Javascript, Python, vbscript and a number of other scripting languages are to programming like a tricycle for kids is to a long haul truck. You can get to the goal, but you will hit a number of snags and it takes time to find coding errors that a full-blown fully type-safe compiler would have found.
With many scripting languages you find the typing faults at runtime and not when compiling.
This. Ad 6) A CS degree will teach you about callbacks, asynchronous processing, and all the other fancy stuff you'll use in Node.js, React and any other brand new revolutionary technology that was originally invented in the 1970s. When you know the theory, you can learn the latest shiny technology by reading the manual over a weekend and then coding a small toy project over the next week. If you don't know the theory, it'll take you a year or more before you figure out how those cool but so damn counter-intuitive features really work. And then you'll have to rewrite everything you did over the past year from scratch.
Where did you get the idea that technology is perpetually destroying jobs on a massive scale? Instead, we're stuck in a roughly 90-year cycle of prosperity, decline and turmoil. The 30 years of prosperity is the phase when new revolutionary technologies (steam engine, electric power, computers) get invented. The 30 years of decline is the phase when the revolutionary technology destroys old jobs and old economic structures of the society. And the 30 years of turmoil is the phase when those destroyed structures finally get replaced by something new, while people left behind by the transition rise up against progress.
The last phase of prosperity was from 1950s to 1980s. The phase of decline was from 1980s to 2010s. And right now, we're entering the phase of turmoil that should end sometime in 2040s. If mankind survives that long, that is.
Automation has not destroyed more jobs than it creates in 200 years. AI will be the same. Those willing to learn will prosper. The current IT, Tech, Engineering, and Science shortages are proof.
So far, technology has always created new jobs... 30 years AFTER it has destroyed the old ones. And those 30 years in between have always been a period of violence, upheaval and revolutions.
And how does excluding 80-90% of the installed user base help Linux exactly?
I understand the sentiment, it's just not a professional way of handling the situation.
It doesn't help anyone and neither does the patch in question. Until new CPU models from Intel hit the market, this shitty patch will do exactly nothing. And we should thank Linus for telling Intel to make the new CPU models less shitty than they were obviously planning to.
To be able to purchase goods and services online, you would need:
a) (Close to) Instant payments
b) (Close to) Instant conversion to USD
c) (Close to) Zero fees
It is my understanding that a) and c) are coming soon (eg Lightning Network).
Unfortunately, your understanding is wrong. Lightning Network allows you to squash an arbitrary number of transactions with another party into two on-chain transactions. It's worse than useless for one-off transactions. If you do less than 3 transactions with the same person in a short period of time, Lightning Network offers no benefit for that.
Meanwhile in Central Europe, we're having temperatures equivalent to early March. You see, temperatures in the temperate zone are determined by the current path of polar jet stream. Areas between the jet stream and the nearest pole are cold. Areas between the jet stream and the equator are warm.
I've read this sentence several times and I still have no idea what you are trying to say.
Are you blaming Democrats or something for failure of other countries?
What countries are about to collapse? North Korea maybe?
please give examples and add to the discussion
I'm saying that a political party which would pass tax legislation without carefully considering what kind of behavior it'd encourage and discourage will run the economy into the ground. Because every tax legislation has side effects that encourage or discourage specific behaviors. You can either accept that fact and try to use it for public good, or you can ignore it at your own peril.
Therein lies the problem. Where can I find a political party who will design tax laws to pay for the cost of government, instead of to control people's behavior?
Look up a list of countries whose economy is about to collapse. The party that's been running the government for the past 5+ years is the one you're looking for.
What are you talking about? Payroll ADDS to the corporate tax burden. A lot. There's a reason why companies always try to outsource or use contractors.
Do you understand the difference between corporate tax and payroll tax?
Businesses aim to maximize profit. They do not set a profit cap and then try to extract it in the easiest way.
Corporate taxes are designed to encourage reinvesting profits (tax deductible) instead of shoveling them straight to the shareholders (not tax deductible). Lowering the corporate tax rate will result in less profit reinvesting and more shoveling to shareholders. But at least until the 2018 elections, there will be lots of PR hot air about investments, otherwise the GOP tax scam might get repealed before it even takes effect.
I'm a conservative, and I hate Comcast, support net neutrality. However I also support tax cuts for corps. I don't have any illusion that all their tax saving will help the CEO's more than the employee's or their customers. But the bottom line is that we have the highest corporate tax rate in the world. If you want to compete we need to lower that.
Except that corporate taxes are specifically designed to encourage reinvesting profits (tax deductible) instead of shoveling them straight to the shareholders (not tax deductible). Comparing the tax rate to the rest of the world is irrelevant. The original tax rate was reasonable so lowering it will only hurt the economy in the long run.
Payroll expenses are exempt from corporate taxes and investments are tax-deductible over an extended period of time. So explain to me how exactly do tax cuts help you pay for something that's tax-deductible anyway?
So, the actual timeline was: Neutral internet->2005 Net Neutrality Regulation->Verizon lawsuit (successful in 2014)->Deregulated broadband->Dickish ISP behavior->Fixing dickish ISP behavior by re-regulating->Re-deregulating broadband.
FTFY. The time span of deregulated broadband was actually less than 2 years.
Itâ(TM)s crazy to think the Trump admin wants to drag us back to the horrible, dark years of the Internet circa 2015...I shudder at the thought.
Actually, before 2005. Verizon challenged FCC's policy in court and won on a technicality in 2014. FCC had to reclassify ISPs to Title II Common Carriers in order to keep the exact same policy that was in effect since 2005.
In every case which I am aware of, (hieroglyphs, Linear B, Mayan) decypherment of ancient scripts required that a close relative of the script language was known to the decypherers. (If anyone has counter examples, I'd love to know about them.) If the language of the script is completely extinct, we may never be able to decypher it.
Sumerian: Language isolate. Decyphered through Akkadian (Semitic language, related to modern Arabic and Hebrew) because both languages used the same cuneiform script which is (mostly) phonetic in nature.
Etruscan: Believed to be part of the extinct Tyrsenian language family. Decyphered through Latin and Greek (both Indo-European languages) because Etruscan alphabet is the intermediate step between Greek and Latin alphabets.
You don't need a related language, you only need some reference point for the phonology.
Sure. Just look up where he writes about "psychological safety" (read: "don't judge me for being an asshole" - which would turn the actual concept psychological safety on its head) and "political correctness" (read: "treating people with respect"). That's basically everywhere except pages 4-6 (according to PDF page numbers) where he makes a brief intermission about "biology".
Aren't SQL injection attacks usually queued commands? Isn't the ability to queue multiple SQL commands in one string a flaw in itself? Ex: what possible harm would it do to require a "drop table" command to be called on its own,etc ?
You won't be able to execute non-trivial installation SQL scripts directly through your code. You'll either have to chop the script into individual queries and run each separately, or run the SQL script e.g. from command line.
Also, SQL injection can be useful even without adding extra query. For example, if the login form uses this kind of SQL query: "SELECT * FROM users WHERE username='$username' AND password='$password_hash';", you can log in as arbitrary user without knowing the password just by typing this kind of username into the form: "username';--".
Right. He spent only 6 pages in his memo complaining that being an asshole to his coworkers is against company policy at Google. Totally not jerk at all./s
Any encrypted message that is long enough can be decrypted. But you'll need the most powerful computer in the world and it'll take a few million years.
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Javascript, Python, vbscript and a number of other scripting languages are to programming like a tricycle for kids is to a long haul truck. You can get to the goal, but you will hit a number of snags and it takes time to find coding errors that a full-blown fully type-safe compiler would have found.
With many scripting languages you find the typing faults at runtime and not when compiling.
Ever heard of unit tests? Still, Python >>>> PHP
Good, the security solutions vendors will finally learn how to do their job without creating more security holes than they're trying to block.
Consumers have chosen the disposable over the enduring.
How, pray tell, are consumers supposed to choose a feature that isn't available on the market in the first place?
This. Ad 6) A CS degree will teach you about callbacks, asynchronous processing, and all the other fancy stuff you'll use in Node.js, React and any other brand new revolutionary technology that was originally invented in the 1970s. When you know the theory, you can learn the latest shiny technology by reading the manual over a weekend and then coding a small toy project over the next week. If you don't know the theory, it'll take you a year or more before you figure out how those cool but so damn counter-intuitive features really work. And then you'll have to rewrite everything you did over the past year from scratch.
There's a simple reason why this question keeps coming up every so often: Code monkeys are cheaper than real programmers.
Where did you get the idea that technology is perpetually destroying jobs on a massive scale? Instead, we're stuck in a roughly 90-year cycle of prosperity, decline and turmoil. The 30 years of prosperity is the phase when new revolutionary technologies (steam engine, electric power, computers) get invented. The 30 years of decline is the phase when the revolutionary technology destroys old jobs and old economic structures of the society. And the 30 years of turmoil is the phase when those destroyed structures finally get replaced by something new, while people left behind by the transition rise up against progress.
The last phase of prosperity was from 1950s to 1980s. The phase of decline was from 1980s to 2010s. And right now, we're entering the phase of turmoil that should end sometime in 2040s. If mankind survives that long, that is.
Automation has not destroyed more jobs than it creates in 200 years. AI will be the same. Those willing to learn will prosper. The current IT, Tech, Engineering, and Science shortages are proof.
So far, technology has always created new jobs... 30 years AFTER it has destroyed the old ones. And those 30 years in between have always been a period of violence, upheaval and revolutions.
And how does excluding 80-90% of the installed user base help Linux exactly?
I understand the sentiment, it's just not a professional way of handling the situation.
It doesn't help anyone and neither does the patch in question. Until new CPU models from Intel hit the market, this shitty patch will do exactly nothing. And we should thank Linus for telling Intel to make the new CPU models less shitty than they were obviously planning to.
To be able to purchase goods and services online, you would need:
a) (Close to) Instant payments
b) (Close to) Instant conversion to USD
c) (Close to) Zero fees
It is my understanding that a) and c) are coming soon (eg Lightning Network).
Unfortunately, your understanding is wrong. Lightning Network allows you to squash an arbitrary number of transactions with another party into two on-chain transactions. It's worse than useless for one-off transactions. If you do less than 3 transactions with the same person in a short period of time, Lightning Network offers no benefit for that.
Meanwhile in Central Europe, we're having temperatures equivalent to early March. You see, temperatures in the temperate zone are determined by the current path of polar jet stream. Areas between the jet stream and the nearest pole are cold. Areas between the jet stream and the equator are warm.
I've read this sentence several times and I still have no idea what you are trying to say.
Are you blaming Democrats or something for failure of other countries?
What countries are about to collapse? North Korea maybe?
please give examples and add to the discussion
I'm saying that a political party which would pass tax legislation without carefully considering what kind of behavior it'd encourage and discourage will run the economy into the ground. Because every tax legislation has side effects that encourage or discourage specific behaviors. You can either accept that fact and try to use it for public good, or you can ignore it at your own peril.
Therein lies the problem. Where can I find a political party who will design tax laws to pay for the cost of government, instead of to control people's behavior?
Look up a list of countries whose economy is about to collapse. The party that's been running the government for the past 5+ years is the one you're looking for.
What are you talking about? Payroll ADDS to the corporate tax burden. A lot. There's a reason why companies always try to outsource or use contractors.
Do you understand the difference between corporate tax and payroll tax?
I suspect you're a Clinton voter.
Nope. I'm an EU citizen.
Businesses aim to maximize profit. They do not set a profit cap and then try to extract it in the easiest way.
Corporate taxes are designed to encourage reinvesting profits (tax deductible) instead of shoveling them straight to the shareholders (not tax deductible). Lowering the corporate tax rate will result in less profit reinvesting and more shoveling to shareholders. But at least until the 2018 elections, there will be lots of PR hot air about investments, otherwise the GOP tax scam might get repealed before it even takes effect.
I'm a conservative, and I hate Comcast, support net neutrality. However I also support tax cuts for corps. I don't have any illusion that all their tax saving will help the CEO's more than the employee's or their customers. But the bottom line is that we have the highest corporate tax rate in the world. If you want to compete we need to lower that.
Except that corporate taxes are specifically designed to encourage reinvesting profits (tax deductible) instead of shoveling them straight to the shareholders (not tax deductible). Comparing the tax rate to the rest of the world is irrelevant. The original tax rate was reasonable so lowering it will only hurt the economy in the long run.
Payroll expenses are exempt from corporate taxes and investments are tax-deductible over an extended period of time. So explain to me how exactly do tax cuts help you pay for something that's tax-deductible anyway?
So, the actual timeline was: Neutral internet->2005 Net Neutrality Regulation->Verizon lawsuit (successful in 2014)->Deregulated broadband->Dickish ISP behavior->Fixing dickish ISP behavior by re-regulating->Re-deregulating broadband.
FTFY. The time span of deregulated broadband was actually less than 2 years.
Itâ(TM)s crazy to think the Trump admin wants to drag us back to the horrible, dark years of the Internet circa 2015...I shudder at the thought.
Actually, before 2005. Verizon challenged FCC's policy in court and won on a technicality in 2014. FCC had to reclassify ISPs to Title II Common Carriers in order to keep the exact same policy that was in effect since 2005.
Actually, here's what it means to "get a blanket" in Czech. Idioms are fun.
In every case which I am aware of, (hieroglyphs, Linear B, Mayan) decypherment of ancient scripts required that a close relative of the script language was known to the decypherers. (If anyone has counter examples, I'd love to know about them.) If the language of the script is completely extinct, we may never be able to decypher it.
Sumerian: Language isolate. Decyphered through Akkadian (Semitic language, related to modern Arabic and Hebrew) because both languages used the same cuneiform script which is (mostly) phonetic in nature.
Etruscan: Believed to be part of the extinct Tyrsenian language family. Decyphered through Latin and Greek (both Indo-European languages) because Etruscan alphabet is the intermediate step between Greek and Latin alphabets.
You don't need a related language, you only need some reference point for the phonology.
Meanwhile, if you use Google to translate "He is warm" into Czech, you still get the blind idiot translation which actually means "He is gay".
Sure. Just look up where he writes about "psychological safety" (read: "don't judge me for being an asshole" - which would turn the actual concept psychological safety on its head) and "political correctness" (read: "treating people with respect"). That's basically everywhere except pages 4-6 (according to PDF page numbers) where he makes a brief intermission about "biology".
Aren't SQL injection attacks usually queued commands? Isn't the ability to queue multiple SQL commands in one string a flaw in itself? Ex: what possible harm would it do to require a "drop table" command to be called on its own,etc ?
You won't be able to execute non-trivial installation SQL scripts directly through your code. You'll either have to chop the script into individual queries and run each separately, or run the SQL script e.g. from command line.
Also, SQL injection can be useful even without adding extra query. For example, if the login form uses this kind of SQL query: "SELECT * FROM users WHERE username='$username' AND password='$password_hash';", you can log in as arbitrary user without knowing the password just by typing this kind of username into the form: "username';--".
Right. He spent only 6 pages in his memo complaining that being an asshole to his coworkers is against company policy at Google. Totally not jerk at all. /s
Any encrypted message that is long enough can be decrypted. But you'll need the most powerful computer in the world and it'll take a few million years.