Paypal is somewhat of a pain to use, especially for real time transactions... the way it works:
1. customer deposits cash to your cgi
2. cgi redirects user browser to paypal site with appropriate information, which includes callback url.
3. User dances around and then completes transaction.
4. Paypal when confirmed transaction submits on POST https request to you a completed transaction details - on return URL, you must call back to paypal, to verify that transaction is not a hoax.
5. Transaction is done, you have the money, so you reimburse user in goods and services in completed amount.
Trouble is, there is TWO urls, one is RETURN url and other is POST url. Paypal will post transaction details to POST url in some arbitrary length of time, while user will got to REDIRECT url right away. This poses a problem for web services, fact that money is not on website when user IS!
I have yet to see a good (from technical point of view) implementation of web cash services.
2c
Sun has definately is omnious in its presence on unix market, but their contributions to unix communities, while cool for programmers - were not for sysadmin. RPC, NFS and NIS(+) were some the most exploted system blocks, running right behind bind and sendmail. Going to next point, does industrial strength means free gateways for hackers scanning cable and xDSL address ranges?
2c
From my understanding of the world, our governments do not want other nations become powerful, riding our information technology wave.
When we heal and feed the poor all we do is rememdy results of the core cause. If we address the causes, then on some stretch of time we will be stopping to fight the effects.
So yes there is a need for such programs of bringing in neworks and communications into those countries. Once there is networks, there will be communication and learning and therefor prosperity and freedom, until then its like fighting fires when not even trying to catch arsenist that causes them. Futile at best.
p.
This article say this and that is wrong with automake & friends. Maybe it does have problems,
however I have problem with me maintaining a
file for dozen types of different systems.
Systems that automake does not work on either:
1. windows
2. dead Unix, from 1985 or something.
Preaching that OH, this thing does not work, does not help, esp. in light that most Unixes where hightly incompatible and braindead. It just reinstating the obvious.
What would be helpful is for more people to use automake, so that there will be pressures to address know issues, instead of spending eons writing articles and maintaining thousands of
makefiles for every braindead OS there is.
Please use automake, unless your department uses things like SunOS, HP-UX and SCO. In any case,
using or not using automake & friends, you will be on the road to hell, you will just have to choose the way. Oh, and 'make' on those machines probably won't read your make files properly either.
Shortest resistance path is GNUfication of development/installation environment, but that might not be kosher with sysadmins...
I think there are distinctly two lines here:
1. Stallman Ideas are communist - no relation to way USSR implemented its ideas of communism. Rather an original idea of communism.
2. Other opensource licences are 'socialism' with fragments of communism, here and there. See Finland, other european contries.
Taken that, I think it is a disservice Tim doing for the public, trying to confuse them and make public analyse each of the licences. Why? Because most public is not able, interested or have time to pick apart lawyer made contraptions. Now if he was to say that BSD licence is good, here's why, that would let common programmers understand advantages of either and pick one.
Business being a thing that will consume anything to grow, opensource licences are usable and possibly exploitable under some circuimstances, while GPL is least exploitable - AFAIK.
Start coversion of the internet over to IPv6.
But do it the smart way. Make strict standards,
derived from the IPv6 standard. Create certifications.
That will make sure that PHBs will buy into it.
Strict standards will allow for flow controls,
and massive genetic system that will detect influx
of copious data and manage network nodes to cut
it down. 128 bit address space will allow to
idenetify every computer. Strict certification
rules for the routers will ensure that network
is protected and is still open to the public!
Now there are negative possiblities here.
Government may create standards that will require
backdoors, and advertise these as the most
secure for the people's networks. As usual PHBs
will ignore utter cries of their employees and
buy equipment enmasse. IPv6 shall eliminate
generally most of vulnerablities. Stacks though
are not many in IPv6.
this could be really really good, or just horrendous...
p.
Dark matter for physicists, murky patches of net for CS types?
> Arbor Networks' researchers went to the mail logs of a local ISP and compared several thousand unique mail sources with "murky" addresses spotted in their monitoring. They found that 30 of those addresses sprang into existence shortly before sending the email, and quickly vanished afterwards.
Murky alright, frickin' SPAMMERS using dialup accounts. Article emphasizes obvious, rides on ignorance of uncouth. UUCP is of same type, does
it mean that net was not connected in those days
either? How about that one: http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/writeup.html
> No degree is going to automatically finish your career for you. A degree is a beginning, not an end.
Funny you'd say that. We just laid off two PhDs
three Masters people. Whos running the show? Uneducated uncouth, self taught hackers, or so you would see it.
Getting education may lull you into sense of being actually good at something while you are not. Don't. =)
Find your learning style and follow up on that. Books are your best friends, offering cohesive information on stuff.
FINISH THE SCHOOL - doing otherwise would prove that you have not learnt anything in school.
I have not passed any formal education, and I passed interview test from 30 people. That means I am actually good at software development.
Yes, terrorist action plans, schedules and use
microsoft outlook to do all organizations... Not!
They talk in darkness of inner city corners, they
infer future plans five years ahead. Whole thing that they did this over internet, then shutdown
their laptops and crashed two planes is ludicrous.
Law officals use communication, these people do not.
Bin ladden, does not communicate with cells all that often maybe twice in lifetime. So by default if I was in vicinity if bin ladden, I would be considered a terrorist. These laws are feeble
attempt at catching something that is us but is not. By definition they define terrorists as cancer, then summon armies to fight them. Things
like that do not happen. This was all orchestrated for the good of countrie's collapsing economy. Believe it or not.
p.
Here come to mind:
$browser_id = join('',map({chr(int(rand(127)))} (' ')x50));
or something of the sort, to quash anything
spying on you.
Re:The question is not whether you re done coding
on
Coder or Architect?
·
· Score: 1
You have clearly did not try XP, and it is clear you have established yourself as well respected software designer. Whatever that means. Because of people like you software development has to be expensive and often customers do not get what they need to solve their problems. And yes, most projects don't need to be engeneered down to components. People like you create inefficencies in software process, because you don't see the * REAL * issues with project, just some lofty goal making programmers run around doing code that will be thrown out or unused in future because you have miscommunicated with customer, and customer ultimately paid for the feature. I ALL compaies I have worked so far, if someone stood from outside there would be a question asked - what the fuck does this company do? It has been here for 5 years, yet they have managed to write just two programs. Most people above programmers contribute to broken telephone effect, hence most companies fail. And no I am not a manager, and never want to be one, but maybe if I do coding at least 60% of the time.
Clearly you were a bad programmer and migrated to being manager by being a senior. Thats bad news for company you are working for.
2c
Re:The question is not whether you re done coding
on
Coder or Architect?
·
· Score: 1
> Good architects are rare. Great architects are exceptionaly rare.
Bzzt! Few people have ability to make themselves
irreplaceable. Target is to make people replaceable
and places easy to work. Make projects fasttrack,
and be there on date, and be quality dependent.
Reduce stress levels, and put project support
on people strongest points, not weakest - XP.
Unique people often are hightly opinionated,
get in way of actually doing things. After all that
company does not benefit from them.
Exactly 2 cents worth, you corporate monger.
There's nothing wrong with corporations, but as
many here fail to see, most computer companies
fail, because they are organized with wrong
structure in mind. Companies build products, on
single request of head person. Basically a request
comes in and so the project begins. In
present structure, decisions are made high above
people, such as taking out that button, or taking
this screen away and moving it here. There's
not consultancy with people who will receive the
end products, because they are considered consumers,
dumb and not knowing what they want.
Company shall provide consumers with service - thats not what most do. They build software,
and shove it down customer's throat.
Furthermore - programmers, are seen as a cement
mixers - ones who just need to know how to type,
and they will make something. Programmers are of
least importance in corporate structure.
People come from other places and expect
programmers to be like factory workers or
journalists - make a volume, and you will be
qualified for high salary.
It's a nightmare. Its like everyone is confused,
in denial on what needs to be done, or even
does not know what needs to be done, so they
make it up!!!
Way to eliminate problems as earlier poster said
is way of XP. Where managers are merely communication
inducers. Customers are responsible for vision
of the project. And coders are responsible
for making of the code. This way projects
are grown, they are never wrong, and if they are,
that can be easely adjusted on early stages.
In most companies focus is wrong - they try to
get everything done and make a shiny thing for
customer, whike XP makes software for customer
that fits them, and maybe not as shiny but more
natural. Architects role therefor is wrong for
99% of the software projects. Customers
shall decide what should go into project and
what should not. They pay by hour for development,
so they shall control it as that, and so they shall
be responsible for results.
Being Architech is partaking in process full of
psychological illensses that are hampering this
industry since the dawn of time. If you wish
perpetuate that, do proceed with going up.Otherwise
start looking for small companies that will listen
to you as an expert. Start by reading XP series
books.
Everyone struggles for power in US. Its like a
disease. The more power you have the more power
people around you want. If you track US congress
legend on what kind of draconian laws were
attempted to be moved through there, these will
look dismal. At all times someone was trying to
make up a law that would benefit one small priviliged group, and congress has responsibility
to pick it apart and see if it's good for people
who elected congress officials.
There will be relentless onset into queue of
stupid laws and provisions, and there will be
quite more. Why? Because someone screwed up and
wants to restate their righteousness...
delayed releasing of exploit is only way to force sysadmins and companies to patch software. Otherwise you have these holes anyone, including government can exploit to do whatever they want to. There's no real reason to belive that exploit will be written by someone else, but if it is already available you got to eddy up and do the software release again.
p.
what does it mean to me? More employment. I don't care if companies are forced to write unportable software, and then suffer. They could've went the other way and made it modular,and just invest a bit into software adjustments for "next great big fun software platform".
I have played around with linux for 5 years now, since 1.0 came out. Many here can boast compiling.95 probably as well. However, because people are really gonna be thinking what they will be spending money on... they will listen to techies. And to those who offer leaner cheaper software that runs on less hardware, and scales well. I think it is all for the better.
The business is what makes production stuff, and if they can man more money, they will. To make more money via controlling devices(whichever) is to lock down rights of a user, so to make people buy more. Make money out of nothing is the paramount of business. Questions wether users may strike back and use controls to their own advantage is somewhat valid, but evolutionary one. Everyone can guess, but no one can predict. Guesses that are in same direction are lucky.
My guess is, media controls are swing of large media to make more money, rape the customer, before they go out of existance. Whats more, is that media controls encourage waste, digital and physical one. If CD plays only 3 times, I have to throw it out. That would contribute to already large amounts of waste this world produces.
If I can hear song three times, I have to redownload it, and bandwidth is not free(network admins have to eat too). My contention is that maybe if media control systems are there, and open for everyone to use, then small artists can gain from that, combining digital control and digital revolution. Truth is, corporations will impose a certain way of media control, patent it, and quash anyone who uses it and does not pay licence fees. Thus artists who are not part of RIAA would be extorted from income, ability to make, record and sell music that most common media players will play.
Its like guns. One way they are evil, the other they can balance power between government and people. Just a technology.
p.
That will become taxing and will arbitrarily change over time, as staff at W3C changes. If it is a straight fee than they that can be set in stone. When you talk percents companies can whine and complain how much they loose and how much they would hate stop paying this particular person in W3C, and nice round sum of money, so it will be subject to change.
I do not say that preset fees are less changeable, but notion of percents is just too vague, and I would feel it will be more liek a tax than anything else.
p.
C is intended to be a high level assembler. Commercial compilers were always lower quality as they did not address issues of developers that were doing some cutting edge research(aka: Linux,Embedded programming.) Guess they are alright. However, I will not use it, because I am sure sony will make me sign NDA that will sign over my propery and my soul over to sony in case of any unorthodox situation. And another thing, I will have to learn a new compiler.
I would say making GCC for PS2 is better idea overall, because people will be able to compile their configure stuff just by itself. Sure it can be there, but ones who do not wish to follow the movement, they want to splice it, and it is unacceptable, especially with such essetial things like compilers.
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Paypal is somewhat of a pain to use, especially for real time transactions... the way it works:
1. customer deposits cash to your cgi
2. cgi redirects user browser to paypal site with appropriate information, which includes callback url.
3. User dances around and then completes transaction.
4. Paypal when confirmed transaction submits on POST https request to you a completed transaction details - on return URL, you must call back to paypal, to verify that transaction is not a hoax.
5. Transaction is done, you have the money, so you reimburse user in goods and services in completed amount.
Trouble is, there is TWO urls, one is RETURN url and other is POST url. Paypal will post transaction details to POST url in some arbitrary length of time, while user will got to REDIRECT url right away. This poses a problem for web services, fact that money is not on website when user IS!
I have yet to see a good (from technical point of view) implementation of web cash services.
2c
Sun has definately is omnious in its presence on unix market, but their contributions to unix communities, while cool for programmers - were not for sysadmin. RPC, NFS and NIS(+) were some the most exploted system blocks, running right behind bind and sendmail. Going to next point, does industrial strength means free gateways for hackers scanning cable and xDSL address ranges?
2c
From my understanding of the world, our governments do not want other nations become powerful, riding our information technology wave.
When we heal and feed the poor all we do is rememdy results of the core cause. If we address the causes, then on some stretch of time we will be stopping to fight the effects.
So yes there is a need for such programs of bringing in neworks and communications into those countries. Once there is networks, there will be communication and learning and therefor prosperity and freedom, until then its like fighting fires when not even trying to catch arsenist that causes them. Futile at best.
p.
This article say this and that is wrong with automake & friends. Maybe it does have problems,
however I have problem with me maintaining a
file for dozen types of different systems.
Systems that automake does not work on either:
1. windows
2. dead Unix, from 1985 or something.
Preaching that OH, this thing does not work, does not help, esp. in light that most Unixes where hightly incompatible and braindead. It just reinstating the obvious.
What would be helpful is for more people to use automake, so that there will be pressures to address know issues, instead of spending eons writing articles and maintaining thousands of
makefiles for every braindead OS there is.
Please use automake, unless your department uses things like SunOS, HP-UX and SCO. In any case,
using or not using automake & friends, you will be on the road to hell, you will just have to choose the way. Oh, and 'make' on those machines probably won't read your make files properly either.
Shortest resistance path is GNUfication of development/installation environment, but that might not be kosher with sysadmins...
Panasonic just release a fine CD MP3 player.
I think there are distinctly two lines here:
1. Stallman Ideas are communist - no relation to way USSR implemented its ideas of communism. Rather an original idea of communism.
2. Other opensource licences are 'socialism' with fragments of communism, here and there. See Finland, other european contries.
Taken that, I think it is a disservice Tim doing for the public, trying to confuse them and make public analyse each of the licences. Why? Because most public is not able, interested or have time to pick apart lawyer made contraptions. Now if he was to say that BSD licence is good, here's why, that would let common programmers understand advantages of either and pick one.
Business being a thing that will consume anything to grow, opensource licences are usable and possibly exploitable under some circuimstances, while GPL is least exploitable - AFAIK.
Start coversion of the internet over to IPv6.
But do it the smart way. Make strict standards,
derived from the IPv6 standard. Create certifications.
That will make sure that PHBs will buy into it.
Strict standards will allow for flow controls,
and massive genetic system that will detect influx
of copious data and manage network nodes to cut
it down. 128 bit address space will allow to
idenetify every computer. Strict certification
rules for the routers will ensure that network
is protected and is still open to the public!
Now there are negative possiblities here.
Government may create standards that will require
backdoors, and advertise these as the most
secure for the people's networks. As usual PHBs
will ignore utter cries of their employees and
buy equipment enmasse. IPv6 shall eliminate
generally most of vulnerablities. Stacks though
are not many in IPv6.
this could be really really good, or just horrendous...
p.
lint - is name of it. And it was made 20 years ago.
p.
Dark matter for physicists, murky patches of net for CS types?
> Arbor Networks' researchers went to the mail logs of a local ISP and compared several thousand unique mail sources with "murky" addresses spotted in their monitoring. They found that 30 of those addresses sprang into existence shortly before sending the email, and quickly vanished afterwards.
Murky alright, frickin' SPAMMERS using dialup accounts. Article emphasizes obvious, rides on ignorance of uncouth. UUCP is of same type, does
it mean that net was not connected in those days
either? How about that one: http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/writeup.html
p.
> No degree is going to automatically finish your career for you. A degree is a beginning, not an end.
Funny you'd say that. We just laid off two PhDs
three Masters people. Whos running the show? Uneducated uncouth, self taught hackers, or so you would see it.
Getting education may lull you into sense of being actually good at something while you are not. Don't. =)
Find your learning style and follow up on that. Books are your best friends, offering cohesive information on stuff.
FINISH THE SCHOOL - doing otherwise would prove that you have not learnt anything in school.
I have not passed any formal education, and I passed interview test from 30 people. That means I am actually good at software development.
Yes, terrorist action plans, schedules and use
microsoft outlook to do all organizations... Not!
They talk in darkness of inner city corners, they
infer future plans five years ahead. Whole thing that they did this over internet, then shutdown
their laptops and crashed two planes is ludicrous.
Law officals use communication, these people do not.
Bin ladden, does not communicate with cells all that often maybe twice in lifetime. So by default if I was in vicinity if bin ladden, I would be considered a terrorist. These laws are feeble
attempt at catching something that is us but is not. By definition they define terrorists as cancer, then summon armies to fight them. Things
like that do not happen. This was all orchestrated for the good of countrie's collapsing economy. Believe it or not.
p.
Here come to mind:
$browser_id = join('',map({chr(int(rand(127)))} (' ')x50));
or something of the sort, to quash anything
spying on you.
You have clearly did not try XP, and it is clear you have established yourself as well respected software designer. Whatever that means. Because of people like you software development has to be expensive and often customers do not get what they need to solve their problems. And yes, most projects don't need to be engeneered down to components. People like you create inefficencies in software process, because you don't see the * REAL * issues with project, just some lofty goal making programmers run around doing code that will be thrown out or unused in future because you have miscommunicated with customer, and customer ultimately paid for the feature. I ALL compaies I have worked so far, if someone stood from outside there would be a question asked - what the fuck does this company do? It has been here for 5 years, yet they have managed to write just two programs. Most people above programmers contribute to broken telephone effect, hence most companies fail. And no I am not a manager, and never want to be one, but maybe if I do coding at least 60% of the time.
Clearly you were a bad programmer and migrated to being manager by being a senior. Thats bad news for company you are working for.
2c
> Good architects are rare. Great architects are exceptionaly rare.
Bzzt! Few people have ability to make themselves
irreplaceable. Target is to make people replaceable
and places easy to work. Make projects fasttrack,
and be there on date, and be quality dependent.
Reduce stress levels, and put project support
on people strongest points, not weakest - XP.
Unique people often are hightly opinionated,
get in way of actually doing things. After all that
company does not benefit from them.
Exactly 2 cents worth, you corporate monger.
There's nothing wrong with corporations, but as
many here fail to see, most computer companies
fail, because they are organized with wrong
structure in mind. Companies build products, on
single request of head person. Basically a request
comes in and so the project begins. In
present structure, decisions are made high above
people, such as taking out that button, or taking
this screen away and moving it here. There's
not consultancy with people who will receive the
end products, because they are considered consumers,
dumb and not knowing what they want.
Company shall provide consumers with service - thats not what most do. They build software,
and shove it down customer's throat.
Furthermore - programmers, are seen as a cement
mixers - ones who just need to know how to type,
and they will make something. Programmers are of
least importance in corporate structure.
People come from other places and expect
programmers to be like factory workers or
journalists - make a volume, and you will be
qualified for high salary.
It's a nightmare. Its like everyone is confused,
in denial on what needs to be done, or even
does not know what needs to be done, so they
make it up!!!
Way to eliminate problems as earlier poster said
is way of XP. Where managers are merely communication
inducers. Customers are responsible for vision
of the project. And coders are responsible
for making of the code. This way projects
are grown, they are never wrong, and if they are,
that can be easely adjusted on early stages.
In most companies focus is wrong - they try to
get everything done and make a shiny thing for
customer, whike XP makes software for customer
that fits them, and maybe not as shiny but more
natural. Architects role therefor is wrong for
99% of the software projects. Customers
shall decide what should go into project and
what should not. They pay by hour for development,
so they shall control it as that, and so they shall
be responsible for results.
Being Architech is partaking in process full of
psychological illensses that are hampering this
industry since the dawn of time. If you wish
perpetuate that, do proceed with going up.Otherwise
start looking for small companies that will listen
to you as an expert. Start by reading XP series
books.
http://www.extremeprogramming.org/
Everyone struggles for power in US. Its like a
disease. The more power you have the more power
people around you want. If you track US congress
legend on what kind of draconian laws were
attempted to be moved through there, these will
look dismal. At all times someone was trying to
make up a law that would benefit one small priviliged group, and congress has responsibility
to pick it apart and see if it's good for people
who elected congress officials.
There will be relentless onset into queue of
stupid laws and provisions, and there will be
quite more. Why? Because someone screwed up and
wants to restate their righteousness...
delayed releasing of exploit is only way to force sysadmins and companies to patch software. Otherwise you have these holes anyone, including government can exploit to do whatever they want to. There's no real reason to belive that exploit will be written by someone else, but if it is already available you got to eddy up and do the software release again.
p.
what does it mean to me? More employment. I don't care if companies are forced to write unportable software, and then suffer. They could've went the other way and made it modular,and just invest a bit into software adjustments for "next great big fun software platform".
.95 probably as well. However, because people are really gonna be thinking what they will be spending money on... they will listen to techies. And to those who offer leaner cheaper software that runs on less hardware, and scales well. I think it is all for the better.
I have played around with linux for 5 years now, since 1.0 came out. Many here can boast compiling
Lament that.
The business is what makes production stuff, and if they can man more money, they will. To make more money via controlling devices(whichever) is to lock down rights of a user, so to make people buy more. Make money out of nothing is the paramount of business. Questions wether users may strike back and use controls to their own advantage is somewhat valid, but evolutionary one. Everyone can guess, but no one can predict. Guesses that are in same direction are lucky.
My guess is, media controls are swing of large media to make more money, rape the customer, before they go out of existance. Whats more, is that media controls encourage waste, digital and physical one. If CD plays only 3 times, I have to throw it out. That would contribute to already large amounts of waste this world produces.
If I can hear song three times, I have to redownload it, and bandwidth is not free(network admins have to eat too). My contention is that maybe if media control systems are there, and open for everyone to use, then small artists can gain from that, combining digital control and digital revolution. Truth is, corporations will impose a certain way of media control, patent it, and quash anyone who uses it and does not pay licence fees. Thus artists who are not part of RIAA would be extorted from income, ability to make, record and sell music that most common media players will play.
Its like guns. One way they are evil, the other they can balance power between government and people. Just a technology.
p.
Flying saucer ! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaa!!.... oh Wait its domino-fly-hot-home pizza, brought to you by NASA.
p.
That will become taxing and will arbitrarily change over time, as staff at W3C changes. If it is a straight fee than they that can be set in stone. When you talk percents companies can whine and complain how much they loose and how much they would hate stop paying this particular person in W3C, and nice round sum of money, so it will be subject to change.
I do not say that preset fees are less changeable, but notion of percents is just too vague, and I would feel it will be more liek a tax than anything else.
p.
C is intended to be a high level assembler. Commercial compilers were always lower quality as they did not address issues of developers that were doing some cutting edge research(aka: Linux,Embedded programming.) Guess they are alright. However, I will not use it, because I am sure sony will make me sign NDA that will sign over my propery and my soul over to sony in case of any unorthodox situation. And another thing, I will have to learn a new compiler.
I would say making GCC for PS2 is better idea overall, because people will be able to compile their configure stuff just by itself. Sure it can be there, but ones who do not wish to follow the movement, they want to splice it, and it is unacceptable, especially with such essetial things like compilers.
p.
*Zap* Can't see *Zap* stupid *Zap* letters.*Zap* *Ka-BOOM*!
I had drive failure, replaced it, now some 6m
down the road its all good and dandy.
Just got 60GXP 60 Gig drive. If it fails, here I come IBM!
Everyone has these time periods. Maxtor got its name as Mightstor for a reason.