I agree whole heartedly with you, but I have to comment on one point- "Otherwise, make them stick to the enumerated powers and made them side with freedom over lobbyist bribes" - freedom doesnt pay anywhere near as well as lobbyist bribes. Our politicians dont care one bit about freedom, liberty, the constitution, or the people. They care about money. If freedom paid well, we'd be the free-est damn place on Earth.
Let's think about how business works - if there are 10 companies doing a particular thing, at any given time, 1 or more will decide that they want to do more of the particular thing. They will then use leverage/bribery/corporate espionage/collusion/etc to acquire 1 or more of the others. Over time, this will continue until the original 10 are consolidated to the lowest number possible to avoid anti-trust/monopoly actions. And, during all of this time, they will continue to produce whatever thing that the general public will most readily consume. This usually entails things of medium to low quality (high quality is expensive and, in the case of tangible products, has a low replacement rate), dumbed down to appeal to the lowest common denominator and mass marketed with loud, brightly colored advertising. This has been the way of things for many years, this will be the way of things for many years to come.
There are a few different models that have managed to squeak by briefly, but theyre rare and often not much better.
Agreed. Frameworks are nice, but I'm finding them to be very very very overused. Take a minute and really look at your project. Does it actually need a framework? Does the use of a framework save enough time in development to justify the additional overhead? If so, is that because you (or the people working on it) have been taught frameworks as opposed to learning actual programming (laugh if you want, I've met far to many people who know a bunch of frameworks, but couldn't write the most basic raw code if their lives depended on it), or because it actually streamlines the development process? The majority of the projects I've worked on haven't actually benefited in any way from the use of a framework when they've been properly evaluated. Not saying yours is the same, but make sure you take a good, long, objective look at it before you decide on something. My $.02, take it or leave it.
From a small, but vocal, group. And it's starting to lose steam. We do ok about getting riled up, but our politicians know full well that the vast majority won't get off the couch, and the few that do will settle down and fall back in line soon enough.
Maybe the company doesn't care, but the people with money on the line will. And when they start to care, the company will start to care. Don't go hacking to try and prove a point, that's just gonna cause you more trouble than it's worth. And if, at the end of the day, no one cares or does anything about it, no sweat off your back.
to fight this? The general public in America is so apathetic anymore that this is inevitable. Sure, we bitch and complain a lot, but when it comes time to actually do anything, nothing materializes. I'm genuinely surprised that the "Occupy" movement has lasted as long as it has, I figured it would fizzle completely in a few days. But, back to the point, this is a bad idea for me, the consumer. I don't give a rat's @ss that cable companies' profits are shrinking. That's not my fault. Put something worth watching on television at a convenient time and I'll sit down and watch it. I'll even watch the commercials. But the fact that I watch little to no network television is solely due to poor decisions on the parts of the providers and studios. Stop paying actors such ridiculous salaries, fire the horrible writers and get people with writing skills and tell compelling stories. Fire the executives that rake in disgusting paychecks and keep demanding dumbed down crap, "reality shows" and bad reboots. But don't tell me that I have to now pay more for my internet because you can't manage your finances like a grown up!
But seriously, what do we do to prevent this from happening? I can cancel my internet.... oh wait, Comcast has a monopoly in my area so I can't leave. I can post a rant on Slashdot.... oh wait, that won't do anything. I can tell my neighbors about this and try to raise awareness, maybe organize a protest.... oh wait, it's America, they'll get all fired up, but never actually get off the couch. I can call my congressman.... oh wait, he's in the cable companies pocket. I can call Comcast and complain... oh wait, they don't give a $hit what I think.
So what do we do? And not just about this, but about a lot of things. Look at the state America is in today, and on pretty much every issue, we the people are backed into a corner and have no real options. Personally, I'm ready to get out the pitchforks and torches.
and take over a company. Not out of greed or a need for power, but to prove a point - that I can run a company at least as well as an "executive". Day after day we hear about absolutely moronic decisions like this being made, and we listen to suits blither on and on about vision and direction (while it's glaringly obvious that they are completely out of touch with reality) and I really, honestly believe that I could walk in and at the very least not do any worse than them. Maybe it's cause I've spent my whole life at the bottom with the rest of the unwashed masses and I still (so naively) believe that a company who listens to its customers (and good common sense) can be more successful that a company who caters to its shareholders whims, maybe I'm just an idiot. But someday, mark my words, I'm gonna weasel my way into a CEO spot and I'm gonna try my damnedest to do something smart! And then I'm gonna get promptly fired and go back to my cubicle and write PHP.
But does it work in IE or does it need browser detection and a bunch of conditionals before it will play nice? Seriously, JS is tolerable when you write it for a "compatible" browser, but once you throw IE into the mix it turns into the code equivalent of a water boarding session
At the risk of riling up the anti-DW crowd, it is a decent environment for writing HTML and JS. I wouldn't touch the WYSIWYG portions if you paid me, and I'm the first to get up in arms when someone claims to be a developer and uses any of that stuff (seriously, if you can't hand code HTML, get out of the pool). But for writing code, it's good. Color coding, code hinting, etc. It's not the best by far, but all Adobe needs to do is add a few features and DW will be the goto application for developers that want to use HTML5. It wouldn't be hard to add some timeline animation stuff in there (didn't they already add something like that?) and that would cover all the bases. I personally feel they're shooting themselves in the foot right now though, and it's a damn shame. Not looking forward to the next few years in the development world, things are gonna get ugly. HTML5 can't do all the things that Flash can, but Flash is now the bastard child that no one wants. Clients are expecting developers to deliver a high end experience, but refusing to let us use the proper technologies. They're hard core on the HTML5 bandwagon without any real understanding of the limits it currently imposes. Maybe it's time to jump ship and pursue embedded controller programming, I heard there's lots of work there
I tried Linux, and here's what I found - I had to dick around with settings and command line (I loved me some command line when I was a kid, but I'm a grown up now and I have better things to do with my time) to get it up and running, I had to jump jump through hoops to get drivers, and when it was all said and done, there really wasn't a whole lot of software. I ended up learning a whole new system just to do the things I was already doing on Windows without any problems. So I tried Mac. And I hated it. It felt like a toy. It felt "soft", like the whole system lagged just a few milliseconds. Not that it wasn't responsive, everything ran consistently, but it seemed like it was trying to slow me down. I just couldn't take it seriously. I still use Snow Leopard for some development, but after a few days of working in that environment, I feel sluggish and weak. Don't get me wrong, I've had some bad experiences with Windows- 98 crashed on me constantly, ME was a disaster (unless it was set up properly, look up mixed driver mode and you'll see), XP SP1 made me cry a few times, and I've heard that Vista was a bloated, sluggish disaster (no personal experience, wouldn't touch that fetid piece of crap with a ten foot pool, even in its current, supposedly decent, state). XP SP2 and 7 have, however, been a joy to work with and I will happily stay with those. Not even remotely excited about 8, the whole "Metro" thing just isn't working for me. If anything, I'll use the OS, but dump Explorer altogether and run LiteStep or something.
people motivated only by personal gain, with little to no working knowledge of the operation, have put in place measures that prevent workers from doing their jobs effectively, without bothering to consult with those workers about how to do things properly. So Los Alamos is being run like pretty much every branch of government and every business in America.
all the linux fanbois i know are always raving about "OMGZ teh linux is uber stable, i only have to reboot every 6.1 years!" and looking down their noses at me as a poor, foolish windows user. youre saying theres something even more stable? those guys must be insufferable
You have a valid point in that people should not be fired for most simple, stupid mistakes. God knows I've made plenty. I'm just saying that dropping the ball on authentication is a pretty big deal. Especially for something like Dropbox. From personal experience where I work, there are lots of simple stupid mistakes that would get me called into an office and reprimanded, theres plenty that would be overlooked, but there are a few that are grounds for immediate release from employment. Problems with authentication is one of them. I would agree with Lt Dan, it probably was a holdover from some testing and so the blame lies on mulitple people/groups. In that case, firing whole teams isn't a reasonable answer, but a solid reprimand across the board to make sure that everyone knows this sort of thing can't happen again would be in order.
Also, I am in idiot. I have a bad habit of making strongly worded statements initially, that, had I taken a little more time to think them through would have come out as a tad more reasonable. It drives my wife nuts.
Seriously, someone needs to have their head roll. Proper authentication is a.) the first thing I learned when doing web programming b.) reasonably simple to put in place c.) so damned important that even for a small website with nothing particularly sensitive, anyone who drops the ball on it should shown the door with swiftness. I really like Dropbox, but they've had some drama lately and I think it's time to look elsewhere
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I agree whole heartedly with you, but I have to comment on one point- "Otherwise, make them stick to the enumerated powers and made them side with freedom over lobbyist bribes" - freedom doesnt pay anywhere near as well as lobbyist bribes. Our politicians dont care one bit about freedom, liberty, the constitution, or the people. They care about money. If freedom paid well, we'd be the free-est damn place on Earth.
Let's think about how business works - if there are 10 companies doing a particular thing, at any given time, 1 or more will decide that they want to do more of the particular thing. They will then use leverage/bribery/corporate espionage/collusion/etc to acquire 1 or more of the others. Over time, this will continue until the original 10 are consolidated to the lowest number possible to avoid anti-trust/monopoly actions. And, during all of this time, they will continue to produce whatever thing that the general public will most readily consume. This usually entails things of medium to low quality (high quality is expensive and, in the case of tangible products, has a low replacement rate), dumbed down to appeal to the lowest common denominator and mass marketed with loud, brightly colored advertising. This has been the way of things for many years, this will be the way of things for many years to come. There are a few different models that have managed to squeak by briefly, but theyre rare and often not much better.
Agreed. Frameworks are nice, but I'm finding them to be very very very overused. Take a minute and really look at your project. Does it actually need a framework? Does the use of a framework save enough time in development to justify the additional overhead? If so, is that because you (or the people working on it) have been taught frameworks as opposed to learning actual programming (laugh if you want, I've met far to many people who know a bunch of frameworks, but couldn't write the most basic raw code if their lives depended on it), or because it actually streamlines the development process? The majority of the projects I've worked on haven't actually benefited in any way from the use of a framework when they've been properly evaluated. Not saying yours is the same, but make sure you take a good, long, objective look at it before you decide on something. My $.02, take it or leave it.
From a small, but vocal, group. And it's starting to lose steam. We do ok about getting riled up, but our politicians know full well that the vast majority won't get off the couch, and the few that do will settle down and fall back in line soon enough.
Maybe the company doesn't care, but the people with money on the line will. And when they start to care, the company will start to care. Don't go hacking to try and prove a point, that's just gonna cause you more trouble than it's worth. And if, at the end of the day, no one cares or does anything about it, no sweat off your back.
to fight this? The general public in America is so apathetic anymore that this is inevitable. Sure, we bitch and complain a lot, but when it comes time to actually do anything, nothing materializes. I'm genuinely surprised that the "Occupy" movement has lasted as long as it has, I figured it would fizzle completely in a few days. But, back to the point, this is a bad idea for me, the consumer. I don't give a rat's @ss that cable companies' profits are shrinking. That's not my fault. Put something worth watching on television at a convenient time and I'll sit down and watch it. I'll even watch the commercials. But the fact that I watch little to no network television is solely due to poor decisions on the parts of the providers and studios. Stop paying actors such ridiculous salaries, fire the horrible writers and get people with writing skills and tell compelling stories. Fire the executives that rake in disgusting paychecks and keep demanding dumbed down crap, "reality shows" and bad reboots. But don't tell me that I have to now pay more for my internet because you can't manage your finances like a grown up! But seriously, what do we do to prevent this from happening? I can cancel my internet.... oh wait, Comcast has a monopoly in my area so I can't leave. I can post a rant on Slashdot.... oh wait, that won't do anything. I can tell my neighbors about this and try to raise awareness, maybe organize a protest.... oh wait, it's America, they'll get all fired up, but never actually get off the couch. I can call my congressman.... oh wait, he's in the cable companies pocket. I can call Comcast and complain... oh wait, they don't give a $hit what I think. So what do we do? And not just about this, but about a lot of things. Look at the state America is in today, and on pretty much every issue, we the people are backed into a corner and have no real options. Personally, I'm ready to get out the pitchforks and torches.
guess ill have to start making friends. damn.
and take over a company. Not out of greed or a need for power, but to prove a point - that I can run a company at least as well as an "executive". Day after day we hear about absolutely moronic decisions like this being made, and we listen to suits blither on and on about vision and direction (while it's glaringly obvious that they are completely out of touch with reality) and I really, honestly believe that I could walk in and at the very least not do any worse than them. Maybe it's cause I've spent my whole life at the bottom with the rest of the unwashed masses and I still (so naively) believe that a company who listens to its customers (and good common sense) can be more successful that a company who caters to its shareholders whims, maybe I'm just an idiot. But someday, mark my words, I'm gonna weasel my way into a CEO spot and I'm gonna try my damnedest to do something smart! And then I'm gonna get promptly fired and go back to my cubicle and write PHP.
But does it work in IE or does it need browser detection and a bunch of conditionals before it will play nice? Seriously, JS is tolerable when you write it for a "compatible" browser, but once you throw IE into the mix it turns into the code equivalent of a water boarding session
i like that, ill have to add that to all my headers
At the risk of riling up the anti-DW crowd, it is a decent environment for writing HTML and JS. I wouldn't touch the WYSIWYG portions if you paid me, and I'm the first to get up in arms when someone claims to be a developer and uses any of that stuff (seriously, if you can't hand code HTML, get out of the pool). But for writing code, it's good. Color coding, code hinting, etc. It's not the best by far, but all Adobe needs to do is add a few features and DW will be the goto application for developers that want to use HTML5. It wouldn't be hard to add some timeline animation stuff in there (didn't they already add something like that?) and that would cover all the bases. I personally feel they're shooting themselves in the foot right now though, and it's a damn shame. Not looking forward to the next few years in the development world, things are gonna get ugly. HTML5 can't do all the things that Flash can, but Flash is now the bastard child that no one wants. Clients are expecting developers to deliver a high end experience, but refusing to let us use the proper technologies. They're hard core on the HTML5 bandwagon without any real understanding of the limits it currently imposes. Maybe it's time to jump ship and pursue embedded controller programming, I heard there's lots of work there
I tried Linux, and here's what I found - I had to dick around with settings and command line (I loved me some command line when I was a kid, but I'm a grown up now and I have better things to do with my time) to get it up and running, I had to jump jump through hoops to get drivers, and when it was all said and done, there really wasn't a whole lot of software. I ended up learning a whole new system just to do the things I was already doing on Windows without any problems. So I tried Mac. And I hated it. It felt like a toy. It felt "soft", like the whole system lagged just a few milliseconds. Not that it wasn't responsive, everything ran consistently, but it seemed like it was trying to slow me down. I just couldn't take it seriously. I still use Snow Leopard for some development, but after a few days of working in that environment, I feel sluggish and weak. Don't get me wrong, I've had some bad experiences with Windows- 98 crashed on me constantly, ME was a disaster (unless it was set up properly, look up mixed driver mode and you'll see), XP SP1 made me cry a few times, and I've heard that Vista was a bloated, sluggish disaster (no personal experience, wouldn't touch that fetid piece of crap with a ten foot pool, even in its current, supposedly decent, state). XP SP2 and 7 have, however, been a joy to work with and I will happily stay with those. Not even remotely excited about 8, the whole "Metro" thing just isn't working for me. If anything, I'll use the OS, but dump Explorer altogether and run LiteStep or something.
people motivated only by personal gain, with little to no working knowledge of the operation, have put in place measures that prevent workers from doing their jobs effectively, without bothering to consult with those workers about how to do things properly. So Los Alamos is being run like pretty much every branch of government and every business in America.
that pretty much sums it up
with pitchforks and torches
all the linux fanbois i know are always raving about "OMGZ teh linux is uber stable, i only have to reboot every 6.1 years!" and looking down their noses at me as a poor, foolish windows user. youre saying theres something even more stable? those guys must be insufferable
there is a serious issue going on lately in IT. sony, dropbox, now groupon. who's next?
I though "meh, doesnt effect me". however, we really have to do something about software patents. this is getting out of hand.
hmmmmmmmmm, not sure how i feel about this.
You have a valid point in that people should not be fired for most simple, stupid mistakes. God knows I've made plenty. I'm just saying that dropping the ball on authentication is a pretty big deal. Especially for something like Dropbox. From personal experience where I work, there are lots of simple stupid mistakes that would get me called into an office and reprimanded, theres plenty that would be overlooked, but there are a few that are grounds for immediate release from employment. Problems with authentication is one of them. I would agree with Lt Dan, it probably was a holdover from some testing and so the blame lies on mulitple people/groups. In that case, firing whole teams isn't a reasonable answer, but a solid reprimand across the board to make sure that everyone knows this sort of thing can't happen again would be in order. Also, I am in idiot. I have a bad habit of making strongly worded statements initially, that, had I taken a little more time to think them through would have come out as a tad more reasonable. It drives my wife nuts.
Seriously, someone needs to have their head roll. Proper authentication is a.) the first thing I learned when doing web programming b.) reasonably simple to put in place c.) so damned important that even for a small website with nothing particularly sensitive, anyone who drops the ball on it should shown the door with swiftness. I really like Dropbox, but they've had some drama lately and I think it's time to look elsewhere
Somebody tell House!