A careless programmer can code an insecure API in any language - was it specific PHP flaws that led to the hack? Blaming the language is like blaming the printing press for vile proganda or pencils and rulers for failed bridges.
Programming should use the simplest possible solution (and no simpler) for the task in hand - not whatever answer Google currently returns for the question "what is the best new programming language".
Devs love technical challenge, and they love being able to speak with a highly technical (preferably new) set of words that lets everyone know how 1337 they are. No different really to music hipsters listen exclusively to obscure indie bands, most of whom are shit.
If mgmt is not technically proficient enough to understand x,y,z hipster code and elucidate why moving everything to it isn't helpful in their specific application they can bow to technical "judgement" and end up with NoSQL where relationships are required, Angular js for flat web pages, etc etc.
Laptops. Because some developers (like me) want to move from OSX (or rather Apple's pricing vs rubbish spec) but our experiments running Ubuntu et al on semi-decent hardware has been excruciating (I'm sorry, but trackpads working is non-negotiable) and we want more than Unix software for say image/sound/video editing.
And no, I used Emacs for 3 years and I'm not switching back.
And yes, it would also be nice to have a dev machine that can game. A Stealth with a unix dev environment you say?
Apple have good form cannibalising their existing product set (see iPhone consumption of the iPod market), although this was Jobs caring more about great product than the effect of that (its not clear whether Cook has the same level of chutzpah).
Also, iPad sales have dropped off dramatically, so this looks more like something to shore them up / upgrade to.
Largely agreed, except where the gender imbalance comes from a barrier to entry caused by the incumbent powers self-selecting or creating a culture that suits their own kind to the detriment of other cohorts.
I don't know if Wikipedia's male dominated editors are creating such a culture and precluding women who actually wish to contribute in collating humanity's knowledge, but it's potentially self-reinforcing.
Unix is still the go-to OS and is syntax has remained largely unchanged for decades. What's wrong with PHP and C? Most of the online/offline world so runs on these
Agree only partially... Having a start button will help enormously for aging members of my family - the big confusion was that the active corners are completely hidden giving no inkling that's where you need to go to make stuff happen. That in itself is probably the single worst UE design of the last 10 years, as most people look at the screen and think about what to click rather than fumble around in the vain hood something might work.
Is Microsoft also addressing the 'how on earth do I shut this thing down' issue?
I once had sources to Mark Turmell's early games written on a PDP, such as Squash, all collision detection peformed with an 80x24 integer array and VT52 cursor controls (I bet nobody heard about those early beginnings before.) Before Atari, C64, Nintendo, etc, we played video games on VT52 and VT100 terminals.:o)
Apologies for being all tech history anoraky, but what year was this?
Adobe could do the opposite - release an open source version of the Flash Player code in Objective-C. This could be legitimately built into an App Store app at code level and compiled into it (which presumably would not clash with the Apple TOS requiring no outside plug-ins / APIs). Or better still, compile direct to iPhone target with the Flash player bundled into the executabl. This would allow developers at least to harness the power of Flash, if still precluding Flash based sites in Safari
A modern retelling of the AV That Cried Wolf. This is why it needs to be built into the O/S and automatic... most people cannot decipher even the simplistic of technical messages, they just want their machine to WORK and not ask 'hard' questions.
is not just that we - as a society - have become more greedy, more obsessed with consumption? When I had a lego kit, it was my main - indeed sometimes only (in the case of the fabulous Technic Car Chassis) Christmas/birthday present, and I prized it. In our rush to own more, it seems we don't cherish anything.
Cost effective? Go customise and you'll see the Keyboard and Mouse come to £106 (on top of a £62 power lead!) What, are they gold plated? CRAY obviously think of their brand like Ferrari or Prada - just sticking a logo quadruples the price. Designer CRAY sunglasses anyone?
not rebooted OS X for several weeks now, and it's ALWAYS there as soon as I lift the lid. It's clear from the trickle of stories about Microsoft losing it's grip that this company has peaked, it's place in history assured but it's future irrelevant.
TIP: SELL
you guys compile TOO much code.. HTML is more like literature - it's a way of getting a message across. It doesn't matter that the i's are crossed and the T's dotted - we're not running nuclear submarines. it just needs to communicate - if it's doing that, it's ok.
There's an indie band in the UK called Tin Man (tinmankind.co.uk) who have started writing games instead of music promos for their songs, because they're geeks and that's the cheapest option. Could this be the future?
I feel sorry for this kid - can't his (by insinuation pushy-as-hell) parents just let him have a childhood.
"Oh, but he loves particle physics..."
Get real.
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A careless programmer can code an insecure API in any language - was it specific PHP flaws that led to the hack? Blaming the language is like blaming the printing press for vile proganda or pencils and rulers for failed bridges.
Programming should use the simplest possible solution (and no simpler) for the task in hand - not whatever answer Google currently returns for the question "what is the best new programming language". Devs love technical challenge, and they love being able to speak with a highly technical (preferably new) set of words that lets everyone know how 1337 they are. No different really to music hipsters listen exclusively to obscure indie bands, most of whom are shit. If mgmt is not technically proficient enough to understand x,y,z hipster code and elucidate why moving everything to it isn't helpful in their specific application they can bow to technical "judgement" and end up with NoSQL where relationships are required, Angular js for flat web pages, etc etc.
Laptops. Because some developers (like me) want to move from OSX (or rather Apple's pricing vs rubbish spec) but our experiments running Ubuntu et al on semi-decent hardware has been excruciating (I'm sorry, but trackpads working is non-negotiable) and we want more than Unix software for say image/sound/video editing. And no, I used Emacs for 3 years and I'm not switching back. And yes, it would also be nice to have a dev machine that can game. A Stealth with a unix dev environment you say?
Apple have good form cannibalising their existing product set (see iPhone consumption of the iPod market), although this was Jobs caring more about great product than the effect of that (its not clear whether Cook has the same level of chutzpah). Also, iPad sales have dropped off dramatically, so this looks more like something to shore them up / upgrade to.
Largely agreed, except where the gender imbalance comes from a barrier to entry caused by the incumbent powers self-selecting or creating a culture that suits their own kind to the detriment of other cohorts. I don't know if Wikipedia's male dominated editors are creating such a culture and precluding women who actually wish to contribute in collating humanity's knowledge, but it's potentially self-reinforcing.
Unix is still the go-to OS and is syntax has remained largely unchanged for decades. What's wrong with PHP and C? Most of the online/offline world so runs on these
Kernel changes temporarily suspended as Linus devotes time to building Linux Capsule
Agree only partially... Having a start button will help enormously for aging members of my family - the big confusion was that the active corners are completely hidden giving no inkling that's where you need to go to make stuff happen. That in itself is probably the single worst UE design of the last 10 years, as most people look at the screen and think about what to click rather than fumble around in the vain hood something might work. Is Microsoft also addressing the 'how on earth do I shut this thing down' issue?
Procasturbation is more common amongst those who work from home
I once had sources to Mark Turmell's early games written on a PDP, such as Squash, all collision detection peformed with an 80x24 integer array and VT52 cursor controls (I bet nobody heard about those early beginnings before.) Before Atari, C64, Nintendo, etc, we played video games on VT52 and VT100 terminals. :o)
Apologies for being all tech history anoraky, but what year was this?
No, I would definitely go for that over Linux
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Adobe could do the opposite - release an open source version of the Flash Player code in Objective-C. This could be legitimately built into an App Store app at code level and compiled into it (which presumably would not clash with the Apple TOS requiring no outside plug-ins / APIs). Or better still, compile direct to iPhone target with the Flash player bundled into the executabl. This would allow developers at least to harness the power of Flash, if still precluding Flash based sites in Safari
A modern retelling of the AV That Cried Wolf. This is why it needs to be built into the O/S and automatic... most people cannot decipher even the simplistic of technical messages, they just want their machine to WORK and not ask 'hard' questions.
is not just that we - as a society - have become more greedy, more obsessed with consumption? When I had a lego kit, it was my main - indeed sometimes only (in the case of the fabulous Technic Car Chassis) Christmas/birthday present, and I prized it. In our rush to own more, it seems we don't cherish anything.
Socrates might've been a man and therefore mortal, but he didn't study computer science.
I'll wager he would be the first to crack machine sentience if he was around today though
Cost effective? Go customise and you'll see the Keyboard and Mouse come to £106 (on top of a £62 power lead!) What, are they gold plated? CRAY obviously think of their brand like Ferrari or Prada - just sticking a logo quadruples the price. Designer CRAY sunglasses anyone?
Just ask your gf next time YOU'RE done having sex :)
does anyone here HAVE a girlfriend?
not rebooted OS X for several weeks now, and it's ALWAYS there as soon as I lift the lid. It's clear from the trickle of stories about Microsoft losing it's grip that this company has peaked, it's place in history assured but it's future irrelevant. TIP: SELL
you guys compile TOO much code.. HTML is more like literature - it's a way of getting a message across. It doesn't matter that the i's are crossed and the T's dotted - we're not running nuclear submarines. it just needs to communicate - if it's doing that, it's ok.
simply, wow! that beats Google's best by an order of magnitude
looking over her shoulder and seeing a complex algorithm would = attraction, regardless of which 'version' of her face she was wearing
There's an indie band in the UK called Tin Man (tinmankind.co.uk) who have started writing games instead of music promos for their songs, because they're geeks and that's the cheapest option. Could this be the future?
It's just the smell of smug.
God help us all if someone gets an Apple computer anywhere near a Prius.
yep, that's me on both counts - kill me now...
I feel sorry for this kid - can't his (by insinuation pushy-as-hell) parents just let him have a childhood. "Oh, but he loves particle physics..." Get real.