not because it's such a great language - it's good alright, but no better than a lot of others - but because when you need to do something, you can be almost certain there's an easy-to-use module to do exactly what you need out there.
and their followers - as with reality-TV participants and fans - is, when someone mentions them, people with more than 2 brain cells immediately know whom not to interact socially with. They're a great way to out idiots who must be avoided at all costs.
Wow, color me impressed... I'm sure the Eskimos will love to learn how much progress we managed to make in 33 years when they'll get to sunbathe on the arctic beaches in 2060. But hey, at least they won't get skin cancer: the ozone layer will be all fixed up by then.
Time to sell the Roomba. Back to the good ole vacuum.
It's amazing the number of things I used to use that I gave up on because Google bought the company that made it to data-rape the user base. The richer Google gets, the more ubiquitous it gets, and the harder it becomes to avoid interacting with this leech of a company...
it works only if the practicioners (teachers or coders) are phenomenally good. That is to say, in the real world where most teachers or coders are average, most of the times it doesn't. That's why there are so many failed Agile projects out there, for the odd one that functions well.
I thought the development world had realized that by now: are we still under the spell of this fad?? Jeez... Some things just refuse to die.
Don't stick a tablet in your kids' arms to "entertain" them (another word for "keep them quiet and have some peace" for many parents). Play board games with them. Buy them Legos or Playmobiles. That will develop their curiosity and their imagination - something electronic games don't do.
Only when they're old enough to understand the ugly world of big data, online scammers, profiteers and pedo predators, and you've tought them a healthy dose of cynicism and paranoia on the internet, should you introduce them to the craptastic world of free online games...
But I bet you anything they won't include an option to override unsafe TLS versions warning, and that sucks.
In some cases, there are good reasons to visit unsafe "sites" with expired certificates, that rely on TLS 1.0, or running older Java apps that use deprecated encryption algorithms. For instance, in my company, we have over 8,000 deployed servers with various versions of Dell DRAC (versions 5, 6 and 7) that are still perfectly serviceable, but that have become a massive pain in the butt to access with modern web browsers and newer JREs: some browsers just won't allow you to "visit the page anyway" (i.e. Firefox) and newer Java versions require a bunch of really annoying privacy configurations and a slew of impossible-to-disable warning popups to let older apps runs - despite the damn DRAC apps running quite safely behind our perfectly secure corporate VPN. It's become so annoying we now distribute a dedicated Virtualbox VM with an outdated Linux distro just to be able to access older DRACs quickly.
In short, I wish developers stopped thinking they know what's good for you 100% of the time, and at least offered a configuration option to allow older, unsafe protocols to be used painlessly - even if the configuration option is difficult to set or hard to find, so long as it exists and it can be set once and for all. But they don't, because they they think they know better...
Google, a company knows for its unquenchable thirst for your personal data, proposes a virus scanning service that only requires you to let them read the entirety of your files.
I don't know... If Ricky Martin opened an online shoe business only requiring you to send photos of your feet to determine your shoe size, would you send him?
You can use your own server - and on a dynamically-allocated IP too. That too is a major selling point for me, and why I chose the Mictrack devices. I use a plain-jane Traccar server which recognizes the Mictrack protocol just fine.
So, if anybody is interested in GPS devices that phone home and let you recover your property with or without a central server, I wholeheartedly recommend Mictrack products: I personally use the MT600 in all my vehicles with great success, and despite being a Chinese company, their customer support is top-notch. And believe me, I've tried a lot of GPS trackers before settling on this company.
There. I'm hoping this will provide some advertising balance...
The only thing Amazon is pissed of at here is that they're not the ones turning a profit selling the metrics. It's just a matter of employees stealing and reselling company property. That's all. The story is no different from (and no more interesting than) McDonald's employees cooking and selling fries for themselves.
- 80% are ads, web trackers and other malware - 10% are useless eye candy that waste time and CPU - 5% are misguided attempts to turn web browsers into terminals and bypassing HTML as much as possible, that usually result in unusable interfaces that don't behave properly and waste CPU - 5% are actually useful on the pages they're used on
Javascript isn't the problem, it's the developers who foist it on us because they're incompetent, greedy or nefarious. Still, I can't count the number of hours I waste every week trying to find out in Noscript or uBlock the minimal number of scripts I have to allow to access a web page. Fuck Javascript.
Why do you care about the maintainer's personal life choices? As long as they provide software you like and they don't murder someone - thereby stopping maintaining the software you like because they get thrown in the slammer - why should it matter to you whether they wear furry suits or smelly shirts? I mean, most of the world uses software made by a brilliant guy with revolting personal hygiene and nobody bats an eyelid...
We have an Oracle DB for our ERP and our CRM, and we're currently actively investing in a fast-track program to switch database provider for that exact reason: Oracle have been auditing the living daylight out of us lately, asking for tons of extra cash, threatening to drag us to court, and being generally extremely aggressive over features and number of seats they seemed okay to provide as part of our original contract up to about a year ago.
All the other Oracle customers I know are in the same position: they got so tired of Oracle's shenanigans they're all leaving in droves despite the cost.
Little known scientists need an AI to write a Wikipedia entry about them. Yet there are plenty of humans interested in creating Wikipedia pages about any minor sports personality in all languages. Here for instance, I searched an obcure Belgian soccer player in the Finnish version of Wikipedia and found it.
Sport is clearly more important than science it would seem...
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not because it's such a great language - it's good alright, but no better than a lot of others - but because when you need to do something, you can be almost certain there's an easy-to-use module to do exactly what you need out there.
and their followers - as with reality-TV participants and fans - is, when someone mentions them, people with more than 2 brain cells immediately know whom not to interact socially with. They're a great way to out idiots who must be avoided at all costs.
Wow, color me impressed... I'm sure the Eskimos will love to learn how much progress we managed to make in 33 years when they'll get to sunbathe on the arctic beaches in 2060. But hey, at least they won't get skin cancer: the ozone layer will be all fixed up by then.
Yeah humanity!
Time to sell the Roomba. Back to the good ole vacuum.
It's amazing the number of things I used to use that I gave up on because Google bought the company that made it to data-rape the user base. The richer Google gets, the more ubiquitous it gets, and the harder it becomes to avoid interacting with this leech of a company...
it works only if the practicioners (teachers or coders) are phenomenally good. That is to say, in the real world where most teachers or coders are average, most of the times it doesn't. That's why there are so many failed Agile projects out there, for the odd one that functions well.
I thought the development world had realized that by now: are we still under the spell of this fad?? Jeez... Some things just refuse to die.
Don't stick a tablet in your kids' arms to "entertain" them (another word for "keep them quiet and have some peace" for many parents). Play board games with them. Buy them Legos or Playmobiles. That will develop their curiosity and their imagination - something electronic games don't do.
Only when they're old enough to understand the ugly world of big data, online scammers, profiteers and pedo predators, and you've tought them a healthy dose of cynicism and paranoia on the internet, should you introduce them to the craptastic world of free online games...
Thing is, Android is Google's bed. You're in it because they let you.
No. What the DNT setting does is signal to advertisers that the user is naive.
But I bet you anything they won't include an option to override unsafe TLS versions warning, and that sucks.
In some cases, there are good reasons to visit unsafe "sites" with expired certificates, that rely on TLS 1.0, or running older Java apps that use deprecated encryption algorithms. For instance, in my company, we have over 8,000 deployed servers with various versions of Dell DRAC (versions 5, 6 and 7) that are still perfectly serviceable, but that have become a massive pain in the butt to access with modern web browsers and newer JREs: some browsers just won't allow you to "visit the page anyway" (i.e. Firefox) and newer Java versions require a bunch of really annoying privacy configurations and a slew of impossible-to-disable warning popups to let older apps runs - despite the damn DRAC apps running quite safely behind our perfectly secure corporate VPN. It's become so annoying we now distribute a dedicated Virtualbox VM with an outdated Linux distro just to be able to access older DRACs quickly.
In short, I wish developers stopped thinking they know what's good for you 100% of the time, and at least offered a configuration option to allow older, unsafe protocols to be used painlessly - even if the configuration option is difficult to set or hard to find, so long as it exists and it can be set once and for all. But they don't, because they they think they know better...
It's the bubble all over again. Watch out for the burst, like in 2001.
Google, a company knows for its unquenchable thirst for your personal data, proposes a virus scanning service that only requires you to let them read the entirety of your files.
I don't know... If Ricky Martin opened an online shoe business only requiring you to send photos of your feet to determine your shoe size, would you send him?
More like a cartel to me.
Thanks FCC...
That's essentially a life-size Scalextrix. The "intelligence" is entirely contained in the track embedded in the road deck.
You can use your own server - and on a dynamically-allocated IP too. That too is a major selling point for me, and why I chose the Mictrack devices. I use a plain-jane Traccar server which recognizes the Mictrack protocol just fine.
Trouble is, I find astroturfing despicable.
So, if anybody is interested in GPS devices that phone home and let you recover your property with or without a central server, I wholeheartedly recommend Mictrack products: I personally use the MT600 in all my vehicles with great success, and despite being a Chinese company, their customer support is top-notch. And believe me, I've tried a lot of GPS trackers before settling on this company.
There. I'm hoping this will provide some advertising balance...
The only thing Amazon is pissed of at here is that they're not the ones turning a profit selling the metrics. It's just a matter of employees stealing and reselling company property. That's all. The story is no different from (and no more interesting than) McDonald's employees cooking and selling fries for themselves.
Just sayin'...
It's theft too. I hope the bastards get sued.
- 80% are ads, web trackers and other malware
- 10% are useless eye candy that waste time and CPU
- 5% are misguided attempts to turn web browsers into terminals and bypassing HTML as much as possible, that usually result in unusable interfaces that don't behave properly and waste CPU
- 5% are actually useful on the pages they're used on
Javascript isn't the problem, it's the developers who foist it on us because they're incompetent, greedy or nefarious. Still, I can't count the number of hours I waste every week trying to find out in Noscript or uBlock the minimal number of scripts I have to allow to access a web page. Fuck Javascript.
You're amusing: when was Google ever trustworthy?
of unabated browsing history stealing and massive privacy invasion. Yeah Google!
Why do you care about the maintainer's personal life choices? As long as they provide software you like and they don't murder someone - thereby stopping maintaining the software you like because they get thrown in the slammer - why should it matter to you whether they wear furry suits or smelly shirts? I mean, most of the world uses software made by a brilliant guy with revolting personal hygiene and nobody bats an eyelid...
We have an Oracle DB for our ERP and our CRM, and we're currently actively investing in a fast-track program to switch database provider for that exact reason: Oracle have been auditing the living daylight out of us lately, asking for tons of extra cash, threatening to drag us to court, and being generally extremely aggressive over features and number of seats they seemed okay to provide as part of our original contract up to about a year ago.
All the other Oracle customers I know are in the same position: they got so tired of Oracle's shenanigans they're all leaving in droves despite the cost.
Little known scientists need an AI to write a Wikipedia entry about them. Yet there are plenty of humans interested in creating Wikipedia pages about any minor sports personality in all languages. Here for instance, I searched an obcure Belgian soccer player in the Finnish version of Wikipedia and found it.
Sport is clearly more important than science it would seem...
In plain English, Vint cerf wants an internet police.
Fuck that...