You know, the likes of Catherine Deneuve and Co. that don't go running and crying like a baby whenever they get into some grown-up talk that doesn't go exactly as they suspected. You know, the type of woman who can stand her own ground and thus is the type you'd actually want to f*ck and have children with.
I hope this gender studies and hashtag feminism nonsense is over soon, it's starting to get over-the-top silly.
Boy an I glad having found a sweetheart that has her own workshop, builds walls and takes down trees in her spare time, dresses like a supermodel (when we go dancing) and fucks like a p0rnstar. She'd tell this little spoiled bratt off, that's for sure.
No doubt, C and C++ are a messy hodgepodge of PLs. Historically grown over 30+ years and quite a boast mix of tools and concepts. Truth is, we know more about PLs today than we did back then, hence Kotlin, Go and Rust.
However, you have to see a PL in its historic purpose, and for that c++ is pretty neat. Especially C++ 14 GSL and newer. Yeah you can do lots of crazy shit with C++ that will trip you up, but that doesn't mean you have to. If you don't know what you're doing, don't do it. C languages (excluding c#) are little more than updates to assembler. If you don't know the background of c++ you are bound to screw things up. That's not a bad thing per se.
I personally think C++ is pretty neat and it basically was the first of modern non-trivial PLs that built some awesome stuff. I won't learn it anymore since Rust seems more sophisticated to me.
If you see everybody all the time you're more likely to immediately know when you are "missing out" and when you are not. Hence proactive social interaction isn't required as much. Herds grazing on an open field are more chill. The noise starts when species live in environments where they usually don't see each other. Hence the noise birds or howler monkeys make in the morning.
... lazy and stupid assess out there into space. Humanity has yet so much to do but somehow only the war mongering and pretty idiots seem to be in charge. How I wish we could move on further and faster than we are..... I really wish to see the Advent of feasible space colonization in my lifetime. That would be cool. And restore my faith in humanity.
HTC used to make the best smartphones available. The HTC Desire was at least two generations ahead of everything else including iPhones. The HTC flyer was just as much the pinnacle of tablets, making the iPad look like the cheap knock-off. Awesome devices, showing everyone where things were headed.
Then HTC started bloating their lineup with countless variants of half-assed devices to the point where even the most enthusiastic completely lost oversight of where HTC was heading, what they actually had to offer and what their value proposition was. They returned from "quietly brilliant" to noisily mediocre, sub-par, aim and visionless.
Brand dilution destroyed HTC. Today it's a joke, soon to be sold off to some off-brand gravedigger and corporate waste recycler. It's a shame really. I really liked their products and was a bit of a fan.
Someone at HTC should've read "The 22 immutable laws of marketing". It's probably too late now.
... the ones who know stuff have the upper hand. The ones simply juggling money are very close to being replaced by robots. Closer than the cleaning lady and the burger flipper actually.
Like all credible citizen movements the Chaos Computer Club has moved from being perceived as a smelly group of hippies to a respected independant organization that helps keep some sanity in the public debate on IT and laws concerning it.
However, that the police behave as a bunch of stupid douchebags when it comes to dealing with the CCC is classic stuff. We've had this since the 80ies and as someone who sympathizes with them I always keep a backup of my data hidden in some unusual place in case some idiot thinks that because I use the CLI I'm some evil hacker or something and comes to take all my hardware.
"Guns are real, blue uniforms are real, cops are social fiction." - Robert Anton Wilson
Public College. Free. Semester fees apply (approx. 50 euros/month), but since the student ID comes with free public transport in the entire state I'm actually faring cheaper than a non-student.
BTW: Did you know you can study for free in Germany, even if you're an USian?... Just sayin'.
This Cryptocurrency thing was a scam initiated by Eve online and CoD players to get the next upgrade for cheap so they can go on and play their second jobs and continue collecting virtual in-game currency in 8k.
This collides head on with the freshly implemented EU GDPR and will have Amnesty International legal Teams all over it in 5 minutes or so.
Unless there's been a crime and police is allowed to investigate. Lying about your status or collection welfare at multiple points is fraud and a crime. Then they can search your ass.
To me it's pretty obvious: classic capitalism has basically run its course. Modern tribes, a vertical, horizontal and criss-cross melange of belief Systems, philosophies and economic cycles is going to replace it.
It's happening right now already.
Right now I'm at the bus stop. Chromebook, Freitag bag, cheap ain't outfit, part-time college student, part time software developer. Now is the guy in that 90000+Euro Porsche at the red light better off than me? Maybe. He looks skinny and in good shape so he probably has the discipline to lead a good life. He's roughly my age, probably has a beautiful wife and grown kids. I "just" have a cute girlfriend and a grown daughter. We both have access to the best healthcare in human history (I'm in Germany, in case you're confused), I'm typing this on my Android phone that costs less than 3 days off work for me and is just as powerful as a supercomputer from my childhood. And as his iPhone that costs 3 times as much.
The lines that separate both Mr. Porsche and me are blurring. He's in a traffic jam and has a 70 hour workweek. I'm on the bus now, having spent the morning chilling and having slow sex and now going to a college lecture.
Post scarcity economy.
The bazillions of national dept just as the bazillions of market cap are basically thin air. Money is losing its worth, which is why we've had negative interest for years now (EU money). The machines will do the work and hopefully the teenage Indian/Bangladeshi girl who made the t-shirt I'm wearing will get to do the exact same stuff I'm doing right now when she's grown up.
Cloud is awesome. Scale indefinitely, work out the kinks, test your product. All on a shoestring/pay-as-you-go budget. Very nice.
Yet Only cloud is shite in production. Provider X (in this case Google) has you by the balls. You do *not* want that. Tried and true fallback and failover with your own Docker setup and a stack of rented blades in a rack including nightly to-my-desk backups are an absolut must for any critical infrastructure. No matter how cool Kubernetes and Spanner are handling your stuff today, you at least want to be able to save your data tomorrow when things turn south.
BTW, all this is Captain Obvious speaking. This isn't news, this is basic web stuff 1-oh'-1 that every third-grade webshop running critical WordPresses knows. It's really the exact opposite of rocket science.
The kid who set up this disaster deserves a smacking. Lesson learned I guess.
... and his crew succeed a million times over and become filthy rich while doing it. The penance with which Musk pursues his visions is inspiring and he serves as a very neat role model.
Two thumbs up for scaring the living sh*t out of the leading German car industry which, IMHO, has become way to complacent with its success. And thanks for paving the way into carbon neutral traffic and land-transport.
While I plead guilty of being a mix of old school geek and ISO Certified JS Toolkit hipster, I second the notion of security being handled way to lax in the web agency camp.
However this is more often a problem of skill and awareness and not so much the toolkit. Security is always a tradeoff between usability and it has to be considered day in and day out. Most people don't have an opinion of this because they are rarely forced to take responsibility for mission critical code. Security and due diligence like test first and CI are difficult and boring and you have to learn it and make a habit just like versioning.
This is where the professionals come in. I personally have decided to stay in the web camp but move up the ladder in terms of responsibility and start exercising in the security and mission critical areas (ERP, Data Protection, etc.)
... a piece of cake for Apple to pull off. After all, they've got obscene amounts of money on the bank. I wish they'd give back some of their data to the OSM project that saved their ass a few years back when they ditched Google maps, but that's probably to much to ask for.
Anyhow, competition in the maps space can't hurt. It's Google, then a massive gap and then some nifty OSM stuff. If Apple can throw a third maps thing into this, it's all for the better IMHO. Google can use some top-tier competitor pissing in their territory.
Because Merkel wants to look good moving out of nuclear. A good thing in general. Only she tries to keep it a secret that this is substituted for coal which is not much better.
Also German automobile industry usually gets a pass on what ever shit they pull off because JOBS! That might change just now but I'm not holding my breath.
They could easily. In Germany recycling is something of a national pride thing. Everyone recycles and those who don't are broadly considered low lifes and are sometimes even publicly shamed, whether they look like a bum or wear a tie and suit.
Collecting bottles is a thing for lowest income people and the homeless and it adds a strange sort of social integration. People leave their bottles standing next to the rubbish bins (which are often recycling bins) do that those who need the few cents can pick them up without having to go through the garbage.
Everyone, and I mean everyone serrates paper from organic from plastic waste. Even the kids learn it in school.
Truth is, Germany could go from this to a near zero waste society in a matter of months and not even skip a beat because of this broad spanning awareness.
So recycling is a thing consumers can easily solve, they just need to be aware of it. This is by and large a environmental awareness thing and in Germany lefties/greens and conservatives are pretty much on the same page with this issue.
Let's see how this plays out. Humanity as a whole needs to move towards zero-garbage. Like, fast. A doorstep country showing the first world how it is done is a nice thing indeed.
"Keeping alive the light of consciousness and spreading if throughout the universe so that it won't die" seems to me for once like a religious imperative worth pursuing. It actually would keep people away from tribal bullshit and have us all work together.
Let's update our cults to that one. I'm all in for it.... There is even the imperative to have and raise children in it - pretty much spot on a perfect upgrade to the abrahamic revelation cults if you ask me.
As far as I can tell adademia has turned into quite a self-referential naval-gazing afair in recent decades. Point in case: I've finally gone into college and started my BsC Media-CompSci and on my first project I get a stern look for quoting details on RSA from a book from 1998. They told me they're embarrased to quote anything that's older than 5 years and I should never quote a book from 1998.... WTF? Seriously? Even if it covers elemental basics that haven't changed a single bit since decades ago? Mind you, this is CompSci where you would expect some sort of academic credibility, unlike Sociology or "Gender Studies". Given, CompSci is still miles behind math, physics and engineering, but I still would expect it to me somewhat mature.
This paper-publishing apears to me like some intelectual masturbation academics like to indulge in and not neccesarly something that brings humanity forward.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I still can't shake the feeling that academia has degraded severly and the avantgarde has moved on.
... we're likely doomed. Plain and simple. We won the big lottery and we've had realive "asteroid peace" for a few million years now which had us evolve into quite smart apes but if some solid rock with a diameter of 1000+ meters comes at earth with 50000 kmh it's gonna hurt.
Given, if we'd prepare for this sort of event we'd quickly be in a position to prevent it. But since we - right now - can't even get it down to stop dumping crap into the oceans and poisining the atmossphere, I wouldn't bet on that happening anytime soon. As long as idiots are still caught up in little more than extended tribal wars humanity won't move to that position. I sure hope we survive long enough to make that happen, but some sceptisizm and paranoia is due IMHO.
If humanity does move on to becoming smart, we could also finally make a concerted effort to become a space faring civilisation. Maybe not beyond our solar system, but space faring none-the-less.
I can't shake the notion that Oracle is doing a long and slow succession of minor Java screwups that are slowly adding up. The massive hype and influx of VM languages has been over for a few years now (a phase JS is just about over with now too), Scala and now Kotlin seem very well positioned to take over the JavaVM space (I've had experts recommend to me that I skip Java alltogether and go straight to Kotlin) and, as far as I can tell, if Google and Jetbrains play their cards right, Kotlin will be the successor, WASM transpilers and V8 runtimes will come and then Oracle will be shown a big finger for their perpetual Java lock-in attempts.
I'm learning Java right now because it's the go-to PL at my college where I'm doing my BsC in Media CompSci (Media and Java?... Yeah, I don't quite get it either...), but it has by now lost all it's sexyness with me. That was different 20 years ago but that was also a time when people would call be crazy for recommending to learn JavaScript and if you told people that they would be buliding entire stacks and pipelines with it they would've called you crazy. Despite entier GUI apps already built with it. (Did you know the Photoshop is built with JS?).
Botton line: Stear clear of proprietary technology is my motto evers since Adobe f*cked up Flash/ActionScript big time. Oracle seems hell bent on rolling back the FOSSing of Java and they might even succeed. But not with me.
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... the *real* female feminists back?
You know, the likes of Catherine Deneuve and Co. that don't go running and crying like a baby whenever they get into some grown-up talk that doesn't go exactly as they suspected. You know, the type of woman who can stand her own ground and thus is the type you'd actually want to f*ck and have children with.
I hope this gender studies and hashtag feminism nonsense is over soon, it's starting to get over-the-top silly.
Boy an I glad having found a sweetheart that has her own workshop, builds walls and takes down trees in her spare time, dresses like a supermodel (when we go dancing) and fucks like a p0rnstar. She'd tell this little spoiled bratt off, that's for sure.
No doubt, C and C++ are a messy hodgepodge of PLs. Historically grown over 30+ years and quite a boast mix of tools and concepts. Truth is, we know more about PLs today than we did back then, hence Kotlin, Go and Rust.
However, you have to see a PL in its historic purpose, and for that c++ is pretty neat. Especially C++ 14 GSL and newer. Yeah you can do lots of crazy shit with C++ that will trip you up, but that doesn't mean you have to. If you don't know what you're doing, don't do it. C languages (excluding c#) are little more than updates to assembler. If you don't know the background of c++ you are bound to screw things up. That's not a bad thing per se.
I personally think C++ is pretty neat and it basically was the first of modern non-trivial PLs that built some awesome stuff. I won't learn it anymore since Rust seems more sophisticated to me.
If you see everybody all the time you're more likely to immediately know when you are "missing out" and when you are not. Hence proactive social interaction isn't required as much.
Herds grazing on an open field are more chill. The noise starts when species live in environments where they usually don't see each other. Hence the noise birds or howler monkeys make in the morning.
This finding send super obvious to me.
... lazy and stupid assess out there into space. Humanity has yet so much to do but somehow only the war mongering and pretty idiots seem to be in charge. How I wish we could move on further and faster than we are. .... I really wish to see the Advent of feasible space colonization in my lifetime. That would be cool. And restore my faith in humanity.
HTC used to make the best smartphones available. The HTC Desire was at least two generations ahead of everything else including iPhones. The HTC flyer was just as much the pinnacle of tablets, making the iPad look like the cheap knock-off. Awesome devices, showing everyone where things were headed.
Then HTC started bloating their lineup with countless variants of half-assed devices to the point where even the most enthusiastic completely lost oversight of where HTC was heading, what they actually had to offer and what their value proposition was. They returned from "quietly brilliant" to noisily mediocre, sub-par, aim and visionless.
Brand dilution destroyed HTC. Today it's a joke, soon to be sold off to some off-brand gravedigger and corporate waste recycler. It's a shame really. I really liked their products and was a bit of a fan.
Someone at HTC should've read "The 22 immutable laws of marketing".
It's probably too late now.
My 2 Eurocents.
... the ones who know stuff have the upper hand. The ones simply juggling money are very close to being replaced by robots. Closer than the cleaning lady and the burger flipper actually.
Like all credible citizen movements the Chaos Computer Club has moved from being perceived as a smelly group of hippies to a respected independant organization that helps keep some sanity in the public debate on IT and laws concerning it.
However, that the police behave as a bunch of stupid douchebags when it comes to dealing with the CCC is classic stuff. We've had this since the 80ies and as someone who sympathizes with them I always keep a backup of my data hidden in some unusual place in case some idiot thinks that because I use the CLI I'm some evil hacker or something and comes to take all my hardware.
"Guns are real, blue uniforms are real, cops are social fiction." - Robert Anton Wilson
My two eurocents.
Public College. Free.
Semester fees apply (approx. 50 euros/month), but since the student ID comes with free public transport in the entire state I'm actually faring cheaper than a non-student.
BTW: Did you know you can study for free in Germany, even if you're an USian? ... Just sayin'.
This Cryptocurrency thing was a scam initiated by Eve online and CoD players to get the next upgrade for cheap so they can go on and play their second jobs and continue collecting virtual in-game currency in 8k.
Nice move.
Seriously: Why on Earth would I do such a super pointless thing that can only have negative consequences?
This collides head on with the freshly implemented EU GDPR and will have Amnesty International legal Teams all over it in 5 minutes or so.
Unless there's been a crime and police is allowed to investigate. Lying about your status or collection welfare at multiple points is fraud and a crime. Then they can search your ass.
... for details.
To me it's pretty obvious: classic capitalism has basically run its course. Modern tribes, a vertical, horizontal and criss-cross melange of belief Systems, philosophies and economic cycles is going to replace it.
It's happening right now already.
Right now I'm at the bus stop. Chromebook, Freitag bag, cheap ain't outfit, part-time college student, part time software developer. Now is the guy in that 90000+Euro Porsche at the red light better off than me? Maybe. He looks skinny and in good shape so he probably has the discipline to lead a good life. He's roughly my age, probably has a beautiful wife and grown kids. I "just" have a cute girlfriend and a grown daughter. We both have access to the best healthcare in human history (I'm in Germany, in case you're confused), I'm typing this on my Android phone that costs less than 3 days off work for me and is just as powerful as a supercomputer from my childhood. And as his iPhone that costs 3 times as much.
The lines that separate both Mr. Porsche and me are blurring. He's in a traffic jam and has a 70 hour workweek. I'm on the bus now, having spent the morning chilling and having slow sex and now going to a college lecture.
Post scarcity economy.
The bazillions of national dept just as the bazillions of market cap are basically thin air. Money is losing its worth, which is why we've had negative interest for years now (EU money). The machines will do the work and hopefully the teenage Indian/Bangladeshi girl who made the t-shirt I'm wearing will get to do the exact same stuff I'm doing right now when she's grown up.
My 2 eurocents.
Cloud is awesome. Scale indefinitely, work out the kinks, test your product. All on a shoestring/pay-as-you-go budget. Very nice.
Yet Only cloud is shite in production. Provider X (in this case Google) has you by the balls. You do *not* want that. Tried and true fallback and failover with your own Docker setup and a stack of rented blades in a rack including nightly to-my-desk backups are an absolut must for any critical infrastructure. No matter how cool Kubernetes and Spanner are handling your stuff today, you at least want to be able to save your data tomorrow when things turn south.
BTW, all this is Captain Obvious speaking.
This isn't news, this is basic web stuff 1-oh'-1 that every third-grade webshop running critical WordPresses knows. It's really the exact opposite of rocket science.
The kid who set up this disaster deserves a smacking.
Lesson learned I guess.
... and his crew succeed a million times over and become filthy rich while doing it. The penance with which Musk pursues his visions is inspiring and he serves as a very neat role model.
Two thumbs up for scaring the living sh*t out of the leading German car industry which, IMHO, has become way to complacent with its success.
And thanks for paving the way into carbon neutral traffic and land-transport.
My 2 eurocents.
While I plead guilty of being a mix of old school geek and ISO Certified JS Toolkit hipster, I second the notion of security being handled way to lax in the web agency camp.
However this is more often a problem of skill and awareness and not so much the toolkit. Security is always a tradeoff between usability and it has to be considered day in and day out. Most people don't have an opinion of this because they are rarely forced to take responsibility for mission critical code. Security and due diligence like test first and CI are difficult and boring and you have to learn it and make a habit just like versioning.
This is where the professionals come in. I personally have decided to stay in the web camp but move up the ladder in terms of responsibility and start exercising in the security and mission critical areas (ERP, Data Protection, etc.)
... a piece of cake for Apple to pull off. After all, they've got obscene amounts of money on the bank.
I wish they'd give back some of their data to the OSM project that saved their ass a few years back when they ditched Google maps, but that's probably to much to ask for.
Anyhow, competition in the maps space can't hurt. It's Google, then a massive gap and then some nifty OSM stuff. If Apple can throw a third maps thing into this, it's all for the better IMHO. Google can use some top-tier competitor pissing in their territory.
Because Merkel wants to look good moving out of nuclear. A good thing in general. Only she tries to keep it a secret that this is substituted for coal which is not much better.
Also German automobile industry usually gets a pass on what ever shit they pull off because JOBS! That might change just now but I'm not holding my breath.
They could easily. In Germany recycling is something of a national pride thing. Everyone recycles and those who don't are broadly considered low lifes and are sometimes even publicly shamed, whether they look like a bum or wear a tie and suit.
Collecting bottles is a thing for lowest income people and the homeless and it adds a strange sort of social integration. People leave their bottles standing next to the rubbish bins (which are often recycling bins) do that those who need the few cents can pick them up without having to go through the garbage.
Everyone, and I mean everyone serrates paper from organic from plastic waste. Even the kids learn it in school.
Truth is, Germany could go from this to a near zero waste society in a matter of months and not even skip a beat because of this broad spanning awareness.
So recycling is a thing consumers can easily solve, they just need to be aware of it. This is by and large a environmental awareness thing and in Germany lefties/greens and conservatives are pretty much on the same page with this issue.
Let's see how this plays out. Humanity as a whole needs to move towards zero-garbage. Like, fast.
A doorstep country showing the first world how it is done is a nice thing indeed.
"Keeping alive the light of consciousness and spreading if throughout the universe so that it won't die" seems to me for once like a religious imperative worth pursuing. It actually would keep people away from tribal bullshit and have us all work together.
Let's update our cults to that one. I'm all in for it. ... There is even the imperative to have and raise children in it - pretty much spot on a perfect upgrade to the abrahamic revelation cults if you ask me.
Said it 1.5 years ago, will say it again.
IoT is a fad and it will die off pretty soon because of precisely this problem mentioned in TFA.
Nobodies Toaster needs a webserver.
As far as I can tell adademia has turned into quite a self-referential naval-gazing afair in recent decades. Point in case: I've finally gone into college and started my BsC Media-CompSci and on my first project I get a stern look for quoting details on RSA from a book from 1998. They told me they're embarrased to quote anything that's older than 5 years and I should never quote a book from 1998. ... WTF? Seriously? Even if it covers elemental basics that haven't changed a single bit since decades ago? Mind you, this is CompSci where you would expect some sort of academic credibility, unlike Sociology or "Gender Studies". Given, CompSci is still miles behind math, physics and engineering, but I still would expect it to me somewhat mature.
This paper-publishing apears to me like some intelectual masturbation academics like to indulge in and not neccesarly something that brings humanity forward.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I still can't shake the feeling that academia has degraded severly and the avantgarde has moved on.
... we're likely doomed. Plain and simple. We won the big lottery and we've had realive "asteroid peace" for a few million years now which had us evolve into quite smart apes but if some solid rock with a diameter of 1000+ meters comes at earth with 50000 kmh it's gonna hurt.
Given, if we'd prepare for this sort of event we'd quickly be in a position to prevent it. But since we - right now - can't even get it down to stop dumping crap into the oceans and poisining the atmossphere, I wouldn't bet on that happening anytime soon. As long as idiots are still caught up in little more than extended tribal wars humanity won't move to that position. I sure hope we survive long enough to make that happen, but some sceptisizm and paranoia is due IMHO.
If humanity does move on to becoming smart, we could also finally make a concerted effort to become a space faring civilisation. Maybe not beyond our solar system, but space faring none-the-less.
... of PLs 'up there' in terms of future-safety.
I can't shake the notion that Oracle is doing a long and slow succession of minor Java screwups that are slowly adding up. The massive hype and influx of VM languages has been over for a few years now (a phase JS is just about over with now too), Scala and now Kotlin seem very well positioned to take over the JavaVM space (I've had experts recommend to me that I skip Java alltogether and go straight to Kotlin) and, as far as I can tell, if Google and Jetbrains play their cards right, Kotlin will be the successor, WASM transpilers and V8 runtimes will come and then Oracle will be shown a big finger for their perpetual Java lock-in attempts.
I'm learning Java right now because it's the go-to PL at my college where I'm doing my BsC in Media CompSci (Media and Java? ... Yeah, I don't quite get it either ...), but it has by now lost all it's sexyness with me. That was different 20 years ago but that was also a time when people would call be crazy for recommending to learn JavaScript and if you told people that they would be buliding entire stacks and pipelines with it they would've called you crazy. Despite entier GUI apps already built with it. (Did you know the Photoshop is built with JS?).
Botton line: Stear clear of proprietary technology is my motto evers since Adobe f*cked up Flash/ActionScript big time. Oracle seems hell bent on rolling back the FOSSing of Java and they might even succeed. But not with me.
My 2 Eurocents.
... is the whole point about "StartUps".
Fail fast is the motto and the most fail.
Something like 98%.
So this is news how?