Agree. F-35 program is a nightmare of cost overruns. And restarting the F-22 would be very expensive, too. When will we wake up and realize we've given a blank check to the military?
SOAP is quite widely deployed and yes, it is more complex for the client, but a lot of people have made it work for them. There is not one right way to build a web interface.
I'm glad you like it. But I think you're a minority. And while it may possibly be true that "new users understand and can use the system quickly." anyone who was a previous user of KDE or Gnome is going, WTF? And pissing off your existing user base is not usually a formula for success.
Yeah. It's expensive to live there, but the same is true of most of Silicon Valley. But one of the downsides is certainly a sucky climate - it just doesn't get warm in the summer very much (although there are exceptional days when that does happen). And commuting into San Francisco is possible but from many areas not convenient or fast. I know a senior VP who left his job just because his family was well established in Palo Alto and he got tired of the commute to SF. He didn't consider moving there.
But it is true both parties have supported an unprecedented (at least outside of major wars) expansion of executive branch power and a consequent reduction in civil liberties. There isn't any significant push back from Congress, or from the Judiciary, despite publicized abuses and the fact that the domestic spying apparatus is probably illegal under current law.
A family trust can pass assets to your surviving spouse or other beneficiaries without having to go through probate. (it can provide some tax advantages, too). Put your bank account and other assets, including title to your house, in the name of the trust, and then the trust document controls what happens to them when you die.
Only a very tiny percentage of traffic on the web uses client authentication. Yes, it is secure. But if you have a lot of clients then certificate management becomes a major issue.
Half the trouble I had as a security developer was trying to educate/convince other developers that making an effort in this area was necessary. Some of them weren't familiar with the basic concepts, but even they were, it's hard to drive home the idea of defense in depth. There is a tendency to think that if the information is inside your database, or behind your firewall, or protected by other means, then it's not worth spending a lot more effort in additional protection. But of course, you are one exploit away from having an intruder inside your database, behind your firewall, etc.
Spring has a bunch of good technologies, well worth using if you are in the Java world. IMO it is better at the back-end stuff than managing a Web front end (Spring MVC is pretty widely used but it's probably not the best MVC framework out there). Also, Spring by itself is not a RAD environment. Spring Roo does claim to be such a thing and might be worth a look.
If someone discovered a new biologically harmless but mind-altering drug, it would be made illegal, too. They are banning these things not only, or even primarily, because they are dangerous, but because they get you high.
Microsoft looks, acts, and thinks like a monopoly. Having dealt with fairly senior Microsoft execs and techies personally, I can testify that as far as I could tell, they just "don't get" the idea of open platforms. Open means you cooked up something with a few preselected other vendors, in secrecy, and then released it, probably with onerous conditions and encumbrances.
My wife had a Dell. It worked fine until the battery died and needed replacing. Of course it is a proprietary Dell battery and costs $$$$. Then it died again. And again. So now she has a Mac. The Dell was no bargain.
My first thought was that he had a yen for things that even a VP salary doesn't support (like the gambling habit of a certain former Fry's executive). Or a serious coke habit, maybe. But that doesn't seem to be the case here, at least not according to the reporting so far.
Good points. I remember building their vacuum tube voltmeter kit, which was a beginning kit for a lot of Heathkit enthusiasts. It was difficult! Lots and lots of hand soldering. Later I built the H-89 computer, which was a computer built into the same case used by the H-19 video monitor. Also challenging but could be done in a week or so. Very nice kits, and the quality of the documentation and instructions was legendary.
I knew a guy back in college who had a phobia about chemicals. He couldn't even walk down the grocery aisle that had laundry detergents in it. He was also worried about chemicals such as solvents that he'd encounter in labs, which makes quite a bit of sense because they are dangerous, but he was excessively fearful about them. I don't think he was paranoid schizophrenic, because he wasn't really delusional, and his fears had some grounding. But he had a psychiatric problem of some kind and it was focused on chemicals. He was getting therapy and possibly medication to help him out.
The problem with this book is, anyone who reads it does it through the lens of everything else they know about Hitler and WW II. So it's pretty hard to take anything like an objective look at it. The one thing that is true, is that Germany received a very raw deal at the end of the first World War, and was left with a ruined economy and dismantled army, including a lot of disaffected veterans. And the grievances about this fueled Nazism. But Hitler's view of the world was also colored by a lot of racist gibberish. It is mostly not even original with him but picked up from various sources. And it is gibberish for multiple reasons, one of them being that "race" is a hopelessly fuzzy concept, and also that ancestry doesn't determine character or personality, or other such traits.
Yeah, exactly how are you harmed by somebody doing a close-sourced fork of your code? You aren't benefited by getting to see their further changes. But you aren't exactly harmed.. you still have your original code. Also, if you actually want your software to be used as widely as possible you will license it w/o copyleft. The networking stack your OS is running was probably derived from BSD. If it had a copyleft license, no proprietary software vendor would have touched it, and they'd have had to do their own. That is better for the world, how?
No, he's not. And I know a lot of technies who have a weak grasp of copyright and licensing, despite the fact that some of them think they know about it. This is why companies have lawyers.
Also, we can learn from other countries that being attacked by terrorists does not mean you have to institute a police state, or go off and start a couple of unnecessary wars. We've spend many times the actual cost of the 9/11 attacks trying to protect ourselves from anything like it happening again. But as TFA implies, nobody's asking if the cost exceeds the benefit. And now we have a monstrous national security apparatus and a military-industrial complex more entrenched and extensive than ever before.
The U.K. had terrorist attacks for years, including the fairly horrendous one in London in 2005. But they haven't gone crazy about it, or at least not as crazy as the U.S. has.
RP is right about our military spending. It is just wacko that we spend more now than we did when we had an actual hostile superpower (the USSR) to contend with. He is also right that the government should just butt out of people's private lives (but curiously, he doesn't think women should be able to choose to have abortions). On most other topics, he is a nutter, pure and simple.
Au contraire, I'm quite sure everyone in the casino business knows the house has a built-in edge. And if the marketing side of the house is spending money (e.g. by granting comps) you can bet there is a bean counter deciding that it's an investment worth making.
If you have relevant work experience but not a degree, I'm pretty sure you could still get hired. No experience and no degree, that would be tough.
However, big companies have recruiting departments and corporate recruiters are your worst enemy, because they'll likely filter you out just based on your resume.
Good points. Near 100% uptime is intrinsically hard. And if you think your admins can do it better those at a dedicated cloud hosting provider.. well, maybe they can, but it's a good chance they can't. Get big enough and you can invest in the hardware, network and support resources to do it right, but that's not cheap.
Even if you don't believe ESR should be granted any special credibility as a critic, there is still a widespread and IMO valid idea that there is such a thing as abuse of the Internet. By users, for example (spam). And by governments (censorship). These things offend a lot of people, not just ESR and a few cohorts.
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Agree. F-35 program is a nightmare of cost overruns. And restarting the F-22 would be very expensive, too. When will we wake up and realize we've given a blank check to the military?
SOAP is quite widely deployed and yes, it is more complex for the client, but a lot of people have made it work for them. There is not one right way to build a web interface.
I'm glad you like it. But I think you're a minority. And while it may possibly be true that "new users understand and can use the system quickly." anyone who was a previous user of KDE or Gnome is going, WTF? And pissing off your existing user base is not usually a formula for success.
Yeah. It's expensive to live there, but the same is true of most of Silicon Valley. But one of the downsides is certainly a sucky climate - it just doesn't get warm in the summer very much (although there are exceptional days when that does happen). And commuting into San Francisco is possible but from many areas not convenient or fast. I know a senior VP who left his job just because his family was well established in Palo Alto and he got tired of the commute to SF. He didn't consider moving there.
But it is true both parties have supported an unprecedented (at least outside of major wars) expansion of executive branch power and a consequent reduction in civil liberties. There isn't any significant push back from Congress, or from the Judiciary, despite publicized abuses and the fact that the domestic spying apparatus is probably illegal under current law.
A family trust can pass assets to your surviving spouse or other beneficiaries without having to go through probate. (it can provide some tax advantages, too). Put your bank account and other assets, including title to your house, in the name of the trust, and then the trust document controls what happens to them when you die.
Only a very tiny percentage of traffic on the web uses client authentication. Yes, it is secure. But if you have a lot of clients then certificate management becomes a major issue.
It is just Ubuntu + XFCE, instead of the horrible Unity interface.
Half the trouble I had as a security developer was trying to educate/convince other developers that making an effort in this area was necessary. Some of them weren't familiar with the basic concepts, but even they were, it's hard to drive home the idea of defense in depth. There is a tendency to think that if the information is inside your database, or behind your firewall, or protected by other means, then it's not worth spending a lot more effort in additional protection. But of course, you are one exploit away from having an intruder inside your database, behind your firewall, etc.
Spring has a bunch of good technologies, well worth using if you are in the Java world. IMO it is better at the back-end stuff than managing a Web front end (Spring MVC is pretty widely used but it's probably not the best MVC framework out there). Also, Spring by itself is not a RAD environment. Spring Roo does claim to be such a thing and might be worth a look.
If someone discovered a new biologically harmless but mind-altering drug, it would be made illegal, too. They are banning these things not only, or even primarily, because they are dangerous, but because they get you high.
Microsoft looks, acts, and thinks like a monopoly. Having dealt with fairly senior Microsoft execs and techies personally, I can testify that as far as I could tell, they just "don't get" the idea of open platforms. Open means you cooked up something with a few preselected other vendors, in secrecy, and then released it, probably with onerous conditions and encumbrances.
My wife had a Dell. It worked fine until the battery died and needed replacing. Of course it is a proprietary Dell battery and costs $$$$. Then it died again. And again. So now she has a Mac. The Dell was no bargain.
My first thought was that he had a yen for things that even a VP salary doesn't support (like the gambling habit of a certain former Fry's executive). Or a serious coke habit, maybe. But that doesn't seem to be the case here, at least not according to the reporting so far.
Good points. I remember building their vacuum tube voltmeter kit, which was a beginning kit for a lot of Heathkit enthusiasts. It was difficult! Lots and lots of hand soldering. Later I built the H-89 computer, which was a computer built into the same case used by the H-19 video monitor. Also challenging but could be done in a week or so. Very nice kits, and the quality of the documentation and instructions was legendary.
I knew a guy back in college who had a phobia about chemicals. He couldn't even walk down the grocery aisle that had laundry detergents in it. He was also worried about chemicals such as solvents that he'd encounter in labs, which makes quite a bit of sense because they are dangerous, but he was excessively fearful about them. I don't think he was paranoid schizophrenic, because he wasn't really delusional, and his fears had some grounding. But he had a psychiatric problem of some kind and it was focused on chemicals. He was getting therapy and possibly medication to help him out.
The problem with this book is, anyone who reads it does it through the lens of everything else they know about Hitler and WW II. So it's pretty hard to take anything like an objective look at it. The one thing that is true, is that Germany received a very raw deal at the end of the first World War, and was left with a ruined economy and dismantled army, including a lot of disaffected veterans. And the grievances about this fueled Nazism. But Hitler's view of the world was also colored by a lot of racist gibberish. It is mostly not even original with him but picked up from various sources. And it is gibberish for multiple reasons, one of them being that "race" is a hopelessly fuzzy concept, and also that ancestry doesn't determine character or personality, or other such traits.
Yeah, exactly how are you harmed by somebody doing a close-sourced fork of your code? You aren't benefited by getting to see their further changes. But you aren't exactly harmed .. you still have your original code. Also, if you actually want your software to be used as widely as possible you will license it w/o copyleft. The networking stack your OS is running was probably derived from BSD. If it had a copyleft license, no proprietary software vendor would have touched it, and they'd have had to do their own. That is better for the world, how?
It pains me to say it, but he's no idiot...
No, he's not. And I know a lot of technies who have a weak grasp of copyright and licensing, despite the fact that some of them think they know about it. This is why companies have lawyers.
Also, we can learn from other countries that being attacked by terrorists does not mean you have to institute a police state, or go off and start a couple of unnecessary wars. We've spend many times the actual cost of the 9/11 attacks trying to protect ourselves from anything like it happening again. But as TFA implies, nobody's asking if the cost exceeds the benefit. And now we have a monstrous national security apparatus and a military-industrial complex more entrenched and extensive than ever before.
The U.K. had terrorist attacks for years, including the fairly horrendous one in London in 2005. But they haven't gone crazy about it, or at least not as crazy as the U.S. has.
RP is right about our military spending. It is just wacko that we spend more now than we did when we had an actual hostile superpower (the USSR) to contend with. He is also right that the government should just butt out of people's private lives (but curiously, he doesn't think women should be able to choose to have abortions). On most other topics, he is a nutter, pure and simple.
Au contraire, I'm quite sure everyone in the casino business knows the house has a built-in edge. And if the marketing side of the house is spending money (e.g. by granting comps) you can bet there is a bean counter deciding that it's an investment worth making.
If you have relevant work experience but not a degree, I'm pretty sure you could still get hired. No experience and no degree, that would be tough.
However, big companies have recruiting departments and corporate recruiters are your worst enemy, because they'll likely filter you out just based on your resume.
Good points. Near 100% uptime is intrinsically hard. And if you think your admins can do it better those at a dedicated cloud hosting provider .. well, maybe they can, but it's a good chance they can't. Get big enough and you can invest in the hardware, network and support resources to do it right, but that's not cheap.
Even if you don't believe ESR should be granted any special credibility as a critic, there is still a widespread and IMO valid idea that there is such a thing as abuse of the Internet. By users, for example (spam). And by governments (censorship). These things offend a lot of people, not just ESR and a few cohorts.