You recall a kerfuffle over the fact that if you use X11 on a system you are no more secure than X11 is (which is to say, not very). Snaps do not allow one single system-wide X11 server, so that particular flaw is avoided.
If you want to try out Compiz, it ships as the flagship desktop on Ubuntu. Just install Ubuntu and off you go. Canonical's Unity desktop is a plugin to the Compiz window manager. I use it -- and the cube switcher, and wobbly windows -- every day. It's still maintained, and will still be the flagship desktop for Ubuntu 16.04.
Well, to be fair, there are big flashing lights and a click-through on installing Ubuntu warning you that your search queries will be sent somewhere, and a single button to disable it that isn't obfuscated or hidden.
Claiming that telling you about something and forcing you to acknowledge it is "hiding it" and then crowing about your righteous refusal to use it on that basis is just being a drama queen.
Today's market demands software developed at internet speeds, and Scrum is the magic silver bullet that delivers. Based on interchangeable faceless engineers performing at consistent top velocity and colourful, simplistic graphics that even a top manager can understand at a single glance, new web pages can be delivered at web scale in little to no time with a minimal commitment.
Of course, the elephant in the room is that 80% of all software development is maintenance (remember, every line of code typed by a trained monkey enters maintenance immediately). Also, a web page or other UI veneer is only the top of the iceberg of software development and accounts for maybe 1% of software.
So, while Scrum and other rigid Agile product are great for a lot of managers to grasp because of the slick webinar presentations so readily available while playing that red jack on the black queen, the reality is they don't really deliver. Turns out there is no easy substitute for good planning and effective management for any task of more than basic complexity.
The inventors of Unix would be at home in my development environment: Bourne shell, vi(m), make. Unchanged for 30 years, still going strong. Consider that it was used to develop Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
So, given the rapid speed of change in the landscape of IT industry, I have to wonder how relevant our experiences and lessons would be to the young'uns.
There's no point in telling the younger folk anything, they already know it all. Wait until they're older with a little more experience and find out they still have much to learn.
Ubuntu already saw the light and is pushing even harder towards convergence.
With Microsoft announcing their going to have different UIs for different form factors, and Apple going as far as having completely different OSes under thei different UIs on different form factors, the only true convergence story left standing is Ubuntu. One Unity, one experience, on all different form factors.
I remember reading about this problem 30 years ago when I was a young programmer.
It seems that the tech industry is not the only place this is happening. Journalism, too, seems to be hiring only young and inexperienced people and paying the price.
Magnify. Zoom in on the reflection in his sunglasses. Enhance. There's the killer's face right there. Sergeant Takerdown and Sergeant Booker, go pick up our unsub and bring her in for questioning.
Please please make sure Jar Jar comes back. He was what made episodes I and II. I'm so looking forward to getting my picture taken with him, and maybe R2D2 in mouse ears, at Walt Disney World.
I hope they do up a Tattooine cantina as a family-style restaurant and some animatronic singing Ewoks having a hoe-down would be most excellent. Maybe they could transform that Epcot sphere into a deathstar for the lulz and have daily incinerations of the Canada pavilion.
It'll be the swagalicious product that will remake Episodes VII-IX what the originals were: a massive toy sales ad campaign. Nobody does that better than Disney. Nobody. Mees-a thinks-a so.
Yes, damn Canonical for not toeing the party line as set forth by the self-appointed central committee of the supreme soviet who decide what The Software should be. The whole gang of miscreants should be banished to the gulag until reeducated properly to the free market, that is to say the market fee of competitive ideas. Only then will the One True Way be realized. Until then, they are stealing bread from the mouths of our software children.
I hear Monster Cable is coming out with a line of gold-plated bifocals that allow the discriminating visualphile to be able to take full adcantage of the quality offered by 400 to 600 DPI.
My eldest daughter came home from university for a visit with a new laptop that dual-booted Windows 8 and Ubuntu 13.10. They'll do what they need regardless of what I want.
Obviously the only successful way to run the show is to have a central committee decide what everyone needs and wants, and an effective 5-year plan to meet those objectives.
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You recall a kerfuffle over the fact that if you use X11 on a system you are no more secure than X11 is (which is to say, not very). Snaps do not allow one single system-wide X11 server, so that particular flaw is avoided.
It is not coincidence. It's planning on the part of Canonical and nVidia.
If you want to try out Compiz, it ships as the flagship desktop on Ubuntu. Just install Ubuntu and off you go. Canonical's Unity desktop is a plugin to the Compiz window manager. I use it -- and the cube switcher, and wobbly windows -- every day. It's still maintained, and will still be the flagship desktop for Ubuntu 16.04.
Well, to be fair, there are big flashing lights and a click-through on installing Ubuntu warning you that your search queries will be sent somewhere, and a single button to disable it that isn't obfuscated or hidden.
Claiming that telling you about something and forcing you to acknowledge it is "hiding it" and then crowing about your righteous refusal to use it on that basis is just being a drama queen.
Today's market demands software developed at internet speeds, and Scrum is the magic silver bullet that delivers. Based on interchangeable faceless engineers performing at consistent top velocity and colourful, simplistic graphics that even a top manager can understand at a single glance, new web pages can be delivered at web scale in little to no time with a minimal commitment.
Of course, the elephant in the room is that 80% of all software development is maintenance (remember, every line of code typed by a trained monkey enters maintenance immediately). Also, a web page or other UI veneer is only the top of the iceberg of software development and accounts for maybe 1% of software.
So, while Scrum and other rigid Agile product are great for a lot of managers to grasp because of the slick webinar presentations so readily available while playing that red jack on the black queen, the reality is they don't really deliver. Turns out there is no easy substitute for good planning and effective management for any task of more than basic complexity.
The inventors of Unix would be at home in my development environment: Bourne shell, vi(m), make. Unchanged for 30 years, still going strong. Consider that it was used to develop Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
If they don't realize that they need to defend their freedom, soon they won't have any.
But they do expect a trophy just for showing up.
It's finally the year of Linux on the breastop!
My dog has no nose.
How does he smell?
Terrible.
Turns out being a COBOL programmer isn't a guaranteed job for life in the age of the Cloud.
So, given the rapid speed of change in the landscape of IT industry, I have to wonder how relevant our experiences and lessons would be to the young'uns.
There's no point in telling the younger folk anything, they already know it all. Wait until they're older with a little more experience and find out they still have much to learn.
No, perfect pitch is where you toss a banjo into a dumpster and it hits the accordion.
Ubuntu already saw the light and is pushing even harder towards convergence.
With Microsoft announcing their going to have different UIs for different form factors, and Apple going as far as having completely different OSes under thei different UIs on different form factors, the only true convergence story left standing is Ubuntu. One Unity, one experience, on all different form factors.
Let the market decide.
As a Candian I... uh....
I'm sorry.
The expensive part comes from sticking a credit card in the spokes to make it sound like a real motorcycle.
I remember reading about this problem 30 years ago when I was a young programmer.
It seems that the tech industry is not the only place this is happening. Journalism, too, seems to be hiring only young and inexperienced people and paying the price.
What, line them up agaist the wall and shoot them? That's the classic final solution for those who disagree with the ascendent political thought.
Maybe you meant "Cue the deniers?"
Magnify. Zoom in on the reflection in his sunglasses. Enhance. There's the killer's face right there. Sergeant Takerdown and Sergeant Booker, go pick up our unsub and bring her in for questioning.
Please please make sure Jar Jar comes back. He was what made episodes I and II. I'm so looking forward to getting my picture taken with him, and maybe R2D2 in mouse ears, at Walt Disney World.
I hope they do up a Tattooine cantina as a family-style restaurant and some animatronic singing Ewoks having a hoe-down would be most excellent. Maybe they could transform that Epcot sphere into a deathstar for the lulz and have daily incinerations of the Canada pavilion.
It'll be the swagalicious product that will remake Episodes VII-IX what the originals were: a massive toy sales ad campaign. Nobody does that better than Disney. Nobody. Mees-a thinks-a so.
The basic assumption that programming is a young man's game is simply being pulled out of the author's ass wholesale and in one piece.
When you base assumption is invalid, the rest of your argument is moot.
Yes, damn Canonical for not toeing the party line as set forth by the self-appointed central committee of the supreme soviet who decide what The Software should be. The whole gang of miscreants should be banished to the gulag until reeducated properly to the free market, that is to say the market fee of competitive ideas. Only then will the One True Way be realized. Until then, they are stealing bread from the mouths of our software children.
This is truly the year of the Linux desk -- on a phone.
I hear Monster Cable is coming out with a line of gold-plated bifocals that allow the discriminating visualphile to be able to take full adcantage of the quality offered by 400 to 600 DPI.
My eldest daughter came home from university for a visit with a new laptop that dual-booted Windows 8 and Ubuntu 13.10. They'll do what they need regardless of what I want.
As it should be.
That damn free market.
Obviously the only successful way to run the show is to have a central committee decide what everyone needs and wants, and an effective 5-year plan to meet those objectives.