Ideally, programming should be a playground accessible to all, not like today where it's more of a military discipline camp accessible to all.
I very strongly disagree. Good programming can't allow for lack of discipline. People who go for more "elaborate" languages, with loads of libraries available, should be forced to understand what goes on behind the scenes.
I remember a researcher in a biotech company I used to work for, who tried to get help on forums on the Internet, and published parts of her ruby code (she'd had a 4 hour lessons of ruby once at university). The code included (read-only) account passwords to a research database and her own AD password in the company. Plus the variable names left little doubt as to what she was working on at the time.
Bottom line is: she didn't know what she was doing, but someone trusted her with code, and put the company's research at risk. So no, programming is not a playground, it's a serious matter. And as far as you don't understand what a buffer overflow is (and a load of other things), your employer shouldn't allow you to code.
If it's just as bad as everything else, then we can change it again.
...because taking power back from a highly centralized military organization isn't as easy as it would be under a democracy.
With democracy, you need a high incentive to create major change. That is a difficult barrier to pass, but not impossible. It is basically a means to a peaceful revolution through the election process.
But you've just been told that the election process is ineffective.
Damned, I wasted my mod points on another thread. Sad, because this is the first time I've heard a good argument on this side of the subject. (I don't agree with the principle, but for once someone has something clever to say about it...)
Slashdot Mirror
Sorry, but no, it's in Cumbria, in the North of England. http://g.co/maps/4f64r
And I lost one mod point for you...
There are only 2 different types of programming languages: those everybody continuously bitch about, and those nobody uses.
it's a browser for crying out loud. While that usually is a mayor tool these days, it's not your production server or OS kernel.
Note to self: never run for Governor, Congress, Senator or President, otherwise you won't be allowed to use a browser anymore...
Its not what it is, its something else.
Don't want to sound like little grammar Adolf, but I think someone needs to teach your sig about apostrophes...
You anti-Google shill!
Ideally, programming should be a playground accessible to all, not like today where it's more of a military discipline camp accessible to all.
I very strongly disagree. Good programming can't allow for lack of discipline. People who go for more "elaborate" languages, with loads of libraries available, should be forced to understand what goes on behind the scenes.
I remember a researcher in a biotech company I used to work for, who tried to get help on forums on the Internet, and published parts of her ruby code (she'd had a 4 hour lessons of ruby once at university). The code included (read-only) account passwords to a research database and her own AD password in the company. Plus the variable names left little doubt as to what she was working on at the time.
Bottom line is: she didn't know what she was doing, but someone trusted her with code, and put the company's research at risk. So no, programming is not a playground, it's a serious matter. And as far as you don't understand what a buffer overflow is (and a load of other things), your employer shouldn't allow you to code.
With democracy, you need a high incentive to create major change. That is a difficult barrier to pass, but not impossible. It is basically a means to a peaceful revolution through the election process.
But you've just been told that the election process is ineffective.
Is there really nobody paying attention today?
It's localisation, with an 's', you illiterate sod!
No it's very clever. As anti-virus software is getting better it's harder to get a Botnet up and running quickly any other way!
Honestly, 2001? A good film? The fact that the director of a film is Stanley Kubrick shoud disqualify the film straight away !!
Where do you live, Antarctica?
In Antarctica, it would be summer now.
Still not awefully warm. It's one of the drawbacks of living on a giant ice cube...
Which operating system does all this malware run on?
FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD.
Whoops, sorry. Replied to the wrong thread...
I was about to post a picture of pedobear with the same comment title... But you had to beat me to it, didn't you, you insensitive clod!
Damned, I wasted my mod points on another thread. Sad, because this is the first time I've heard a good argument on this side of the subject.
(I don't agree with the principle, but for once someone has something clever to say about it...)
Only Catholic Paypal(tm) Blessings are accepted by the LORD
There. FTFY.
Indeed!
But we might as well try to agree on an IDE / text editor...
Really ? This is like the 42nd time I hear this news...
But if the certificate was stolen from the Bank, it's their fault, not yours.
I bet this comment was most-moderated-up-and-down-of-the-day today :-)
Rule number 1: Do not wast mod points on an Apple thread.
you can never test every ball, or every pair of masses.
You can't say this one too quickly...
You can't solve paranoia. Give a candle to a man jumping at shadows, and he'll just start panicking about the shadows moving.
Yeah, but you can stand there and watch. You have to admit it's quite fun...
Does anybody remember Alzheimer's first name?
No? That's how it starts...
bible humping
All sorts of images just popped up in my mind. Weird. All of them. Very weird...
I like /. when I can learn something. It's been often recently, but I think you've just about made up for it.
Thanks!
You can write your comments in RAW html no? HTML entities might help...