe.
Personally I don't think people in this country are any more ignorant than they have ever been, and history is rife with hucksters and rascals. So, are you advocating a return to absolutist rule? I think Churchill had it quite right when he said "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the rest."
So, that leaves making it work. Frankly, since participation is rather low, it may not be as hard as one thinks. If you can get a modicum of actual intelligent people to engage the system, particularly at the local level, they can make wholesale changes even if they're 5%. For instance the City Council elections in my town of 125,000 people had 485 votes cast, and there must be AT LEAST 30,000 registered voters. Almost anyone that can whip up a couple 100 people can literally run the City Council, and while city government is pretty low level they get to do a lot of rather surprisingly important stuff.
There's lots of ways to make things work. It just takes creativity.
So, your answer is "nyanyanya no it doesn't", eh? I find it humorous that you claim all the nations of Western Europe, who are beating the crap out of the US in every measure there is of quality of life, and manage to be perfectly secure while spending drastically less than the US, are somehow 'being conquered'. This is asinine to say the least.
I think part of the problem here is that tech people simply hold all other fields in contempt except STEM. The idea that you can simply take such courses online or 'go study at the library' is ludicrous to me. In fact I'd say its much easier to study engineering or science that way than humanities. The whole POINT of humanities is to engage other people as human beings at a deep level.
I mean I have a technical degree from a 4 year college, but to be quite frank the exact things I studied in my majors is largely irrelevant. I don't do anything in those exact fields now, nor would I know appreciably less about how the world worked had I not taken them since I'd already mastered those subjects at an early age to whatever degree I need in order to have a good sense of how the world works. No, it is the english, history, ethics, logic, and other such courses, the very ones being cast off as economically worthless, which have done the most for me in every respect.
I cannot say if there are a whole bunch of people studying a subject that is worthless for them simply because it is easy. I can't say if ever sociology course is really worth it, but the one of the best engineers I know has an MS in Sociology, and HE doesn't think it was worthless! I just don't think its smart to put anyone in charge of making up a list of what will and will not be taught.
I'd further observe that Germany has made ALL courses of study at all levels tuition-free, even for foreign students. If you can get admitted to a German university, you will pay nothing (at least in tuition, that may not represent a totally free ride). We might want to contemplate who's leading the world into the 21st Century as all the most brilliant students from around the world flee our shores, including almost 5,000 US citizens.
But the outer space crap that Rand Paul suggests is completely out to lunch. The entire Libertarian agenda of magically returning the government to what it was in 1800 or something and that will just cause rainbows to come out of everyone's asses and make the world into a paradise is so utterly lunatic as to be unworthy of even 5 minutes of reflection. You might as well put the government in the hands of Scientology and let them have a bunch of Operating Thetans run it. I mean its childishly simplistic and divorced from reality.
People can poop on Sanders all they want, but every liberal democracy in Western Europe is proof that moderate liberal socialism WORKS. It is a perfectly reasonable and practical political philosophy that gets shit done and produces results. All the FUD to the contrary is just that, elitist FUD from a bunch of crapshits that are scared they might only be single-digit billionaires instead of triple-digit billionaires. Fuck them.
Then go look at Sander's record. He's been at this for almost 40 years now. You don't have to listen to any promises.
Which courses of study are worthy? You're going to decide that? No, no, some sort of 'board' or 'agency' is going to decide that. Do you see how bad an idea this is? How impossible for it to actually work? No, the only reasonable course of action is to make undergraduate tuition zero across the board. Maybe there can be other ways to say "OK, we can only afford to educate X number of people in subject Y" but trying to decree from on high that only certain subjects are 'worthy' is a poisonous idea, and one that will be regretted badly by all in short order.
And that would be a good debate to have. I'm not sure honestly where I come down on what you're saying, but I get the feeling its a bad idea to put someone in charge of deciding which subjects are and are not 'worthy'. That will lead to a real swamp that nobody wants to go into. OTOH I understand where you're coming from, but then the question is aren't you putting too much value on money? I mean isn't that what it comes down to, you only want the govt to pay for the part of education that makes more money for business because its technical people that they really want. At least that's what they THINK they really want. Did you know that English Majors have a much better track record as business managers than MBAs? Yeah, the world is a funny place, we need to be pretty careful how we make these kinds of decisions.
WTF is 'offtopic' about Bernie Sanders here, he's the guy that is promising 0 tuitions across the board, that's a major plank in his platform. Are the mods here complete morons or what?
Yeah, I never understood the whole expectation that there would be any sort of 'change' with Obama. He made a few mumbles that sounded like he might think about this or that reform, and that was about it. ACA was the size of it, and the Republicans are slowly strangling the life out of that.
What is needed is exactly what Sanders offers a REAL EXPRESSION of true Liberal philosophy and intent instead of bullshit handwaving. I don't know if he's enough of a real leader to pull it off, we really need MORE than what Sanders offers, but he's got the basic piece that things cannot be done without. Frankly I think he's more likely to be the precursor to a true leader from the left, someone with both the credibility, the politics, AND the ability to really light people on fire (which Sanders frankly is not so good at).
OK, so its better to what, elect Marco Rubio or some shitheel like that? I mean you got a choice amongst the people that ARE running, or Mickey Mouse if you so please.
I speak from experience when I say that Sanders is a different sort of guy than these assholes. I've met the guy. I spent 30 years living in Vermont, I was there when he first got elected to public office, and I've seen what he's like. Honestly I don't think he's some sort of panacea, and maybe he can't do crap either, but he WILL try. He's a very serious person who doesn't spout shit he doesn't believe in and won't try to follow through on. Why do you think he's being crapped on by the media so much? The establishment is SCARED SHITLESS of this guy, because he isn't a pussy and he won't be bought. He may WELL fail, but idiots like Rand Paul sure as hell aren't going to succeed, Sanders at least isn't a lunatic.
That's what the news media said, who won't even cover the fact that he's running for President. If you want to fix this shit, VOTE SANDERS, its as simple as that.
Honestly, IE11 ain't at all bad. Now, the OS that it runs on OTOH is giant festering...
Well, we, who send rockets to outer space, fly aircraft with millions of passengers every day, and route billions of $ worth of financial transactions on any given afternoon, we know these things. That guy who thinks code is 'shitty' because it is explicit and well-documented and perhaps a little more wordy than is convenient for him or faddish? He's probably building some of those web sites you hear about in security bulletins, or the ones that just aren't working every 3rd day.
Doing right is HARD, 'shitty' is thinking that spitting out a bunch of code is all there is to the job.