And how does the average corporate employee even know whether he/she has a "clean build" when issued a new laptop. Most times a laptop arrives pre-imaged with an OS and a standard suite of software tools. Unless you go poking around the filesystem you can't really tell how "clean" the machine is.
developers need to go and learn how to deal with people
There are various reasons why this is a recipe for frustration:
1) Developer skills != Interpersonal skills. Sometimes these will happily coexist inside the same human being, but sometimes not.
2) Developers tend to approach requirements discussions with preconceived notions around implementation details, such as "shit, the stuff this guy is asking for means I'll have to totally change the design pattern I was hoping to reuse." You end up building a solution developers want to build. Sometimes this works out okay, but sometimes you end up with a disaster scenario when the application hits UAT.
3) Why do you want your devs spending time writing Use Cases, taking meeting minutes, drafting Business Requirements Documents, and getting involved with Tracability Matrices? Few devs enjoy this stuff.
None of the developers has ever talked to any of the end users
This, in and of itself, is probably a good thing not a bad thing. On all but the smallest of projects, it's best to leave the requirements analysis to analysts, the architecting to architects, and the developing to developers.
When developers start talking to end users, it's generally a recipe for frustration - for both parties.
I remember seeing an analysis of this idea quite a few years back. In short, in order to add enough thrust using "D" engines to make it to orbit, you add so much extra weight that you'll never make it to orbit... adding still more engines just compounds the problem.
Of course, this analysis was done assuming launch from ground, not launching from... say... a balloon launch platform at 20000m
How about this one: building a web content management system for a public utility using an open source WCM package, then setting the main administrative account with the username adminand the password admin.
Took about ten days for some script kiddie to find the admin portal and begin wreaking havoc. Fortunately he seemed more bent on puerile defacement rather than outright malice.
I don't abide even to the "do not bring your own popcorn" rules. Why stop at popcorn? I bring my own Hibachi grill, a bag of charcoal, and a couple of nice racks baby back ribs. By the time the trailers are over, the ribs are nicely done and I can enjoy my meal with a few frosty beers while I watch the feature.
/. would fucking bury the AP if they tried that shit here, so the answer is of course to go after someone with less means to defend them selves If/. were pushed far enough, I have no doubt we would unleash a deluge of memes of truly biblical proportions.
Just the way I'm wired I guess, but I've always been somewhat handicapped when it comes to remembering and recognizing faces. I've been told I could never become a politician because of this (no great loss I suppose).
How long until I can plug a computer chip into the back of my head to rectify this?
Skepticism is just an offshoot of experience and the wisdom that (hopefully) comes with experience. After witnessing and experiencing a few spectacular failures in this life, the natural and healthy outcome is to develop a skeptical streak.
Go ahead Nokia and write the code that forces open-source software to respect DRM and content locks... just make sure your code is well-commented. Thanks!
I am intrigued by the TOEJAM Project, a java-based interactive voice response answering machine. This particular project doesn't look like it's had a lot of activity lately, but it's open source and I suspect the code could be modified to make callers jump through a few (highly configurable) hoops before your phone ever actually rings.
I have to find a way to "skip" messages in my voice inbox On most voicemail systems I've used, "3" skips ahead by several seconds, and "33" skips to the end of the message. Since "7" tends to be the delete command, and quick "337" usually trashes the message without having to listen through to the end.
It took a hard drive failure to get me into the habit of running regular backups... I was running two drives in RAID0 for performance, and I used to keep everything on that RAID.
Why are government bodies so busily working on pointless shit like this, when instead they could be doing work that actually brings value to society... like shutting down the money pipe that keeps spammers and extortionists (of all kinds) in business? Can't somebody just invoke the specter of scary terrorists and money being funneled to Osama or something?
As has been pointed out in the past - the people who are most likely to become infected with a ransomware virus are exactly the same people who are least likely to have backups available.
a vegetable and warden of the state I think you mean ward of the state, i.e. somebody who is placed under the protection and guardianship of the state.
In contrast, a vegetable warden of the state would be somebody like this man.
Just to turn things up a notch and head even further off topic, I'm going to introduce the book Jesus Lived in India, in which the author Holger Kersten suggests that the historical figure Jesus lived in Palestine only briefly, and spent the majority of his life in India, where he returned after the crucification and eventually died of old age.
This is why doctors ask people to finish the entire bottle when prescribing antibiotics. This is also why we should ban antibacterial hand soaps for domestic use - because when you bathe a population of microbes in something for millions of generations, the odds are that eventually a spontaneous mutation will occur.
All the anal-retentive clean freaks will just have to figure out how to live with the notion that they - like everyone else - carry microbes on their skin.
I think Lightning (or whatever it might morph into) could do worse than "taking on Outlook." I know people have security concerns with Outlook and that it's fun to bash on Microsoft, but as a communication and organization tool Outlook is an extremely polished, capable platform. I use Outlook daily on my work laptop, while I have Lightning installed on my personal machine. One of them wins hands down as a productivity tool.
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And how does the average corporate employee even know whether he/she has a "clean build" when issued a new laptop. Most times a laptop arrives pre-imaged with an OS and a standard suite of software tools. Unless you go poking around the filesystem you can't really tell how "clean" the machine is.
Fourputted?
There are various reasons why this is a recipe for frustration:
1) Developer skills != Interpersonal skills. Sometimes these will happily coexist inside the same human being, but sometimes not.
2) Developers tend to approach requirements discussions with preconceived notions around implementation details, such as "shit, the stuff this guy is asking for means I'll have to totally change the design pattern I was hoping to reuse." You end up building a solution developers want to build. Sometimes this works out okay, but sometimes you end up with a disaster scenario when the application hits UAT.
3) Why do you want your devs spending time writing Use Cases, taking meeting minutes, drafting Business Requirements Documents, and getting involved with Tracability Matrices? Few devs enjoy this stuff.
This, in and of itself, is probably a good thing not a bad thing. On all but the smallest of projects, it's best to leave the requirements analysis to analysts, the architecting to architects, and the developing to developers.
When developers start talking to end users, it's generally a recipe for frustration - for both parties.
I remember seeing an analysis of this idea quite a few years back. In short, in order to add enough thrust using "D" engines to make it to orbit, you add so much extra weight that you'll never make it to orbit ... adding still more engines just compounds the problem.
Of course, this analysis was done assuming launch from ground, not launching from ... say ... a balloon launch platform at 20000m
How about this one: building a web content management system for a public utility using an open source WCM package, then setting the main administrative account with the username admin and the password admin .
Took about ten days for some script kiddie to find the admin portal and begin wreaking havoc. Fortunately he seemed more bent on puerile defacement rather than outright malice.
/. would fucking bury the AP if they tried that shit here, so the answer is of course to go after someone with less means to defend them selves IfJust the way I'm wired I guess, but I've always been somewhat handicapped when it comes to remembering and recognizing faces. I've been told I could never become a politician because of this (no great loss I suppose).
How long until I can plug a computer chip into the back of my head to rectify this?
Skepticism is just an offshoot of experience and the wisdom that (hopefully) comes with experience. After witnessing and experiencing a few spectacular failures in this life, the natural and healthy outcome is to develop a skeptical streak.
// Begin code block containing super-secret DRM algorithms.
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super-secret algorithms
}
Go ahead Nokia and write the code that forces open-source software to respect DRM and content locks ... just make sure your code is well-commented. Thanks!
I am intrigued by the TOEJAM Project, a java-based interactive voice response answering machine. This particular project doesn't look like it's had a lot of activity lately, but it's open source and I suspect the code could be modified to make callers jump through a few (highly configurable) hoops before your phone ever actually rings.
Jokes about visiting the sun at night vs. goatse
I dunno ... tough call
It took a hard drive failure to get me into the habit of running regular backups ... I was running two drives in RAID0 for performance, and I used to keep everything on that RAID.
Why are government bodies so busily working on pointless shit like this, when instead they could be doing work that actually brings value to society ... like shutting down the money pipe that keeps spammers and extortionists (of all kinds) in business? Can't somebody just invoke the specter of scary terrorists and money being funneled to Osama or something?
As has been pointed out in the past - the people who are most likely to become infected with a ransomware virus are exactly the same people who are least likely to have backups available.
Just to turn things up a notch and head even further off topic, I'm going to introduce the book Jesus Lived in India, in which the author Holger Kersten suggests that the historical figure Jesus lived in Palestine only briefly, and spent the majority of his life in India, where he returned after the crucification and eventually died of old age.
Triclosan is preferred over alcohol, as it doesn't dry the skin.
Hell, even for humans it means ~6.7
This is why doctors ask people to finish the entire bottle when prescribing antibiotics. This is also why we should ban antibacterial hand soaps for domestic use - because when you bathe a population of microbes in something for millions of generations, the odds are that eventually a spontaneous mutation will occur.
All the anal-retentive clean freaks will just have to figure out how to live with the notion that they - like everyone else - carry microbes on their skin.
SundialFerret?
I think Lightning (or whatever it might morph into) could do worse than "taking on Outlook." I know people have security concerns with Outlook and that it's fun to bash on Microsoft, but as a communication and organization tool Outlook is an extremely polished, capable platform. I use Outlook daily on my work laptop, while I have Lightning installed on my personal machine. One of them wins hands down as a productivity tool.