Eventually mandatory security procedure will be to use all computers while naked, in a soundproof room with no lighting, electrical supply, gas supply, A/C or other ventilation. There will be no networks, communications or transmission media, nor any transmission methods. There shall be no WiFi, no RF, no flag waving or gesturing. Computers will have no ports, no hardware interfaces, no functionality, and cannot be in the same room as the operator. The computers must also be inaccessible to any third party that isn't approved by the organization. The approval process is strict enough so as to prevent anyone ever becoming an approved maintenance contractor.
I take a look at the general quality of code and have to disagree. Sure, it takes some experience to learn the tools, but only in the same sense that construction workers are not "unskilled workers" either. It is difficult to see who can do what, but that doesn't mean that there are no differences. You will not find a developer on one of those "watch me work" sites who can solve problems that don't already have a "best practice" solution awaiting implementation. As is the topic of this thread, who would pay for seeing someone think? The jobs which still need thought are unsuitable for these sites, and developers who have those skills don't have to whore themselves out like that. That leaves straight-forward implementation, and there are people who do that and just that, whether you like it or not.
This just plays into the old movie trope where some nerd sits in a dark room with a bunch of friends, types at a high rate of speed, and "presto!", he's hacked the Pentagon. And don't forget that you can see letters from the screen projected on the wall behind him. It's no more realistic than the "zing" sound when someone draws a sword, the "pfhut!" that's all that comes from a silencer or that every car wreck results in an explosion and fire.
Real development doesn't take place at the keyboard, any more than real architecture takes places where the blocks are being laid and the concrete is being poured. The important stuff was done elsewhere. Even if you wanted to posit that the architectural work was done at the drafting table, a lot of the work consists of drawing things and then throwing them away.
One of the problems with software is that there's immense pressure to "Git 'R Dun!" and NOT to throw away work even if it was a false start. It's not that developers are all unskilled workers, it's that the demands of the day actively punish skilled workers in favor of the "productive" ones. Productive as defined by "make pretty web pages quickly", not by performance, security, robustness, or even the quality of the code.
As long as the buyers want fast and cheap over value and quality, expect that to continue.
It has been remarked that one of the distinguishing characteristics between a genius and a nerd (aside from the higher IQ) is that a nerd is single-minded, devoting almost all time to the nerd's area of expertise.
Einstein didn't just play the fiddle. He was a keen observer of things that "practical goal-oriented people" wouldn't even bother to notice. Which feeds back into new ways of seeing and thinking about his specialty that the people with tunnel vision could not.
Plus he had a more varied sex life than most nerds.
How would you feel about a painter who has so little work that he spends all of his time detailing his house?
I'd say he's got at least enough free time to keep his skills up.
If he doesn't have time to do his own house, then he's not using his resources efficiently, as he should either be profitable enough to hire help and free up some time or he's just slapping paint as fast as he can to save money. NEVER trust anyone who's working 100%. They don't have the reserve resources to handle life's obstacles.
Or he's bone lazy and only works when someone's paying (if then).
Precisely. Amenities like selinux and docker containers are all very well, but most distros these days install an apache or http userid and run Apache under that ID and ONLY if you deliberately switch it off will you EVER run apache as root.
I use booted cables extensively, since plugging and unplugging frequently is a good way to snap the retainer clip. Not that people would be doing that in a test lab...
There's also the suggestion that if you have fat enough fingers even plugging in naked connectors would be enough to trip the button.
1. When some genius has mis-configured the hell out of it, you use this button to clear everything back to known values.
2. When the unit is retired from service and placed into service somewhere else, this is a quick way to clear settings that don't apply to the new environment instead of having to walk the entire option list.
In neither case should it be a simple tap of a button.
I have an old DFI server. Reset button sticks right out there. I bumped it more than once, sometimes just because my knee hit it and it was right next to my chair.
Actually, not even that. It's not hate against node.js per se, but against the hordes of slobbering dev teams who will immediately demand that it go right into production without so much as a QA pass, because, you know, it's got electrolytes!
Okay, only mildly exaggerating, but seriously, let's at least prove it in the dev environment first, campers.;)
That's the problem with scripting languages. You can hack out something that looks like a finished product in a day or 2.
Actually making an app fit for human consumption, however, takes just about as long as it does for any product. It has been demonstrated over and over that the time to produce a fully-finished app is pretty much the same for any language or platform and the only real difference is which part of the lifecycle that time is spent in. By front-loading the visible parts of the process, the illusion is made that it's nearly "done", After all, "All You Need To Do Now Is..." Urgh.
I like the ability to produce pretty apps in a hurry, too. But I also like keeping my money in my bank accound, my medical records out of general public circulation, my comings and goings out of the hands of people who would take advantage of them. Stuff that takes the "other 10%" of the project's time.
A tan is ipso facto an indication of a high level of exposure. The question then becomes "what is the difference between 'high' and 'excessive'?"
You don't just walk out in the sun and come home with cancer. The people I know with skin cancer have all spent a lot of time in the sun and burned in their tans over many years.
Once you get your first melanoma, however, chances are high that further ones will pop up in short order.
(I don't think I really want to know how much hotter it would get if I kept going south.)
Well, that's the funny part about it. The record high temperature for Tampa is 99 degrees unless they finally broke it this summer. Even the hottest parts of the state (in the North!) top out at 103, and mostly it's under 97.
The problem is, it's 90+ from about May 1 to November 1. And the most miserably days this summer were when the temperature dropped to 85 and the humidity spiked from the norm about 90% to a miserable 100%. Which eventually means rain, but not untill you've collapsed. The temps don't get any hotter in the tropics, they just don't get cooler. No hot season/cold season, just wet season/wetter season.
One of the main reasons for this is that the oceans keep the heat down.
Or possibly cancer is more easily diagnosed that it was in the past.
Melanoma is not hard to spot. It's right there on your face. Or your arms. Or sometimes other places, if they get lots of sun exposure.
And if the black amorphous blob(s) don't give it away, then the rapid onset of death probably will. Melanoma is easily cured as long as it's skin deep, but if left untreated for long enough to dive inside, it's virtually uncurable.
Florida is at the same lattitude as Africa. No Europeans are evolved for this Climate.
If you credit "out of Africa", it's more likely that Europeans evolved AWAY from this climate. Florida is definitely not England when it comes to sun and temperature.
In Florida, not having a tan is status symbol. At 30 degrees North Latitude and below, you can fry in under an hour any day of the year. The only way to remain pale is to lock yourself inside. Basements are few and far between, and garages are full of the stuff that Northerners cram in their basements. And rarely climate-controlled. People garden almost year-round (gardeners are notably prone to melanomas), go to the lakes and beaches most of the year, and when all else fails, lay around in their own backyards because the climate suits them. Or because it's cheaper than A/C.
Florida tanning salons are for little airheads who don't think getting roasted by the Sun is sufficient and won't stop until their hides resemble cracked Corinthian Leather.
So if they say that skin cancer incidences in the Sunshine State are above average, then there's good chance it's the sun doing it.
As for benefits, you don't see too many people suffering from Vitamin D shortages, but the milk is spiked anyway.
An ideal solution would cause the windows to tint themselves as the light becomes more intense, perhaps by making tiny little mirrors that twist when (solar) heated to focus more of the light on the PV elements. Double-win: extra shade when you need it most plus harvest the energy as electricity instead of having it convert to heat.
I think it depends on what the job is. They've been trying to automate software design since mainframes, and the best they can ever do is badly-trained offshore people misusing IDEs.
Manufacturing, on the other hand, gets so cheap when fully automated that it's actually often less expensive to bring the jobs back to the USA. Not to re-employ US laborers, mind you, but because once labor costs become negligible, it's cheaper not to have to ship products around the globe or deal with international complications.
Florida Mall was pretty upscale - Princess Di used to shop there. But the surrounding neighborhoods aren't all that impressive. And I'm not sure that it's a tourist pull (I'd locate on I-Drive if that's what I wanted).
All the actual "local geeks" I've known were located towards the north and east parts of town - Maitland and beyond to the North is where most of the (non-military) tech jobs are and UCF to the East where the students and research park people are.
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Eventually mandatory security procedure will be to use all computers while naked, in a soundproof room with no lighting, electrical supply, gas supply, A/C or other ventilation. There will be no networks, communications or transmission media, nor any transmission methods. There shall be no WiFi, no RF, no flag waving or gesturing. Computers will have no ports, no hardware interfaces, no functionality, and cannot be in the same room as the operator. The computers must also be inaccessible to any third party that isn't approved by the organization. The approval process is strict enough so as to prevent anyone ever becoming an approved maintenance contractor.
Sounds like the TSA's wet dream for flyers.
They are not unskilled workers.
I take a look at the general quality of code and have to disagree. Sure, it takes some experience to learn the tools, but only in the same sense that construction workers are not "unskilled workers" either. It is difficult to see who can do what, but that doesn't mean that there are no differences. You will not find a developer on one of those "watch me work" sites who can solve problems that don't already have a "best practice" solution awaiting implementation. As is the topic of this thread, who would pay for seeing someone think? The jobs which still need thought are unsuitable for these sites, and developers who have those skills don't have to whore themselves out like that. That leaves straight-forward implementation, and there are people who do that and just that, whether you like it or not.
This just plays into the old movie trope where some nerd sits in a dark room with a bunch of friends, types at a high rate of speed, and "presto!", he's hacked the Pentagon. And don't forget that you can see letters from the screen projected on the wall behind him. It's no more realistic than the "zing" sound when someone draws a sword, the "pfhut!" that's all that comes from a silencer or that every car wreck results in an explosion and fire.
Real development doesn't take place at the keyboard, any more than real architecture takes places where the blocks are being laid and the concrete is being poured. The important stuff was done elsewhere. Even if you wanted to posit that the architectural work was done at the drafting table, a lot of the work consists of drawing things and then throwing them away.
One of the problems with software is that there's immense pressure to "Git 'R Dun!" and NOT to throw away work even if it was a false start. It's not that developers are all unskilled workers, it's that the demands of the day actively punish skilled workers in favor of the "productive" ones. Productive as defined by "make pretty web pages quickly", not by performance, security, robustness, or even the quality of the code.
As long as the buyers want fast and cheap over value and quality, expect that to continue.
The frickin' Universe is a non-profit organization!
It has been remarked that one of the distinguishing characteristics between a genius and a nerd (aside from the higher IQ) is that a nerd is single-minded, devoting almost all time to the nerd's area of expertise.
Einstein didn't just play the fiddle. He was a keen observer of things that "practical goal-oriented people" wouldn't even bother to notice. Which feeds back into new ways of seeing and thinking about his specialty that the people with tunnel vision could not.
Plus he had a more varied sex life than most nerds.
How would you feel about a painter who has so little work that he spends all of his time detailing his house?
I'd say he's got at least enough free time to keep his skills up.
If he doesn't have time to do his own house, then he's not using his resources efficiently, as he should either be profitable enough to hire help and free up some time or he's just slapping paint as fast as he can to save money. NEVER trust anyone who's working 100%. They don't have the reserve resources to handle life's obstacles.
Or he's bone lazy and only works when someone's paying (if then).
Meh. Too much meth. Seriously hallucinating.
Port 80 has been around a long time. 8080 got nominated for things like Tomcat which cannot chroot themselves.
Precisely. Amenities like selinux and docker containers are all very well, but most distros these days install an apache or http userid and run Apache under that ID and ONLY if you deliberately switch it off will you EVER run apache as root.
Something's rotten in the State of Denmark.
What I'd find interesting is how many accounts used their wife's name as the password.
I use booted cables extensively, since plugging and unplugging frequently is a good way to snap the retainer clip. Not that people would be doing that in a test lab...
There's also the suggestion that if you have fat enough fingers even plugging in naked connectors would be enough to trip the button.
"Factory Reset" has 2 purposes.
1. When some genius has mis-configured the hell out of it, you use this button to clear everything back to known values.
2. When the unit is retired from service and placed into service somewhere else, this is a quick way to clear settings that don't apply to the new environment instead of having to walk the entire option list.
In neither case should it be a simple tap of a button.
Well, I'd hope that the Cisco lab people tested this thing before they released it to mass-production. You'd think that someone would have noticed.
That. So there.
I have an old DFI server. Reset button sticks right out there. I bumped it more than once, sometimes just because my knee hit it and it was right next to my chair.
Actually, not even that. It's not hate against node.js per se, but against the hordes of slobbering dev teams who will immediately demand that it go right into production without so much as a QA pass, because, you know, it's got electrolytes!
Okay, only mildly exaggerating, but seriously, let's at least prove it in the dev environment first, campers. ;)
That's the problem with scripting languages. You can hack out something that looks like a finished product in a day or 2.
Actually making an app fit for human consumption, however, takes just about as long as it does for any product. It has been demonstrated over and over that the time to produce a fully-finished app is pretty much the same for any language or platform and the only real difference is which part of the lifecycle that time is spent in. By front-loading the visible parts of the process, the illusion is made that it's nearly "done", After all, "All You Need To Do Now Is..." Urgh.
I like the ability to produce pretty apps in a hurry, too. But I also like keeping my money in my bank accound, my medical records out of general public circulation, my comings and goings out of the hands of people who would take advantage of them. Stuff that takes the "other 10%" of the project's time.
A tan is ipso facto an indication of a high level of exposure. The question then becomes "what is the difference between 'high' and 'excessive'?"
You don't just walk out in the sun and come home with cancer. The people I know with skin cancer have all spent a lot of time in the sun and burned in their tans over many years.
Once you get your first melanoma, however, chances are high that further ones will pop up in short order.
(I don't think I really want to know how much hotter it would get if I kept going south.)
Well, that's the funny part about it. The record high temperature for Tampa is 99 degrees unless they finally broke it this summer. Even the hottest parts of the state (in the North!) top out at 103, and mostly it's under 97.
The problem is, it's 90+ from about May 1 to November 1. And the most miserably days this summer were when the temperature dropped to 85 and the humidity spiked from the norm about 90% to a miserable 100%. Which eventually means rain, but not untill you've collapsed. The temps don't get any hotter in the tropics, they just don't get cooler. No hot season/cold season, just wet season/wetter season.
One of the main reasons for this is that the oceans keep the heat down.
We know your kind down here. You're the ones that are always peeling. "Tan" generally means red.
Or possibly cancer is more easily diagnosed that it was in the past.
Melanoma is not hard to spot. It's right there on your face. Or your arms. Or sometimes other places, if they get lots of sun exposure.
And if the black amorphous blob(s) don't give it away, then the rapid onset of death probably will. Melanoma is easily cured as long as it's skin deep, but if left untreated for long enough to dive inside, it's virtually uncurable.
Florida is at the same lattitude as Africa. No Europeans are evolved for this Climate.
If you credit "out of Africa", it's more likely that Europeans evolved AWAY from this climate. Florida is definitely not England when it comes to sun and temperature.
In Florida, not having a tan is status symbol. At 30 degrees North Latitude and below, you can fry in under an hour any day of the year. The only way to remain pale is to lock yourself inside. Basements are few and far between, and garages are full of the stuff that Northerners cram in their basements. And rarely climate-controlled. People garden almost year-round (gardeners are notably prone to melanomas), go to the lakes and beaches most of the year, and when all else fails, lay around in their own backyards because the climate suits them. Or because it's cheaper than A/C.
Florida tanning salons are for little airheads who don't think getting roasted by the Sun is sufficient and won't stop until their hides resemble cracked Corinthian Leather.
So if they say that skin cancer incidences in the Sunshine State are above average, then there's good chance it's the sun doing it.
As for benefits, you don't see too many people suffering from Vitamin D shortages, but the milk is spiked anyway.
Never mind the cancer, what about my rickets!
AUTISM, you fool!
I have this rock to sell you, it repels bears.. do you see any bear around here? See it works.
Do yourself a favor. Use some other illustration if you're in Orlando.
People DO see bears around there. And occasionally get their pets eaten.
And on how fast we can run the other way.
An ideal solution would cause the windows to tint themselves as the light becomes more intense, perhaps by making tiny little mirrors that twist when (solar) heated to focus more of the light on the PV elements. Double-win: extra shade when you need it most plus harvest the energy as electricity instead of having it convert to heat.
I think it depends on what the job is. They've been trying to automate software design since mainframes, and the best they can ever do is badly-trained offshore people misusing IDEs.
Manufacturing, on the other hand, gets so cheap when fully automated that it's actually often less expensive to bring the jobs back to the USA. Not to re-employ US laborers, mind you, but because once labor costs become negligible, it's cheaper not to have to ship products around the globe or deal with international complications.
Florida Mall was pretty upscale - Princess Di used to shop there. But the surrounding neighborhoods aren't all that impressive. And I'm not sure that it's a tourist pull (I'd locate on I-Drive if that's what I wanted).
All the actual "local geeks" I've known were located towards the north and east parts of town - Maitland and beyond to the North is where most of the (non-military) tech jobs are and UCF to the East where the students and research park people are.