My point is, node.js might itself be fine, but when the software that relies on it is so badly broken as this,
very true for the "npm" constellation, and possibly for the particular projects/products you have experienced. but this just reflects that it's a new platform and a hyperactive ecosystem. sure it has it's fair share of hipster crap, but just keep looking, there's quite solid stuff too. and there is a lot you can do with pure node.
besides, running java applications on linux has sufferd the very same problems for years (hell, it still does sometimes!), even when java was more mature back then than node is now. and you sure will remember what a complete dependency nightmare java was before maven was adopted.
The amateurish approach to the software using it taints it.
well, i'd say just avoid that software and... it's my impression that you are overestimating what "professional" means nowadays.:-)
this is not about applets, which have been dead for years already. it's about javascript as back-end platform.
but TFA (without reading it) is pure nonsense. back-end js (= node.js/io.js) is very interesting but far from competing with java. java's installed base is simply too big to even speak of that, and the paradigm shift is also considerable: node.js is based on monothreading and non-blocking io, a completely different model. it's also very new technology just emerging. but still a very interesting architecture. it's also much more fun and exciting.:)
i guess we have about 4-5 years of fun ahead until node gets it's share of certifications and "experts" and best practice bullshit, and until someone comes up with some moronic idea like java's generics (yes, 1.5 already signalled java's decadence and oracle had nothing to do with it (imagine!)) and everything starts to rot and turns to yet another boring, stupid, ugly cobol, sorry, i meant java. industry never had a heart. but we irredent coders do!
i actually meant better as in designed for collaboration from the start.
which is what was asked for. and it's pretty obvious that these users *need* to start doing things differently.
*troll mode*
someone might also consider a plus to get rid of the load of superflous and bloated crap that ms has piled for years on top of basic table, text and graphic processing, which is what people usually needs. but then someone might have some very bizarre use case (*) and want to call that 'features', then it's clearly not for him.
* i routinely have to refuse to accept documents, prompting the source to reformat them, get rid of incompatible crap or provide them as html or plain text or even pdf or else get lost. they get it, i usually only have to ask once. of course, this depends on being in a work environment where the focus is on communication and content and where you can reasonably expect your collaborators to not act like psychotic monkeys in microsoftofficeland and produce content that can be also shared outside of that zoo, ymmv.
doesn't solve concurrent edits = you have no single source of information = you can't just pick the last.
i don't think their problem is solvable just with tools. they need to understand collaborative workflow: you either block or are prepared to merge often. i don't know of any such tool that doesn't require a minimum of training and thought. i've heard microsoft claims to have such thing in office 365. and i wouldn't recommend ms to my worst enemy but since it looks like they are on the hook anyway they may as well get raped to the end, won't hurt that much more.
another radical alternative is google docs. yes, sheesh, but better than office.
dunno if you realize that web sites started to spectacularly suck just about the time the UX buzzword came out. i guess real accessibility and usability were too boring and too hard to get right, so the whole UX nonsense was invented. users, you know, will swallow anything you throw at them anyway.
on the topic: what engineering skills??? you're really talking about web development??? just about 1 in 10.000 sites even cares about engineering topics. OP must be smoking waaaaay too much github.
this could be easily added without breaking compatibility. you could even write a preprocessor, if it bothers you that much. it is indeed a big constraint with little or no benefit, but most python users seem not to mind, or even like it. many languages have made some of such arbitrary decisions that are purely idiosyncratic, usually pointless but defended with zeal. if the language has other values you simply live with it or hack your way around.
almost nobody would, this only matters to fb. an ever increasing number of zombie accounts is no good for their business model, since advertisers know that dead people don't buy stuff. i guess by having a small proportion of them tagged they hope to hide the real figures.
If the comment isn't shown by default, then it has been censored. It's as simple as that.
there is a handy slider you can drag all the way to -1, plus a detailed description of how it works. was the first thing i did when i first came to/.
i have to assume that people not moving the slider don't care about not seeing content based on others' criteria. stating that this is censorship would be implying they are too dumb to understand the filter. be my guest.
of course there will be censorship in that not everything submitted will get published, but once it is it's the user's choice. you can't put everything on the front page, and if your audiencie never looks beyond the front page that's a different issue.
To instill terror you have to make people think that the actions depicted will happen to them. So far no-one has been able to make people think "this could happen to me". The kind of videos we are talking about is simply a miscalculation from ISIS
i don't think these displays aim to terrorize western citizens at all. possibly to scare more immediate enemies (so far, most if not all of isis victims have been muslims and that's also true for islamic radicals in general) but above all to appeal to potential followers abroad, showing that they go for real.
of course for the west it's just another perfect story for warmongers and control freaks to exploit, and of course they do. after all isis (or al qaeda for that matter) didn't come into existence spontaneously out of thin air.
it's food group vs environment. chicken salad performs lousy in data centers but is all the rage in the software engineering department. never been to a sprint planning meeting?
i have trouble grasping how having something implanted into your body qualifies as "comfort". even more so removing it, should you ever have/want to. i also fail to see how this should be a requirement for security. so your definition of comfort here seems to come down to "not having to carry an id". you know... i think you are not so smart as you think you are, and i'm ok with people like you getting themselves branded. go on.
phones are designed and marketed for exactly the opposite of what you are asking for. all of them. also, phones are today the most used devices for browsing, and counting. that should give you a rough idea of where the internet is heading, and why you are asking the wrong question.
One of my guys is an engineering rock star. He can pick up any language given a week or two to sit down with it.
bollocks. two weeks into a *new* language you are still programming modula in that language. i'm not saying this is always useless, but that's not a rock star, it will always be poor quality code.
On top of that he is an excellent systems administrator, DBA, networking guy and project manager. Retention is a constant challenge
more spectacular bollocks demonstrating that he just happens to be the guy you feel comfortable with and he managed to make himself appear indispensable. and that just unfolds how industry (specially corporate industry) works: a bunch people covering each other's asses. which is also fine but... oh, this constant bollocks to reinforce the farce, gets on one's nerves...
this also pretty well explains another discussion proposed in this thread: how the asshole infestations actually work. if you hire an asshole it is relatively easy to get rid of him once you spot him. but once you have an asshole in a sufficiently high management position, given enough time you are guarranteed to end up with a stable system full of assholes. new hires which aren't assholes will leave in weeks/months and you will have high rotation at the base, but assholes will stick around and since your ass is covered you will feel fine.
i don't think apple overtook ms at all, their respective peaks are just shifted in time. proportionally ms has actually had an impact on market and society orders of magnitude bigger than apple has ever had. it's just ms stopped cutting it a long time ago, imho because they started to worry more about maintaining their dominance at all costs than about providing new and interesting stuff for the people. like apple seems to be starting to do now, by the way (if you can say that apple has any dominance to maintain whatsoever, of course).
corporations, you know... they may have their moments, but in the long run all of them are bullshit.
you are correct in that there is no consensus. yet everybody "sort of knows". just like everybody knows there is no god, but many people just want to believe there is, because they feel they need that notion in their lives. justice is a fundamental requirement for society, so we have a hard time accepting our justice is moot, arbitrary and biased towards the powerful, because that would mean our democracy is a lie, and is in danger. people desperately wants to believe in justice. but we do know what it actually is, even if some, just like you, don't want to hear about it.
i just highlighted a well known simple fact, that a failing system triggers a response.
it's pretty amusing that i have harvested so many enthusiastic opinions! seems there is interest in justice after all! however, if nothing changes it will still continue to happen...
bottom line is: there is no peace without justice, and justice today is just basic crowd control and the standard means of legitimation of the elite and their atrocities. justice just isn't blind, so it's no justice, and everybody sort of knows it. this isn't sustainable. either we change this fundamentally, once and for all, or we will be just digging our way through hell into oblivion.
this is just one instance, one symptom of a wider issue. for you to have a point there should be a justice system generally recognized as such. there isn't, and when justice systematically fails to protect the weak people will start taking issues on with their own hands. sure, bad things will happen, but it's inevitable and the first error is having it let come to this.
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My point is, node.js might itself be fine, but when the software that relies on it is so badly broken as this,
very true for the "npm" constellation, and possibly for the particular projects/products you have experienced. but this just reflects that it's a new platform and a hyperactive ecosystem. sure it has it's fair share of hipster crap, but just keep looking, there's quite solid stuff too. and there is a lot you can do with pure node.
besides, running java applications on linux has sufferd the very same problems for years (hell, it still does sometimes!), even when java was more mature back then than node is now. and you sure will remember what a complete dependency nightmare java was before maven was adopted.
The amateurish approach to the software using it taints it.
well, i'd say just avoid that software and ... it's my impression that you are overestimating what "professional" means nowadays. :-)
this is not about applets, which have been dead for years already. it's about javascript as back-end platform.
but TFA (without reading it) is pure nonsense. back-end js (= node.js/io.js) is very interesting but far from competing with java. java's installed base is simply too big to even speak of that, and the paradigm shift is also considerable: node.js is based on monothreading and non-blocking io, a completely different model. it's also very new technology just emerging. but still a very interesting architecture. it's also much more fun and exciting. :)
i guess we have about 4-5 years of fun ahead until node gets it's share of certifications and "experts" and best practice bullshit, and until someone comes up with some moronic idea like java's generics (yes, 1.5 already signalled java's decadence and oracle had nothing to do with it (imagine!)) and everything starts to rot and turns to yet another boring, stupid, ugly cobol, sorry, i meant java. industry never had a heart. but we irredent coders do!
i actually meant better as in designed for collaboration from the start.
which is what was asked for. and it's pretty obvious that these users *need* to start doing things differently.
*troll mode*
someone might also consider a plus to get rid of the load of superflous and bloated crap that ms has piled for years on top of basic table, text and graphic processing, which is what people usually needs. but then someone might have some very bizarre use case (*) and want to call that 'features', then it's clearly not for him.
* i routinely have to refuse to accept documents, prompting the source to reformat them, get rid of incompatible crap or provide them as html or plain text or even pdf or else get lost. they get it, i usually only have to ask once. of course, this depends on being in a work environment where the focus is on communication and content and where you can reasonably expect your collaborators to not act like psychotic monkeys in microsoftofficeland and produce content that can be also shared outside of that zoo, ymmv.
chance. next.
doesn't solve concurrent edits = you have no single source of information = you can't just pick the last.
i don't think their problem is solvable just with tools. they need to understand collaborative workflow: you either block or are prepared to merge often. i don't know of any such tool that doesn't require a minimum of training and thought. i've heard microsoft claims to have such thing in office 365. and i wouldn't recommend ms to my worst enemy but since it looks like they are on the hook anyway they may as well get raped to the end, won't hurt that much more.
another radical alternative is google docs. yes, sheesh, but better than office.
dunno if you realize that web sites started to spectacularly suck just about the time the UX buzzword came out. i guess real accessibility and usability were too boring and too hard to get right, so the whole UX nonsense was invented. users, you know, will swallow anything you throw at them anyway.
on the topic: what engineering skills??? you're really talking about web development??? just about 1 in 10.000 sites even cares about engineering topics. OP must be smoking waaaaay too much github.
it should have been optional
this could be easily added without breaking compatibility. you could even write a preprocessor, if it bothers you that much. it is indeed a big constraint with little or no benefit, but most python users seem not to mind, or even like it. many languages have made some of such arbitrary decisions that are purely idiosyncratic, usually pointless but defended with zeal. if the language has other values you simply live with it or hack your way around.
DBA's do not appreciate having to remove your stupid escape characters rather than simply copying and pasting the query you wrote.
what's the point of having a dba simply copypasting the queries you write?
almost nobody would, this only matters to fb. an ever increasing number of zombie accounts is no good for their business model, since advertisers know that dead people don't buy stuff. i guess by having a small proportion of them tagged they hope to hide the real figures.
while I'm probably going to switch to CrunchBang...
you probably won't: http://crunchbang.org/forums/v...
If the comment isn't shown by default, then it has been censored. It's as simple as that.
there is a handy slider you can drag all the way to -1, plus a detailed description of how it works. was the first thing i did when i first came to /.
i have to assume that people not moving the slider don't care about not seeing content based on others' criteria. stating that this is censorship would be implying they are too dumb to understand the filter. be my guest.
of course there will be censorship in that not everything submitted will get published, but once it is it's the user's choice. you can't put everything on the front page, and if your audiencie never looks beyond the front page that's a different issue.
To instill terror you have to make people think that the actions depicted will happen to them.
So far no-one has been able to make people think "this could happen to me".
The kind of videos we are talking about is simply a miscalculation from ISIS
i don't think these displays aim to terrorize western citizens at all. possibly to scare more immediate enemies (so far, most if not all of isis victims have been muslims and that's also true for islamic radicals in general) but above all to appeal to potential followers abroad, showing that they go for real.
of course for the west it's just another perfect story for warmongers and control freaks to exploit, and of course they do. after all isis (or al qaeda for that matter) didn't come into existence spontaneously out of thin air.
We still use CDs. They are compatible with more systems than USB sticks or memory cards.
plus hey aren't nearly as much of a security hazard ...
it's food group vs environment. chicken salad performs lousy in data centers but is all the rage in the software engineering department. never been to a sprint planning meeting?
i have trouble grasping how having something implanted into your body qualifies as "comfort". even more so removing it, should you ever have/want to. i also fail to see how this should be a requirement for security. so your definition of comfort here seems to come down to "not having to carry an id". you know ... i think you are not so smart as you think you are, and i'm ok with people like you getting themselves branded. go on.
scandinavians tend to have high confidence in their government institutions. for a reason. but yes, this pushes it a bit too far.
phones are designed and marketed for exactly the opposite of what you are asking for. all of them. also, phones are today the most used devices for browsing, and counting. that should give you a rough idea of where the internet is heading, and why you are asking the wrong question.
Who the fuck are you ...
hi. i am "znrt" for you and you should chill, you are going from bullshitter to total psycho in just two posts. think of your reputation!
One of my guys is an engineering rock star. He can pick up any language given a week or two to sit down with it.
bollocks.
two weeks into a *new* language you are still programming modula in that language. i'm not saying this is always useless, but that's not a rock star, it will always be poor quality code.
On top of that he is an excellent systems administrator, DBA, networking guy and project manager. Retention is a constant challenge
more spectacular bollocks demonstrating that he just happens to be the guy you feel comfortable with and he managed to make himself appear indispensable. and that just unfolds how industry (specially corporate industry) works: a bunch people covering each other's asses. which is also fine but ... oh, this constant bollocks to reinforce the farce, gets on one's nerves ...
this also pretty well explains another discussion proposed in this thread: how the asshole infestations actually work. if you hire an asshole it is relatively easy to get rid of him once you spot him. but once you have an asshole in a sufficiently high management position, given enough time you are guarranteed to end up with a stable system full of assholes. new hires which aren't assholes will leave in weeks/months and you will have high rotation at the base, but assholes will stick around and since your ass is covered you will feel fine.
i don't think apple overtook ms at all, their respective peaks are just shifted in time. proportionally ms has actually had an impact on market and society orders of magnitude bigger than apple has ever had. it's just ms stopped cutting it a long time ago, imho because they started to worry more about maintaining their dominance at all costs than about providing new and interesting stuff for the people. like apple seems to be starting to do now, by the way (if you can say that apple has any dominance to maintain whatsoever, of course).
corporations, you know ... they may have their moments, but in the long run all of them are bullshit.
emacs or autocad are news to you?
you are correct in that there is no consensus. yet everybody "sort of knows". just like everybody knows there is no god, but many people just want to believe there is, because they feel they need that notion in their lives. justice is a fundamental requirement for society, so we have a hard time accepting our justice is moot, arbitrary and biased towards the powerful, because that would mean our democracy is a lie, and is in danger. people desperately wants to believe in justice. but we do know what it actually is, even if some, just like you, don't want to hear about it.
i just highlighted a well known simple fact, that a failing system triggers a response.
it's pretty amusing that i have harvested so many enthusiastic opinions! seems there is interest in justice after all! however, if nothing changes it will still continue to happen ...
bottom line is: there is no peace without justice, and justice today is just basic crowd control and the standard means of legitimation of the elite and their atrocities. justice just isn't blind, so it's no justice, and everybody sort of knows it. this isn't sustainable. either we change this fundamentally, once and for all, or we will be just digging our way through hell into oblivion.
this is just one instance, one symptom of a wider issue. for you to have a point there should be a justice system generally recognized as such. there isn't, and when justice systematically fails to protect the weak people will start taking issues on with their own hands. sure, bad things will happen, but it's inevitable and the first error is having it let come to this.
then you are the problem. no hard feelings, life's a bitch, i know.